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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - BBC News", "New Year snow flurries fall across England - BBC News", "Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' - BBC News", "Suspected Islamists kill dozens in attacks on two Niger villages - BBC News", "Covid: What could 'tougher' measures mean for us? - BBC News", "Pep Guardiola: Man City boss may stay in management longer than planned - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Anti-lockdown protesters arrested at Hyde Park demo - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Man City 'disappointed' after defender breaches Covid-19 protocols - BBC Sport", "Ryan Garcia stops Luke Campbell after surviving knockdown in Dallas - BBC Sport", "County Antrim poultry flock to be culled after bird flu detected - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Restrictions 'could continue' amid rising cases - BBC News", "Hospitals across UK 'must prepare for Covid surge', senior doctor warns - BBC News", "Covid: Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Covid: Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in hospital with virus - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - 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BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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\"life partner\" to join him on Space X's maiden Moon voyage in 2023.", "This week has radically increased the interest in the couple who have not hid their disdain for much of the media.", "Campaigners including Greta Thunberg want Federer to end a sponsorship deal with Credit Suisse.", "Finance Minister Conor Murphy says government must live up to commitments made to Stormont parties.", "Dramatic time-lapse footage shows lightning swirling around the Taal volcano as it spewed ash.", "Severe gales and coastal flooding have affected much of Scotland as Storm Brendan sweeps in from the Atlantic.", "Wildfires have wreaked devastation to wildlife on Australia's third largest island.", "The boss of struggling department store chain Beales says councils are failing to support the High Street.", "Senior royals will meet at Sandringham on Monday to discuss Prince Harry and Meghan's future.", "Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, from Bristol, disappeared from an Australian beach in 1970.", "James Bushe successfully challenged the rules which had prevented him training as an airline pilot.", "Barcelona sack coach Ernesto Valverde and replace him with former Real Betis coach Quique Setien.", "A 30-year-old man is Tasered and arrested on suspicion of serious assault in Manchester.", "Manchester City produce a devastating goalscoring performance to leave Aston Villa in the Premier League relegation zone.", "The HGV driver was unhurt and managed to escape the blaze near junction 25.", "Scientists discover how the ginkgo lives to such an old age, surviving for centuries or millennia.", "Authorities have warned that a \"hazardous eruption\" could take place \"within hours or days\".", "Flights are diverted as a Met Office yellow weather warning is issued for parts of the UK.", "About 800 homes remain without power on Monday night, with NIE restoring supply to 9,500 customers.", "The airline's chief tries to reassure staff amid reports that it is seeking a rescue deal.", "Al Asad was targeted after Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US air strike.", "The foreign secretary warns Iran against slipping further into \"political and economic isolation\".", "BellaBot, which waits on tables, is one among a number of wacky robots at the CES tech show.", "Two men and a woman, rearrested on suspicion of the murder of Glen Quinn, are released on police bail.", "Chancellor Sajid Javid sets 11 March as the date for his first Budget - the first since the general election.", "The mother of a woman convicted of lying about being raped says she believes Ayia Napa is unsafe.", "Sam Thompson was raped by two men after getting separated from his girlfriend on a night out in Manchester.", "Tottenham say they and the police have found \"no evidence\" to support allegations of racism from fans towards Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger.", "She lands back in the UK after being given a four-month suspended sentence in Cyprus.", "Henry Long pleads guilty to the manslaughter of PC Andrew Harper in Berkshire, but denies murder.", "More than 250,000 child sex abuse images were dealt with by the Internet Watch Foundation last year.", "South Western Railway says it is in talks with the government over the future of its services.", "Samsung unveils a TV with a super-thin border and also shows off a spinning model for Instagrammers.", "William Reid, 25, from Edinburgh, was returning from lunch in the resort of Avoriaz when he plunged over a 30ft drop.", "England force a dramatic 189-run victory over South Africa late on day five of the second Test in Cape Town to level the series at 1-1.", "The government is putting in place \"urgent measures\" to protect UK nationals amid rising tensions.", "A rapist who preyed on men outside clubs will \"never be safe to be released\" from jail, a judge says.", "Steven Gallant, in prison for murder, tells how he used a chair to tackle the London Bridge attacker.", "Governor Andrew Cuomo leaps into action after a collision on a New York City motorway.", "The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry says Quarriers, Aberlour Child Care Trust, and Barnardo's failed in their responsibilities.", "Isla is thought to be the only person in the world with the condition, that accelerates the ageing of cells.", "O2 customers with the iPhone XR say they rarely have signal.", "A dedicated incident room for reporting sexual abuse has seen \"a very positive response\", police say.", "Two vehicles have blown over despite police shutting the A1 to high-sided vehicles in strong winds.", "Large crowds turned out for the funeral of the Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.", "The Labour leader says he won't publicly back any of the six candidates hoping to succeed him.", "The Welsh mezzo-soprano was attacked on her way to rehearsals as she helped an older woman.", "Punta Ventana, a well-known rock formation, collapses as a 5.8-magnitude earthquake strikes.", "The BBC's Jeremy Bowen on what Iran could do in reply to the killing of its top commander.", "Former Norwich City player Iwan Roberts is taking part in a study to track brain health into old age.", "Adopted children who suffered severe deprivation in Romanian orphanages had smaller brains than others as young adults.", "The landmark deal hangs in the balance after the US killed Iran's most powerful general.", "The 17-year-old boy wrote about an \"inevitable race war\" and drew up a \"hit list\" of targets.", "The foreign exchange firm has been forced to turn off all computers and switch to pen and paper.", "She is now flying back to the UK after being given a four-month suspended sentence in Cyprus.", "MPs debate the Iran crisis and the PM's Brexit bill as they return after the Christmas recess.", "The BBC is offered a ride in a driverless car - without a human safety driver at the wheel.", "The furniture giant reached the settlement after a two-year-old was crushed by falling drawers.", "The California company's latest mission makes it the world's largest commercial satellite operator.", "The Bronze Age burial mound is about 3,000-4,000 years old but has been damaged by off-road vehicles.", "She says her party needs a \"socialist leader\" to fight for the policies pioneered by Jeremy Corbyn.", "Daniel Grogan was \"consumed with hatred\" of 18-year-old Jay Sewell, a court hears.", "Killed by the US, he was once described as the \"single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".", "Figures show sales of the traditional festive dessert fell by 16% in the UK in the run-up to Christmas.", "Drivers in Culloden near Inverness watched as a trampoline was blown down the road.", "But her impassioned Golden Globes speech about \"a woman's right to choose\" also attracts criticism.", "Jonathan Coe's Middle England is described by the judges as \"the perfect novel for now\".", "The owner of the venue in Camden says he is \"deeply saddened\" by the blaze at the \"iconic building\".", "Holders Manchester City take a huge step towards their third successive Carabao Cup final with a big win at rivals Manchester United.", "Some rail operators have been under pressure from the government to get their house in order.", "Huge crowds fill the streets of the Iranian capital for the funeral of the late military commander.", "A New York judge warns the former movie mogul he could face life behind bars for texting in court.", "Joaquin Phoenix's film has 11 nods, but there is criticism that the acting nominees are all white.", "There has been criticism that authorities were too slow to respond and contain the virus.", "Sandy Seagrave, 76, and Amy Appleton, 32, were found dead outside a house in Sussex on 22 December.", "Police believe the attack at a restaurant in Rot am See was related to a family dispute.", "Grieving father releases a photo of his two young sons and daughter found dead in a Dublin house.", "Live coverage after the US Senate clears Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction.", "Records at the Intellectual Property Office show objections to the Sussex Royal trademark.", "Combat Stress says it cannot take on new referrals due to a cut in financial support from the NHS.", "Police believe the unnamed Briton fell off a cliff after a night out on Thursday.", "The city is at the centre of a deadly virus outbreak, and has been sealed off by authorities.", "Trading Standards warns homeowners to be careful when using quick-sale estate agents.", "Matlock Town's Jordan Sinnott suffered head injuries in an attack in Retford, Nottinghamshire.", "Former Great Britain player Robert Archibald, the only Scot to have played in the United States' National Basketball Association, dies aged 39.", "An investigation begins into what caused the blaze at a house on the outskirts of Hull.", "The rapper sets a new album chart record, despite the controversy surrounding his latest release.", "Oxford academic Selina Todd was given protection after threats from transgender rights activists.", "The recruit got into difficulty during a training exercise on Tuesday.", "Anne Sacoolas left for the US claiming diplomatic immunity after the crash that killed Harry Dunn.", "They used live ammunition and tear gas against anti-government protesters in the city, witnesses say.", "The Glasgow City Mission will supply items such as food, bedding and treats for pets from 24 January.", "Bereaved families tell the PM they are worried about a panel member who has links to a cladding firm.", "Search efforts continue for people trapped under collapsed buildings as the death toll rises to 31.", "Sharon Green has left flowers for the past two decades - this year there was a poem waiting for her.", "Benita Mehra quit after being linked to the charitable arm of a firm which supplied the block's cladding.", "The PM hails a \"fantastic moment\" for the UK as he signs document paving the way for its EU exit.", "A review into the handling of fraud cases finds forces have \"not kept pace\" with the rise in cases.", "Police appeal for the mother to contact them after the baby's remains are found in Portsmouth.", "Some local party groups see hundreds of new members in the last month, BBC Newsnight learns.", "Media giants such as Google have been outspoken opponents of the legislation.", "Football has \"far too much dependency\" on sponsorship from gambling companies, according to the sports minister.", "George Takei, star of the original 1960s Star Trek TV series, is jokingly demanding royalties.", "Content moderators review hundreds of disturbing images each day for social media sites.", "Andy Roe replaces Dany Cotton who quit LFB after criticism over the Grenfell fire operation.", "In two hours of arguments, the Trump team accused the Democrats of bringing a wafer-thin impeachment case.", "The Paralympic Games will remain on free-to-air television as the government adds it to the 'crown jewels' list of protected events.", "Staff are encouraged to drive to work less and bring in reusable cups and bottles as part of NHS climate plans.", "League Two Northampton earn a replay with Championship club Derby after a goalless draw in the FA Cup fourth round.", "Hagan Homes says its homes \"fit for part-time royalty\" campaign was intended to be \"light-hearted\".", "If you're not a fan of his pottery, this show won't convert you. But if you're like me, it's worth it.", "Princess Alice was honoured for her work helping Jewish people during WW2 and is buried in Jerusalem.", "The Pentagon announcement comes after President Trump dismissed the injuries as \"headaches\".", "A woman has been taken to hospital and gardaí described the deaths in Newcastle as 'unexplained'.", "The social media platform told Lex Gillies it doesn't allow \"undesirable\" body states.", "Mark Wood stars with bat and ball to give England complete control of the fourth Test against South Africa on a superbly entertaining second day in Johannesburg.", "Unite leader Len McCluskey said the shadow business secretary had the \"brains and brilliance\" for the job.", "The US's treasury secretary says he is \"optimistic\" a deal can be reached with the UK this year.", "Pictures from the life of The Monty Python star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77.", "Former military personnel will save a third off most train fares, the government announces.", "Hundreds of thousands of plastic tubes are used to protect saplings - but the industry wants to reduce their impact.", "The Birmingham Yardley MP bows out of the contest as Lisa Nandy gets the backing of the GMB union.", "The firm will end updates for four of its older models, sold between 2006 and 2015.", "Members of the iconic comedy group lead tributes to their \"outrageously funny\" co-star, who has died aged 77.", "The heir to the throne calls for a \"paradigm shift\" in the way the world deals with climate change.", "Party leaders ask Assembly Commission to halt £1,000 rise until decision to award it is reviewed.", "Passengers have attempted to bring increasingly exotic animals on board flights.", "How the clampdown on emissions is driving radical change in Scotland's busiest areas.", "French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier ends a 50-year career with his last couture runway show.", "The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador was hit with more than 70cm of snow.", "Britain's Heather Watson shows tremendous fight to reach the Australian Open second round before Dan Evans is knocked out.", "Four men are on trial over the death of retired college lecturer Gerald Corrigan.", "The government reveals South Western Railway's franchise is \"not sustainable in the long term\".", "\"He was a remarkable fellow because he had endless energy and enthusiasm,\" Cleese tells the BBC.", "The head of the Recording Academy makes claims of voting irregularities and sexual harassment.", "The warning about photographers comes after the Queen allowed the couple to step back as full-time royals.", "Sergio Aguero scores his sixth goal in his last three games as Manchester City edge a gutsy Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.", "The House of Lords bows to the will of the Commons and passes the government's Brexit bill.", "A man is held in Denmark after Swedish national Flamur Beqiri died in front of his family in London.", "The Saudi crown prince's WhatsApp account has reportedly been linked to the data breach.", "It may not be as famous as Beijing or Shanghai, but Wuhan is a huge city with global connections.", "Tesla sold more than 367,000 cars last year, just a fraction of its competitors.", "Peers make five amendments to the legislation, but the government plans to overturn them in the Commons.", "The Democrats opened their case against the president by invoking Alexander Hamilton and his fear of abuse of power.", "It is the first time Sian Green-Lord has been able to wear high heels since she was hit by a taxi.", "The Wigan MP receives backing from Chinese for Labour, meaning she joins Sir Keir in the final round.", "Film director and Monty Python star Terry Jones did much for the town of his birth.", "The life of the actor, writer and director who found fame as a member of the Monty Python team.", "Victoria Derbyshire addresses the news that her TV show is coming off air, saying \"we're still here\".", "Ross England was suspended over his conduct in a trial, but a party investigation has not finished.", "Manchester United are jeered by their own supporters as Burnley register their first ever Premier League win at Old Trafford.", "Drinks giant Coca-Cola says it will not ditch plastic outright but will try to recycle more.", "The rock star and his family tell a US TV show he has a \"mild form\" of the condition.", "Customers will be charged \"personalised\" overdraft rates of up to 49.9% from April, but most will pay 39.9%.", "The body of Stefan Sutherland was found on a beach in the Highlands more than a week after he disappeared in 2013.", "Future generations will be \"astonished\" to think we did not protect kids, the information commissioner says.", "The Duchess of Cambridge meets children in Birmingham to mark the launch of her \"five big questions\".", "What is it like to lose your seat, clear out your office and work out what the future holds?", "The suspects allegedly took migrants from France to the UK in refrigerated lorries and rubber boats.", "Five times as many want to work in art, entertainment and sport as there are jobs, a study suggests.", "A look back at the life of the Welsh comic actor, writer and director, who has died aged 77.", "The legislation, which paves the way for the UK to leave the EU with a deal, now awaits royal assent.", "Marine foam brought ashore by Storm Gloria floods streets in Tossa de Mar.", "She tells the BBC Labour had \"a great set of policies\" at the election but got its \"messaging\" wrong.", "The artwork, titled The Mill, Pendlebury, was lost to the art world for more than seven decades.", "Ministers expect around 38 cases of people breaking the law in the first five years.", "Moving to London is unaffordable for those from poorer backgrounds, says social mobility report.", "The claims were brought against a doctor and a pharmacy who supplied the star with pain medication.", "The Met Office has issued two fresh yellow weather warnings affecting many parts of Scotland.", "More strong winds pass across Wales following a battering from Storm Brendan on Monday.", "UK scientists say the recent fires in Australia are a foretaste of decades to come.", "Boris Johnson confirms he will not agree to Nicola Sturgeon's request for a second independence referendum.", "Dalila Jakupovic says she was \"really scared\" as she retired from her Australian Open qualifying match because of poor air quality in Melbourne.", "The former Commons Speaker's spending in the run-up to his retirement has been published.", "The market for live-stream gamers intensifies as companies compete to sign exclusive deals.", "US officials hand over new evidence claiming that Huawei's 5G technology is a security risk.", "Barcelona sack coach Ernesto Valverde and replace him with former Real Betis coach Quique Setien.", "Flights are diverted as a Met Office yellow weather warning is issued for parts of the UK.", "Takieddine Boudhane, a food delivery rider, was fatally stabbed in a suspected road rage attack.", "Al Asad was targeted after Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US air strike.", "Emergency services are at the scene in Slough, but no-one is believed to be injured.", "Two men are jailed for the \"vicious and sustained\" attack on Sajid Javed, during which his ear was sliced in two.", "CCTV shows an explosion after the bus and bystanders fell into a hole that opened up at a bus stop.", "The students will be trained to tackle \"subtle but offensive comments\" on campus and in student housing.", "A new report estimates 8.5 million people in England and Wales were abused or witnessed abuse as children.", "The airline’s investors will put more money in while the government will review air passenger tax.", "Assessment centres for disabled people are too difficult for some people to reach, campaigners say.", "She released the update following the \"Sandringham summit\" talks between senior royals on Monday.", "James Murdoch and wife Kathryn say they are \"disappointed\" at ongoing \"denial\" by news outlets.", "Actor Jerome Flynn is backing local bids to turn farmland into a community hub for sustainable food.", "After his cabin caught fire in the Alaskan woods, Tyson Steele survived without shelter for 23 days.", "Boris Johnson said it would cost £500,000 for the famous bell to chime, but crowdfunding is an option.", "The seafront building is undergoing a £27m revamp ahead of its 150th anniversary.", "The pop star will record the title track for the new Bond film, No Time To Die.", "The move comes as the two countries are expected to sign a preliminary trade agreement this week.", "Boris Johnson says talks about Harry and Meghan's plans \"won't be helped\" by his commentary.", "Boris Johnson told the BBC the government \"will continue to make every effort that we can\".", "Samuel Barker, a pedestrian, died at the scene after being hit by a bus on Monday afternoon.", "MPs debated the Queen's Speech and Boris Johnson faced questions on BBC Breakfast", "Scientists discover how the ginkgo lives to such an old age, surviving for centuries or millennia.", "Tsai Ing-wen tells the BBC that China needs to realise Taiwan is a successful independent democracy.", "The foreign secretary warns Iran against slipping further into \"political and economic isolation\".", "The fast food giant is granted permission to build a drive-thru restaurant in Oakham, Rutland.", "Keira Markides raises more than £2,000 for those affected by the Australian bushfires.", "At least 60 children and adults were treated after a jet released fuel during an emergency landing.", "A clinic to quickly diagnose possible cancers in Wales has seen a drop in waiting times.", "The comic book villain movie is up for best film, best director and best actor for Joaquin Phoenix.", "A man who racially abused England fast bowler Jofra Archer during the first Test against New Zealand in November is banned from attending international and domestic matches in the country for two years.", "The Tories win their biggest majority since the 1980s, as Jeremy Corbyn says he will not lead Labour into the next election, and Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson loses her seat.", "The Italian chain ASK had mixed white fish with its lobster meat in its most expensive dish.", "Scotland's first minister calls on UK government to negotiate the transfer of power to allow another independence referendum.", "Finance Minister Conor Murphy says government must live up to commitments made to Stormont parties.", "Barcelona are generating more money than any club in Europe but why might Manchester United's revenue fall?", "Read the full text of Boris Johnson’s first speech in Downing Street as the UK’s prime minister.", "The Football Association's Paul Elliott calls for the government to work alongside the sport's governing bodies to combat racism.", "Tottenham gain a hard-fought victory over Championship side Middlesbrough in their FA Cup third-round replay.", "The airline's chief tries to reassure staff amid reports that it is seeking a rescue deal.", "Arad Zarei, 17, who recently relocated to Canada, was among the 176 dead, it emerges.", "Previously families could receive 600 hours of free childcare a year - it rises to 1,140 hours in August.", "A Georgia man who broke into a Taco Bell overnight paused to make himself some food and take a nap.", "\"Sophie\" says she was raped in Ayia Napa and Police Scotland said it would be hard to find the rapist.", "Regulators accuse Boeing of fitting defective parts as internal memos raise 737 Max safety questions.", "Arlene Foster says she recognises some proposals represent 'compromise outcomes'", "Counter-terrorism police admit \"error of judgement\" after including the group in an extremism guide.", "Gemma Watts convinced victims she was 16-year-old \"Jake Waton\" and may have assaulted up to 50 girls.", "Brusthom Ziamani is one of two inmates suspected of attacking a prison officer at HMP Whitemoor.", "The MoD's \"poor management\" of the programme has resulted in growing costs and delays, a watchdog finds.", "The Labour MPs join Sir Keir Starmer on the ballot paper in the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn.", "The company employs 208 people across two factories in north east Wales and Lancashire.", "The electric scooter-maker's mishap is the latest in a list of historic malfunctions at the show", "An attack on staff at HMP Whitemoor by two inmates is being treated as a \"terror\" act, police say.", "The combination with Takeaway.com will create one of the world's largest food delivery firms.", "The fashion chain's Christmas sales fell sharply amid \"unprecedented\" discounting by rivals.", "Gales fan the mega fire near the Snowy Mountains, as authorities warn of worse to come.", "The student also injured at least six other people in the shooting in Torreón.", "Jo Daniels is urging more men to donate blood, after figures showed a gender imbalance.", "City of Edinburgh Council publishes its draft city mobility plan and aims to be carbon neutral by 2030.", "Parties are considering the deal and the NI secretary wants the assembly to sit on Friday.", "Sinn Féin have said they will re-enter devolved government.", "Betting companies with streaming rights for FA Cup ties say they would allow the games to be streamed on a free platform elsewhere.", "The government is urged to consider restrictions on pay-as-you-go phones to prevent drug dealers using them.", "Young people are struggling to get the help they need for mental health problems, says a report.", "The young German man was targeted by a work colleague who peppered his lunch with mercury and lead.", "Parents of 17-year-old Aidan Jackson were watching TV when police cars arrived outside their house.", "Dean Jones was extradited from Brazil to face justice for his part in the £500,000 raid.", "Chicken and hormone-fed beef bans will continue post-Brexit, the environment secretary says.", "The jail mistakenly saved surveillance footage from the wrong cell block, prosecutors say.", "Jiangsu province claims to have almost eliminated poverty - but some doubts have been raised.", "Mohammed Haji Sadiq was jailed in 2017 for sexually assaulting children he taught at a mosque in Cardiff.", "Denis Alexander, 84, is accused of seven charges dating back to his time at Fort Augustus Abbey school in the Highlands.", "The local primary school is also closed as crews tackle the blaze at a site in the Scottish Borders.", "The judgement said \"her work on Newswatch was like Jeremy Vine's work on Points of View\".", "The Canadian PM says evidence shows the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile - possibly unintentionally.", "Anthony Knott disappeared three weeks ago while on a Christmas night out with colleagues.", "Nationalist PM Viktor Orban wants to reverse population decline through procreation, not migration.", "The musician, considered one of rock's greatest ever drummers, had brain cancer.", "The Home Office requests Anne Sacoolas's extradition \"on charges of causing death by dangerous driving\".", "The Withdrawal Agreement Bill will now pass to the House of Lords for further scrutiny next week.", "Australia legend Shane Warne raises one million Australian dollars (£528,514) for the bushfire appeal after his \"baggy green\" Test cap is sold at auction.", "Passengers flying via Swedish airports fell 4% in 2019, airport operators Swedavia say.", "Beau Greaves had a 16th birthday to remember as she won through to the semi-finals of the BDO women's World Darts Championship.", "Police investigate false reports of a man wearing a suicide vest close to Bournemouth University.", "The supermarket in southern France put a €30.99 price tag on the televisions - instead of €399.", "It was a playful nod to actor Amanda Henderson, whose answer to a game show question went viral.", "Acorah was best known for Most Haunted and appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.", "England fight back with the ball against South Africa to end day two on top in the second Test in Cape Town.", "The painkiller is said to be up to 100 times stronger than morphine and is entering UK markets.", "Ex-England player Paul Merson says he hopes to help people struggling with their mental health by revealing how low his own battle left him.", "The assassination is a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran.", "The death of Iran's top general could make things worse for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, husband fears.", "Manchester City begin their defence of the FA Cup with a comfortable third-round victory over a spirited Port Vale.", "A police report says the singer allegedly struck a security guard in a row at a Florida hotel.", "Travel money services at Sainsbury's Bank, Barclays and HSBC have been impacted by the cyber attack.", "Friends of the teenager, killed in a crash outside the base say their demonstration is to \"get their feelings across\" to the US Government.", "The community in Shetland is trying to raise money for its own scanner so patients will no longer have to travel to Aberdeen.", "Killed by the US, he was once described as the \"single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".", "The BBC's Quentin Sommerville explains the man behind the 'shadowy figure'.", "Figures show millions of the new-style £5 and £10 notes have been damaged since they were launched.", "The fourth MP to join the contest says she wants to \"bring Labour home\" to former party supporters.", "The rapper tells Radio 1 that his fellow British rapper is acting \"like a drunk uncle\" on Twitter.", "Police said they believed the 30-year-old man may have been stabbed in a row with another driver.", "The 13-year-old has been named as Eoin Hamill, a pupil at Coláiste Feirste and a talented amateur boxer.", "The two men allege they were abused by the singer when they were children.", "The shadow Brexit secretary says Labour needs to \"rebuild fast\" to restore trust in the party.", "The retailer says it hopes redesigning its own-brand cereals will help parents buy healthy products.", "From the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister to tension in the time of President Trump.", "A new portrait shows the Queen with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George.", "Ethical vegan Jordi Casamitjana is \"extremely happy\" with a tribunal's ruling his belief is protected in law.", "The crash involving the two lorries happened between junctions 12 and 13 in Bedfordshire.", "The UK prime minister was not told in advance about the attack that killed General Qasem Soleimani, the BBC understands.", "Wang Zhimin will be replaced as director of Beijing's liaison office after six months of unrest.", "Police said their car left the road and landed in a ditch.", "At least 30 people were killed and 33 wounded in the attack in the capital Tripoli, officials say.", "Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia were killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad airport on Friday.", "The officer was confronted by a man armed with a shotgun at his home in Kesh, County Fermanagh.", "More young people were prioritising studies over part-time work, a think tank says.", "The Queen sends \"thoughts and prayers\" as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex urge support for fundraisers.", "Some models were driven to the verge of suicide after the porn website reneged on privacy promises.", "GPs urge hospitals not to strike people off the list straight away for missing appointments.", "The 22-year-old man, who killed one person and injured two others in Villejuif, had psychiatric issues.", "Officers in hazardous material suits are deployed after the man is found in Manchester.", "Some of those most closely involved in the investigation shed new light on the conviction of her carers.", "There has been criticism that authorities were too slow to respond and contain the virus.", "In a video, the president is heard saying \"Get rid of her!\" about ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.", "The UK government says a total of 52 tests have proved negative for the new strain of coronavirus.", "The prime minister will set out trade talk details in a speech next month, says the Brexit secretary.", "Stars are collecting awards ahead of the main ceremony, with many paying tribute to Kobe Bryant.", "The city is at the centre of a deadly virus outbreak, and has been sealed off by authorities.", "Kobe Bryant was \"one of the most extraordinary players in the history of basketball\" who \"inspired people around the world\" to play the game.", "Billy Cooper, the Barmy Army's trumpet player, will retire after England's current tour of South Africa.", "Matlock Town's Jordan Sinnott suffered head injuries in an attack in Retford, Nottinghamshire.", "An investigation begins into what caused the blaze at a house on the outskirts of Hull.", "As Kobe Bryant retires, BBC Sport brings you the stats that show why he will go down as one of basketball's all-time greats.", "Oxford academic Selina Todd was given protection after threats from transgender rights activists.", "Kim Kyong-hui, once a powerful figure, has not been seen since her husband's execution.", "The recruit got into difficulty during a training exercise on Tuesday.", "Police arrest two 21-year-old men over the death of Matlock Town's Jordan Sinnott.", "They used live ammunition and tear gas against anti-government protesters in the city, witnesses say.", "Watch Kobe Bryant's poem 'Dear Basketball', written when the five-time NBA champion retired in 2016, following reports the basketball legend has died in a helicopter crash.", "Search efforts continue for people trapped under collapsed buildings as the death toll rises to 31.", "Council-owned land which is rented to new and young farmers is being sold off, figures show.", "Benita Mehra quit after being linked to the charitable arm of a firm which supplied the block's cladding.", "Coco Gauff misses out on her first Grand Slam quarter-final as fellow American Sofia Kenin fights back to win in the Australian Open fourth round.", "Customers are advised not to use 15 varieties of Cow & Gate baby food bought in UK Tesco stores.", "A BBC team travels into Hubei province, where the deadly new coronavirus originated.", "Panorama reveals for the first time how many have died on roads that no longer have a hard shoulder.", "Ecologists say disturbance from a £205m road in Norwich may have driven the bats away.", "Kobe Bryant is called the \"greatest\" Los Angeles Lakers player of all time by Magic Johnson as his number eight and 24 shirts are retired.", "But Unite's Len McCluskey also says Labour \"never handled the anti-Semitism issue correctly\".", "The 777X test flight comes after Boeing's 737 Max plane was grounded following two fatal crashes.", "Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay tells the BBC he believes the high-speed rail project will go ahead.", "Andy Roe replaces Dany Cotton who quit LFB after criticism over the Grenfell fire operation.", "It comes after the original batch of coins had to be melted down when the Brexit deadline was extended.", "A post-mortem examination is taking place to establish the cause of the 47-year-old's death in Hull.", "Gary Webb was handcuffed and spent a night in a police cell and three nights in prison in 2015.", "The US's treasury secretary says he is \"optimistic\" a deal can be reached with the UK this year.", "The campsite's owner says she is \"relieved it's over and done with\" after almost two years.", "Substitute Jason Cummings scores twice against Premier League leaders Liverpool as League One Shrewsbury Town earn an FA Cup fourth-round replay at Anfield.", "Kobe Bryant's career in numbers. The basketball great died in a helicopter crash aged 41 on Sunday, 26 January 2020.", "A whistleblower claims managers told Edinburgh council staff to torch the benches instead of repairing them.", "Police said the child was an \"innocent bystander\" when a gun was fired from a moving car in Sheffield.", "A review will examine how university funding can be targeted at priority subjects.", "Heavy rains douse some fires on the east coast, but bring a new threat of flooding to some areas.", "Iran's supreme leader hit out at his \"enemies\" following recent turmoil in the region.", "Roberto Alvim used parts of a speech by Nazi Germany's propaganda chief, sparking outrage.", "There are more misses than an England football team in a penalty shoot-out.", "Police warn £7m was stolen from elderly and vulnerable people in 2019 in so-called courier fraud.", "The new uniform, unveiled on the force's Twitter, has prompted one question: \"Camo in space?\"", "Lee Child had considered killing off title character before getting his younger sibling to take over.", "A woman who was repeatedly abused as a child was let down by South Yorkshire Police, a report finds.", "He served as an MP in the Highlands and was interim leader of the Liberal Democrats after the party's formation.", "The study by Which? compared the price of 53 products but did not include discounters Aldi and Lidl.", "As the couple step away from royal duties, we look at their life together from meeting to marriage and beyond.", "Video shows a car being driven on the wrong side of the road near RAF Croughton on Friday night.", "A judge rules Guardian columnist Owen Jones was targeted due to his sexuality and political views.", "The children's commissioner's warning comes as a charity labels Wales suicide rate a \"scandal\".", "Premiership Rugby confirms Saracens will be relegated to the Championship this season after salary cap breaches.", "The five MPs running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn were quizzed on issues from anti-Semitism to Brexit.", "The UK must decide how to position itself in global trade's new order.", "Before his death, Danny Butcher paid £13,000 for training with Samuel Leeds' Property Investors firm.", "The Labour MP sets out her pitch for Labour leadership, promising a \"shake up\" of government if elected.", "The Delta Air Lines plane jettisoned fuel over Los Angeles schools as it made an emergency landing.", "A 52-year-old man is in custody after a woman fell seven floors to her death in Hove.", "At 67.08cm (2ft 2.41in), Khagendra Thapa Magar was recognised the shortest living man who could walk.", "Canada will offer C$25,000 to families of its citizens and permanent residents who died in the disaster.", "Portrait of a Lady was missing for 22 years until gardeners cleared ivy from a gallery wall.", "A final technology demonstration from the California company should clear the way to fly astronauts.", "The child suffered non life-threatening injuries in the attack in Leicester on Saturday afternoon.", "There was outrage after the restaurant of the late French chef Paul Bocuse lost one of its stars.", "The six-year-old, who was on a school trip, was found in roadworks just off the M1 in the early hours.", "Police entered Surrey History Centre and \"seized\" files in a constabulary archive, a memo claims.", "Sir Ed Davey and Mark Pack will remain joint acting party leaders until the election process is completed.", "The announcement by white actor Hank Azaria follows accusations of racial stereotyping.", "Food prices could rise after Sajid Javid said there will be no alignment with EU rules after Brexit, businesses say.", "While the nation has its eyes turned to Iowa, voters in Minnesota have already cast the first ballots.", "From grieving his mother to becoming a father, the Duke of Sussex is used to attention from the media.", "Storms hit parts of Australia's east coast, dousing some fires and giving inhabitants some respite.", "The couple, who will not return as working members of the Royal Family, have been together for five years.", "The company wants to distance its film studio from Rupert Murdoch's news company, US media report.", "The police helicopter was deployed during a search near a Tesco Extra in Shrewsbury.", "Government plans include a countdown projected onto No 10 and an address by the PM - but no bongs.", "After two weeks, lawyers finally choose the 12 jurors for the trial from about 700 candidates.", "Police say groups such as Extinction Rebellion were included to inform and guide frontline officers.", "Jacob Young's mother wrote to the judge saying the 2005 show led to a \"campaign of abuse and mockery\".", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Finnish scientists say the food could be grown with near-zero greenhouse gas emissions.", "Iran fires rockets at two air bases that are home to US troops - it is unclear if anyone has died.", "Two engineers and the owner of a dry cleaners were on board the flight, which crashed in Iran.", "Despite all the rhetoric, this could be a moment to reduce tensions between Iran and the US.", "Dominic Raab urges Iran not to repeat \"reckless and dangerous\" attacks after missiles hit air bases.", "The device rapidly chills packaged drinks meaning they do not need to be refrigerated before use.", "She lands back in the UK after being given a four-month suspended sentence in Cyprus.", "The shadow energy minister says colleagues have told him he would bring \"dynamism\" to the debate.", "The Speaker hails security officers Ron Dowson and Habibi Syaaf as heroes after the river rescue.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "The proportion of senior doctors involved in leading research programmes is falling, say academics.", "South Western Railway says it is in talks with the government over the future of its services.", "An appeal to keep Ian Simms, who murdered Helen McCourt in 1988, behind bars is rejected.", "The government is putting in place \"urgent measures\" to protect UK nationals amid rising tensions.", "The 176 people killed in Wednesday's crash are being identified by officials and loved ones.", "More than 2,000 appointments are cancelled and the health board expects \"significant disruption\".", "A body was discovered after an Air France flight had arrived in Paris from Ivory Coast.", "Feral camels and horses will be shot dead as they are damaging settlements in search of water.", "The government has called on the FA to immediately reconsider its decision to sell FA Cup broadcast rights via a third party to a gambling website.", "Venues will be asked to make tougher checks after a campaign by the Arena bomb victim's mum.", "The criminals behind the hack told the BBC they are demanding $6m (£4.6m) from the currency trader.", "A man cleared over an incident outside Buckingham Palace is accused of planning terror attacks.", "The House of Commons backs the government's Brexit withdrawal bill.", "The Queen's eldest granddaughter was caught by a mobile speed van near Cirencester.", "Inspectors call for new freedom to inspect struggling schools without publishing a judgement.", "A ban on adverts featuring \"harmful gender stereotypes\" came into force last June.", "A French start-up aims to radically cut the amount of time people require to clean their teeth.", "Sir Darius Brown, 13, makes canine bow ties so unwanted dogs in shelters can get a \"second chance\".", "The Labour leader says he won't publicly back any of the six candidates hoping to succeed him.", "Christopher Beeny also starred in TV sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine and In Loving Memory.", "Officials say there were more than 170 people on board the Ukrainian Boeing-737 and that none survived.", "Star actress America Ferrera leads the tributes saying she is \"stunned and heartbroken\".", "What does the US killing of Qasem Soleimani mean for relations between the UK and Iran?", "The former Nissan boss is making his first appearance since skipping bail in Japan and fleeing to Lebanon.", "A statement is released saying the Duke and Duchess of Sussex intend to step back as senior royals.", "There was huge interest in the virtual avatars created by Samsung-backed start-up Neon.", "After military strikes between the US and Iran, what do British Iranians feel about the tensions?", "Two women are taking legal action, claiming a \"pattern and practice of intentional race discrimination\".", "The US president responds to Iranian missile attacks that targeted air bases housing US forces in Iraq.", "A mother and a nurse launch a legal challenge over the use of drugs to delay puberty.", "The foreign exchange firm has been forced to turn off all computers and switch to pen and paper.", "Last year saw killings across the UK fall but London's level rise to its highest since 2008.", "Unison says Sir Keir Starmer is best placed to unite the party and take it back into government.", "After nearly a decade's research, a hydrofoil water bike has gone into mass production.", "Iran fired rockets at two US bases - including one that used to resemble a \"US suburban town\".", "The EU Commission president says the sides must prioritise areas of agreement to meet talks deadline.", "Iranians flocked to the burial of a top commander killed in a US drone strike. Here's why.", "The drill artist, who's had two UK number ones, is convicted of carrying a knife.", "The Duchess of Sussex tells ITV of being under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom\".", "Daniel Grogan was \"consumed with hatred\" of 18-year-old Jay Sewell, a court hears.", "Iran said the attacks were in retaliation for the death of the country's top commander Qasem Soleimani.", "The PM condemns Iranian missile strikes on air bases in Iraq following the US killing of the general.", "Drivers in Culloden near Inverness watched as a trampoline was blown down the road.", "The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against the ITV reality star.", "Ms Trump's invitation to CES had been controversial - but her appearance proved not so.", "The bakery chain says its \"now iconic\" vegan sausage roll helped boost sales.", "A New York judge warns the former movie mogul he could face life behind bars for texting in court.", "Police are investigating after a performer was left in a life-threatening condition following a fall during rehearsals for the Winter Youth Olympic Games opening ceremony in Switzerland.", "Substitute Kelechi Iheanacho scores a crucial second-half equaliser against Aston Villa to set up an intriguing EFL Cup semi-final second leg.", "The couple, who will not return as working members of the Royal Family, have been together for five years.", "The woman who inspired J-Lo's character in Hustlers sues the movie's makers for $40m.", "No other royals were consulted before the couple's announcement, the BBC understands.", "The supermarket revealed that like-for-like sales were down 0.7% in the final 15 weeks of the year.", "Acorah was best known for Most Haunted and appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.", "Researchers are unable to establish whether the Native American planted a mulberry tree in Norfolk.", "The assassination is a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran.", "Tributes are being paid to John Paul Smyth, who was last seen in Warrenpoint on New Year's Eve.", "A police report says the singer allegedly struck a security guard in a row at a Florida hotel.", "Bono's son Elijah Hewson fronts Inhaler, who have come fifth on the BBC Sound of 2020 list.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his team's performance was \"sensationally good\" as Curtis Jones' stunning winner earned the Reds an FA Cup victory over Everton.", "The new regulations will see alternatives to gas boilers installed in new homes from 2024.", "Killed by the US, he was once described as the \"single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".", "The foreign secretary says the UK wants to avoid \"a major war\" after the US killing of Qasem Soleimani.", "Scott Morrison announces the creation of a recovery agency, amid fierce criticism of his response.", "A Facebook appeal by Celeste Barber, an Australian comedian, has drawn more than 500,000 donations.", "The 13-year-old has been named as Eoin Hamill, a pupil at Coláiste Feirste and a talented amateur boxer.", "Police say a post-mortem examination is needed to determine the cause of death of the man in his 40s.", "The BBC's Phil Mercer reports from Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, where fires are smouldering.", "The shadow Brexit secretary says Labour needs to \"rebuild fast\" to restore trust in the party.", "Lord Berkeley says MPs were \"misled\" about the line's costs, which he says will be more than £108bn.", "Police said they believed the 30-year-old man may have been stabbed in a row with another driver.", "Takieddine Boudhane, an Algerian national, had been living in the UK for three years, police said.", "The foreign secretary says his priority is to get the woman back to the UK to start her recovery.", "The body of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general assassinated by the US, has been brought back to Iran.", "The crash involving the two lorries happened between junctions 12 and 13 in Bedfordshire.", "At least 30 people were killed and 33 wounded in the attack in the capital Tripoli, officials say.", "Chairman of the Tata Sons group says its Port Talbot plant must become \"self-sustaining\".", "Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy question manifesto choices as Jess Phillips does not rule out rejoining EU.", "Annie Wells says measures including decriminalisation and introducing \"fix rooms\" should be considered.", "A mysterious illness is not caused by the virus that killed hundreds in 2002-03, officials said.", "Kerry Van Der Merwe has been fighting to be allowed surgery for a condition that baffles many GPs.", "Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia were killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad airport on Friday.", "Foreign ministry officials believe another country may be responsible.", "Ministers say the project is transforming people's lives and an extra £165m will be made available.", "The Queen sends \"thoughts and prayers\" as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex urge support for fundraisers.", "PM says Qasem Soleimani was a \"threat to all our interests\" as he prepares to meet key ministers.", "Police in Delhi are called to the JNU campus amid reports of masked men attacking students and staff.", "The driver of the car involved, a man in his late 20s, was arrested and is currently in hospital.", "Georges Duboeuf was one of the great wine merchants of the 20th Century.", "Officers in hazardous material suits are deployed after the man is found in Manchester.", "Footage of LeBron James was wrongly included in the BBC's News At Ten report on Kobe Bryant's death.", "The prime minister will set out trade talk details in a speech next month, says the Brexit secretary.", "The BBC broadcaster says the annual charge is the corporation's \"fundamental problem\".", "The city is at the centre of a deadly virus outbreak, and has been sealed off by authorities.", "The 13-year-old died in a helicopter crash in California that also killed her father, Kobe Bryant.", "The first artists confirmed for Big Weekend 2020, which takes place in May, have been announced.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hear \"heartbreaking\" stories at \"poignant\" commemoration event.", "Kim Kyong-hui, once a powerful figure, has not been seen since her husband's execution.", "See the contenders in the main categories for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards.", "The rare sighting of the distinctive member of the billfish family was made in the North Sea.", "An advert prompted jokes Prince Harry had found a job after stepping back from royal duties.", "Boris Johnson hails the UK as \"open to the most talented minds\" with quicker route in for scientists.", "If the Glasgow meeting fails, it will raise tough questions about the UN climate talks process, says the woman in charge.", "The Irish Taoiseach questioned the timings set by the PM to get a trade deal with the rest of the EU", "Women are being shamed into the procedure out of fear of being outcast or even killed.", "Panorama reveals for the first time how many have died on roads that no longer have a hard shoulder.", "The charity that closed down after a groping scandal has had its name revived to sell dresses.", "There has been criticism that authorities were too slow to respond and contain the virus.", "The UK government says a total of 52 tests have proved negative for the new strain of coronavirus.", "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and his first-team players will not be involved in the FA Cup fourth-round replay against Shrewsbury Town, the Reds manager says.", "Stars are collecting awards ahead of the main ceremony, with many paying tribute to Kobe Bryant.", "The woman, aged 60, suffered a seizure while speed-eating the cakes during an Australia Day event.", "Kobe Bryant was \"one of the most extraordinary players in the history of basketball\" who \"inspired people around the world\" to play the game.", "The funeral was followed by a special sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.", "There are reports that three people were injured when rockets hit the embassy in the Iraqi capital.", "Members of the public and celebrities reacted in shock to the death of basketball star Kobe Bryant.", "Events are being held to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.", "Experts say more men are getting tested, which explains the rise in diagnoses in England.", "A post-mortem examination is taking place to establish the cause of the 47-year-old's death in Hull.", "Gary Swift and Scott Kilgour were arrested on board a yacht about a mile off the Welsh coast.", "Alicia Keys and Lizzo lead tributes to the basketball star who died on Sunday in a helicopter crash.", "Substitute Jason Cummings scores twice against Premier League leaders Liverpool as League One Shrewsbury Town earn an FA Cup fourth-round replay at Anfield.", "LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said that eight others were on board the helicopter with Kobe Bryant.", "Live coverage after the US Senate clears Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction.", "PC Nick Dumphreys' family pay tribute to \"a kind and loving husband and father\".", "Police said the attack on the victim, 16-year-old Louis Johnson, lasted 40 seconds.", "Photos by the Duchess of Cambridge of two Holocaust survivors are published to mark its Memorial Day.", "Companies claim what happened was \"someone else's fault\", the second phase of the inquiry is told.", "The regulator says her comments \"had potential to offend\" but were \"unlikely to encourage crime\".", "Police arrest two 21-year-old men over the death of Matlock Town's Jordan Sinnott.", "World leaders warn of resurgent hatred, 75 years after the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp was liberated.", "Watch Kobe Bryant's poem 'Dear Basketball', written when the five-time NBA champion retired in 2016, following reports the basketball legend has died in a helicopter crash.", "The ceremony is taking place at the Staples Center, where Bryant played his entire career.", "A BBC team travels into Hubei province, where the deadly new coronavirus originated.", "The Labour leadership candidate argues against the status quo and for more power in the regions.", "Kobe Bryant is called the \"greatest\" Los Angeles Lakers player of all time by Magic Johnson as his number eight and 24 shirts are retired.", "Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay tells the BBC he believes the high-speed rail project will go ahead.", "The Irish leader Leo Varadkar compared the EU and UK to football teams with vastly different populations.", "How Kobe Bryant, a genius on the basketball court, sometimes a flawed character off it, appeared to be solving his life after sport in a way that many of his contemporaries and antecedents could not.", "A management body says sports chat in the office can be a \"gateway\" to more laddish behaviour.", "A study suggests girls are more than twice as likely as boys to pass a GCSE in a foreign language.", "Inspections of faulty lifts have not given \"sufficient assurance\" about repair work.", "Kobe Bryant's career in numbers. The basketball great died in a helicopter crash aged 41 on Sunday, 26 January 2020.", "The stars have their glad-rags on for the 62st Grammy awards ceremony.", "A petition organised by a charity for blind people asks for the BBC to roll back their decision.", "Court papers suggest the tabloid may have targeted the mobile phone of the murdered schoolgirl.", "Two people are hurt as the Caspian Airlines plane carrying 136 passengers skids across a road.", "The 18-year-old wins multiple awards, including best new artist and song of the year.", "Mark Rutte is the first prime minister to acknowledge the Netherlands' role in persecuting Jews.", "Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck was stabbed five times in an attack at a Wood Green hair salon.", "An aircraft has crashed and caught fire in eastern Afghanistan, but details remain unclear.", "One baby died shortly after being born prematurely when her mother was sent home with paracetamol.", "The Irish PM says it will be \"difficult\" to reach a deal this year, but Boris Johnson is bullish.", "Buying individual tickets for portions of the same journey can be cheaper, but has been \"niche\".", "Iran says he was arrested \"as an unknown foreigner in an illegal gathering\", but released soon afterwards.", "Arlene Foster says she recognises some proposals represent 'compromise outcomes'", "Counter-terrorism police admit \"error of judgement\" after including the group in an extremism guide.", "The Duchess of Sussex tells ITV of being under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom\".", "Canada's PM says Iran's admission on the plane's downing is a first step but more are needed.", "Amber Carter-Thompson says she can now \"move on\" after the crash that broke her leg.", "What members of the public outside Buckingham Palace think of Prince Harry and Meghan stepping back.", "The US State Department says it would be an \"abuse\" to send suspect Anne Sacoolas back to the UK.", "A Labour MP has started a petition calling on the PM to withdraw the whip from Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis.", "The combination with Takeaway.com will create one of the world's largest food delivery firms.", "It's a battle between the ballads and the bangers, as the Brit Awards reveal their 2020 nominees.", "From book deals to public speaking, there are a number of avenues the couple could explore.", "Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill appointed first and deputy first ministers of Northern Ireland.", "Killed by the US, he was once described as the \"single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".", "Liverpool setting records in the best-ever start to a season in Europe's top-five leagues \"doesn't feel special somehow\", says boss Jurgen Klopp.", "Sinn Féin have said they will re-enter devolved government.", "Alliance leader Naomi Long set to become justice minister in new executive.", "The Northern Ireland Assembly returned on Saturday after three years of deadlock.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Soleimani killed because of \"imminent threat\" to US facilities.", "An exhibition of little-known JMW Turner works has opened at the house he built near the Thames.", "Ukraine's top security official tells the BBC what investigators in Tehran have uncovered.", "The major gathering of independence supporters takes place in very poor weather conditions.", "Parents of 17-year-old Aidan Jackson were watching TV when police cars arrived outside their house.", "Governor Greg Abbott says the state's resources should be focused on \"those who are already here\".", "This week has radically increased the interest in the couple who have not hid their disdain for much of the media.", "Iranians share their thoughts on the killing of General Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike.", "The father of one user said South Ayrshire Council had decided to steamroller through their proposal.", "Fleabag creator puts her Golden Globes tuxedo on eBay to support the relief effort in Australia.", "Senior royals will meet at Sandringham on Monday to discuss Prince Harry and Meghan's future.", "The judgement said \"her work on Newswatch was like Jeremy Vine's work on Points of View\".", "Demonstrators in Tehran called for resignations and accused officials of lying.", "The Prison Officers Association says the attacker had been transferred from a high-security jail.", "Countryside Alliance Cymru say it is part of a rising trend in the number reported missing or stolen.", "Across Canada, communities are grieving the 63 Canadians killed in the Ukraine Flight PS752 crash.", "The musician, considered one of rock's greatest ever drummers, had brain cancer.", "Sir Keir Starmer says \"factionalism has to go\" as he makes his case to become Labour's next leader.", "The Home Office requests Anne Sacoolas's extradition \"on charges of causing death by dangerous driving\".", "Passengers flying via Swedish airports fell 4% in 2019, airport operators Swedavia say.", "The Sussexes hope talks over their future can be concluded \"sooner rather than later\", reports say.", "Police investigate false reports of a man wearing a suicide vest close to Bournemouth University.", "The 100-year-old tortoise of legendary libido is credited with saving his species from extinction.", "Reynhard Sinaga was jailed for a minimum of 30 years for 159 sex offences, including 136 rapes.", "One in five people are banned from telling people they work with about their salary, a union says.", "The UK government shows \"lack of clarity\" on funding the COP26 conference in Glasgow this year.", "Since 2017, thousands of Kazakh Muslims have been detained in China’s infamous re-education camps.", "Some firefighters were said to find the poor treatment of colleagues to be \"amusing\", inspectors find.", "The UK had said the US president could renegotiate the 2015 accord, which is close to collapse.", "There will be more staff in Newcastle, Bristol and Salford, director general Tony Hall explains.", "The firm rejects claims that it is shielding criminals by refusing to co-operate with investigators.", "Biggest applause goes to Elizabeth Warren when she says the women on stage have won more elections than the men.", "Wildlife group says rare species could be wiped out by rail link and calls for a \"greener\" approach.", "Emergency services are at the scene in Slough, but no-one is believed to be injured.", "Boris Johnson answers MPs' questions at noon, followed by debate on the Queen's Speech.", "Tens of thousands of 11- to 13-year-olds are being tricked into performing sex acts, data suggests.", "At least 60 children and adults were treated after a jet released fuel during an emergency landing.", "People with access to green spaces are more likely to be more environmentally friendly, study says.", "After his cabin caught fire in the Alaskan woods, Tyson Steele survived without shelter for 23 days.", "Mr Trump has hailed the deal as a \"transformative\", but the majority of tariffs will remain in place.", "The rapper takes up the cause of 29 inmates after five men died in the state's prisons in one week.", "Our royal correspondent says the Mail on Sunday could target Meghan's character in privacy case.", "As senior royals gather in Sandringham, our royal correspondent wonders what the talks will achieve.", "A 'fractured' relationship between two doctors is described in hospital board papers.", "A blast at a chemical factory launched a metal plate that hit an apartment block, officials say.", "The case filed in the US Virgin Islands says the late financier molested girls as young as 12.", "The pop star will record the title track for the new Bond film, No Time To Die.", "Matt Hancock tells BBC Radio 5 Live the government should be judged on \"the right target\".", "PC Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead while responding to reports of a robbery in Bradford in 2005.", "Former Chelsea and Juventus striker Eniola Aluko, who won more than 100 England caps, retires from football aged 32.", "Dishonest cosmetic surgeon had no medical insurance to cover patient compensation, says tribunal.", "One in six women suffer post-traumatic stress for months after losing a baby, research suggests.", "Tsai Ing-wen tells the BBC that China needs to realise Taiwan is a successful independent democracy.", "The devices cut into tissue and nerves, leaving some unable to walk, work or care for their children.", "Charlotte Charles, Harry's mum, was \"beside herself\" after hearing the news on her birthday.", "Courtney Partridge-McLennan suffered a suspected asthma attack in her fire-ravaged town in Australia.", "The High Street food giant chooses its delivery partner as the market for takeaways continues to grow.", "Speculation grows that UK interest rates will be cut after inflation slows in December.", "British Airways' owner IAG files a complaint to the EU arguing Flybe's rescue breaks state aid rules.", "The study of 14,000 people in England and Wales finds men are also more likely to be imprisoned than women.", "The fast food giant is granted permission to build a drive-thru restaurant in Oakham, Rutland.", "The Duke of Sussex says he fears his wife is \"falling victim\" to press intrusion as his mother did.", "The 737 Max has been grounded for 10 months after two crashes that killed 346 people in total.", "Tottenham gain a hard-fought victory over Championship side Middlesbrough in their FA Cup third-round replay.", "The airline’s investors will put more money in while the government will review air passenger tax.", "Whitney Houston, The Notorious B.I.G. and two classic British acts will be honoured in May.", "Global data from three agencies also shows that 2019 was the second warmest year since 1850.", "Until now, there's been little evidence our evolutionary relatives could swim.", "Juan Mata's superb second-half goal sends Manchester United into the FA Cup fourth round as they beat Wolves 1-0.", "The recruit was taking part in training on a beach when he got into difficulty in the water.", "Manchester United are jeered by their own supporters as Burnley register their first ever Premier League win at Old Trafford.", "Huanggang, a city of six million, will follow Wuhan in suspending transport, as fears grow.", "But the supermarket says it will create 7,000 hourly-paid roles as part of a major restructuring.", "Live coverage after the US Senate clears Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction.", "Muhammad Rodwan repeatedly struck PC Stuart Outten with the machete during a routine traffic stop.", "The singer reveals in her new book how a childhood incident led to a reliance on drugs and alcohol.", "Louise Lawford was told that her account that the dogs had run off was not accepted.", "The ex-Speaker also criticises No 10 for not \"honouring the centuries-old convention\" by making him a Lord.", "Bereavement leave for parents came too late for Ian Bainbridge, whose son was stillborn five years ago.", "Accusations against the ex-Speaker by one of his most senior advisers are thought to centre around bullying.", "The woman, who had head injuries, died at the property in Chingford late on Wednesday.", "Tributes are paid to the \"fiercely independent\" Anne Robson who was described as \"very inspiring\".", "People in Wuhan are being stopped from leaving - but it may not prevent the virus from spreading.", "Party leaders ask Assembly Commission to halt £1,000 rise until decision to award it is reviewed.", "Poland's president has snubbed an Israeli event to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.", "Passengers have attempted to bring increasingly exotic animals on board flights.", "Only 7.3% of offences lead to a suspect being charged, figures show, as knife crime continues to rise.", "Richard Ratcliffe says his wife, who has been detained for four years, is being used as a \"chess piece\".", "The Home Office says the decision over the extradition of Anne Sacoolas is a \"denial of justice\".", "At least seven babies have died since 2016 at one of the largest hospital groups in England, the BBC finds.", "The patient travelled to Belfast from a city in China currently in lockdown due to the infection.", "The rapper says controversial lyrics on his latest album are \"designed to shock\".", "Thousands of women are camping out in a Delhi suburb in protest over a law they see as anti-Muslim.", "Three people are dead after a large air tanker went down fighting bushfires in New South Wales.", "The 25-year-old British man's motorbike has been found, but he remains missing.", "French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier ends a 50-year career with his last couture runway show.", "It may not be as famous as Beijing or Shanghai, but Wuhan is a huge city with global connections.", "The government is funding oil and gas projects abroad, despite a commitment to cut carbon emissions.", "Experts say the man's brain, found in the Roman town of Herculaneum, was affected by extreme heat.", "Liverpool's march to the Premier League title continues as Roberto Firmino's late winner at Wolves takes them 16 points clear.", "Tesla sold more than 367,000 cars last year, just a fraction of its competitors.", "The earthquake was centred below Stockton-on-Tees just before 06:00 GMT.", "Taxes may be needed to curb eating meat and dairy in the effort to combat climate change.", "She tells the BBC Labour had \"a great set of policies\" at the election but got its \"messaging\" wrong.", "Ordnance bomb disposal remove an unexploded shell found during routine construction work.", "A wrangle between the contractor and the Welsh Government could see completion delayed until 2021.", "A medical examiner has ruled that the rapper died as a result of oxycodone and codeine toxicity,", "Betty Pugh lost her legs after treatment, but her council will not pay to adapt her home.", "He was speaking at an event in Israel marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.", "Monmouth's Nick Ramsay, who has been an AM since 2007, is facing a party investigation.", "Members of the iconic comedy group lead tributes to their \"outrageously funny\" co-star, who has died aged 77.", "A man criticised by a judge for his conduct in a rape trial is deselected as an assembly candidate.", "Victoria Derbyshire addresses the news that her TV show is coming off air, saying \"we're still here\".", "The biggest rise in exclusions for racism is in north-west England, BBC News analysis suggests.", "Plans for a new mission come months after the Chandrayaan-2 failed to land on the Moon.", "A whisky firm says two dozen barrels will feature in the \"world's first dedicated online auction\" for casks.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex release the image on Instagram to mark the turn of the year.", "The man in his 20s was found at an address in Milton Keynes and died later in hospital.", "The London mayor said he was \"disgusted\" by the graffiti, found on a building in Brixton.", "In his new year message, Boris Johnson says he hopes the country can \"move forward united\".", "Protesters chanted \"Liberate Hong Kong!\" at midnight, and thousands joined a New Year's Day rally.", "The first child of 2020 is believed to have been a boy who arrived at 00:03 at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.", "Lewis and Hannah Vaughan Jones brought baby Sonny home after spending £80,000 on private treatment.", "The 62-year-old died at the scene after being struck by a silver VW Golf, whose driver did not stop.", "Some 12,000 fireworks lit up the UK capital's skyline to usher in the start of the new decade.", "Lawyer Michael Polak gives his reaction as a British woman is found guilty of making a false rape claim in Cyprus.", "Victims include a father and son who tried to defend their home and farm equipment from the flames.", "The move is designed to protect marine life around the Pacific island state.", "Local police say the firework exploded as Gary McLaren tried to light it during New Year celebrations.", "The mother of a woman convicted of lying about being raped says she believes Ayia Napa is unsafe.", "Thousands of people fled to the beach in Mallacoota, Victoria as fires approached the town.", "Seven Brexit-focused bills and plans for extra NHS funding are unveiled in the Queen's Speech.", "Mikel Arteta earns his first win as Arsenal boss as the Gunners produce a powerful first-half performance to beat a lacklustre Manchester United.", "The PM says Brexit is \"one step closer\" after MPs back his EU withdrawal bill by a majority of 124.", "Football-loving Kai Evitt is \"blown away\" by the gift from his Manchester United hero.", "A man is arrested after two bodies were found at a house in the early hours of New Year's Day.", "Cement unity \"one brick at a time,\" the Archbishop of Canterbury says in his new year message.", "Fireworks displays are held in London, Edinburgh and other cities, as the UK rings in a new decade.", "He was the NBA commissioner for 30 years and helped to boost basketball's popularity worldwide.", "Ed Bartlam of Underbelly says the Edinburgh street party was a success for locals and visitors.", "New research suggests most people still want to book package holidays despite what happened after the collapse of Thomas Cook.", "The Scottish star helped the UK music industry towards a fifth consecutive year of growth.", "Two men and a woman were killed 20 minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve.", "Charles Nunn helped families identify the bodies of 116 children and 28 adults after the disaster.", "People gather across the country to say farewell to 2019 and usher in the new decade.", "Hundreds of new year revellers defy the chilly waters to take a dip in the Firth of Forth.", "Peter Wright wins his first PDC World Championship with a 7-3 victory over three-time champion Michael van Gerwen.", "The former car titan was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges. Then he appeared in Lebanon.", "In his new year message, Jeremy Corbyn says Labour faces tough years ahead but must keep fighting.", "Cracker's owner left a note saying: \"I couldn't imagine him being outside with me cold and hungry.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge unveil a global prize to tackle climate issues in the next decade.", "All 200 animals survived a huge wildfire, with monkeys, pandas and a tiger kept at a zookeeper's home.", "Marc Veyrat said he had been \"disgraced\"; Michelin called him a \"narcissistic diva\".", "When this student began posting photos of her study notes, she never anticipated what would happen.", "A Georgia man who broke into a Taco Bell overnight paused to make himself some food and take a nap.", "Quibi also announced its pricing and a star-studded line-up at the CES tech expo.", "Alun Cairns resigned as Welsh Secretary last year over claims he knew his aide had broken a judge's ruling.", "The ceremony will repeat 2019's \"successful formula\" of big names presenting awards, Academy says.", "The Duke and Duchess stepping back as senior royals is the only story in town on Thursday's front pages.", "Brusthom Ziamani is one of two inmates suspected of attacking a prison officer at HMP Whitemoor.", "Two engineers and the owner of a dry cleaners were on board the flight, which crashed in Iran.", "Struggling families are being hit by failures in the system designed to help them, a watchdog says.", "As the couple step away from royal duties, we look at their life together from meeting to marriage and beyond.", "The Royal College of GPs ask Health Secretary Matt Hancock to take urgent action to tackle the problem.", "Ministers will pay for people to access commercial broadband services if they miss out on the fibre network.", "The device rapidly chills packaged drinks meaning they do not need to be refrigerated before use.", "The young German man was targeted by a work colleague who peppered his lunch with mercury and lead.", "It is thought the pneumonia which struck the Chinese city of Wuhan was caused by a new virus.", "The jail mistakenly saved surveillance footage from the wrong cell block, prosecutors say.", "The chief executive of British Airways owner International Airlines Group is set to retire.", "Hostilities between Iran and the US have big consequences for many other countries.", "Friends of Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths have expressed their shock at their deaths.", "The shadow energy minister says colleagues have told him he would bring \"dynamism\" to the debate.", "The Canadian PM says evidence shows the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile - possibly unintentionally.", "The Speaker hails security officers Ron Dowson and Habibi Syaaf as heroes after the river rescue.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "An appeal to keep Ian Simms, who murdered Helen McCourt in 1988, behind bars is rejected.", "The 176 people killed in Wednesday's crash are being identified by officials and loved ones.", "The supermarket's sales in the months around the festive period fell 0.2% compared with last year.", "A boy who choked on a sausage could still be alive if he had an operation sooner, an inquest hears.", "Hannah Bardell says she considers comments made about her to the press to be a \"hate crime\".", "A man cleared over an incident outside Buckingham Palace is accused of planning terror attacks.", "The Queen's eldest granddaughter was caught by a mobile speed van near Cirencester.", "Stopping plastic packaging could lead to higher carbon alternatives, a Parliamentary report says.", "A French start-up aims to radically cut the amount of time people require to clean their teeth.", "Boris Johnson also urges President Hassan Rouhani to release dual nationals imprisoned in Iran.", "A South Korean start-up has created a gadget designed to stop well-worn trainers smelling bad.", "The supermarket in southern France put a €30.99 price tag on the televisions - instead of €399.", "The Labour MPs join Sir Keir Starmer on the ballot paper in the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn.", "Newspapers at home and abroad react to Harry and Meghan's decision to step back from royal duties.", "The US has a \"right to self-defence\", the UK foreign secretary says after meeting his US counterpart.", "A statement is released saying the Duke and Duchess of Sussex intend to step back as senior royals.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will step back as senior royals, adding to the many ways the couple have done things differently.", "A statement is released saying the Duke and Duchess of Sussex intend to step back as senior royals.", "The couple, who will not return as working members of the Royal Family, have been together for five years.", "Betting companies with streaming rights for FA Cup ties say they would allow the games to be streamed on a free platform elsewhere.", "The major parties in England have pledged billions more for the NHS over the next five years.", "Two women are taking legal action, claiming a \"pattern and practice of intentional race discrimination\".", "Chicken and hormone-fed beef bans will continue post-Brexit, the environment secretary says.", "Owners of the fire-prone Hotpoint and Indesit machines fear a much longer wait to hot wash their clothes.", "Unison says Sir Keir Starmer is best placed to unite the party and take it back into government.", "After nearly a decade's research, a hydrofoil water bike has gone into mass production.", "From grieving his mother to becoming a father, the Duke of Sussex is used to attention from the media.", "The Withdrawal Agreement Bill will now pass to the House of Lords for further scrutiny next week.", "Beau Greaves had a 16th birthday to remember as she won through to the semi-finals of the BDO women's World Darts Championship.", "A vigil is held for Iran plane crash victims in Toronto, where many of them were travelling to.", "The EU Commission president says the sides must prioritise areas of agreement to meet talks deadline.", "A small fraction of orders made against sex offenders included a ban on foreign travel, an inquiry finds.", "The drill artist, who's had two UK number ones, is convicted of carrying a knife.", "The Duchess of Sussex tells ITV of being under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom\".", "The first core stage for Nasa's \"mega-rocket\", the SLS, has left its factory in New Orleans.", "Prosecutors had applied to re-indict the case against Sean Flynn under double jeopardy laws.", "Pressure is growing on countries that don't base their definition of rape on a lack of consent.", "A wide range of futuristic vehicles, including flying machines, has parked up at the CES tech show.", "Celeste got fired over her love of music. Now she's been named the UK's most promising new star.", "The retailer says it ordered too many tight-fitting men's clothes ahead of the busy festive period.", "Police are investigating after a performer was left in a life-threatening condition following a fall during rehearsals for the Winter Youth Olympic Games opening ceremony in Switzerland.", "Substitute Kelechi Iheanacho scores a crucial second-half equaliser against Aston Villa to set up an intriguing EFL Cup semi-final second leg.", "Across Canada, communities are grieving the 63 Canadians killed in the Ukraine Flight PS752 crash.", "The couple, who will not return as working members of the Royal Family, have been together for five years.", "No other royals were consulted before the couple's announcement, the BBC understands.", "The retail group warns on profits as John Lewis managing director Paula Nickolds steps down.", "Aadil Umair Rahim sparked a nine-hour search when he vanished on his way back from a school trip.", "The turtle is being treated at the Sea Life centre in Brighton after being found by swimmers.", "Liverpool continue their charge for a first league title in 30 years by beating rivals Manchester United at Anfield.", "Moving the upper chamber could \"reconnect\" politics with voters, the Tory party chairman says.", "The Japanese fashion brand is accused of cultural appropriation at Paris Fashion Week.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The new uniform, unveiled on the force's Twitter, has prompted one question: \"Camo in space?\"", "Lee Child had considered killing off title character before getting his younger sibling to take over.", "Leaked documents reveal how Isabel dos Santos made her fortune through exploitation and corruption.", "England's Stuart Bingham becomes the oldest Masters winner by defeating Ali Carter 10-8 in a fluctuating final.", "He served as an MP in the Highlands and was interim leader of the Liberal Democrats after the party's formation.", "A woman who was repeatedly abused as a child was let down by South Yorkshire Police, a report finds.", "The ex-president's billionaire daughter has been targeted in an anti-corruption investigation.", "As the couple step away from royal duties, we look at their life together from meeting to marriage and beyond.", "Video shows a car being driven on the wrong side of the road near RAF Croughton on Friday night.", "Gail Porter's mental health is the focus of a new BBC documentary as she retraces significant moments in her career.", "Premiership Rugby confirms Saracens will be relegated to the Championship this season after salary cap breaches.", "The five MPs running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn were quizzed on issues from anti-Semitism to Brexit.", "How the Olympics, Harry Potter, housing and solar panels changed the British landscape.", "Isabel dos Santos accuses the Angolan authorities of a \"witch-hunt\" against her, following a leak of documents.", "Conor McGregor makes a winning return with a first-round victory over Donald Cerrone at UFC 246 in Las Vegas.", "Court powers to control stalkers under investigation could be the \"critical difference\", victims say.", "Yemen's president condemns the \"cowardly\" attack in Marib province, blaming it on Houthi rebels.", "The UK must decide how to position itself in global trade's new order.", "Fundraising for a statue of Joseph Merrick has been slowed by prejudice, the woman behind it claims.", "As much as 30 inches (76cm) of snow has fallen in Newfoundland after severe snowstorms.", "It comes after footage emerged of a car on the wrong side of the road near where Harry Dunn died.", "The child suffered non life-threatening injuries in the attack in Leicester on Saturday afternoon.", "The six-year-old, who was on a school trip, was found in roadworks just off the M1 in the early hours.", "The men in their 20s and 30s were pronounced dead at the scene in Ilford - two men have been arrested.", "The prime minister welcomes the plan for the couple's future, as the Queen wishes them happiness.", "The prince says he and Meghan wanted to continue serving the Queen, but \"that wasn't possible\".", "Pooches of all shapes and sizes settled in for book readings with their owners.", "Sir Ed Davey and Mark Pack will remain joint acting party leaders until the election process is completed.", "Food prices could rise after Sajid Javid said there will be no alignment with EU rules after Brexit, businesses say.", "Robert Buckland commits to building one, despite plans for a jail in Port Talbot being withdrawn.", "Storms hit parts of Australia's east coast, dousing some fires and giving inhabitants some respite.", "The boy's sibling, four, is critical but stable and dad stable after the early morning blaze.", "The couple, who will not return as working members of the Royal Family, have been together for five years.", "Leaked documents reveal how Isabel dos Santos made her fortune through exploitation and corruption.", "Heavy rains have dampened many of Australia's blazes, while bringing flooding to some areas.", "The police helicopter was deployed during a search near a Tesco Extra in Shrewsbury.", "From grieving his mother to becoming a father, the Duke of Sussex is used to attention from the media.", "A report said an officer who cited race as a reason for inaction over sex abuse could not be identified.", "Provides an overview of Angola, including key dates and facts about this African country.", "Former colleagues say Jamie Wallis \"was aware\" it was being overseen from there.", "Read the Duke of Sussex's speech about he and his wife's future after Buckingham Palace announced the terms on which they would step back as senior royals.", "Two men and a woman, rearrested on suspicion of the murder of Glen Quinn, are released on police bail.", "Conner Marshall was murdered by David Braddon, who was on probation for previous offences.", "The assassination is a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran.", "The BBC's Jeremy Bowen on what Iran could do in reply to the killing of its top commander.", "Vegans and vegetarians may find the fast food chain's new meat-free burger an acquired taste.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his team's performance was \"sensationally good\" as Curtis Jones' stunning winner earned the Reds an FA Cup victory over Everton.", "Sam Mendes and Olivia Colman win awards at an event where Australia's bushfires were often mentioned.", "The average wage of a FTSE 100 boss equated to more than £900 an hour, research suggests.", "Killed by the US, he was once described as the \"single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".", "Adopted children who suffered severe deprivation in Romanian orphanages had smaller brains than others as young adults.", "A rapist who preyed on men outside clubs will \"never be safe to be released\" from jail, a judge says.", "England need eight wickets for victory on the final day of the second Test after being frustrated by South Africa's top order in Cape Town.", "The landmark deal hangs in the balance after the US killed Iran's most powerful general.", "The man tried to attack officers in the city of Gelsenkirchen, but terrorism is not suspected.", "Paul Elcombe, 26, allegedly threw the bird at Kyle Towers at Goodbody's cafe in Plymouth.", "It is the third consecutive year of decline, driven by weak confidence and confusion over new rules.", "Scott Morrison announces the creation of a recovery agency, amid fierce criticism of his response.", "Tottenham say they and the police have found \"no evidence\" to support allegations of racism from fans towards Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger.", "Police say a post-mortem examination is needed to determine the cause of death of the man in his 40s.", "But her impassioned Golden Globes speech about \"a woman's right to choose\" also attracts criticism.", "Jonathan Coe's Middle England is described by the judges as \"the perfect novel for now\".", "Iraq has called for an end to foreign military presence after the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani.", "Three men are being interrogated over an attempt to break into a British base in central Kenya.", "Takieddine Boudhane, an Algerian national, had been living in the UK for three years, police said.", "Isla is thought to be the only person in the world with the condition, that accelerates the ageing of cells.", "The actor used his speech to say a \"climate change-based\" crisis was unfolding in Australia.", "The foreign secretary says his priority is to get the woman back to the UK to start her recovery.", "The body of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general assassinated by the US, has been brought back to Iran.", "Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy question manifesto choices as Jess Phillips does not rule out rejoining EU.", "A mysterious illness is not caused by the virus that killed hundreds in 2002-03, officials said.", "Turkish forces will support the UN-backed government in Libya as it battles an insurgency.", "Heritage body Cadw gives special protection to nine sites across Wales.", "She says her party needs a \"socialist leader\" to fight for the policies pioneered by Jeremy Corbyn.", "The parked cars were stuck two metres deep after the ice beneath them cracked.", "Iran's Revolutionary Guards were set up after the 1979 revolution to defend the Islamic system.", "Ministers say the project is transforming people's lives and an extra £165m will be made available.", "The South-Londoner's sweet-but-gritty soul songs are being tipped for success in 2020.", "Launching her bid, the shadow education secretary says Labour faces a stark choice - \"win or die\".", "PM says Qasem Soleimani was a \"threat to all our interests\" as he prepares to meet key ministers.", "Find out who has won prizes at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards - and who has missed out.", "Police in Delhi are called to the JNU campus amid reports of masked men attacking students and staff.", "The astronaut, the first Briton in space, says there must be \"all sorts\" of life in the universe.", "Jasmine Lobe, who claims she was sexually assaulted by the Hollywood mogul, talks ahead of his criminal trial.", "The Welsh mezzo-soprano was attacked on her way to rehearsals as she helped an older woman.", "Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta shouted at his players at half-time to inspire an improved performance as they beat Leeds in the FA Cup.", "Police believe the attack at a restaurant in Rot am See was related to a family dispute.", "There has been criticism that authorities were too slow to respond and contain the virus.", "A judge is criticised for making \"legally inaccurate\" comments about sexual assault and consent.", "The BBC's Africa editor Fergal Keane will work in a new role for the corporation.", "Andrea Leadsom MP met Harry Dunn's family to discuss the US refusal to extradite Anne Sacoolas", "Live coverage after the US Senate clears Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction.", "Records at the Intellectual Property Office show objections to the Sussex Royal trademark.", "Eamonn Harrison is facing 39 charges of manslaughter and two charges of conspiracy", "Police believe the unnamed Briton fell off a cliff after a night out on Thursday.", "Muhammad Rodwan repeatedly struck PC Stuart Outten with the machete during a routine traffic stop.", "The city is at the centre of a deadly virus outbreak, and has been sealed off by authorities.", "Louise Lawford was told that her account that the dogs had run off was not accepted.", "The pub chain says it wants to deter \"unruly behaviour\" in pubs by children left unsupervised.", "The company said it was sorry for the confusion caused by plans to stop sending updates to legacy speakers.", "Four companies are seeking a judicial review of the decision to scrap age verification plans.", "This can put strain on the heart and is particularly marked during a defeat, a study suggests.", "People in Wuhan are being stopped from leaving - but it may not prevent the virus from spreading.", "The deal formally ending UK membership is signed by EU leaders in Brussels.", "The judge said Muhammad Rodwan had shown \"not a shred of remorse\" for the attack on PC Stuart Outten.", "The Home Office says the decision over the extradition of Anne Sacoolas is a \"denial of justice\".", "The firm says it plans to build up to 15 of the mini reactors, which can be delivered by a lorry.", "Spain's government is to meet in emergency session after the storm carved a swathe of destruction.", "There is a worldwide ban on identifying the two killers of James Bulger, who died in 1993.", "The rapper says controversial lyrics on his latest album are \"designed to shock\".", "The PM hails a \"fantastic moment\" for the UK as he signs document paving the way for its EU exit.", "The star felt she would \"pass out\" during shows after developing an unhealthy relationship with food.", "Media giants such as Google have been outspoken opponents of the legislation.", "The woman boasted about taking medicine to bring her temperature down in order to clear customs.", "The government is funding oil and gas projects abroad, despite a commitment to cut carbon emissions.", "A private hospital is looking into operations carried out by a doctor it has stopped from practising.", "Sir Nick Clegg did not acknowledge WhatsApp security flaws in a BBC interview.", "The young boy suffered life changing injuries when he was thrown from a 10th floor viewing platform.", "George Takei, star of the original 1960s Star Trek TV series, is jokingly demanding royalties.", "The health board says 24-hour consultant-led care cannot continue without risks to patient safety.", "Supermarket giant says the change will remove 350 tonnes of plastic from the environment.", "He tweets his apology after questioning the \"oddness of casting\" a Sikh soldier in the film 1917.", "Liverpool's march to the Premier League title continues as Roberto Firmino's late winner at Wolves takes them 16 points clear.", "Senators have been seen chewing gum, handing out fidget spinners and sleeping during the trial.", "Serena Williams says she made \"far too many errors to be a professional athlete\" as she was knocked out in the Australian Open third round.", "League Two Northampton earn a replay with Championship club Derby after a goalless draw in the FA Cup fourth round.", "The care watchdog carried out an unannounced inspection after concerns about preventable baby deaths.", "Princess Alice was honoured for her work helping Jewish people during WW2 and is buried in Jerusalem.", "Harry Richford was born in an operating theatre \"full of panicking people\", an inquest is told.", "No-one took full account of how complex the project was going to be, says the spending watchdog.", "He was speaking at an event in Israel marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.", "Unite leader Len McCluskey said the shadow business secretary had the \"brains and brilliance\" for the job.", "Buying individual tickets for portions of the same journey can be cheaper, but has been \"niche\".", "Iran says he was arrested \"as an unknown foreigner in an illegal gathering\", but released soon afterwards.", "The Duchess of Sussex tells ITV of being under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom\".", "The philosopher, who died from cancer, is hailed as \"the greatest conservative of our age\".", "Serena Williams claims her first title in three years and first since becoming a mother with victory over Jessica Pegula at the Auckland Classic.", "The US State Department says it would be an \"abuse\" to send suspect Anne Sacoolas back to the UK.", "It's a battle between the ballads and the bangers, as the Brit Awards reveal their 2020 nominees.", "Ireland's deputy PM says talks are likely to take longer than Boris Johnson's end of 2020 deadline.", "From book deals to public speaking, there are a number of avenues the couple could explore.", "Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill appointed first and deputy first ministers of Northern Ireland.", "The Scottish Secretary has denied a 2021 SNP majority would be justification for a second vote.", "Space tourism is set to take off in 2020 as firms offering tickets get ready for the final countdown.", "Anger at the government's response could lead to further unrest ahead of elections, an expert says.", "Beales says 22 stores and 1,000 jobs are at risk if it cannot find a buyer.", "Liverpool setting records in the best-ever start to a season in Europe's top-five leagues \"doesn't feel special somehow\", says boss Jurgen Klopp.", "Three adults have also died as their boat sank off Turkey's coast near the Greek island of Chios.", "The Defence Secretary says fears the US will withdraw from international leadership \"keep me awake\".", "The major gathering of independence supporters takes place in very poor weather conditions.", "Campaigners including Greta Thunberg want Federer to end a sponsorship deal with Credit Suisse.", "This week has radically increased the interest in the couple who have not hid their disdain for much of the media.", "Wildfires have wreaked devastation to wildlife on Australia's third largest island.", "Senior royals will meet at Sandringham on Monday to discuss Prince Harry and Meghan's future.", "Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, from Bristol, disappeared from an Australian beach in 1970.", "Demonstrators in Tehran called for resignations and accused officials of lying.", "Officials warn that human activity is resulting in rising numbers of elephant deaths.", "Manchester City produce a devastating goalscoring performance to leave Aston Villa in the Premier League relegation zone.", "The HGV driver was unhurt and managed to escape the blaze near junction 25.", "Sir Keir Starmer says \"factionalism has to go\" as he makes his case to become Labour's next leader.", "Use our translator tool to find out what all the scientific terms used to discuss climate change actually mean.", "Residents criticise a cash offer by a firm building a hydropower project on their doorstep.", "Some firefighters were said to find the poor treatment of colleagues to be \"amusing\", inspectors find.", "The sharp rise in first class degrees from universities has stalled after pressure from ministers.", "Presenter Evan Davis said it was the worst mistake since he joined Radio 4's PM programme.", "Judges' sentencing remarks in high-profile criminal cases in England and Wales are to be filmed.", "The Westminster government is to give the NI Executive an extra £1bn to support the Stormont deal.", "Countries are to set out how they intend to cut their emissions, but what's brought us to this point?", "Louise Lawford is accused of losing at least five dogs in her care last June in woods in Staffordshire.", "The change could anger firms in the South West, who value the international routes Heathrow provides.", "Mr Trump has hailed the deal as a \"transformative\", but the majority of tariffs will remain in place.", "Our royal correspondent says the Mail on Sunday could target Meghan's character in privacy case.", "Michael O'Leary writes to the chancellor criticising the government's rescue of the regional airline.", "Dominic Hamlyn, who died from sudden adult death syndrome, was swimming underwater during a birthday challenge.", "As senior royals gather in Sandringham, our royal correspondent wonders what the talks will achieve.", "A crowdfunding project aims to raise £500,000 by the weekend to pay for the bell to ring on 31 January.", "About 200 starlings were found on a lane in December, sparking theories about what had happened.", "The case filed in the US Virgin Islands says the late financier molested girls as young as 12.", "Bereaved families tell the PM they are worried about a panel member who has links to a cladding firm.", "Barbara Broccoli, who produces the film series, says a female actor will not be cast in the role.", "James Farrar was charged with assault by beating for using a megaphone near the ears of police.", "There were 14,135 offences in the year to September 2019 - the most since data was first compiled in 2007.", "Luke Williams, 26, died three days after being assaulted in a street in Aberaman, Rhondda Cynon Taff.", "PC Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead while responding to reports of a robbery in Bradford in 2005.", "The leadership hopeful tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he can restore trust in Labour as a \"force for good\".", "Freya Thorpe's family said their lives were \"utterly destroyed\" by her death.", "The prince appears relaxed as he hosts the Rugby League World Cup draw at Buckingham Palace.", "Lisa Nandy claims that the UK should \"look to Catalonia\" for lessons on how to defeat Scottish nationalism.", "Extinction Rebellion staged a 13-hour protest at the base in Altens \"to hold Shell to account\".", "Saracens are facing relegation from the Premiership if they are found to have breached the salary cap again.", "Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley says the tournament \"is happening\" despite health concerns over Melbourne's air quality.", "British Airways' owner IAG files a complaint to the EU arguing Flybe's rescue breaks state aid rules.", "Soil protection will be a core issue as the Agriculture Bill returns to Parliament later.", "More venues opened in 2019 as more customers opted for food instead of just drinking alcohol.", "Fabian Way into Swansea was shut for five hours for investigations into the fatal incident.", "A jury hears officer Stuart Outten was stabbed as he tried to arrest a man during a routine stop.", "Research for the BBC by NHS Digital shows a huge rise in mental and physical illness linked to cocaine.", "The presenter is leaving the Channel 4 show in order to focus on other work commitments.", "Wet weather brings relief to some devastated areas, but the fire crisis is far from over.", "Global data from three agencies also shows that 2019 was the second warmest year since 1850.", "It is, in Trump's words, a \"monster of a deal\", but it doesn't tackle some of the thorniest problems.", "Juan Mata's superb second-half goal sends Manchester United into the FA Cup fourth round as they beat Wolves 1-0.", "Security footage captures two people in Washington DC narrowly avoid being crushed by falling debris.", "Until now, there's been little evidence our evolutionary relatives could swim.", "Dealers are attracting new users by offering free MDMA, a type of ecstasy, if they enter a raffle.", "Aadil Umair Rahim sparked a nine-hour search when he vanished on his way back from a school trip.", "Boris Johnson says post-Brexit immigration to the UK will become \"fairer and more equal\".", "The Japanese fashion brand is accused of cultural appropriation at Paris Fashion Week.", "Malaysia will not become \"the garbage dump of the world\", says the country's environment minister.", "The presenter says the settlement with the BBC followed \"a long period of stressful negotiations\".", "Transport Secretary Grant Shapps faces a \"massive decision\" as a leaked report suggests the rail link could cost £106bn.", "England's Stuart Bingham becomes the oldest Masters winner by defeating Ali Carter 10-8 in a fluctuating final.", "Job performance data about more than 900 IWG employees is accidentally published online.", "Data suggests 30% of second generation migrants feel discriminated against because of their ethnicity.", "A German man who convinced young women and girls to shock themselves on camera is given 11 years.", "Gail Porter's mental health is the focus of a new BBC documentary as she retraces significant moments in her career.", "A \"crippling learning crisis\" faces girls in some of the world's most deprived countries, says UN.", "US-bound migrants who waded across a river are forced back and rounded up by the security forces.", "Ministers are defeated three times over Brexit legislation - on citizens' rights and court rulings.", "Period poverty campaigners are urging schools and colleges to opt-in to the new scheme in England.", "Zac, three, died and his brother Harley, four, is in a critical condition following the blaze.", "British number one Dan Evans fights back from two sets down to beat American Mackenzie McDonald in the Australian Open first round.", "As much as 30 inches (76cm) of snow has fallen in Newfoundland after severe snowstorms.", "It comes after footage emerged of a car on the wrong side of the road near where Harry Dunn died.", "\"I must listen to my body and rest,\" the star tells fans in Lisbon, Portugal.", "The men in their 20s and 30s were pronounced dead at the scene in Ilford - two men have been arrested.", "The shadow Brexit secretary is the first to get the support needed to officially run for leader.", "The prince says he and Meghan wanted to continue 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Emiliano Sala was on his way to play for Cardiff City when the plane carrying him crashed\n\nFootballer Emiliano Sala told a friend he felt forced out of his former club, days before he died in a plane crash.\n\nThe 28-year-old Argentine and pilot David Ibbotson, 59, were killed when the plane carrying him to his new club Cardiff City came down on 21 January 2019.\n\nThe BBC has heard a voice message in which Sala says he did not feel respected at French club Nantes.\n\nFC Nantes refused to comment on the message.\n\nOn Tuesday events are being held in Nantes and Cardiff in memory of Sala and Mr Ibbotson, marking one year since the plane went missing over the Channel Islands.\n\nOne of those attending was Cardiff defender Sol Bamba, who said: \"Me personally, I knew the lad so it was massive for me to be here on behalf of his family and all his friends... so it's very important for everyone.\n\n\"I think when there's a tragedy like that the football community get together and I think it's important.\n\nThe BBC has heard a WhatsApp voice message, sent by Sala days before the fatal flight, in which he tells a friend he felt like he was being forced out of FC Nantes after asking for his contract to be extended four times.\n\nSent three days before he signed for Cardiff City in a record £15m deal, Sala said he felt he had not been been kept properly informed about the transfer plans.\n\nHe adds he has not decided whether to accept the offer and is \"praying for something more interesting\" to come along.\n\nA service is being held in Cardiff to mark the anniversary of Emiliano Sala's death\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFans have begun to leave tributes to Sala outside the Cardiff City Stadium\n\nSpeaking from Nimes Olympique, on the eve of what would turn out to be his final game for Nantes, Sala said after four years at the club: \"They don't respect me, they don't value me.\n\n\"I haven't made a decision... I went to get some information from this club that wants me and wants to value me for what I'm worth... I'm going to be 29 this year so I have to think about it.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the priest at the church where he worshipped said the footballer was treated as \"a toy\" who had little or no control over the direction his career was taking.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by FC Nantes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSala's mother, Mercedes Taffarel, said the pain of her son's death would \"never go away\" and his family have called for investigators to \"speed up\" their work so a full inquest can be held as soon as possible.\n\nA pre-inquest review is due to be held at Bournemouth Town Hall on 16 March.\n\nIn a statement his family said they wanted to \"finally learn the truth\" about what happened and it was \"imperative\" police and aviation investigators finish their investigations in time.\n\nTributes are being left next to statue of Cardiff's FA Cup winning captain Fred Keenor\n\nEmiliano Sala in his playing days at Nantes and as a young boy in Argentina\n\nThis was last time Mercedes Taffarel saw her son Emiliano Sala alive\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB carrying Sala and pilot Mr Ibbotson went missing over waters near the Channel Islands on 21 January. It took rescuers two weeks to find the wreckage.\n\nThe footballer's body was recovered on 8 February after a private rescue team took over the search.\n\nThe body of Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle in Lincolnshire, has never been found.\n\nA report into the cause of the crash is expected to be published by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) before the end of March.\n\nThe AAIB has already revealed potentially fatal levels of carbon monoxide were found in Sala's blood.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emiliano Sala's father died not knowing why his son perished\n\nAn interim report into the crash revealed that, as a private pilot, Mr Ibbotson was not allowed to carry passengers for remuneration or financial reward.\n\nHe was also unqualified to fly at night due to his extreme colour-blindness.\n\nCardiff City had refused to pay any of the transfer fee, claiming it was not legally binding so Sala was not officially their player when he died.\n\nA Nantes shirt left in tribute to Sala outside Cardiff City Stadium\n\nBut in September Fifa ruled the club should pay the first instalment of £5.3m (6m euros) to FC Nantes. Cardiff City have appealed the ruling.\n\nFather Guillaume le Floc'h, priest at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Carquefou, a small town north of Nantes where Sala lived, said the player was a devout Catholic and a familiar visitor there.\n\nHe said the news of his transfer to Cardiff had been difficult, with changes being made, and he had blessed the footballer days before he died.\n\nFather Guillaume le Floc'h said he was angry about the way Sala had been treated\n\n\"I felt as if he was like a toy... [with] people deciding for him... and that was really quite difficult to live with that,\" he said.\n\n\"Football players can be victims... People would say they also have some benefits from that because they earn so much money... Sure but in fact they don't have so many choices in life and that is not very respectful for their freedom.\"\n\nJean-Marcel Boudard said Sala's death had shed light on the flaws of the business of football\n\nJean-Marcel Boudard, a sports journalist with Ouest France in Nantes, said the striker faced a \"dilemma\" over where to move for what he knew would be the final chapter of his career.\n\n\"It's a drama, a human tragedy about a man, which has shed light on the flaws of the business of football,\" he said.\n\n\"It's also a story that reminds us, because as journalists we tend to forget it, that the players are also human beings before being commodities between clubs.\"\n\nFans in Nantes have been campaigning for a permanent memorial to Sala in the city, such as a public mural of the striker or the adoption of a road in his name.\n\n\"Sala left his mark not only on the club's history, but the town's history too. It devastated people here,\" said Florian le Teuff, president of FC Nantes supporters' club A la Nantaise.\n\n\"During every game at the Beaujoire, Sala's song is still heard - sung in the 9th minute to honour the memory of a player who is part of the club's history.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, a mass will be held at St Peter's and St Paul's, while in Cardiff a service will be dedicated to the footballer and Mr Ibbotson at St David's Metropolitan Cathedral.\n\nBBC Wales News Focus can be contacted by emailing news.focus.team@bbc.co.uk", "There is growing public concern about the impact of cars, according to a recent government survey (stock picture)\n\nPlanners and engineers have been rapped for allowing new housing developments to be dominated by roads.\n\nA report says too many highways engineers are still approving roads that do not fully account for pedestrians and cyclists.\n\nIt follows a government survey suggesting an increase in public concern over the impact of cars on people's health and the environment.\n\nThe new report comes from University College London (UCL).\n\nIts author, Prof Matthew Carmona, told BBC News: “Far too many new developments are still all about the car.\n\n“It’s all about making sure cars don’t need to slow down. Pedestrians and cyclists just have to get out of the way.\n\n“It’s an approach from the 1960s. We should be allowing people to walk and cycle to get to local facilities instead of having to get out the car every time. But car-dominated developments are still going up.”\n\nHis report concludes that nearly three quarters of 142 developments surveyed should not have been given planning permission.\n\nA fifth of the schemes should have been rejected outright, and more than half should have been amended to improve a sense of place and help pedestrians and cyclists, the report added.\n\nProf Carmona continued: “Highways authorities are really problematic – they’re all about getting roads as cheap as possible that can be maintained cheaply – that means large areas of tarmac with no regard for walking and cycling.\"\n\nHe said many councils had not updated design standards since the 1970s.\n\nAnd he urged the government to make mandatory its own advisory Manual for Streets, which says: “Streets are not just there to get people from A to B. In reality, streets form vital components of residential areas and greatly affect the overall quality of life for local people.”\n\nThe report says many schemes should have been amended to help pedestrians and cyclists\n\nThe report comes after a government poll suggested 76% of people think that for the sake of the environment, everyone should reduce their driving.\n\nJust two years ago 63% held that opinion, suggesting that public concern is on the rise after media coverage of climate change and air pollution from vehicles.\n\nThree quarters of people agreed that drivers should use their cars less in urban areas for the sake of public health - a figure that is also markedly higher than previously.\n\nCraig Bennett, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, said this was a \"big shift in public opinion\" which showed the public was \"way ahead of politicians on this issue\".\n\nThe survey of more than 2,500 people was conducted for the Department for Transport and placed on its website - but without the usual press release to the media.\n\nIt may have implications for the government's plans to spend £28.8bn on roads.\n\nEnvironmentalists and most opposition parties say road-building will hinder the UK's commitment to halting the carbon emissions that are fuelling global heating.\n\nThe Lib Dems said the government's spending commitments on roads, just as the public were becoming more aware of environmental issues, were \"a slap in the face for the planet\".\n\nAlong with Labour and the Green Party, it also criticised ministers for not publicising evidence of public support for reducing the number of cars on the roads.\n\nThree quarters of people polled in a regular government survey on travel said we should all drive less to protect the environment.\n\nThe data is on the Department for Transport's website, but opposition parties claim it has not been highlighted because it makes government plans for huge spending on roads look out of touch.\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, said the government's plan to spend nearly £30bn on new roads was \"irresponsible and self-defeating\".\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas told the BBC: \"They are ignoring an inconvenient truth - and it's clear they are lagging way behind public opinion on roads.\"\n\nProf Carmona said: “The government’s drive to deliver more homes is absolutely right - but it mustn’t be delivered at expense of the quality of places.”\n\nHis survey judged developments on the basis of green space, local shops and lack of character as well as transport. The work was funded by the countryside charity CPRE and the Place Alliance.\n\nThe Local Government Association said: “Standards should future-proof all new homes, ensuring they are environmentally sustainable. The government should ensure homes are built to high standards with the necessary infrastructure in place.”\n\nAndrew Whitaker from the Home Builders Federation told BBC News many of the problems identified by the report were not within the control of the builder.\n\nHe said: “Local authorities have an obligation to commit sufficient resources to deal with planning applications efficiently and to work closely with the builder to agree well-designed schemes.\n\n\"The overwhelming majority of new home-buyers are happy with their new home and the wider environment around it.”\n\nThe government told BBC News it would soon be updating its guidance on roads in the light of its 2050 climate commitments, and would achieve its climate change targets. A spokesperson said they were waiting for the right time to issue a press notice about the survey.", "Schools have been warned against \"gaming\" their league-table ranking by getting pupils to take qualifications that are of low value to them.\n\nOfsted chief Amanda Spielman said good grades were \"hollow\" if children missed out on a rounded education.\n\nThe head of England's education watchdog criticised too narrow a focus on exam results.\n\n\"We should not incentivise apparent success without substance,\" Ms Spielman said.\n\nLaunching Ofsted's annual report, the chief inspector said: \"We must guard against restricting education excessively.\n\n\"Exam results are important but have to reflect real achievement.\"\n\nMs Spielman said inspectors had visited a school where every student took a sports science qualification, rather than using it for a \"valuable GCSE slot\".\n\nThe English for Speakers of Other Languages qualification is no longer counted in school league tables but in previous years Ofsted said it had been taken by some native English speakers.\n\nThe Ofsted chief said such tactics denied children a broad education - and could be at the expense of learning languages or art or drama classes.\n\n\"We mustn't succumb to the seductive but wrong-headed logic that we help disadvantaged children by turning a blind eye to schools that narrow education,\" she said.\n\nShe warned against \"narrow repetitive\" testing for exams by schools.\n\nBut in primary science, the report suggested, a reduction in testing had harmed results - with England performing less well in international Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) tests in the subject.\n\nThe stopping of national curriculum tests, often known as Sats, in science had meant schools had put more focus on English and maths, to the detriment of science, said the report.\n\nThe annual report showed 86% of schools in England were rated outstanding or good.\n\nThis has risen from 68% in 2010 - but this upward curve could be reversed in future years, as outstanding schools once again face routine inspections.\n\nMs Spielman welcomed the government's decision to scrap outstanding schools' exemption from regular inspection - saying the lack of scrutiny had deprived parents of an \"up-to-date picture\".\n\nThe chief inspector's overview of the year accused the government of being slow to react to \"intolerable protests\" at Parkfield school, in Birmingham, in a dispute about LGBT lessons.\n\nThere were concerns raised about apprenticeships - with Ms Spielman saying they needed to be improved for younger people, with too many apprenticeships going to older workers, in jobs they might already be doing.\n\nThe changing ownership of children's homes was also raised.\n\nThe report said this had once been mostly an area for local authorities and charities but three-quarters of provision was now privately owned.\n\nIt was not always clear who was actually at the \"top of the company tree\" - and such a lack of clarity was a challenge for regulators.\n\nPaul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, rejected accusations of schools manipulating the league tables.\n\n\"I don't recognise schools choosing to 'game' the system,\" he said.\n\n\"Although I do see some schools finding it impossible to balance the competing demands of government policy and inspection.\n\n\"It should be remembered that this is happening in a tiny minority of cases, so it would be wrong to assert that it is a widespread problem.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said schools should be rewarded for \"doing the right thing\".\n\n\"Performance tables currently penalise schools which have more pupils in challenging circumstances. This is wrong,\" he said.", "Coca-Cola will not ditch single-use plastic bottles because consumers still want them, the firm's head of sustainability has told the BBC.\n\nCustomers like them because they reseal and are lightweight, said Bea Perez.\n\nThe firm, which is one of the biggest producers of plastic waste, has pledged to recycle as many plastic bottles as it uses by 2030.\n\nBut environmental campaigners argue many Coke bottles would still go uncollected and end up in landfill.\n\nThe drinks giant produces about three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year - equivalent to 200,000 bottles a minute.\n\nIn 2019, it was found to be the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic waste by the charity Break Free from Plastic.\n\nBut speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ms Perez said the firm recognised it now had to be \"part of the solution\".\n\nCoke has pledged to use at least 50% recycled material in its packaging by 2030. It is also partnering with NGOs around the world to help improve collection.\n\nHowever, Ms Perez said the firm could not ditch plastic outright, as some campaigners wanted, saying this could alienate customers and hit sales.\n\nShe also said using only aluminium and glass packaging could push up the firm's carbon footprint.\n\n\"Business won't be in business if we don't accommodate consumers,\" she said.\n\n\"So as we change our bottling infrastructure, move into recycling and innovate, we also have to show the consumer what the opportunities are. They will change with us.\"\n\nMs Perez said she respected the idealism of youth activists, such as 19-year-old campaigner Melati Wijsen, who with her sister Isabel, convinced the island of Bali to ban single-use plastic bags, straws and styrofoam last year.\n\nIsabel and Melati Wijsen convinced Bali to ban single-use plastic bags, straws and styrofoam\n\nSuch plastics were clogging up the seas around Bali, harming marine life.\n\nMs Perez also said she agreed with calls for Coca Cola to reach its environmental goals sooner than 2030 - although she would not say whether she would step down if the plans failed.\n\n\"We have to reach this goal and we will - there's no question.\"", "The couple unveiled Meghan's legal action against the Mail on Sunday during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have issued a legal warning to the media after photographs of Meghan in Canada were published in newspapers and on websites.\n\nLawyers say the photos of the duchess walking her dogs and carrying her son were taken by photographers hiding in bushes and spying on her.\n\nThey say she did not consent and accuse the photographers of harassment.\n\nThe couple say that they are prepared to take legal action.\n\nThey are believed to be alarmed by paparazzi activity near their current base on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.\n\nLawyers say there have also been attempts to photograph inside their home using long-range lenses and they accuse the paparazzi of being camped outside the property.\n\nUnder laws in British Columbia, the duchess may have grounds for a legal case if she can prove her privacy has been violated, although freedom of the press and expression is guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.\n\nThis comes after the Queen agreed to the couple's wish to step back from being full-time royals, to become financially independent and to split their time between the UK and Canada.\n\nOn Monday, Meghan was pictured carrying the couple's eight-month-old son Archie in a baby sling, while walking her two dogs, Guy and Oz, in Horth Hill Regional Park on Vancouver Island.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex arrived back in Canada on Tuesday morning after attending the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London on Monday.\n\nHe had been apart from Meghan and Archie for more than 10 days, after she flew back to Canada earlier this month.\n\nIt was announced on Saturday that from the spring, the Sussexes will no longer be full-time working royals.\n\nThey will stop using their HRH titles, no longer carry out royal duties or military appointments and no longer formally represent the Queen.\n\nOne day after that announcement, Prince Harry said he was \"taking a leap of faith\" in stepping back from being a senior royal, adding: \"There really was no other option.\"\n\nPrince Harry has long had an uneasy relationship with the media, having grown up aware of the impact the intense media interest had on the life of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in a car crash in Paris while being pursued by paparazzi on motorbikes.\n\nThe driver of Princess Diana's car - Henri Paul - had been drink-driving at the time of the crash on 31 August 1997.\n\nMeghan, pictured at a Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, is one of the most photographed women in the world\n\nThe prince has often compared his wife's experiences of the press with those of his late mother.\n\nIn a statement announcing Meghan's legal action against the Mail on Sunday last October, the prince said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nThe duchess is suing the newspaper over publishing one of her private letters to her father, Thomas Markle.\n\nMeghan accuses the paper of misusing her private information, breaching copyright and selective editing.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday rejects the claims and says there was \"huge and legitimate\" public interest in publishing the note.\n\nDays after confirming his wife's legal case, the duke announced he would take legal action against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nBack in 2016, Prince Harry attacked the media for subjecting Meghan - then his girlfriend - to a \"wave of abuse and harassment\".\n\nIn 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were awarded £92,000 (100,000 euros) in damages after French magazine Closer printed topless pictures of the duchess in 2012.", "Daughter Kelly (left) has been helping her dad get back in the studio, she said\n\nRock star Ozzy Osbourne has revealed he has Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe Black Sabbath singer, 71, told US TV show Good Morning America he has a \"mild form\" and found out about it after suffering a fall last February.\n\nWife Sharon said: \"It's not a death sentence but it affects certain nerves in your body. You have a good day, a good day, then a really bad day.\"\n\nOzzy added it was hard to tell whether the numbness symptoms he had were from the Parkinson's or the fall.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Good Morning America This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe singer said: \"It's been terribly challenging for us all.\n\n\"I did my last show [on] New Year's Eve (2018). Then I had a bad fall. I had to have surgery on my neck, which screwed all my nerves.\"\n\nHe said he was now on medication for Parkinson's and nerve pain following the surgery he had after his fall.\n\nRumours had been circulating about his health, but Ozzy said: \"I'm no good with secrets. I cannot walk around with it any more 'cause it's like I'm running out of excuses, you know?\"\n\nOsbourne has a US tour coming up in the spring\n\nHe added that he was grateful to his fans. \"They're my air, you know. I feel better. I've owned up to the fact that I have... a case of Parkinson's. And I just hope they hang on and they're there for me because I need them.\"\n\nIt was his son Jack and daughter Kelly who first realised that something wasn't right with their dad. \"The hardest thing is watching somebody that you love suffer,\" Kelly said.\n\nJack, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012, said he could relate to his father.\n\n\"I understand when you have something you don't want to have - but if he wants to talk... and if not, I try to slip in information,\" said Jack.\n\nSon Jack was diagnosed with MS in 2012\n\nOzzy said his health was improving. \"I'm a lot better now than I was last February. I was in a shocking state.\"\n\nSharon said the next step was to consult doctors outside the US and explore other possible treatments.\n\n\"We've kind of reached a point here in this country where we can't go any further because we've got all the answers we can get here,\" she said.\n\n\"So in April, we're going to a professional in Switzerland. And he deals with... getting your immune system at its peak.\"\n\nOzzy had been due to go on the road in the UK with his No More Tours 2 in January 2019, but called off the shows due to ill health. He then postponed all his 2019 appearances following his fall.\n\nHe is due back on stage when his US tour starts in Atlanta, Georgia, on 27 May, before his rescheduled UK dates begin in Newcastle in October.\n\nIt was revealed back in 2007 that Ozzy had a condition called Parkinsonian syndrome - not Parkinson's disease - which also causes tremors.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The painting's colours threw doubt on its authenticity\n\nA brooding self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has finally been declared genuine after years of uncertainty.\n\nArt experts have identified Self Portrait (1889) as the only work painted by the Dutch master while he was suffering from psychosis.\n\nIt was confirmed as authentic by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.\n\nExperts established that it was painted while Van Gogh was in an asylum in Saint-Remy in France in the late summer of 1889.\n\nDoubts about the authenticity of the painting had been around since 1970.\n\nThe National Gallery in Oslo, Norway, which owns the work, sent it to Dutch experts, who used X-ray analysis of the canvas, studies of the brushwork and references in letters to Van Gogh's brother Theo.\n\nVan Gogh described the painting in a letter to his brother in September 1889 as \"an attempt from when I was ill\".\n\nThe artist wrote that he was hit by a \"severe psychotic episode\" lasting six weeks from that July, and although he felt able to paint again by the end, he said he was still \"disturbed\".\n\nThe Oslo museum bought the painting in 1910 from a collector in Paris, making it the first Van Gogh self-portrait to enter a public collection.\n\n\"The self-portrait that is behind me has been doubted for a very long time,\" Louis van Tilborgh, senior researcher at the Van Gogh Museum, told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"It's a work of art that for all kinds of reasons was by him but nevertheless also had certain aspects that were different from other pictures.\n\n\"So we had to find an explanation for that and that was difficult, but I think we've solved that.\" He added that the painting \"firmly depicts someone who is mentally ill\".\n\nThe caption at the Van Gogh Museum refers to the painting as Self-Portrait as a Sick Person\n\nTo the untrained eye, it looks like a Van Gogh at first glance. But the doubts arose because of the use of less vibrant colours than his other works from the same period, including muted blues and yellows, along with the fact that some of the paintwork looks less finished.\n\nMai Britt Guleng, curator of old masters and modern art at the Oslo museum, said they had been \"open to all possibilities\" but \"of course we are very happy\" that the painting is genuine.\n\nA year before painting the self-portrait, Van Gogh had cut off his own ear after a row with his friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin, beginning a long spell in and out of hospitals and asylums.\n\n\"Although Van Gogh was frightened to admit at that point that he was in a similar state to his fellow residents at the asylum, he probably painted this portrait to reconcile himself with what he saw in the mirror: a person he did not wish to be, yet was,\" said Van Tilborgh, who is also professor of art history at the University of Amsterdam.\n\n\"This is part of what makes the painting so remarkable and even therapeutic. It is the only work that Van Gogh is known for certain to have created while suffering from psychosis.\"\n\nThe painting is currently on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and will return to Oslo when its new national museum opens in 2021.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSergio Aguero scored his sixth goal in his last three games as Manchester City edged a gutsy Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.\n\nThe Blades had looked on course to claim a hugely credible draw against the reigning Premier League champions, with Dean Henderson saving a Gabriel Jesus penalty in the first half as well as making a string of excellent saves.\n\nBut Aguero came off the bench to score the decisive goal, tapping in a cross from Kevin de Bruyne towards the end of the second half.\n\nThat strike came just moments after Sheffield United came close to taking the lead themselves - Oli McBurnie stretching to meet a cross but just failing to turn the ball into an empty net.\n\nVictory for Manchester City means they strengthen their place in second. They have 51 points - 13 behind leaders Liverpool but six ahead of Leicester, who play West Ham on Wednesday.\n• None Returning Laporte is 'best in the world' - Guardiola\n\nIt is hard to imagine that a manager who has won trophies wherever he has worked is claiming he can still learn from others, but that's exactly what Pep Guardiola said prior to this game.\n\nThe former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss spoke highly of Sheffield United under Chris Wilder, saying they are a team he can learn from.\n\nFor large periods of this game the Blades certainly gave Guardiola plenty to think about, with their disciplined and organised defence frustrating City for well over an hour.\n\nIn the end, Guardiola had to turn to the ever-reliable Aguero to get the job done.\n\nAt 31, the Argentina international is in the twilight years of his football career but is arguably enjoying some of his best form.\n\nIt took him just six minutes to get on the scoresheet after coming on for Jesus, who had struggled to get the better of the Blades' defence.\n\nAguero has now scored 21 goals in just 23 appearances in all competitions this season, including eight in his last five appearances.\n\nThe league title may be increasingly out of reach for City but Aguero's form could be vital for their aspirations in other competitions.\n\nJust as crucial, though, could be the return of Aymeric Laporte. Injuries have meant Guardiola has often had to field a makeshift defence this season but Laporte made a surprise return at Bramall Lane after five months out with injury.\n\nThe result was a first clean sheet since City hosted Sheffield United at the Etihad at the end of December and Guardiola was delighted with the French player's return.\n\n\"We miss him the lot,\" he said. \"Imagine if the best teams in the world lose their best central defenders.\n\n\"We knew he could not play 90 minutes. He is an incredible guy. He was exceptional. It is good news for us.\"\n\nBlades beaten but impress once again\n\nIt is difficult to find different superlatives to describe Sheffield United in the Premier League this season.\n\nMatch after match they produce impressive performances, frustrating supposed bigger sides and, rather than being sussed out in the second half of the season, they are seemingly finding new ways to keep their opponents on the toes.\n\nThat was the case once again on Tuesday night. At the start of the season, Sheffield United fans could have been forgiven for spotting this game on the fixture list and fearing a cricket score, but instead their side showed no fear and went toe to toe with their opponents from the outset.\n\nThey were strong in the tackle and organised in defence. On the few occasions Manchester City did get through they found Henderson in inspired form.\n\nThe goalkeeper made a superb stop to deny Raheem Sterling from close range in the first half before then guessing the right way to keep out Jesus' spot kick.\n\nThat save prompted chants of \"England's number one\" from the home fans and this performance will have only increased his chances of being included in Gareth Southgate's squad for Euro 2020 this summer.\n\n'An incredibly good victory' - what the managers said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to Match of the Day: \"We knew it would be a difficult place to come. We concede one or two clear chances, nothing more than that.\n\n\"In the first half, the keeper was excellent with the penalty and two incredible saves, it was an incredibly good victory for us to take a step towards securing Champions League football next season.\n\n\"In the first half we were a little bit shy to play, but in the second half we were a little bit more like we are. But we controlled it really well, the chance to score goals.\n\n\"What Sheffield United do, they do it perfectly. They've been together for five years so their spirit is so good. They are so good at the second balls and arrive with a lot of people in the final third.\"\n\nSheffield United manager Chris Wilder, speaking to Match of the Day: \"Kevin de Bruyne has found an amazing pass and the movement of Sergio Aguero, he's done that to everyone in Europe and the world, it's a great finish.\n\n\"I've got nothing but an enormous amount of pride for my team, we went toe-to-toe with them.\n\n\"When opportunities arise you have to show a little bit of quality and we didn't do that sadly. Games like this are what we're here for, we've worked really hard to get here, we want no regrets and I don't think there were any tonight.\n\n\"When teams come here, we want to make sure they go through the mixer to get a result and I do believe Pep, his staff, the players and the fans will believe it's been a difficult night for them.\"\n• None Manchester City have scored more away league goals than any other team in Europe's big five divisions this season (34).\n• None Only at Selhurst Park (22) have there been fewer Premier League goals scored at a single stadium this season than at Bramall Lane (24), with the Blades netting just 13 and conceding 11.\n• None Manchester City have won three consecutive away league games against Sheffield United for the first time since a run of four between 1905 and 1908.\n• None Sheffield United have won just one of their last 16 league games against reigning top-flight champions (D3 L12), losing their last six in a row without scoring.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne is the first player in Premier League history to provide 15+ assists in three different campaigns (15 in 2019-20, 16 in 2017-18 and 18 in 2016-17).\n• None Sergio Aguero has been directly involved in 43 goals in 43 Premier League appearances against newly-promoted teams (35 goals, 8 assists).\n• None Manchester City's Gabriel Jesus has failed to score three of his five Premier League penalties (60%) - of all players to have taken at least five in the competition, no-one has a worse success rate than the Brazilian (level with Stewart Downing and El Hadji Diouf).\n\nSheffield United travel to Championship side Millwall on Saturday, 25 January (15:00 GMT), while Manchester City host Fulham on Sunday, 26 January (13:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sergio Agüero.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Offside, Sheffield United. George Baldock tries a through ball, but John Lundstram is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Nicolás Otamendi following a corner.\n• None Rodrigo (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City fans paid tribute to Emiliano Sala on the first anniversary of the plane crash in which the Argentine striker died.\n\nSala was flying to Cardiff from Nantes when the plane he was on crashed into the English Channel on 21 January 2019.\n\nBluebirds fans laid flowers around the Fred Keenor statue outside Cardiff City Stadium.\n\nNantes are planning a commemorative shirt to raise funds for the Argentine clubs the 28-year-old played for.\n\nThe French Ligue 1 side will wear the shirt when they face Bordeaux at the weekend, and proceeds from sales of the jersey will go to the Club San Martin de Progreso and Proyecto Crecer.\n\nAs well as floral tributes, a public service was held for Sala and pilot David Ibbotson at St David's Metropolitan Cathedral in Cardiff on Tuesday.\n\nSala's body was recovered from the plane wreckage in early February, but 59-year-old Ibbotson, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, has still not been found.\n• None Sala felt 'forced out' of club before plane crash\n• None Sala: 'They don't respect me, they don't value me'\n\nCardiff and Nantes remain in dispute over the transfer fee for Sala.\n\nThe Welsh club had refused to pay any of the fee, claiming the agreement was not legally binding as Sala was not officially their player when he died.\n\nBut in September, world governing body Fifa ruled the club should pay the first instalment of £5.3m (6m euros) to Nantes.\n\nCardiff have challenged the ruling and a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing in Lausanne is expected in the spring, with a judgement due to follow in June.\n\n'It's still fresh in everyone's minds'\n\nBluebirds manager Neil Harris was an observer when Sala's death stunned the sporting world.\n\n\"It was tragic for everyone, first and foremost his family and his friends and then everyone in the football industry,\" said Neil Warnock's successor.\n\n\"It's in moments like that when everyone pulls together, you really feel for a lad who was following his dream of playing in English football.\n\n\"Speaking to people at the club, I've got an understanding of how difficult it was for everyone, from outside looking in I could see the sorrow in everyone.\n\n\"You can't comprehend it, moving on it's still fresh in everyone's minds, football is important but you have to think of people's families and think about them at this time.\"", "Sperm donations taken from men after they have died should be allowed, a study says.\n\nThe analysis, which is published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, claims that opt-in post-death donations could be a \"morally permissible\" way of increasing the stocks available.\n\nIn 2017 in the UK, 2,345 babies were born after a sperm donation.\n\nHowever, there is a growing shortage of donations around the country because of strict regulations.\n\nSperm can be collected after death either through electrical stimulation of the prostate gland or surgery, and can then be frozen.\n\nEvidence suggests that sperm harvested from men who have died can still result in viable pregnancies and healthy children, even when retrieved up to 48 hours after death has occurred.\n\nIn the analysis, Dr Nathan Hodson, from the University of Leicester, and Dr Joshua Parker, from Manchester's Wythenshawe Hospital, argue that such a method falls into similar territory to organ donation.\n\n\"If it is morally acceptable that individuals can donate their tissues to relieve the suffering of others in 'life-enhancing transplants' for diseases, we see no reason this cannot be extended to other forms of suffering like infertility,\" they said.\n\nHowever, it could raise questions about consent and family veto, and there are concerns about the integrity surrounding the anonymity of the donor, they added.\n\nIn 2014, a national sperm bank serving the UK opened in Birmingham with a government grant of £77,000.\n\nLess than two years later, the bank had closed its doors and stopped recruiting donors. Only nine signed up after its launch, with one of those later dropping out.\n\nSince 2005, the law says that sperm donors in the UK must agree that any children born from their donations can contact them when they turn 18.\n\nFormer donor Jeffrey Ingold, from London, told the BBC that he believes that allowing donations after death could persuade more men to consider becoming donors.\n\n\"I do not see how introducing a system that makes sperm donation similar to organ donation could be anything other than a good thing,\" he said. \"For me, donating sperm was never about my own genes or anything like that, but it was about helping friends in need.\n\n\"I also think that having this kind of process might go some way in challenging the stigma or preconceived ideas society has about sperm donation.\"\n\nHe added: \"If people knew more about the process and were able to make more informed decisions about whether to become a sperm donor, I think we'd see a lot more people opting in to doing so.\"\n\nJeffrey Ingold believes the spread of misinformation is stopping men from becoming donors\n\nHowever, Prof Allan Pacey, professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, argued it would be a \"step backward\" in the donation process.\n\n\"I'd much rather that we invested our energy in trying to recruit younger, healthy, willing donors who stand a good chance of being alive when the donor-conceived person starts to become curious about them, and would have the opportunity to make contact with them without the aid of a spiritualist.\"\n\nIn 1997, a woman won the right to be allowed to use her dead husband's sperm.\n\nStephen Blood caught meningitis in February 1995, two months after trying to start a family with his wife Diane.\n\nHe lapsed into a coma and died before agreeing in writing for his sperm to be used, although two samples had been removed at Mrs Blood's request.\n\nThe 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act banned Mrs Blood from using her husband's sperm without his written consent.\n\nHowever, the Court of Appeal later ruled Mrs Blood should be allowed to seek fertility treatment within the European Community but not in the UK.\n\nMrs Blood gave birth to her son Joel - using her husband's frozen sperm - in 2002, and the following year she won a legal battle to have her late partner legally recognised as the father.", "A quarter of employees think their company turns a blind eye to workplace bullying and harassment, according to a report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).\n\nAlthough 15% have experienced bullying in the past three years, more than half of them did not report it to the firm.\n\n\"Fear is the biggest factor,\" said one respondent. \"You're singled out when something happens to you.\"\n\nThe CIPD urged firms to train managers to handle such conflicts better.\n\nThe report by the CIPD, which represents HR professionals, was based on two online surveys carried out by polling organisation YouGov.\n\nOne canvassed the views of more than 2,000 workers, while the other surveyed HR professionals and decision-makers.\n\nThe CIPD also conducted an online focus group with workers who had experienced bullying and harassment.\n\nSome people said they suffered from stress, anxiety, insomnia, heart palpitations and suicidal thoughts.\n\n\"I had to have anti-depressants and counselling,\" said one worker. \"I still can't go to the town where I worked because of panic attacks.\"\n\n\"It can take a lot of courage for someone to speak up about inappropriate behaviour at work, but there are very disappointing results on the ability of organisations to deal compassionately and effectively with complaints,\" the CIPD said.\n\n\"Many people felt their organisation didn't act swiftly or fairly to resolve the complaint, or that they were even being blamed for the situation.\"\n\nThe most common form of bullying or harassment was \"being undermined or humiliated in my job\", reported by 55% of women affected and 50% of men.\n\nThen came \"persistent unwarranted criticism\" and \"unwanted personal remarks\".\n\nAround 4% of employees said they had been sexually harassed over the past three years, the CIPD said. It described the problem as \"stubborn\", despite decades of equalities legislation.\n\nBut it said there had been \"positive change\" in the past two years in employees' willingness to stand up to sexual harassment, with 33% feeling more confident to challenge it.\n\nOne manager who took part in the survey said that some people did not report bullying or harassment because they were scared they might be \"overreacting\".\n\n\"I got told that on numerous occasions,\" the manager said. \"Some people may not know who or how to report it.\"\n\nRachel Suff, senior employment relations adviser at the CIPD, said the survey was \"a wake-up call to employers to put training managers at the heart of efforts to prevent inappropriate workplace behaviour\".\n\nShe added: \"Our research shows that managers who've received training can help to stop conflict from occurring and are much better at fostering healthy relationships in their team.\n\n\"And when conflict does occur, they can help to resolve the issue more quickly and effectively.\"\n\nThe CIPD added that firms should \"encourage a speak-up culture\" with a well publicised complaints procedure.\n\nManagers should also be aware that such issues might sometimes best be resolved informally, especially if the behaviour was unintentional, it said.", "Malaysia is returning 42 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to the UK, its environment minister has announced.\n\nYeo Bee Yin said Malaysia would take \"steps to ensure\" the country \"does not become the garbage dump of the world\".\n\nShe added Malaysia had sent back 150 containers to their country of origin.\n\nThe UK government said it received a request from Malaysian authorities last year to repatriate the waste and some containers had already arrived back.\n\nAn Environment Agency spokesman said: \"We continue to work with the shipping lines and Malaysian authorities to ensure all waste is brought back as soon as possible.\"\n\nHe added the government was also \"working hard to stop illegal waste exports from leaving our shores in the first place\".\n\nThe South East Asian country has seen a sharp rise in foreign plastic waste since China - once the world's largest importer - announced a ban in 2017.\n\nMalaysia said a total of a total of 3,737 metric tonnes of unwanted waste had been sent back to 13 countries, including 43 containers to France, 42 to the UK, 17 to the United States, and 11 to Canada.\n\nThe authorities hope to send back another 110 containers by the middle of 2020 - with 60 of those going to the US.\n\nWaste at an illegal plastic recycling factory in Malaysia\n\nMany wealthy countries send their recyclable waste overseas because it is cheap, helps meet recycling targets and reduces domestic landfill.\n\nThe European Union is the largest exporter of plastic waste, with the US leading as the top exporter for a single country.\n\nA growing number of countries across South East Asia, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, have returned unwanted waste over the last 12 months.\n\nMalaysia's environment minister Yeo Bee Yin has previously singled out the UK for its plastic waste\n\nLast year the UK was singled out by Malaysia's environment minister, who said: \"What the citizens of the UK believe they send for recycling is actually dumped in our country.\"\n\nThe UK Environment Agency said the returned waste was the responsibility of the private companies that exported it and it must be handled according to UK regulations.\n\nA spokesman added that anyone found guilty of exporting waste illegally could face a two-year jail term and an unlimited fine.", "That ends our coverage of the first day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump - only the third such trial in US history.\n\nSo far the senators have debated the rules under which the trial should be conducted. No witnesses have yet been authorised to testify.\n\nDespite efforts by Democrats to force the White House to provide documents, the vote failed after splitting along party lines.\n\nThis is just the beginning, of course. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, who sets the rules for the chamber, says he is hoping the trial will last just 10 days.\n\nFollow the latest on the day's historic events here:\n\nTrump trial starts with rule wrangling in the Senate\n\nAnalysis: 'No crime, no impeachment' is a shaky defence", "Northern passengers faced rail chaos when new timetables were introduced in May 2018\n\nNetwork Rail is being investigated over its poor service on routes used by troubled train operators Northern and TransPennine Express.\n\nThe government-owned firm has been put \"on a warning\" for routes in the North West and central region of England, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said.\n\nThe regulator said it was \"not good enough\" in those areas and was probing Network Rail's contribution to delays.\n\nNetwork Rail apologised for \"very poor service\" in the Midlands and the North.\n\nORR said its performance deteriorated in 2018 and \"failed to substantially recover during 2019\".\n\nFigures supplied by ORR show the proportion of scheduled train stops made on time in the last 12 months up to 4 January by Northern was 55% and 41% by TransPennine Express.\n\nThis compares to the national average of 65%.\n\nNorthern passengers have faced rail chaos since new timetables were introduced in May 2018, prompting the government to warn the firm it could lose its franchise over \"unacceptable delays\".\n\nIn December, commuters using TransPennine Express and Northern trains faced more delays as the new winter timetables were launched.\n\nTransPennine Express announced a number of cancellations on routes until the end of January - including cuts to services between Liverpool and Edinburgh that stop at cities including Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool.\n\nRecent poor performance by TransPennine Express was \"largely the result of train operations\", says ORR\n\nORR chief executive John Larkinson, said: \"The top priority for passengers is that their train arrives on time and that isn't happening consistently enough across the country.\n\n\"ORR is responsible for looking at how Network Rail contributes to train delays, and while there are areas of very good performance such as in Wales and Western region, Network Rail's performance in North West and Central region is not good enough.\n\n\"That is why we are putting the company on a warning to make sure its improvement plans deliver for passengers.\"\n\nThe ORR is to investigate Network Rail's recovery plan and whether the organisation is doing \"all it reasonably can to improve service for passengers\".\n\nThe regulator added it had also analysed the recent poor performance by TransPennine Express and found it was \"largely the result of train operations\".\n\nPerformance on Northern, TransPennine Express and West Midlands Railways has been repeatedly poor.\n\nThe government has threatened to strip Northern of its franchise. But more than half of delays on the entire UK rail network are down to problems with the infrastructure - like signalling.\n\nNow the Office of Rail and Road says it will investigate the work done by Network Rail to try to improve performance in the north of England last year, work which ultimately did not yield positive results.\n\nNetwork Rail chief executive Andrew Haines told passengers: \"We have let you down.\"\n\nHe said: \"For too many months, passengers - particularly in the Midlands and the North - have been coping with very poor train services.\n\n\"It simply isn't good enough and, on behalf of the rail industry, I'd like to apologise.\"\n\nHe said a cross-industry task force \"has been pulled together to tackle the problems head-on\" although he said there was \"no quick fix\".\n\n\"It will need more reliable assets, a much more reliable train plan and more robust operator resource plans.\"\n\nNetwork Rail - which owns and operates rail infrastructure in England, Wales and Scotland - said about a third of the delays attributed to it were caused by external factors such as vandalism, cable theft, trespass and weather.\n\nRailfuture - a campaign group for better rail services - said Northern, Transpennine Express and Network Rail were \"not solely to blame for the poor performance\".\n\nIt said \"they had been dealt a rotten hand of cards to play\" citing reasons such as underestimating the increase in passenger numbers resulting in overcrowding and the scaling back of the Ordsall Chord project meaning the Castlefield corridor \"has not been increased to accommodate extra services\".\n\nThe group said it welcomes the ORR investigation, though, if it results in Northern, Transpennine Express and Network Rail being given the freedom \"to define an operational solution which will work across the north\".\n\nAnthony Smith, from independent watchdog Transport Focus, said: \"While both Northern and TransPennine have rightly been in the dock over their part in delivering unreliable services across large parts of the north of England, it is only right the spotlight is now shone on Network Rail.\n\n\"Passengers will want an action plan from Network Rail that can start to deliver the good news that passengers have long been waiting for - a consistently punctual, reliable railway that delivers more seats on a value for money service.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Assembly members can expect to see the extra money in their first pay packet since Stormont returned\n\nNorthern Ireland Assembly members are set to get a £1,000 pay increase in their annual salary, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe hike will see their pay increase from £49,500 to £50,500.\n\nThey were due to receive the extra money over the past three years, but the increase was blocked by the former NI Secretary of State Karen Bradley.\n\nShe was asked to withhold the money by the Assembly Commission because Stormont was in suspension.\n\nIn a letter at that time, the then Speaker Robin Newton said such an increase would not have been \"appropriate in the circumstances\".\n\nBut assembly members can now expect to see more money in their first pay packet following the return of devolution to Stormont.\n\nConfirming the move, an assembly spokesperson said: \"Following the formation of an executive on January 11th, the full provisions of the Assembly Members Salaries and Expenses Determination 2016 are in effect including the provisions for annual uprating.\"\n\nThey added that the annual uprating provided in the legislation has been applied, bringing the \"salary payable as a member to £50,500\".\n\nThe current rules on MLA salaries and expenses were set by the Independent Financial Review Panel following a report it produced in March 2016.\n\nLater that year, its members did not have their posts renewed and so the panel is not functioning at present.\n\nIn a tweet on Tuesday night, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin, said the pay rise was \"unjustifiable\".\n\n\"MLAs pay is set by an independent body, not by MLAs,\" she said.\n\n\"MLAs had no input into this decision, nor did they seek it.\n\n\"Given that the assembly has just been restored this is unjustifiable and should not be paid.\"\n\nA DUP spokesperson said: \"It is right that MLAs do not take decisions on their pay and office cost allowances. We support the independence of this process.\"\n\nSDLP MLAs Pat Catney and Daniel McCrossan said they wanted to offer their £1,000 increase to a mental health charity.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michelle O’Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Alliance Party said in a statement: \"We are not happy with the timing or content of this increase but it is not within our gift to refuse it unless sole control of salaries and office cost allowances is returned to MLAs, and that would be a retrograde step in terms of public confidence.\"\n\nThe move has also been criticised by People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll who said it would \"come as a slap in the face to nurses who stood on freezing pickets for months for pay parity, and the civil service staff who are still taking industrial action to get what they deserve\".\n\n\"How can MLAs receive a salary that is around double the average wage and claim to competently represent their constituents interests when their financial realities are so different?\"", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by a knifeman who had been released from jail on licence\n\nTerror offenders will face more time in jail and be monitored more closely as part of new laws being introduced within weeks, the government has said.\n\nAutomatic early release from prison will be scrapped for terror offenders while a minimum jail term of 14 years for serious crimes will be introduced.\n\nThe Home Office said a bill would be brought before Parliament by mid-March.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the government had faced \"hard truths\" since an attack in London in November.\n\nConvicted terror offender Usman Khan had been on licence from prison when he fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nKhan had been released from jail on licence in 2018, half-way through a 16-year sentence for terrorism offences.\n\nFollowing the November attack, the government launched an urgent review into the licence conditions of 74 terror offenders who had been released early from prison.\n\nOn Tuesday it said it would also launch a review, led by Jonathan Hall QC, into the way agencies such as police and the probation service investigate, monitor and manage terror offenders.\n\nThe home secretary said November's attack \"confronted us with some hard truths about how we deal with terrorist offenders\"\n\nMinisters also want to introduce lie detector tests - which are currently only used with sex offenders - to improve how probation officers handle released terrorists.\n\nThe so-called Counter-Terrorism Bill would ensure people convicted of serious offences, such as preparing acts of terrorism or directing a terrorist organisation, spend a minimum of 14 years in prison.\n\nThere is currently no minimum term for such offences.\n\nThe Home Office said it would also increase counter terror police funding by £90m next year - roughly a 10% increase on this year's funding.\n\nOther measures the Home Office pledged alongside the bill included:\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said more needed to be done to monitor terror offenders behind bars and once they are freed.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"We have to be ready to challenge our own assumptions at all times, and to ask ourselves the question - are we really on top of this? How do we track it? Is it just going to be Islamic terrorism?\n\n\"The far-right are a factor as well. We deal with many facets of extremism in our prisons.\"\n\nMs Patel said the \"senseless terror attack\" in November \"confronted us with some hard truths about how we deal with terrorist offenders\".\n\n\"Today we are delivering on those promises, giving police and probation officers the resources they need to investigate and track offenders, introducing tougher sentences, and launching major reviews into how offenders are managed after they are released,\" she added.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the overhaul was \"an admission of failure\".\n\nShe said: \"The fight against terrorism has been undermined by cuts to policing, including community policing, a lack of co-ordination between police and security services as well as the flawed Prevent programme.\"\n\nAlthough head of counter-terrorism policing Neil Basu welcomed the extra measures, he said demand for counter-terror work had gone up by a third in three years and insisted the anti-radicalisation programme Prevent was the \"best hope\" for reducing the terror threat in the long term.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Once somebody has been radicalised, no-one is saying there is a 100% guarantee that somebody can be de-radicalised but if there is a chance, we ought to be funding that and committing to it.\"\n\nFigen Murray, whose son Martyn Hett was killed in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, agrees, saying the prevention of extremism is equally important.\n\nShe said: \"It's great to look at prison sentences and punishment, and investing money in more stuff, but what is important is to prevent things from happening in the first place, which to me is Martyn's law [and] putting money into Prevent.\"\n\nMs Murray spearheaded Martyn's Law to bring in tougher airport-style security checks - such as bag searches and metal detectors - at large public venues.\n\nDr David Canter, a social psychologist and expert in offender profiling, said staff would need \"a lot of training\" to understand the \"subtleties\" involved in operating lie-detector tests.\n\nHe said the test is a measure of \"emotional responses\" - such as sweaty palms or a change in breathing pattern - which can be triggered by \"all sorts of things\", so the challenge is \"disentangling these in order to determine whether somebody is actually lying\".\n\nUsing the test presents other problems such as finding the \"appropriate questions\" to ask subjects, and training staff in a process \"that is known to be effective\", he said.\n\nHe added research suggests that in order to determine whether someone is being truthful, the test could work \"in above chance level 60-70% of the time\", but \"is not nearly so effective\" in revealing whether someone is lying.", "Stefan Sutherland's body was found 11 days after he was reported missing\n\nThe sister of a man whose body was found on a Highland beach 11 days after he went missing has made an emotional appeal for answers about his death.\n\nStefan Sutherland died after vanishing from Lybster in 2013.\n\nA team of 15 police officers has now arrived in the Caithness village to carry out fresh inquiries in the area.\n\nKatrina Sutherland, who believes her 25-year-old brother's death was suspicious, said: \"We would just like to find out what did happen to Stefan.\"\n\nMr Sutherland's disappearance on 6 September 2013 was followed by searches of the local area by police, search dogs and a mountain rescue team.\n\nHis body was discovered by a member of the public on the shoreline near Occumster near Lybster. Mr Sutherland had lived in the local area.\n\nHis family dispute that his death was accidental and say blood was found at a house he visited before he disappeared.\n\nPolice Scotland has previously said it would act on any new information in the case.\n\nMs Sutherland said the family still did not know what had happened to Stefan.\n\n\"At the moment police are still conducting inquiries. If that leads them to believe that foul play is a factor then I dare say they will turn it into a murder investigation.\n\n\"Nobody likes to believe that a family member was murdered, but it is something we've considered,\" she said.\n\nMs Sutherland described Police Scotland's review of the case as \"the best news in six years\".\n\nShe said: \"The family believe he was a victim of foul play but we need to get to the bottom of that and be able to deal with it once and for all.\"\n\nSandra Sutherland said her son was \"happy and healthy\" on the day he disappeared\n\nMr Sutherland's parents Sandy and Sandra have welcomed the police's presence in the area, and the review of the circumstances of their son's death.\n\nMrs Sutherland said her son had been \"happy and healthy\" on the day he vanished.\n\n\"He didn't just disappear. Something happened to him,\" she added.\n\nThe team of officers could spend up to two weeks in Lybster and the surrounding area\n\nPolice Scotland announced last year that \"all aspects\" of the initial investigation into Mr Sutherland's death would be examined.\n\nThey said the review was being done to address concerns raised by Mr Sutherland's family.\n\nDetectives met the family in November last year and visited locations connected to the case.\n\nThe team of officers has now begun door-to-door inquiries in Lybster and the nearby village of Latheronwheel.\n\nPolice have also urged anyone in the local community with information to come forward, and said a mobile police office would be parked in Lybster where people could speak to officers.\n\nMr Sutherland's body was found on a beach at Occumster close to his home\n\nMs Sutherland said her brother was never far from the family's thoughts.\n\nShe said: \"It's like Stefan is still the most talked about member of our family and he is not there.\n\n\"What happened to Stefan? What do you think happened to Stefan? Will we ever find out what happened to Stefan?\n\n\"It's constantly there at the back of your mind. It's never far from your thoughts.\"\n\nShe added: \"Somebody knows what happened to Stefan. Please, it's time to just put it to bed and let Stefan rest and let my family move on with their lives.\"\n\nDet Supt Graeme Mackie, who is leading the review, said police wanted to establish if any local residents, or anyone who visited the area between the date of Stefan's disappearance and the discovery of his body, had information that might assist the inquiry.\n\nHe added: \"Stefan was well known in the local community and I would also encourage those who saw him between 22:00 on Friday 6 September 2013 and 12:00 on Tuesday 17 September 2013 to contact us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Horacio Sala said he wanted justice over his son's death\n\nThe father of Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala, who was killed in a plane crash earlier this year, has died three months after his son.\n\nHoracio Sala, 58, suffered a heart attack on Friday, his friend and president of his local club confirmed.\n\nDaniel Ribero, from San Martin de Progreso, told C5N TV channel that Mr Sala had passed away before doctors arrived at his home in Progreso.\n\nEmiliano Sala's plane crashed en route to Cardiff after leaving from France.\n\nThe Argentine footballer was on his way to joining his new club Cardiff City from French club Nantes in a club record £15m deal when the crash happened over the English Channel.\n\nEmiliano Sala was due to be Cardiff City's record signing\n\nProgreso mayor Julio Muller led the tributes to Mr Sala, telling La Red radio station: \"Horacio could not overcome Emi, we thought that after the discovery he would be able to close that circle.\"\n\nIn a statement, Cardiff City said the club offered its \"deepest condolences\" to Mr Sala's friends and family.\n\n\"They are very much in the thoughts of us all at this difficult time,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Piper Malibu N264DB plane carrying Sala and pilot David Ibbotson went missing over waters near the Channel Islands on 21 January and it took rescuers two weeks to find the wreckage.\n\nThe father-of-three, a long-distance lorry driver, spoke to the BBC two weeks ago and pleaded \"that justice be done\" for his son.\n\nThe location of where the plane carrying Emiliano Sala disappeared\n\nHe told the BBC Wales Investigates programme he wanted to \"continue investigating all the things that we have to know and that we can know.\"\n\n\"That is all I can ask,\" added Mr Sala, who had split-up from his son's mother Mercedes.\n\nAir accident investigators are still looking into why the Piper Malibu plane carrying Sala to Cardiff for his first training session crashed.\n\nThe light aircraft was piloted by Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, North Lincolnshire, whose body has not been found.\n\nSala's father Horacio was seen crying at the vigil for his son\n\nAir accident investigators' photo showing the rear left side of the fuselage on the seabed\n\nThe legality of Sala's flight has not yet been established, but a preliminary report from air accident investigators in February said the pilot was not licensed to carry fee-paying passengers and the plane was not registered for commercial flights.\n\nCardiff City have said the club \"wholeheartedly\" backs the Air Charter Association's (BACA) calls \"to secure a review of illegal flights\".\n\nIn the three months since the crash, BACA said it had received reports of illegal flights happening in the UK at a rate of almost one per day.\n\nSala started his career at his hometown club San Martín de Progreso - in Argentina's Santa Fe region, about 350 miles (563km) from the capital Buenos Aires - and his father retained close links with the club.\n\nA wake was held at the club before his funeral in Progreso in February.\n\nThe club confirmed Mr Sala's death and president Mr Ribero added: \"At dawn he felt a pain in his chest, they called the doctor but when he arrived, Horacio had already passed away.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg's father says she is happier since becoming an activist\n\nGreta Thunberg's father has said he thought it was \"a bad idea\" for his daughter to take to the \"front line\" of the battle against climate change.\n\nMillions of people have been inspired to join the 16-year-old in raising awareness of environmental issues.\n\nBut Svante Thunberg told the BBC he was \"not supportive\" of his daughter skipping school for the climate strike.\n\nMr Thunberg said Greta was much happier since becoming an activist - but that he worries about the \"hate\" she faces.\n\nAs part of the same broadcast, guest-edited by Greta for Radio 4's Today programme, Sir David Attenborough told her she had \"woken up the world\" to climate change.\n\nShe called Sir David on Skype from Stockholm in Sweden, where she lives, and told him how he inspired her activism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When Greta Thunberg met Sir David Attenborough for the first time (via Skype)\n\nThe broadcaster and naturalist told Greta she had \"achieved things that many of us who have been working on the issue for 20 years have failed to do\".\n\nHe added that the 16-year-old was the \"only reason\" that climate change became a key topic in the recent UK general election.\n\nGreta was nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, after spearheading a global movement demanding world leaders take action over climate change. It led to co-ordinated school strikes across the globe.\n\nShe is among five high-profile people taking over the Today programme as guest editors during the festive period.\n\nThe BBC flew presenter Mishal Husain to Sweden to interview the teenager and her father.\n\nOn the decision to fly, Today editor Sarah Sands said: \"We just did not have time for other means of transport. But we met our cameraman there and the interview between Greta and David Attenborough was conducted by Skype, which felt the right way for the two of them to communicate.\"\n\nSpeaking to Husain as part of the show, Mr Thunberg said his daughter had struggled with depression for \"three or four years\" before she began her school strike.\n\n\"She stopped talking... she stopped going to school,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was the \"ultimate nightmare for a parent\" when Greta began refusing to eat.\n\nTo help her get better, Mr Thunberg spent more time with Greta and her younger sister, Beata, at their home in Sweden. Greta's mother, opera singer and former Eurovision Song Contest participant Malena Ernman, cancelled contracts so the whole family could be together.\n\nThe family also sought help from doctors, Mr Thunberg said. Greta was diagnosed with Asperger's - a form of autism - aged 12, something she has said allows her to \"see things from outside the box\".\n\nSvante Thunberg and his daughter sailed to a climate summit in New York on zero-carbon yacht\n\nOver the next few years they began discussing and researching climate change, with Greta becoming increasingly passionate about tackling the issue.\n\nAs \"very active\" human rights advocates, Greta accused her parents of being \"huge hypocrites\", Mr Thunberg said.\n\n\"Greta said: 'Whose human rights are you standing up for?', since we were not taking this climate issue seriously,\" he explained.\n\nHe said Greta got \"energy\" from her parents' changes in behaviour to become more environmentally friendly - such as her mother choosing not to travel by aeroplane and her father becoming vegan.\n\nMr Thunberg has also accompanied his daughter on her sailing expeditions to UN climate summits in New York and Madrid. Greta refuses to travel by air because of its environmental impact.\n\n\"I did all these things, I knew they were the right thing to do... but I didn't do it to save the climate, I did it to save my child,\" Mr Thunberg said.\n\n\"I have two daughters and to be honest they are all that matter to me. I just want them to be happy,\" he added.\n\nMr Thunberg said Greta has \"changed\" and become \"very happy\" as a result of her activism.\n\n\"You think she's not ordinary now because she's special, and she's very famous, and all these things. But to me she's now an ordinary child - she can do all the things like other people can,\" he said.\n\n\"She dances around, she laughs a lot, we have a lot of fun - and she's in a very good place.\"\n\nHowever, since Greta's school strike stunt went viral online, Mr Thunberg said she has faced abuse from people who \"don't want to change\" their lifestyles in order to save the environment.\n\nGreta has said previously that people abuse her for \"my looks, my clothes, my behaviour and my differences\".\n\nHer father said he was particularly worried about \"the fake news, all the things that people try to fabricate her - the hate that that generates\".\n\nBut he added that his daughter deals with the criticism \"incredibly well\".\n\n\"Quite frankly, I don't know how she does it, but she laughs most of the time. She finds it hilarious.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nMr Thunberg said he hoped things would become \"less intense\" for his family in the future and that he thinks Greta \"really wants to go back to school\".\n\nHe added that as Greta turns 17 soon, she will no longer need to be accompanied on her travels.\n\n\"If she needs me there, I'll try to do it,\" he said. \"But I think she'll be, more and more, going to do it by herself which is great.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We find ourselves struggling just to provide basic public services\" - Finance Minister Conor Murphy\n\nNorthern Ireland's Finance Minister Conor Murphy has said he is not \"actively pursuing\" a cut in corporation tax.\n\nCutting the tax, which is applied to company profits, was for many years a key economic policy shared by the Stormont parties.\n\nThe power to cut the tax was devolved to Northern Ireland in 2015.\n\nMr Murphy said a change in economic and political circumstances means the issue has now \"receded\".\n\nSpeaking on BBCNI's Good Morning Ulster, he expressed concern about what cutting the tax would mean for public services in Northern Ireland.\n\nA cut in the tax would mean less revenue is collected for the Treasury.\n\nUnder state aid rules, the Northern Ireland executive would have to make up the shortfall through a cut in its block grant from Westminster.\n\nThat cost has been estimated at about £240m a year.\n\nThe previous Northern Ireland executive had intended to cut the corporation tax rate to 12.5% by 2018, matching the rate in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe rate of Corporation Tax in the UK is currently 19%.\n\nMr Murphy said when the proposition to reduce corporation tax was first agreed there was \"a bigger difference\" in the rate between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMr Murphy said the issue has \"reduced in significance\"\n\nMr Murphy said \"a cut in corporation tax can only happen if it is affordable\".\n\n\"For Sinn Fein's part, we always insisted that caveat be put in, a very honest assessment of what a cut would cost,\" he added.\n\n\"I think the issue probably has, given Brexit and given the change in economic and political circumstances, reduced in significance and we find ourselves struggling just to provide the basic public services.\n\n\"That's not to say that others may not raise it again but it's not something that I'm actively pursuing.\"\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of corporation tax was set to be cut in 2018\n\nPrior to the collapse of power-sharing in 2017, the major parties suggested that cutting the tax would help tackle long-term problems in the Northern Ireland economy.\n\nThe assumption was that if companies could keep more of their profits, it would unleash an unprecedented wave of investment and growth.\n\nIn the years after the power was devolved, Stormont attempted to negotiate the affordability issue with the Treasury but little progress was made.", "Police were called at about 19:40 GMT on Sunday to reports of a disturbance in Elmstead Road.\n\nA fight in which three men were stabbed to death may have been part of an \"ongoing dispute\", police have said.\n\nThe victims, in their late 20s and early 30s, died in Seven Kings, Ilford, east London, on Sunday evening.\n\nTwo men, aged 29 and 39, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it believed the five men were involved in another altercation the previous evening at the nearby Krystel Banqueting venue.\n\nIt is thought those involved were known to each other and were from the Sikh and Hindu communities, the Met said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Paul Considine said: \"At this early stage, I do not believe this was gang or race-related.\n\n\"But I believe there may have been an ongoing dispute between those involved.\n\n\"We believe the five men were involved in an altercation the previous evening at Krystel Banqueting that spilled out onto the High Road.\"\n\nHe appealed for anyone who may have seen either incident to contact detectives.\n\nThe Met said a fight broke out between two groups who were armed with knives in Elmstead Road just after 19:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEmergency services were called and the three victims, who are yet to be formally identified, were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nOne eyewitness described the aftermath of the fight as \"absolute chaos\".\n\nExtra officers will be on patrol in the Seven Kings area, police said\n\nDuring a visit to the area on Monday, London mayor Sadiq Khan described what had happened as \"shocking, horrific and scary\".\n\nThe stabbings bring the number of homicide investigations launched by the Met in 2020 to six.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has lost three votes in the Lords over its Brexit legislation - its first defeats since the election.\n\nPeers supported calls for EU nationals to be given a physical document as proof they have the right to live in the UK after it leaves the bloc.\n\nThey also voted to remove ministers' power to decide which EU Court of Justice rulings can be disregarded or set aside by UK courts and tribunals.\n\nMinisters will aim to reverse the moves when the bill returns to the Commons.\n\nWith a majority of 80, the government will be confident of getting its way.\n\nMeanwhile, separately on Monday, the Commons voted to approve the Queen's Speech, which outlines the government's legislative agenda.\n\nThe EU Withdrawal Bill, which paves the way for the UK to leave the EU with a deal on 31 January, was approved by MPs earlier this month without any changes.\n\nBut despite their emphatic victory in December's general election, the Conservatives do not have a majority in the Lords and have suffered a series of defeats during the bill's passage through the unelected House.\n\nThe first amendment passed by peers, by a margin of 270 to 229, would give EU citizens in the UK the automatic right to stay, rather than having to apply to the Home Office, and would ensure they can get physical proof of their rights.\n\nIts supporters said it would allay the \"deep concerns\" felt by many EU nationals who have until the end of June 2021 to apply for settled status.\n\nMore than than 2.7 million people have so far applied. Nearly 2.5 million of these have been told they can continue to live and work in the UK after Brexit, while six \"serious or persistent\" criminals have had their applications rejected.\n\nCampaigners said official documentation could stop a repeat of the Windrush scandal, in which relatives of those who lawfully came to the UK from the Caribbean in the 1940s were threatened with deportation, and in some cases removed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLib Dem peer Lord Oates warned of a \"plethora of problems\" ahead for EU nationals and the government unless this happened.\n\n\"This amendment simply seeks to uphold the promise repeatedly made by Boris Johnson that the rights of EU citizens to remain in the UK would be automatically guaranteed,\" he said.\n\n\"It would remove the risk that those who failed to meet the cut-off deadline would be automatically criminalised and subject to deportation.\"\n\nNo 10 has insisted EU citizens will not automatically be deported if they fail to sign up to the scheme by the deadline. They want them to use a digital code, which will demonstrate their right to be in the UK.\n\nFollowing the vote, security minister Brandon Lewis insisted it would not rethink its approach.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The EU Settlement Scheme grants EU citizens with a secure, digital status which can't be lost, stolen or tampered with.\"\n\nThe government was later defeated twice more over:", "Facebook will create 1,000 new roles in London over the course of this year, including adding to its team tackling harmful online content.\n\nMore than half of the new jobs will be technology-focused, with roles in software engineering, product design and data science, the company said.\n\nIt will take Facebook's UK workforce to more than 4,000.\n\nPressure has been growing on social media firms to remove posts promoting self-harm and political extremism.\n\nFacebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg will announce the new jobs in London later on Tuesday, before travelling to the World Economic Forum in Davos.\n\n\"Many of these high-skilled jobs will help us address the challenges of an open internet and develop artificial intelligence to find and remove harmful content more quickly,\" she is expected to say.\n\nThose roles will be in Facebook's \"community integrity\" team, which designs tools to police posts on Facebook's platforms including Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.\n\nFacebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg will unveil the jobs boost in London later\n\nThe firm had decided to invest more in policing online content, following the suicide of teenager Molly Russell in 2017, Steve Hatch, the firm's vice-president for northern Europe, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"The tragic death of Molly Russell made us really stop in our tracks as a company and acknowledge that there was an issue that we need to do more on.\n\n\"We've been putting those changes in place steadily over the last 12 months,\" he said.\n\nMolly Russell was 14 when she committed suicide. Her father, Ian, told the BBC that he believed Instagram was partly responsible for his daughter's death.\n\n\"I have no doubt that Instagram helped kill my daughter,\" he said.\n\nFacebook aimed to build on progress it had made in tackling terrorist content to remove other problematic content such as self-harming, Mr Hatch said.\n\nThe firm had detected and removed two million posts from Facebook and 800,000 from Instagram, he added.\n\n\"As systems get better they develop, they get better and more effective,\" he said. \"Our aspiration is to remove every single piece of [harmful] content.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "The duchess, pictured meeting children and parents in Cardiff, has previously called children's early years \"the most important years, for life long health and happiness\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has launched a UK-wide survey to help improve early childhood.\n\nThe five-question online survey aims to \"spark a national conversation\" to help create \"lasting change for generations to come\", Kensington Palace said.\n\nCatherine is marking its launch with a 24-hour UK tour, visiting Birmingham, London, Cardiff and Surrey.\n\nThe NSPCC said the project would be a \"vital source of information\".\n\nIn the online survey, called Five Big Questions, participants are asked for their opinion on what influences development and what period of childhood is most important for children's happiness.\n\nThe duchess visited a baby sensory class at the Ely and Caerau Children's Centre in Cardiff\n\nOn Tuesday, the duchess visited Thinktank, a science museum in Birmingham.\n\nShe was shown around an interactive mini city inside the museum and spoke to parents and carers about the survey.\n\nOn Wednesday, Catherine visited a baby sensory class at the Ely and Caerau Children's Centre in Cardiff to hear about the support parents receive there.\n\nShe also attended HMP Send in Woking, Surrey, to speak with women prisoners taking part in a rehabilitation programme.\n\nThe scheme, run by The Forward Trust, aims to break cycles of addiction and crime and is the only 12-step prison-based drug and alcohol programme for women in the UK. The duchess also visited the prison in 2015.\n\nThe survey's launch comes after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they wanted to step back from being senior royals. Buckingham Palace said Prince Harry and Meghan will withdraw from royal duties from the spring.\n\nFormer press secretary to the Queen, Dickie Arbiter, suggested that the survey would have been planned nearly a year in advance, a long time before and Harry and Meghan's announcement.\n\nIt is stating the obvious to say it has been a difficult week for the Royal Family.\n\nBut with Harry and Meghan now back in Canada and big decisions made about their future there is a sense of returning to business as usual... at least for now.\n\nFor the Duchess of Cambridge that means an even sharper focus on one particular area - the problems of early childhood.\n\nRoyal engagements can cover a vast number of areas but for the duchess an increasing amount of her work is targeted at early years.\n\nThis new survey will ultimately help provide important data for all those working in the area of early years, and will also inform the kind of work the Duchess of Cambridge gets involved with in the future.\n\nThose who have worked with her in this area say she is totally committed and isn't just a figurehead.\n\nShe has built up an expertise and wants to prevent the same problems affecting the same families generation after generation.\n\nCatherine and her husband, the Duke of Cambridge, have three children - six-year-old Prince George, four-year-old Princess Charlotte, and 21-month-old Prince Louis.\n\nThe Royal Foundation website says Catherine believes \"many of society's greatest social and health challenges\" could be \"mitigated or entirely avoided\" if young children are given \"the right support\".\n\nKate Stanley, from the NSPCC, says the duchess's survey will \"provide fascinating insight into how we think about the early years and it will be a vital source of information for the sector\".\n\nAsked about the value of the questionnaire, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday the results of the survey would help inform \"the kind of conversation we need to have\" with parents about the importance of a child's early years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cambridge: ''Both William and I sincerely believe that early action can prevent problems in childhood from turning into larger ones later in life''\n\nKayte Lawton, from the charity Save the Children, welcomed the survey and said it was \"vital\" that all children are given access to \"high-quality services\".\n\nShe said: \"Parents on low incomes regularly tell us they struggle with childcare bills, especially when their children are little, and strive to juggle all of life's demands to support their children's early learning. It's not easy.\"\n\nIpsos Mori is conducting the survey on behalf of the Royal Foundation.\n\nThe company's Kelly Beaver added: \"Whilst many studies have been conducted to generate evidence of the importance of the early years, there is a real lack of evidence to understand whether this is understood by the British public.\"\n\nThe survey will be open until 21 February.\n\n1. What do you believe is most important for children growing up in the UK today to live a happy adult life? Rank from most important to least important:\n\n2. Which of these statements is closest to your opinion?\n\n3. How much do you agree or disagree with this statement? The mental health and wellbeing of parents and carers has a great impact on the development of their child(ren)\n\n4. Which of the following is closest to your opinion of what influences how children develop from the start of pregnancy to age five?\n\n5. Which period of a child and young person's life do you think is the most important for health and happiness in adulthood?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrants cross the river Suchiate on the border between Guatemala and Mexico on Monday\n\nHundreds of migrants who waded across a river on Mexico's southern border have been stopped from entering the country on their way to the US.\n\nThe migrants, mainly from Honduras, took to the water after being refused permission to cross a nearby bridge.\n\nThe security forces fired tear gas to force the migrants back and rounded up those who managed to make it across.\n\nMexico has cut off migration routes to the US under pressure from President Donald Trump.\n\nNational Guard troops with riot shields were seen trying to stop the migrants from climbing the banks of the Suchiate river, which marks the border between Mexico and Guatemala.\n\nSome of those who were trying to reach Mexico threw stones at the police.\n\nThe detained migrants have been transferred to immigration stations. They will be returned to their home countries if their legal status cannot be resolved, the government said.\n\nMembers of Mexico's National Guard used their shields to block migrants\n\nThe migrants had been camped out in the Guatemalan town of Tecún Umán, across the border from Mexico's Ciudad Hidalgo.\n\nEight representatives of the migrants were allowed into Mexico for talks with the authorities and to pass a letter on to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.\n\nThey urged him to let them pass and promised to respect the law.\n\nThose who tried to cross the river on Monday were part of a 2,000 to 3,500-strong group dubbed \"2020 Caravan\", evoking previous attempts to cross Mexico en masse to reach the US border.\n\nFor its part, Guatemala said several thousand migrants had crossed into its territory from Honduras since Wednesday.\n\nMany of the migrants on the Mexico border said they were fleeing violence, poverty and high murder rates.\n\n\"We got desperate because of the heat. It's been exhausting, especially for the children,\" Honduran migrant Elvis Martínez told AFP news agency.\n\nMexico has said they can stay and work in Mexico and apply for asylum but will not be allowed free passage to the US.\n\n\"They're trying to trick us. They tell us to register, but then they deport us,\" another migrant said.\n\nThe Mexican interior ministry said it had already taken in 1,100 migrants in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco. Most would be returned to their country of origin \"if their situation warrants it\", it added.\n\nPresident Trump reached a deal with Mexico in June to stem the flow of migrants to the US after threatening it with high tariffs. Mexico agreed to take \"unprecedented\" steps to curb irregular migration, including deploying the National Guard.\n\nAnother agreement, with Guatemala, designates that country as a \"safe third country\". Under the accord, the US can send migrants from Honduras or El Salvador who pass through Guatemala back to that country to seek asylum first.\n\nMr Trump has made the fight against illegal migration to the US a major policy issue and has taken measures to deter entry across the border from Mexico, including plans for a border wall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I sent my seven-year-old across the border alone,\" says one parent on the US-Mexico border", "The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador was hit with more than 70cm (27in) of snow in a record breaking blizzard.\n\nThe military has been called in to help with recovery efforts.", "Belgian emergency services have called off a search for eight missing migrants\n\nMigrants trying to reach the UK in boats have set off from Belgium for the first time, a local mayor believes.\n\nA group of 14 swam back to shore when their small vessel sank off the coast of the town of De Panne.\n\nMayor Bram Degrieck said eight of the group - which may include two children - are unaccounted for, but are believed to have made it back to land.\n\n\"It's the first time to my knowledge this happens on a beach in Belgium,\" he said.\n\nProsecutor Frank Demeester said British authorities would be consulted as part of the investigation as it was \"rare\" for smugglers to try to reach the UK from the Belgian coast.\n\nMeanwhile, 11 migrants were detained by Border Force at the Port of Dover, with 10 others intercepted in a dinghy in the Channel.\n\nLast year, nearly 1,900 people reached the UK after setting off from the French coast in small boats.\n\nThe French rescued six migrants after their engine broke down off the coast of Calais\n\nPatrols of French beaches have doubled in an attempt to curtail crossings, the Home Office has said.\n\n\"The stress is getting higher. Perhaps smugglers are trying to find different routes, other ways of getting into the UK,\" Mr Degrieck said.\n\n\"It is obviously not the appropriate route to take. It is about 70km (43 miles) to the UK.\n\n\"It is obviously very distressing that smugglers are trying to use Belgian beaches,\" he said.\n\nIn an interview last month Steve Reynolds, of the National Crime Agency, warned that smugglers \"might try and vary the routes and have a slightly longer route in\".\n\n\"If migrants start to go further afield using longer routes the risk of fatalities obviously rises,\" he said.\n\nPolice in De Panne are using drones to search for the missing migrants\n\nMr Degrieck said Belgian police were alerted at about 04:00 GMT when one of the migrants, suffering from hypothermia, raised the alarm.\n\n\"He said he was in a group of 14 attempting to leave the coast in the direction of the UK with a small boat. That boat sank, leaving 14 people in the water.\n\n\"Six of them we found. They looked healthy. Of that party of 14, eight of them are still missing. Among those eight there is the possibility there are two children.\"\n\n\"According to the people we have in custody, they say that everybody was able to reach land. Of course this information is not 100% reliable, that's why we start a search this morning,\" he said.\n\nBorder Force are believed to have intercepted a dinghy in the Channel\n\nThe search was called off with the eight still unaccounted for, but Belgian police said it believed they have left the area after making it back to land.\n\nOf the six migrants who have been found, five Iranians were detained while taking a bus from De Panne to Dunkirk, France. An Afghan man was found in De Panne, police said.\n\nAdditionally, the French rescued six migrants after their engine failed about two miles off the coast of Calais.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Great Blasket is the principal island of the Blaskets, County Kerry, off the west coast of Ireland\n\nA couple have received over 23,000 applications for two summer vacancies on the remote Great Blasket Island, County Kerry.\n\nAlice Hayes and her partner, Billy O'Connor, posted the vacancies on social media and were inundated with responses from around the world.\n\nTwo successful candidates will run a small café and three cottages from April to October.\n\nThe pair will live together for six months without many modern comforts.\n\nThe couple told RTÉ they have received applications from Iran, Argentina, Finland and Mexico\n\nSpeaking to RTÉ, the couple said: \"It's been unbelievable. We were worried we wouldn't get anyone.\n\n\"We had a lot of interest last week but in the last few days it's been mad.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Great Blasket Island This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe couple told the Irish broadcaster they received applications from countries such as Iran, Argentina, Finland and Mexico.\n\n\"Our email is in meltdown and our phones are just pinging constantly,\" Ms Hayes said.\n\nLesley Kehoe and her partner Gordon Bond lived and worked on the island as caretakers from April to October in 2019.\n\nMs Kehoe told BBC News NI that living on the island was \"serene\" and island life soon became \"their version of normal\".\n\nMs Kehoe said they had to bathe using freezing cold water from a mountain stream\n\n\"We were the only permanent residents. People would come and visit, but no longer than two days or a week max,\" she said.\n\nThe couple had to bathe using freezing water from a mountain stream.\n\n\"It would be the quickest shower in your life and you were definitely awake after,\" Ms Kehoe said.\n\nThe couple said living on the isolated island was a good test of their relationship\n\nThe job is open to couples or best friends and Lesley said that any prospective islanders should make sure \"they bring the person they get on with most in the world\".", "Police officers at one of 15 addresses across Northern Ireland raided as part of a major investigation into international money laundering\n\nPolice say they have broken up a major international money laundering operation being run out of Northern Ireland.\n\nDetectives say about £215m was laundered during an eight-year period from 2011.\n\nSix men and a woman, arrested during the two-day operation on Monday and Tuesday, have been released on bail.\n\nIt is understood to be the second biggest money laundering operation ever uncovered in the UK.\n\nIt is not believed there is any paramilitary link to the money laundering operation.\n\nOfficers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) carried out eight searches in Banbridge, Newry and Omagh on Monday, with further searches in Belfast, Banbridge, Newry and Ballymena on Tuesday.\n\nThey believe fake companies were set up to launder money for Irish and UK crime gangs engaged in drugs, human trafficking and prostitution.\n\nThe \"complex\" investigation involved the international police agencies Europol and Interpol, as well as authorities in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.\n\nIn a tweet, the Chief Constable, Simon Byrne, praised the \"tenacious\" and \"complex\" work carried out by the Economic Crime Unit, who uncovered the operation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Insp Ian Wilson said: \"We believe today's operation is one of the most significant live investigations into money laundering in the UK.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Insp Ian Wilson said the operation targeted \"individuals suspected of high-end money laundering\"\n\n\"During our extensive investigation we identified that a significant volume of suspected criminal cash was being laundered out of the country through a number of shell companies and bank accounts held here in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The investigation has identified over 50 companies and over 140 bank accounts.\"", "Feltham was one of the five YOIs inspected\n\nA boy at a young offenders institution was left to lie on a mattress on the floor of a \"filthy\" cell for more than 22 hours a day, a report has revealed.\n\nThe chief inspector of prisons in England and Wales, Peter Clarke, said a practice of separating children from their peers at YOIs amounted to \"harmful solitary confinement\".\n\nHe said the policy had \"fundamental flaws\" and was a risk to mental health.\n\nThe government said it would be making \"immediate changes\".\n\nInspectors looked at five YOIs, holding about 600 men and boys aged 15 to 18 - Cookham Wood in Kent; Feltham A in west London; Parc in south Wales; Werrington in Staffordshire, and Wetherby and Keppel in West Yorkshire.\n\nMr Clarke said 57 offenders had been separated and \"in the worst cases children left their cells for just 15 minutes a day\".\n\nHis report, after inspections in May and June 2019, found \"multiple and widespread failings\", although some areas of better practice were identified, particularly at Parc.\n\nIt said there were occasions when it was in a child's best interests to be separated for the risk they posed to others, or for their own protection. But staff should still aim to ensure they have daily activities and work to reintroduce a normal regime.\n\nSheena Evelyn says her son, Kyefer, spent \"most of his time\" in solitary confinement when he was in a young offenders institution.\n\nShe first spoke to the BBC in 2018 to support calls for reform of the practice which she called \"cruel and inhumane\".\n\n\"In a short space of time he was hearing voices, he was suicidal, just a massive impact overall on his mental health at the time but in the long-haul we still don't know how much it has affected him,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday.\n\n\"It's normal common sense, it doesn't take a doctor to tell you that a child needs basic rights like sunlight and interaction with their peers.\"\n\nKyefer is now in an adult prison, where Ms Evelyn says he is \"treated more humanely\" than in Feltham YOI.\n\n\"He gets basic exercise, he gets sunshine, he gets adequate amounts of food - whereas these growing children are given miserly portions. They're given snack-sized breakfasts given the evening before so that most of them eat them that evening and they're starving the next day.\"\n\nAsked why her son was put into solitary confinement she says \"there doesn't have to be a reason\".\n\nShe called its use an \"abuse of power\".\n\nMs Evelyn adds: \"They're very violent places young offenders (institutions), very violent. There's a lot of testosterone, they're locked behind the doors for 23-and-a-half hours a day.\n\n\"You have to fight to survive in these places.\"\n\nMr Clarke found eight children had spent a combined total of 373 days in separation while waiting to be taken to a secure hospital for treatment for mental health conditions.\n\nHe said nearly all those separated spent long periods in cells \"without any meaningful human interaction\".\n\nThis included the case of the boy left on the mattress, which took place at Feltham A, where he had been \"in crisis\" and on a \"constant watch\".\n\nSome were \"unable to access the very basics of everyday life, including a daily shower and telephone call\", Mr Clarke added.\n\nOn Tuesday, he told the Today programme, that the system was \"badly broken\" and needed to be designed \"afresh\".\n\n\"These failings are so consistent and have been taking place for such a long time, I've taken the rather unusual step of putting one overarching recommendation into our report which is that the secretary of state for justice should take personal charge of this and actually insist that something is now done to put this right,\" Mr Clarke said.\n\n\"We don't deny for a moment there are occasions when children do need to be separated but if they do need to be separated - and that's very often for their own or somebody else's safety or for other good reason - then it should be done in a way which allows them to have the basic entitlements, and that hasn't been happening.\"\n\nJustice minister Wendy Morton said: \"It is difficult to read this report and not conclude that we are failing some of the children in our care. That is completely unacceptable and I am determined it will not continue.\"\n\nShe said separation can be \"necessary\" but there was \"no excuse for some of the practices highlighted in this report and I have asked my officials to urgently set out the steps we need to take to stop them happening\".", "A record number of women in full-time work has pushed the UK's employment rate to a new high of 76.3%, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show.\n\nIn the three months to November, 126,000 more women worked full-time compared with the previous quarter.\n\nThe increase is in part because of the change in women's retirement age.\n\nThe data may affect the Bank of England's decision over whether to cut interest rates next week.\n\nA record 32.9 million people are in employment in the UK, a rise of 0.5% for the three months to November.\n\n\"The employment rate is at a new record high, with over two-thirds of the growth in people in work in the last year coming from women working full-time,\" said ONS head of labour market and households, David Freeman.\n\n\"Self-employment has also been growing strongly, and the number of people working for themselves has now passed five million for the first time ever,\" he said.\n\nThe unemployment rate was barely changed at 3.8%.\n\nHowever, the number of estimated job vacancies fell to 805,000, a drop of 11,000 compared to the previous quarter and 49,000 fewer than a year earlier, undermining the generally strong picture of the labour market.\n\nThe change in the retirement age for women from 60 to 65 means that many are staying in the workforce for longer.\n\nHowever, the number of working-age women in employment was also boosted by fewer women remaining economically inactive to care for children and other relatives.\n\nJing Teow, economist at PwC, said the overall picture was relatively positive.\n\n\"However, there are other signs that the labour market is coming off the boil. Vacancy levels remain high, but have been on a general decline since early 2019,\" she said.\n\n\"Wage growth has edged slightly lower from 3.5% to 3.4% for regular pay, but still well above inflation, which should continue to support consumer spending. These signs appear broadly consistent with the weaker-than-expected GDP readings for November last year.\"\n\nUnemployment is one of the closely-watched metrics that guide the Bank of England in deciding whether to raise or lower interest rates.\n\nReporting that the number of jobs has hit a new record these days is like reporting back in the 1990s that stock markets had hit a record high. It hardly feels like news because it happens almost every time the figures come out.\n\nToday's jobs figures, however, were surprisingly upbeat. What with the official estimates last week showing an economy that was barely growing - indeed, shrinking in November - the markets had expected perhaps 100,000 new jobs to be generated. Instead it was more than 200,000.\n\nSimilarly, the relatively healthy growth in pay was expected to slow. It did, but only a little - down from 3.5% to 3.4% excluding bonuses. After taking inflation into account, that's still a pay rise of 1.8%. Hold your breath: some day soon (but not yet) the average worker will be earning more than they did in March 2008 before the financial crash.\n\nAll of that, however, may not be enough to offset the other data pointing to a slowdown. Markets still expect, with a 65% probability, that the Bank of England will cut the official interest rate next week, back down to 0.5%, to try to counter the risk that the current economic slowdown morphs into something more serious.\n\nThomas Pugh, at Capital Economics, said the \"solid\" employment data would be likely to nudge policymakers away from a rate cut at next week's Monetary Policy Committee meeting.\n\n\"It is worth noting that the MPC has said that it is giving more weight than normal to the condition of the labour market to help it determine how much slack there is in the economy,\" he said.\n\n\"The rebound in employment and slightly softer pay growth will give the MPC another reason not to cut rates from 0.75% to 0.50% at their next meeting on 30th January. However, we think that the crucial piece of information for the MPC will be the flash PMIs [manufacturing data] on 24 January, which will confirm, or refute, any 'Boris bounce' in the economy.\"", "The government is being urged to set up domestic violence prevention programmes targeting offenders as well as victims.\n\nDozens of charities, police forces and experts are backing the call for such schemes in England and Wales, after a pilot project reportedly led to a sustained reduction in abuse.\n\nThe pilot scheme, Drive, worked with 506 prolific domestic violence perpetrators, aged 17 to 81.\n\nThe Home Office said future legislation would promote perpetrator programmes.\n\nDrive, which operated in Essex, West Sussex and south Wales from 2016 to 2019, involved one-to-one counselling sessions with offenders - most of whom were white men while nearly half were involved in ongoing legal proceedings in the criminal or civil courts.\n\nThey were given help on building relationships, controlling their impulses and developing empathy and understanding of the impact of abuse.\n\nAgencies offered support with alcohol, drug and mental health problems, and offenders were closely monitored by police and probation for the 10 months they were on the scheme.\n\nThe University of Bristol analysed results from the project in what it said was the \"largest evaluation\" of perpetrator intervention to be carried out in the UK.\n\nIt found that Drive had led to a drop in incidents of abuse to a \"greater degree\" than in cases where only victims were given help, with improvements sustained for more than 12 months after the scheme ended.\n\nPolice data for one sample of perpetrators showed domestic abuse offending had reduced by 30% in the six months after the scheme compared to the six months before.\n\nA control group, made up of offenders who had not taken part in the project, were reported to be committing crimes at the same rate as before.\n\nKyla Kirkpatrick, director of Drive, told BBC News it was \"so important\" to direct services at domestic abuse offenders, as well as victims and survivors.\n\n\"We usually see victims held responsible for securing their own safety - and the perpetrator gets away with it, continuing to abuse or moving onto the next victim,\" she said.\n\n\"Huge harm is being caused to individuals and their families - we need to turn the tide on this.\"\n\nThe Drive scheme included work with housing providers to install CCTV to gather evidence for stalking cases and to get injunctions where there were reports of anti-social behaviour.\n\nIn one case, where an offender had avoided being served with a non-molestation order because he couldn't be traced, a relative of his victim gave Drive the registration number of his car so it could be passed to police to track him down.\n\nIn another example, a victim said a man had been harassing her in phone calls from the prison where he was being held, so Drive liaised with the jail to conduct cell searches on his wing. Three mobile phones were later recovered.\n\nThe key groups behind the project, Safe Lives, Respect and Social Finance, claim the findings demonstrate the \"urgent need\" for perpetrator programmes to be made universally available.\n\nThey said the costs would be outweighed by savings for the NHS, social services and the criminal justice system.\n\nThe University of Bristol study estimates the cost to the state of a high-risk offender is £63,000, compared with £2,400 to deliver the Drive course.\n\nAlong with some 60 voluntary organisations, police and crime commissioners and academics the charities have launched a joint call to action to persuade the government to provide funding.\n\n\"We are beginning to see evidence of the impact of Drive but it's not a magic bullet,\" said Ms Kirkpatrick.\n\n\"We need a comprehensive system and a national strategy to respond to perpetrators of domestic abuse,\" she added.\n\nAccording to statistics from the ONS, two million adults, including 1.3 million women, aged 16 to 59 experienced domestic abuse in the year up to March 2018 - an increase of 23% from the previous year.\n\nThe Home Office has appointed the first ever domestic abuse commissioner and is preparing to reintroduce a bill to strengthen provision for victims.\n\n\"We are committed to protecting vulnerable people and bringing perpetrators to justice and will implement our landmark domestic abuse bill at the earliest opportunity,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThey added that the bill includes measures to promote the use of perpetrator programmes \"which aim to help them change their behaviour, undergo mental health assessments, and prevent future incidents\".\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and advice is available here.", "Sir Keir Starmer is currently the party's shadow Brexit secretary\n\nSir Keir Starmer is the first Labour leadership candidate to pass the final hurdle to get onto the ballot.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) says it is backing the shadow Brexit secretary.\n\nThis gives Sir Keir the support required - that of three unions and affiliate groups representing 5% of the membership - to get to the final stage.\n\nUsdaw has also given its support to shadow education secretary Angela Rayner for deputy leader.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said: \"The Labour Party must be led by someone who can persuade voters that they have what it takes to be a prime minister and we are a government-in-waiting.\"\n\nFour other candidates are still in the running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader - shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, Wigan MP Lisa Nandy and Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nBut they have yet to receive the backing of the necessary groups, or the alternative - the backing of 5% of constituency Labour parties (CLPs) - to make the final ballot.\n\nSir Keir, who also has the support of Unison and affiliate group Sera, said he was \"honoured\" to have the backing of Usdaw.\n\nHe added: \"If I'm elected leader, Labour will stand shoulder to shoulder with the trade union movement as we take on the Tories and rebuild trust with working people.\"\n\nMs Rayner also thanked the union for its backing, saying: \"It's a great honour to be nominated by such a campaigning trade union.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nShe faces competition for the deputy leadership from Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, Ian Murray, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan and shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon.\n\nThe unions, affiliate groups and CLPs have until 14 February to get their preferences submitted. The GMB union is expected to announce which candidate it will support on Tuesday after a hustings and meeting.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the deadline passed for new members to join the party - or an affiliated group - in time to vote in the leadership election.\n\nThe final ballot of party members, trade unionists and registered supporters will open on 21 February, and the new leader and deputy will be announced on 4 April.", "Health leaders have written to Justice Secretary David Gauke urging him to reform the payout system for negligence claims against the NHS in England.\n\nThey say costs are spiralling, \"unsustainable\" and diverting vast amounts from frontline care.\n\nThe NHS Confederation, the British Medical Association and medical lawyers are among the signatories.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has asked the advisory body the Civil Justice Council to look at ways to limit payments.\n\nThe annual cost of claims is said to have almost doubled since 2010.\n\nAccording to the letter, the NHS in England spent £1.7bn on clinical negligence claims last year.\n\nThe letter says: \"The rising cost of clinical negligence is unsustainable and means that vast amounts of resource which could be used more effectively have to be diverted elsewhere.\n\n\"We fully accept that there must be reasonable compensation for patients harmed through clinical negligence, but this needs to be balanced against society's ability to pay.\n\n\"This is money that could be spent on frontline care. Given the wider pressures on the healthcare system, the rising cost of clinical negligence is already having an impact on what the NHS can provide.\"\n\nThe letter - coordinated by the NHS Confederation - has also been signed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Family Doctors Association, Medical Protection Society, Medical Defence Union and the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland.\n\nIt says reforms by the government to the claims system have made things worse.\n\nThe calculation used to work out how much a victim of negligence should receive upfront to cover a lifetime of care was changed last year so the NHS had to make higher lump sum payments.\n\nThe letter says total liabilities over future years if all claims in England arising from past incidents are successful would amount to a \"staggering\" £65bn.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it had set out proposals for a \"fairer way\" of setting payout levels.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"All personal injury victims should of course be fully compensated, but the costs involved should also be proportionate.\"", "Dixons Carphone has had to reissue its Christmas trading figures to say sales went down, not up over the period.\n\nThe retailer - which owns Currys PC World - had earlier reported a rise in sales, but later said it had made a \"clerical error\".\n\nIt issued a fresh statement for the last 10 weeks of the year, saying sales had fallen by 2% rather than risen by 2% as the firm had earlier reported.\n\nTrading statements are not double checked by accountants.\n\nNonetheless, mistakes in official announcements are rare.\n\nA rise in sales of supersize 65-inch TVs could not outpace a sharp fall in Dixons Carphone's struggling mobile phone business, where revenue fell 9%.\n\nThe fall in its phone arm is in line with expectations, and Dixons Carphone has said that it expects this to be a tough year for the mobile phone business.\n\nMobile sales have been under pressure because people are moving away from high-value monthly contracts and are upgrading their handsets less frequently.\n\nThe fall in sales follows a familiar trend.\n\nRecent data from the British Retail Consortium revealed that retail sales fell for the first time in a quarter of a century last year.\n\nAnd John Lewis recently warned that its staff bonus may be in doubt after reporting Christmas sales at its department stores dropped by 2%.\n\nDixons chief executive Alex Baldock hailed its Gaming Battlegrounds computer game experiences, which he said was helping gather more customers.\n\nHowever, he told City analysts that he was \"not counting\" on an improvement in the UK shopping market.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chinese student Renwei Deng: 'I chose Liverpool because of The Beatles'\n\nThe number of Chinese students at UK universities has soared - rising by 34% in the last five years.\n\nIt means China now sends more students than any other country, inside or outside the EU, to the UK.\n\nThe 120,000 Chinese students are an important source of income for universities because international students pay fees two to three times higher than UK students.\n\nThe government is keen to attract more students to the UK.\n\nBut MPs have warned that universities are naive in underestimating the influence of the Chinese government on campus.\n\nThe figures are startling. Since 2014-15, the number of Chinese students in the UK has grown from 89,540 to 120,385, compared with 26,685 students from India.\n\nBut numbers have not yet peaked.\n\nThe University of Liverpool has been one of the most successful in recruiting from China, which now provides almost one in five of its students.\n\nMore than a decade ago it was involved in creating a new university in the city of Suzhou, near Shanghai.\n\nXi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University runs degree courses which involve students coming to Liverpool for two years.\n\nBy the end of the decade, the joint venture is expected to have grown to almost 30,000 students.\n\nSome also choose Liverpool directly - including Renwei Deng, whose love of The Beatles prompted him to choose it for his degree in accounting and finance.\n\nNow in his final year, he calls himself Kevin and is part of an all-Chinese band, Mandarin Crisis, that plays in local venues.\n\nHe says: \"I wanted to see a different culture, to truly see what I'd seen on TV about different countries. And I wanted to experience different values.\n\n\"It makes me think more objectively especially about global matters, I won't see them through only a Chinese perspective, I'll have a wider view.\"\n\nBut, like all the mainland Chinese students I meet, Kevin politely but firmly declines to be drawn into commenting on anything that might be controversial - including the recent protests in Hong Kong by pro-democracy campaigners.\n\nBut dozens of postgraduate scholarships are being funded by the Chinese government.\n\nMPs have expressed concerns that universities are not thinking through the implications of relying on significant amounts of Chinese money.\n\nThe Foreign Affairs Select Committee said they were being naive about the potential risks around intellectual espionage or freedom of speech.\n\nTom Tugendhat, the former committee chairman, says when a university does a deal to set up a campus abroad or recruit lots of students, it's not just about bringing in money to the UK.\n\nHe wants universities to engage more with the Foreign Office to get advice. \"In some countries censorship comes with the cash, and in others control comes with the students.\n\n\"Those students will not just be bringing open minds ready to learn, but also the apparatus of state control either through direct influence or through pressure exerted on their families that really is completely foreign to British universities.\"\n\nMr Tugendhat thinks UK universities should follow the example of some in the US and Australia, which have asked the Confucius Institute - which promotes Chinese language and culture - to move off campus.\n\nThe recent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have brought issues around freedom of speech to the fore on some campuses.\n\nTwo students from Hong Kong said they had been harassed\n\nSpeaking anonymously, students at universities in other parts of the UK, said that was something they had experienced directly.\n\nOne said: \"If I get identified by the Chinese embassy or government, I might put the safety of relatives living in China under threat.\"\n\nThere have also been reports of intimidation after posters were put up on campus supporting democracy in Hong Kong.\n\nA student said: \"I've had death threats on mainland people's group chats saying they'll kill me over things I've put up, saying they'll bring knives to kill me. They've also harassed me by putting up photos of where I stay.\"\n\nAnd another said: \"They are doing things that are not really acceptable, but everyone seems to be accepting them for what they are, for the short-term benefits.\"\n\nWhile they feel able to complain, they fear the financial contribution from Chinese students could make universities reluctant to be firm.\n\nSo would a university such as Liverpool welcome a pro-democracy campaigner to speak at an event on campus?\n\nProf Gavin Brown, pro-vice-chancellor at the university said they would want to be sensitive to relationships with any partner, but ultimately were part of the academic tradition of free speech in the UK.\n\n\"They are welcome. We think it's far better for a university to provide a place where views can be expressed but also challenged and debated.\"\n\nSo does he think they are in danger of being influenced overtly or subtly by the amount of money flowing into the university from China?\n\n\"China is now the second largest research and development economy in the world. They have a quarter of all research and development scientists in the world.\n\n\"We cannot afford to ignore the contributions that Chinese research can make.\"\n\nIn essence, China is too big to ignore, and has so much money and research capacity that universities around the world will continue to engage with it.\n\nBBC Briefing is a series of downloadable in-depth guides to the big issues in the news, with input from academics, researchers and journalists. It is the BBC's response to audiences demanding better explanation of the facts behind the headlines.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peers have approved Boris Johnson's Brexit bill, but not before making changes to the legislation.\n\nThe House of Lords voted in favour of five amendments over two days of debate, leading the new government to its first parliamentary defeats.\n\nThe changes included backing the Dubs amendment to protect the rights of refugee children after Brexit.\n\nNo 10 said they were \"disappointed\" by the move, but planned to overturn them when the bill returned to the Commons.\n\nIf the amendments are voted down by MPs on Wednesday - highly likely due to the Conservatives' 80-strong majority in the House - the so-called \"ping-pong\" period between the two chambers will begin.\n\nThis means the bill will pass between the two Houses until both sides agree on the wording.\n\nThe Brexit bill - officially called the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill - ensures the UK leaves the EU on 31 January with a deal.\n\nIt passed through the Commons unamended by 99 votes, but has had a tougher battle through the Lords.\n\nOn Monday, peers agreed amendments on EU citizens, EU Court of Justice rulings and court independence, seeing three defeats for the government.\n\nEarlier, the Dubs amendment - allowing child refugees to be reunited with their families in the UK post-Brexit - passed by 300 votes to 220, making a fourth loss.\n\nA short time later, a fifth amendment narrowly got the backing of peers - with the government losing by 239 votes to 235 - changing the bill so it makes note of the Sewel Convention, under which Parliament should not legislate on devolved issues without the consent of the devolved institutions.\n\nThe amended bill was passed by peers on Tuesday night without needing a vote, and will now return to the Commons on Wednesday afternoon after Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nBrexit minister Lord Callanan said it was the \"right and duty\" of peers to \"rigorously scrutinise\" legislation and to ask MPs to \"think again when you think that is appropriate\".\n\nBut he added that he would \"like to... remind noble lords that we received a clear message from the elected House\" who overwhelmingly supported the bill.\n\nLabour's Lady Hayter criticised the government for \"turning a deaf ear to improvements\" made by the amendments.\n\nLady Hayter speaks for Labour in the Lords\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat peer Lady Ludford said her party's mind had not been changed, adding: \"We continue to think Brexit is a mistake and that the UK will sooner or later rejoin the EU. I just wish the government was in listening mode\".\n\nBut Tory peer Lord Hamilton said there had been \"a conspiracy... of Remainers\" throughout Parliament \"trying to ensure we stay in the EU\".\n\nHe accused colleagues of planning to \"make negotiations [with the EU] as difficult as possible for the government so they get a very bad deal, and they can then be justified in their view we should never have left\".\n\nHis fellow Conservative, Lord Cormack, said the comments equated to \"the most ill-judged speech I have heard for many long years\".\n\nHe added: \"The will of the people must, of course, prevail. But to pretend this House has behaved improperly is wrong.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry says it is \"a great sadness that it has come to this\"\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has said he is \"taking a leap of faith\" in stepping back from being a senior royal, adding: \"There really was no other option.\"\n\nSpeaking at an event on Sunday evening, Prince Harry said he and Meghan had hoped to continue serving the Queen, but without public funding.\n\n\"Unfortunately, that wasn't possible,\" he said.\n\nIt was his first speech since the couple said they wanted to stand down from being full-time working royals.\n\nThe prince said he had found \"the love and happiness that I had hoped for all my life\" with Meghan, but he wanted to make it clear they were \"not walking away\".\n\n\"The UK is my home and a place that I love, that will never change,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry said it was a sign of the pressures he was feeling that he would \"step my family back from all I have ever known\" in search of \"a more peaceful life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond gives his five takeaways from Harry's speech\n\nEarlier this month, Prince Harry and Meghan said they intended \"to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent\".\n\nOn Saturday, Buckingham Palace announced that from the spring they will stop using their HRH titles and withdraw from royal duties, including official military appointments.\n\nAnd on Monday Prince Harry was pictured at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, where he held a number of private meetings, including with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hosted an evening reception at Buckingham Palace for heads of government, ministers, business leaders and members of NGOs attending the summit.\n\nIt was the first time the duke and duchess had hosted a reception for world leaders on behalf of the Queen.\n\nPrince Harry did not attend, with BBC royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, saying he is believed to have left on a flight for Canada from Heathrow airport.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were joined at the reception by senior royals including the Princess Royal and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nBeginning his speech at a fund-raising reception in central London for Sentebale, the charity he co-founded which helps children living with HIV in southern Africa, he said: \"I can only imagine what you may have heard and perhaps read over the past few weeks.\n\n\"So I want you to hear the truth from me as much as I can share, not as a prince or a duke but as Harry.\"\n\nDuring his address, the prince said he would always have \"the utmost respect for my grandmother, my commander in chief\".\n\n\"Our hope was to continue serving the Queen, the Commonwealth, and my military associations, but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn't possible,\" he said.\n\n\"I've accepted this, knowing that it doesn't change who I am or how committed I am.\"\n\nPrince Harry met the prime minister at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan have both spoken about the difficulties of royal life and media attention, with the duke saying he feared his wife would fall victim to \"the same powerful forces\" that led to his mother's death.\n\nHe told the audience at the reception for Sentebale, which he founded to continue Princess Diana's legacy in supporting those with HIV and Aids, that he felt they took him \"under your wing\" after she died.\n\n\"You've looked out for me for so long, but the media is a powerful force, and my hope is one day our collective support for each other can be more powerful because this is so much bigger than just us,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs part of a deal finalised on Saturday between the Queen, senior royals, and the couple, Harry and Meghan agreed they will no longer formally represent the monarch.\n\nHowever, the statement by Buckingham Palace said they would continue to maintain their private patronages and associations.\n\nPrince Harry said in his speech that he and Meghan \"will continue to lead a life of service\".\n\n\"I will continue to be the same man who holds his country dear and dedicates his life to supporting the causes, charities and military communities that are so important to me,\" he said.\n\nJohnny Hornby, chairman of Sentebale, said the new arrangements would not affect the prince's work for the charity. \"We don't need - from Sentebale's perspective - his title, we just need his time and his passion,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThere are two big messages in this speech. The first is to deal with the \"Meghan myth\" - the idea that the Duchess of Sussex is at the root of the couple's desire to lead a different life.\n\nHarry speaks of \"many months\" of discussions over how to deal with the challenges of \"many years\"; he's making it clear that he was unhappy with his role long before Meghan entered his life\n\nAnd he talks about the decision that \"I\" made, a decision \"I\" did not make lightly. He stresses that this was his call, though it was clearly one that they came to together.\n\nThe second message is that he wanted to continue in some sort of a royal role; \"unfortunately,\" he says \"that wasn't possible.\"\n\nBoth sides - the Sussexes and the Palace - thought at the beginning of negotiations that such a half-in, half-out role might be possible. But the tension between a royal life and an independent life was too great; the contradictions and possible conflicts of interest were too many.\n\nHarry may or may not believe that to be true. But he wants to let people know that his desire, at least, was to continue to serve.\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who is the author of a critical book about the Royal Family, said the public could end up paying for part of the Prince of Wales' ongoing financial support for his son.\n\nMr Baker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Queen already offset support for family members against the tax bill for the Duchy of Lancaster, the sovereign's estate.\n\nMuch of Prince Harry's funding comes from his father's estate, the Duchy of Cornwall.\n\nMr Baker called for Prince Charles to say how he will support Harry and to publicly guarantee there would be no loss to the taxpayer through a reduction in his tax liability.\n\nThe former MP also called for the Commons public accounts committee to investigate royal finances.\n\nJournalist and royal author Robert Hardman said the agreement with the Queen meant the duke and duchess's Sussex Royal brand, which they applied to trademark last year, is not \"sustainable\".\n\n\"The whole thrust of what has been agreed with the Queen is they won't be trading on their royal credentials,\" he said.\n\nIn Prince Harry's speech, posted on the couple's Instagram account, he said that when he and Meghan were married \"we were excited, we were hopeful, and we were here to serve\".\n\n\"For those reasons, it brings me great sadness that it has come to this.\n\n\"The decision that I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly,\" he said.\n\n\"It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges and I know I haven't always got it right, but as far as this goes there really was no other option.\"\n\nThe couple, together with their son Archie, spent time in Victoria over Christmas\n\nThe couple said they plan to divide their time between the UK and Canada, after they spent six weeks on Vancouver Island with their son Archie over Christmas.\n\nThe prince told attendees it was a \"privilege... to feel your excitement for our son Archie, who saw snow for the first time the other day and thought it was bloody brilliant!\"\n\nThe duchess is currently staying on Canada's west coast with her son, after briefly returning to the UK earlier this month.\n\nWhat questions do you have about Prince Harry and Meghan's future?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The project is set to be the world's largest polyhalite mine\n\nThousands of people who invested in a £4bn mining project may be left out of pocket as a result of a takeover bid.\n\nUp to 85,000 small investors sank cash into the Sirius Mineral development near Whitby before it ran into financial difficulty last year.\n\nMining giant Anglo American has offered to buy the project for £405m, with investors set to receive 5.5p a share.\n\nThe company said it was \"sensitive to the fact that the price is lower than what many people may have invested\".\n\nAbout 10,000 of the investors live near the mine, which would extract polyhalite from beneath North York Moors National Park before transporting it on an underground conveyor belt to a processing plant near the former Redcar steelworks.\n\nSirius failed to reach a fundraising target which would have unlocked a $2.5bn bank loan\n\nScott Murphy, a \"seasoned investor\" from London, looks set to lose about £12,000, but said his thoughts were with investors in the local area.\n\n\"A lot of them have no real investment experience,\" he said. \"They're 'Ordinary Joes' who have been sold the dream and that's what I find disgusting.\n\n\"I've got no excuse for losing my money and I accept it for what it is, but many of these people are not going to get an opportunity to get their money back.\"\n\nThe project plans to extract polyhalite from a mile below the North York Moors\n\nThe takeover of the Sirius Minerals project may secure jobs but there will be dismay and anger behind the front doors of plenty of houses in North Yorkshire and Teesside.\n\nThis scheme attracted a large number of small investors, individuals who saw an opportunity to buy into a local project.\n\nIt was the talk of the area, a huge project to mine a valuable resource. There was gold - well, polyhalite actually - in them there hills.\n\nI remember going to a prospective investors meeting at Ravenscar several years ago where there were dozens of people in their forties, fifties and sixties, thinking of buying in to help their retirement.\n\nIt got under way and soon seemed too big to fail, but not, it seems, too big to be taken over.\n\nNow, anyone who bought shares for more than 5.5p each will be taking a hit.\n\nThe other side of the coin is the old argument that shares can go down as well as up and perhaps you should not invest what you can't afford to lose.\n\nBut many investors had an altruistic take on getting involved; it was local, some of them can literally see the project from their homes.\n\nThat view could now be a painful outlook instead of a pleasant one.\n\nShares in Sirius Minerals hit a high of about 45p in August 2016 and were worth more than 22p a year ago.\n\nBut share prices dropped when Sirius Minerals slowed construction work at the end of 2019 due to funding problems.\n\nSirius chairman Russell Scrimshaw said the company had searched for a partner who would provide cash in return for a minority stake, but in the end the full acquisition by Anglo American was the only \"viable proposal\".\n\nThe deal is subject to shareholder approval but the firm, which has its head office in Scarborough, will recommend they accept Anglo American's offer.\n\nMr Scrimshaw said that if the offer was not approved then there was a high probability Sirius could be placed into administration or liquidation within weeks.\n\nMark Cutifani, the chief executive of Anglo American, said the company will look at opportunities to improve the project but stressed \"this process is about preserving and creating jobs, not cutting them\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Courteeners led Eminem by 2,000 sales in the midweek album chart\n\nEminem's chart rivals The Courteeners believe the rapper \"crossed a line\" by referencing the Manchester bomb attack in the lyrics to his new track.\n\nThe US star was criticised by many last week, including Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, for an \"unnecessarily hurtful\" verse on his new album.\n\nCourteeners singer Liam Fray says he \"feels sorry\" that the rapper has resorted to \"shock\" tactics.\n\nHis band are currently ahead of Eminem in the race for number one.\n\nTheir sixth album More. Again. Forever has sold 2,000 more copies than the rapper's surprise release, Music To Be Murdered By, according to the Official Charts.\n\nFray accepts that his band will probably be overtaken when the full chart is compiled on Friday, as Eminem is outperforming them on streaming services.\n\nBut he isn't impressed by the star's controversial lyrics.\n\n\"It all just felt like an old comedian who can't get on the telly any more just saying something outrageous,\" says Fray.\n\n\"I just felt a bit sorry for him. I just felt like he's jumping the shark a bit.\"\n\nHe adds: \"He's trying to be as outrageous as possible because he's running out of ideas, that's what it is.\n\n\"It's nothing else [but] shock value. You have to shock to be good - that's nonsense.\"\n\nTwenty-two people died when a suicide bomber attacked a crowd outside an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in May 2017.\n\nThe Courteeners were among the bands who officially reopened the venue months later with a benefit gig for families of the victims, alongside Noel Gallagher, Rick Astley and other local acts.\n\nEminem referenced the atrocity in Unaccommodating, the second track on his new album, rapping: \"I'm contemplating yelling 'bombs away' on the game / Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting,\" followed by the sound of an explosion.\n\nOn Sunday, Fray tweeted words to the effect of \"Eminem can get lost\", but was, he admits, simply referring to their chart battle at that point.\n\nThe Courteeners help to re-open the Manchester Arena with the We Are Manchester benefit gig in 2017\n\nHaving been locked in \"Courteeners' world\", since the release of their own new music last week, the singer was blissfully unaware of the star's lyrics until he was hit with \"a deluge\" of replies from fans online.\n\n\"I didn't realise really, it was almost like tongue in cheek,\" he explains, \"As it's quite funny for a lad from Middleton to be calling out the biggest rapper in the world!\n\n\"But you'd have to be stone-hearted to not think of the consequences of those words really. because they're outrageous. What is going on in someone's mind to think that those kind of things are OK?\n\n\"Look, shock has a place in art and it always has done but there's a line and I just think that line was crossed. That's just my opinion and other people might think otherwise but when it's close to home and when you've seen the city pick itself up piece by piece, day by day, then it gets you, man.\"\n\nFray says he hopes the controversy won't cause further pain to the families of the victims.\n\n\"I don't even want to talk too much about it because I feel like it's almost not my place,\" he says. \"I want to give them the respect that they deserve.\"\n\nThe Courteeners were formed in 2006 by school friends Michael Campbell, Liam Fray and Daniel \"Conan\" Moores\n\nThe BBC has asked Eminem for a comment.\n\nThe rapper previously pledged his support to victims of the bombing in 2017, and urged fans to donate money to families who had been affected.\n\nThe cover of The Courteeners' reflective new album carries an image of the worker bee - a symbol of Manchester, which took on added meaning as the city rallied together in the wake of the attacks.\n\nWhoever wins the chart race, they are on course to achieve their biggest first week of sales ever.\n\nIn their review, The Guardian wrote that \"without abandoning the well-executed anthemics\" that the band have become known for, the record \"weighs in on the subjects of ageing, alcohol and mental health\".\n\nThe NME, meanwhile described it as their \"most focussed and adventurous work to date\".\n\nThe north Manchester guitar-slingers have always been a curious beast, capable of putting on their own UK outdoor mini-festivals for their legions of adoring fans, but without having ever really translated that cult popularity into massive mainstream chart success. (They've had five top ten albums, but never a number one).\n\nThis time around though, Fray - who recently bleached his hair blonde just like Eminem - believes there's been \"a real sea change towards us\", which he admits \"feels pretty good\".\n\n\"Because it's not always felt like that\".\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs well as the usual indie rock 'n' roll riffs and barnstorming ballads, Fray points to the addition of hip-hop beats, a trip-hop influence and \"just a lot of thought and consideration that went into it\".\n\n\"We've always took pride in moving it on and I never thought we were never given the credit we deserved early on for kind of changing up the sound,\" says the 34-year-old, whose band will headline this year's TRNSMT festival in Glasgow.\n\n\"Once you release a debut album [2008's St Jude] and it does OK, it's pretty hard to change people's perception of what your sound is.\n\n\"But the songs will speak louder than any interview I'll ever do.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The ban is expected to clear its final hurdle next week\n\nA ban on parents smacking children in Wales has moved a step closer following a series of votes by assembly members.\n\nIt is expected to clear its final hurdle next week when it goes back to the assembly for the last time.\n\nAMs rejected Conservative amendments that would have forced the Welsh Government to provide more information about how the ban will work.\n\nMinisters say they have already committed to a publicity campaign about the change in the law.\n\nThe Abolition of the Defence of Reasonable Punishment Bill is likely to pass with the support of Labour and Plaid Cymru AMs.\n\nIt will come into force in 2022.\n\nIt follows a vote to outlaw smacking children in Scotland in October last year - but there are currently no plans to introduce a similar law in either England or Northern Ireland.\n\nTory opponents to the bill in Wales, who called it a \"snoopers' charter\", wanted to force the government to advise people on how to report concerns about the physical punishment of children.\n\nDeputy Social Services Minister Julie Morgan said the proposal \"doesn't make sense\" because the bill does not create any new offences.\n\nJulie Morgan said the bill did not create any new offences\n\nInstead, it would remove the defence of reasonable punishment in cases of common assault.\n\nBased on the impact of a smacking ban in New Zealand, the government estimates there will be about 38 cases of people breaking the law in the first five years.\n\nPlaid Cymru AM Helen Mary Jones said: \"I really do not believe that we are likely to see dozens and dozens of families facing prosecution who would not otherwise have done so.\"\n\nIs there anything you would like to know about the proposal?\n\nUse this form to send us your questions:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Hayden died when he was just six days old\n\nThe NHS in England faces paying out £4.3bn in legal fees to settle outstanding claims of clinical negligence, the BBC has learned through a Freedom of Information request.\n\nEach year the NHS receives more than 10,000 new claims for compensation.\n\nThis figure includes all current unsettled claims and projected estimates of ones in the future.\n\nThe Department of Health has pledged to tackle \"the unsustainable rise in the cost of clinical negligence\".\n\nEstimates published last year put the total cost of outstanding compensation claims at £83bn.\n\nThe Association of Personal Injuries Lawyers believes the cost is driven by failures in patient safety.\n\nDoctors represented by the Medical Defence Union, which supports doctors at risk of litigation, are calling for \"a fundamental\" reform of the current system.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHayden Nguyen was born in August 2016. Six days later he died in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. His heart failed after it was attacked by a virus.\n\nInitially Hayden's parents did not know what had happened to him. In the face of official silence and in a bid to get answers they took legal action against the hospital.\n\nAfter three years the trust admitted liability for a failure to adequately treat his condition. The Nguyens received a small amount of compensation and their legal fees were met by the trust.\n\nHis father Thong said: \"It was every parent's worst nightmare. We had to sit there and watch our son slowly die in front of our eyes.\n\n\"I haven't really thought about it as suing the NHS. I thought about it as fighting for a voice for Hayden, fighting for acknowledgement of his life, and his rights.\"\n\nHis mother Alex said: \"It has been four years so far of trauma after trauma.\"\n\nAll hospital trusts in England contribute to a central fund called the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts, administered by NHS Resolution, the body which oversees clinical negligence claims.\n\nThis scheme funds the vast majority of claims and legal fees.\n\nIn 2019/20 it is expected that hospitals will put £1.9bn of contributions into the scheme.\n\nSuzanne White, from the Association of Personal Injuries Lawyers, said people came to her on a daily basis with no intention of suing the NHS.\n\nBut she said they often found it difficult to get answers from the medical authorities - and were left with no other option but to sue.\n\n\"What they want to do is find out what went wrong, why they have received these injuries... and to make sure it doesn't happen to other patients.\"\n\nShe said that although only 10% of claims relate to obstetrics, they take up 50% of compensation. This is often because a child injured at birth will need a lifetime of care.\n\nThe Department of Health said there had been no decline in patient safety.\n\n\"Our ambition is for the NHS to be the safest healthcare system in the world,\" it said.\n\nHowever, the Medical Defence Union said reform of the system was needed, including a change in the way compensation is calculated, and the establishment of an independent body to assess claims.\n\nDr Christine Tomkins, its chief executive, said: \"This is money that should be going to healthcare, but instead is going to compensation claims - which is impairing all of our access to healthcare.\n\n\"We are now awarding compensation in sums of money higher than almost anywhere in the world. What we need is a fundamental change to the legal system.\"\n\nPeter Walsh, chief executive of Action Against Medical Accidents, said the government had taken a \"short-sighted and somewhat cynical approach\".\n\n\"The NHS is not investigating incidents properly, recognising when it has harmed patients and seeking to compensate them fairly and promptly.\"\n\nNHS Resolution, said it was trying to keep down costs, for instance by promoting mediation as one solution.\n\n\"Over 70% of the claims brought against the NHS are resolved without going to court,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIt also urged greater transparency by healthcare providers when things go wrong.\n\n\"It is of course vitally important that we learn from harm in order to improve patient safety.\"", "One of Britain's oldest department stores has collapsed into administration, putting more than 1,000 jobs at risk.\n\nBeales has appointed KPMG as administrators after failing to find a buyer or new investment for the business.\n\nThe department store began trading in Bournemouth in 1881 and has 23 shops.\n\nThere will be no immediate closures and Beales stores will continue to trade, although the website is offline.\n\nBeales had tried to secure rent reductions with landlords and was in negotiations with potential investors and buyers.\n\nBut KPMG said: \"Despite interest from a number of parties, this process did not secure any solvent solutions for the company, and as a result, the directors took the difficult decision to place the companies into administration.\"\n\nIn the year to March 2019, Beale Ltd reported a loss of £3.1m, up from £1.3m for the year earlier as costs swelled and sales dipped.\n\nKPMG's Will Wright, who is the joint administrator to Beales, said: \"With the impact of high rents and rates exacerbated by disappointing trading over the Christmas period, and extensive discussions around additional investment proving unsuccessful, there were no other available options but to place the company into administration.\n\n\"Over the coming weeks, we will endeavour to continue to operate all stores as a going concern while we assess options for the business, including dealing with prospective interested parties.\" He said added that during this period gift vouchers, customer deposits and customer returns/refunds will continue to be honoured.\n\nIndependent retail analyst Richard Hyman said it was \"no surprise\" that Beales had collapsed. \"It has been fighting for survival for quite some time, as have many other department stores,\" he said.\n\nMr Hyman said department stores were \"very expensive to run\" and faced \"overwhelming\" competition from other stores, particularly online rivals, predicting there would be \"far fewer of them\" in future.\n\n\"It is getting much, much harder to operate a department store profitably,\" he said. Beales' chief executive Tony Brown led a management buyout of the firm in 2018.\n\nBeales has stores in the following towns and cities:\n\nThe company's decision to appoint administrators comes at a difficult time for UK retailers.\n\nRecent data from the British Retail Consortium revealed that retail sales fell for the first time in a quarter of a century last year.\n\nJohn Lewis has warned that its staff bonus may be in doubt as it reported Christmas sales at its department stores were down 2% for stores open at least a year.\n\nSome companies are prospering, however.\n\nSports fashion retailer JD Sports says it expects to report full-year profits at the top end of forecasts. Next lifted its profit forecast after better than expected sales over Christmas trading period.", "Jess Phillips had not received any nominations from trade unions, affiliate bodies or local parties\n\nJess Phillips has dropped out of the Labour leadership contest, leaving four candidates in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIn a video message to supporters, the Birmingham Yardley MP said the next leader had to be able to unite the whole Labour movement.\n\nMs Phillips said she had to \"be honest\" with herself - \"that person is not me.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Lisa Nandy's campaign has received a major boost after she won the backing of the GMB union.\n\nThe organisation also backed Angela Rayner to be the next deputy.\n\nAnnouncing its decision to endorse Ms Nandy, the union's general secretary, Tim Roache, said she was \"a breath of fresh air in the debate over Labour's future\", and \"got the scale of the challenge\" facing the party after its fourth election defeat in a row.\n\nThe endorsement increases the chances of the MP for Wigan making it to the final stage of the contest - joining Sir Keir Starmer who has already qualified to get on the ballot.\n\nMs Nandy - who already has the support of the National Union of Mineworkers - said she could \"not be more proud\", and the next leader's challenge was to \"recover our ambition and inspire a movement\".\n\nThe other candidates still left in the leadership race are shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey - who has been tipped to get the backing of the Unite union later this week - and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey, Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Emily Thornberry are left in the contest\n\nMs Phillips missed the hustings organised by the GMB earlier on Tuesday, prompting speculation that her campaign was in trouble.\n\nShe had yet to receive any nominations from trade unions, affiliate bodies or local parties.\n\nConfirming her exit, the 38-year old said Labour needed a leader \"who can unite all parts of our movement, the union movement, members and elected representatives\".\n\n\"In order to win the country, we are going to have to find a candidate, in this race, who can do all of that, and then take that message out to the country. A message of hope and change, that things can be better.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long-Bailey: Labour has to be \"ruthlessly focused\"\n\nShe thanked all those who had pledged their support for her, particularly Jewish members of the party who she said she would continue to stand up for.\n\n\"I will always speak out and I promise that we will change the problems in our party that we have seen. I'm going to go out into the country and join the fight back.\"\n\nIn a recent interview with LBC, Ms Phillips said if she couldn't be leader, she would support one of the other female candidates in the race.\n\nSir Keir praised her \"real courage\" for standing, saying she would \"play a huge part in the future of our party\".\n\nHe added: \"It's a shame to lose Jess but we keep our focus on where we go next.\"\n\nMs Nandy and Ms Thornberry also praised her contribution.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lisa Nandy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is a very significant day in the Labour leadership contest - both for determining who is in and who is out.\n\nLisa Nandy is almost certainly going to be joining Sir Keir Starmer on the ballot.\n\nShe currently has no constituency nominations so could well have struggled without union support. But the GMB's general secretary, Tim Roache, told me his union had given her the \"springboard\" she needs.\n\nAnd while she may lack name recognition, she doesn't lack talent.\n\nInterestingly, too, the GMB endorsement came at a meeting in which every region of the UK was represented, and nearly twice as many delegates backed Ms Nandy as supported Sir Keir.\n\nJess Phillips has dropped out, but she says her encouragement for people to join Labour in order to change it has worked - tens of thousands of new members have come in, so she may yet have an influence on the result.\n\nHer supporters are highly unlikely to back the most left-wing candidate, Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nBut Mrs Long-Bailey herself is likely to be on the ballot too if she can secure the backing of the influential Unite union on Friday.\n\nWhen she entered the contest earlier this month, Ms Phillips called on those who wanted to change Labour's direction to join the party in their thousands.\n\nShe insisted she had the \"big personality\" to alter how Labour was seen by the public, but she criticised her own performance in the first members' hustings last weekend in Liverpool.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, one of Ms Phillips' supporters, said he was \"gutted\" by her withdrawal, but praised her \"raw honesty\" in accepting that she had not built the breadth of support required.\n\nHe suggested Sir Keir was the clear frontrunner, but there was a \"Jess-shaped hole\" in the contest waiting to be filled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nTo make it to the final stage, the candidates have to secure nominations from 5% of constituency Labour parties (CLPs), or three affiliate groups - two of which must be trade unions - representing at least 5% of affiliated members.\n\nSir Keir cleared this hurdle after being backed by Unison, the UK's largest union, and a second union, Usdaw, as well as environmental campaign group Sera.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs Long-Bailey has said she is in favour of Labour MPs having to compete with other candidates if they want to continue representing their party at the next general election.\n\nOutlining plans to \"democratise\" Labour, she said so-called open selection - whereby sitting MPs are not automatically re-adopted by their local branches but face challenges if they do not command enough support - would help nurture new talent.\n\n\"We need to rip up our outdated rule book that has held back our members for too long and throw open the door to a new generation of MPs and candidates,\" she is expected to say at a rally. \"Being an MP or elected representative is a privilege that must be earned.\"\n\nMr Corbyn's successor - and the successor to his deputy, Tom Watson - will be announced on 4 April.", "Wrongful death cases that were filed by Prince's family have been dismissed, almost four years after the star died.\n\nLegal claims had been filed against a doctor who prescribed Prince pain medication and a pharmacy that supplied him with medicine.\n\nDismissals usually occur after a settlement has been reached, but such agreements often remain confidential.\n\nThe 57-year-old died in 2016 after an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl at his home in Minneapolis.\n\nClaims that had been filed against the Walgreens pharmacy chain and Dr Michael Schulenberg, who treated Prince in the weeks before his death, have been dismissed.\n\nThe star's family had argued that failures in Dr Schulenberg's treatment played a \"substantial part\" in his death. Dr Schulenberg denied any wrongdoing.\n\nA claim against the Trinity Medical Center in Illinois, where he was treated for an opioid overdose the week before he died, has also been dismissed.\n\nA lawyer for Prince's estate, John Goetz, told the BBC he could not comment on what led to the cases being dismissed.\n\nOne final claim - for medical negligence - remains against Dr Howard Kornfeld, an opioid addiction specialist who was called by Prince's staff the day before he died. Dr Kornfeld sent his son to Minneapolis to discuss treatment options, but it was already too late.\n\nThat claim was dismissed by a judge in September, but the estate has appealed against the decision.\n\nAfter Prince's death, an investigation revealed the musician had experienced significant pain for a number of years, and hundreds of painkillers of various types were found at his house.\n\nEvidence showed Prince had thought he was taking the prescription drug Vicodin, when in fact he was taking a counterfeit Vicodin pill laced with potentially deadly fentanyl.\n\nProsecutors said there was no evidence that the pills had been prescribed by a doctor. No-one was criminally charged in relation to his death and the source of the counterfeit pills remains unknown.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jane said her rapists saw her \"as a thing\" and wants them brought to justice\n\nA woman who was gang raped as a teenager by a group of men claiming to be rugby players from Wales is still searching for justice 42 years later.\n\nJane was 17 when a number of \"drunk and brutal\" men forced themselves on her at a hotel in Plymouth.\n\nPolice, who said the attack had a significant impact on Jane's life, have launched an appeal to find two men they think could help identify her rapists.\n\nJane urged those men to come forward and \"do the right thing\".\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police released e-fit images of two men, who Jane - whose name has been changed to protect her identity - believed were friends with her rapists but did not rape her.\n\nThe police have launched an appeal to find the men who they think could identify the rapists\n\nShe said: \"I hope they recognise that they really do need to come forward.\n\n\"I felt at the time that they certainly didn't want what happened to me to have happened to me and I feel that they could right that wrong by coming forward and telling the police who the people were that they were with on that day and therefore who the men were that raped me.\n\n\"I am saying to them, 40 years ago your team-mates and your friends raped me, allegiances change over those years and therefore it would be the right thing to do to come forward now.\n\n\"You may have had daughters, you may have granddaughters, you know what happened to me and you know that you hold the key to identifying those people who raped me.\"\n\nJane said she was a \"normal\" teenager when she went out with a school friend one Saturday in late January or early February in 1978.\n\nThey went to what was then called Safari Club, but has since been known as the Notte Inn, where Jane met a man who was part of a larger group.\n\nHe asked her to go to his hotel room and Jane agreed, waiting while he spoke to a friend in the group before going with him to the now closed Strathmore Hotel on Elliot Street.\n\nShe said they had consensual sex and he began telling her about his life. She said he was a maths teacher and part of a touring south Wales rugby team.\n\nJane joked that at 17 she could be his pupil and recalled being surprised he did not find this funny. Then there was a knock at the door and the teacher got up to answer it.\n\nJane was raped by a number of rugby players in what was then the Strathmore Hotel in Plymouth\n\n\"Some men tried to force their way into the room,\" she said, adding the teacher tried to stop them but left after being overpowered by a number of men who entered the room.\n\nJane said the men were wearing only towels and lined up along a wall \"as if on a rugby pitch\". Terrified, she tried to reach for the hotel phone but was pinned down by three of the men.\n\n\"They were very strong and heavy and I could not breathe,\" she said.\n\n\"I gave in entirely to them. I knew that I needed to be compliant because they had already demonstrated to me that any attempt to resist was futile.\n\n\"They were drunk and brutal. I was raped in turn by about six or seven of the men while the other men cheered and encouraged them on.\"\n\nJane has urged the two men in the e-fit images, who did not rape her, to come forward\n\nJane said the men, who she describes as being white, clean shaven and in their early 20s, \"eventually\" left the bedroom and she left the hotel, meeting her friend who she had last seen in the pub on her way out.\n\n\"They saw me as a thing,\" she said of her rapists.\n\n\"They felt entitled to take that and that is what I would like to address; the imbalance of a 17-year-old eight stone girl facing rugby players.\"\n\nJane went with a school friend to the Safari Club one Saturday in 1978\n\nJane said the teacher and his friend - who had been in the room while she was raped but did not take part - then reappeared and took her and her friend to the Duke of Cornwall Hotel for a meal.\n\nIt is these two men, neither of whom raped Jane, who are the men depicted in the e-fit images.\n\nJane first reported her ordeal to Devon and Cornwall Police in 1993 but no suspects were found.\n\nIn 2014 she reported her rapes again and a new investigation was launched.\n\nDet Supt Jo Hall said the two men were \"key to identifying the individuals who carried out this horrendous attack as it is clear that the group of men are known to each other\".\n\nPolice said they were interested in speaking to all sports teams, not just rugby players, because the men may have lied about what they were doing in Plymouth.\n\nShe said: \"We must remember that these images are based on the men in 1978, over 40 years ago, so they would have changed considerably in that time and are likely to be in their 60s now.\"\n\nDet Supt Hall is appealing for anyone who knew the men to come forward and would also like to speak to anyone who was working or staying at the hotel at the time of the offences.\n\n\"These offences have had a significant impact upon the life of this woman and they remain with her to this day,\" she added.\n\nPolice said the attack at Strathmore Hotel had had a significant impact on Jane's life\n\nJane said she feared her rapists could have attacked other women, which was one of the reasons she felt compelled to tell her story.\n\n\"I am pretty sure that I am not alone. At the heart of this is a 17-year-old girl that was raped in 1978 and the rapists are still out there and I want to find them and I would like to ask the general public to help me find them.\"\n\nAnyone with information can contact police by calling the incident room on by calling the incident room on 0800 096 1233 or by visiting the dedicated appeal page.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Greta Thunberg has changed her name to Sharon on Twitter, in honour of a game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was.\n\nWhile appearing on BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, actor Amanda Henderson was asked to name the teenage climate activist.\n\nLooking stumped, Henderson shook her head and guessed: \"Sharon.\"\n\nA clip of her answer - and host John Humphrys' deadpan response - has been viewed more than five million times.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video soon made its way back to Ms Thunberg herself, and on Friday afternoon she changed her name on Twitter.\n\nMs Thunberg also changed her bio to reflect that she has turned 17 - as Friday was also her birthday.\n\nShe celebrated her birthday by going to the weekly Fridays for Future climate protest outside the Swedish parliament building in Stockholm.\n\nThe clip of Amanda Henderson calling Greta Thunberg \"Sharon\" has been viewed more than five million times\n\nMs Thunberg has been known to have fun with her Twitter profile.\n\nLast month, US President Donald Trump tweeted: \"Greta must work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill, Greta, Chill!\"\n\nIn response, Ms Thunberg edited her bio to say she was \"a teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nEarlier that week, she changed her bio to say she was a \"pirralha\" - the Portuguese word for brat - after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticised her for highlighting the plight of Brazil's indigenous people.\n\n\"Greta's been saying Indians have died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro had told reporters. \"It's amazing how much space the press gives this kind of pirralha.\"\n\nIn October she changed her bio to \"a kind but poorly informed teenager\" - which was exactly how Russian President Vladimir Putin had described her at a conference in Moscow.\n\nIn September President Trump posted a video of her speaking emotionally at the UN conference and sarcastically commented: \"She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.\"\n\nShe changed her bio accordingly: \"A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future\".", "The northernmost Orkney island, North Ronaldsay, is home to just 50 people and 2,000 sheep. Since the 19th Century, when islanders built a stone wall to confine the flock to the shoreline, it has survived on seaweed alone - and it now seems that this special diet could hold the key to greener, more climate-friendly livestock farming.\n\n\"It's a bit like doing a jigsaw,\" laughs Sian Tarrant as she heaves another large stone on to the wall. \"Only there are no straight edges and some of these pieces are really heavy.\"\n\nThe wind, which has been viciously squally all morning, punches at our faces and blasts the smaller slates on Sian's rock pile until they shudder and rattle like teeth.\n\n\"My contract is for three years,\" she tells me, securing her flying hair under her bobble hat. \"I really hope I can finish repairing the wall by then!\"\n\nTwenty-eight-year-old Sian is North Ronaldsay's great hope. Back in the summer, she successfully answered an advertisement to become the island's sheep warden, but shepherding is not her only responsibility - she must also repair the 21km dry stone dyke that circles the island just above the shoreline.\n\nIt's this wall that has stopped her flock from eating grass, and made it utterly unique.\n\n\"But I will admit,\" she says, wiping her eyes which the wind is relentlessly needling, \"until I started researching I had no idea how special the sheep were.\"\n\nDr Kevin Woodbridge, the island's retired GP and member of the Sheep Court - the management body that oversees the flock - has never been in any doubt of this. Short-tailed, small and coloured white, grey or chocolate brown, the sheep are descendants of the most primitive breeds of ruminants, Kevin says, and have been living on the island for thousands of years.\n\nAt the sound of our boots on the pebbles, the timorous flock wheels round and shoots off, leaping bits of rope and debris left by the tide. Kevin laughs and tells me, a little self-consciously, that he's sure the sheep are more intelligent than most and certainly more devious.\n\n\"I mean, just look at this wild habitat they live in,\" he says, nodding at the rocky beach and the sulky steel-grey sky with its bulging, herniating clouds. \"You have to be pretty adaptable to survive this.\"\n\nAnd the sheep certainly have adapted. Since 1832, when the islanders decided to build the 2m-high dyke to keep the sheep from pasture they needed for cows, the flock's diet has been restricted to seaweed foraged from the shore. They are one of only two groups of animals on Earth that exist purely on seaweed; the other is a marine iguana which lives in the Galapagos Islands.\n\n\"People think seaweed isn't very nutritious,\" smiles sheep farmer Alison Duncan, who also runs the Bird Observatory, as we drive round the little island in her electric car, checking up on the sheep. \"But we never have to feed the sheep and just have a look at them - they get pretty fat on it, especially in winter when there's lots of fresh seaweed washed up. And the lambs have a pretty good life - we don't send them for slaughter until they're three or four years old.\"\n\nWe park up and trudge over the fields towards the coastline, where the sheep are grazing, our heads low against the buffeting all-prevailing wind. We startle a chunky little woodcock that's sheltering in the long grass and it twitters its indignation shrilly.\n\n\"The sheep's peculiar diet gives their meat a fuller, more gamey flavour,\" shouts Alison over the gusts. \"And it's really sought after now, not only by local chefs in Orkney but also in big London hotels, and it's quite a delicacy.\"\n\nIn fact, North Ronaldsay mutton was served to the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee and is now in the process of acquiring Protected Geographical Indication status from the EU, like Wensleydale cheese and Jersey royal potatoes.\n\nBut lately the sheep have been enjoying even greater fame. Studies from the US, New Zealand and Australia have shown that livestock that have some seaweed in their diets belch far less methane than animals fed on grass or general feed. And since methane is a greenhouse gas that has a warming effect almost 30 times as powerful as that of carbon dioxide, the solely seaweed-eating North Ronaldsay sheep could provide an answer to greener farming.\n\nAt Shotts, outside Glasgow, David Beattie takes me to the see the giant bins being filled at the Davidson's Animal Feeds mill. David will be spending the next three years studying how protein-rich seaweed could be introduced into general livestock feed. Part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership which couples academia with industry, David is dividing his time between the factory floor at Davidson's and his laboratory at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee.\n\n\"You'd be amazed how picky animals are about their food,\" he explains, as we examine a new mix of sugary-smelling sheep pellets the mill has just produced. \"We have to put molasses into the mix to get the animals to eat it - otherwise they just pick out the bits they like and leave the rest. So, it's quite a task to introduce seaweed into the feed and to make sure it's still protein-rich and of top quality.\"\n\nIn a year, a cow produces about the same greenhouse effect as a car that burns 1,000 litres of petrol, so it's fairly evident how beneficial it would be to reduce livestock's carbon hoof-print simply by altering their diet. Experiments have shown that carbon dioxide as well as methane emissions are lowered when seaweed is introduced into feed. And if he succeeds in creating a nutritious seaweed blend that's palatable to ordinary livestock there would be other environmental benefits too, including being able to source more animal feed locally and sustainably.\n\n\"A large proportion of the ingredients we put into animal feeds in the UK at the moment are sourced from across the world, like oil seed from South America,\" says David, showing me the empty fleet of lorries waiting to take the giant sacks of pellets to farms across the UK. \"This clearly has negative implications for the environment both in terms of farming methods to harvest that crop but also in terms of transportation. If we could identify a seaweed variant that could substitute oil seed, it would have a huge environmental benefit.\"\n\nWhile the North Ronaldsay sheep have thrived over the centuries, the islanders have struggled.\n\nThe island used to host a profitable seaweed business, harvesting two varieties of kelp - one known as \"tangles\" - which were used in the production of iodine and other chemicals.\n\nBut last century it was discovered that it was cheaper to source the seaweed from South America. After that the island's population dwindled dramatically from 500 to just 50 today.\n\nDavid Beattie hopes that his research will help Scotland to re-establish commercial seaweed farming, creating jobs and revitalising coastal towns.\n\n\"Can you imagine the benefits if we could introduce seaweed into a supply chain as big as the livestock industry?\" he asks.\n\nHe reminds me that seaweed, since it is grown in the sea, needs neither fresh water nor fertiliser and that, potentially, fields currently used for growing crops to put into animal feed could be reclaimed to grow food for human consumption. And one of Scotland's other big industries, salmon farming, could also benefit, David adds. Growing seaweed close to the farms helps protect the fish from sea lice - a major problem for salmon farmers - while the nitrogen excreted by the fish helps the seaweed grow.\n\n\"So, I really do think we stand to learn a lot from the seaweed-eating North Ronaldsay sheep,\" he says.\n\nThe arrival on the island of Sian the sheep warden a few weeks ago was critically important partly because of the damage to the beautiful dry stone dyke caused by brutal storms and rip tides which battered the island's coastline in 2012 and 2014.\n\nUnder the rules of the Sheep Court, it's up to the islanders who own the flock to repair any damage to the wall, which is listed Category A by Historic Scotland. But with a dwindling and ageing resident population, that's no longer possible.\n\n\"That's where I come in,\" laughs Sian good-naturedly, waving her spade. \"The young blood! I'm the great hope to make sure the sheep are confined to the shore and the seaweed!\"\n\nWorryingly, there have been several reports recently of \"loopers\", escapee sheep who have spotted a gap or a partially tumbled-down bit of wall and leapt over it, straying on to the rich grasslands on the forbidden side. Although ewes with newborn lambs are deliberately brought briefly on to the grass in the summer - the males, which are sent for slaughter, are never permitted to venture on to pasture - the sheep's stomachs are no longer adapted to grass and they risk copper poisoning if they eat too much.\n\nJust then we spot a sly looper skulking close to the wall. It's on the unauthorised side, its eyes darting towards the prohibited patch of green near our car. Alison finds a torn oil skin the sea has dumped on the shingles and prepares to try to catch it.\n\n\"Then we really have to work out how it got in,\" she tells Sian, the novice sheep warden. \"We will have to block up that entry point because as soon as a sheep finds a gap, he will tell his friends and before you know it, they're all on the grass or in your garden!\" She laughs. \"You see, sheep are very curious animals and for them, the grass is always greener on the other side!\"\n\nWith amazing matador skill using the oil skin as a shield (Sian insists modestly that it's beginner's luck) the Houdini sheep is recaptured by the pair and after Alison examines his teeth (it turns out he doesn't have any, due to advanced age), together the women heave him on top of the dry stone wall where he teeters for a moment, as if weighing up his options, before he finally jumps back on to the beach side and gallops off on his spindly legs towards the waiting flock.\n\nWe walk away from the beach and towards the old lighthouse where the retired GP and sheep owner, Kevin Woodbridge, shows me around the island's mill. Here the sheep's wool with its beautiful muted colours is spun into beanies, fleecy jumpers and soft yarn. The mill currently employs three people but is set to expand into new premises due to increasing demand for genuine North Ronaldsay garments.\n\nKevin Woodbridge (left) and a member of staff at the mill\n\n\"I've always thought of our sheep as an organic product,\" Kevin says thoughtfully, when I ask him how he feels about the discovery that the island's sheep could help us reduce greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. We look out over the beach where a small group of sheep are enthusiastically grazing on a fresh crop of moist seaweed the bigger waves have just delivered.\n\n\"We know we need to reduce our red meat consumption and if we can reduce the impact of red meat production as well, then that's really good news for the sheep.\"\n\nAlison and I sit in the warm breakfast room at the Bird Observatory watching a pair of hen harriers intently searching the fields for food.\n\n\"We would be really proud if scientists could learn from how our sheep are digesting seaweed and producing less methane,\" Alison tells me, putting down her binoculars. \"That could help all farmers reduce their carbon footprint and could give us a good bit of publicity for selling the sheep elsewhere.\"\n\nIt's getting dark now and having temporarily patched up the section of wall over which the looper made his bid for freedom, sheep warden Sian Tarrant decides to call it a day and cycle home.\n\nOpposite her house the little school stands quiet and empty. No children have been raised here for many years.\n\nI comment that I've heard that some islanders are pinning their hopes on her to change that.\n\n\"Yes, that has been mentioned to me!\" she agrees, laughing. \"But maybe let's sort the sheep problem first!\"\n\nAgainst the brooding, dark skyline, a cluster of sheep huddle together on a crop of rock as the wind continues to hurl along the length of the coastline. They scour the heaving waves patiently, waiting for the bigger ones to deliver their next seaweed dinner, which they will digest in their longstanding, idiosyncratic methane-modified way.\n\nFar away on the mainland, scientist David Beattie is experimenting with the nutritional make up of seaweed variants, and writing up notes for the speeches he will deliver at forthcoming European conferences on greener farming.\n\nAs they graze in the moonlight, the North Ronaldsay sheep silently belch their satisfaction. Ruminant recognition doesn't get much better than this.\n\nPhotographs by Fionn McArthur, Start Point Media, unless otherwise specified\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nOrkney has been invaded by geese. The numbers are now so huge, and the damage so great, that permission has been granted for the wild birds to be shot - and eaten, reports the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Winds carried smoke from the fires as far away as New Zealand across the Tasman Sea\n\nSmoke from huge bushfires in Australia is drifting as far as New Zealand, 2,000km (1,200 miles) away, leading to haze and a burnt smell in the air.\n\nAustralia is grappling with a bushfire crisis fuelled by record-breaking temperatures and months of drought.\n\nThe smoke first reached New Zealand's South Island on 31 December, turning skies a murky yellow.\n\nSince then, the south's famous glaciers have vanished in haze and even North Island has seen its skies turn \"eerie\".\n\nAt least 18 people are confirmed to have been killed by the bushfires, which have burned vast areas of several Australian states.\n\nSeveral people are still missing and conditions are expected to worsen over the coming weekend.\n\nThe view of Mount Cook over the past days vs on a clear day\n\n\"I have never seen anything like the haze over the past 48 hours,\" Arthur McBride of glacier tour company Alpine Guides told the BBC.\n\nTourist flights up to Tasman, Franz Josef and Fox glaciers are a popular way to experience New Zealand's stunning mountain scenery.\n\nBut in recent days visitors have endured a thick yellow haze, instead of the white snow and bright blue skies expected.\n\n\"Wednesday afternoon was particularly bad,\" Mr McBride says, \"and the smell of woodsmoke is still distinct.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It's been hazy for the past 36 hours, it's been a smoky haze,\" explains Dan Burt of Mount Cook Skiplanes and Helicopters.\n\n\"In fact, we've seen some discolouration on the glacier since a few weeks ago - so that was actually already before the haze of the past days.\"\n\nThere's a layer of brown dust on the usually pristine glacier\n\nHis company runs tour and flights to several glaciers in the region, including the main Tasman glacier.\n\nOver the past days, a few trips had to be cancelled, he said.\n\n\"It still would have been save to fly, but it just wouldn't have been a great experience to be up there.\"\n\nAn Australian woman visiting Franz Josef photographed how dust from the bushfires had \"caramelised\" the mountain snow, turning it brown.\n\nThe tourist, who calls herself Rey, posted pictures on social media on New Year's Eve, saying the snow had been white on the previous day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBy Thursday, the haze and burnt smell had also reached the North Island.\n\n\"The air doesn't smell in Auckland, but the sunrise and morning light was eerie,\" Auckland resident Ena Hutchinson told the BBC.\n\n\"There was a strange, golden glow on the sea, the sky was cloudy, and when the sun broke through it was orange.\"\n\nShe said that while there'd been some haze 10 years ago during earlier Australia fires, things had never been this bad.\n\n\"It's certainly not something that's happened like this before - virtually blanketing the South Island and now heading northwards today.\"", "Dominic Fell, Rachel Clark and Joseph Finnis died on New Year's Eve\n\nTributes have been paid to three British Airways (BA) cabin crew who were killed in a crash near Heathrow Airport on New Year's Eve.\n\nDominic Fell, 23, Joseph Finnis, 25, and Rachel Clark, 20, died after their car collided with a lorry on Bedfont Road in Stanwell at about 23:40 GMT.\n\nFriends and colleagues paid tribute to the three \"beautiful young angels\" on an online fundraising page.\n\nA 25-year-old woman who was also in the car remains in a serious condition.\n\nMore than £55,000 has been raised on the Go Fund Me site which was launched by cabin crew member Stephen Crook and named the \"BA Angels\".\n\nWriting on the site, Malgorzata Kubik posted: \"Joe was my coach and he always made sure we were OK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Lauren Rowlands wrote: \"RIP to my friend Dom and angels Joe and Rachel. The sky is eternal now guys.\"\n\nLaura Stewart said: \"Dom and Joe were truly special men and I hope that their families take some comfort in knowing that they were so loved by everyone they have flown with! I'll miss you.\"\n\nThe Mercedes HGV left the road after colliding with the white Toyota Yaris\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for BA said: \"We're deeply saddened to learn of the death of our colleagues involved in a road traffic collision on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with their family and friends, who we are supporting at this distressing time.\"\n\nIt is understood two of the cabin crew had finished work at about 18:00, while the other two were on a day off and not scheduled to be on duty.\n\nCh Insp Mike Hodder, from Surrey Police, said: \"The families and friends of those involved are still coming to terms with what happened.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts continue to be with them today,\" he added.\n\nThe driver of the Mercedes HGV was not injured and no arrests have been made.\n\nNo arrests have been made over the crash\n• None Three BA cabin crew killed in New Year's Eve crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet explains the significance of the attack\n\nThe killing of Gen Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, represents a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran and one whose consequences could be considerable.\n\nRetaliation is to be expected. A chain of action and reprisal could ensue bringing the two countries closer to a direct confrontation. Washington's future in Iraq could well be called into question. And President Trump's strategy for the region - if there is one - will be tested like never before.\n\nPhilip Gordon, who was White House co-ordinator for the Middle East and the Persian Gulf in the Obama administration, described the killing as little short of a \"declaration of war\" by the Americans against Iran.\n\nThe Quds Force is the branch of Iran's security forces responsible for operations abroad. For years, whether it be in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria or elsewhere, Soleimani has been a key instigator in expanding and extending Iran's influence through planning attacks or bolstering Tehran's local allies.\n\nFor Washington, he was a man with US blood on his hands. But he was popular in Iran itself. And in practical terms, he led Tehran's fightback against the broad campaign of pressure and US-imposed sanctions.\n\nWhat is most surprising is not that Soleimani was in President Trump's sights but quite why the US should strike him now.\n\nA series of low-level rocket attacks against US bases in Iraq were blamed on Tehran. One US civilian contractor was killed. But earlier Iranian operations - against tankers in the Gulf; the shooting down of a US unmanned aerial vehicle; even the major attack against a Saudi oil facility - all went without a direct US response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs for the rocket attacks against the US bases in Iraq, the Pentagon has already hit back against the pro-Iranian militia believed to be behind them. That prompted a potential assault on the US embassy compound in Baghdad.\n\nIn explaining the decision to kill Soleimani, the Pentagon focused not just on his past actions, but also insisted that the strike was meant as a deterrent. The general, the Pentagon statement reads, was \"actively developing plans to attack US diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\nQuite what happens next is the big question. President Trump will hope that in one dramatic action he has both cowed Iran and proven to his increasingly uneasy allies in the region like Israel and Saudi Arabia that US deterrence still has teeth. However it is almost unthinkable that there will not be a robust Iranian response, even if it is not immediate.\n\nCould Iran target US soldiers stationed in Iraq in response?\n\nThe 5,000 US troops in Iraq are an obvious potential target. So too are the sorts of targets hit by Iran or its proxies in the past. Tensions will be higher in the Gulf. No wonder the initial impact was to see a surge in oil prices.\n\nThe US and its allies will be looking to their defences. Washington has already despatched a small number of reinforcements to its embassy in Baghdad. It will have plans to increase its military footprint in the region quickly if needed.\n\nBut it is equally possible that Iran's response will be in some sense asymmetric - in other words not just a strike for a strike. It may seek to play on the widespread support it has in the region - through the very proxies that Soleimani built up and funded.\n\nIt could for example renew the siege on the US embassy in Baghdad, putting the Iraqi government in a difficult position, and call into question the US deployment there. It could prompt demonstrations elsewhere as cover for other attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could Iran instigate more attacks on the US embassy in Baghdad such as this one earlier this week?\n\nThe strike against the Quds force commander was a clear demonstration of US military intelligence and capabilities. Many in the region will not mourn his passing. But was this the wisest thing for President Trump to do?\n\nHow well is the Pentagon prepared for the inevitable aftermath? And just what does this strike tell us about Mr Trump's overall strategy in the region? Has this changed in any way? Is there a new zero-tolerance towards Iranian operations?\n\nOr was this just the president taking out an Iranian commander he would no doubt regard as \"a very bad man\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The death of Iran's top general could make things worse for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, husband fears.\n\nThe husband of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran has said he is worried about what the death of the country's top general could mean for her case.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker from London, has been detained for more than three years over spying allegations she denies.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said escalated tensions after the killing of Qasem Soleimani could make matters worse for his wife.\n\nHe plans to meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss her case.\n\n\"There's probably a concern, on a selfish level, as to what does this mean for Nazanin's case,\" he said.\n\n\"There's always a worry that things could get worse.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe, whose in-laws live in Iran, said he is concerned about the implications for the region as a whole.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's parole was refused shortly before Christmas, he said, noting that she was \"low\" when he spoke to her on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.\n\n\"We're obviously not hopeful at the moment... We were feeling like there's been no good news for a while, and I was getting ready to push the prime minister and the government to do more and to be a lot more assertive,\" he said.\n\n\"In some ways that still feels the right thing to do - but absolutely the wrong time.\"\n\nThe couple's British-born daughter Gabriella, who had been living with her grandparents in Tehran, returned to the UK in October.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a three-day release from prison in August 2018\n\nMr Ratcliffe's concern comes amid a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran.\n\nIran's supreme leader has vowed \"severe revenge\" on those responsible for the death of Soleimani, who was killed by an air strike at Baghdad airport early on Friday ordered by US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe 62-year-old spearheaded Iran Middle East operations as head of the elite Quds Force. Mr Trump said Soleimani killed or wounded thousands of Americans.\n\nUS officials have said 3,000 additional troops will be sent to the Middle East as a precaution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nMr Ratcliffe said it is \"time to find a way to improve relations\" between the West and Iran and to bring his wife home.\n\nHe said he received a letter from Mr Johnson shortly after the general election last month asking for a meeting, but that a date was not specified.\n\nWhile he was foreign secretary, Mr Johnson mistakenly said that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran training journalists.\n\n\"We've been quite clear in public that I feel he owes us and that he needs to do what he can to bring Nazanin home and to bring [home] the others held over similar reasons,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nHe added: \"As we're on the precipice of very dark times, it can only help that positive gestures are made.\"", "Travelex has been forced to take down its website after a cyber attack.\n\nThe foreign-currency seller has been working on the issue since the software virus attack on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"We regret having to suspend some of our services in order to contain the virus and protect data,\" Travelex boss Tony D'Souza said.\n\nThe company has resorted to carrying out transactions manually, providing foreign-exchange services over the counter in its branches.\n\n\"We apologise to all our customers for any inconvenience caused as a result,\" Mr D'Souza said in a statement.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to restore our full services as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe company said an early investigation \"shows no indication that any personal or customer data has been compromised\".\n\nTravelex said it had deployed \"teams of IT specialists and external cyber-security experts\", who have been \"working continuously since New Year's Eve to isolate the virus and restore affected systems\".\n\nThe firm will continue to provide foreign-exchange services manually at its branches until the problem is fixed.\n\nThe decision to take the site down has affected other services that use Travelex, including Tesco Bank.\n\nResponding to customers on Twitter, the bank said its travel money service was unavailable.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Tesco Bank Help", "The rain has caused huge amounts of damage\n\nIndonesian authorities are turning to the technique of cloud seeding to try to stop more rain falling in the flood-hit capital Jakarta.\n\nPlanes have been sent to inject chemicals into clouds in an effort to alter precipitation.\n\nJakarta and surrounding districts have struggled to cope since a storm on New Year's Eve left large areas underwater.\n\nAt least 43 people are known to have died, with some 192,000 evacuated. More rain is expected.\n\nAccording to Reuters news agency, two planes have been sent up to shoot salt flares into the clouds, with the aim of making them break before they reach the Jakarta region.\n\n\"All clouds moving towards the Greater Jakarta area, which are estimated to lead to precipitation there, will be shot with NaCl (sodium chloride) material,\" Indonesia's technology agency BPPT explained in a statement.\n\nThe Indonesian disaster management agency said it was using inflatable boats to rescue stranded families. A dozen people remain missing.\n\nBy Friday morning, the clean-up operation was under way. On Thursday, authorities had used hundreds of pumps to try to lower water levels in residential areas and around public infrastructure, like the railways.\n\nBut even in areas where the water has receded, mud and debris are preventing many residents from returning home.\n\nFloods are common in the city around this time of year, and are among the reasons President Joko Widodo plans to move the capital to East Borneo in the next few years.\n\nMr Widodo blamed the severity of current disaster on delays in flood control infrastructure projects.\n\nIt is the worst flooding in the area since 2013.\n\nJakarta, home to millions of people, is one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. Experts say it could be entirely submerged by 2050.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Travel money services for several UK banks are still being affected after foreign currency seller Travelex took its site offline to deal with a cyber attack.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Travelex said it had taken down its site to contain \"the virus and protect data\".\n\nThat has affected Sainsbury's Bank, Barclays and HSBC, among others, which all use the Travelex platform.\n\nThere is no indication when the Travelex website will be restored.\n\nThe company said it has been working on the issue since the software virus attack on New Year's Eve.\n\nA number of banks depend on the Travelex platform to provide online travel money services.\n\nThe company delivers the foreign currency to stores for customers to collect, as well as operating the software that is used to buy the travel money.\n\nBut Travelex's decision to take down its site has meant the firms that use its services cannot sell currency online.\n\nVirgin Money's site showed an error message, which said: \"Our online, foreign currency purchasing service is temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance. The system will be back online shortly.\"\n\nSainsbury's Bank also said its online travel money services were unavailable, although it said customers could still buy travel money in its stores. In a statement to the BBC, the bank said: \"We're in close contact with Travelex so that we can resume our online service as soon as possible.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesperson for First Direct, which is owned by HSBC, said: \"Unfortunately, our online travel money service is currently unavailable due to a service issue with third party service provider, Travelex.\"\n\nIn a statement on Thusday, Travelex boss Tony D'Souza said: \"We regret having to suspend some of our services in order to contain the virus and protect data.\"\n\nThe company has resorted to carrying out transactions manually, providing foreign-exchange services over the counter in its branches.\n\n\"We apologise to all our customers for any inconvenience caused as a result,\" Mr D'Souza said in a statement.\n\nHSBC told the BBC that some of its branches also stock dollars and euros, which it is still able to sell.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I knew it was something serious... a death cry\": Josias Fletchman gave CPR at the poolside\n\nA man who performed CPR when a British family drowned in a pool at a resort on the Costa del Sol has said more could have been done to prevent their deaths.\n\nGabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel, 16, drowned at the Club La Costa World resort on Christmas Eve.\n\nJosias Fletchman comforted the children's mother when medics called off attempts to revive her family.\n\nSpanish police say the deaths were a tragic accident.\n\nA senior leader of the church where Mr Diya was a pastor in south-east London said he died trying to save his children, adding: \"That was the kind of man he was.\"\n\nPastor Agu Irukwu, of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, also said that Mr Diya's wife Olubunmi was a \"special\" woman who was coping with the tragedy \"remarkably well\".\n\nGabriel Diya, a pastor in south-east London, died with his daughter Comfort\n\nIt comes as Mr Fletchman, 35, a British tourist from Manchester who was on a family holiday at the time of the deaths, said safety measures such as a lifeguard by the pool could have helped prevent them.\n\nHe said he first knew something was wrong when a Spanish woman ran into the hotel reception making a \"death cry\".\n\nThe youth support worker was one of the first people at the scene and gave CPR to Praise-Emmanuel at the poolside.\n\nMr Fletchman, who has three children, said the ordeal was \"traumatising\".\n\nAfter medics called off attempts to revive the three family members, Mr Fletchman said he held Mrs Diya's hand and prayed with her.\n\nHer lawyers have questioned the thoroughness of the police investigation - and the recommendation to close the case after one week.\n\nMr Fletchman said he was surprised police had not spoken to him.\n\n\"If it was my situation, my family members, I'd want [police] to speak to everybody. I'd want an investigation... well and truly they should be investigating,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said there were \"things that could have been put in place\" to prevent what happened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Church leader Agu Irukwu remembers Gabriel Diya, who was a pastor in south-east London\n\nMr Fletchman said a staff member \"had to run to the reception\" to alert someone and should have had a walkie talkie or another way of raising the alarm.\n\nHe called this an example of \"silly mistakes\".\n\n\"I'm not going to sit here and blame anybody, but... if it was my family that it happened to... I'd be raising alarm bells,\" he said.\n\nMr Fletchman said he felt there should have been a lifeguard on duty and that signs indicating the depth of the pool could have been clearer.\n\nHe added that, had there been constant supervision, Mr Diya \"wouldn't have had to jump in\" and called it \"a simple thing of paying somebody a standard minimum wage\".\n\n\"It's better to do that and save three lives than not do that,\" he said.\n\nThe sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\n\"He died trying to save his children and that really says it all. That was the kind of man he was. He loved his wife, loved his children passionately, loved God dearly,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking about Mrs Diya, he said: \"I've never seen anyone deal with the loss of a loved one with the grace and the dignity with which I saw [Olubunmi] deal with it.\"\n\nSpanish authorities described the deaths as a freak accident caused by a \"lack of expertise\" in swimming - adding that there was no accountability on the part of the hotel.\n\nMrs Diya has previously said that all three family members could swim and she believes there was a fault with the pool.\n\nInvestigators said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool.\n\nThe hotel operator, Club La Costa World, has said Mrs Diya's claims were \"directly at odds with the findings of the police report\" and \"their exhaustive investigations have confirmed the pool was working normally and there was no malfunction of any kind\".", "Soleimani - seen here in Iraq in 2015 - directed militia in Iraq who attacked US troops and later fought the Islamic State group\n\nNext to Iran's Supreme Leader, Qasem Soleimani was arguably the most powerful figure in the Islamic republic.\n\nAs head of its military abroad known as the Quds Force, Soleimani was the mastermind behind the country's activities across in the Middle East, and its real foreign minister when it came to matters of war and peace.\n\nHe was widely considered an architect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against rebels in Syria, the rise of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State group, and many battles beyond.\n\nCharismatic and often elusive, the silver-haired commander was revered by some, loathed by others, and a source of myths and social media memes.\n\nHe had emerged in recent years from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations to achieve fame and popularity in Iran, becoming the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.\n\nAs far back as 2013, former CIA officer John Maguire told The New Yorker that Soleimani was \"the single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".\n\nWhen his end came, it was violent and sudden. On 3 January the Pentagon announced that it had carried out a successful operation to kill him, at the direction of US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe assassination followed a sharp escalation between the US, Iran and Iran-backed groups in Iraq following the death of a US military contractor in a missile attack on a US base in Iraq - for which the US held Iran responsible.\n\nThe US responded with an air strike on the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah. Militia supporters then attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran had been rising since the US pulled out of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to curb Iran's nuclear programme and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. The US has also reimposed sanctions on Iran, sending its economy into freefall.\n\nSoleimani is believed to have come from a poor background and to have had very little formal education. But he had risen through the Revolutionary Guards - Iran's elite and most powerful force - and was reportedly close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.\n\nAfter becoming commander of the Quds Force in 1998, Soleimani attempted to extend Iran's influence in the Middle East by carrying out covert operations, providing arms to allies and developing networks of militias loyal to Iran.\n\nOver the course of his career he is believed to have aided Shia Muslim and Kurdish groups in Iraq fighting against former dictator Saddam Hussein as well as other groups in the region including the Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamist organisation Hamas in the Palestinian territories.\n\nAfter the US invaded Iraq in 2003 he began directing militant groups to carry out attacks against US troops and bases, killing hundreds.\n\nHe is also widely credited with finding a strategy for Bashar al-Assad to respond to the armed uprising against him that began in 2011. Iranian assistance along with Russian air support helped turn the tide against rebel forces and in the Syrian government's favour, allowing it to recapture key cities and towns.\n\nSoleimani himself was sometimes pictured at funerals of Iranians killed in Syria and Iraq, where Iran had deployed thousands of combatants and military advisers.\n\nHe also travelled frequently across the region, regularly shuttling between Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where Iranian influence has steadily grown. When he was killed he was travelling in a two-car convoy away from Baghdad airport with others including Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed.\n\nSoleimani was killed in an air strike near Baghdad's airport\n\nIn April 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Quds Force as foreign terrorist organisations.\n\nThe Trump administration has said the Quds Force provided funding, training, weapons and equipment to US-designated terrorist groups in the Middle East - including Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group based in Gaza.\n\nIn a statement, the Pentagon said Soleimani had been \"actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\n\"General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,\" it added.", "The apprenticeship levy was intended to fund high-quality training\n\nHalf of apprenticeship courses in England have been accused of being \"fake\" by an education think tank.\n\nThe EDSK report says the apprenticeship levy - paid by big employers - is being used on low-skilled jobs or relabelling existing posts, rather than training.\n\nTom Richmond, the think tank's director, said the apprenticeship scheme was \"descending into farce\".\n\nBut a Department for Education spokeswoman defended apprenticeships as becoming \"better quality\".\n\nThe apprenticeship levy is paid by large employers, who contribute 0.5% of their salary bill into the training fund.\n\nBut since 2017, the report claims £1.2bn from the levy has been spent on jobs \"offering minimal training and low wages\" or on \"rebadging\" jobs already offered by employers as apprenticeships.\n\nIn its first full year of operation, the levy raised £2.7bn and this is expected to rise to £3.4bn by 2023-24.\n\nApprenticeship spending is too often used on \"existing adult workers instead of supporting young people into the workplace\", the report warns.\n\nThe education think tank says there is an insufficiently clear definition of what an apprenticeship should offer, so much so that the \"brand itself has arguably become a meaningless concept\".\n\nIt describes 50% of apprenticeship courses since 2017 as \"fake\", saying they do not \"relate to helping young people get started in a skilled job or occupation\".\n\nMinisters say that the quality of apprenticeships is improving\n\nThe think tank's analysis says that £235m of the levy has been used to support \"low-skill\" roles, such as bar staff, shop checkout workers and those in \"basic office administration\".\n\nA further £551m has been used by firms for management training, with the report claiming this was often used for experienced staff rather than new recruits and could include the \"rebadging\" of existing schemes.\n\nThe most common apprenticeship is becoming a supervisor or team leader, representing about a tenth of all apprenticeships.\n\nThe report also criticises £448m spent on apprenticeships aimed at degree and postgraduate level.\n\nThis includes some academics with PhDs being labelled as apprentices in university training schemes in research and teaching.\n\nBar staff and supermarket check-out workers can be apprentices, says research\n\nIt also includes support for degree apprenticeships, which are offered as a vocational alternative to academic degrees.\n\nThe report's claims were strongly rejected by Mark Dawe, chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers.\n\nHe said there was a need for a wide range of apprenticeships, including those at a lower level - and he accused the report of using \"caricatures\" which had \"no resemblance to the reality of what is actually being learnt\".\n\nA National Audit Office report into apprenticeships last year warned: \"There are risks that the programme is subsidising training that would have happened without government funding.\"\n\nThe former education secretary Damian Hinds last year told the education select committee that apprenticeships were improving in quality.\n\nBut he had told MPs that \"in the not too distant past\" there had been people who did not even realise they were on an apprenticeship scheme.\n\nThe new think tank report says apprenticeships need to be more carefully defined and targeted if they are to \"improve technical education for young people\".\n\n\"If the government wants apprenticeships to be taken seriously by young people, parents and teachers, they must protect this historic brand by scrapping all the 'fake apprenticeships' and benchmarking our training programmes against the best in the world,\" said Mr Richmond.\n\n\"Not only will this save hundreds of millions each year, it will provide more opportunities for young people to train as genuine apprentices, especially those living in the most deprived areas.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, which oversees the development of apprenticeship standards, said: \"We work closely with thousands of employers to make high-quality apprenticeships available across the whole economy.\n\n\"This has led to a broader variety of apprenticeships up to degree level being made available, which reflects the nation's skills training needs,\" said the spokesman for the institute, which is funded through the Department for Education.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman defended the value of apprenticeships and said they had to meet \"high-quality requirements\".\n\nShe said they lasted \"for a minimum of 12 months with at least 20% off-the-job training\" and could not be called an apprenticeship unless it complied with such regulations.", "Deadly bushfires are ravaging the Australian landscape, so far destroying 1,200 homes across New South Wales and Victoria.\n\nA kangaroo rushes past a burning house in Conjola on New Year's Eve\n\nThis week the fires have razed at least 381 homes in New South Wales and 43 in Victoria, with at least 17 people missing.\n\nThe leader of NSW has declared a week-long state of emergency, starting this Friday.\n\nHere are pictures from the past few days.\n\nA firefighter hoses down trees and flying embers in an effort to save houses near the town of Nowra in New South Wales\n\nFires rage near Bairnsdale in the East Gippsland region, Victoria\n\nBurning embers cover the ground as firefighters battle against bushfires around Nowra\n\nThe declared state of emergency will allow local authorities to carry out forced evacuations, road closures \"and anything else we need to do as a state to keep our residents and to keep property safe\", NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Thursday.\n\nBushfires burn between the townships of Bemm River and Cann River in East Gippsland, Victoria\n\nPeople from the town of Cann River are evacuated to Orbost in East Gippsland\n\nHigh temperatures and strong winds are forecast for the weekend, leading to \"widespread extreme fire danger\".\n\nFire officials have told holidaymakers to urgently leave a 260km (160-mile) stretch of the NSW coast before Saturday.\n\nA firefighter sprays foam retardant in the New South Wales town of Jerrawangala\n\nA satellite image of Batemans Bay on New Year's Eve\n\nDebris is seen around a swimming pool next to the remains of a house destroyed by bushfires near Batemans Bay\n\nA family sit at a showground in the southern New South Wales town of Bega where they are camping after being evacuated from nearby sites\n\nIn December, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison cut short his holiday to Hawaii amid growing criticism of his leadership during the bushfire crisis.\n\nThis week he had to cut short another visit - to a fire-hit town when he was heckled by angry residents.\n\nAn aerial view of property damaged by the East Gippsland fires in Sarsfield (above and below)\n\nTracy Burgess, a volunteer with Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Services (WIRES), holds a severely burnt brushtail possum rescued from fires near Australia's Blue Mountains\n\nMogo Zoo (above), managed to save all its animals, with monkeys, pandas and even a tiger housed at one keeper's home.\n\nThe Australian government has been facing criticism over its climate policies as the country deals with the devastating bushfires.\n\nAustralia is one of the world's biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters.\n\nDamaged property seen in Mallacoota in East Gippsland\n\nThe remains of burnt out buildings seen along a street in Cobargo, New South Wales\n\nA horse tries to move away from nearby bushfires at a residential property near the town of Nowra\n\nA photo from the state government in Victoria shows a helicopter fighting a bushfire near Bairnsdale in East Gippsland\n\nFirefighters hose down trees around the town of Nowra\n\nSmoke and flames rise from burning trees around Nowra\n\n\"Carmelised\" snow caused by dust from Australian bushfires is seen near Franz Josef Glacier in the Westland Tai Poutini National Park, New Zealand", "High Street retailer Next has increased its profit forecast after enjoying better than expected sales over the Christmas trading period.\n\nThe company's full-price sales rose by 5.2% from 27 October to 28 December, 1.1% ahead of its own expectations.\n\nIt said that colder weather this November might have helped its sales performance.\n\nThe firm now expects an annual profit of £727m, up by £2m - and an increase of 0.6% on the last year.\n\nNext expects sales to grow 3.9% over the current financial year.\n\nNext is the first of the big UK retailers to report on how trading went over Christmas, which is a crucial trading period for the sector.\n\nThe retailer's good performance was boosted by an increase in online sales, which rose by 15.3% over the three-month period.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said: \"This was an impressive end to the year as their outstanding online business continues to set them apart from the competition.\n\n\"The retailer is benefiting from years of investment in their digital proposition, continually evolving their business model to meet shoppers' heightened expectations.\"\n\nHowever, while Next's online sales were strong, the continued shift away from the High Street was reflected by the fact that in-store sales saw a decrease of 3.9%.\n\nAccording to recent data by retail analyst Springboard, overall footfall in November on UK High Streets fell by 4.3%.\n\nIt suggested shoppers might have been put off by heavy rainfall in the run-up to the festive season.\n\nRetailers including John Lewis, and Marks and Spencer will release their Christmas trading updates next week, as well as the big supermarkets - Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury's.\n\nEarlier this week, Next announced that its former chief executive Sir David Jones had died, aged 76.\n\nHe led the company for nearly 30 years, and was widely credited with saving the retail giant from collapse in the 1980s.", "Wigan MP Lisa Nandy has announced she is joining the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn a letter to the Wigan Post, she said she wanted to \"bring Labour home\" to voters that have abandoned the party in its traditional strongholds.\n\nHer announcement came on the same day Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips announced she was joining the race.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis are also both standing.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey are among those also expected to stand.\n\nA timetable for the leadership election - and any rule changes - is set to be decided by the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) on Monday.\n\nThe contest was called because Mr Corbyn is standing down as leader following the party's heavy election defeat.\n\nMs Nandy said the \"political earthquake\" seen after the general election result had highlighted the need for a different approach within the party.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"People have been telling us for some time that we can't just keeping changing the man at the top, and determining the priorities and the solutions to the problems that they face from behind a desk in Victoria Street, Westminster or Whitehall.\"\n\nShe said she had a \"duty\" to provide a \"different sort of leadership\" for voters who wanted an end to political parties' \"paternalistic approach\" and to take back \"control\" over their own lives.\n\nShe added: \"I have the duty to stand up for those people and see if Labour can become a national force again, rooted in our communities and capable of speaking with and for those people.\"\n\nShe said the next Labour leader would also have to put a stop to the \"factions\" and \"in-fighting\" within the party to \"earn back\" the trust of voters.\n\n\"[They] will [have to] show people that we've changed, that we're kind and compassionate towards one another...that we have zero tolerance on issues like anti-Semitism and when we say that we believe in a more equal, compassionate society that we are walking the walk within our own party, not just talking the talk.\"\n\nLisa Nandy chose an unconventional way to launch her campaign - an open letter to constituents in her local paper.\n\nIn a challenge to London-based candidates such as Emily Thornberry and Keir Starmer, who will declare his candidacy soon, Ms Nandy argued that the next Labour leader should come from a community like hers.\n\nShe said she agreed with the perception that many political leaders were \"unable or unwilling\" to understand places such as Wigan - and that her party must elect, in her words, someone who has \"skin in the game\".\n\nShe also pledged not to indulge in faction-fighting. In her pitch to succeed Mr Corbyn, she said the response to anti-Semitism had been \"woeful\".\n\nShe promised to challenge Boris Johnson with \"passion and precision\" and argued that the best way for Labour to win back lost voters was by being \"brave and bold\" rather than \"trying to look all ways\".\n\nMs Nandy has represented the safe Labour constituency of Wigan since entering Parliament after the 2010 general election.\n\nShe served as shadow energy secretary during the first year of Mr Corbyn's leadership, but was among a clutch of shadow ministers to quit their posts in 2016 following the Brexit referendum.\n\nShe advocated remaining in the EU during the referendum campaign, but voted for the PM's Brexit deal in October and has argued the party's pledge to hold another referendum after renegotiating the deal alienated voters in Leave-supporting areas.\n\nShe has been urging her party to concentrate on winning support in smaller towns, and suggested it should move its headquarters outside London.\n\nMs Nandy's announcement comes after Jess Phillips joined the leadership race on Friday, stating that \"something has to change\" and \"more honesty\" in politics was required.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jess Phillips: Labour members are \"ready to try something different\".\n\nMs Phillips, a vocal critic of Mr Corbyn's leadership, acknowledged the campaign \"won't necessarily be an easy fight\" for her, but said she thought Labour members were \"ready to try something different\".\n\nThe Birmingham Yardley MP added that Labour needed a leader who would \"truly speak truth to power\" and be able to \"take on\" Mr Johnson.\n\nThere will also be an election for a new deputy leader, with shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler and shadow Europe minister Khalid Mahmood confirming they intend to run.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner has also received the backing of Ms Long-Bailey for the deputy post.\n\nUnder current rules, would-be candidates for both the leader and deputy leader roles must first be nominated by more than 20 MPs.\n\nThey must also secure nominations from at least 5% of Labour's constituency parties or three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.", "Amazon Employees for Climate Justice lead a walkout at the company's headquarters in Seattle in September\n\nA group of Amazon employees has said the company has threatened to fire some of them for speaking out on environmental issues.\n\nAmazon Employees for Climate Justice said the workers were told they were in violation of company policies.\n\nIt comes after employees joined calls for the e-commerce giant to do more to tackle climate change.\n\nThe company said its policy on employees making public comments is not new and covers all of its workers.\n\nIn a Twitter post, the group said some employees had been contacted by Amazon's legal and human resources teams and questioned about public comments they had made.\n\nThe statement went on to say: \"Some workers then received follow-up emails threatening termination if they continue to speak about Amazon's business.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amazon Employees For Climate Justice This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Amazon Employees For Climate Justice\n\nAmazon told the BBC the rules were not new, adding: \"We recently updated the policy and related approval process to make it easier for employees to participate in external activities such as speeches, media interviews, and use of the company's logo.\"\n\nIt continued: \"As with any company policy, employees may receive a notification from our HR team if we learn of an instance where a policy is not being followed.\"\n\nAmazon Employees for Climate Justice is a group of the company's workers \"who believe it's our responsibility to ensure our business models don't contribute to the climate crisis\".\n\nThe group has called on Amazon to achieve zero emissions by 2030, limit its work with fossil fuel companies, and stop funding for politicians and lobbyists who deny the existence of climate change.\n\nAmazon, like many other big companies, has faced increasing pressure from both the public and its own workers to take bolder steps to address its impact on the environment.\n\nIn May thousands of Amazon employees used the company's annual shareholders meeting to call on chief executive Jeff Bezos to formulate a broad climate change initiative for the business.\n\nThat proposal was rejected by shareholders. But the following September, Mr Bezos announced plans for the company to be completely powered by renewable energy by 2030 and have net zero carbon emissions by 2040.\n\nThe day after that announcement, more than 1,000 workers left their desks to join the Global Climate Strike, as well as protesting against Amazon's environmental policies.", "Stormzy has scored the first number one of the decade, as his song Own It climbs to the top of the singles chart.\n\nThe track is a collaboration with Burna Boy and Ed Sheeran, and earns Stormzy his third UK number one in 12 months, knocking Ellie Goulding off the top.\n\nBut it follows a Twitter spat this week between Stormzy and fellow rapper Wiley over the song.\n\nWiley criticised Stormzy for working with Sheeran, whom he had once said was using grime music to gain \"clout\".\n\nAnd he suggested that the only reason Jay-Z wanted to work with Stormzy on a different track was because of his association with Sheeran.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 1's Scott Mills about Wiley, Stormzy said: \"I don't think we'll be meeting up anytime soon. I think he just gets a bit 'woop' and then he hits the old social media. Obviously, when you get 'wooped' you're not meant to tweet.\n\n\"It's like a drunk uncle, it's like 'aw uncle, come on man... get back to bed'.\"\n\nStormzy added he felt bad that Sheeran was being dragged into the online argument.\n\n\"This is why it's even worse, because Ed's the kindest, nicest soul ever. He's just trying to travel the world and he's probably getting notifications,\" he explained. \"But I said 'don't worry I'll do all the trolling'. I don't mind trolling Wiley, he loves it.\"\n\nStormzy's previous number ones in the UK include Vossi Bop and Take Me Back To London, the latter another collaboration with Sheeran,\n\nThe last British rapper to score three chart-topping singles in the space of 12 months was Dizzee Rascal more than a decade ago.\n\nHe landed a trio of chart-toppers with Holiday, Dirtee Disco and Shout between September 2009 and June 2010.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nWayne Rooney captained Derby County to victory on his debut for the Rams and set up their first goal as they beat Championship strugglers Barnsley.\n\nJack Marriott atoned for a number of squandered chances at Pride Park when he poked home Rooney's free-kick just before half-time to put the Rams ahead.\n\nBarnsley levelled soon after the break when Elliot Simoes tapped in after Derby goalkeeper Ben Hamer spilled Conor Chaplin's shot.\n\nMartyn Waghorn restored Derby's lead when he fired home Andre Wisdom's low cross and the hosts held on for victory.\n\nRooney, whose last game was at the end of October for DC United, played the full 90 minutes in the centre of midfield.\n\nDerby remain 17th in a tight table but move level on points with Middlesbrough, while Barnsley are three points off safety in 23rd.\n\nRams manager Phillip Cocu had no hesitation putting 34-year-old Rooney straight into the starting XI and making him captain, citing his \"leadership\" qualities.\n\nHaving joined the club on an 18-month player-coach deal in August, the former England captain was ineligible to play until January.\n\nIn a subdued but comfortable first-half performance, Rooney pulled the strings and finally gave a crowd of 27,782 reason to celebrate as he assisted the hosts' opener with an excellent inswinging free-kick.\n\nFrom midway inside Barnsley's half, Rooney bent the ball over the defence and onto the foot of Marriott who finished first time from 12 yards.\n\nHe also played a part in their second goal, sending a lovely cross-field pass to Wisdom who then set up Waghorn.\n\nRooney even had the chance to mark his debut with a goal, but miscued a header from a few yards out and the ball dribbled wide.\n\nAfter struggling for form this term, Derby started the match closer to the Championship relegation zone than the play-off places, but their win moved them to eight points off sixth place.\n\nMonday's win against Charlton was their first victory in eight games, with Rooney in the dugout as a coach for seven of those matches.\n\nEngland's all-time record goalscorer, Rooney won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups in 13 years with Manchester United and is now off to a winning start in his first spell in England's second tier.\n\nBefore Rooney set up the opener for Marriott, the striker missed a couple of glaring opportunities. First, he fired wide of the mark from Waghorn's delivery before he chipped a tame shot from distance wide after bursting through on goal.\n\nHaving started the game poorly, Barnsley were reinvigorated when boss Gerhard Struber made an early tactical change by bringing Simoes on for Mike Bahre after just 26 minutes.\n\nThey were almost rewarded just before Marriott's opener when Mads Andersen found space at close range, forcing a last-minute block from a Derby defender.\n\nBarnsley keeper Sam Radlinger made a stunning diving right-handed save to keep out Matt Clarke's header shortly after the restart and the visitors immediately levelled through Simoes' strike.\n\nHowever, Waghorn's composed finish ensured the hosts registered two wins in a row for the first time this season.\n\nRooney told BBC Radio Derby that it was important to stay focused despite all the hype around his debut.\n\n\"It was a big night for myself, big night for the club, a lot of excitement, but the main priority tonight was to get three points,\" he said.\n\n\"It feels good to finally make my debut and help the team win.\n\n\"It was a difficult game, I thought Barnsley played well, made it tough for us, but we worked hard, created chances, we could have made it easier for ourselves but we dug in and worked hard until the end.\n\n\"It was a good ball and a great finish from Jack. I'm pleased for Jack because he needed that goal.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Luke Thomas (Barnsley) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Conor Chaplin.\n• None Attempt blocked. Elliot Simoes (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Williams.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Chaplin (Barnsley) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Luke Thomas.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jacob Brown (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Conor Chaplin.\n• None Duane Holmes (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Thomas (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Duane Holmes (Derby County) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Martyn Waghorn (Derby County) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Max Lowe.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Mowatt (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Luke Thomas. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The photo of the Duke of Sussex and his son was posted on Instagram on New Year's Eve\n\nA community knitting enterprise in New Zealand has seen its sales go \"off the charts\" after baby Archie was pictured wearing one of their hats.\n\nThe photo of Prince Harry cuddling his son was posted on the royal couple's Instagram account to mark the new year.\n\nIn just a few days the social enterprise Make Give Live received more than ten times the number of orders it normally gets in a whole month.\n\nThe group's co-founder said the photo came as \"a complete surprise\".\n\n\"We had no idea it was going to happen,\" Becky Smith told the BBC, adding that she only realised one of their products had been worn by a royal after she was shown the photo by a member of her knitting group.\n\n\"I don't think we realised what the impact would be in terms of sales. It was just lovely to see our hats being posted and being able to spread our message.\n\n\"We weren't really prepared for the sales that came with it... it just took off like crazy.\"\n\nMake Give Live has received around 450 orders since the photo was posted, while in \"a really good month\" it would only sell around 45 hats, Ms Smith said.\n\nThe social enterprise, which aims to tackle loneliness and improve mental health, currently has 11 knitting groups across New Zealand and around 120 members.\n\nThe groups meet regularly in cafes, community hubs or libraries to knit hats. For each hat sold the organisation donates another to someone in need in New Zealand.\n\nMs Smith said she believed the Duchess of Sussex had been given one of their baby hats as a gift when she visited New Zealand in 2018.\n\nHowever, she realised Meghan then bought two more hats herself - and it was one of these Archie was wearing in the photo.\n\nAt the time Ms Smith said they \"didn't have a clue\" they had sold a hat to the duchess and only realised in hindsight when they saw an order placed from an address in Windsor.\n\nThe group has around 120 members - it may need more to cope with demand\n\nDespite the surge in demand, Ms Smith said the organisation was still accepting orders - although customers would have to wait a bit longer for their hats to be made.\n\nShe added that it was important to ensure the knitting groups remained a \"fun and enjoyable experience\" and to avoid them becoming \"high stress\", with the pressure to knit a large number of hats.\n\nMs Smith said the huge sales would help the organisation set up more groups and give away more hats to those in need.\n\n\"I am very excited and really grateful that they have chosen to showcase our beautiful hat that makes such a difference,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not just any old hat. It's a rather special hat that makes a big impact in many ways.\"", "Neil Nellies was convicted of five sex offences following a trial\n\nA man who sexually abused a 10-year-old girl has been jailed for seven years.\n\nNeil Nellies, 42, who is registered blind, assaulted his young victim, who has since tried to take her own life, and \"stole her childhood\", Liverpool Crown Court heard.\n\nThe crimes took place several years ago in Wilmslow, Cheshire, jurors heard.\n\nNellies, who arrived at court with his guide dog Digby, was told prison rules meant he would not be able to have the dog in jail with him.\n\nInstead, the labrador will be retrained to help another blind person.\n\n\"I have the greatest concern that a man who for five years has had the benefit of a guide dog, giving him his freedom and mobility, will be taken into an environment which is wholly unfamiliar,\" said Nellies' barrister Rachel Shenton.\n\nShe added she did not wish to downplay the effect of Nellies' behaviour on the victim, but \"prison for him will have a devastating impact\".\n\nShe urged Judge Simon Berkson to suspend any jail term, arguing Nellies was already imprisoned by a degenerative eye disease.\n\nNellies can currently make out large shapes but this will deteriorate in time, she said.\n\nBut Judge Berkson refused due to the serious nature of the offences.\n\nHe said the victim \"told her mother's friend that she was not 'her mother's little girl any more'\".\n\n\"You stole that girl's childhood,\" he told Nellies, of Lumley Road, Macclesfield.\n\nJames Coutts, prosecuting, said the victim had suffered serious psychological harm.\n\nNellies, who denied any wrongdoing, was convicted of five serious sexual offences after a trial.\n\nThe court heard how Nellies had previously also suffered a stroke and had mental health issues, an emotionally unstable personality disorder and possible autism.\n\nJudge Berkson ordered Nellies to be placed on the sex offenders register for life and imposed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and an extra year on licence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The old brand of Lidl's Frosted Flakes - featuring a cartoon lion - and the new brand\n\nLidl has said it will remove cartoon characters from its own-brand cereals to help parents buy healthy products.\n\nIt hopes that the rebranded packaging, to be introduced in the spring, will alleviate the pressure of children's \"pester power\".\n\nHealth experts welcomed the move but called for government regulations on \"junk food marketing\".\n\nA group of MPs has previously recommended a ban on cartoons on unhealthy foods.\n\nLidl said it will rebrand eight of its own-brand Crownfield products in total, including Choco Shells, which features two cartoon penguins on the box, and Rice Snaps, which is advertised with a grinning cartoon crocodile.\n\nThe new packaging will be free from cartoons.\n\nGeorgina Hall, the retailer's head of corporate social responsibility said it wants to help parents \"make healthy and informed choices\" about the food they buy for their children.\n\n\"We know pester power can cause difficult battles on the shop floor and we're hoping that removing cartoon characters from cereal packaging will alleviate some of the pressure parents are under,\" she said.\n\nShe stressed that the company seeks to make \"good food accessible for everyone\" and \"[help] customers lead healthier lives.\"\n\nAccording to Lidl's website, a serving of its Honey and Peanuts Corn Flakes - which features a cartoon bee on the box - contains 14g of sugar, compared to 0.4g in its regular Corn Flakes.\n\nCaroline Cerny, of the Obesity Health Alliance - a coalition of organisations such as the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the British Medical Association - welcomed what it called a \"responsible approach\".\n\n\"We know that the use of cartoon characters on sugary products is a marketing technique used by the food industry to put their unhealthy products firmly centre stage in children's minds,\" she said.\n\nHowever, she noted that more needs to be done than one retailer changing a category of products.\n\n\"We need the government to introduce regulations to create a level playing field and protect children from all types of junk food marketing,\" she added.\n\nThe old brand of Lidl's Choco Rice - featuring a cartoon monkey - and the new brand\n\nThe move comes more than a year and a half after the health select committee recommended a ban on cartoons on sugary foods, such as Tony the Tiger and the Milky Bar Kid.\n\nIn October, England's outgoing chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, called for extra taxes placed on unhealthy foods to tackle child obesity.\n\nIn her final report, she also called for tighter rules on advertising.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"It's encouraging to see companies taking action to tackle childhood obesity.\"\n\nIt added that it has reduced the amount of sugar in soft drinks and encouraged physical activity in schools. It said it will \"continue to assess\" the impact of marketing on children.", "From the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister in 1953, to tension and confrontation under President Trump, a look back over more than 65 years of tricky relations between Iran and the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS and British intelligence agencies orchestrate a coup to oust Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. The secular leader had sought to nationalise Iran's oil industry.\n\nThe US-backed Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, is forced to leave the country on 16 January following months of demonstrations and strikes against his rule by secular and religious opponents.\n\nTwo weeks later, Islamic religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returns from exile. Following a referendum, the Islamic Republic of Iran is proclaimed on 1 April.\n\nThe US embassy in Tehran is seized by protesters in November 1979 and American hostages are held inside for 444 days. The final 52 hostages are freed in January 1981, the day of US President Ronald Reagan's inauguration.\n\nAnother six Americans who had escaped the embassy are smuggled out of Iran by a team posing as film-makers, in events dramatised in the 2012 Oscar-winning film Argo.\n\nThe US secretly ships weapons to Iran, allegedly in exchange for Tehran's help in freeing US hostages held by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.\n\nThe profits are illegally channelled to rebels in Nicaragua, creating a political crisis for Reagan.\n\nThe American warship USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air flight in the Gulf on 3 July, killing all 290 people on board. The US says the Airbus A300 was mistaken for a fighter jet.\n\nMost of the victims are Iranian pilgrims on their way to Mecca.\n\nIn his State of the Union address, President George Bush denounces Iran as part of an \"axis of evil\" with Iraq and North Korea. The speech causes outrage in Iran.\n\nIn 2002 an Iranian opposition group reveals that Iran is developing nuclear facilities including a uranium enrichment plant.\n\nThe US accuses Iran of a clandestine nuclear weapons programme, which Iran denies. A decade of diplomatic activity and intermittent Iranian engagement with the UN's nuclear watchdog follows.\n\nBut several rounds of sanctions are imposed by the UN, the US and the EU against ultra-conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government. This causes Iran's currency to lose two-thirds of its value in two years.\n\nIn September 2013, a month after Iran's new moderate president Hassan Rouhani takes office, he and US President Barack Obama speak by phone - the first such top-level conversation in more than 30 years.\n\nThen in 2015, after a flurry of diplomatic activity, Iran agrees a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agrees to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nIn May 2018, US President Donald Trump abandons the nuclear deal, before reinstating economic sanctions against Iran and threatening to do the same to countries and firms that continue buying its oil. Iran's economy falls into a deep recession.\n\nRelations between the US and Iran worsen in May 2019, when the US tightens the sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports. In response, Iran begins a counter-pressure campaign.\n\nIn May and June 2019, explosions hit six oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, and the US accuses Iran.\n\nOn 20 June, Iranian forces shoot down a US military drone over the Strait of Hormuz. The US says it was over international waters, but Iran says it is over their territory.\n\nIran begins rolling back key commitments under the nuclear deal in July.\n\nOn 3 January 2020, Iran's top military commander, Gen Qasem Soleimani, is killed by a US drone strike in Iraq. Iran vows \"severe revenge\" for his death and pulls back from the 2015 nuclear accord.", "Unbeaten Premier League leaders Liverpool made it a full year without losing in the top flight as Sheffield United were brushed aside at Anfield.\n\nA slice of good fortune enabled the Reds to take an early lead - George Baldock's slip allowing Andy Robertson to set up Mohamed Salah for a simple close-range finish in just the fourth minute.\n\nBut there was nothing fortuitous about their win, which Sadio Mane sealed, finishing at the second attempt after being played in by Salah.\n\nIt maintains the Reds' 13-point advantage at the top of the division after nearest rivals Leicester and Manchester City both won on New Year's Day.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side have dropped just two points from a possible 60 this season.\n\nFor Chris Wilder's side, this was a second successive defeat, but they remain firmly in credit from the first half of their league campaign and sit eighth in the table, just two points off fifth.\n• None 37 games, 89 goals, 101 points - how Liverpool went a year unbeaten in the Premier League\n• None Analysis and reaction from Liverpool's win over Sheffield United\n• None Quiz: Can you name those to play for both Liverpool and Sheff Utd?\n\nLiverpool's 18th consecutive league win and 51st top-flight encounter without defeat in a row at Anfield was another showcase for a side working to near maximum capacity.\n\nDespite Klopp labelling as \"criminal\" a festive fixture schedule that has seen his side play six games in 17 days, the German kept his team changes to a minimum.\n\nHe did have to make a late alteration, bringing James Milner in for the man he originally drafted in to the side, Naby Keita, who injured himself in the warm-up, but it made little discernable difference.\n\nIn fact, Milner was superb as one third of a brilliant midfield unit, along with Jordan Henderson and Georginio Wijnaldum.\n\nTheir work-rate, movement and accuracy of passing provided the platform, with Virgil van Dijk alert and efficient on the rare occasions Sheffield United were allowed a kick in the Liverpool half.\n\nSalah scored one, but he would have had more but for the combination of some excellent reflex saves from Dean Henderson and the woodwork - the Egyptian's chipped second-half cross floating past everyone and hitting the inside of the post.\n\nRoberto Firmino went close to his first Anfield goal since March with a curling effort just past the post and should have got it later in the second half, but failed to connect with Trent Alexander-Arnold's low cross from point-blank range.\n\nIn the end, though, two was more than enough to seal another win and move another step closer to their ultimate goal.\n\nHaving achieved an 'Invincibles' year, Liverpool still have a long way to go to match the 'Invincibles' season achieved by Arsenal in 2003-04.\n\nHowever, it would now take an implosion of unprecedented proportions to deny the Reds a first top-flight title in 30 years.\n\n'No airs and graces, just hard work'\n\nSheffield United enjoyed a stellar 2019 of their own, in which they achieved promotion back to England's top division for the first time since 2007 before exceeding expectation to end the year firmly embedded in the top half of the table.\n\nSuch has been their form under Chris Wilder only three sides in the country had a superior points-per-game record across 2019 - the current Premier League leaders, the top-flight's reigning champions Manchester City and West Brom, who presently have the joint most points in the Championship.\n\nThis is the first time they have suffered back-to-back defeats under Wilder since the start of last season and they have come at the two toughest grounds to visit in the country - Manchester City's Etihad Stadium and Anfield.\n\nWilder prepared his team for Thursday night's daunting match with a final practice session on Stanley Park, the public park next to Anfield, which included one moment when a dog joined them and urinated on one of their cones.\n\nAs the club's official Twitter account put it: \"No airs and graces, just hard work.\"\n\nThere is a lot more to this Sheffield United side than graft, although they were given only fleeting opportunities to demonstrate this at Anfield.\n\nUnited asked more questions of the Reds than most sides this season when they met at Bramall Lane in September, an error from goalkeeper Henderson leading to the game's only goal from Wijnaldum.\n\nThey gave a solid account of themselves here, where there is no shame in defeat - 17 sides have directly preceded them with the same fate, some wilting a lot more readily than the Blades.\n\nDavid McGoldrick has yet to score this season, but he went close soon after Liverpool's opener with an effort that Alisson had to tip over.\n\nAnd John Lundstram had the ball in the net, but long after an offside flag had already ruled any potential goal out.\n\nThey should also have had at least a consolation goal near the end, but somehow substitute Oliver McBurnie failed to poke the ball in from close range at the back post from a low cross.\n\nRare back-to-back defeats for the Blades - the stats\n• None Liverpool have accumulated 58 points from their 20 Premier League games this season; in English top-flight history, only Manchester City in 2017-18 (also 58) have had as many points at this stage of a campaign (assuming three points for a win all-time).\n• None Sheffield United have lost all six of their Premier League matches against sides starting the day top of the table, including both meetings with Liverpool this campaign.\n• None Liverpool scored in their 29th consecutive game in the Premier League; only two teams have ever recorded a longer scoring streak in the competition - Arsenal between 2001 and 2002 (55) and Manchester United between 2007 and 2008 (36).\n• None Sheffield United have lost back-to-back league matches for the first time since they lost both of their opening two games in last season's Championship.\n• None Mohamed Salah's opener (03:25) was the earliest goal scored by Liverpool and conceded by Sheffield United in this season's Premier League. It is the earliest the Blades have conceded in a top-flight match since Andriy Shevchenko for Chelsea in March 2007 (03:02).\n• None Salah became only the fourth player to score 50+ left-footed goals for a single side in the Premier League, after Robbie Fowler (85 for Liverpool), Ryan Giggs (83 for Manchester United) and Robin van Persie (63 for Arsenal).\n• None Sadio Mane's goal was his 100th goal involvement for Liverpool in his 151 appearances in all competitions for the club (74 goals, 26 assists).\n• None Since the start of last season, only his Liverpool team-mate Trent Alexander-Arnold (20) has more Premier League assists than Andy Robertson (17).\n• None Alisson made his 50th Premier League appearance for Liverpool and kept his 26th clean sheet; among goalkeepers in the competition's history, only Petr Cech (33) and Pepe Reina (28) kept more shutouts in their opening 50 starts than the Brazilian.\n\n'The goals were exceptional' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to Match of the Day: \"It's obviously good [to go unbeaten for a year] but the target was not to extend this [run], but to win the game. The best thing you can say when you play against Sheffield United is to keep the game not spectacular. We controlled the game.\n\n\"We played around their formation, played behind, in-between, broke the lines and had counter-attacks. All the things we want to have. The boys played sensational.\n\n\"You saw these glimpses in the game where we were a bit sloppy. They wanted two or three situations in which they could score in. We needed that concentration and that was incredibly tough but the boys did so well. Nothing ends. We have to make sure we are ready again.\n\n\"I am really happy and really proud of the boys. We should not take things like this for granted. The way we controlled Sheffield United was exceptional. In possession we were incredible, we were calm but lively as well. The goals we scored were exceptional.\"\n\nSheffield United manager Chris Wilder speaking to Match of the Day: \"Little bit drained - disappointed in our performance tonight, we never laid a glove on them. If there's ever an example of a team doing well and with the desire, that's Liverpool.\n\n\"The first balls, second balls, running forward, tackling, defending, being aggressive; they [Liverpool] showed all those qualities. It's a great example for our team. We were off the pace. Maybe the Manchester City game took more out of them than I expected - our goalkeeper kept us in the game. For us to get anything, we would have had to perform really well and we didn't.\n\n\"Every time we tried to press they played around us with the quality they have got. All the stuff that gets talked about in academies, with young coaches - just look at what they did in terms of the basic stuff that gives you an opportunity to play and dominate. That's what they did to us. Not only technically, but tactically, they are a fantastic side. We have been well beaten.\n\n\"People talk about us having afternoons and nights like this when we came to the Premier League. We have not had that done to us all season until now so that's a small comfort. But it still hurts, we are still professionals. I believe if we played near our best we could have got something but we weren't anywhere near it.\"\n\nLiverpool have a testing January, starting with a Merseyside derby against Everton in the FA Cup on Sunday, before they travel to Tottenham in the league the following Saturday.\n\nSheffield United host National League side AFC Fylde in the Cup, before hosting West Ham in the Premier League on Friday, 10 January.\n• None Attempt saved. Oliver McBurnie (Sheffield United) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack O'Connell with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A portrait of the Queen with the next three heirs to the throne has been released to mark the start of the new decade.\n\nIt shows the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George standing with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe new photograph was taken in the week before Christmas, but has not been published until now.\n\nIt is the second official portrait of the four generations of royals together.\n\nThe Queen, 93, standing at the front of her family, wears a white dress with a blue brooch while holding a handbag on her arm.\n\nHer son, Prince Charles, who is dressed in a pinstripe suit, stands on the first step behind her.\n\nHis arm rests on the shoulder of his six-year-old grandson, who is wearing a pair of green and navy tartan trousers.\n\nPrince William, wearing a dark suit and navy tie, stands with his hands together to the right of his grandmother.\n\nThe photograph was taken by Ranald Mackechnie, who was also responsible for the only other portrait of the four royals together.\n\nA portrait of the four royals was previously released in 2016 to mark the Queen's 90th birthday\n\nIt was released in 2016 to mark the Queen's 90th birthday and was printed on commemorative stamps.\n\nThe latest portrait was taken on December 18 - the same day the four royals were photographed making a Christmas pudding together at the palace.\n\nThe moment, captured in front of a Christmas tree decorated with miniature corgis and crowns, featured in the Queen's Christmas Day message.\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George made Christmas puddings last month", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jordi Casamitjana says he's \"really really satisfied\" with the judge's ruling\n\nEthical veganism is a \"philosophical belief\" and so is protected in law, a tribunal has ruled for the first time.\n\nThe landmark legal case was brought by vegan Jordi Casamitjana, who claims he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports because of his ethical veganism.\n\nHis former employer says he was dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe judge ruled that ethical vegans should be entitled to similar legal protections in British workplaces as those who hold religious beliefs.\n\nHe is yet to rule on Mr Casamitjana's dismissal - which is due at a later date.\n\nMr Casamitjana, 55, who lives in London, said he was \"extremely happy\" with the ruling - which is ongoing - adding that he hopes fellow vegans \"will benefit\".\n\nThe tribunal centres on his claim that he was sacked by the animal welfare charity League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing.\n\nMr Casamitjana says when he drew his bosses' attention to the pension fund investments, they did nothing so he informed colleagues and was sacked as a result.\n\nThe League Against Cruel Sports says it is \"factually wrong\" to link Mr Casamitjana's dismissal to his veganism. The charity did not contest that ethical veganism should be protected.\n\nA vegan is someone who does not eat or use animal products.\n\nSome people choose to simply follow a vegan diet - that is, a plant-based diet avoiding all animal products such as dairy, eggs, honey, meat and fish.\n\nBut ethical vegans try to exclude all forms of animal exploitation from their lifestyle. For instance, they avoid wearing or buying clothing made from wool or leather, or toiletries from companies that carry out animal testing.\n\n\"Religion or belief\" is one of nine \"protected characteristics\" covered by the Equality Act 2010.\n\nThe judge Robin Postle ruled that ethical veganism qualifies as a philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010 by satisfying several tests - including that it is worthy of respect in a democratic society, not incompatible with human dignity and not conflicting with the fundamental rights of others.\n\nAt the tribunal in Norwich on Friday, the judge said in his ruling that ethical veganism was \"important\" and \"worthy\" of respect in a democratic society.\n\nHe said: \"I am satisfied overwhelmingly that ethical veganism does constitute a philosophical belief.\"\n\nThough a ruling from an employment tribunal does not amount to binding legal precedent, this one will have important and far-reaching effects.\n\nEmployers will have to respect ethical veganism and make sure they do not discriminate against employees for their beliefs.\n\nSo, for example, could a worker on a supermarket checkout refuse to put a meat product through the till?\n\nThe implications are considerable, not least because the legal protection will apply beyond employment, in areas such as education and the supply of goods and services.\n\nIt could also encourage others to seek similar protection for their philosophical beliefs.\n\nWhile this is the first case concerning ethical veganism, a previous tribunal ruled that a strongly held belief in climate change amounted to a philosophical belief capable of protecting someone against discrimination in their employment.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC outside the tribunal, Mr Casamitjana said he was \"extremely happy\".\n\n\"I'm really, really satisfied and I hope all the vegans out there that have been supporting me - there have been many helping me in my crowdfunding - I hope they now feel their little donation has been properly used and all the vegans will benefit.\"\n\nHe added: \"Veganism is a philosophical belief and when you look at my life and anybody else's life who is an ethical vegan, you will see it.\n\n\"This is a positive belief, it's not a negative belief. And therefore a positive belief is bound to be protected.\"\n\nMr Casamitjana supports a range of ethical and animal rights causes\n\nHe added that he is \"passionate\" about veganism, which \"gives you hope\". Mr Casamitjana also said he was feeling \"optimistic\" for the ruling on his dismissal.\n\nMr Casamitjana describes himself as an ethical vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.\n\nHis beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.\n\nPeter Daly, the solicitor for Mr Casamitjana, said the ramifications of this judgement for companies that employ vegan staff are \"potentially significant\".\n\nHe said any abuse directed at ethical vegans \"might be seen to be harassment in the same way a racist or sexist slur might be discriminatory action\".\n\nActing for the League Against Cruel Sports, Rhys Wyborn, from the law firm Shakespeare Martineau, said: \"Although an interesting point of law, this hearing was preparation for the real crux of the matter: why Jordi Casamitjana was dismissed.\n\n\"In view of its animal welfare value, the League did not contest the issue of whether ethical veganism itself should be a protected belief, with the League maintaining that it's irrelevant to the core reason for the dismissal.\"\n\nThe tribunal will next consider whether Mr Casamitjana was treated less favourably because of his ethical veganism belief.\n\nReligion and belief is one of nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act. The others are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, sex and sexual orientation.", "Authorities in New South Wales have ordered thousands of people to evacuate already fire-damaged towns within 48 hours.\n\nTemperatures and winds are expected to increase over the weekend, making further life-threatening fires a possibility. Many towns in the area are running out of supplies.\n\nIn Batemans Bay, a popular holiday town, long queues have built up along the only route out.\n\nRead more: Race to flee 'leave zone' as fresh threat looms", "Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran has announced she is pansexual and in a relationship with a woman.\n\nThe MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, who previously only had relationships with men, told PinkNews she is in a relationship with ex-Lib Dem press officer Rosy Cobb.\n\nPansexuality describes those who are attracted to a person regardless of their sex or gender.\n\n\"It's about the person themselves,\" said Ms Moran,\n\nSpeaking to the PinkNews website, Ms Moran - a potential candidate to become the next Lib Dem leader - also criticised Parliament as a \"weird, backwards place\" for LGBTQ people.\n\nShe said coming out in the context of being an MP had been \"slightly more difficult\" than telling her friends and family.\n\nThe MP also shared a picture of herself and Ms Cobb on Twitter, writing that she is now \"just happy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Layla Moran 🔶 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It was really wonderful on the one hand, but also quite surprising for me in how I had identified before,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel now is the time to talk about it, because as an MP I spend a lot of my time defending our community and talking about our community. I want people to know I am part of our community as well.\"\n\nShe said her family and friends have been supportive, but some people had suggested being in a same-sex relationship could damage her career.\n\n\"They definitely would not have said anything like that had she been a man,\" she added.\n\n\"Parliament is a weird, backwards place. I don't know if there's any other (MPs) who would identify as pansexual, and not that many who identify as bisexual - there are a few women who are brilliant role models who have come out in their lesbian relationships.\"\n\nMs Moran, who did not rule out running to take over as Lib Dem leader, was asked to describe pansexuality to someone who is not familiar with the term.\n\n\"Pansexuality, to me, means it doesn't matter about the physical attributions of the person you fall in love with, it's about the person themselves,\" she said.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if they're a man or a woman or gender non-conforming, it doesn't matter if they identify as gay or not.\n\n\"In the end, these are all things that don't matter - the thing that matters is the person, and that you love the person.\"\n\nAccording to the charity the LGBT Foundation, pansexuality is different from bisexuality - but they are not mutually exclusive and some people identify as both.\n\n\"Being bisexual means being attracted to more than one gender, while being pansexual means being attracted to people regardless of gender,\" the foundation said.\n\n\"Pansexuality is included under the bisexual umbrella, which covers anyone who experiences sexual or romantic attraction to more than one gender.\"\n\nMeanwhile, charity Stonewall says pansexual \"refers to a person whose romantic and/or sexual attraction towards others is not limited by sex or gender\" - and bisexual people may also describe themselves as pansexual.", "Prince William visited West Bromwich Albion last year as part of the Heads Up mental health campaign\n\nA short film narrated by the Duke of Cambridge will be played at FA Cup matches to encourage football fans to look after their mental health.\n\nThe film will be played in stadiums just before kick-off at every FA Cup third round match this weekend.\n\nKick-off for all 32 fixtures will be delayed for 60 seconds to prompt fans to consider their well-being.\n\nIt will also be broadcast to those watching the games at home on TV.\n\nThe film is a collaboration between Public Health England's (PHE) Every Mind Matters and the Football Association and Heads Together's Heads Up campaign.\n\nPrince William, who is president of the FA, says in the film: \"In life, as in football, we all go through highs and lows.\n\n\"We can all sometimes feel anxious or stressed. At moments even the little things can seem a struggle. But we can all start to change things.\n\n\"Every Mind Matters and Heads Up will show you the simple steps you can take to look after your mental health - helping to boost your mood, improve your sleep and feel ready for life's ups and downs.\"\n\nDele Alli and Son Heung-min are among the footballers who feature in the film\n\nThe duke said the Heads Up campaign aims to use football \"to spread to message that we all have mental health, just as we all have physical health\".\n\nDuncan Selbie, chief executive of PHE, said the new film was \"a fantastic opportunity to bring the football community together\" for a conversation about mental health.\n\nThe Heads Together initiative was launched in 2016 by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex, with the aim to end the stigma around mental health.\n\nEvery Mind Matters has invited fans to create their own personal mental health action plan as part of the campaign.\n• None Every Mind Matters - One You The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bodies of Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were found by police on New Year's Day\n\nAn estranged husband has been charged with murdering his wife and a man who were stabbed at a house in a Derbyshire village on New Year's Day.\n\nHelen Hancock, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, were found with fatal wounds in New Zealand Lane, Duffield.\n\nRhys Hancock, 39, of Portland Street, Etwall, Derbyshire, is due to appear before magistrates on Friday.\n\nDerbyshire Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over previous contact with Mrs Hancock.\n\nMrs Hancock, whose maiden name was Almey, and Mr Griffiths, from Derby, were found dead at the house at about 04:00 GMT.\n\nThe family of Mrs Hancock, from Duffield, described her as a \"lovely, beautiful, friendly, bubbly and social person\".\n\nFather-of-two Mr Griffiths, from Derby, was said by his family to be \"a lovely dad, husband, son, brother and uncle who had a passion for adventure, running and a love of animals\".\n\nThe statement added: \"He enjoyed travelling the world, mountain climbing and spending time with his two children. He will be greatly missed.\"\n\nPolice cordoned off the area while investigating the scene\n\nOfficers remained at the house on Thursday, with searches and door-to-door inquiries taking place.\n\nPolice previously said no-one else was at the house at the time.\n\nCh Supt Hayley Barnett, of Derbyshire Police, said: \"The thoughts of everyone at Derbyshire Constabulary are with the family and friends of Mrs Hancock and Mr Griffiths.\n\n\"Our thoughts are also with the Duffield community, which is understandably shocked by this incident.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed it was investigating police contact with Mrs Hancock before her death.\n\nAn IOPC spokeswoman said: \"Our investigation follows a mandatory referral from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"Due to the separate ongoing murder investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison cut short a visit to a fire-stricken community after he was heckled by angry locals.\n\nTwo people lost their lives in Cobargo in New South Wales (NSW) earlier this week and many lost their homes.\n\nThe PM said he was \"not surprised people are feeling very raw\".", "The son of a volunteer who died fighting Australian bushfires has been presented with his father's medal for bravery at his funeral.\n\nHarvey Keaton, aged 19 months, wore a uniform and sucked on his dummy as he received his father's posthumous medal at Thursday's funeral near Sydney.\n\nDozens of firefighters formed a guard of honour to salute Mr Keaton's coffin.\n\nHe and colleague Andrew O'Dwyer died on 19 December en route to a blaze, when their fire truck hit a fallen tree.\n\nMr O'Dwyer, also father to a toddler, will be buried next week.\n\nThe bravery award was presented to young Harvey Keaton by New South Wales Fire Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison also attended the funeral.\n\nThe prime minister said he was there to \"remember and give thanks for the life and service of Geoff Keaton\".\n\nPhotos released by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service showed the toddler being held by his mother as they look at the coffin. A mug with the message \"Daddy, I love you to the moon and back!\" is seen on the coffin.\n\nThe ceremony was attended by Mr Keaton's family and his colleagues in the rural fire service\n\nMr Keaton was one of three Australian firefighters killed in the recent fires\n\nIn addition to Mr Keaton and Mr O'Dwyer, another firefighter died on Monday when high winds overturned his truck, killing one and injuring two others.\n\nSince September, a total 18 people have died as a result of the fires - seven of them in New South Wales this week alone. Others are missing.\n\nThousands of firefighters have been deployed every day for months, battling enormous fires that have yet to be brought under control. The vast majority are unpaid volunteers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The bodies of Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were found by police on New Year's Day\n\nAn estranged husband has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife and her new partner at a house in Derbyshire on New Year's Day.\n\nHelen Hancock, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, were found by police in New Zealand Lane, Duffield.\n\nRhys Hancock did not enter a plea at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.\n\nThe 39-year-old, of Portland Street, Etwall, is due to appear at Derby Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe court heard Mr Griffiths was found dead in a bedroom when police arrived at the property, while Mrs Hancock was gravely injured and paramedics battled unsuccessfully for 15 minutes to save her.\n\nProsecutor Jeanette Stevenson said Mr and Mrs Hancock had separated \"some time ago\" and described Mr Griffiths as her \"new partner\".\n\nMr Hancock is accused of killing his wife and her new partner\n\nFurther tributes have been paid to Mr Griffiths and Mrs Hancock, following statements from their families on Thursday.\n\nA statement on behalf of Fountains High School in Burton-upon-Trent, where Mrs Hancock worked as a teacher, said staff and students were \"all deeply saddened\" by her death.\n\n\"She was a well-liked member of staff who made a real difference to the pupils she taught here at school,\" the statement said.\n\nFlowers have been left outside the house where the pair died\n\nChris West, director of design agency 22 Create Ltd, where Mr Griffiths worked in marketing, said he was \"a highly valued colleague\" and a \"good friend to us all\".\n\n\"This has come as a huge shock to us all,\" he added.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct confirmed it was investigating contact between Derbyshire Police and Mrs Hancock before her death, following a referral by the force.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "State TV has used a black ribbon as a mark of mourning\n\nThe death of Qasem Soleimani dominates Iranian media, with the state broadcaster draping his image with a black ribbon of mourning and repeating threats by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to inflict \"severe revenge\" on the United States.\n\nAll government TV channels are running tributes to the \"glorious martyr\" and commander of the elite Quds Force, who was killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad Airport.\n\nThey highlight his role in the wars in Iraq and Syria in particular, where he came to international prominence for leading Iran's military assistance.\n\nThe IRINN rolling news channel and international Press TV have been broadcasting archive footage of Soleimani, emphasising his closeness to Ayatollah Khamenei and his leadership in conflict zones.\n\nTV coverage includes reaction from Iranian diplomats and commentators, all naturally taking the official line that the United States should expect retribution.\n\nOne Tehran University professor repeatedly warned Western civilians, especially Americans, to \"leave the Middle East at once\". The fact that he did so in English on Press TV added immediacy to the threat.\n\nHe was one of several analysts on both domestic and international channels to predict that the killing \"heralds the end of a US presence in the region\".\n\nSome officials openly expressed their grief - Ramezan Sharif, the spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards, broke down on live TV and was comforted by a clearly moved reporter.\n\nGeneral Sharif later recovered his composure sufficiently to issue a threat to Israel, which various Iranian officials have accused of helping co-ordinate the drone attack.\n\n\"The joy of the Americans and the Zionists [Israel] will not last long, and will turn to mourning,\" he announced, adding that the Revolutionary Guards will not be stopped by the death of one man.\n\n\"The determination to take revenge on the usurper Zionists and criminal will be all the greater,\" he said, as the Guards will \"open a new chapter\" with many eager to continue Soleimani's legacy.\n\nThe main news channels showed a live gathering at a mosque in Gilan Province, where the preacher reassured worshippers that \"the best death is martyrdom for God\" and that \"great men prefer martyrdom to death by natural causes, cancer, accidents or old age\".\n\nAs the day went on, the TV channels aired high-profile Friday Prayers preachers who concentrated on the themes of revenge and continuing Soleimani's work,\n\nPro-government social media have been echoing the official response of grief and pledges of vengeance, with the Persian hashtag #severerevenge trending since news of Soleimani's death was confirmed.\n\nThe Khabar Fouri Telegram channel posted a bloody image of a bullet-ridden Revolutionary Guards uniform bearing his name, and former Guards commander Mohsen Rezaie tweeted that Iran would take \"firm revenge on America\".\n\nLeading military reporter Hossein Dalirian tweeted that he \"can't stop crying\".\n\nBut other voices on social media rejoiced at Gen Soleimani's death.\n\nShahed Alavi, a journalist based abroad, tweeted \"Today I'm a Syrian child screaming out the names of all the 500,000 people who died in the Syrian civil war, and after every name I will say: The architect of the bloody crackdown, the architect of the great massacre, has been killed\".\n\nAnother drew parallels with reports that Iranian officials had demanded money for the return of the remains of protesters killed in the November anti-government demonstrations.\n\n\"I hope they charge Iran 40 million dollars to send the body back, then charge Iran for the rocket that killed him,\" he tweeted.\n\nVideo tributes try to highlight the martial and human aspect of Qasem Soleimani\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jess Phillips: Labour members are \"ready to try something different\".\n\nJess Phillips has announced that she is joining the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nThe Birmingham Yardley MP joins shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis as confirmed candidates.\n\nOther MPs considering a leadership bid include Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long Bailey and Lisa Nandy.\n\nMr Corbyn is due to stand down in the wake of the party's election defeat last month.\n\nAnnouncing her leadership bid in Grimsby, where Labour lost to the Conservatives at the election, Ms Phillips said that \"something has to change\" and that she was standing \"because I think that we need more honesty in politics\".\n\nShe acknowledged the campaign \"won't necessarily be an easy fight\" for her, but she thought Labour members were \"ready to try something different\".\n\nMs Phillips, a vocal critic of Mr Corbyn's leadership, said Labour needed a leader who would \"truly speak truth to power\" and be able to \"take on\" Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\n\"I'm able to reach people... and I'm able to get people to trust me even when they don't agree with me, and I think that's what politics needs.\"\n\nIn a statement, she said Labour would be in \"big trouble\" if it failed to win back support among its traditional base of working-class voters.\n\nMs Phillips also criticised the party's \"woeful\" response to anti-Semitism cases within the party.\n\nAnd she warned the party against \"trying to please everyone\", which she said had usually meant \"we have pleased no-one\".\n\nUnder current rules, would-be candidates for both the leader and deputy leader roles must first be nominated by more than 20 MPs.\n\nThey must also secure nominations from at least 5% of Labour's constituency parties or three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.\n\nA timetable for the leadership election - and any rule changes - are set to be decided by the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) on Monday.\n\nThose contenders who - according to the admittedly limited polling we have - are more popular with the current left-wing membership would benefit from a more restricted timetable for the leadership contest.\n\nControl of the NEC in recent years has moved to the left, so it's unlikely the committee will want to be overly helpful to, say, arch-Corbyn critic Jess Phillips.\n\nBut a restricted timetable wouldn't just potentially help Rebecca Long-Bailey, who has been dubbed by critics as a \"continuity Corbyn candidate\".\n\nIt would likely also favour Sir Keir Starmer, whose pro-EU referendum stance and effective parliamentary performances seem to have, thus far, endeared him to a chunk of the largely pro-Remain membership.\n\nAt 38 years old, Ms Phillips is the youngest Labour MP to enter the leadership contest so far. She is also likely to be the only contender never to have held a position in the cabinet or shadow cabinet.\n\nShe has campaigned against Brexit, despite her Birmingham Yardley constituency, which she has represented since becoming an MP in 2015, opting for Leave in the 2016 referendum.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey have said they are considering running.\n\nWigan MP Lisa Nandy - who resigned from the shadow cabinet in 2016 after the Brexit referendum - is also considering throwing her hat into the ring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watson: I'm not the one to do Labour's post-mortem\n\nThere will also be an election for a new deputy leader, with shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon announcing his candidacy on Twitter, and shadow education secretary Angela Rayner receiving the backing of Ms Long-Bailey.\n\nEarlier, former deputy leader Tom Watson said the new leader's \"first task\" will be to explain why the party has not won an election for a decade.\n\nHe added that shadow cabinet members wanting to succeed Mr Corbyn will face \"particular pressure\" over the party's last manifesto.", "The off-duty officer answered the front door of his County Fermanagh home when the incident happened\n\nPolice believe \"organised criminal elements\" were behind the attempted murder of an off-duty officer in County Fermanagh on Thursday.\n\nThe officer was at home near Kesh when he was confronted at his front door by a masked man with a shotgun at about 02:00 GMT.\n\nMark Lindsay, chairman of the Police Federation, said the man pointed the gun at the officer and tried to fire.\n\nHowever, he said \"for some reason\" the gun did not go off.\n\nPolice said the officer had noticed movement outside his property in the Rosscah Road and Crevenish Road area, and went to the front door to investigate.\n\nThe suspect, described as being dressed entirely in black, fled on foot across nearby fields, close to a football club after the attack.\n\nPolice said they \"firmly believe that this disturbing incident was a failed attempt to kill a local police officer\".\n\nMr Lindsay said it was a \"worrying development\".\n\n\"I think this is a new departure, if this is the case, criminals are trying to confront police officers at their own homes and it isn't something we see a lot of,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to be looking at the PSNI to look at all lines here and see if they can nip this in the bud quickly.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Julie Mullan said investigators were \"keeping an open mind\" on the motive but that the \"primary line of enquiry is that organised criminal elements may be responsible\".\n\n\"There are no words to describe those who would creep through the dark of night with nothing but death and destruction on their minds,\" she added.\n\nMark Lindsay said the attack was \"appalling and cowardly\"\n\n\"Their action stand in stark contrast to those officers, including their intended target, who everyday police our communities with dignity, respect and courtesy.\"\n\nThe police have appealed for information.\n\nMr Lindsay said it was \"an appalling and cowardly act\" and the officer was fortunate to escape unhurt.\n\n\"From the information I have and from speaking to him, I believe that a shotgun-type weapon was pointed at him and an attempt made to fire that shotgun,\" he said.\n\n\"For some reason the gun hasn't gone off - nobody knows why that is.\"\n\n\"There should be no place for this type of Mafia-style behaviour,\" he added.\n\nPoliticians have also condemned the incident.", "Boris Johnson was not warned about the US airstrike in Iraq that killed a top Iranian general, the BBC understands.\n\nThe UK has 400 troops based in the Middle East and works alongside US forces in the region.\n\nBut President Donald Trump did not tell the UK PM about the attack he ordered that killed Qasem Soleimani on Friday.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has asked Mr Johnson to confirm what the UK was told before the airstrike.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, he asked whether, if it had been informed in advance, the government had expressed its opposition to the attack.\n\nHe also requested an urgent meeting of the privy council to discuss the airstrike's consequences, and asked what the government was doing to ensure the safety of UK nationals.\n\nMeanwhile Tory MP Tom Tugendhat said there was a \"pattern\" from the current White House not to share details with its allies, which was a \"matter of concern\".\n\nThe former chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee added: \"I have long believed the purpose of having allies is so we can surprise our enemies, not each other.\"\n\nThe death of Gen Soleimani \"will certainly be a huge blow to the Iranian regime\", but will \"doubtless have consequences\" elsewhere, Mr Tugendhat told BBC News.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab did speak to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, although the time of the call is not known.\n\nMr Pompeo tweeted that he was \"thankful that our allies recognise the continuing aggressive threats posed by the Iranian Quds Force\".\n\nMr Raab also issued a statement, urging \"all parties to de-escalate\" after the killing of Gen Soleimani.\n\nHe said the UK \"recognised the aggressive threat\" Gen Soleimani posed, but \"further conflict is in none of our interests\".\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office has warned British nationals to avoid any rallies, marches, or processions in Iran over the three days of national mourning the country has called for Gen Soleimani.\n\nAs well as troops, there are around 400 British personnel based in Iraq - where the strike took place.\n\nThe troops are there to train Iraqi forces tackling an Islamic State insurgency.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner earlier said he did not think anyone in the UK was given an indication the air strike was going to take place, adding: \"My sense is this has caught the British government largely by surprise.\"\n\nThe killing of Gen Soleimani marks a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran.\n\nIran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said \"severe revenge awaits the criminals\" behind the attack, but a statement from the Pentagon said Gen Soleimani \"was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said earlier that the \"US assassination\" was an \"extremely serious and dangerous escalation\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the UK \"should urge restraint\" from both Iran and the US - and called for the government to \"stand up to the belligerent actions and rhetoric coming from the United States\".\n\nHe added: \"All countries in the region and beyond should seek to ratchet down the tensions to avoid deepening conflict, which can only bring further misery to the region, 17 years on from the disastrous invasion of Iraq.\"\n\nThe acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, said Iran was governed by \"a brutal regime\", but accused President Trump of \"yet again radically and recklessly escalated tensions in an area where peace-keeping was already on a knife edge\".\n\nHe called for an immediate statement from Boris Johnson about the UK's position, adding: \"The UK should not automatically follow whatever position the Trump administration takes, but work with a broader group of concerned states at the United Nations.\"\n\nOther UK MPs have been reacting to the incident on Twitter.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said: \"For two years, I've warned about Trump's reckless lurch towards war with Iran. Last night's attack takes us even closer to the brink.\n\n\"Those of us who marched against the Iraq War must be ready to march again, and ensure we are not dragged into this morass.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas called for the UK government to condemn the killing and \"work with colleagues in the US to counter Trump's reckless and dangerous foreign policy\".\n\nAnd the deputy leader of Northern Ireland's Alliance Party, Stephen Farry, said it was \"time for cooler heads\".", "Rage Against The Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean will headline Coachella festival this year.\n\nIt's the first time since 2016 without a female headliner - Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Ariana Grande have each had a slot in the past three years.\n\nThe Californian festival is held over two weekends each April with the same line-up appearing over both of them.\n\nLana Del Rey and Megan Thee Stallion and Summer Walker are among the female performers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Coachella This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe line-up features a lot of British artists - from FKA Twigs and Lewis Capaldi to Calvin Harris, Slowthai, Dave and Yungblud.\n\nThom Yorke will be performing but without Radiohead, who headlined the festival in 2017. Next to his name is \"Tomorrow's Modern Boxes\" - a solo album from 2014.\n\nRun The Jewels, Rex Orange County, DaBaby and Flume are just a few of the other acts performing.\n\nHeadliner Frank Ocean hasn't performed at Coachella since 2012, before the release of debut album Channel Orange.\n\nThings are slightly different for him now - he's one of the 2010s' biggest acts and so popular that after rumours of an appearance at Camp Flog Gnaw festival, Drake was booed off stage when he came out instead of him.\n\nNicki Minaj, Diddy, Justin Bieber and NSYNC joined Ariana Grande on stage last year\n\nThe singer hasn't toured since the release of 2017's Blonde.\n\nRage Against The Machine meanwhile are headlining for the third time after doing the honours for the first-ever Coachella in 1999, and reuniting to do it again in 2007.\n\nChildish Gambino, Tame Impala and Ariana Grande were the top names for last year's festival, with Kanye West bringing his gospel Sunday Service sound on the Sunday as well.\n\nThe first weekend of Coachella is already sold out, with presale registration for the second weekend now open.\n\nCoachella takes place on the weekends of 10 and 17 April.\n\nBeyonce is one of only the four solo female headliners in Coachella's 20-year history.\n\nDespite Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Ariana Grande delivering consecutive must-see headline Coachella sets since 2016, it appears to be a short-lived tradition.\n\nThe festival has upped the number of female acts on the top tier of the line-up in recent years, a trend which continues into 2020.\n\nBut many will argue it's a missed opportunity to not give the likes of Lana Del Rey or FKA Twigs the chance to headline - especially given they released two of the most critically-acclaimed albums of last year.\n\nAlthough other festivals, including the teams behind Glastonbury and Spain's Primavera, have pledged for more gender-balanced line-ups, Coachella organisers haven't addressed calls for more female acts to be topping the bill.\n\nThat said, there's no denying there will still be excitement around some of the headliners.\n\nRage Against The Machine will only play a handful of smaller reunion shows before Coachella and Travis Scott has already been announced at several other festivals around his set, but Frank Ocean's appearance will gain a lot of attention for this year's festival.\n\nHe cancelled a run of shows in 2017, including four festival headline slots, around the release of his second album Blonde.\n\nThis time though, given the fact that (at the moment) this is his only confirmed show for 2020 and it doesn't come off the back of one of the most anticipated albums of the decade, the performance in April will be more manageable.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Testicular cancer can be treated successfully with fewer rounds of toxic chemotherapy drugs, doctors say.\n\nA study on 246 patients, reported in the journal European Urology, showed a single cycle of chemo was just as effective as the standard two cycles.\n\nBut the \"shorter, kinder and cheaper\" approach reduced the side-effects for cancer patients, scientists said.\n\nExperts believe having less chemotherapy would make a \"huge difference\" to quality of life.\n\nTesticular cancer is quite rare, affecting around 2,400 people in the UK each year.\n\nHowever, it is unusual in that it strikes relatively young men - it is the most common type of cancer in those aged between 15 and 49.\n\nThe overwhelming majority of people diagnosed (98%) survive for at least 10 years after the cancer is first detected.\n\nBut as it affects people relatively young, the side-effects of treatment could last a lifetime.\n\nThe study, by the Institute of Cancer Research, London and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, was trying to reduce side-effects.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Andrew Lowden's blog was shared widely, he launched #testicletuesday to raise awareness\n\nPatients in the trial - who were thought to be at high risk of the cancer coming back - were given just one course of chemotherapy.\n\nTwo years later, the cancer had recurred in only 1.3% of men - which is roughly the same number as those having the standard two courses.\n\nProf Robert Huddart, from the Institute of Cancer Research, said: \"Reducing the overall dose of chemotherapy could spare young men who have their whole lives ahead of them from long-term side-effects, and also means they will need fewer hospital visits for their treatment.\n\n\"This new trial is already changing clinical practice on a global scale.\"\n\nChemotherapy can damage the immune system, increasing the risk of infections, damage organs - including the kidneys - and affect fertility.\n\nProf Emma Hall, another scientist at the institute, said: \"Our study has found strong evidence to suggest that testicular cancer chemotherapy can be safely reduced from two cycles to just one - making their treatment shorter, kinder and cheaper.\"\n\nMartin Ledwick, Cancer Research UK's head information nurse, said: \"Providing men with a kinder treatment option linked to fewer side-effects could make a huge difference to their quality of life.\n\n\"As more and more people survive cancer, it's essential to carry out studies like this, which look at how to improve things for people living with - and after - the disease.\"", "Rami Malek won an Oscar for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody\n\nBohemian Rhapsody's success at the box office in 2018 was replicated in the living room last year.\n\nThe Freddie Mercury biopic was the biggest home video of 2019, selling 1.7 million copies in the UK.\n\nTwo-thirds of those copies were on DVD or Blu-Ray, with the rest coming from downloads.\n\nOverall, UK consumer spending on video grew by 9.5%, making it the fastest-growing entertainment sector, fuelled by the popularity of streaming.\n\nData compiled by the ERA (Entertainment Retailers Association) shows that physical video sales - which include DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K UHD - decreased from £616.9m in 2018 to £477.2m last year, a drop of 22.6%.\n\nBy contrast, digital video grew by 21.5% to £2.11bn in 2019, fuelled in part by increased take-up of services like Netflix and Amazon Prime.\n\n\"There is no doubt retailers of physical product had a tough time in 2019,\" said the Entertainment Retailers Association's CEO Kim Bayley.\n\nAccording to BASE (British Association for Screen Entertainment), \"the digital revolution... is increasingly permeating the choices consumers are making for owned media\".\n\nYet the organisation - previously known as the British Video Association (BVA) - says the physical disc is \"still the preferred choice for many fans, collectors and gifters\".\n\nThe greatest decline in the video sector is found in the physical rental of discs, which fell by almost 25% in 2019.\n\nYet this part of the market still generated £23.4m last year, despite firms like Blockbuster vanishing from the high street over the last decade.\n\nBohemian Rhapsody shifted almost 400,000 more units last year than its nearest competitor Avengers: Endgame, which sold just over 1.3 million copies.\n\nAvengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing film of all time in 2019\n\nOther titles in 2019's Top 10 of best-selling videos in the UK include Toy Story 4, Mary Poppins Returns and the Lady Gaga remake of A Star is Born.\n\n\"Video's digital renaissance is remarkable, but it is undeniable that physical formats are the key to scoring a blockbuster hit,\" said ERA CEO Bayley.\n\n\"Every one of the year's Top 10 biggest hits sold more on DVD and Blu-ray than they did digitally.\"\n\nThe data released on Friday follows confirmation on Wednesday that music consumption grew in 2019 for the fifth year in a row.\n\nFigures released by trade body the BPI show the music industry is now dominated by streaming, with sales of physical CDs continuing to decline.\n\nThe ERA said streaming revenues topped £1bn for the first time in 2019.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Switch on the television in Iran these days and it won't be long before you see General Qasem Soleimani.\n\nThe once reclusive head of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force has emerged from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations abroad, to achieve almost celebrity status in Iran.\n\nThe man who, until a couple of years ago most Iranians would not have recognised on the street, is now the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.\n\nOne music video widely shared in Iran was made by Shia militia fighters in Iraq. It shows soldiers spray-painting the general's portrait on a wall and parading in front of it while stirring music plays in the background.\n\nThe general himself is currently in Salahuddin province in northern Iraq, commanding Iraqi and Shia militias as they try to recapture the city of Tikrit from Islamic State (IS).\n\nIran's Fars News agency has published photographs of him with the troops, and militia sources in Iraq have told BBC Persian he has been there for some time helping the Iraqis prepare for the mission.\n\nIt is not the first time Gen Soleimani has faced the jihadists.\n\nIn neighbouring Syria he is widely credited with delivering the strategy that has helped President Bashar al-Assad turn the tide against rebel forces and recapture key cities and towns.\n\nIran has always denied deploying boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, but every now and then holds public funerals for security forces and \"military advisers\" who were killed in these two countries.\n\nQasem Soleimani has made a point of attending some of these ceremonies.\n\nIran and the United States may be arch-enemies on the ideological front, but the IS offensive in Iraq has led to indirect co-operation between the two.\n\nIt's a path Gen Soleimani has trodden before.\n\nIn 2001, Iran provided military intelligence to the US to support its invasion to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan, and in 2007 Washington and Tehran sent representatives to Baghdad for face-to-face talks over the deteriorating security situation there.\n\nGen Soleimani has risen to prominence directing the counter-offensive against IS in Iraq\n\nBack then former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki was battling spiralling sectarian violence.\n\nIn an interview for a BBC Persian documentary two years ago, former US ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker recalled the crucial behind-the-scenes role played by Gen Soleimani in the Baghdad talks.\n\n\"[Iran's ambassador to Iraq] called repeatedly for breaks,\" he said.\n\n\"I couldn't quite figure out why, and then later discovered that whenever I said something that he didn't have covered in his points, he would need to call back to Tehran for guidance - he was that tightly controlled. On the other end of the phone was Qasem Soleimani.\"\n\nMr Crocker also felt Gen Soleimani's influence when he served as US ambassador to Afghanistan.\n\n\"My Iranian interlocutors on Afghanistan made clear that while they kept the foreign ministry informed, ultimately it was Gen Soleimani that would make the decisions,\" he told the BBC.\n\nOver the last few years, Gen Soleimani's role in Iran's foreign affairs has become more public.\n\nHe is no longer the hidden figure at the end of the phone line.\n\nThese days he is the proud face of Iran, the go-to man when a crisis happens.\n\nLast month at the prestigious Fajr Film Festival in Tehran one of the winners dedicated his award to Gen Soleimani.\n\nIt was even announced that he would be one of the supervisors in the production of a new film Iran is making about his old adversary Saddam Hussein.\n\nBut not everyone is happy about the general's meteoric rise.\n\nIn December 2014 at the Manama Dialogue security summit, there was a sharp exchange of views between Canadian and Iranian participants over the role of Gen Soleimani.\n\nCanada's then-foreign minister, John Baird, branded him an \"agent of terror in the region disguised as a hero\" fighting IS.\n\nIran's former nuclear negotiator Hassan Mousavian rose to the defence, accusing the minister of \"spending time in palaces and luxury hotels while General Soleimani has risked his life to fight against IS terrorists\".\n\nInside Iran a campaign has started among conservative bloggers for Gen Soleimani to go into politics. They have dubbed him Iran's most honest and least corrupt politician and are calling for him to put his uniform aside and stand for president in 2017.\n\nEven the first deputy speaker of the Iranian Parliament has lent his support.\n\n\"His political analysis is no less than the Iranian Supreme Leader or Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Lebanese Hezbollah,\" said Mohammad-Reza Bahonar three months ago.\n\nBut not all Iranians share the enthusiasm.\n\nSome political activists are deeply worried at the prospect of the Revolutionary Guards taking control of the presidential palace.\n\nThey point to Egypt where the military have reasserted control, warning that the general now fighting Islamic State could turn out to be the \"al-Sisi\" of Iran.", "A 15-year-old boy has died after he was hit by a car in North Lanarkshire on New Year's Day.\n\nSteven Mcilquham was struck by a silver/grey Volkswagen as he crossed a street in Wishaw at about 21:30.\n\nHe died at the scene at Alexander Street, near Marshall Street. The driver initially failed to stop.\n\nPolice have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with road traffic offences and released him pending further enquiries.\n\nOfficers want to hear from anyone who may have seen the incident.\n\nInsp Scott Sutherland said: \"Our thoughts are with Steven's family and friends at this very sad time.\n\n\"Our enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the crash. I would ask that anyone who witnessed the crash or may have any relevant dash-cam footage to contact the police as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe road remained closed on Thursday as police investigated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US assassination of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani happened barely 24 hours ago, but the reaction is still flying thick and fast.\n\nIran has vowed retaliation, but so far there is no indication of what form that might take.\n\nPresident Trump said the strike was carried out to \"stop a war, not to start a war\" and that Iran was planning an imminent attack on the US.\n\nFollow all the latest updates in our main news story:\n\nAnd for more BBC analysis, start here:", "The off-duty officer answered the front door of his County Fermanagh home when the incident happened\n\nA 37-year-old man has been released on bail after being arrested over the attempted murder of an off-duty police officer on Thursday.\n\nThe officer was at home near Kesh, County Fermanagh when he was confronted at his front door by a masked man with a shotgun at about 02:00 GMT.\n\nPolice said the officer had noticed movement outside his property and went to the front door to investigate.\n\nThe attacker reportedly pointed the gun at the officer but it failed to fire.\n\nPolice said \"organised criminal elements may be responsible\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Julie Mullan said the officer was traumatised by the incident\n\nDet Ch Insp Julie Mullan said they \"firmly believe that this disturbing incident was a failed attempt to kill a local police officer\".\n\nThe suspect, described as being dressed entirely in black, fled on foot across nearby fields after the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mullan said the attack has had a huge impact on the officer and his family.\n\nShe added: \"He's being supported by his colleagues and ourselves and his family but he's traumatised by the incident.\"", "House prices rose by 1.4% over the course of 2019, according to the Nationwide, marking a relatively static year for property values.\n\nThe rise in the year to the end of December was the first time the annual increase in prices was above 1% for the whole year.\n\nSlow price growth would be welcomed by many first-time buyers.\n\nBut the building society's figures show that raising a deposit remains a significant hurdle.\n\nTo raise a deposit of 20% would take up the entire pre-tax annual income of a typical earner, the Nationwide said.\n\nThe building society, which draws the figures from its own mortgage data, said that house prices rose by 0.1% in December compared with the previous month. This meant the average home was valued at £215,282.\n\nRobert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, said that housing market activity had been slow but relatively stable during the year.\n\nStrong employment levels and historically cheap mortgages had maintained demand despite uncertainty in the economy, owing to the global picture and the debate over Brexit.\n\nHomes are being built for first-time buyers\n\nCommentators suggest the result of the general election should provide some short-term clarity over the Brexit process and some more demand for housing.\n\n\"These are early days for a bruised and fragile market, but with plenty of pent-up demand and supply, price growth may quickly accelerate past 2019's modest annual pace,\" said Jonathan Hopper, managing director of Garrington Property Finders.\n\n\"Nevertheless these first few months of 2020 will be all about establishing what the new norm really looks like in different parts of the UK.\"\n\nJonathan Samuels, chief executive of lender Octane Capital, said: \"London may have been the weakest performing region in 2019 but that may well change this year. The capital certainly won't be returning to the obscene growth rates of yesteryear but it may drag itself off the bottom of the table.\n\n\"The property market has entered 2020 on a positive note but all eyes will be on how the economy holds up as we exit the EU.\"\n\nPotential first-time buyers will not want prices to rocket, given the difficulty already in saving for a deposit.\n\nThe Nationwide suggests that anyone trying to put money aside for a 20% deposit to buy a typical first-time buyer property faces years of saving.\n\nIf they set aside 15% of their take-home pay each month it would take more than five years to raise the money for a home in the North of England and Scotland.\n\nIn Wales and Northern Ireland, it would take prospective buyers nearly seven years, and almost eight years for people living in the West Midlands.\n\nThat increases to nearly a decade in the South of England, and around 15 years in London, the building society said.\n\nAs a result of that pressure, a greater proportion of first-time buyers now rely on financial assistance from family and friends.", "Nick Ramsay was elected as an AM for Monmouth in 2007\n\nAssembly Member Nick Ramsay has been suspended from the Welsh Conservative party and its assembly group following a \"police incident\" at his home.\n\nIt is understood Mr Ramsay, 44, was arrested on Wednesday night.\n\nThe party was informed on Thursday morning and Mr Ramsay was suspended from the Welsh assembly Conservative group and the party.\n\nA party spokesman confirmed there was a police incident at the Monmouth AM's home on Wednesday night.\n\nMr Ramsay, who was elected in 2007, is the shadow finance minister and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.\n\nA Welsh Conservative spokesman said: \"Nick Ramsay has been suspended from the Welsh Conservative Group in the National Assembly for Wales and from the Conservative Party following an incident which took place yesterday.\n\n\"The suspension will be reviewed following consideration of the matter by external agencies.\n\n\"We will not be making any further comments at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Corden speaks to the BBC's Colin Paterson about being back in Barry Island and why he decided it was time for a reunion\n\nThe Gavin and Stacey Christmas special was the UK's most-watched scripted TV programme of the 2010s, new audience figures show.\n\nIn total, 17.1 million viewers tuned in to the comeback episode live or on catch-up during the subsequent week, according to the consolidated ratings.\n\nOnly sporting events and the 2010 X Factor final were watched by more people during the past decade.\n\nAnd it was the most-watched comedy since Only Fools and Horses in 2002.\n\nDel Boy and Rodney's penultimate Christmas Day special was watched by 17.4 million people, according to ratings body Barb.\n\nAll the original cast returned for the Christmas special\n\nThe new episode of Gavin and Stacey, written by and starring James Corden and Ruth Jones, was the centrepiece of BBC One's Christmas schedule and revisited Gavin, Stacey, Smithy, Nessa and their clans nearly 10 years after they left our screens.\n\nThe BBC said there had been 4.4 million requests for the programme on iPlayer, including 1.4 million from viewers aged 16-34 - a record first week for any episode.\n\nGavin and Stacey began on BBC Three in 2007 and ran for three series until 1 January 2010. At that time, the then-finale was watched by 10 million people.\n\nThe comeback episode's success - and its cliffhanger ending - have left the door wide open for another visit to Barry Island in the future.\n\nOscar Hartland, 10, who played Neil the Baby both during the original run and in the new Christmas special, said James Corden had told him the show could return.\n\n\"I did ask James in the process of filming but he said, 'It's just [whether it's] what the people want'. Me, I would love it to happen. It really depends what other people think about it and if they like it or not.\"\n\nJones told The Sun it was \"complicated\" to get together to write with Corden, who now hosts a late-night talk show on US TV network CBS.\n\n\"I do say never say never, as while we did make it work that was after three years of trying to find time when we could sit down and write it,\" she said. \"Obviously with the way it ends, there is room for more.\"\n\nCommenting on the ratings, BBC director of content Charlotte Moore said: \"Gavin and Stacey has been a phenomenal hit this Christmas breaking records to become the biggest scripted show of the decade, and the biggest first week for any episode on BBC iPlayer for young audiences ever.\n\n\"Congratulations to James Corden, Ruth Jones and all the team.\"\n\nDirector general Tony Hall said the BBC iPlayer had received more than 100 million requests in total over the Christmas week - up by more than a third compared with the previous year.\n\nYou can watch the full show on BBC iPlayer and take a look behind the scenes at how the special was filmed.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The IRGC is estimated to have more than 190,000 active personnel\n\nIran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) was set up 40 years ago to defend the country's Islamic system, and to provide a counterweight to the regular armed forces.\n\nIt has since become a major military, political and economic force in Iran, with close ties to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many other senior figures.\n\nThe IRGC is estimated to have more than 190,000 active personnel, boasts its own ground forces, navy and air force, and oversees Iran's strategic weapons.\n\nIt also controls the paramilitary Basij Resistance Force, which has helped suppress domestic dissent, and the powerful bonyads, or charitable foundations, which run a considerable part of the economy.\n\nThe IRGC exerts influence elsewhere in the Middle East by providing money, weapons, technology, training and advice to allied governments and armed groups through its shadowy overseas operations arm, the Quds (Jerusalem) Force.\n\nThe US accuses the Quds Force of supporting terrorist organisations and being responsible for attacks in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East that have resulted the deaths of hundreds of American and allied military personnel.\n\nOn 3 January 2020, the US killed the Quds Force's powerful commander, Major General Qasem Soleimani, in a drone strike in Baghdad. The defence department said he had orchestrated a rocket attack in Iraq that killed an American contractor and was \"actively developing plans to attack\" American diplomats and troops in the region.\n\nBefore the 1979 revolution, Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi relied on military might to ensure national security and to safeguard his power.\n\nAfterwards, the new Islamic authorities, headed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, realised they too needed a powerful force committed to consolidating their leadership and revolutionary ideals.\n\nThe IRGC was set up after the 1979 Iranian revolution to defend Iran's Islamic system\n\nThe clerics therefore produced a new constitution that provided for both a regular Military (Artesh), to defend Iran's borders and maintain internal order, and a separate Guard Corps (Sepah-e Pasdaran), to protect the Islamic system.\n\nIn practice, these roles have often overlapped, with the IRGC also helping to keep public order and developing its own army, navy and air force.\n\nDespite having an estimated 230,000 fewer troops than the regular military, the IRGC is considered the dominant military force in Iran and is behind many of the country's key military operations. The IRGC's overall commander, currently Major General Hossein Salami, and other senior officers routinely advise the supreme leader.\n\nThe IRGC navy is tasked with patrolling the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway connecting the Gulf to the Indian Ocean through which 20% of the world's oil supply passes.\n\nThe force's small boats have intercepted US warships that it says have approached Iran's territorial waters, and detained or diverted international shipping.\n\nThe IRGC's air force, which does not generally operate combat aircraft, is meanwhile responsible for Iran's missiles.\n\nThe US has said Iran has the largest ballistic missile force in the Middle East, with more than 10 ballistic missile systems either in its inventory or in development, and a stockpile of hundreds of missiles.\n\nIn 2018, ballistic missiles were fired at an Iranian Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq and at Islamic State group positions in Syria.\n\nBut perhaps the most prominent IRGC entity in recent years has been the Quds Force, which Iran's government is said to use to implement its foreign policy goals.\n\nIran has acknowledged the role of the Quds Force in the conflicts in Syria, where it has advised forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and armed thousands of Shia Muslim militiamen fighting alongside them, and Iraq, where it has backed a Shia-dominated paramilitary force that helped defeat IS.\n\nThe conflicts turned the once-reclusive commander, General Soleimani, into a something of celebrity in Iran.\n\nThe Trump administration has alleged that the Quds Force is also \"Iran's primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting\" US-designated terrorist groups across the Middle East - including Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and Palestinian Islamic Jihad - by providing funding, training, weapons, and equipment.\n\nThe Quds Force has also been accused by the US of plotting or carrying out terrorist attacks, directly or through its proxies, in five out of seven continents.\n\nIn 2011, the Quds Force was allegedly involved in a plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US by bombing a restaurant in Georgetown. And last year, a court in Germany convicted a Quds Force operative of spying on the former head of a German-Israeli group and people close to him.\n\nSuch alleged activities prompted the United States in April 2019 to designate the IRGC as a \"foreign terrorist organisation\" - the first such designation of an official military force. At the same time, the US tightened its sanctions on Iran's oil exports, further weakening its economy.\n\nIn response, Iran began a counter-pressure campaign. The IRGC's forces shot down a US military surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz in June and seized a British-flagged tanker in the same area the following month.\n\nThe US also accused Iran of being behind a series of explosions that damaged six tankers in the Gulf of Oman in May and June; drone and cruise missile attacks on two Saudi oil facilities in September; a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base used by US troops on 27 December that killed the American contractor. Iran denied any involvement.\n\nThere was a serious escalation in the confrontation between the US and Iran following the rocket attack.\n\nOn 29 December, the US carried out air strikes on five bases in Iraq and Syria associated with the Iran-backed Iraqi militia that it believed fired the rockets, Kataib Hezbollah. The strikes killed at least 25 militia fighters and sparked violent protests outside the US embassy in Baghdad.\n\nFive days later, a US Reaper drone fired missiles at a convoy leaving the city's international airport, killing General Soleimani and several militia leaders, including Kataib Hezbollah chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.\n\nThe IRGC also has a powerful presence in Iran's civilian institutions.\n\nIt controls the Basij Resistance Force (Mobilisation of the Oppressed), an Islamic volunteer militia of about 100,000 men and women. The Basij are loyalists to the revolution who are often called out onto the streets to use force to dispel dissent.\n\nThe IRGC and Basij were prominent in putting down the mass opposition protests that erupted in 2009 after the disputed re-election of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Dozens of opposition supporters were killed and thousands detained.\n\nThe IRGC's popular power, combined with the strong support of Ayatollah Khamenei, has made it a key player in Iranian politics.\n\nFormer IRGC officers occupy or have occupied influential positions in government, parliament and other bodies, among them Mr Ahmadinejad, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, and Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Expediency Council.\n\nThe former overall commander, Major General Mohammad Ali Jaafari, openly opposed the concessions made by moderate President Hassan Rouhani during the negotiations that led to Iran's 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers.\n\nThe IRGC is also thought to control around a third of Iran's economy through a series of subsidiaries and trusts.\n\nApart from military industries, the IRGC is active in housing development, dam and road construction, oil and gas projects, food, transportation and even educational and cultural activities.\n\nThe IRGC's engineering wing - Khatam-ol-Anbia (Seal of the Prophet), also known by an acronym, Ghorb - is reported to have tens of thousands of employees and has been awarded billions of dollars of construction and engineering contracts.\n\nPresident Rouhani, who has faced protests over the state of Iran's economy, has on many occasions criticised the IRGC's sprawling business empire. He once called it a \"government with a gun\" that had \"scared\" the public sector.", "The PM's senior adviser has called for changes to how government works, saying there are \"profound problems\" with how decisions are made.\n\nIn a blog post, Dominic Cummings said the civil service lacked people with \"deep expertise in specific fields\".\n\nHe said he wanted \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government.\n\nBut a civil servants' union said currently staff were recruited on merit and \"because of what you can do, not what you believe\".\n\nThe union also said recruiting world-class experts is hampered by the \"government's failure to pay a market rate\".\n\nIn an unusual move, Mr Cummings also called for people keen to work in Downing Street to get in touch with him via a private Gmail address.\n\nThe former Vote Leave campaign director said he wanted to hear from \"an unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds\", some to work as special advisers and \"perhaps some as officials\".\n\nHe said No 10 was keen to recruit data scientists, software developers and economists to improve the performance of government.\n\nMr Cummings added that the Conservatives' 80-seat majority meant ministers would try to solve political problems without worrying about \"short-term unpopularity\".\n\n\"The point of this government is to do things differently and better and this always looks messy,\" he wrote.\n\n\"We do not care about trying to 'control the narrative' and all that New Labour junk.\"\n\nHe added that officials should be encouraged to stay in their roles for longer so that they are able to build up expertise in particular policy areas.\n\n\"Shuffling some people who are expected to be general managers is a natural thing but it is clear Whitehall does this too much,\" he said.\n\n\"There are not enough people with deep expertise in specific fields.\"\n\nResponding to the blog, the FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said Mr Cummings had not clarified how new recruits would be selected or what their role within government would be.\n\nDave Penman, the union's general secretary, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The civil service is recruited on merit, it's a really fundamental principle.\n\n\"You are employed in the civil service because of what you can do, not what you believe.\"\n\n\"If you surround yourself with people who are recruited simply because they believe the same as you believe, and whose employment is at your behest, is that the best way for the civil service or advisers to speak truth unto power?\n\n\"I don't think it is, and I think some of those approaches are quite dangerous as well.\"\n\nIn a statement, he added: \"It would be ironic if, in an attempt to bring in radical new thinking, Cummings was to surround himself with like-minded individuals - recruited for what they believe, not what they can do - and less able to provide the robust advice a minister may need, rather than simply the advice they want.\"\n\nMr Penman also said senior officials moved between different jobs in an effort to boost their pay after a \"decade of pay restraint\" within the civil service.\n\nMr Cummings's desire to recruit experts might prove difficult because of pay rates, he added, which he said were \"typically half of those paid elsewhere\".\n\n\"All senior civil service roles are already open to external competition, yet time and again, government's failure to pay a market rate restricts the pool,\" he added.\n\n\"There's no word on this in his blog, or on addressing the longer term pay restraint that has created these issues.\"\n\nIt comes after Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the Conservatives' election manifesto, said \"seismic\" changes to the civil service were being planned by No 10.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Ms Wolf said Mr Cummings believed changing how government works was a \"prerequisite\" to delivering on promises made to the voters by the Conservatives during last month's election campaign.\n\nShe said officials should get more training in science-related skills, and \"reorient\" policy decisions towards the public rather than \"special interests\".\n\nShe also added that regularly moving civil servants between different departments \"kills institutional memory and expertise\".", "A US judge has awarded $12.8m (£9.8m) to 22 unnamed women, ruling that they were tricked into appearing in widely distributed online porn videos.\n\nSome of the models duped by the owners and operators of the GirlsDoPorn website had become suicidal, he said.\n\nThey were told the videos were for a private collector or overseas DVDs, according to the 181-page judgement.\n\nThe women - aged 18-23 when they shot the videos - were also assured the videos would never appear online.\n\nBut they were uploaded to GirlsDoPorn's subscription-based amateur porn website, and clips were shared on some of the world's most popular free-to-view adult websites.\n\nSan Diego Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright ordered GirlsDoPorn chief executive Michael Pratt, 36, videographer Matthew Wolfe, 37, and porn actor Ruben Garcia, 31, to take the videos down from GirlsDoPorn and take steps to get them removed from other sites too.\n\nGirlsDoPorn markets itself on the premise that the women in the videos are not professional porn stars.\n\nIt claims to feature women filming their first and only porn videos, and many of the women on the site are students in need of extra money, according to court documents.\n\nDue to the one-time-only amateur paradigm, GirlsDoPorn required a constant stream of new models to keep the content on the website fresh.\n\nThe San Diego court ruled that the site used fraudulent practices to recruit new models including taking \"calculated steps to falsely assure prospective models that their videos will never be posted online, come to light in the United States, or be seen by anyone who might known them\".\n\nThe website operators had also assured models that their real names would never be linked to the videos.\n\nHowever, the court heard evidence that the accused had shared private and identifying information about the models on third-party forums that resulted in some of them and their families, being harassed online.\n\nIn a bid to recruit new talent, GirlsDoPorn persuaded former models to text words of reassurance to prospective models who were worried that the videos might be posted online.\n\nOn the day of the shoot, models were often given alcohol and cannabis before being asked to sign an eight-page contract.\n\nJudge Enright awarded the 22 women $9.48m in compensatory damages and $3.3m in punitive damages. Each woman will receive $300,000 to $550,000.\n\nHe said that the videos had become common knowledge to the women's friends and family due to the tactics used by those behind GirlsDoPorn.\n\n\"As a result, plaintiffs have suffered and continue to suffer far-reaching and often tragic consequences,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Collectively, they have experienced severe harassment, emotional and psychological trauma, and reputational harm; lost jobs, academic and professional opportunities and family and personal relationships; and had their lives derailed and uprooted,\" he continued.\n\n\"They have become pariahs in their communities. Several plaintiffs have become suicidal.\"\n\nJudge Enright gave both sides 15 days to appeal against his decision.\n\nThe defendants also face criminal charges filed in federal court in October.\n\nThe allegations filed against them are the same as those in the civil case.\n\nWolfe and Garcia are currently in federal custody. Pratt is a fugitive believed to be in New Zealand, his home country.\n\n\"Our clients were real,\" said Ed Chaplin, the lawyer representing the women, according to CourtHouseNews.\n\n\"They had similar stories because the defendants told the same lies to everyone,\" he said.\n\n\"I sat and talked to a lot of women. My heart just wept for them, how their lives have been impacted by this and how they were sucked into doing what they did.\n\n\"The attitude these defendants expressed when the women complained [and] the scheme to shut them up was despicable.\"\n\nCourtHouseNews reported that lawyers for GirlsDoPorn declined to comment when approached.", "Police said they were interviewing several witnesses to the fatal attack\n\nOne person was killed and two were injured in a knife attack near Paris, with the attacker shot dead by police.\n\nA man, 22, stabbed passers-by in a park in Villejuif, about 8km (5 miles) south of the French capital, on Friday.\n\nHe was later identified by prosecutors as Nathan C, a 22-year-old with a history of mental illness for which he had been admitted to hospital.\n\nAccording to French media, witnesses heard him say that he was \"out of medication\".\n\nProsecutors said that some religious items were later found in his bag, but that there was \"no evidence at this stage suggesting he was radicalised\".\n\nThe attack took place at about 14:00 local time (13:00 GMT) at Hautes-Bruyères park, and the targets appeared to have been chosen at random.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the victims.\n\n\"I extend my support to the victims of the attack, their families and the police,\" he said. \"We resolutely pursue the fight against indiscriminate violence and our fight for the security of all French people.\"\n\nThe mayor of Villejuif, Franck Le Bohellec, said the deceased victim was a 56-year-old man who was out walking in the park with his wife at the time of the attack.\n\nHe died trying to protect her, the mayor said. She was seriously injured.\n\nFrance's Deputy Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, who later visited the scene, praised the police response, calling it \"extremely courageous\".\n\nPolice cordoned off the area near the Hautes-Bruyères park", "The new cash will go to every school and college in Wales to pay for free sanitary products\n\nEvery school and college in Wales will have access to £3.1m in new funding to prevent \"period poverty\" in 2020.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would make the cash available to ensure there are free sanitary products for any learner who needs them.\n\nIt is the second year money has been allocated to address the issue.\n\nA further £220,000 will be available to councils to put the products in libraries and community hubs for women unable to afford them.\n\nPlaid Cymru councillor Elyn Stephens, who has campaigned on period poverty, welcomed the money but said she wanted rules implemented over how councils spend it, to avoid a \"postcode lottery\" in accessing sanitary products.\n\nThe funding follows a series of campaigns by local authorities and youth campaigners in Wales to highlight the issue for young women struggling to pay for sanitary goods.\n\n\"It's just ensuring a girl's period isn't a barrier to her succeeding in life,\" said members of a youth council who have been working on a period poverty campaign in Carmarthenshire.\n\nAmber and Rebecca, from the Carmarthenshire Youth Council, said the problem was highlighted during discussions at a UK Youth Council meeting.\n\n\"It shocked all of us really, when we learnt young girls within the county were missing out on education and that one-in-10 girls aged 14 to 21 in the UK couldn't afford sanitary products, so as a youth council we decided to set up a period poverty campaign.\n\n\"In every school we've being delivering boxes which have free packs of tampons and sanitary towels which young girls can then access at any time in the school day.\"\n\nSchool pupils in Carmarthenshire have been distributing sanitary products in the county\n\nThey also joined forces with the high street cosmetics chain The Body Shop, in Carmarthen, to ensure women and girls have access to free period products every day, not just when they are in school.\n\nRebecca added: \"It's really sad that there's stigma and young girls may feel embarrassed to go ask for help, so by us putting this into place in the schools, youth groups and in the Body Shop, young girls can go access the products and don't have to have the stigma anymore.\"\n\nRhondda Cynon Taff councillor Elyn Stephens, who has first-hand experience of period poverty, said she was \"over the moon\" about the cash injection but did not want it spent by councils \"as they will\".\n\n\"It could become a postcode lottery on how you're able to access sanitary products,\" she said.\n\nAccess was important, Ms Stephens said, as it could affect girls' education.\n\n\"When we send out questionnaires to our pupils, we find that it has a high impact on their attainment while in school,\" she said.\n\nMs Stephens also said she believed it was important the use of the money was reviewed: \"We need to do research into what's working and what's not.\"\n\nThe new funding is part of the draft budget proposals by the Welsh Government, and follows £2.3m already made available to Welsh schools in 2019.\n\nThe Welsh Government Deputy Minister and Chief Whip Jane Hutt said: \"We've made considerable progress in tackling period poverty in 2019 and the £3.3m for 2020-21 will mean we can continue to ensure period dignity for every women and girl in Wales by providing appropriate products and facilities.\n\n\"It's heartening to see young people taking on this issue and working within their schools and communities to combat the stigma and taboos which unfortunately still exist today.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A series of new records for high temperature were broken in the UK in 2019, concluding a record-breaking decade, the Met Office has said.\n\nThe last decade was the second hottest in the past 100 years in the UK, with eight new high-temperature records set.\n\nFour new UK records were set last year alone, including the highest winter and summer temperatures ever recorded.\n\nDr Mark McCarthy, from the Met Office in Exeter, said it was \"a consequence of our warming climate\".\n\nThe 2010s were the second hottest and second wettest of the \"cardinal\" decades (those spanning years ending 0-9) in the last 100 years of UK records.\n\nIn both cases, the 2010s were slightly behind 2000-2009, which holds the record for the hottest and wettest decade.\n\nThe Met Office said this was partly because of a cold year in 2010, but added that such years occur much less frequently now than in the past.\n\nLast year, a maximum of 21.2C was reached on 26 February, in London - the hottest February day ever recorded.\n\nOn 25 July, temperatures then reached 38.7C in Cambridge - the UK's highest-ever recorded temperature.\n\nThe third record-breaker for 2019 was for the highest daily minimum temperature in February - a temperature of 13.9C recorded on 23 February in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nThe hottest December day is also likely to have been exceeded last week, with a provisional temperature of 18.7C recorded in the Highlands of Scotland on 28 December - although the figure still needs to be validated.\n\nOverall, the UK was warmer, wetter and sunnier than average in 2019, the Met Office said.\n\nIt said 2019 was provisionally the 11th warmest year on record, with a mean temperature of 9.42C, putting it just outside the top 10 - all of which have all occurred since 2002.\n\nAcross the decade - from 2010 to 2019 - other record monthly temperatures were recorded on 1 October 2011 in Kent (29.9C) and 1 November 2015 in Ceredigion (22.4C).\n\nRecord highest daily minimums were reached on 25 January 2016 in County Londonderry (13.1C) and 19 April 2018 (15.9C) in Greater London. The 13.9C temperature reached in the Highlands in 2019 was also among these highest daily minimums for the decade.\n\nAlso in the record books was the coldest March day on record, when the \"Beast from the East\" struck in 2018.\n\nThe summer hot spell led to speed restrictions on the railways\n\nHowever, Dr McCarthy, the head of the Met Office's National Climate Information Centre (NCIC), said it was \"notable how many of these extreme records have been set in the most recent decade\".\n\nHe also noted \"how many more of them are reflecting high rather than low temperature extremes\".\n\nHe warned the trend was likely to continue, adding: \"We would expect these sorts of records subsequently to be broken in the future.\"\n\nHe said: \"We are expecting to see an increase in winter rainfall, so wetter winters and drier summers - but we could still experience some dry winters and wet summers.\"\n\nA government spokesman said climate change was a \"national priority\" and it was committed to increasing the momentum around environmental action.\n\n\"Since 1990, we have reduced our emissions by over 40% while growing the economy by over two thirds.\n\n\"But we are determined to do more to increase the momentum and drive ambitious action both in the run up to and at this year's COP26 talks in Glasgow.\"", "Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq.\n\nBut who was the man behind the 'shadowy figure'?\n\nRead more: Top Iranian general killed by US in Iraq", "Operation Midland lasted 18 months and cost the Met at least £2.5m\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog again over its investigation into false allegations of a VIP paedophile ring.\n\nThe referral relates to why it did not investigate two men - aside from main false accuser Carl Beech - said to have lied to Operation Midland in 2015.\n\nThe force ignored a recommendation to investigate the pair made by retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques.\n\nBeech is now serving 18 years in prison for perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe BBC revealed last year that senior officers ignored Sir Richard's recommendation regarding the men, who are known only as A and B.\n\nThe force has now referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), saying it failed to record a decision not to investigate the men \"to the standard required\".\n\nA spokesman for the IOPC said it will \"carefully assess\" the Met referral.\n\nThe new referral followed a complaint from ex-MP Harvey Proctor, who lost his job and home after being falsely accused.\n\nPreviously, the Met referred itself to the watchdog in 2016, and three officers were subsequently investigated for their role in applying for search warrants of suspects' homes. All three were cleared by the IOPC.\n\nBeech - who was known as \"Nick\" during the police investigation - made false allegations of sexual abuse and murder about a group of MPs, generals and senior figures in the intelligence services in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nOperation Midland, which was based on Beech's lies, lasted 18 months and cost the Met at least £2.5m.\n\nThe new referral followed a complaint from ex-MP Harvey Proctor\n\nIn October, Mr Proctor submitted a series of complaints to Northumbria Police - whose inquiry saw Beech jailed for 18 years for perverting the course of justice - but it passed them on to Scotland Yard.\n\nMr Proctor said the earlier IOPC inquiry had been a \"transparent stitch-up\" designed to exonerate the officers involved.\n\nThe Met dismissed most of the other complaints, but it has now announced that it will be making a new referral.\n\nIn a statement, the force said that records showed \"clear evidence\" of careful consideration and clear rationale for not commencing an investigation into A and B, but \"not of the explicit recording of this to the standard required\".\n\nIt added: \"Therefore, a complaint against the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] will be recorded and, given the understandable public interest in this case, will be voluntarily referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct\".\n\nWhen the earlier IOPC inquiry into Operation Midland concluded in July that no misconduct had taken place by three officers it led to criticism from Sir Richard Henriques.\n\nHe said that a criminal investigation was needed into how a judge had been misled when granting search warrants for the homes of Mr Proctor, D-Day veteran and former chief of the defence staff Lord Bramall, and widow of former home secretary Leon Brittan, Lady Diana Brittan.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick was also referred to the police watchdog last year\n\nIt was Sir Richard's damning 2016 report into Operation Midland that recommended the Met refer Carl Beech for investigation by an independent force.\n\nWhen Beech was subsequently investigated he was found to be a liar, a fraudster, and a paedophile.\n\nBut the retired judge also recommended that \"offences of attempting to pervert the course of justice be considered in the cases of A and B\" and it would be appropriate for another police force to carry out such investigations.\n\nHis report revealed that a senior Met officer, Steve Rodhouse, regarded A and B as liars, even at a time when he still regarded Beech as credible.\n\nHowever, when the Met closed Midland it had referred publicly to the existence of three complainants and said that \"officers have not found evidence to prove that they were knowingly misled\".\n\nIn December, the now Met Police Commisioner Dame Cressida Dick was referred to the police watchdog over whether she should have done more to correct a public statement in 2014 - by a senior detective - that Beech's allegations were \"credible and true\".\n• None VIP abuse 'lies' by two more men not investigated", "At least 5,000 children seeking special educational needs support (Send) are to have their cases reviewed after a London council landed a stinging rebuke from the local government ombudsman.\n\nConcerns about \"systemic failures\" in Richmond's Send department prompted the watchdog to take the highly unusual step of ordering the full-scale audit.\n\nThe ombudsman found missing documents, mislabelled files and protocols ignored while looking into three complaints.\n\nThe council which is usually found in the higher end of the education league tables, has agreed to undertake the review of its provision, which is run by an external company, Achieving for Children (AfC).\n\nThe watchdog's decision to act reflects the seriousness of the situation which its investigation uncovered.\n\nMichael King, local government and social care ombudsman, said the cases gave rise to serious concerns that there may be systemic failures within the processes operated by Richmond Council and AfC.\n\n\"I have published this report, in part, because other families may very well be affected by issues similar to those I have raised. I have now asked the council to undertake a full audit of its education provision and report back to me about what it finds,\" he said.\n\n\"If the council finds other children have been affected, it should take steps to ensure they do not miss out on the services they are entitled to receive by law.\"\n\nThe review will initially focus on the 1,500 children who are currently on education, health and care (EHC) plans. However, a further 3,500 are on the plans outside the council area, or are on some kind of special needs support.\n\nTheir provision will need to be checked to see if others were being denied services to which they were entitled.\n\nThere could be hundreds more families who are in the process of seeking special needs support, covering emotional and mental health needs, learning needs as well as disabilities, whose cases will need to be checked.\n\nRichmond has three months to complete the audit and six months to submit it to the ombudsman.\n\nWhen the ombudsman's investigators visited the council to inspect case files, they found documents missing, filed or named incorrectly, and protocols not being followed.\n\nThe safe keeping of documents is important because families can take months to obtain reports and assessments from professionals to justify the special needs support they are seeking.\n\nThe investigation found the council had three separate IT systems for managing information, one of which could only be accessed by a single member of staff.\n\nAnd in one of the cases, the ombudsman's investigation was only able to discover what had happened because the family had kept thorough records.\n\nNot only was support delayed and not provided for the children and young people involved in the ombudsman cases, statutory deadlines were missed. In addition, the education and wellbeing of young people suffered, and in some cases children were out of school for long periods.\n\nCommunication and case management was poor, with records being incomplete and vague, and a great deal of stress was caused to the families involved.\n\nOne family was awarded more than £9,000 for the loss of a year's education, inadequate provision and in recompense for time, trouble and distress caused.\n\nAnd in the third case a family had to pay for its own education psychologist report at a cost of £4,400.\n\nMany local authorities have struggled with changes ushered in by new legislation in 2014 which changed the way special needs are assessed and met.\n\nThe Commons Education Select Committee said in its report in October that children were being let down \"day after day\" as their parents faced a \"titanic struggle\" to get the support they need.\n\nIan Dodds, director of children's services for Richmond Council, said the report shows that there were significant failings for some children and young people.\n\n\"This does not reflect what I want to see in place for every child and young person,\" he said.\n\n\"Our sincerest apologies have been extended to the families of the children and young people the ombudsman has reported on.\"\n\nHe added that much had been achieved and significant investment was being made locally and that there was new leadership at the council.\n\nRichmond said it had improved its record-keeping system, was investing in a single administrative system and had increased investment in Send over the past few years.\n\nIt added that it has speeded up its processing of EHC plans and had appointed internal cross-council auditors to carry out the review of cases.\n\nThe council is also seeking feedback from new parent forums on the process of obtaining special needs support.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recovered artwork was put on display by police\n\nA painting discovered by chance last month is a Gustav Klimt original that was stolen nearly 23 years ago, Italian authorities have confirmed.\n\nThe painting, Portrait of a Lady, was taken from a gallery in the northern city of Piacenza in 1997.\n\nIt was thought to have disappeared for good until gardeners clearing away ivy found it concealed in an external wall at the same gallery.\n\nThe Klimt has an estimated value of at least €60m ($66m; £51m).\n\nWhy the painting was left in the wall at the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art is still a mystery.\n\n\"It is with no small emotion that I can tell you the work is authentic,\" said Prosecutor Ornella Chicca.\n\nShe said further tests would clarify whether the painting had been inside the wall space ever since it was stolen, or if it was placed there later.\n\nAfter those tests were complete the artwork would go back on display, Ms Chicca added.\n\nThe painting was found inside this recess in a wall at the gallery\n\nTo determine its authenticity, experts studied the painting under infrared and ultraviolet light and compared the images to those taken during tests in 1996.\n\n\"The correspondence between the images allowed us to determine that it's definitely the original painting,\" art expert Guido Cauzzi said.\n\nHe said the condition of the work was \"relatively good\", adding: \"It's gone through a few ordeals but only needs some routine care, nothing particularly complicated.\"\n\nPortrait of a Lady was painted in 1916-17 by Viennese artist Gustav Klimt towards the end of his life.\n\nIt was bought by Giuseppe Ricci Oddi in 1925 and kept in the gallery until it was stolen on 22 February 1997 amid preparations for a special exhibition.\n\nThe frame of the painting was discarded on the roof of the building to make it appear that thieves had broken in through the skylight. That was not the case as the skylight was too small for the painting to fit through.\n\nIn December, gardeners clearing ivy from a wall stumbled on a metal panel. Behind it lay a recess, within which was a black bag containing the missing painting.\n\nThe ivy covering the space had not been cut back for almost a decade, officials said.\n\nShortly before it was stolen, art student Claudia Maga revealed that it had been painted over another Klimt painting, Portrait of a Young Lady, which had not been seen since 1912.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe managed to prove her theory by persuading the Piacenza gallery's former director to have it X-rayed.\n\nThe original painting was of a young girl from Vienna who had died. Klimt had painted over the portrait when the girl died suddenly, to forget the pain of her death.", "Louise Tiffney went missing in Edinburgh in 2002\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering his mother, Louise Tiffney, who was last seen 17 years ago.\n\nSean Flynn, 36, was charged with murdering the 43-year-old, who disappeared after leaving her home in Dean Path, Edinburgh, in May 2002.\n\nHer remains were found near a stately home in Longniddry, East Lothian, on 2 April 2017.\n\nThe 36-year-old, whose address was given as Berlin in Germany, did not enter a plea.\n\nMr Flynn was cleared by a jury in 2005 after being accused of murdering Ms Tiffney.\n\nEarlier this month prosecutors won the right to charge him with murder under double jeopardy legislation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Victoria Atkins has spoken of her experiences of workplace sexual harassment, as she urged others to share their stories.\n\nIn one example, the minister revealed, someone had sent her an email \"that showed a great interest in my footwear\", after a public appearance.\n\n\"That was something that made me feel uncomfortable,\" she told LBC radio.\n\nThe government is surveying 12,000 people to find out the extent of workplace harassment.\n\nThe Government Equalities Office survey is part of an initiative to tackle the problem, including a new statutory code of practice for employers.\n\nMs Atkins said \"common sense\" was needed to determine what qualified as sexual harassment in the workplace.\n\nComments crossed the line when they made others feel \"intimidated, distressed or humiliated\", she told LBC.\n\nGiving an example, she said: \"Yesterday, I was wearing a very colourful skirt and everybody was saying how wonderful it looks. I did not take that as sexual harassment.\n\n\"But I was telling officials that, after a public appearance, I had an individual email about my footwear. It was in a way that showed a great interest in my footwear.\n\n\"And that was something that made me feel uncomfortable.\n\n\"I think common sense here will prevail and we just want to gather the evidence to see how people react to different types of behaviour.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier to BBC Breakfast, Ms Atkins said: \"This is not a debate about wolf-whistling or whatever. We have 15 categories of behaviour that are serious.\"\n\nShe said the government wanted to find out how people had been affected by harassment, and how they dealt with it, \"so that we can ensure that our workplaces are pleasant places to work\".\n\nMs Atkins added that she did not want to go into the details of the harassment she has been subjected to, adding: \"I'm not going to be defined by the grubby behaviour of the men that behaved like that towards me.\"\n\nThe minister was asked about Crystal Palace's woman goalkeeper Lucy Gillett, who said she had received sexist abuse during Sunday's Championship game at Coventry United.\n\nThe 25-year-old alleged that men in the crowd had called on the referee to \"check the gender\" of several Palace players.\n\nMs Atkins said: \"That is her workplace. The FA or referees should have acted on it.\n\n\"She and others are entitled to not have to put up with that sort of abuse. It's just not on.\"\n\nThe Football Association has been made aware of the incident, and is looking into it.\n\nA spokesperson said the organisation was \"committed to tackling homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in football at every level of the game\".", "Deborah Dugan started her role just five months ago\n\nThe chief executive of the Recording Academy, which organises the Grammy Awards, has been removed from her position just 10 days before this year's ceremony in Los Angeles.\n\nDeborah Dugan was placed on administrative leave following an allegation of misconduct, the Academy said in a statement.\n\nDugan had replaced former chief executive Neil Portnow, who caused controversy in 2018 when he suggested female artists should \"step up\" if they wanted to be recognised at the Grammys.\n\nShe was the Academy's first female president and, in an interview published this week, called her role \"the best job on the planet\".\n\nIn a statement, the Recording Academy said: \"In light of concerns raised to the Recording Academy board of trustees, including a formal allegation of misconduct by a senior female member of the Recording Academy team, the board has placed Recording Academy president and CEO Deborah Dugan on administrative leave, effective immediately.\n\n\"The board has also retained two independent third-party investigators to conduct independent investigations of the allegations.\"\n\nIt continued: \"The board determined this action to be necessary in order to restore the confidence of the Recording Academy's membership, repair Recording Academy employee morale, and allow the Recording Academy to focus on its mission of serving all music creators.\"\n\nBoard chairman Harvey Mason Jr will step into Dugan's role until the investigation reaches a conclusion.\n\nHe sent an email to members of the Academy on Thursday, assuring them that \"the Grammy Awards and all related activities will go forward as planned\".\n\nDugan is a former lawyer and record executive who previously ran Bono's charity Red, which works to combat Aids and other diseases in Africa.\n\nAccording to Variety magazine, the 61-year-old had met with resistance in her attempts to modernise the Recording Academy, with one unnamed source calling her removal a \"coup\".\n\nThe 62nd Grammy Awards are due to take place at Los Angeles' Staples Center on Sunday 26 January, hosted by Alicia Keys.\n\nPerformers on the night will include Billie Eilish, Camila Cabello, Bonnie Raitt, the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato and Rosalía.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's decision to step back from royal life sparked debate on BBC's Question Time.\n\nActor Laurence Fox clashed with an audience member, a university lecturer and race and ethnicity researcher, who said the way Meghan Markle had been treated in the press was \"racist\".", "Retail sales fell again in December as a Christmas shopping spree failed to materialise.\n\nSales volumes fell by 0.6% from November, the fifth month in a row without growth, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nIt comes amid worries about economic growth and forecasts that the Bank of England could cut interest rates soon.\n\nFood stores were hard hit, with the quantity bought falling by the biggest amount since December 2016.\n\n\"Anecdotal evidence from a number of stores stated that goods did not sell as well as expected,\" the ONS said.\n\nThe latest figures are published as UK High Streets continue to face tough trading conditions, with big chains such as Mothercare and Thomas Cook going bust in recent months.\n\nThe December 2019 figures, unlike those for the same month in 2018, include Black Friday sales, but the ONS said it had seasonally adjusted its data to account for this shift.\n\nTrading statements for the Christmas season from the country's biggest supermarkets had already indicated that households spent less on festive fare in 2019 than they had the previous year.\n\nSales at food stores fell 1.3% in December from the previous month, the ONS said.\n\nDepartment stores were also under pressure, with sales down 1.8% month-on-month, as were clothing stores, which saw a 2% fall in sales.\n\nThis is yet more proof, if it were needed, that December was tough for retailers. The so-called golden quarter was far from sparkling and it's clear that it failed to deliver what many businesses wanted.\n\nBlack Friday, which came late this year, really has shifted the pattern of spending, with sales simply being pulled forward instead of boosting overall spending.\n\nDespite wages now rising faster than inflation, and healthier household finances overall, retail isn't getting its share of spending from disposable income that it once did.\n\nBut amid the gloom, some retailers have done well by giving customers what they want as well along with selling the right products at the right price.\n\nHousehold goods and fuel were the only sectors that saw an increase. Online sales accounted for 19% of December's retail spending, up from 18.6% the previous month.\n\nLast week, the British Retail Consortium said 2019 had been the worst year for retailers since 1995.\n\n\"The picture we're seeing from trading figures is that shoppers reined in spending in the months ahead of Christmas, with the December monthly figure showing there was no festive bounce to make up for lost ground,\" said Ed Monk, associate director for personal investing at Fidelity International.\n\nAt the same time, Andrew Carlisle, managing director and UK retail consulting lead at Accenture, struck a more optimistic note. \"While these figures won't dispel concerns around the challenging UK retail climate, the picture is not all doom and gloom,\" he said.\n\n\"Consumer confidence rose to its highest since July last month, showing there could be better times ahead in 2020. Retailers will be hoping that an economic bounce and regulatory relief will see an upturn in fortunes.\"\n\nBut Capital Economics' UK economist Thomas Pugh said the figures added to worries about growth following this week's weak gross domestic product figures for November.\n\n\"December's outright fall in retail sales, despite a boost from the lateness of Black Friday, does not bode well for GDP growth in December and could nudge the MPC yet closer still to cutting rates at the end of the month,\" he said. A fall in inflation has also raised expectations a rate cut in on the cards.\n\nAfter the retail sales data was released, the pound reversed earlier gains and edged lower, another signal that the financial markets are expecting a rate cut.", "A dust cloud has rapidly swept across an Australian town, turning it red within minutes.\n\nLocals in Nyngan, New South Wales, filmed the event – which was caused by storm-generated winds.", "Prof Jonathan Shepherd believes that any moves to turn off CCTV in town centres would be \"highly irresponsible\"\n\nSwitching off CCTV cameras could lead to A&E departments being inundated with victims of serious assaults, a leading crime expert and surgeon has warned.\n\nCaerphilly council is considering cuts to surveillance funding while other councils are reviewing funding models.\n\nProf Jonathan Shepherd said any cutbacks would be \"highly irresponsible\" and put public safety at risk.\n\nCouncils said they were facing \"significant financial pressures\".\n\nLocal authorities are responsible for public CCTV as it not only records and monitors crime, but also issues like parking, litter, traffic and town centre management.\n\nBut in recent years some councils have cut surveillance spending in an attempt to save millions, and more proposals are being considered as they prepare to set their budgets for the next financial year.\n\nIn Caerphilly, the authority is considering switching off 26 of its public CCTV cameras, while in Neath Port Talbot the authority is proposing reducing how much it pays for cameras by getting the commercial sector to make up any shortfall to ensure there will be no reduction in CCTV service across the authority area.\n\nMeanwhile in Bridgend, proposals to turn off 92 cameras that monitor traffic and help prevent crime, have been put on hold after the Welsh Government increased funding for councils.\n\nBut the cuts could resurface in 2021-22 when a potential £370,000 cut is proposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage shows a police van chasing Ford's car, and later the vehicle crashing into the shelter\n\nChief Prosecutor for the Welsh Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Barry Hughes has said public and private CCTV was \"valuable\" when making difficult charging decisions.\n\nBack in 2017, a man who raped a woman while she was sleeping at Bridgend bus station, was only caught after CCTV operators spotted the incident and raised the alarm with police.\n\nThe victim had no recollection of the attack but camera operators raised the alarm and he was arrested nearby.\n\nAnd in 2015, CCTV showed the moment a driver crashed into a smoking shelter at a nightclub in Porthcawl, Bridgend, during a police chase, seriously injuring six people.\n\nCriminal barrister Andrew Taylor said CCTV had been used to track down and convict paedophiles.\n\nHe said it had been used in cases to pinpoint defendants at the scene of a crime, where chances of a conviction would have been \"tiny\" without the footage.\n\n\"This is a very important weapon in the armoury that police and investigators have in bringing people to justice,\" he said.\n\n\"Nobody tonight and this week is going to sleep safer in their beds if we start taking down CCTV.\"\n\nProf Shepherd pioneered the Cardiff Model, a scheme for reducing alcohol related violence which has been adopted across the world\n\nProf Shepherd, research director at Cardiff University's Violence Research Group, said having real-time monitored CCTV cameras in town centres allowed police to get to rows before they escalated.\n\nThe former facial surgeon, who has treated people with broken cheek bones and missing teeth after fights, said he feared more people would be seriously injured if cameras were switched off.\n\nProf Shepherd said while CCTV did act as a deterrent to some crime, most people were drunk or on drugs and were not aware that they were being watched by cameras at the time of an attack.\n\n\"As night follows day, the hospitals are going to see an increase in serious injuries,\" he said.\n\n\"It is completely irresponsible for a local authority to turn off CCTV, public safety and safety of the people they care for and provide services for should be a top priority.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV shows a tow rope being used to loosen the free-standing machine inside the store and pulling it out\n\nVictim Support said without CCTV vulnerable people would be put at risk in town centres, and less people would be caught for crimes.\n\nAlex Mayes, policy and public affairs lead, said: \"It is vital that victims of crime are able to utilise evidence that can support their cases, otherwise their access to justice may be hindered.\"\n\nBut South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Alun Michael said rather than cuts, the force was in talks with councils about how to get better quality CCTV and to make better use of the services.\n\n\"In some local authorities the kit is extremely out of date, it does not have sufficient high resolution for evidence,\" he said.\n\n\"I am confident we are not going to see the wholesale abolition of CCTV.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ramson was given a 12 month ban after admitting dangerous driving\n\nHe said while councils were facing pressures it was important that the coverage and quality of CCTV did not deteriorate as it acted as a deterrent and could be key for securing convictions.\n\nGwent PCC Jeff Cuthbert said it was a \"great shame that councils are being obliged to consider making such cuts\".\n\nA Caerphilly council spokesman said the authority currently monitors 153 cameras around the clock, but was considering turning some off due to \"significant financial pressures\".\n\n\"These savings proposals are currently our for public consultation and we will carefully consider the feedback we get from residents before making any final decision,\" he said.\n\nA Neath Port Talbot council spokesman said: \"Work is at an advanced stage to develop the current CCTV operating model in a way in which new income can be secured to sustain and if possible enhance the CCTV service into future years.\n\n\"There are no proposals to cut the service further.\"", "UK psychiatrists have said in a new report that they will never understand the risks and benefits of social media use on children's mental health unless companies hand over their data to researchers.\n\nIan Russell, who believes Instagram was partly responsible for his daughter Molly taking her life aged 14, speaks to BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty about why he's backing the research.", "Owen Jones was attacked during a night out to celebrate his birthday\n\nA man launched an unprovoked attack on Guardian columnist Owen Jones because of his sexuality and political views, a judge has ruled.\n\nJames Healy, 40, admitted assaulting Mr Jones by The Lexington pub in Islington last year but claimed it was because the 35-year-old had spilled his drink.\n\nHowever, Mr Jones said he \"absolutely did not\" spill the drink.\n\nAt the end of a two-day hearing, the judge ruled the attack could only have been due to his media profile.\n\nRecorder Judge Anne Studd QC said Healy, of Portsmouth, would have had \"plenty of opportunity to remonstrate\" with Mr Jones in the pub if he had spilled the drink but made no attempt to do so.\n\n\"This was a deliberate and targeted attack on Mr Jones personally,\" she said.\n\nFollowing Healy's arrest, a search of his home revealed a photograph of him performing a Nazi salute.\n\nThe court heard the photo showed him as a teenager but had been printed out in 2015.\n\nHealy, who has admitted affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, faced a trial of issue to determine his motivation for attacking Mr Jones.\n\nIn her ruling Judge Studd said that while it could not be proven Healy had been performing a Nazi salute in the photograph, she was \"sure that [Healy] holds particular beliefs that are normally associated with the far right wing\".\n\n\"I therefore propose to sentence Mr Healy on the basis that this was a wholly unprovoked attack on Mr Jones by reason of his widely published left-wing and LGBTQ beliefs by a man who has demonstrable right-wing sympathies,\" she said.\n\nMr Jones told the court some people see him as a \"hate figure\"\n\nMr Jones suffered cuts and swelling to his back and head and bruises all down his body in the assault which happened on his birthday night out on 17 August.\n\nIn his evidence at Snaresbrook Crown Court, the journalist said: \"I'm an unapologetic socialist, I'm an anti-racist, I'm an anti-fascist and I've consistently used my profile to advocate left-wing causes.\"\n\nMr Jones has almost one million Twitter followers, 125,000 followers on Instagram and 350,000 followers on Facebook.\n\n\"What I use these platforms for is to advocate left-wing ideas and a passion and unwavering commitment to opposing racism, fascism, Islamophobia and homophobia,\" he told the court.\n\n\"Almost every single day I am the subject of an unrelenting campaign [of abuse] by far-right sympathisers.\n\n\"They've come to see me as this hate figure in their ranks.\"\n\nMr Jones said he received death threats on a daily basis, adding: \"It's the combination of being left-wing, gay, anti-fascist - that's everything the far right hate.\"\n\nOwen Jones had been drinking in The Lexington in Islington\n\nDescribing the evening of the attack, Mr Jones said: \"My recollection is that I was saying goodbye to a friend and then I was on the floor completely disoriented.\n\n\"In those 10 seconds, I don't really remember what happened because I was attacked from behind, I had no sense of what was going to happen.\"\n\nWhen asked about the claim he had knocked Mr Healy's drink, he said: \"That absolutely did not happen.\n\n\"If I thought I had accidentally spilled someone's drink, I would apologise profusely, I would say, 'I'm so sorry' and I would insist - whether they liked it or not - on buying them another drink.\"\n\nThe court heard Healy has a string of convictions for football violence and is currently subject to a football banning order for encroaching on a pitch.\n\nHe also allegedly had a football hooligan flag adorned with SS symbols and a collection of pin badges linked to white supremacist groups.\n\nHealy told the court: \"I'm a hoarder. I never throw anything away. I just had them all that time tucked away in the back of a drawer.\n\n\"Bearing in mind they came into my possession in 1998, there was no internet back then, the information now is easily available.\n\n\"As far as I knew, they were connected to football and football violence.\"\n\nA date has yet to be set for Healy's sentencing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former police officer whose wife died five weeks after bowel surgery said he was \"knocked sideways completely\" when he received an anonymous letter highlighting blunders in her treatment.\n\nSusan Warby, 57, died at the West Suffolk Hospital on 30 August, 2018.\n\nDuring an inquest into her death, it was heard she had been given glucose instead of saline via an arterial line.\n\nThe hospital reportedly asked doctors for fingerprints and handwriting samples to identify the whistleblower.\n\nIn a statement, the Doctors' Association described the attempt by the hospital to find the letter writer as a \"witch hunt\".\n\nMrs Warby died at the West Suffolk Hospital in August 2018\n\nJon Warby said he received the letter two months after his wife's death.\n\nHe said he was \"quite surprised\" by the lengths the hospital reportedly went to to find its author.\n\nThe inquest in Ipswich heard both Suffolk Police and the hospital launched investigations into the letter at the request of the coroner.\n\nThe hospital said an investigation into the nature of Mrs Warby's care was already under way by the time the letter was sent.\n\nSuffolk's senior coroner Nigel Parsley said Mrs Warby's family acknowledged her death was the \"progression of a naturally occurring disease\" but wanted to know if \"errors may have had a contributory effect\".\n\nIt was heard Mrs Warby also suffered a punctured lung during a further operation to replace the arterial line with a line into a central vein.\n\nHer cause of death was recorded as multi-organ failure, with contributory causes including septicaemia, pneumonia and perforated diverticular disease, affecting the bowel.\n\nThe inquest into mother-of-two's death was adjourned so an independent medical witness can be brought in at the family's request.\n\nThe Doctors' Association said it was approached by medics who said the hospital had demanded both fingerprints and samples of handwriting.\n\nIt said clinicians claimed they were told if they refused that would be evidence of guilt.\n\n\"The witch hunt for a whistleblower following the tragic death of Mrs Warby highlights a deep-seated toxic culture at West Suffolk Hospital,\" it said.\n\nThe hospital said it would not comment until after the inquest had concluded.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lachlan, Jamie and Ewan MacLean have become the first three brothers to row any ocean, and the youngest trio to ever row the Atlantic\n\nThree brothers from Scotland have set three world records after rowing the Atlantic Ocean in just 35 days.\n\nJamie, Ewan and Lachlan MacLean are the first three brothers to row any ocean, and the youngest trio and the fastest trio to ever row the Atlantic.\n\nThey set off from La Gomera, in the Canary Islands on 12 December and have now completed the 3,000-mile trip to Antigua.\n\nPreviously, the fastest a trio had ever rowed the Atlantic Ocean was 41 days.\n\nThe MacLean brothers, known as Broar, overcame seasickness, battery issues, storms, dehydration and exhaustion to reach Antigua in record time.\n\nLachlan, Jamie and Ewan MacLean have become the first three brothers to row any ocean, and the youngest trio to ever row the Atlantic\n\nOriginally from Edinburgh, the brothers finished third overall (first among trios) in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, beating many teams of four and five.\n\nThey had to row the last 20 days without any music, podcasts or audiobooks, as their iPhone cables succumbed to damage caused by a combination of sun and seawater. However, being musicians, they kept themselves entertained with a bagpipe, harmonica and ukelele on board.\n\nJamie and Lachlan, students at the Glasgow University and Glasgow School of Art respectively, convinced their brother Ewan, a design engineer for Dyson in Bristol, to take a sabbatical from work to make this world record attempt.\n\nThe 27-year-old said: \"They had to twist my arm but I will be forever grateful to my brothers for convincing me to do this.\n\n\"This was, without doubt, the defining experience of my life. It was incredibly difficult but the way we came together, the way our bodies and minds coped with every single challenge, will stay with me for a long time.\n\n\"It definitely tested our relationship, but it was remarkable how we were able to lift each other up as we struggled. It's brought us closer together, although I am looking forward to getting to see and talk to some different people.\"\n\nThe MacLean brothers, known as Broar, overcame seasickness, battery issues, storms, dehydration and exhaustion to reach Antigua in record time.\n\nThe MacLean brothers developed a love for the outdoors during summers spent in Nedd in Sutherland. Once they come home to Scotland, they plan to head back to Nedd to plan their next adventure.\n\nThey completed the challenge in 35 days nine hours and nine minutes.\n\nThey are hoping to raise £250,000 for Feedback Madagascar and Children First.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister has addressed ongoing tensions between the US and Iran in an interview with BBC Breakfast.\n\nBoris Johnson said that \"clearly Iran made a terrible mistake\", but added that the \"most important thing is tensions in the region calm down\".\n\nIranian President Hassan Rouhani, has called the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people an \"unforgivable error\".\n\nThe incident followed the killing of Gen Qasem Soleimani, Iran's second most powerful man, in a US drone strike in Iraq.\n\nRead more: PM urges Trump to come up with new Iran plan\n\nWatch the full interview with the prime minister on BBC iPlayer.", "Grenfell Tower families have raised concerns to the PM about a potential conflict of interest involving a member of the inquiry into the disaster.\n\nBenita Mehra will join chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick for the inquiry's second phase, which begins this year.\n\nThe Guardian has revealed Ms Mehra ran a charity that received funding linked to US firm Arconic, which supplied the cladding that helped the fire spread.\n\nSeventy-two people died during the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nShah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the fire, told the BBC: \"We have to look into it and see what the facts are and, if there's a conflict interest, I'm afraid she has to go. She has to be replaced.\n\n\"She's going to be sitting on panel judging and analysing things and we can't have any sort of conflict of interest.\"\n\nHe added that, in a meeting with bereaved families on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to \"listen, look into it and he'd come back to us\".\n\nA report - following the first phase of the public inquiry into the fire - found in October last year that the tower block's cladding did not comply with building regulations and was the \"principal\" reason for the fire's rapid and \"profoundly shocking\" spread.\n\nArconic said the grant was made by its charitable arm, the Arconic Foundation, which is \"an independently endowed and managed foundation\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"It's part of Arconic Foundation's mission to create access to these fields for girls and women all over the globe. The grant we awarded in 2017 to this particular UK association was purely on this basis.\"\n\nMs Mehra, a civil engineer, was appointed to the Grenfell Tower inquiry panel shortly before Christmas, replacing academic Professor Nabeel Hamdi.\n\nIt has since emerged that Ms Mehra is an immediate past president of the Women's Engineering Society (WES), which previously received funding from the Arconic Foundation for an apprentice conference.\n\nEarlier, Karim Mussilhy, vice-chairman of the survivors and bereaved group Grenfell United, told the Guardian: \"Her society has been supported by Arconic. She will look at it from the perspective of Arconic doing good things for the industry, that they are a great organisation. Her perspective will be affected.\"\n\nHowever, a spokeswoman for the inquiry said they do not believe Ms Mehra's former role with the WES will have any influence on her ability to be impartial.\n\n\"The consideration and appointment of panel members is a matter for the Cabinet Office,\" said the spokeswoman.\n\n\"The inquiry does not consider that Benita Mehra's former presidency of the Women's Engineering Society in any way affects her impartiality as a panel member.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"There are robust processes in place to ensure the Grenfell Tower Inquiry remains independent and that any potential conflicts of interest are properly considered and managed.\"\n\nThey added that the Arconic Foundation donated to a \"specific scheme which provides mentoring for women in engineering and is unrelated to the issues being considered by the inquiry\".\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister \"reaffirmed his commitment to getting to the truth of what happened, learn lessons and deliver justice for victims\".\n\nOn Thursday's meeting with Grenfell families, a No 10 spokesman added: \"During the meeting, they reflected on the phase one report of the Grenfell Inquiry, and looked ahead to the next stage.\"\n\nMs Mehra stepped in for the second phase of the inquiry after Prof Nabeel Hamdi, a housing expert, decided to quit because of the commitment involved in taking part in the inquiry.\n\nThe second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry begins on 27 January.\n\nAfter considering the night of the fire, during the first phase, the focus will switch to the refurbishment of the building and its role in the fire, as well as issues surrounding the building regulations.\n\nThouria Istephan, who specialises in construction regulations, will join Sir Martin and Ms Mehra on the panel.", "Greg Page, seen here at a reunion show in 2012, retired from the group due to ill health\n\nGreg Page, a founding member of the popular children's music group The Wiggles, has collapsed at a bushfire relief show in Sydney.\n\nPage - who used to perform as the yellow Wiggle - sang on stage for an hour and a half before suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe band tweeted that Page was recovering in hospital.\n\nThe Wiggles were created in 1991 and have sold tens of millions of CDs and DVDs around the world.\n\nPage was a founding member and the original lead singer.\n\nHe retired due to ill-health in 2006, returning briefly in 2012 before leaving again. Reports in 2006 said Page had been diagnosed with orthostatic intolerance, an illness related to blood pressure.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wiggles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wiggles\n\nThis performance was the first of two scheduled with the original Wiggles cast.\n\nIt was a sold-out, adults-only performance, with all proceeds going to the Australian Red Cross and the NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Wiggles 'hang up their skivvies'\n\nPage - along with fellow founding members Murray Cook and Jeff Fatt - left the band in 2012. A new line up consisting of original member Anthony Field and new singers Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce and Emma Watkins debuted at the end of that year.\n\nSeveral of the group's records have gone multi-platinum, and The Wiggles have won 14 Australian Recording Industry Association music awards for Best Children's Album.\n\nIn 2011, the band ranked second in terms of earnings on a list of Australia's top 50 entertainers, making more than A$28m (£14.8m).", "Specially fitted electric taxis will be able to charge while they wait for a fare\n\nWireless charging for electric taxis waiting in their rank is to be trialled in Nottingham.\n\nThe government is putting £3.4m towards fitting five charging plates outside the city's railway station.\n\nThe six-month pilot project will see 10 electric taxis fitted with the necessary hardware and the scheme could be rolled out if successful.\n\nOfficials said electric vehicles were \"vital\" to improving city air quality and making charging convenient was key.\n\nThe Department for Transport said wireless charging was more convenient and avoided the clutter of cable charging points.\n\nThere was also the potential for the technology to be made available for public use, it added.\n\nAndrea Leadsom, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said: \"Charging technology, including wireless, is vital in giving consumers confidence to make the switch from petrol to electric cars.\n\n\"This pioneering trial in Nottingham, and others like it, will help us take crucial steps towards lower emissions and cleaner air.\n\n\"We are determined to end our contribution to global warming entirely by 2050 - and delivering cleaner and greener transport systems is a key part of this\".\n\nSally Longford, deputy leader at Nottingham City Council, said: \"Nottingham is excited to host the trial of this new type of innovative charging technology, keeping us ahead of the pack, and helping to promote cleaner taxis in our city and potentially take us a further step forward towards our goal of being carbon neutral by 2028.\"\n\nThe vehicles will be owned by the council and provided rent-free to drivers.\n\nNo date has been fixed for the project to start, though the city council said it hoped it would be \"later this year\".\n\nThe council already runs a \"try before you buy\" scheme for electric taxis, alongside financial support for purchases.\n\nA number of England's cities have announced plans to tackle vehicle emissions or the numbers of vehicles entering city centres.\n\nLondon introduced an Ultra Low Emission Zone last year that sees higher-polluting vehicles charged up to £100 to drive through the centre, while Birmingham City Council revealed plans this week to stop cars from driving across the city centre.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British teenager found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus has launched an appeal against her conviction.\n\nThe 19-year-old had denied causing public mischief and on Thursday lawyers filed the grounds for her appeal at the supreme court of Cyprus.\n\nShe is now back in the UK after receiving a suspended jail term.\n\nJustice Abroad said she did not get a fair trial and the conviction \"breaches\" her rights.\n\nMichael Polak, director of the legal support group, criticised her treatment and that of her representatives and witness as being in \"clear contrast\" to the prosecution and its witnesses.\n\nHe said the conviction breached Cypriot law and flouted the country's international obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and as a member of the European Union.\n\nThe teenager said she was raped by up to 12 Israeli tourists in a hotel room in the resort town of Ayia Napa on July 17, before being charged herself after signing a retraction statement 10 days later.\n\nShe maintains she was raped, but was forced to change her account under pressure from Cypriot police following hours of questioning alone and without legal representation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're pleased she's going home,\" lawyer Lewis Power QC says\n\nShe was convicted in December but had vowed to appeal, with her lawyer, Lewis Power QC previously saying the case was \"not finished by any means\".\n\nShe returned to the UK on 8 January after receiving a four-month jail sentence, suspended for three years.\n\nFamagusta District Court also ordered her to pay £125 in legal fees.\n\nThe dozen young men and boys, aged between 15 and 20, were freed after their initial arrests and later returned home.", "EU citizens will not automatically be deported if they fail to sign up to the settled status scheme by the 2021 deadline, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe confirmation comes after European Parliament Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt said he had been given the assurance by the UK government.\n\nUnder the settlement scheme, EU citizens living in the UK can apply to stay in the country after Brexit.\n\nSo far the number of applicants to the scheme has hit more than 2.7 million.\n\nNearly 2.5 million EU citizens have been told they can live and work in the UK after Brexit, while six \"serious or persistent\" criminals have had their applications rejected.\n\nThe deadline for applying to the scheme is 30 June 2021.\n\nMr Verhofstadt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he believed those who missed the deadline would still be able to apply for settled status after \"giving grounds why it was not possible to do it within the normal procedures\".\n\n\"There will be no automatic deportation,\" he added.\n\nIn October last year, Home Office minister Brandon Lewis told German newspaper Die Welt: \"If EU citizens until this point of time have not registered and have no adequate reason for it, then the valid immigration rules will be applied.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether that would include those who met the legal requirements for residence but did not apply by the deadline, he replied: \"Theoretically yes. We will apply the rules.\"\n\nBut on Friday Mr Lewis said deporting EU citizens who have not applied for settled status \"is not what we're about\".\n\nIn an interview for the BBC's Politics East programme, to be shown on Sunday, he said his focus was on encouraging people to apply now.\n\nMr Lewis added: \"At the end of June 2021, if people haven't applied and they've got good reason for that, we'll be looking at that and we'll be looking to grant status.\n\n\"But I don't want to get to that place. I want people to apply now.\"\n\nWhen asked if police could be knocking on people's in June next year and escorting them out of the country if they have not applied, he said: \"That is not what we're about, we're saying to people who have made their home here, 'we value you we want you to stay.'\"\n\nGuy Verhofstadt is the European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator and a former prime minister of Belgium\n\nMr Verhofstadt told Today he had been told that the UK government was looking at the possibility of EU citizens being able to print out documentary proof of their status.\n\nResponding to his comments, the Home Office said: \"There is no change to our digital approach. It has always been the case that people could print a copy of their confirmation letter, but this can't be used as evidence of status.\"\n\nIt added: \"The EU settlement scheme grants people with a secure, digital status which future-proofs their rights. Physical documents can get lost, stolen, damaged and tampered with.\"\n\nMr Verhofstadt also said the possibility had been raised of EU citizens sitting on the independent monitoring authority that will be in place to oversee citizens' rights.\n\nAsked whether he thought the UK could ever rejoin the EU in the future, Mr Verhofstadt said he thought it would eventually happen but \"difficult to say when\".\n\n\"There will be a young generation who will say, 'What have we done? We want to go back,'\" he added.\n\nConservative MEP Daniel Hannan praised the UK government's handling of the issue of citizens' rights, saying: \"A system is now up and running, and it is by far the most effective and the most generous in any of the EU countries.\n\n\"I don't think you will find a single state among the [other] 27 [EU states] that has a system in place to grant rights to established UK nationals that is working as generously and without any cost to the people concerned, as ours is in return.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens will be relegated from the Premiership unless they can prove compliance with Premiership Rugby's salary cap rules in the next few days.\n\nThey were deducted 35 points and fined £5.3m in November, having broken the cap for the past three seasons.\n\nHowever, there is widespread belief Saracens will once more struggle to get under the £7m limit this campaign.\n\nThe champions have been told to comply with the rules immediately or face relegation at the end of the season.\n\nBut the club say nothing has been finalised and they are still trying to work through a solution before the deadline.\n\nSaracens interim chief executive Edward Griffiths said: \"Discussions are continuing, and nothing has been finalised but our position remains the same.\n\n\"It is clearly in the interests of the league and English rugby that this matter is dealt with as soon as possible, and we are prepared to do whatever is reasonably required to draw that line.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Saracens posted on social media to confirm the club is \"engaged in constructive dialogue\" with Premiership Rugby.\n\nThe bosses of the top-flight clubs met at a Premiership Rugby board meeting in London on Tuesday.\n\nIt was decided that unless Saracens could prove their compliance, they would face the unprecedented step of dropping into the second tier.\n\nAlthough Griffiths revealed to the BBC earlier this month that the club may need to trim their squad to fit under the cap, no players have yet been released.\n\nThe contract season has already run for seven months - since the start of July - with all the money paid to players who have featured for the club during that period counting towards the cap.\n\nFurthermore, any money paid as compensation to players for cutting short contracts would also be included in the wage bill.\n\nPremiership Rugby announced last month a comprehensive review of the current salary cap regulations, conducted by former government minister Lord Myners.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Why I broke my silence over Weinstein\"\n\nLawyers have chosen the 12 jurors who will sit in the trial of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nAbout 700 candidates - including model Gigi Hadid - were screened over the course of two weeks before a group of seven men and five women were picked.\n\nMr Weinstein faces five charges, including rape and sexual assault. The trial will begin on Wednesday in New York.\n\nThe 67-year-old has denied all charges, saying the encounters were consensual.\n\nHe could face life in prison if convicted.\n\nOnce one of Hollywood's most decorated and lauded producers, more than 80 women have accused Mr Weinstein of sexual misconduct - allegations which helped drive the #MeToo movement.\n\nHowever, few of the complaints have led to criminal charges and in the New York case he faces charges related to allegations made by two women.\n\nJudge James Burke told potential jurors on Thursday that the trial was \"not a referendum on the #MeToo movement\", and that they were expected to decide Mr Weinstein's fate \"on the evidence\".\n\nThe trial is expected to conclude in early March.\n\nMr Weinstein was also charged with an additional count of rape and one of sexual assault in Los Angeles earlier this month, which he also denies.\n\nLos Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey has said she expects Mr Weinstein to appear in court in California in that case, saying he could be extradited or could come voluntarily after the conclusion of the New York trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hired by Weinstein to extract information on celebrities", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Molly Russell's father Ian travels to the United States and meets other parents bereaved by suicide\n\nInstagram has pledged to remove images, drawings and even cartoons showing methods of self-harm or suicide.\n\nThe move is its latest response to the public outcry over the death of British teenager Molly Russell.\n\nThe 14-year-old killed herself in 2017 after viewing graphic content on the platform.\n\nMolly's father has described the Facebook-owned app's commitment as \"sincere\" but said managers needed to act more swiftly.\n\nMolly Russell's father believes her use of Instagram was a factor in her suicide\n\nInstagram's latest promise covers explicit drawings, cartoons and memes about suicide, in addition to any other method \"promoting\" self-harm.\n\n\"It will take time to fully implement... but it's not going to be the last step we take,\" Instagram chief Adam Mosseri told BBC News.\n\nAdam Mosseri took charge of Instagram in October 2018\n\nIt extends measures announced in February, which banned \"graphic images of self-harm\" and restricted those with suicidal themes. This included both stills and videos.\n\nInstagram has been under pressure to act after Mr Russell said he believed the US-based service had been partly responsible for his daughter's death.\n\nAfter she died, Mr Russell found large amounts of graphic material about self-harm and suicide on her Instagram account. He also found similar content on her Pinterest login.\n\nThe 56-year-old went public in January of this year.\n\nThe UK government, charities and the media were among those who subsequently called on Instagram and other technology companies to make changes.\n\nInstagram's latest announcement coincided with a visit by Mr Russell to Silicon Valley.\n\nThere, he told BBC News: \"The big platforms really don't seem to be doing much about it.\"\n\nIan Russell discussed online safety with schoolchildren in New Jersey on a recent trip to the US\n\nDuring his visit, Florida-based internet safety campaigner and paediatrician Dr Free Hess showed him content still available on Instagram.\n\nIt included graphic photographs, videos of self-harm and cartoons advocating suicide.\n\nShe said hashtags had helped lead young people to the content.\n\n\"It's grooming that young person to self-harm more, consider suicide more,\" the doctor said.\n\nIan responded: \"I was rather hoping that the steps taken would made it at least harder to find that stuff.\"\n\nMr Russell also met Jim Steyer, the founder of Common Sense Media - the US's largest charity dealing with child safety online.\n\n\"The lack of responsibility of the social media platforms is absolutely mindboggling,\" said Mr Steyer, who wants new regulations to be imposed on the companies.\n\nInstagram says it has doubled the amount of material removed related to self-harm and suicide since the first quarter of 2019.\n\nBetween April and June this year, it said, it had removed 834,000 pieces of content, 77% of which had not been reported by users.\n\n\"There is still very clearly more work to do, this work never ends,\" said Mr Mosseri.\n\nTo which Mr Russell responded: \"I just hope he delivers.\"\n• None Molly Russell: Did her death change social media? Video, 00:14:19Molly Russell: Did her death change social media?", "Police have defended the inclusion of environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace in a counter-terrorism guide, saying it was produced to help frontline officers.\n\nThe Guardian reported that the 24-page police guide was distributed to teachers and medical staff as part of anti-extremism briefings last year.\n\nThey appeared next to extremist right-wing groups such as National Action.\n\nExtinction Rebellion warned it could have a \"chilling effect\" on people.\n\nIt comes after counter-terrorism police in south-east England admitted an \"error of judgement\" earlier this month - after listing Extinction Rebellion as an \"extreme ideology\" in a 12-page guide.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, the police document includes other non-violent groups such as ocean pollution campaigners Sea Shepherd, animal rights group Peta and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).\n\nA signs and symbols guide referred to by the paper shows a Nazi swastika in one section and the Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace symbols in another.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, senior national co-ordinator for the UK's Counter Terrorism Policing, said police do not consider legitimate protest groups to be extremist or a threat to national security.\n\nHe said the visual aid was produced with the aim of helping police \"identify and understand signs and symbols\" so they know the difference between them.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"The guidance document in question explicitly states that many of the groups included are not of counter-terrorism interest, and that membership of them does not indicate criminality of any kind.\n\n\"To suggest anything else is both unhelpful and misleading.\"\n\nHe said the document was used by the government's counter-terrorism strategy, known as the Prevent programme, but \"only as a guide to help them [Prevent] identify and understand the range of organisations practitioners might come across\".\n\nHowever, Extinction Rebellion said its inclusion in the document was \"nothing short of pointing a finger at anyone that thinks differently to 'business as usual'.\"\n\nThe group said: \"The chilling effect is to leave people feeling under scrutiny, watched and pressurised, feeling othered, ashamed or afraid to be open about the things they care about such as the environment and the world around us.\"\n\nKate Hudson, general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, also questioned the group's inclusion in the guide, saying it \"threatens our right to political engagement and peaceful protest\".\n\n\"We have no secrets and act in the public interest,\" she added.\n\nGreenpeace UK's executive director, John Sauven, said there was \"nothing extremist about people from all walks of life taking peaceful, non-violent action to stop climate chaos and ecological collapse\".\n\n\"Tarring environmental campaigners and terrorist organisations with the same brush is not going to help fight terrorism. It will only harm the reputation of hard-working police officers.\"", "Jacob Young, 18, appeared on an episode of Supernanny in 2005, aged three\n\nA teenager who appeared on the reality TV show Supernanny as a child has been described as a danger to women and detained for 10 years for rape.\n\nJacob Young, 18, of Ipswich, strangled his victim almost to unconsciousness in her own home, making her fear for her life, Ipswich Crown Court heard.\n\nThe judge dismissed a letter from his mother which said the 2005 show led to a \"campaign of abuse and mockery\".\n\nHe said Young had an \"extreme form of sexual curiosity or unhealthy fantasy\".\n\nThe court heard Young spent the night of 13 October 2018 stalking and taking photos of \"vulnerable\" women, before he spotted the victim being supported by her boyfriend as he walked her home.\n\nDuring a trial last year, Young's defence claimed he was making sure she got home safely, but the court heard he had a \"premeditated plan\" to steal the stranger's bag, so he could return it as a \"hero\" figure.\n\nSue and Paul Young and their five sons, then aged eight months to eight years, appeared on the show in 2005\n\nOnce the boyfriend left, Young entered the flat and attacked her.\n\nJudge Levett said evidence from the victim suggested Young enjoyed the violence and she only escaped after promising to let him \"do whatever to me\" if he let her go to the bathroom.\n\nThe family featured in a 2005 episode of Supernanny, in which the five young boys were described as having \"no respect for their home, their parents or each other\".\n\nIn a letter to the court, his mother described the impact that appearing on the Channel 4 show had on each of her five sons.\n\n\"Your mother said appearing on that TV programme led to a campaign of mockery and abuse from the public and peers and school friends,\" Judge Levett said.\n\nYoung's mother claimed he was \"very protective\" of women following a fire at the family home in 2007, which led to \"considerable media attention\".\n\nShe suggested her son was a person of good character who could not have done what was alleged. All her claims were dismissed as \"embellishment\" by the judge.\n\nThe court heard Young had a previous conviction for threatening a 12-year-old girl with a knife when he was 14.\n\nYoung, of Beechcroft Road, had denied rape, committing actual bodily harm and theft but was found guilty by a jury.\n\n\"You took advantage of a vulnerable woman in her own home, where she should have expected she was safe in her bed,\" said Judge Levett.\n\nYoung was sentenced to 10 years in a young offenders' institution with an extended licence period of five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ayanna Pressley said that 'as a Black woman, the personal is political'\n\nUS congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has revealed she is completely bald because of the hair-loss condition alopecia.\n\nThe Massachusetts Democrat told The Root that she started noticing her hair was falling out last autumn.\n\nShe eventually went totally bald in December, the night before Congress voted to impeach Donald Trump.\n\nSharing the video on social media, Ms Pressley later said: \"As a Black woman, the personal is political. My hair story is no exception.\"\n\nMs Pressley, 45, is a member of the so-called \"Squad\" of four progressive Democratic congresswomen of colour.\n\nIn an interview with The Root website, Ms Pressley said she first got her signature hairstyle - Senegalese twist - four years ago.\n\n\"I was very aware this hairstyle could be - would be - filtered and interpreted by some as a political statement that was militant,\" she said in the video. \"People said: 'People will think you're angry', and I said: 'Well they already think that.'\"\n\nOver the years, she said, it became a symbol of representation and power for young African-American girls.\n\nAyanna Pressley removed her wig for the first time in public\n\nMs Pressley added: \"My twists had become such a synonymous and conflated part of not only my personal identity and how I show up in the world, but my political brand.\n\n\"That's why I think it's important that I'm transparent about this new normal, and living with alopecia.\"\n\nLater in the video, she took off her wig - revealing her baldness for the first time in public.\n\nAfter the video was published, viewers, activists and colleagues tweeted their support of Ms Pressley - including her fellow \"Squad\" congresswomen, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib.\n\nMs Omar said Ms Pressley was \"stunningly gorgeous and a magnificent black queen\", while Ms Tlaib praised her \"courage\".\n\nMs Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: \"Could you imagine losing all your hair on the eve of an enormously public day? And then turning that intensely intimate ordeal to make space for others? Ayanna, you are a living blessing.\"\n\nAlopecia affects about a third of women of African descent, according to a study published in the medical journal Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology. Another study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology last year, found that African-Americans were more likely to experience alopecia than other ethnic group in the US.\n\nThe most common form of the condition affecting black women is traction alopecia, which is caused by hair being stressed at the roots.\n\nOther forms of the condition include alopecia areata, which causes patches of baldness; alopecia totalis, which causes total baldness on the head; and alopecia universalis, which leads to complete hair loss all over a person's body.\n\nAbout 6.8 million people in the US are believed to have alopecia, according to the US-based National Alopecia Areata Foundation.", "Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led Friday prayers in the capital Tehran - the first time he has done so in eight years.\n\nHis country has faced criticism at home and abroad after it admitted shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane by mistake.\n\nThe BBC's Martin Patience said he delivered \"a defiant message designed for domestic consumption\".", "The minister said his speech was a \"rhetorical coincidence\"\n\nBrazil's culture minister has been sacked after using parts of a speech by Nazi Germany's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in a video, sparking outrage.\n\nIn the clip posted on the ministry's Twitter page, Roberto Alvim detailed an award for \"heroic\" and \"national\" art.\n\nLohengrin by Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, played in the background. Earlier, Mr Alvim said the now-deleted video was a \"rhetorical coincidence\".\n\nFar-right President Jair Bolsonaro said the speech had been \"unfortunate\".\n\n\"I reiterate our rejection of totalitarian and genocidal ideologies, such as Nazism and communism, as well as any inference to them. We also express our full and unrestricted support for the Jewish community, of which we're friends and share many common values,\" the president said on Twitter.\n\nIn the six-minute video detailing the National Arts Awards, Mr Alvim said: \"The Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and will be national, will be endowed with great capacity for emotional involvement... deeply linked to the urgent aspirations of our people, or else it will be nothing.\"\n\nParts of it were identical to a speech quoted in the book Joseph Goebbels: A Biography, by German historian Peter Longerich, who has written several works on the Holocaust.\n\n\"The German art of the next decade will be heroic, it will be steely-romantic, it will be factual and completely free of sentimentality, it will be national with great pathos and binding, or it will be nothing.\"\n\nGoebbels led the Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda, designed to brainwash people into obeying the Nazis and idolising leader Adolf Hitler. Its methods included censorship of the press and control of radio broadcasts, as well as control of culture and arts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Secretaria Especial da Cultura This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a post on his Facebook page, Mr Alvim, a theatre director who was appointed to the ministerial post last year, said \"the left was doing a fallacious remote association\" between the two speeches, and that \"there was nothing wrong with his sentence\".\n\n\"The whole speech was based on a nationalistic ideal for the Brazilian art and there was a coincidence with ONE sentence of a speech by Goebbels. I didn't quote him and I'd NEVER do it... But the sentence itself is perfect.\"\n\nLater, in a second post, he said \"the speech had been written from various ideas linked to nationalist art that had been brought by his advisers\". He did not comment on the music that played in the video in any of his posts.\n\nAmong those who called for him to be fired was the Speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress, Rodrigo Maia, who said Mr Alvim had \"gone beyond all limits\" with an \"inacceptable\" video.\n\nThe Brazilian Israelite Confederation said: \"To emulate [Goebbels'] view... is a frightening sign of his vision of culture, which must be combated and contained.\"\n\nIt called for Mr Alvim's immediate removal, adding: \"Brazil, which sent brave soldiers to combat Nazism on European soil, doesn't deserve it.\"\n\nMr Bolsonaro, a former army captain with a conservative social agenda, has frequently accused Brazil's artists and cultural productions including schoolbooks and movies of \"left-wing bias\".", "Fowlds' character Bernard in Yes Minister was the principal private secretary to politician Jim Hacker\n\nActor Derek Fowlds, known to millions for playing Bernard Woolley in Yes Minister, has died at the age of 82.\n\nHe also played sergeant-turned-publican Oscar Blaketon in ITV police drama Heartbeat for 18 years, and was \"Mr Derek\" on the Basil Brush show in the 70s.\n\nThe actor died at Royal United Hospital in Bath on Friday morning, after having suffered with pneumonia.\n\n\"You couldn't have met a nicer person ever\" said his assistant Helen Bennett.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"He was just a wonderful man and I will miss him terribly.\"\n\nShe added: \"He was the most beloved man to everybody who ever met him, he never had a bad word to say about anybody and he was so well respected, adored by everyone.\"\n\nBasil Brush himself said he is \"so desperately sad\" at the news, describing the late star as \"my best friend forever\". Fowlds worked on the BBC children's television show as a presenter between 1969 and 1973, where he replaced Rodney Bewes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Basil Brush This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC's Yes Minister also starred [L-R] Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington\n\nGavin and Stacey star and former EastEnders actor Larry Lamb paid tribute to his \"dear old colleague\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Larry Lamb This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPiers Morgan described him as \"a terrific actor & by all accounts, an incredibly nice man\" and Baby Driver director Edgar Wright tweeted his respects, pointing to \"a classic scene in British comedy\" in which Jim Hacker explains to Sir Humphrey and Bernard the importance of the newspapers and who reads which.\n\nBorn in south London, Fowlds trained at Rada before making his West End debut in The Miracle Worker.\n\nHe appeared in several films, including Hotel Paradiso, and then TV shows including Z Cars in 1968 and a couple of episodes of the Liver Birds between 1969 and 1971.\n\nFowlds was the last of the remaining original Yes Minister stars, following the earlier deaths of Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington, who he appeared alongside in the BBC political satire from 1980 to 1984, and in Yes, Prime Minister from 1986 to 1988.\n\nHe appeared in Heartbeat for its entire run of 18 years, first as a local police sergeant, then running the post office after the character retired from the force, before running a pub.\n\nJason Durr, who starred alongside Fowlds in the police drama series said he was \"a great actor and a kind, intelligent man\" and that he would \"treasure the memories\" of working with him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jason Durr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFowlds released his autobiography, A Part Worth Playing, in 2015 in which he recalled how he started to act \"just for kicks\".\n\n\"Growing up the thought of acting as a living never crossed my mind. I wanted to be a footballer or sportsman,\" he said, adding he started acting in school plays.\n\n\"I enjoyed mucking about the stage,\" he wrote.\n\nHe told the tale of how in his first play a child, he got his sword stuck up another actor's skirt and \"I heard the sound of audience laughter for the first time in my life, and I was just knocked out.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Stage publication last year, he offered some advice to any budding actors.\n\n\"My advice to young actors today would be to work hard whenever you can, but also to have fun and, whatever you do, don't take yourself too seriously.\n\n\"Always remember that an acting career is a marathon, not a sprint, and I wish all of today's actors good luck with it.\"\n\nFowlds was married twice; first to Wendy Tory and then later to Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd.\n\nHe is survived by sons Jamie and actor Jeremy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Is Yes, Prime Minister still relevant?", "The UK, France and the UN are hosting a virtual climate meeting on Saturday. About 75 world leaders will attend, marking five years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement. Pope Francis will also address the meeting.\n\nThis virtual gathering is taking place after the pandemic caused the postponement of the annual Conference of the Parties, due to take place in Glasgow this year.\n\nNations will be revealing how they intend to cut their greenhouse gas emissions which means we’ll find out if their commitments are ambitious enough to stop the worst effects of climate change. But just what is climate change? And why are scientists calling for urgent action?\n\nThis video was first published in January 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is what a million pound coin looks like\n\nAn Edward VIII sovereign has become the first British coin to be bought for £1m, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe new owner, a private collector, described the chance to buy it and bring it back from the US as a \"once in a lifetime opportunity\".\n\nThe coin is one of a trial set of six which never went into mass production owing to Edward's abdication in December 1936.\n\nIt only has a face value of £1 but is now the country's most valuable coin.\n\nThe 22 carat gold sovereign - a type of coin which has not been struck for general circulation since 1932 - is just 22mm in diameter and weighs 7.98g making it just fractionally smaller and lighter than a pound coin.\n\nThe reverse side of the coin was designed by Benedetto Pistrucci\n\nIt was prepared for striking in January 1937, but the previous month the King abdicated in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.\n\nOnly the trials remained, but they were hidden from public view for decades. Edward, who became the Duke of Windsor, requested a set of coins but was refused by his brother, George VI.\n\nNow, four of the set are with museums and institutions, with two in private hands. The latest owner, a sovereign collector who wished to remain anonymous, said: \"When the opportunity came along, I felt I could not turn it down. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity.\n\n\"I'm aware that [£1m] is a lot of money for a coin, but if I did not secure it now, I'd not get the chance again.\"\n\nThe coin was last sold for a then-record £516,000 to a US collector in 2014, revealing its status on both sides of the Atlantic.\n\nWhat fascinates collectors and historians is not only its rarity, but also that Edward VIII was willing to break with a convention that went back centuries to Charles II.\n\nThis saw each monarch face the opposite direction to their predecessor. Edward preferred his left profile, partly owing to his hair parting, and insisted on the portrait facing, in effect, the wrong way.\n\n\"Edward VIII is quite a vain character. He insisted on facing the same way as his father, because he believed that was his best side,\" said Chris Barker, from the Royal Mint Museum.\n\nGeorge VI, who succeeded him, also showed his left profile, keeping to tradition as if Edward had not broken the sequence.\n\nHow do you value a coin so sought-after and so rare? The Royal Mint, the Treasury-owned business which strikes coins for nations around the world, set up a service two years ago aiming to find and authenticate coins and precious metals.\n\nIts state-of-the-art lab, at the Mint in South Wales, contains x-ray machines and other technology that can easily spot a fake.\n\nThis collector services division acted as the go-between for the sale, for a cut of the price. Its experts found that the coin could be for sale, contacted the collector of sovereigns, and effectively acted as a broker for the deal.\n\nRebecca Morgan, head of the service, said: \"The Royal Mint has an unbroken record of minting for 1,100 years so we're uniquely placed to source historic, British coins for our customers.\n\n\"They can feel confident that it has been through the authentication checks and they have paid a fair price for it.\"\n\nThe Mint may have helped to secure a record sale for a UK coin, ahead of a Queen Anne Vigo five guinea coin, but it is still a long way short of the world record.\n\nThe flowing hair dollar coin, the first issued by the US government, fetched more than $10m (£7.5m) at auction in 2013.", "A number of British cities aim to go carbon neutral by 2030 to fight climate change.\n\nGlasgow – which will host a major United Nations climate change summit in November 2020 – is one of them.\n\nBut bringing the carbon footprint of a whole city down to zero requires big changes. So what can be done, and how quickly?\n\nThe BBC's Environment Reporter Laura Foster has been looking at the challenges that the city faces.", "Rebecca Long-Bailey and Emily Thornberry have launched their leadership campaigns\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey has promised to \"shake up\" how government works and put power into the hands of voters if elected Labour leader.\n\nLaunching her campaign in Manchester, she said the last few years showed many people \"instinctively\" thought there was something wrong with laws being drafted by an \"elite\" in Brussels.\n\nShe added that Westminster \"didn't feel much closer\".\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary highlighted her experience challenging Boris Johnson, in a speech in her home town of Guildford in Surrey.\n\nThe first Labour hustings event will take place in Liverpool on Saturday.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey and Ms Thornberry will be joined at the debate by fellow candidates Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips and Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nLabour members will also be able to put questions to the contenders to become Labour's deputy leader - Rosena Allin-Khan, Dawn Butler, Richard Burgon, Ian Murray and Angela Rayner.\n\nIt comes as a YouGov poll of 1,005 Labour members for The Times suggests Sir Keir has extended his lead over Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\nAt her leadership campaign launch at Manchester's Science and Industry Museum, Mrs Long-Bailey said the British state needed \"a seismic shock, to prise it open at all levels to the people\".\n\n\"Where I grew up, Westminster, even London, felt like a million miles away,\" she said.\n\n\"The story of the last few years is that many people feel there is something wrong with their laws being drafted hundreds of miles away by a distant and largely unaccountable bureaucratic elite in Brussels.\n\n\"But I'll be honest, Westminster didn't feel much closer, and it still doesn't today.\"\n\nShe vowed to end the \"gentlemen's club of politics\" by moving power from London to local levels and from chief executives to workers.\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey pledged to replace the House of Lords with an elected senate if elected Labour leader\n\nThe shadow business secretary said she wanted to \"shake up the way government works\", adding: \"We will put power back where it belongs - in your hands.\"\n\nShe pledged to \"sweep away the House of Lords\" and replace it with an elected senate outside of London.\n\n\"My kind of socialism is the kind we all rise together,\" she told Labour members and supporters.\n\n\"My kind of socialism is a Britain in which everyone is free to dream, free to climb and free to succeed\".\n\nShe said Labour's election defeat was in part down to voters not trusting the party - adding Labour had a lot of work to do to win trust back.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey said the \"most upsetting thing\" for many Labour members has been \"what has happened with the anti-Semitism crisis within our party\".\n\nShe said the party \"didn't tackle it properly\" or \"act quickly enough\" and despite \"vast advances\" in procedure in dealing with allegations, \"we still haven't won back the trust of Jewish members\".\n\n\"I won't ever let that happen again,\" she said. \"We have got to take robust action.\"\n\nOn Thursday, she received a boost on when she secured the support of the grassroots organisation Momentum.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs Long-Bailey recently said she was opposed to abortion after 24 weeks on the grounds of disability, adding that this was a personal view rather than a policy position.\n\nHer spokesman said she \"unequivocally supports a woman's right to choose\".\n\nLaunching her campaign, near the Bellfields estate where she grew up, Ms Thornberry warned that Labour faces \"a long, tough road back to power after the painful and crushing defeat we suffered last month\" in the general election.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry launched her leadership campaign in Guildford\n\n\"We're going to need someone tough, someone resilient, someone experienced and battle-hardened,\" the shadow foreign secretary said.\n\nMs Thornberry, who scraped through the first stage of the race, securing the required amount of support from MPs minutes before the deadline, said she had the \"skills and the values\" to be leader and emphasised her experience in the shadow cabinet.\n\nShe drew attention to her role \"on the front line in the fights against climate change, universal credit, and anti-abortion laws in Northern Ireland\".\n\nMs Thornberry also said that if she ever lost the confidence of colleagues or thought she was going to lose an election she would stand down.\n\n\"I will always put the Labour Party first,\" the MP for Islington South and Finsbury said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nThe latest YouGov poll showed that Ms Thornberry would go out in the first round of voting with just 3%, with Ms Nandy knocked out in the second round and Ms Phillips in the third, with most of her second preference votes going to Sir Keir.\n\nReacting to the poll, Ms Thornberry said it would be a \"long campaign\" and that it would be \"short-sighted\" to stop now.\n\nShe said she had \"never taken the easy way\" and that \"people can work out who is the best leader at the hustings\".\n\nThe poll indicates Sir Keir would beat Mrs Long-Bailey in the final round by 63% to 37%, once the other candidates have been eliminated.\n\nA YouGov poll last month suggested the shadow Brexit secretary was on 61%, compared with Mrs Long-Bailey on 39%.\n\nThe poll suggests Angela Rayner is on course to win the deputy leadership election in the first round with 57%.\n\nIt is a poll of full Labour members only, and does not include registered and affiliated Labour supporters, who are also entitled to cast a ballot.\n\nMeanwhile, speaking on the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast, Ms Nandy said she was a \"sceptic\" about the monarchy.\n\nShe went on to say she believed patriotism was \"a profoundly left-wing value... it is about being part of something bigger than yourself\".", "Millionaire businessman Arron Banks and the Leave Means Leave group have donated £50,000 to a campaign to make Big Ben ring when the UK leaves the EU.\n\nAn online appeal has raised more than £200,000, with the cost of making the famous bell work in time for the one-off event estimated to be £500,000.\n\nBig Ben is being renovated, but the PM this week suggested a fund be set up to make it chime at 23:00 on 31 January.\n\nBut the MPs' group running Parliament doubts this is feasible.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission estimates that getting the bell to ring during renovation works on the Palace of Westminster's Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben, would cost between £350,000 and £500,000.\n\nIt says this would involve bringing back the chiming mechanism and installing a temporary floor, and delays to the conservation work.\n\nThe commission argues the estimated costs could not be justified, and questions the idea that public donations should cover them.\n\nBut the campaign group Stand Up 4 Brexit's \"Big Ben must bong for Brexit\" campaign had raised more than £200,000 on the GofFundMe website by Friday afternoon.\n\nConservative MP Mark Francois told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that the pro-Brexit Leave Means Leave campaign and Mr Banks had donated £50,000.\n\nHe queried whether the cost of getting the bell to ring again was really £500,000, adding that he believed officials had \"deliberately inflated the figure\" because \"they don't want to do it\".\n\n\"Don't tell me it takes two weeks to attach a clapper to a bell,\" he said.\n\nMr Francois also said he believed the prime minister should table a motion in the Commons on Monday to compel the Commons authorities to bong Big Ben.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said Boris Johnson was the one who had \"fired the starting gun\" on the campaign by suggesting public donations during his BBC Breakfast interview on Tuesday.\n\nResponding to a question in Parliament from Mr Francois, Sir Paul Beresford - a member of the commission - said the cost of ringing the bell on New Year's Eve and Remembrance Sunday in 2019 had totalled £14,200.\n\n\"The striking of Big Ben on these occasions was co-ordinated around the planned works so as to minimise the impact on the project costs and to ensure it did not result in any delay,\" Sir Paul said.\n\n\"If the project team are required to strike the bell with less notice, the costs would substantially increase due to the unexpected impact on the project schedule.\"\n\nDowning Street has said the chiming of Big Ben is \"a matter for the House\" of Commons.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who is chairman of the Commons Commission, said: \"You are talking about £50,000 a bong.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has warned against blaming Labour's historic election defeat on its 2019 campaign alone.\n\nThe leadership candidate said the party had been losing votes in its heartlands for a \"long time\" and had lost four general elections in a row.\n\nPeople wanted \"fundamental change\" but did not trust Labour to deliver it, he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nHe vowed to restore trust in Labour \"as a force for good and a force for change\" and end factional infighting.\n\nBut he refused to say whether his politics were closer to Tony Blair or Jeremy Corbyn, saying: \"I want to lead a Labour Party that is trusted enough to bring about fundamental change.\n\n\"I don't need somebody else's name or badge to do that.\"\n\nThe BBC's political editor is aiming to interview all five Labour leadership hopefuls before the result is announced on 4 April.\n\nSir Keir, who has been endorsed by Britain's biggest union, Unison, said he could \"unify the party\" and \"forge a path to victory at the next general election\".\n\n\"We need to unify the party and I think I can do that,\" he said.\n\n\"We spent far too much time fighting ourselves and not fighting the Tories. Factions have been there in the Labour Party - they've got to go.\"\n\nSome on the left have blamed the election defeat on Sir Keir and others at the top of the party promoting another Brexit referendum.\n\nHe said: \"We were trying to bring together both sides whether they voted Leave, or they voted Remain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: I think I can restore that trust in Labour\n\n\"But I think the idea that Brexit was the only issue in this election is wrong, or even that in our heartlands it was the determining factor because actually if you look at what's happened in our heartlands we've been losing votes there for a long time.\"\n\nSpeaking at a pub in Somers Town, in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency, he said he believed Labour could win last year's election, even though the \"odds were against us\", but added: \"In the end people didn't have trust in us.\n\n\"Partly that was to do with the leadership, rightly or wrongly, partly it was to do with Brexit, anti-Semitism came up, and the overload of the manifesto.\"\n\nHe said Labour needed to \"restore that trust, but if we only look at the 2019 election we're missing the fact that we've lost four in a row\".\n\nHe said his priority, as a \"moral socialist\", would be tackling the \"gross inequality\" in British society and ensuring \"equal opportunity for everyone, wherever they come from and whatever their background\".\n\n\"I don't need someone else's name or badge.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer wouldn't today reveal whether he saw his ideas and his ambitions for the country as closer to Jeremy Corbyn or Tony Blair.\n\nInstead, when we sat down in a north London pub in his constituency, he wanted to make the valid argument that different leaders work in different eras, confronting different problems.\n\nTimes change, essentially, and the next leader, he believes, needs to be looking to the next set of issues and try to take the party by the scruff of the neck and make it into an effective opposition straight away - but with an eye on where the political battles will be in 2024.\n\nBut his obvious reluctance to plant a flag somewhere on Labour's wide political spectrum is perhaps representative of the problem that he faces in this race.\n\nSir Keir admitted he does have friends who are Tories, and that he received support from colleagues on the Conservative benches when his father died in 2018.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary said he judged people \"by what they say and who they are, rather than which party they're in\".\n\nThe five leadership contenders - Sir Keir, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Emily Thornberry, Jess Phillips and Lisa Nandy - are set to take part in a series of hustings around the country, starting in Liverpool on Saturday.\n\nThey need the support of 5% of local parties or at least three affiliates - two must be unions - by 14 February to make it on to the final ballot of party members.\n\nThe new leader will be announced on 4 April.\n\nIt comes as the grassroots pressure group Momentum endorsed Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\nThe group, which grew out of Jeremy Corbyn's 2015 leadership campaign, said it would mobilise thousands of supporters to elect Mrs Long-Bailey as the next Labour leader.\n\nMomentum polled members on whether it should officially back Mrs Long-Bailey, with 70% of those who took part endorsing the plan, and 52% backing Angela Rayner as her deputy.\n\nAround 14,700 people applied to register as temporary supporters of Labour to vote in the leadership contest, the party has said.\n\nThe 48-hour window to apply to be a temporary supporter closed at 17:00 GMT on Thursday. Applicants who meet the eligibility requirements will be able to vote in the leader and deputy leader elections.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Paul Wilson: \"The impact event is exactly contemporaneous with the extinction\"\n\nWas it the asteroid or colossal volcanism that initiated the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago?\n\nThis has been a bit of a \"to and fro\" argument of late, but now a group of scientists has weighed in with what they claim is the definitive answer.\n\n\"It was the asteroid 'wot dun it'!\" Prof Paul Wilson told the BBC.\n\nHis team's analysis of ocean sediments shows that huge volcanoes that erupted in India did not change the climate enough to drive the extinction.\n\nVolcanoes can spew enormous volumes of gases into the atmosphere that can both cool and warm the planet.\n\nAnd the Deccan Traps, as the volcanic terrain in India is known, certainly had massive scale - hundreds of thousands of cubic km of molten rock were erupted onto the land surface over thousands of years.\n\nBut the new research from Southampton University's Prof Wilson, and colleagues from elsewhere in Europe and the US, indicates there is a mismatch in both the effect and timing of the volcanism's influence.\n\nThe group drilled into the North Atlantic seafloor to retrieve its ancient muds.\n\n\"The deep ocean sediments are packed full of these microscopic marine organisms called Foraminifera,\" Prof Wilson explained.\n\n\"You get about a thousand of them in a teaspoon of sediment. And we can use their shells to figure out the chemistry of the ocean and its temperature, so we can study in great detail the environmental changes that are occurring in the run-up to the extinction event.\n\n\"And what we discovered is that the only way in which we can get our (climate) model simulations to match the observed temperature changes is to have the volcanic emissions of harmful gases done and dusted a couple of hundred thousand years before the impact event.\n\n\"We find the impact event is exactly contemporaneous with the extinction.\"\n\nInvestigations of a 200km-wide crater under the Gulf of Mexico suggest it is the scar left by the culprit asteroid.\n\nWhen it hit the Earth, the city-sized object would immediately have generated tsunami and wide-scale fires - in addition to hurling billions of tonnes of debris in all directions.\n\nBut what scientists have also established recently is that the asteroid struck rocks rich in sulphur. When this material was vaporised and ejected into the high atmosphere, it would have led to a rapid and deep cooling of the climate (albeit over a relatively short period), making life a struggle for all sorts of plant and animal life.\n\nAs the fossil record shows, the dinosaurs, apart from birds, couldn't get beyond the stressful environmental changes. In contrast, the mammals could and rose to the prominence they enjoy today.\n\nThe new study is published in the journal Science. Its lead author is Dr Pincelli Hull from Yale University.\n\nThe impact that changed life on Earth\n\nToday, the asteroid crater is buried under the Gulf of Mexico\n\nMexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have formed in weakened limestone overlying the crater", "The boss of Flybe has confirmed the airline is in talks with the government over a loan, but says the financial support would not constitute a bailout.\n\nMark Anderson told Flybe staff the firm had had a few \"difficult days\" this week but it still had \"a great future\".\n\nHe said the company's turnaround plan had started to work and that with more time it would be making a big profit.\n\nRival airlines have called for more details of the government's role in helping Flybe to be made public.\n\nThey argue that support for the troubled regional carrier may contravene competition rules.\n\nMr Anderson, whose address to staff was also carried over videolink and has been seen by the BBC, said the government recognised the airline's vital role in connecting far flung parts of the UK and wanted to help the firm thrive.\n\n\"We are in conversation with the government around a financial loan - a loan, not a bailout - a commercial loan, but that is the same as any loan we'd take from any bank,\" he said.\n\nAccording to state aid rules the loan would need to either be short term and aimed at rescuing and restructuring the business or it would have to be provided on the same terms a private lender such as a bank would offer.\n\n\"The government will not lend if they do not believe there is a credible plan. No-one is going to throw good money after bad,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\nMr Anderson said he wanted to address speculation over the firm's future.\n\nHe said the company had had \"legacy issues\" to deal with that had not been apparent to the group of investors led by Virgin Atlantic who bought the airline early last year.\n\nMark Anderson addressed Flybe staff to explain events of the last few days\n\n\"Our shareholders invested an awful lot of money, believing they fully understood the state of the business they'd bought,\" he said.\n\n\"The reality… is that we were in worse shape than even the shareholders thought we were.\n\n\"We went into the summer very unresilient in terms of our operation, with a weak fleet, with a lot of gaps in terms of people flying our aircraft, with huge payments being made to people to get them to work extra hours.\"\n\nA combination of higher costs, late flights, and compensation for delayed passengers meant the firm was losing money \"hand over fist\" for a time, he said.\n\n\"Three-quarters of the money the shareholders invested was gone before we even really started. That has hurt this business and more money is needed.\"\n\nHowever, he said by the beginning of January Flybe's turnaround plan was working, with sales ahead of expectations.\n\n\"We are in a vastly different place than where we were six months ago,\" he said.\n\n\"We are not making millions of profit at the moment but if we stick to the plan, and what we have to do, we will,\" he said.\n\nHe admitted this week's news coverage had dented sales but said he believed customers would return quickly. But he said that there was a risk of a \"self-fulfilling prophesy\" if people kept talking the company down.\n\nOn Thursday, the boss of rival carrier Ryanair described the government's intervention to support Flybe as a \"badly thought-out bailout of a chronically loss-making airline\".\n\nMichael O'Leary, sent a strongly worded letter to Chancellor Sajid Javid in which he argued any measures that were being put in place to help Flybe should be extended to other airlines.\n\n\"We must be treated the same as Flybe if fair competition is to exist,\" he wrote.\n\nHe said if that were not the case Ryanair would consider taking legal action. British Airways' owner IAG has already filed a complaint with the EU, arguing the rescue may breach state aid rules and has filed a Freedom of Information request for more details about the plan.\n\nThe government has not published the details of what it has discussed with Flybe, although it has said it is fully compliant with state aid rules.\n\nThe government's support is thought to centre on giving the airline extra time to pay about £100m of outstanding Air Passenger Duty (APD).\n\nFlybe's owners Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Group and Cyrus Capital have agreed to invest £30m into the airline.\n\nStobart Group said it would provide £9m of capital \"with the funds drawn down only if required\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The authorities were alerted by three villagers who escaped and went to a hospital\n\nThe bodies of seven people have been found in a mass grave in an indigenous area of Panama where members of a religious sect were believed to be performing exorcisms, officials say.\n\nThe victims included a pregnant woman, 32, and five of her children, aged one to 11. The sixth was a neighbour, 17.\n\nTen people have been arrested on suspicion of murder. The suspects and all victims were thought to belong to the Ngäbe-Buglé indigenous community.\n\nThe grave was discovered after three villagers escaped and made their way to a local hospital last weekend, prosecutor Rafael Baloyes said. They then alerted authorities about several families being held by an indigenous-run sect.\n\nOn Wednesday, police raided the community, located in a jungle region in north-west Panama some 250km (155 miles) from the capital Panama City.\n\n\"They were performing a ritual inside the structure. In that ritual, there were people being held against their will, being mistreated,\" said Mr Baloyes. \"All of these rites were aimed at killing them if they didn't repent their sins\".\n\nThe suspects and victims were thought to belong to the Ngäbe-Buglé indigenous community\n\nParamedics evacuate one of the 15 people who were rescued\n\nInside the makeshift church, officers found a naked woman, machetes, knives and a ritually sacrificed goat, Mr Baloyes said. The site was controlled by a religious sect called the New Light of God, believed to have been operating in the region for about three months.\n\nAccording to Mr Baloyes, the kidnapping and torture started last Saturday after one of the members claimed to have received \"a message from God\". The victims were then kidnapped from their homes, beaten and killed.\n\nThe suspects, who include a minor, are expected to appear in court on Friday or Saturday. One of them is the father of the pregnant woman found in the grave, located some 2km from the makeshift church.\n\nThose rescued had bodily injuries and reportedly included at least two pregnant women and some children.\n\nExorcism is a religious or spiritual ritual carried out to supposedly cure people of demonic possession. It remains controversial, in part due to its depiction in popular culture and horror films.\n\nIn an article about exorcism for The Conversation academic website, Helen Hall, a lecturer at Nottingham Law School, says the practice \"signifies freeing a place, person or even object from some form of negative spiritual influence\".\n\nBeliefs and rituals of a similar description \"are found in almost all cultures and faith traditions\", writes Ms Hall, who is also an Anglican priest.\n\nExorcism, meaning \"oath\" in Greek, is still widely practised today, most frequently in Christian and Islamic settings. It has \"proved to be a dark yet enduring feature of Catholic culture\", Francis Young writes in A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity.\n\nIn 2018, about 250 priests from 50 countries attended the Vatican's annual exorcism course amid increasing demand for exorcisms among some of the world's Catholic communities.\n\nIn the Catholic Church, exorcisms are performed by trained priests who recite prayers and excerpts from the Bible intended to drive out demonic entities.\n\nCatholic Online says a possessed person may be bound as the priest traces the sign of the cross over them and sprinkles them with holy water.", "The Ultrafan engine has giant carbon composite blades tipped with titanium\n\n\"It's on another scale from anything I've seen before,\" says Lorna Carter who recently started working at a new Rolls-Royce research and development facility near Bristol.\n\nShe works with giant robots which lay thousands of strips of carbon fibre tape to form a cylinder some 3.7m (almost 12ft) in diameter.\n\nThe cylinder forms the outer shell of Rolls-Royce's new engine, the Ultrafan.\n\nStill under development, Rolls-Royce says the Ultrafan will be quieter and more fuel efficient than anything it has made before.\n\nIt will certainly be bigger.\n\n\"The component we're trying to make is massive and we are at capacity, it's really stretching the limits of what we can do,\" says Ms Carter.\n\nAt the £25m facility Rolls-Royce has also developed robots that can make fan blades from carbon fibre, a process that has taken more than 10 years to perfect.\n\nMaking the fan casing and blades from carbon fibre should result in a 20% weight saving compared with previous materials.\n\nAnd that's important as the aerospace industry is under pressure to reduce its environmental impact. Aircraft are getting more efficient, but airline traffic is growing even faster.\n\nRolls-Royce estimates that 37,000 new passenger aircraft will be needed over the next 20 years.\n\n\"We've come a long way, but the challenge is to decouple emissions growth from traffic growth,\" says Alan Newby, future programmes director at Rolls-Royce.\n\nThe new engine will also incorporate a gearbox, allowing a much bigger fan, which results in a more efficient engine.\n\nIt's an innovation already being used on a smaller engine from US-based Pratt & Whitney Engine, the PW1000G.\n\nWhile Rolls-Royce and others in the aerospace industry are working on electric and hybrid propulsion systems for aircraft, for long-haul aircraft, at the moment jet engines are the only option.\n\nThe giant new Rolls-Royce engine needs a fan case 3.7m wide\n\nGiven that it is a technology that has been around since World War Two, how much more efficiency can be squeezed out of the jet engine?\n\nQuite a lot, according to Professor Pericles Pilidis, who is head of power and propulsion department at Cranfield University's Centre for Propulsion Engineering.\n\nHis department works with on research projects with aerospace companies including Airbus and Rolls-Royce.\n\n\"I do expect improvements to continue,\" he says. Better materials, more efficient shapes and improved coatings can all contribute to make engines lighter and stronger.\n\nHe also points out that lighter engines mean the aircraft structure can be lighter as it has to carry less weight.\n\nThose kind of incremental changes might not sound like much, but in the airline business they can make a big difference.\n\n\"Evolutionary changes, they sound unimpressive - 10% here 12% there. But in the airline business with very thin margins, that is the difference between life and death,\" says Richard Aboulafia, vice-president of analysis at the Teal Group.\n\nOne UK firm though is looking to make a step change in propulsion. Reaction Engines is developing a rocket engine, called Sabre, to be used on high-speed aircraft and on spacecraft.\n\nAt the kind of speeds Reaction is aiming for, Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound) the air coming into the engine can reach temperatures of 1,000C.\n\nReaction Engines hopes its engines will allow travel at over five times the speed of sound\n\nThat temperature would destroy the engine, so Reaction has developed a cooling system which can chill the incoming air in a fraction of a second.\n\nThe so-called pre-cooler is made from miniature tubes, less than 1mm thick, that can pipe coolant under high pressure through the system, and whisk heat away.\n\n\"The Sabre is completely unique, there's nobody else in the world, that we are aware of, that's developing an air-breathing rocket engine,\" says Mark Thomas, chief executive of Reaction Engines.\n\n\"Our pre-cooler technology... is in a different class to anything out there. It's ultra-high performance, ultra lightweight, highly miniaturised... it's just in a different league completely.\"\n\nReaction Engines plans to start building the Sabre engine this year and test it in 2021.\n\nReaction's pre-cooler can also potentially be used on conventional jet engines to make them more efficient, an idea being tested with Rolls-Royce.\n\nAccording to Prof Pericles it will be another 30 years until we see a radical change in passenger aircraft.\n\nBy then he thinks there will be a transition from the current design, which is basically a tube, with engines hanging below the wings, to a \"blended wing\" design.\n\nIn 30 years time aircraft might look more like this design from Cranfield University\n\nUnder that design, the aircraft is just one set of wings, with engines sitting on the top.\n\nThose engines might even by powered by hydrogen, which has the potential to be a very low emission fuel.\n\n\"Hydrogen fuel is unavoidable,\" says Prof Pilidis. \"It is a long-term solution to decarbonise aviation completely.\n\nHowever, environmentalists says action needs to be taken sooner.\n\n\"There's always a role for technology to play in cutting emissions, but solving the climate crisis is something we need to get on with right now,\" says Jenny Bates, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth.\n\n\"The priority instead needs to be emissions cuts by having fewer planes in the sky. This is a crucial part of preventing further climate breakdown.\"", "The first votes of the 2020 primary presidential election have been cast in the Midwestern state of Minnesota.\n\nVoters are deciding which Democratic presidential hopeful they want to become the party's eventual nominee in the November presidential election.\n\nThough Iowa's contest next month will be the first to announce a candidate as winning the state, early voting began in Minnesota on Friday.\n\nThousands of early ballots have already been cast.\n\nThe nation is fixated on Iowa's caucus - party-held elections across the state's precincts - on 3 February as the start of the 2020 election season, but voters from several states will have already had their say by then.\n\nAfter this primary election process, each party will name their presidential nominee in the summer. Voters will then cast their ballots for the next president of the United States on 3 November.\n\nFacing frigid temperatures of -2°F (-19°C), voters in Minneapolis - the seat of Minnesota's largest county - were already arriving to vote at 08:00 local time, when polling stations opened.\n\n\"We even had a little bit of a line,\" Ginny Gelms, the Hennepin county elections manager, told the BBC.\n\nRepresentative Ilhan Omar speaks in support of candidate Bernie Sanders on the first day of early voting in Minneapolis\n\nOver 280 people had cast ballots in person in the county before noon and over 6,000 more had been received by post, Ms Gelms said.\n\nThirty-eight US states and the District of Columbia allow voters to cast ballots before election day, either in person or by mail.\n\nThese 'absentee' ballots are often used by soldiers, US personnel overseas, or those not able to get to a poll station on election day.\n\nThough some jurisdictions have already begun accepting ballots by post, Minnesota is the first to open polling stations where voters can turn up.\n\nMinnesota voters braved freezing temperatures to get to the ballot box\n\nThey have 46 days to vote before the state's primary election day on 3 March, when over a dozen other states and territories will also hold their primary contests on the so-called 'Super Tuesday'.\n\nVermont, Virginia and North Dakota will also open polls for early voters on Saturday.\n\nEarly voting has become increasingly popular, though most voters still wait until election day. In 2000, 16% of voters cast early ballots in the general election, compared to nearly 40% in 2016.\n\nAmy Klobuchar, a Minnesota senator who is running for president, campaigned in her home state as polls were open, but others were on the ground in Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold primary contests next month.\n\nDemocratic candidate Amy Klobuchar campaigned in her home state of Minnesota on the first day of voting\n\nA strong result in the two February races can give a lift to campaigns. Joe Biden, the former vice president, and Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator, are the frontrunners, according to polls.\n\nThough Mr Sanders was not there for the first ballots, Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota congresswoman and supporter, campaigned in the state Friday on his behalf.\n\nCandidates still have a long road ahead. Americans won't know their next president until the general election on 3 November.", "Robert Pugh, 75, assaulted boys in the 1980s and 1990s\n\nA former climbing instructor has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after indecently assaulting three boys.\n\nRobert Pugh, 75, of Cardiff, assaulted the boys at Storey Arms outdoor activity centre in the Brecon Beacons during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nHe was found guilty of 10 charges at Cardiff Crown Court in December and remanded in custody before being sentenced on Friday.\n\nAll three victims were under 16 when Pugh started abusing them.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, one victim said he \"suffered some very dark times\" during the process of getting the case through court.\n\n\"I'm getting myself better and can look forward to moving on with my life,\" he said.\n\n\"There are no winners here, just people who wanted to right Bob's wrongs. So I thank the jury for believing us and reaching the rightful verdict.\"\n\nHe said the victims were \"groomed with preferential treatment\".\n\n\"After he attacked me, I got out of the situation, moved away, and didn't trust anyone anymore. And self-destructing tendencies have been in my life ever since.\"\n\nHe said he took action when he discovered in later life he was not the only victim and contacted the police.\n\n\"It's hard to accept it's taken me 20 years to get here as my accusations were not taken seriously or followed up for a long time. However, it was worth it, despite the negative effects it's had on my life,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm glad Bob has been found unanimously guilty and I am vindicated.\"\n\nHe and another victim both described having self-destructive and risk-taking tendencies and problems with alcohol.\n\nRobert Pugh was found guilty of 10 charges at Cardiff Crown Court in December\n\nThe prosecution said beneath Pugh's respectable exterior \"there was something that drove him to touch these boys\".\n\nThe court heard the boys seen as Pugh's favourites were offered additional courses, received gifts and were taken to a pub.\n\nJudge Michael Fitton told Pugh he had \"a sexual interest and desire for boys and young men\".\n\n\"You have harmed three young men in the ways they have described to the jury,\" he added.\n\n\"Two of them have been harmed significantly.\"\n\nThe judge was told by Pugh's barrister he still maintained his innocence.\n\nThe jury was previously directed to find Pugh not guilty of three charges of historical child abuse due to a lack of evidence.\n\nStorey Arms Outdoor Activity Centre has been part of Cardiff council's education service since 1971\n\nFollowing the sentencing, a Cardiff council spokesman expressed his deepest sympathy to everyone affected and said \"significant changes\" have taken place across Wales regarding the safeguarding of children.\n\n\"Safeguarding and protecting children against harm is the highest priority for Cardiff council and staff across all service areas receive safeguarding training, guidance and advice,\" he added.\n\nDet Con Vince Jones of South Wales Police said it had been \"a long and complicated investigation\".\n\n\"It is thanks to the tenacity and bravery of Pugh's victims that we have reached this point,\" he added.", "When Stacey reached the hospital, she found her sister Lucy (pictured) unrecognisable\n\nStacey Jordan still wonders whether she could have done more to save her sister.\n\nLucy White was just 24 when she died in hospital in summer 2018 after a line of cocaine triggered a heart attack and then a coma.\n\nLucy, a student from Bristol, had been introduced to cocaine by her mother, a long-term drug user - but Stacey had managed to get Lucy clean, before she relapsed, a few months before her death.\n\nWhen Stacey got to the hospital she found her sister, almost unrecognisable.\n\n\"I should have been more strict,\" she says 18-months on. \"You look back now and you're like, 'She was hiding from me. She was avoiding me for a reason.'\n\n\"But could I see it? Maybe not. Did I want to see it? That's maybe the question.\"\n\nFigures compiled for BBC News by NHS Digital show Lucy's story is far from unusual, with record levels of cocaine use putting increasing pressure on the NHS in England.\n\nLewis, a 25-year-old from the Midlands, also suffered a heart attack after a line of cocaine.\n\n\"My friend's a nurse and she was taking my pulse and she's whispering, 'Call an ambulance.' My heart is pounding out of my chest.\"\n\nLewis was spending up to £300 a week on cocaine\n\nHe had taken the drug numerous times before but on this occasion it reacted badly with his system and he needed medical treatment.\n\nHe recovered fully and his cocaine use, which he admits once used to cost him £200 to £300 a week, has dramatically reduced in the past year.\n\n\"It wasn't making me happy at all,\" says Lewis of his drug habit. \"It's the worst paranoia I've had in my life.\n\n\"I'd be sat by my window, a car would pull up and I'd be looking over my shoulder. I'd fear my girlfriend was cheating on me.\"\n\nDealers are now marketing cocaine, once seen as mainly for rich people, more widely\n\nThe increased need for the NHS to treat cocaine users comes as the number of people dying after taking the drug hits record levels.\n\nSince 2015, cocaine-related deaths have tripled in Scotland and doubled in England and Wales.\n\nCocaine in Britain is purer, more available and consumed more widely than ever before.\n\nFormer professional footballer Colin McNair says addiction destroyed his career\n\n\"From the age of 15 we've supported people to try to help them address their cocaine use,\" says Eddie Buggy, a drugs worker in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, with the drug charity Addaction.\n\n\"It's easier to buy than alcohol, you don't have to go into a shop.\n\n\"You can use digital platforms to get it which young people are very familiar with - Snapchat, Whatsapp, stuff like that.\"\n\nThe increased availability is driven in part by dealers marketing more widely a drug once seen as mainly for rich people.\n\nSeveral strands with different levels of purity are now sold, costing anything from £100 a gram down to as little as £30 a gram.\n\nThe sheer amount of cocaine in Lanarkshire, indeed across Scotland, has led to Hamilton Academical Football Club taking a leading role in warning teenagers of the dangers of drug abuse.\n\nThe club's chief executive, Colin McGowan, himself a former drug and alcohol addict, has set up an anti-addiction charity, which goes into local schools educating youngsters.\n\nAs part of his talk to teenagers, Colin McNair shows the effect on his body of two decades of drug use\n\nOn a recent Friday, Colin gave a talk at Our Lady's High School in Motherwell accompanied by Colin McNair, a former professional footballer with Hearts, Falkirk and Motherwell whose life spiralled out of control and ended up in prison after he took a line of cocaine in his early 20s.\n\n\"People who are not into drugs can't understand it, 'You actually threw all that away?'\" he says.\n\n\"I didn't throw it away. When you are caught up in addiction, your choices are taken from you.\n\n\"That's how strong and powerful cocaine is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conner Marshall mother: His face was a mass of bruising\n\nA coroner has criticised the probation service's \"woefully inadequate\" management of a case worker supervising a man who beat a teenager to death.\n\nDavid Braddon, 26, mistook Conner Marshall, 18, for his estranged partner's former boyfriend.\n\nBraddon was jailed for life for Mr Marshall's murder in 2015.\n\nIn a narrative conclusion at the Pontypridd inquest on Friday, assistant coroner Nadim Bashir said Braddon's case worker was \"overwhelmed\".\n\nHe described how Kathryn Oakley accepted a number of times she could have done more with the supervision of Braddon.\n\nWhen the attack happened Braddon was under supervision for drug offences and assaulting a police officer.\n\nProbation reforms took place in 2014, with privately-run community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) taking on the work.\n\nFollowing this, some staff were behind with their work, the inquest in Pontypridd had heard.\n\nMr Bashir described Braddon's probation officer Ms Oakley as being \"brand new to her role\" after starting in January 2014.\n\n\"She should have been supervised by a team manager once every six to eight weeks,\" he said.\n\n\"She had weak team managers with no team manager oversight of her case work load.\n\n\"The management and supervision of her was woefully inadequate.\"\n\n\"The failures, however, must have a direct and clear causal connection with Conner Marshall's death and must contribute in a more than minimal way,\" he added.\n\n\"But I am satisfied there was no possible or even probable evidential link that led to Conner Marshall's death.\n\n\"Put simply, his death could not have been foreseen or predicted, let alone prevented.\"\n\nNadine Marshall spoke at the end of the inquest\n\nFollowing the inquest, Mr Marshall's mother Nadine said his death had followed the \"chaos\" after the privatisation of probation services.\n\n\"Today is the culmination of almost five years of struggle to obtain truth and justice for Conner and find out why our much loved son was the victim of a callous and unprovoked attack,\" she said.\n\nShe added the supervision of Braddon was \"not robust\" and the management system in Wales \"wholly inadequate\".\n\nMrs Marshall said \"we will never know if our son would still be here today\" if things had operated differently.\n\nFollowing the inquest, the trade union for probation and family court staff Napo said it had raised \"serious concerns\" about the firm responsible for probation services in Wales.\n\nIt said staff had complained about excessive workloads, exacerbated by Working Links' decision to make 40% of staff redundant when it took over operations in 2014.\n\nGeneral secretary Ian Lawrence said: \"Time and time again we are seeing our members being scapegoated by management across both the public and private arms of probation when a serious further offence occurs.\n\n\"This is especially relevant in this tragic case when there is so much empirical evidence to suggest that Working Links were incapable of running a safe and effective operational model.\"\n\nHe said before Working Links went into administration last year, Napo warned ministers that its contract was \"failing on every level\".\n\nNational Probation Service Wales director, Ian Barrow, said: \"This was an awful crime and our thoughts remain with Conner Marshall's family and friends.\n\n\"While the coroner found Conner's death could not have been avoided, there is no doubt David Braddon's probation supervision was not good enough.\n\n\"We have now taken responsibility for managing all offenders on licence in Wales from the Community Rehabilitation Company and 800 more probation officers are in training across England and Wales which will help to improve public protection.\"\n\nIf nothing else, this inquest has highlighted how difficult probation's role is.\n\nOn a daily basis, officers juggle supervision of a number of people living chaotic lives.\n\nProcesses are put in place to try and manage that, but in this case the needs of a junior probation service officer weren't adequately supported.\n\nManagers were aware she was feeling overwhelmed but an online tool suggested her workload was fine - others were coping, after all.\n\nAnd so somewhere in the midst of a changing structure, the needs of Kathryn Oakley were overlooked.\n\nIt has taken a coroner looking at the inner workings of a service to see this was \"woefully inadequate\".\n\nIt is now down to the Ministry of Justice and National Probation Service to give reassurance that the new way of working is different.", "The lyric appears on the star's album Music To Be Murdered By, which was released on Friday\n\nManchester mayor Andy Burnham has hit out at Eminem for an \"unnecessarily hurtful and deeply disrespectful\" lyric about the 2017 bomb attack in the city.\n\nIn a song on his new album, the US star raps: \"I'm contemplating yelling 'bombs away' on the game/Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.\"\n\nThat is followed by the sound of an explosion.\n\nTwenty-two people died when a suicide bomber attacked a crowd after Grande's gig at Manchester Arena in May 2017.\n\nThe lines feature in the song Unaccommodating, in which the star boasts about his impact on hip-hop. It appears on his album Music To Be Murdered By, which was released on Friday.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News, Mr Burnham said: \"This is unnecessarily hurtful and deeply disrespectful to the families and all those affected.\"\n\nAndy Burnham (right) at the reopening of Manchester Arena in September 2017\n\nFigen Murray, whose son Martyn Hett died in the attack, also voiced her disapproval after being informed of the two songs on Friday morning.\n\n\"Feels like he is piggybacking on the fame of Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber and says distasteful things about other celebrities,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Not clever. Totally pointless. And before all Eminem fans pounce on me, I am not interested and will not engage.\"\n\nMurray has campaigned for the introduction of Martyn's Law, which would require venues to introduce more stringent security checks.\n\nHett's former partner Russell Hayward also voiced his disapproval of Eminem's latest lyrics, writing: \"It's disappointing but not surprising that #Eminem would use controversial lyrics about the Manchester bomb, dragging the victims' families & Ariana back into a very dark time.\n\n\"Not sure how popular he is these days but I hope any success he gets from the back of this is worth it.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Grande's fans, who described Unaccommodating as \"a pathetic attempt to get attention\".\n\nOne fan tweeted the rapper saying: \"You're so disgusting I hope u know that. What u said was very uncalled for and so hurtful to so many people.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is not the first time the 47-year-old has referenced the attack in song.\n\nIn a 2018 freestyle, he rapped about a brainwashed suicide bomber \"seeing Ariana Grande sing her last song of the evening/And as the audience from the damn concert is leaving/Detonates the device strapped to his abdominal region.\"\n\nUnaccommodating is the opening track on the star's 11th album, which he released, unannounced, on Friday morning.\n\nThe 20-track album, a follow-up to 2018's Kamikaze, features cameos from Q-Tip, Ed Sheeran and the late Juice Wrld.\n\nIn a contrast to the Manchester Arena lyric, the album's lead single, Darkness, advocates tighter gun control laws in the US.\n\nThe song and video reference the 2017 Route 91 Harvest music festival shooting in Las Vegas, in which 58 people died, with Eminem playing the role of an isolated, mentally-disturbed character who plots a murderous rampage to gain notoriety.\n\nThe video ends with a montage of news reports from recent mass shootings, captioned: \"When will it end? When enough people care.\"\n\nEminem then urges fans to register to vote in the upcoming US elections, writing: \"Make your voice heard and help change gun laws in America\".\n\nThe video also links to a website with information and links to various anti-gun violence organisations including Everytown For Gun Safety, March For Our Lives and Sandy Hook Promise.\n\nIt is not the first time the star has addressed the issue. Performing at last year's iHeartRadio music awards, he delivered a verse attacking the National Rifle Association's hold over politicians, rapping: \"They love their guns more than our children.\"\n\nAt the time of writing, he had not responded to the criticism over Unaccommodating. The BBC has contacted his publicists for comment.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "But fortunately he was still very good at answering the question.\n\nEvan Davis had been interviewing experts about the news TV cameras can film in Crown Courts in England and Wales for the first time.\n\nThe PM programme had meant to book the famous US lawyer who helped successfully defend OJ Simpson, to discuss the development with a retired Supreme Court justice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Getting a horse on to a bus was \"quite a novel experience\"\n\nThere was no foaling around for a horse on the loose on a busy city road after rescuers managed to get it to safety on a bus.\n\nThe animal was wandering on the A48 in Cardiff on Thursday evening, causing some motorists to pull over to help.\n\nHarley Stephens, who helped rescue the horse, said it happily \"trotted\" onto the Cardiff Bus.\n\nIt was then taken on a ride to safety and was reunited with its owners, police said.\n\nMs Stephens said: \"It was crazy. I still can't believe it\".\n\n\"I used to ride horses in Cardiff Riding School, but I have not loaded a horse into a horse box or a trailer, let alone a bus, it was quite a novel experience.\"\n\nShe said she and her friend had been driving home when they spotted the horse near the central reservation of the road in the middle of \"fast traffic\".\n\nNeither Olivia Ryall nor the horse had to pony up a fare to get on board the bus\n\nShe said it was shaken up and they managed to stop traffic and calm the animal with the help of some \"lovely\" passers-by and then a bus stopped.\n\n\"The police arrived and we were all a bit flummoxed of what to do because we couldn't get a horse box there in time,\" she said.\n\nShe said the Cardiff Bus driver suggested putting it on a bus, so they put the disabled ramp down and \"it went on quite happily\".\n\nAccompanied by Ms Stephens the horse was then taken to the hospital Park and Ride stop, with one other passenger sitting close by.\n\n\"He was quite chill about it,\" she said.\n\nThere someone said they would help to reunite it with its owner - but not before Ms Stephens said her goodbyes, had photos taken, and had it named after her.\n\n\"He had a nice little five minute drive on the bus, it was crazy, even the police officer said \"I need to take photos as I don't think anyone will believe me\".'\n\nOlivia Ryall (left) and Harley Stephens spotted the horse while driving along the A48\n\nSouth Wales Police said the horse was collected by its owners at around 20:00 GMT after being contacted by the local horse warden.\n\nThe force was first called about the animal on the road at about 18:30 GMT and tweeted to say the road had been closed while the horse was helped.\n\n\"A loose horse on the 'mane' A48 Eastern Ave decided it wanted to 'stirrup' a little trouble but in doing so it risked falling 'foal' of the law,\" the force said.\n\nCardiff Bus tweeted to say: \"Thankfully the bus is back in its stable, but awaiting a clean.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOperations manager Tony Bishop said: \"Cardiff Bus worked in partnership with South Wales Police to ensure the safety of the horse and other road users.\n\n\"Due to the A48 being such a busy road, the decision was made to transport the horse to a safe location and wait for the owner to come to collect it.\n\n\"The horse was accompanied on the five-minute journey to the Heath Park and Ride by the lady who helped to rescue him and was shortly after reunited with its owner.\n\n\"It was an eventful night for all involved and thankfully had a very happy ending.\"", "Iranians were angered by officials who initially denied shooting down a plane outside Tehran\n\nAfter days of denial, the Iranian authorities admitted that a crash involving a Ukrainian International Airlines jetliner was caused by human error.\n\nThe incident on Wednesday came just hours after Iran had launched a series of ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases hosting US troops, in a bid to avenge the killing of senior commander Qasem Soleimani.\n\nIt was amid these high tensions, Iran says, that an air defence operator misidentified flight PS752 as a cruise missile and shot it down, killing all 176 people on board.\n\nWhile Iran initially denied responsibility, US and Canadian intelligence agencies soon uncovered evidence that one of the country's surface-to-air missile had caused the accident. This led to significant international pressure for Iran to openly investigate the case.\n\nTehran's decision to reverse its initial statements and take full responsibility for the downing of the plane provoked a positive response from several countries, including those whose passengers were onboard - Canada, the UK, Germany, and Sweden.\n\nThe admission of guilt was ultimately read as a positive first step.\n\nBut officials from these governments also said the admission should be followed by constructive behaviour from Iran. This would likely mean it pursuing a transparent investigation, the repatriation of the bodies and compensation for the victims, as well as taking the necessary steps to ensure similar tragedies are averted in future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A crowd gathered outside Amir Kabir university, calling for resignations and accusing officials of lying\n\nOn the international front, the downing of flight PS752 is unlikely to result in further escalation and might even provide an opportunity for defusing some of the tensions which have been simmering over the past few months.\n\nOn the domestic front, however, this tragic accident could have much deeper repercussions.\n\nJust days before the flight crashed, Iran displayed an unprecedented level of unity and popular support when millions of people poured on to the streets all over the country to mourn the death of Soleimani.\n\nThis seemed to indicate that, when faced with the external threat of military confrontation, Iranians from different political and economic backgrounds could come together and put aside their divisions.\n\nMillions of Iranians mourned the death of top general Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike\n\nBut the shooting down of flight PS752 and the subsequent denials from the authorities could lead these divisions to re-emerge and become even sharper.\n\nWhile the admission of guilt could assuage some of the popular criticism towards the grave mishandling of the situation, the establishment might still be perceived as having tried to hide evidence and avoid responsibility before international pressure mounted on Iran to come clean.\n\nThis is likely to revive the divisions and unrest that erupted in November when the Iranian government approved a sharp spike in fuel prices. This move triggered large demonstrations across the country and resulted in widespread repression and the killing of at least 300 people.\n\nWhile acknowledging the truth is an important first step, the Iranian people will likely demand accountability and the prosecution of those responsible, as well as the adoption of all the steps needed to ensure this does not happen again.\n\nThey will also pay attention to how the victims of the air crash are treated by the Iranian elite. An important test here is whether their funerals will result in national mourning, similar to that of Soleimani, or instead be largely ignored.\n\nAll of these demands will be added to previous grievances over the state of the economy and the limitations on some social freedoms.\n\nParliamentary elections are due to take place in just over a month and internal discord over this crash could lead to further unrest. Plus, tension with the West has abated but is far from over.\n\nThe way in which the government and the rest of the establishment handle the broader repercussions of this plane crash could be a watershed moment for Iran. The choices it makes are likely to reverberate throughout Iranian politics and society for months, or even years, to come.", "Canada has offered compensation to help with the immediate costs for families of some victims of Flight PS752\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada will compensate families of the victims of the Ukraine Airlines crash.\n\nThe funds are designed to assist families of victims who are Canadians citizens or permanent residents in covering related costs such as travel.\n\nMr Trudeau said families would receive C$25,000 ($19,200; £14,600) per victim.\n\nFifty-seven Canadian nationals were on the plane when it was hit by an Iranian air defence missile earlier this month.\n\n\"This is a unique and unprecedented situation because of the international sanctions place in Iran and the difficulties that that imposes on these families,\" Mr Trudeau said on Friday.\n\n\"This is the first step. These families have lost a loved one in extraordinary circumstances and this grieving is even more difficult as a result,\" he said.\n\nFamilies are facing immediate financial pressures as they sort out the necessary funeral arrangements and travel in the wake of the tragedy, said Mr Trudeau. \"These families need help now,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister said Canada still expected Iran to financially compensate the victims' families for their loss.\n\nThe Ukraine International Airlines flight crashed shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran on 8 January, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. Iran initially denied it was involved, but later admitted the plane was brought down by a missile fired in error.\n\nMr Trudeau said Iran has been asked to send the \"black box\" flight and cockpit data recorders from a crashed jet to France, saying it was one of the few countries with the ability to quickly analyse the badly damaged devices.\n\nHe also said 20 families of Canadian victims had requested the repatriation of remains and that the first of those remains are expected to be returned to Canada in the coming days.\n\nAlso on Friday, Canada's Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne met with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Oman to press Mr Zarif on full access for officials from Canada and other affected nation to assist in the investigation into the passenger plane crash.\n\nOn Thursday, ministers from five nations which lost citizens on the flight demanded full co-operation from Iran in a transparent international inquiry into the crash. The foreign ministers of Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine also said Iran must pay compensation.\n\nThey agreed on five key demands to Iran, including a \"thorough, independent and transparent international investigation\" and compensation to the victims' families.", "The news has shocked France, where Paul Bocuse was viewed as a \"pope\" of cuisine\n\nThe restaurant of famed French chef Paul Bocuse has lost its three-star Michelin rating, stirring controversy.\n\nL'Auberge du Pont de Collonges, known simply as Paul Bocuse, had held its crème de la crème rating since 1965 - a world record.\n\nBut the Michelin Guide said the food quality was \"no longer at the level of three stars\". It will now have two.\n\nThe family of Bocuse - a culinary icon in France - said they were \"upset\" by the decision.\n\nThe Michelin Guide's head Gwendal Poullenec visited the restaurant near Lyon on Thursday to deliver the news.\n\n\"Obviously, there was a lot of emotion,\" he told the Washington Post in an interview, adding that there had been \"a variation in the level of the cuisine, but it remains excellent.\"\n\nBocuse, who died in 2018 aged 91, was a household name in France. He was the head of an international food empire and known as the \"pope\" of cooking in his home country.\n\nThe restaurant's loss of a highly coveted third star has shocked France and drawn confusion and outrage from food critics around the world.\n\nFood critic Périco Légasse called it \"an absurd and unfair decision\".\n\n\"Michelin cannot be so stupid,\" he said on radio station FranceInfo, arguing that critics agreed the quality of food had improved since Bocuse's death.\n\n\"Today its discredit is total, the institution is dead,\" he said of the Michelin Guide.\n\nThis is the most recent controversy surrounding the Michelin Guide, which has made efforts in recent years to stave off criticism that is biased towards French cuisine and overvalues formal dining.\n\nIn December, French chef Marc Veyrat lost his court case against the guide after it stripped him of a Michelin star.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBocuse died in a room above the restaurant on 20 January 2018.\n\nAbout 1,000 people attended his funeral, with more mourners watching the ceremony on big screens set up outside the cathedral. French President Emmanuel Macron at the time described him as the \"incarnation of French cuisine\".\n\n\"Although upset by the inspectors' judgment, there is one thing that we never want to lose, it is the soul of Mr Paul,\" the restaurant and Bocuse's family said in a statement.\n\n\"From Collonges and from the bottom of our hearts, we will continue to bring the Sacred Fire to life with audacity, enthusiasm, excellence and a certain form of freedom.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sport should be part of everyone's life - Prince Harry\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has met young rugby players at his first public event since he and the Duchess of Sussex said they would step back from royal life.\n\nPrince Harry laughed and joked as he met children in Buckingham Palace's gardens ahead of the Rugby League World Cup 2021 draw, which he hosted.\n\nHe also met representatives of the 21 nations playing in the world cup.\n\nMeghan and the couple's son Archie are in Canada but the duke will reportedly stay in the UK for meetings next week.\n\nTalks involving the Queen, Prince Harry, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge to discuss the couple's future were held on Monday at the Queen's Sandringham estate.\n\nThe Queen released a statement agreeing to their wish to step back as senior royals, become financially independent and to split their time between the UK and Canada.\n\nOn Thursday, the prince appeared relaxed and at ease as he took part in the draw hosted at the palace - despite being questioned about his next move.\n\nBBC Sport journalist Shamoon Hafez, who was at the event, said Prince Harry gave \"a loud laugh\" when a reporter asked him how talks on his future were going.\n\nPrince Harry hosted the Rugby League World Cup draws for the men's, women's and wheelchair tournaments, as part of his role as patron of the Rugby Football League.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Jon Dutton, the tournament's chief executive, praised the prince for being \"authentic\", \"engaged\" and taking his time to meet representatives from participating nations.\n\nThe tournament runs from 23 October to 27 November 2021 in 17 cities across England, with 16 men's, eight women's and eight wheelchair teams taking part.\n\nEngland will play Samoa in the opening match at St James' Park, Newcastle.\n\nThe prince met ambassadors for the global tournament in the gardens of the palace\n\nPrince Harry has enjoyed rugby since his school days and was a house games captain at Eton.\n\nThe duke was joined by ex-England player Jason Robinson and Dame Katherine Grainger for the draw in the throne room of Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"Not only do I continue to see sport actually changing lives, but it's saving lives as well,\" the prince said at the event.\n\n\"Whether it's rugby league or sport in general... it needs to be in everybody's life.\"\n\nJason Robinson and Dame Katherine Grainger joined Prince Harry in the throne room\n\nThe prince helped with the draw to determine the group stages of the tournament\n\nBefore the draw, he met two ambassadors for the global tournament - James Simpson, England and Leeds Rhinos wheelchair rugby league star, and Jodie Cunningham, a rugby league player in the Women's Super League for St Helens.\n\nHe then spoke to 12 young rugby players from St Vincent de Paul Catholic primary school, who are tag rugby champions in Westminster for the third year running.\n\nPrince Harry joked with the youngsters, telling them to look after the palace grass or he would get in trouble.\n\nPosing for a team picture, he teased them, saying: \"Some of you are really warm. Some of you haven't been running around.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry shakes children's hands in the gardens of Buckingham Palace\n\nKevin Sinfield, former rugby league England captain and Leeds Rhinos director of rugby, said on Thursday that Prince Harry had been \"fantastic for the sport\".\n\n\"His enthusiasm, his energy, his engagement with young people in particular, has been outstanding,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMr Sinfield said the Royal Family had helped to \"massively\" improve openness about mental health in rugby league, adding that Prince Harry had \"really driven this\".\n\nThe duke hosted the event as part of his role as patron of the Rugby Football League\n\nIn a video message posted on Instagram on Thursday the prince said he was \"proud\" to support the tournament's decision to adopt a mental fitness charter - a programme including workshops for 8,000 young players and their families.\n\n\"The perception in rugby league is that you need to be tough,\" he said. \"You can't show your feelings, you have to grin and bear it.\n\n\"But something like the mental fitness charter will help us make real progress in getting rid of the stigma associated with mental illness, and remind people that it's not just about being physically fit, but more importantly mentally strong.\"\n\nMr Sinfield added: \"To have a real figurehead involved in it who's championing it left right and centre is only going to do good things.\"\n\nFormer rugby league England captain Kevin Sinfield, pictured left in 2017, said Prince Harry has been \"fantastic for the sport\"\n\nThere has been speculation Prince Harry would travel to Canada after the draw but a source quoted by the Press Association said: \"The duke has some meetings here early next week.\"\n\nPrince Harry's brother, the Duke of Cambridge, did not mention the talks between senior royals during his first official engagement of the year, on a visit to Bradford with the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nMeghan flew to Canada to join eight-month-old Archie ahead of the meeting.\n\nOn Tuesday she visited a charity in Vancouver which campaigns for teenage girls living in poverty.\n\nJustice for Girls said Meghan visited to \"discuss climate justice for girls and the rights of indigenous peoples\".\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex discussed \"the power of young women's leadership\" on a visit in Vancouver, Justice for Girls said\n\nMeghan also visited the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre in Vancouver.\n\nThe centre posted a photograph on Facebook of the duchess with staff and visitors, with a caption which said they had talked about \"issues affecting women in the community\".\n\nIt came as a legal document was submitted to the High Court in London by the Mail on Sunday, outlining its response to Meghan's legal action over its publication of extracts from a private letter she wrote to her father.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Prince Harry launched the next leg of his Invictus Games, for wounded and injured service personnel and veterans, with an Instagram video.\n\nThe prince said he was looking forward to an \"amazing atmosphere\" in host city Dusseldorf, Germany, at the sixth edition of the tournament in 2022.", "A clock counting down to the moment the UK leaves the EU on 31 January will be projected on to Downing Street as part of government plans to mark Brexit Day.\n\nThe clock will tick down to 23:00 GMT, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson will give a \"special\" address to the nation in the evening, the government said.\n\nA special 50p coin will also enter circulation to mark the occasion.\n\nBut the plans do not include Big Ben chiming, after Commons authorities said the cost could not be justified.\n\nA campaign to find the £500,000 needed to make Big Ben ring when the UK leaves the EU has raised more than £200,000, but the House of Commons Commission cast doubt on whether it was permitted to use public donations to cover the costs.\n\nMillionaire businessman Arron Banks and the Leave Means Leave group donated £50,000 to the campaign.\n\nDowning Street has said the prime minister will chair a cabinet meeting in the north of England during the day, to discuss spreading \"prosperity and opportunity\".\n\nHe will then make a special address to the nation in the evening.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to be one of the first people to receive one of the newly-minted 50p coins, which will bear the motto \"peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations\".\n\nBuildings around Whitehall will be lit up to mark Brexit, with the government saying that, \"in response to public calls, the Union Jack will be flown on all of the flag poles in Parliament Square\".\n\nThe government says it will use the \"significant moment in our history\" to \"heal divisions, re-unite communities and look forward to the country that we want to build over the next decade.\"\n\nThe exterior of the prime minister's residence will be the backdrop for the Brexit countdown\n\nHowever, hopes have faded that Big Ben - which is currently out of action due to renovation work going on at the Houses of Parliament - will chime to mark the moment the UK leaves the EU.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Johnson told BBC Breakfast he wanted the public to raise funds to ensure this can happen.\n\nBut Downing Street later distanced itself from the campaign, with a spokesman saying the prime minister's focus was on the government plan for marking the day, and that Big Ben was a matter for MPs.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission estimates the cost will be up to £500,000, and it has raised concerns over the \"unprecedented approach\" of using donations to fund the project.\n\nIt says this would involve bringing back the chiming mechanism and installing a temporary floor, resulting in delays to the conservation work.\n\nThe campaign group Stand Up 4 Brexit set up an online appeal to raise the money, collecting more than £200,000 by Friday evening.\n\nConservative MP Mark Francois told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that the pro-Brexit Leave Means Leave campaign and Mr Banks had donated £50,000.\n\nHe queried whether the cost of getting the bell to ring again was really £500,000, adding that he believed officials had \"deliberately inflated the figure\" because \"they don't want to do it\".\n\nIt comes as Downing Street has said EU citizens will not automatically be deported if they fail to sign up to the settled status scheme by the 2021.\n\nUnder the settlement scheme, EU citizens living in the UK can apply to stay in the country after Brexit.\n\nSo far the number of applicants to the scheme has hit more than 2.7 million.", "Getting enough sleep and seeing friends may have a bigger effect on teenage girls' mental wellbeing than social media use, a report suggests.\n\nThe finding comes in the government's new State of the Nation report, looking at young people's happiness levels.\n\nSocial media use in itself was found not to be strongly linked to girls' mental health unless youngsters were losing sleep or being bullied online.\n\nBullying had an effect on wellbeing eight times stronger than social media.\n\nDespite continued debate about the impact of social media on young people's wellbeing, the report suggested once other factors were taken into account, there was not a strong link with psychological health.\n\nSpending time with friends and getting enough sleep were \"consistent protective factors for positive psychological health across adolescence\", the report commissioned by the Department for Education said.\n\nBullying was the factor most strongly associated with girls' mental wellbeing but this became less important for older girls, it added.\n\nThe report concluded: \"Social media use had one of the smallest effects of all the factors we examined: getting enough sleep and seeing friends were about three times larger.\n\n\"Being bullied, including online bullying, had an association with psychological health about eight times larger than social media use.\n\n\"This suggested that when accounting for other factors such as the effect of bullying, physical health and sleep, and the frequency of seeing friends, social media use had only a minimal unique association with psychological health.\"\n\nOverall, the study suggests the majority of young people are relatively happy with their lives, but there has been a slight increase over the past seven years in the proportion who are not.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"The pressures young people face today both in and out of school are vastly different to those their parents and grandparents experienced, so we need to listen to what they have to say and act on it.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's encouraging that the overwhelming majority of children say they are happy, but we have a responsibility to do better for those that aren't.\n\n\"We have given teachers the power to tackle bad behaviour like bullying so that school is a safe place for every child to thrive, but today's report helps shine a light on where to focus these efforts.\"\n\nIn October 2018, then Prime Minister Theresa May committed to publishing a State of the Nation report to integrate the available evidence on the state of children and young people's wellbeing, and to provide an accessible narrative on current evidence to guide discourse and action.\n\nBut interest in the national wellbeing of children and young people is not new.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) has collated measures on the life satisfaction, feelings of worth and general happiness of children and young people since 2012.", "Police stood guard at a climate change protest by Extinction Rebellion in Edinburgh last summer\n\nPolicing the UN climate change conference in Glasgow will cost more than £200m, Scotland's chief constable has said.\n\nIain Livingstone told the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) the COP26 event in November would be one of the largest ever staged in the UK.\n\nThe chief constable also said Police Scotland had taken £200m a year out of the core cost of policing.\n\nThis was despite demands on officers increasing in 2019, he said.\n\nMr Livingstone pointed out that there had been an almost 20% rise - from about 1,500 to 1,800 - in the number of loyalist and republican marches in Scotland, as well as a higher number of spontaneous protests such as those by Extinction Rebellion.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said a considerable number of officers would be coming to Scotland from south of the border\n\nActing chairman of the authority, David Crichton, told the board meeting that the current number of officers in Scotland was \"not sustainable\".\n\nHe said the vast majority of the police budget had already been allocated to cover officer and staff costs.\n\nHe added that the Scottish Police Authority had been raising concerns about financial sustainability over the past four or five months, along with the chief constable and Audit Scotland.\n\n\"There is a structural deficit in the policing budget,\" he said. \"It's simple arithmetic, it's not complicated mathematics, it's simple arithmetic.\n\n\"With almost 90% of the budget allocated to officer and staff costs, it does mean that difficult choices are going to have to be made over the next weeks and months - difficult choices by government, by the authority and by Police Scotland.\"\n\nMr Livingstone told the meeting: \"At the moment there's an operational imperative, I sense an element of political imperative, to maintain officer numbers and the challenge for us is showing the value that having a strong police service provides and at this stage, making a case for further investment.\n\n\"We've had real-time protection but that's only kicked in since 2015-2016, but the core cost of policing is £200m less every year than it was prior to Police Scotland coming into being (in April 2013).\n\n\"So our deficit is because actually our budget has been cut even greater than the savings that we've managed to achieve.\n\n\"So my pitch is, can we get some of those savings back?\"\n\nThe meeting was told that the current number of police officers in Scotland was \"not sustainable\"\n\nMr Livingstone also told the SPA that a considerable number of officers would be coming to Scotland from south of the border to help police COP26.\n\nHe said their accommodation costs alone would be \"tens of millions of pounds\" and deposits on accommodation were estimated at £2m, which needed to be paid by next month.\n\nMembers were also told Police Scotland's plans to reduce officer numbers by 400 this year had been put on hold.\n\nMr Livingstone said major events such as the European Football championships and continuing uncertainty about the Brexit settlement were adding to pressure on the force even before policing of COP26 was taken into account.\n\nUp to 90,000 people - delegates, observers, heads of state and media - are expected to attend COP26, over 12 days from 9-20 November.\n\nA Scottish Police Authority report described it as the largest mobilisation of police officers in the UK.\n\nScottish ministers say they expect the UK government to cover the \"core costs\", including emergency services funding.\n\nThe UK government has said discussions with the Scottish government on the conference costs are \"currently ongoing\".\n\nUp to 200 world leaders are expected to attend COP26.\n\nIt will be held at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) but other venues across the city will also host functions and meetings for heads of state and other dignitaries.\n\nThe SEC will be handed over to the UN for the duration of the conference. Known as the \"blue zone\", it will become international territory, subject to international law.", "Britain has condemned the arrest of the UK ambassador to Iran as a \"flagrant violation of international law\".\n\nRob Macaire was detained for a short time on Saturday night after attending a vigil for those who died when Iran's military shot down a passenger plane.\n\nHe left the vigil when it turned into a protest but was later accused of helping to organise the demonstrations.\n\nIran said he was \"an unknown foreigner in an illegal gathering\" and summoned him to the foreign ministry on Sunday.\n\nIn a statement, Iran's foreign ministry said Mr Macaire was \"reminded\" that his presence at \"illegal gatherings contravened\" the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said Mr Macaire was understood to have protested strongly that his detention was unjustified.\n\nOur correspondent says Mr Macaire made clear any suggestion that he was involved in demonstrations was completely untrue, and he was attending an event advertised as a vigil for the victims of Wednesday's crash - which killed 176 people, including four Britons.\n\nEarlier, Iran's deputy foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who denied Mr Macaire was detained, said in a tweet that he thought it \"impossible\" when police first told him that the UK ambassador had been arrested.\n\nA phone conversation confirmed Mr Macaire's identity and he was released 15 minutes later, Mr Araghchi added.\n\nMr Macaire has denied taking part in protests and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemned his arrest.\n\nHe was arrested and held for three hours when he stopped at a barber shop for a haircut on his way back to the UK embassy.\n\nIn a tweet the ambassador said he was attending the vigil because it was \"normal to want to pay respects\", adding that some of the victims were British.\n\nThe ambassador added: \"Arresting diplomats is of course illegal, in all countries.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned Mr Macaire's arrest in a joint statement following a phone call on Sunday, in which they discussed their \"shared interests in ensuring Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon\".\n\nAnd Security Minister Brandon Lewis said on Sunday that the UK ambassador's arrest was \"totally unacceptable\" and a breach of the 1961 Vienna Convention.\n\n\"Iran does need to step back from that kind of activity and play a proper part in working with partners to de-escalate,\" Mr Lewis told Sky's Sophy Ridge.\n\nUnder the convention, diplomats cannot be detained. The Foreign Office is to demand a full explanation.\n\nIn a statement issued on Saturday night Mr Raab added: \"The arrest of our ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law.\n\n\"The Iranian government is at a cross-roads moment. It can continue its march towards pariah status with all the political and economic isolation that entails, or take steps to deescalate tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forwards.\"\n\nThe Iranian Etemad newspaper shared a picture of the ambassador on Twitter after the Tasnim news agency reported his arrest.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 🌐 اعتمادآنلاين This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProtesters had taken to the streets in Iran's capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials, calling them liars for having denied, then admitting, shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane.\n\nIran had initially denied responsibility for the plane crash, but on Saturday, President Hassan Rouhani admitted Iranian military had \"unintentionally\" shot down the passenger plane after mistaking it for a cruise missile when it turned towards a sensitive military site.\n\nPresident Rouhani said the missile strike was an \"unforgivable mistake\".\n\nThe crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.\n\nMr Johnson said Iran's admission was an \"important first step\" and called for an investigation into the \"tragic accident\".\n\nAnd writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Raab said it was time for Tehran \"to come to the negotiating table to resolve all of Iran's issues of international concern.\"\n\nHe said Iran \"must stop pursuing a nuclear weapon, end its support for terrorism, and release the foreign nationals and dual nationals it cruelly holds\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to show missile strike on Ukrainian plane in Iran\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the shooting down of the passenger plane by Iran was \"an appalling act, and part of a whole pattern of appalling acts all across the region\".\n\nThe Queen has also sent a message of condolence to the Governor-General of Canada - where the majority of the passengers on the flight were headed.\n\nOut of the 176 victims on board the Kyiv-bound flight, 138 had listed Canada as their eventual destination.\n\nThe Queen said she and the Duke of Edinburgh were \"deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall added their condolences, saying they were \"utterly horrified\" by the disaster.\n\nBritons Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, Sam Zokaei and Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board\n\nFour Britons were on board the Ukrainian passenger plane.\n\nThree have been named as Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, who owned a dry cleaners in West Sussex, BP engineer Sam Zokaei from Twickenham, and PhD student and engineer Saeed Tahmasebi, who lived in Dartford.\n\nMr Tahmasebi's Iranian wife, Niloufar Ebrahim, was also listed as a passenger on the plane.", "A BBC Arabic investigation has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting the Syrian-Kurdish political leader, Hevrin Khalaf, was executed by a faction of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army.\n\nRebel group Ahrar al-Sharqiya, which fights for the SNA, is accused of her murder, but has told the BBC it is not responsible for the politician's death.\n\nBut by speaking to members of Ahrar al-Sharqiya, as well as Hevrin Khalaf's family, former colleagues and an eyewitness, plus using open source investigation tools, the BBC has discovered a different story about what happened on 12 October 2019.\n\nThe Turkish government, which backs the Syrian National Army, has not responded to BBC requests for comment.\n\nVideo produced by: Nader Ibrahim, Rosie Garthwaite, Manisha Ganguly and Mustafa Khalili. Graphics by Jasmine Bonshor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Garnett: 'Cathy let everybody of the hook'\n\nTributes have been paid to TV and film producer Tony Garnett following his death at the age of 83.\n\nOriginally an actor, Garnett produced such seminal Ken Loach works as Cathy Come Home and Kes, and later produced influential TV series This Life.\n\nWorld Productions, the TV company he founded, said he died on Sunday \"after a short illness\".\n\nLoach said Garnett \"believed in drama, in film and its power to communicate truth\".\n\n\"He understood the basic conflict at the heart of society, between those with power who exploit and those who are exploited,\" the director told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"He was a brilliant, complex man, intensely loyal and generous-spirited.\"\n\nLine of Duty creator Jed Mercurio said he was \"an inspirational figure who'll be greatly missed\".\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"Tony was instrumental in giving me my break into TV when I was a junior hospital doctor who'd never written anything.\n\n\"They don't make 'em like him any more.\"\n\nCathy Come Home told of a young couple with children who become homeless\n\nGarnett was also remembered with affection by former Line of Duty cast member Daniel Mays, who called him \"the nicest man\".\n\n\"Very sad to hear of the passing of the great Tony Garnett,\" he wrote. \"His legacy and body of work is truly exceptional.\"\n\nNew Tricks writer Lisa Holdsworth, who chairs the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, wrote: \"Every TV writer in the UK owes him a debt of gratitude. He elevated our medium by showing how fierce, relevant and vital it could be.\"\n\nOther writers and actors added heartfelt tributes on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Bowker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Birmingham in 1936, Garnett began his career on screen in 1960s TV shows including Emergency Ward 10 and Z Cars.\n\nHis subsequent work with Loach, Jim Allen and others was characterised by hard-hitting social realism.\n\nThrough World Productions, the company he founded in 1990, he executive produced such TV series as Between the Lines, Ballykissangel and This Life.\n\nThe latter, he revealed at a BFI talk last year, came about when Michael Jackson, then controller of BBC Two, wanted a drama \"about young people who are just starting their first jobs\".\n\nThis Life saw Jack Davenport, Daniela Nardini, Jason Hughes, Amita Dhiri and Andrew Lincoln play housemates in London\n\n\"He said, 'Could they be lawyers?'\" Garnett recalled. \"I said, 'They can be anything you like Michael.'\"\n\nThe show, about a group of young lawyers sharing a house in London, ran for two series and gave early breaks to rising stars like Jack Davenport and Andrew Lincoln.\n\nGarnett enjoyed much success at the BBC but could be highly critical of the corporation.\n\n\"I have criticised the BBC in the past because I think it's very important for all of us,\" he said in 2014.\n\n\"I'm a defender of the BBC but at the same time a loyal defender of the opposition.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The author of more than 50 books on aesthetics, morality and politics, he was also a government adviser.\n\nA statement on his website said he had been \"fighting cancer for six months\" and \"died peacefully\" on Sunday.\n\nBoris Johnson led the tributes, calling him the country's \"greatest modern conservative thinker\", while Chancellor Sajid Javid said \"he made a unique contribution to public life.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir Roger was at the centre of controversy last year when he was dismissed from, then reinstated to, an unpaid role as a government housing adviser after criticism of his comments about China and Muslim immigrants.\n\nAfter he was restored to the role when supporters said his remarks had been misrepresented, he claimed there was a \"witch-hunt\" against right-wing figures, aiming to characterise them as racist or fascist.\n\nConservative MEP Daniel Hannan said Sir Roger was the \"greatest conservative of our age\".\n\n\"The country has lost a towering intellect. I have lost a wonderful friend,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHistorian Timothy Garton Ash said he was \"a man of extraordinary intellect, learning and humour, a great supporter of central European dissidents, and the kind of provocative - sometimes outrageous - conservative thinker that a truly liberal society should be glad to have challenging it\".\n\nBorn in February 1944, Sir Roger attended grammar school before studying at Cambridge.\n\nHe told the Guardian he became a Conservative when visiting Paris during the 1968 student protests, which he saw as an \"unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans\" professing \"ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook\".\n\nSir Roger received one of Hungary's highest honours in a ceremony in London last month\n\n\"I knew I wanted to conserve things rather than pull them down,\" he said.\n\nIn 1971, he began teaching philosophy at Birkbeck College, but claimed his career was held back in the \"heart of the left establishment\".\n\nThree years later he became a founding member of the Conservative Philosophy Group, which was intended to provide an intellectual basis for the Conservative Party to regain power. Newly elected Tory leader Margaret Thatcher attended the group.\n\nIn 1982, Sir Roger became founding editor of the Salisbury Review, a journal championing conservatism.\n\nHe also began visiting dissidents in Communist Czechoslovakia, smuggling in books, offering courses in suppressed subjects and supporting banned artists. In 1985 he was detained in Brno before being expelled from the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Anne Applebaum This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter the fall of Communism, Vaclav Havel, the dissident-turned-president, awarded Sir Roger the Medal of Merit.\n\nIn the 1990s, he bought a farm in Wiltshire - nicknamed Scrutopia - and celebrated his passion for fox hunting in a book, On Hunting.\n\nAnother book, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Pop Culture, led to him being successfully sued by the Pet Shop Boys after he falsely claimed their songs were mostly the work of sound engineers.\n\nIn 2002, he was criticised for writing articles in defence of smoking without acknowledging that he was being paid by JTI, one of the largest tobacco companies.\n\nIn 2009 - Sir Roger wrote and presented a BBC Two documentary - Why Beauty Matters - in which he argued modern society had placed itself in peril by no longer valuing beauty.\n\nHungary's right-wing nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, presented Sir Roger with the Order of Merit in December last year, describing him as an \"ardent and active ally\" of anti-communism in central and eastern Europe.\n\nMr Orban said Sir Roger was \"forward-looking enough to see the threat of illegal migration and defend Hungary against its unjust critics\".\n\nSir Roger leaves his wife, Sophie, and two children, Sam and Lucy,\n\nThe statement on his website said his family was \"hugely proud of him and of all his achievements\".", "The Queen has issued a statement following talks held between senior members of the Royal Family on Monday. The so-called Sandringham summit was called to discuss a new role for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nHere is her statement in full:\n\n\"Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family.\n\n\"My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan's desire to create a new life as a young family. Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.\n\n\"Harry and Meghan have made clear that they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives.\n\n\"It has therefore been agreed that there will be a period of transition in which the Sussexes will spend time in Canada and the UK.\n\n\"These are complex matters for my family to resolve, and there is some more work to be done, but I have asked for final decisions to be reached in the coming days.\"", "Same-sex marriages will be legally recognised in Northern Ireland from today.\n\nSame-sex marriage is now legally recognised in Northern Ireland.\n\nFrom Monday, same-sex couples will be able to register to marry, meaning the first ceremonies will take place in February.\n\nFor couples who are already married, their marriage will now be legally recognised in Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, those who are already in a civil partnership will not be able to convert it to a marriage at this stage.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office is set to begin a consultation later this year about converting civil partnerships and the role of churches in same-sex marriages.\n\nHeterosexual couples will also be able to enter into civil partnerships from today.\n\nWhen the Stormont assembly collapsed, marriage equality campaigners turned their focus to Westminster.\n\nIn July 2019, MPs backed amendments which required the government to change abortion laws and extend same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland if devolution was not restored by 21 October 2019.\n\nAn amendment was made to the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 by the Labour MP Conor McGinn saying that the government had to legislate for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Mr McGinn said \"everyone who values equality, love and respect can celebrate today\".\n\n\"It's a good day for Northern Ireland, an important day for citizens' rights across these islands and an exciting day for same-sex couples who can now register to marry,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said it was a \"historic day for equality and human rights in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"For too long, LGBT+ people in Northern Ireland have been treated as second-class citizens. So, today is an incredible moment for same-sex couples who can finally marry and have their relationships recognised as equal,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI looks at the history of Northern Ireland's same-sex marriage debate\n\nSame-sex marriages have been allowed in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014, but Stormont did not legalise them.\n\nIn November 2015, a vote on the issue in the devolved assembly resulted in a numerical majority in favour of same-sex marriage for the first time.\n\nHowever, the DUP blocked a change in the law by using a veto known as the Petition of Concern.\n\nBecause couples have to indicate their intention to marry 28 days before doing so, the first weddings are expected to be held in the week of Valentine's Day.\n\nJohn O'Doherty from the Love Equality campaign said this was the \"culmination of five years of campaigning for marriage equality and marks an enormous step forward for LGBT+ people\".\n\n\"There remain a number of issues to be addressed before couples in Northern Ireland have the same rights as those in other jurisdictions,\" he added.\n\n\"However, we celebrate this remarkable achievement with the thousands of people who made their voices heard and demanded change in spite of the many barriers placed in their way.\"\n\nDanielle Doherty and Emma Bradley standing outside Free Derry corner on their wedding day\n\nA Londonderry couple have expressed their joy that their marriage is now legally recognised in their home city.\n\nDanielle Doherty and Emma Bradley got married in County Donegal in 2019.\n\n\"It just shows you the change that's happened over the last few years, from it being a dream to reality,\" said Ms Doherty.\n\n\"We are not undermining the value of a civil partnership, but for us, we wanted a marriage.\n\n\"We would've loved to have gotten married in Derry, we love Derry, but it was never an option.\"", "Managing director Don Bryden said the policy had been \"embraced\"\n\nEmployees at a recruitment agency are being rewarded with four extra days of holiday for not smoking at work.\n\nKCJ Training and Employment Solutions in Swindon wants to compensate staff who do not smoke, rather than penalise those who do.\n\nManaging director Don Bryden has introduced the measure despite being a smoker himself.\n\n\"It's been taken on and embraced within the company by both smokers and non-smokers,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not discriminating against anyone,\" he added. \"What I'm saying is if you take a smoke break, fine, take a smoke break. I'm not saying stop that.\n\n\"But if you say it's three 10-minute smoke breaks a day that equates to 16 and a quarter days a year based on an eight-hour working day.\n\nKCJ Training and Employment Solutions wants to compensate staff who do not smoke, rather than penalise those who do\n\n\"Let's cut it by a third and say you only take one 10-minute smoking break a day, that adds up to just over five days.\"\n\nMr Bryden says if the prospect of more leave motivated people to give up smoking, he would support them.\n\n\"I've been asked if someone doesn't smoke for three months, will I give them a day off, and I said of course,\" he said. \"And if they can do it for six months I'll give them two days.\n\n\"I'll work with the people who smoke but I do want to make sure that the ones who are sitting there working while the others take their ciggie break get some sort of compensation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new Bow Street station is due to open later in 2020\n\nWork is getting under way to build a new railway station that will see trains call at a Welsh village for the first time in 55 years.\n\nThe new Bow Street station in Ceredigion is costing about £8m - funded by the Welsh Government and the UK's Department for Transport.\n\nIt is due to open later in 2020, served by Cambrian Line trains between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury.\n\nIt follows a vocal campaign over the last decade to reopen the station.\n\nWales' Transport Minister Ken Skates said: \"Our vision for railways includes the opening of new stations and the improvement of connectivity across all regions in Wales.\n\n\"This is the beginning of delivering that ambition.\"\n\nThe original Bow Street station closed in 1965 - and is now the site of a builders' merchant\n\nThe original station was closed as part of the Beeching cuts in the 1960s that saw the rail network in Wales decimated.\n\nThe new station will be built south of the old site, which is now home to a builders' merchant.\n\nThe scheme is being delivered by Transport for Wales (TfW), Network Rail and Ceredigion council.\n\nTfW chief executive James Price said it was the first station the organisation was building since taking over the Wales and Borders rail service.\n\n\"We've committed to at least five further schemes, demonstrating our commitment to investing in connecting communities throughout Wales to the rail network,\" he said.\n\nClaire Williams, a community rail officer at Ceredigion council, said: \"The Bow Street Interchange project will make the railway more accessible for passengers from all over the county as well as reducing the amount of congestion on the roads within the area, therefore reducing the carbon emissions which of course is fundamentally better for the environment.\"\n\nCeredigion councillor Paul Hinge said the new station was the \"culmination of years of hard work\" and would restore a \"vital facility\" on the west Wales coast.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe nominations for this year's Academy Awards have been announced, with Joker leading the pack with 11 nods.\n\nThe comic book villain origin story is up for best picture, best director and best actor for Joaquin Phoenix, plus eight other awards.\n\nThe Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood follow with 10 nominations each.\n\nBritain's Cynthia Erivo, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce and Florence Pugh are all up for acting prizes.\n\nHarriet, a biopic of anti-slavery campaigner Harriet Tubman, is up for two Oscars\n\nPugh, up for best supporting actress for Little Women, put her first Oscar nomination down to \"hard work\" and persistence.\n\n\"You've got to keep on going and hopefully you'll see something at the end of the tunnel,\" the 24-year-old told BBC News.\n\nJoker's 11 nominations equals its tally at the British Academy Film Awards, whose nominations were announced last week.\n\nAt the Oscars, though, at least one acting contender - Harriet star Erivo - will be from a BAME background.\n\nErivo said Harriet's two nominations were \"beyond anything I could have ever imagined\" and were \"more than a dream come true\".\n\nThe film's other nomination, for best song, comes for Stand Up, which the Tony-winning actress both sang and co-wrote.\n\nYet the Oscars are sure to receive some censure for announcing another all-male line-up in its best director category.\n\nGreta Gerwig, nominated for best director in 2018 for Lady Bird, did not make the cut again with Little Women.\n\nPugh called her omission both \"sad\" and \"hard to navigate\". \"She is in this film in the writing and the directing [and] in every single performance,\" she continued.\n\nOnly five women have ever been nominated for the best director Oscar and only one - The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow - has ever won.\n\nActress Issa Rae pointedly offered \"congratulations to those men\" as she revealed the nominations alongside actor John Cho on Monday.\n\nLike Joker, The Irishman, 1917 and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood are all up for the best picture prize.\n\nThe other nominees are Ford vs Ferrari (released in the UK as Le Mans 66), Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Marriage Story and South Korean film Parasite.\n\nPhoenix said he felt \"honoured and humbled\" by his nomination and congratulated his fellow nominees for giving \"inspiring performances that have enriched our art form\".\n\nAnthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce are both shortlisted for The Two Popes\n\nHe is joined in the best actor category by Marriage Story's Adam Driver, Once Upon a Time's Leonardo DiCaprio, Pain and Glory's Antonio Banderas and The Two Popes' Pryce.\n\nThe Welsh actor told BBC Radio Wales he had \"written off\" his chances of a nomination after missing out on an award at the Golden Globes.\n\n\"I was much more excited than I expected to be,\" the 72-year-old said of his first Oscar nomination. \"I felt quite emotional really. It's been a long time coming.\"\n\nDriver, who was up for best supporting actor last year for BlacKkKlansman, said he felt \"honoured and incredibly grateful to represent the people who made Marriage Story\".\n\nDiCaprio, meanwhile, said he had been \"incredibly fortunate [with Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood] to have partnered with brilliant collaborators\".\n\n\"So many [films] this year were truly original and impactful,\" he continued. \"I hope as we progress we continue to see even more of them.\"\n\nErivo's best actress rivals include Little Women's Saoirse Ronan, Bombshell star Charlize Theron and Renee Zellweger for Judy.\n\nScarlett Johansson is nominated for Marriage Story and gets another nod in the supporting actress category for Jojo Rabbit.\n\nJohansson plays a mother in both Marriage Story (left) and Jojo Rabbit\n\nJohansson's Marriage Story co-star Laura Dern is also in the running for that award, as is Bombshell's Margot Robbie.\n\nPugh and Kathy Bates - up for her fourth Oscar for Clint Eastwood film Richard Jewell - complete the line-up in this category.\n\nBates - who won the best actress Oscar for Misery in 1991 - thanked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \"for this wonderful recognition\".\n\nBrad Pitt is up for best supporting actor for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, as is The Irishman's Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.\n\nHopkins and Tom Hanks - recognised for The Two Popes and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood respectively - are the other supporting actor nominees.\n\nSir Anthony - who plays Pope Benedict XVI opposite Jonathan Pryce's Pope Francis - said it was \"a great honour to be nominated\" for his fifth Academy Award.\n\nBritain's Sam Mendes joins The Irishman's Martin Scorsese, Joker's Todd Phillips, Parasite's Bong Joon-ho and Quentin Tarantino in the best director category.\n\nThe recently knighted Sir Sam said he \"couldn't be more thrilled\" by the nominations for his World War One epic, which he called \"a labour of love for many people\".\n\nScorsese also called his mob drama The Irishman \"a labour of love\", adding: \"To be recognised in this way means a great deal to all of us.\"\n\nPhillips, meanwhile, said he was \"deeply honoured by the overwhelming recognition\" and paid tribute to \"the genius that is Joaquin Phoenix\".\n\nBrad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are both shortlisted for Tarantino's film\n\nParasite and Pedro Almodovar's Pain and Glory are also up for the international feature film award - previously known as best foreign film.\n\n\"Two nominations for #PainAndGlory from Academy Awards. Congratulations team!!! Very excited,\" tweeted Banderas in both English and Spanish.\n\nNetflix - the subscription giant behind Marriage Story, The Irishman and The Two Popes - has received more than 20 nominations.\n\nThese include two nods in the best animated film category, where its films I Lost My Body and Klaus are up against Missing Link, Toy Story 4 and the third How to Train Your Dragon film.\n\nThat means there is no room for Frozen 2, whose only nomination comes in the best song category for Into the Unknown.\n\nElton John biopic Rocketman also gets its only nomination in this category, alongside tracks from Toy Story 4, Harriet and Breakthrough.\n\nThat film's song, I'm Standing With You, marks the 11th time songwriter Diane Warren has been up for an Oscar - an award she has yet to win.\n\nParasite, a dark satire set in Seoul, has six nominations in all\n\nOther previous nominees in contention again include John Williams, who earns his 52nd nomination for his score for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.\n\nThe 87-year-old composer already holds the record for the most Oscar nominations ever received by a living individual.\n\nAlso up for best original score are Joker's female composer Hildur Gudnadottir, Little Women's Alexandre Desplat and a pair of Newmans - Randy and Thomas - for Marriage Story and 1917 respectively.\n\nThe 92nd Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on 9 February.\n\nThis year's ceremony, like last year's, will not have an overall host, with a variety of celebrity guests instead introducing each category.\n\nQueen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won the most awards last year, picking up four prizes including best actor.\n\nGreen Book was named best picture, while Britain's Olivia Colman won best actress for The Favourite.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Brendan: What is causing the stormy weather?\n\nMore than 1,000 properties were left without power as high winds swept across Wales, felling trees and causing disruption on the roads\n\nWestern Power Distribution (WPD) said homes in Newcastle Emlyn and Cardigan in Ceredigion had been affected\n\nGusts reached 79mph on Mumbles head in Swansea and the windy weather was due to continue late into the night.\n\nA school closed due to a power failure after a tree fell on power lines and also hit a car at Bontnewydd, Gwynedd.\n\nGusty winds took down a tree in Bontnewydd, Gwynedd\n\nMonday's yellow warning was for large parts of Wales, although Monmouthshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham were not likely to be affected.\n\nA second Wales-wide warning for wind has been issued for Tuesday from noon.\n\nWPD said they were aiming to restore power to both areas by 17.30 GMT.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Greenough This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe owner of the crushed car, Lowri Pointer, said she received a phone call while at work to tell her what had happened.\n\nMs Pointer explained that a tree opposite her home had been uprooted by the high winds, which had affected power and phone lines in the area.\n\n\"Luckily, it's missed the house. It's just hit the car and it's landed on next door's shed,\" she said.\n\n\"We can't stay here tonight so we are going to have to make other arrangements.\"\n\nA tree has come down on the A5 near Bethesda, Gwynedd\n\nYsgol Bontnewydd primary school closed after power was cut by a tree falling on power lines, and two schools in Penygroes, Ysgol Bro Lleu and Dyffryn Nantlle were both closed due to problems with the water supply.\n\nMeanwhile in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the roof of a connecting walkway between two buildings at Greenhill School has been damaged by winds.\n\nThe school said there were no injuries but the school would be closed on Tuesday.\n\nEmergency services advised motorists to take care on the roads, with lane closures on the M48 Severn Bridge.\n\nPolice closed lanes for a time on the A55 in Conwy county between Penmaenmawr and Pen y Clip after a vehicle hit the central reservation, scattering debris from a mobile home across the road.\n\nThe A4086 in Gwynedd was also closed between Cibyn and Pontrug due to a fallen tree.\n\nA 30mph speed restriction was in place for the A55 Britannia Bridge on Anglesey, with bikes, motorbikes and caravans advised to find an alternative route.\n\nThe A477 at Cleddau Bridge in Pembrokeshire was closed to high sided vehicles.\n\nStena Line warned passengers the weather was causing disruption to ferry services on the Irish Sea.\n\nWinds caused its new service, Stena Estrid, to be delayed for two hours on its maiden voyage from Holyhead in the morning, and its 14:00 GMT service Stena Adventurer was being delayed until approximately 16:00 GMT.\n\nThe RNLI warned people to take care along the coast, particularly along exposed cliffs and seafronts.\n\nA few places could see gusts to 80mph (129 km/hr) on Monday, said the Met Office\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Meghan and Harry have a global appeal, but how could they make money?\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have agreed to stop using their HRH titles as part of their plans to withdraw from royal duties and \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said royals were usually excluded from doing paid work, but by setting aside their titles the couple had gained more freedom.\n\n\"Of course once you lose the title then you are no longer royal and special, and it may be that your brand is much less attractive to potential partners,\" he said.\n\nPublic relations consultant Mark Borkowski said even without their titles, the couple are \"powerful A-listers in their own right, so they're going to attract a lot of attention\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan plan to split their time between the UK and North America - and their global reach could open up a wealth of opportunities.\n\nBut how might they earn their financial independence and fund their charitable causes?\n\nAn application to trademark the Sussex Royal brand was lodged by the couple in June last year, covering items such as books, calendars, clothing, charitable fundraising and campaigning.\n\nIt raised the possibility of Prince Harry and Meghan launching their own lines of products, from beauty to clothing.\n\nBut the agreement with the Queen has cast doubt on that idea. A brand incorporating the word \"royal\" may not be compatible with their agreement to step back from royal duties, while upholding \"the values of Her Majesty\".\n\nJournalist and royal style commentator Elizabeth Holmes says criticism for exploiting the royal connection is a risk in any commercial venture, adding: \"That's why I think they'll be careful about it.\"\n\nMeghan is a royal patron of Smart Works and helped style women during a visit to the charity last year\n\nEven if they have to go back to the drawing board with the Sussex Royal name, Ms Holmes says: \"Any brand on the planet would want to work with them.\"\n\nWhether it's a designer handbag or Archie's hand-knitted bobble hat, whenever the Sussexes are pictured with a product, sales go through the roof.\n\nWe probably shouldn't expect the couple's 10.5 million Instagram followers to be suddenly bombarded with sponsored content and product placement though, Ms Holmes says.\n\nWhile the royal couple have a huge platform, it pales in comparison to the likes of Kylie Jenner, who has more than 150 million Instagram followers.\n\nThe reality TV star, who topped last year's Instagram rich list, is estimated to earn around $1.2m (£960,000) for a single sponsored post.\n\nCould Meghan and Harry follow that trend? Ms Holmes says: \"I don't think that's necessarily an appropriate thing for a member of the Royal Family.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess have said they plan to launch a charitable organisation to achieve \"progressive change\" through \"local and global community action\".\n\nMs Holmes suggests any commercial partnerships would be tied to the couple's charitable causes, perhaps with a secondary opportunity to raise personal income.\n\nFor example, Meghan is the patron of a charity that provides free clothing and interview training to unemployed women and has launched her own clothing line for the organisation.\n\nWhile the couple may be legally allowed to draw a salary from their charity, that is not the approach taken by some of their likely inspirations.\n\nHarry and Meghan said they \"researched the incredible work of many well-known and lesser-known foundations\" in drawing up their plans.\n\nOrganisations such as the Clinton Foundation, the Obama Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been suggested as potential models.\n\nBut the Clintons say they draw no income or expenses from their charity, the Obamas are not listed among their foundation's highest-paid officers, and Mr and Mrs Gates famously use their organisation to give away wealth rather than to receive it.\n\nWith Meghan first finding fame as an actress in the US television drama Suits, it is perhaps no surprise that some of the couple's first opportunities have come from the entertainment world.\n\nHarry has already teamed up with US media mogul Oprah Winfrey on a series addressing mental health for Apple TV, which is due for broadcast in 2020.\n\nAnd when the duke and duchess announced their intention to \"step back\", it was revealed that Meghan has already signed a voiceover deal with Disney in return for a donation to an elephant conservation charity.\n\nOprah Winfrey was a guest at the duke and duchess' wedding\n\nNetflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos has already expressed an interest in working with the couple. \"Who wouldn't be interested? Yes, sure,\" he said.\n\nThat could represent a chance to follow in the steps of the Obamas, who signed a deal with the streaming video company to produce documentaries and drama series about social and political issues.\n\nA similar deal could give the duke and duchess an opportunity to highlight causes close to their hearts.\n\nFor Meghan, these include equality and women's rights, while Harry has been vocal in campaigning on mental health and military veterans' welfare.\n\nWhile the couple have spoken about their struggles with the intense media interest in their lives, the idea of revealing more about themselves in their own words might be more appealing - and lucrative.\n\nThe 2017 book deal signed by Barack and Michelle Obama was believed to be worth more than $60m (£48m).\n\nIt's also an area Meghan has previously shown an interest in. In her introduction to last year's September issue of Vogue, which she guest edited, Meghan wrote of her \"love of writing\".\n\nBefore she married Harry, she also ran a lifestyle blog, The Tig, where she shared beauty, fashion and travel tips.\n\nMichelle Obama's memoir sold more than 10 million copies in its first five months\n\nNatalie Jerome, a literary agent at Aevitas, says the couple have \"enormous power and reach\" and any book deal would be extremely lucrative.\n\n\"People have compared them to the Obamas and I think there's potentially some merit in that,\" she says.\n\nMeghan is an aspirational figure for many women of colour and young people, she adds.\n\n\"We're in a period now where we're talking increasingly about diversity within publishing and there's a real push to reach wider audiences,\" she says.\n\n\"If she were to publish a book in her own right and reach out to young people on the ground by doing talks and going to schools like Michelle Obama did, I think the book would be hugely successful.\"\n\nAnother potential avenue for the pair to explore could be after-dinner speeches and events.\n\nJeremy Lee, director at speaking agency JLA, says if they maintained a positive profile the couple could earn six-figure sums for each appearance.\n\nHe predicts demand would be higher in US, where Mr Lee says the pair could earn up to $500,000 (£380,000) per engagement.\n\nHowever, he says companies in the UK would be more sensitive to reputational risk if public opinion turned against the couple.\n\nMr Lee predicts UK companies would only be willing to take the royals as speakers at an event linked to one of their campaigning interests, in return for a donation to their charitable foundation - rather than a fee - in the region of £100,000.\n\nBut in the US, there would be interest from \"anybody that wants to show off and has got the budget\", he says.", "The child was with a group of youngsters and adults gathered in Errington Road\n\nA 12-year-old boy was injured when he was hit in a drive-by shooting.\n\nThe child was with a group of youngsters and adults gathered in Errington Road, in the Arbourthorne area of Sheffield, when a white car drove past and a gunman opened fire.\n\nThe boy suffered an injury to his leg in the shooting, which happened at about 15:45 GMT.\n\nHe was taken to hospital for treatment and remains in a stable condition, police said.\n\nDet Insp Denise Booth said there would be an increased police presence in the area.\n\n\"Specialist officers have been in the area this afternoon and evening, examining the scene and speaking to witnesses as we work to piece together the exact circumstances of this incident, what led to it and to identify those responsible,\" she said.\n\n\"This matter is an absolute priority for us and it's imperative that anyone with information or concerns speaks to an officer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nA man who racially abused England fast bowler Jofra Archer during the first Test against New Zealand in November has been banned from attending international and domestic matches in the country for two years.\n\nArcher said he heard comments during the final day of the innings-and-65-run defeat at Mount Maunganui's Bay Oval.\n\nAfter a police investigation a 28-year-old from Auckland admitted the abuse.\n\nHe has been issued with a verbal warning for using insulting language.\n\nNew Zealand Cricket (NZC) say they have contacted the man and written to him, advising of his ban until 2022. If he breaches the ban he could be \"subjected to further police action\".\n\n\"We'd again like to extend our apologies to Jofra and the England team management for such an unsavoury incident and reiterate once more that this type of behaviour is completely unacceptable,\" said NZC spokesman Anthony Crummy.\n\nCrummy said NZC would not be identifying the individual.\n\nHe added: \"We want to thank the New Zealand police for their efforts in identifying the person responsible, and for making it clear that this type of behaviour will not be minimised.\"\n\nArcher described the incident as \"disturbing\", while New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said the abuse was \"horrific\" and that he hoped \"nothing like that ever happens again\".", "One of Britain's oldest department stores has warned that it could collapse into administration.\n\nBeales, which began trading in Bournemouth in 1881, said 22 stores and 1,000 jobs were at stake if it cannot find a buyer.\n\nThe firm is negotiating with its landlords to try and agree rent reductions.\n\nIt is also in talks with two potential buyers - a rival retailer and a venture capital investor, the BBC understands.\n\nChief Executive Tony Brown led a management buyout of the firm in 2018.\n\nIt's a brutal time for retailers. Debenhams began closing 19 shops yesterday. Mothercare's 79 UK stores will stop trading today.\n\nNow Beales, with its 22 stores up and down the country, confirmed that it may have to call in administrators.\n\nBeales has been around for almost 140 years, but poorer than expected trading over Christmas threatens its survival.\n\nEven if its immediate future can be assured, store closures aren't being ruled out, with a risk to jobs.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said last year was the high street's worst on record.\n\nIn the year to March 2019, Beale Ltd posted a loss of £3.1m, up from £1.3m for the year earlier as costs swelled and sales dipped.\n\nBeales has stores in the following towns and cities:\n\nIt comes after UK retail sales fell for the first time in a quarter of a century last year.\n\nSales in November and December fell by 0.9%, according to industry body the British Retail Consortium (BRC).\n\nJohn Lewis has warned that its staff bonus may be in doubt as it reported Christmas sales at its department stores were down 2% for stores open at least a year.\n\nLast week, fashion chain Superdry warned that its profits could be wiped out after sales fell sharply over Christmas.\n\nThe firm, which has been trying to sell more clothes at full price, said it had been hit by \"unprecedented levels of promotional activity\" by rivals.\n\nA raft of collapses in 2019 including Jessops, card chain Clintons, Bonmarche and Karen Millen depressed rents and hit landlords.\n\nSome companies are prospering, however.\n\nSports fashion retailer JD Sports says it expects to report full-year profits at the top end of forecasts.\n\nNext lifted its profit forecast after better than expected sales over Christmas trading period. The company's full-price sales rose by 5.2%.\n\nAnd big companies are using the tough environment to experiment.\n\nIkea will open its first small-format store in the UK, following the acquisition of a shopping centre in London.\n\nThe Swedish retail giant paid £170m for the Kings Mall Shopping Centre in Hammersmith.", "Iranians were angered by officials who initially denied shooting down a plane outside Tehran\n\nAfter days of denial, the Iranian authorities admitted that a crash involving a Ukrainian International Airlines jetliner was caused by human error.\n\nThe incident on Wednesday came just hours after Iran had launched a series of ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases hosting US troops, in a bid to avenge the killing of senior commander Qasem Soleimani.\n\nIt was amid these high tensions, Iran says, that an air defence operator misidentified flight PS752 as a cruise missile and shot it down, killing all 176 people on board.\n\nWhile Iran initially denied responsibility, US and Canadian intelligence agencies soon uncovered evidence that one of the country's surface-to-air missile had caused the accident. This led to significant international pressure for Iran to openly investigate the case.\n\nTehran's decision to reverse its initial statements and take full responsibility for the downing of the plane provoked a positive response from several countries, including those whose passengers were onboard - Canada, the UK, Germany, and Sweden.\n\nThe admission of guilt was ultimately read as a positive first step.\n\nBut officials from these governments also said the admission should be followed by constructive behaviour from Iran. This would likely mean it pursuing a transparent investigation, the repatriation of the bodies and compensation for the victims, as well as taking the necessary steps to ensure similar tragedies are averted in future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A crowd gathered outside Amir Kabir university, calling for resignations and accusing officials of lying\n\nOn the international front, the downing of flight PS752 is unlikely to result in further escalation and might even provide an opportunity for defusing some of the tensions which have been simmering over the past few months.\n\nOn the domestic front, however, this tragic accident could have much deeper repercussions.\n\nJust days before the flight crashed, Iran displayed an unprecedented level of unity and popular support when millions of people poured on to the streets all over the country to mourn the death of Soleimani.\n\nThis seemed to indicate that, when faced with the external threat of military confrontation, Iranians from different political and economic backgrounds could come together and put aside their divisions.\n\nMillions of Iranians mourned the death of top general Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike\n\nBut the shooting down of flight PS752 and the subsequent denials from the authorities could lead these divisions to re-emerge and become even sharper.\n\nWhile the admission of guilt could assuage some of the popular criticism towards the grave mishandling of the situation, the establishment might still be perceived as having tried to hide evidence and avoid responsibility before international pressure mounted on Iran to come clean.\n\nThis is likely to revive the divisions and unrest that erupted in November when the Iranian government approved a sharp spike in fuel prices. This move triggered large demonstrations across the country and resulted in widespread repression and the killing of at least 300 people.\n\nWhile acknowledging the truth is an important first step, the Iranian people will likely demand accountability and the prosecution of those responsible, as well as the adoption of all the steps needed to ensure this does not happen again.\n\nThey will also pay attention to how the victims of the air crash are treated by the Iranian elite. An important test here is whether their funerals will result in national mourning, similar to that of Soleimani, or instead be largely ignored.\n\nAll of these demands will be added to previous grievances over the state of the economy and the limitations on some social freedoms.\n\nParliamentary elections are due to take place in just over a month and internal discord over this crash could lead to further unrest. Plus, tension with the West has abated but is far from over.\n\nThe way in which the government and the rest of the establishment handle the broader repercussions of this plane crash could be a watershed moment for Iran. The choices it makes are likely to reverberate throughout Iranian politics and society for months, or even years, to come.", "There is no application form for the Royal Family. No interview, no appeal, few in the way of entrances or exits. It is that strange lottery, an accident of birth.\n\nBut to stay royal you have to do two things. Serve, and survive.\n\nYou have to do some service. Some of it ceremonial, and often dull. Some of it - if it involves celebrities or travel - less dull. A lot of it is woven into the civic life of the UK - openings, namings, lunches and dinners.\n\nYou have to survive. You have to aid - and certainly not threaten - the survival of the House of Windsor and the British monarchy.\n\nIt's not a bad life. It is a constrained life, often unchosen. In exchange for a pretty comfortable standard of living in perpetuity, you lose a lot of choice.\n\nBut you must do these two things if you want to remain a royal.\n\nAnd it's not clear that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex really want to do either.\n\nIn Sandringham later the players will receive a series of options, a range of possibilities.\n\nThese will be based on the stated aim of Prince Harry and Meghan that they want financial independence, to take paid employment, to spend a lot more time outside the UK, to exclude the media from their lives at their discretion and to continue at least in part, a royal life, service to the Queen.\n\nLeaving aside the heady brew of contradictions detailed elsewhere, the balancing of these different aims and demands is hard enough. Money is a big issue.\n\nBut so will be the status of the court of Prince Harry and Meghan that emerges. Will it be entirely independent of the palace, of the monarchy? Will the palace retain any veto on direction or projects for the couple?\n\nMuch, says one official, depends on how much royal work the prince and Meghan intend to do, and where.\n\nMeghan will be in Canada with her eight-month-old son Archie during Monday's meeting\n\nTo watch Prince Harry for not very long, as I have, is to observe a man who comes alive with crowds, with love, with those who need him.\n\nBut also to see a man entirely unhappy with his lot. A man who desperately wants to get away from cameras, observers, outsiders, looking and filming and exploiting him.\n\nNow the prince, who has worn the nation's uniform in combat and amongst death and injury, is openly sneered at across pages and feeds and memes. It is hardly a great national moment.\n\nPrince Harry has had a hard time, from when his mother was taken from him, a boy aged 12. It is important to remember also because it demolishes the Meghan Myth - that somehow she is the root of all today's turmoil.\n\nThe Meghan Myth is nonsense, with a generous sprinkling of spite, misogyny and some racism. The prince always wanted out. And together, with her brains and understanding and love, they think they have a way.\n\nMaybe a deal comes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. But what are not up for negotiation are service and survival. Both must be observed by Prince Harry and Meghan if they are to remain royals.\n\nPerhaps Prince Harry's allergy to media coverage can be managed at those royal events and duties he attends. Perhaps the couple will make themselves available to a significant and visible degree of service.\n\nBut the style of their departure from familial obligation, their declaration of independence last week, was so abrupt and so disrespectful.\n\nThe duke has gone beyond rebellious prince. Meghan, the enabler, is in Canada, with child and dogs. That degree of going rogue looks quite a lot like a direct threat to the survival of the monarchy.\n\nThat is why today's meeting is hard.\n\nMaybe the two sides can strike a deal over the next day, two days, invent a new structure that officials say might be emulated for a new royal generation.\n\nBut will the couple really agree to the restrictions that service and survival demand?\n\nA deal will probably be crafted - however the direction of travel is one way. Prince Harry and Meghan are looking for the exit.", "Hamid Baeidinejad is the Iranian ambassador to Britain\n\nIran's ambassador to the UK has been summoned to the Foreign Office (FCO), following the detention of his British counterpart in Tehran last week.\n\nThe FCO said the arrest of Rob Macaire after a vigil for victims of last week's plane crash was illegal and should be investigated.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK would \"demand an apology\" and seek assurances it will not happen again.\n\nIranian ambassador Hamid Baeidinejad is expected to attend the FCO later.\n\nMr Macaire was attending an event on Saturday, which was advertised as a vigil for the 176 people who died in Wednesday's crash of an Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737, shortly before he was arrested.\n\nHe was held for three hours when he stopped at a barber shop for a haircut on his way back to the British embassy.\n\nIn a tweet, following his arrest, the ambassador said he was attending the vigil because it was \"normal to want to pay respects\", adding that some of the victims were British.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Raab told the Commons he welcomed \"overwhelming international support\" after meeting with representatives in Brussels, Washington and Montreal.\n\nAnd he called for a \"full, transparent and independent investigation\" into the crash.\n\n\"The regime in Tehran is at a crossroads,\" he said. \"It can slip further and further into political and economic isolation.\n\n\"But there is an alternative and the regime does have a choice - the diplomatic door remains open, now is the time for Iran to engage in diplomacy and chart a peaceful way forwards.\"\n\nThe UK has been working with the Canadian-led response group to the crash in order to help repatriate bodies of victims, he added.\n\nDowning Street said it was \"unacceptable\" that Rob Macaire had been detained in Tehran\n\nBoris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned Mr Macaire's arrest in a joint statement following a phone call on Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street has said it will \"do everything we can\" to support British families affected by the downed plane - including help in seeking compensation.\n\nFive nations whose citizens were onboard the airliner will meet in London on Thursday to discuss possible legal action, Ukraine's foreign minister told the Reuters news agency.\n\nVadym Prystaiko said representatives from Canada, Sweden, Afghanistan, and another unnamed country would also discuss compensation and the investigation into the incident.\n\nProtests have been taking place on the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials who initially denied shooting down the jet.\n• None What happens when an ambassador is summoned?\n• None Brexit: What is the Vienna Convention?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why I've bought a ticket to fly to the Moon'\n\nJapanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for a female \"life partner\" to accompany him on Space X's maiden tourist voyage to the Moon.\n\nThe fashion mogul, 44, is set to be the first civilian passenger to fly around the moon on the Starship rocket.\n\nPlanned for 2023, the mission will be the first lunar journey by humans since 1972.\n\nIn an online appeal, Mr Maezawa says he wants to share the experience with a \"special\" woman.\n\nThe entrepreneur, who recently split up from actress girlfriend Ayame Goriki, 27, has asked women to apply for a \"planned match-making event\" on his website.\n\n\"As feelings of loneliness and emptiness slowly begin to surge upon me, there's one thing that I think about: Continuing to love one woman,\" Mr Maezawa wrote on the website.\n\n\"I want to find a 'life partner',\" Mr Maezawa added. \"With that future partner of mine, I want to shout our love and world peace from outer space.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe website features a list of conditions and a schedule for the three-month long application process.\n\nWritten in a dating profile-style, the conditions say applicants must be single, over the age of 20, always positive and have an interest in going to space.\n\nThe deadline for applications is 17 January and a final decision on Mr Maezawa's partner will be made at the end of March.\n\nMr Maezawa said he would invite up to eight artists to join him in space\n\nAn eccentric who garnered fame as a drummer in a hardcore punk band, Mr Maezawa has form for attention-grabbing stunts.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Maezawa promised to share 100m yen ($925,000; £725,000) between 100 randomly selected people who shared one of his tweets.\n\n\"To participate, all you have to do is follow me and RT this tweet,\" he said.\n\nFounder of Japanese online clothing retailer Zozo Inc, Mr Maezawa made his fortune in the fashion world. He is believed to have a personal wealth of close to $3bn, a lot of which he spends on art.\n\nArtwork: The BFR spaceship will be able to carry humans on a trip around the Moon\n\nHe became more widely known abroad late last year after he was named as the first private passenger due to be flown around the Moon by SpaceX, the company owned by another famous billionaire, Elon Musk.\n\nThe price Mr Maezawa agreed to pay for his ticket to space has not been disclosed, but according to Mr Musk it was \"a lot of money\".\n\nMr Maezawa has said he plans to take a group of artists with him on the flight.", "It is a truth universally acknowledged that for a modern monarchy to retain the support of the public it cannot be too interesting.\n\nPrince Harry is very interesting. He says and does interesting things. This means he gets in the news rather a lot.\n\nIf you look back over the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the House of Windsor has faced greatest jeopardy when it has been most newsworthy.\n\nThe Queen mostly stays out of the news; her opinions are largely unknown.\n\nThe same is broadly true of Prince William, who only adopts issues - such as mental health - which are not politically partisan.\n\nThere is not much interest in their views, frankly, because the Queen and Prince William do not set out to say interesting things. Other royals do.\n\nBefore her death, Princess Diana was probably the most famous person in the world. Her opinions on a range of matters, and talent for playing the media, were widely known.\n\nPrince Charles' opinions on a range of issues, from homeopathy to architecture, are familiar.\n\nIn recent times, as his ascension presumably nears, he has dialled down his public pronouncements on many issues.\n\nFrom a media management point of view, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who might currently be the most famous couple on the planet, are just far too interesting for the House of Windsor right now.\n\nMix their fame and strained relations with other royals, together with the fact they belong to the Instagram generation, and - in Prince Harry's case - have instinctively despised much of the media for decades, as a result of his mother's death, and you have a toxic brew.\n\nAnd that's before you add in the disastrous recent Prince Andrew interview, which gave every indication of a Firm in which nobody, from a public relations point of view at least, has a grip, or even a clue.\n\nIn their detailed and clearly long-planned announcement of a new media strategy, the duke and duchess issued several soothing words about their support for a free and fair press, but their enmity was impossible to conceal.\n\nThey made an interesting distinction between royal correspondents and their editors, suggesting the former often report stories accurately only for their editors in London to put an opinionated or inaccurate spin, or headline, on their work.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last year with their son Archie\n\nIn his furious statement last October, Prince Harry singled out Britain's tabloid newspapers, saying that they had ruined his mother's life and he wouldn't let them ruin his wife's.\n\nIt is impossible for any of us to imagine what life must be like with the degree of intrusion, and lack of privacy, that relentless tabloid pressure can put on a family.\n\nHere it has driven a young couple to say they will relocate for half the year.\n\nAnd a lot of people don't like tabloid culture full stop.\n\nBut it is worth saying that the tabloids have got some of their coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan right.\n\nThe fact that the couple flew on Elton John's private jet, having made many pronouncements about the environment, is a legitimate story.\n\nFor several months, tabloid reporters in Britain have been writing that there were tensions between Prince Harry and his brother, that a formal split in operations within the family could be imminent, and that the Queen was not being kept fully aware of their plans.\n\nThis story has proved correct: Prince Harry admitted some of it on camera to ITV's Tom Bradby.\n\nAnd this week, Dan Wootton of the Sun was the first to report that the couple were thinking of moving overseas. He got the scoop and deserves credit for that.\n\nFor many years, royal coverage has operated through the royal rota system.\n\nA bit like the lobby in Westminster, this gives privileged, approved journalists access to the royals in exchange for deeper reporting and - the Windsors hope - more positive coverage.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess say they will pull out of the system.\n\nTabloid journalists are furious at this perceived declaration of war. But Prince Harry and Meghan went further still in saying they will still give access to journalists - it's just they'll favour younger reporters or those who support causes close to their heart.\n\nThis couldn't be better calculated to enrage Britain's tabloid press.\n\nPrince Harry has previously has said that tabloid newspapers ruined his mother's life\n\nThe key point here is generational. Princess Diana spent years cultivating journalists, with long lunches and phone calls.\n\nIn the 1990s, if you wanted to build relations with the public, journalists were the filter you had to go through.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle belong to the Instagram generation.\n\nThey believe they can use social media and their own website to appeal directly to the public, and shape their own public narrative.\n\nThey have much less emotional attachment to, and (as they see it) less need for, newsprint, or even broadcast news bulletins.\n\nA chasm is likely to open up, between what they say about themselves online - and what others in traditional media have to say about them.\n\nThe huge challenge they face stems from the fact that traditional media, while much weaker, are far from dead: tabloid newspapers and TV and radio bulletins reach millions of people in Britain every day. They're going nowhere fast. They still have influence.\n\nIt therefore does matter - albeit less than it once did - if your relations with, for instance, royal correspondents at the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail deteriorate.\n\nThere is something desperately sad for the couple in the fact that, even in North America, you cannot get away from scrutiny - given that every passer-by has a smartphone.\n\nRight now, there are journalists in Britain having conversations at home and at work in which they make clear they expect to be travelling to Canada quite a bit in coming months. Some of them will have already booked tickets.\n\nIf you want to stay out of the media, it's not about where you are, it's about who you are and what you do.\n\nDon't be too interesting. Ironically, this week has radically increased interest in this curiously modern young family.\n\nIn other words - even if he changed his name back to Henry David - for the young prince and his family, who desperately want to be left alone, it's too late.", "The climate change activists have urged Roger Federer to 'wake up'\n\nTennis star Roger Federer has responded to climate change critics - including campaigner Greta Thunberg - by saying he takes the issue very seriously.\n\nActivists oppose Federer's sponsorship deal with Credit Suisse over its links to the fossil fuel industry.\n\nSome appeared in court this week after refusing to pay a fine for playing tennis inside Credit Suisse offices in 2018 to highlight Federer's deal.\n\nFederer did not address the deal directly in his statement.\n\nThe activists - most of them students - appeared in court in Renens, Lausanne, on 7 January to appeal against the fine. Some supporters gathered outside holding banners which read: \"Credit Suisse is destroying the planet. Roger, do you support them?\"\n\nGreta Thunberg - the Swedish teenager who has become the public face of worldwide protests against government policies on climate change - joined the criticism against Federer and Credit Suisse when she retweeted a post from activists 350.org Europe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 350.org Europe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe post said loans by Credit Suisse to companies investing in fossil fuels were incompatible with action on climate change and urged Federer to \"wake up\".\n\nIn his response, the 20-time Grand Slam champion who is in Melbourne for the Australian Open, said: \"I take the impacts and threat of climate change very seriously, particularly as my family and I arrive in Australia amidst devastation from the bushfires.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFederer said he had \"a great deal of respect and admiration for the youth climate movement\" and was \"grateful to young climate activists for pushing us all to examine our behaviours and act on innovative solutions\".\n\n\"We owe it to them and ourselves to listen. I appreciate reminders of my responsibility as a private individual, as an athlete and as an entrepreneur, and I'm committed to using this privileged position to dialogue on important issues with my sponsors.\"\n\nFor its part, Credit Suisse has said it is \"seeking to align its loan portfolios with the objectives of the Paris Agreement [to combat climate change] and has recently announced in the context of its global climate strategy that it will no longer invest in new coal-fired power plants\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Roger Federer This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nFederer is taking part in a fundraising event next Wednesday in aid of relief efforts to address the Australian bushfires which have killed at least 28 people and destroyed thousands of homes since September.\n\nMore on the Australian bushfires:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK government will \"strongly support\" the new Stormont executive, says Boris Johnson\n\nThe government's offer for extra money as part of the deal to restore Stormont \"falls way short\" of what was promised, Finance Minister Conor Murphy has said.\n\nMr Murphy was speaking after the Stormont parties met Secretary of State Julian Smith to discuss how much will be allocated.\n\nThe finance minister refused to comment on how much exactly had been proposed.\n\nEarlier the prime minister said the government had made \"huge commitments\" as part of the deal.\n\nThe British and Irish prime ministers were in Belfast on Monday to mark the return of devolution after a three-year impasse.\n\nSpeaking to the media, Mr Johnson did not state how much money would be provided to support the deal, saying it was not about money but leadership.\n\nMr Murphy said departmental officials would examine the figures tonight\n\nOn Monday evening Mr Murphy said: \"As far as I'm concerned the conversation hasn't ended, there's still work to be done.\n\n\"We have to analyse the verbal figures that were given to us tonight by the secretary of state, but my initial read of them is they fall way short and I wouldn't tend to accept that.\"\n\nHe said the government had made commitments to the Stormont parties.\n\n\"They can't come today and congratulate us for living up to our commitments and then not live up to their own,\" he said.\n\nMr Murphy had previously said more than £1.5bn was needed.\n\nBoris Johnson is greeted by the first and deputy first ministers and NI Secretary Julian Smith\n\nThe prime minister met the new executive ministers on Monday morning, having been greeted by First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Johnson said the government would \"strongly support\" the new power-sharing executive.\n\n\"What's so great about today is, as I say, that Northern Ireland politicians have put aside differences, stepped up to the plate and shown leadership,\" he added.\n\nThe prime minister said this was a chance to \"deliver on the priorities of the people\" in terms of health, education and crime fighting.\n\nHe acknowledged that there was a \"certain amount of conversation about funding\" and whether the government was going to be supportive.\n\nMr Johnson said the government was making \"huge commitments\" for health.\n\n\"Yes of course we are going to be supportive, but it's not just about money,\" he said.\n\n\"We are listening very carefully and will certainly do everything we can to support.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leo Varadkar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said the Good Friday Agreement \"is working again\".\n\n\"North-south cooperation is going to resume. We are going to beef up and deepen cooperation.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson meeting the new executive ministers at Stormont Castle\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the prime minister must \"step up to the plate\" and deliver what the government has promised in extra funding for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We need significant and sustained investment, not just this year but over a number of years. This is crucial in ensuring transformation in areas such as health and also our road and water infrastructures,\" she said.\n\nMrs Foster also said the possibility of water charges being introduced as a means of raising revenue was not supported by anyone in the executive.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she had impressed upon the two prime ministers \"the importance of coming through with the funding promised as part of the deal\".\n\n\"All executive ministers are committed to working together to tackle some very serious issues in our society and across public services but, quite simply, we need the money to make it happen.\n\n\"We have done our bit and I look forward to the fulfilment of the commitments made by the two governments to let us get to work.\"\n\nWe'll never know exactly what the new ministers said to Boris Johnson as they met him inside Stormont Castle, but one thing's for sure, money talks.\n\nThe government has been tight-lipped when it comes to revealing how much it's prepared to stump up for Stormont this time, but there are rumours of another few billion pounds coming our way.\n\nThe executive has a mountain to climb in terms of tackling waiting lists, school budgets and roads projects, with ministers relying on a big pot of money to take the necessary decisions.\n\nAsked about the exact figure, Boris Johnson said it wasn't \"just about money\" - an answer that might set alarm bells ringing.\n\nThe party leaders will want to ensure the government doesn't go back on its word - so they'll be meeting Julian Smith at some point on Monday to go over the final details of the deal.\n\nBoris Johnson arrives at Stormont to meet the new Northern Ireland Executive\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nOn Saturday, a new power sharing government was formed by Stormont's five main parties.\n\nThey agreed a deal with the governments that includes extra funding for Northern Ireland, but the exact figure is not yet known.\n\nThe deal - entitled New Decade, New Approach - was reached on Friday after months of negotiations between the parties and the two governments.\n\nStormont's power-sharing coalition, led by the DUP and Sinn Féin, had collapsed in January 2017 after a row over a green energy scandal.\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill were appointed first and deputy first ministers on Saturday\n\nThe return of devolution means the executive can now take decisions that had been stalled due to the three-year absence of ministers.\n\nThe executive is expected to hold its first meeting on Tuesday, the same day that the new chairs of Stormont's scrutiny committees are likely to be chosen.", "Time-lapse footage has captured a lightning storm swirling in dark clouds around the peak of the Taal volcano in the Philippines.\n\nThe volcano had spewed a giant plume of ash, prompting thousands of people to be evacuated.\n\nOfficials said the plume from the Taal volcano stretched 1km (0.6 miles) into the sky.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from Bel Hawson shows waves crashing onto the A83 in Ardrishaig as cars drive along\n\nParts of Scotland have been hit by severe gales and flooding as Storm Brendan sweeps in from the Atlantic.\n\nFerry routes covering much of the west coast as well as the Northern Isles have been cancelled or disrupted.\n\nA large tree has fallen at Maybole in South Ayrshire, partially blocking the A77, and may take several hours to clear.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has also issued 32 flood warnings and 16 flood alerts.\n\nThe yellow warning issued by the Met Office covers a 14-hour period from 10:00 until midnight.\n\nA further warning for snow and ice across Scotland is in place from 01:00 until 13:00 on Tuesday, with up to 6cm (2in) on higher ground.\n\nA tree crashed into the garden of a house in the Garthdee area of Aberdeen\n\nCaledonian MacBrayne has cancelled ferries on all 28 of its routes for the rest of the day.\n\nCalMac operations director Robert Morrison told BBC Scotland it was unusual for a storm to be large enough to affect the whole network, but that it was not unprecedented.\n\nHe said: \"We are in the worst of winter weather conditions and will be probably for a few days more.\n\n\"The Met Office forecast was for Storm Brendan to blow through within 14 hours, but the forecast for the coming days is also quite significant and we will have to keep a close eye on that.\n\n\"Our main aim will be to try and offer our services where it's safe to do so, but only where it's safe to do so.\"\n\nNorthlink Ferries also told passengers there may be disruption on services to Orkney and Shetland.\n\nThe Aberdeen to Lerwick sailing scheduled for 19:00 has also been cancelled.\n\nThe Met Office has warned of a \"very windy period\" beginning at about 10:00 on Monday.\n\nIn the Garthdee area of Aberdeen one resident thought a branch had blown down when he received a mobile phone alert, triggered by his home CCTV system, at 16:34.\n\nBut when Greg Paluch returned from work he was shocked to discovered a tree had fallen into his garden and landed just short of his front door.\n\nMr Paluch, 35, said: \"It could have been worse considering the height of the tree. But no one was at home and no one was hurt - that is the main thing.\"\n\nWaves have been crashing onto the shoreline in Troon\n\nThe wild weather has also hit Stornoway\n\nThe Met Office said people should expect:\n\nThe lighthouse at Port Ellen in Islay was enveloped by waves\n\nStormy seas have been whipped up at Ardrossan in North Ayrshire\n\n\"The strongest winds are expected around exposed coasts and hills,\" the Met Office said.\n\n\"Here gusts of 60-70mph are likely, with a few sites perhaps seeing gusts to 80mph - especially around Irish Sea coasts and around the west coast of Scotland where the strongest winds are most likely.\n\n\"Gusts will be lower inland with 45-55mph likely. A narrow band of squally, heavy rain moving east, accompanying the strongest winds, may be an additional hazard.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRestrictions have been placed on several bridges because of high winds, with the Cromarty, Dornoch, Skye and Kessock bridges among those closed to high-sided vehicles.\n\nAs part of preparations for the storm, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (the Western Isles council) closed all its schools to pupils for the day.\n\nSepa issued its flood warnings and alerts amid concerns about disruption in coastal areas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Scotland Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn agency spokesman said: \"The Met Office has forecast strong and sustained winds from Monday morning, January 13, through much of the week.\n\n\"Combined with naturally high tides next week, the sustained winds will create an unusual and dangerous combination of tide, storm surge and inshore waves.\n\n\"There is therefore a risk of coastal flooding to all Scotland's coastal areas. The highest risk is around high tides from midday Monday through to Tuesday afternoon.\n\n\"There is a flooding risk to coastal road and rail routes and coastal communities right around Scotland's coastline.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Davy Shanks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFloodgates are being delivered to homes and businesses in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, ahead of expected localised flooding.\n\nDoors and windows have been blocked off in the town's High Street as a precaution.\n\nIn Orkney, Kirkwall's harbour front flood gates will be put in place in response to the latest weather forecasts.\n\nNo trains are running through Saltcoats in North Ayrshire, with replacement buses in operation between Kilwinning and Largs via Ardrossan Princes St.\n\nStorm Brendan's name was picked by the Irish meteorological service Met Éireann.\n\nIn December, Storm Atiyah swept into the UK, leading to power cuts and travel disruption in Wales and the south west of England.\n\nThis year's storm names have already been chosen with Ciara the name for the next storm.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Brendan? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vets have been joined by volunteers to help with the treatment of animals injured in the bushfires on the wildlife haven of Kangaroo Island, Australia.\n\nTwo people and tens of thousands of animals were killed as fires swept through valued habitats, destroying areas it's estimated cover up to half of the island.", "Councils \"really don't care\" about supporting High Street trading, the boss of struggling department store chain Beales has told the BBC.\n\nBeales, which began trading in Bournemouth in 1881, has warned that it could fall into administration.\n\nThe company runs 22 stores across the UK and about 1,000 jobs are at stake.\n\n\"We've only managed to get one council to help us out on a temporary basis,\" Beales boss Tony Brown told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"At the moment, in my view councils really don't care. They get their business rates, whether we're there or not, because the landlord pays if the store closes.\"\n\nMr Brown said that his current focus was trying to secure a \"profitable future\" for the department store. Several options are being considered, including seeking a buyer, negotiating rent reductions with landlords, and restructuring the business by closing some stores.\n\n\"In the towns in which we trade in, we are the retail heartbeat of that town centre,\" he said.\n\nHe stressed that landlords were \"mostly\" helpful and could see a long-term future for the business, but he has felt let down by local and central government.\n\n\"For example, in a number of our stores, I pay three or four times more business rates than I do rent. Now, that can't be right,\" he said.\n\nHe added that \"the sheer weight of the additional costs that are piled upon us - if you take the pension increases, you take rates, you take changes in the way we can apply for lending - there is a co-ordinated effort, or what feels like it, to make it as difficult as possible [to trade on the High Street].\"\n\nIn the year to March 2019, Beales reported a loss of £3.1m, up from a loss of £1.3m for the year earlier, as costs swelled and sales dipped.\n\nBeales is by no means the only High Street chain to be struggling.\n\nLast week, the British Retail Consortium said that UK retail sales fell 0.1% last year, marking the first annual sales decline since 1995.\n\nIt added that sales in November and December were particularly weak, dropping 0.9%.\n\nLast week also saw the John Lewis Partnership reporting a fall in festive sales at its department store chain. It warned that its staff bonus may be in doubt as profits were expected to be \"substantially down on last year\".", "The Queen attended a church service at Sandringham on Sunday morning\n\nThe Queen has summoned senior royals to Sandringham on Monday for face-to-face talks to discuss the future roles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPalace officials told the BBC that Prince Harry, the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Wales would all attend, while Meghan is expected join the discussion over the phone from Canada.\n\nThe Sussexes say they plan to step back as senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThere is no suggestion a conclusion will be reached at the meeting.\n\nBut BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said it is hoped that the talks will produce a \"next step\" on the way to defining the couple's new relationship with the Royal Family - in line with the Queen's wish to find a solution within days.\n\nHe added that there were still \"formidable obstacles\" to overcome in the talks.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke of Cambridge has spoken of his \"sadness\" at the broken bond with his brother, the Sunday Times reports.\n\nAccording to the paper, Prince William told a friend: \"I've put my arm around my brother all our lives and I can't do that any more; we're separate entities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Views from the public at Sandringham Estate: 'You can't just be a royal then decide not to be'\n\n\"All we can do, and all I can do, is try and support them and hope that the time comes when we're all singing from the same page.\"\n\nPrince Charles is currently in Oman, after travelling overnight to attend the first of three days of official condolences alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. He will return to the UK in time to attend Monday's talks.\n\nOn Sunday morning the Queen was seen smiling and waving to crowds as she was driven to church in Sandringham.\n\nPrince Charles is in Oman, where he met the country's new sultan\n\nMonday's gathering at the Queen's estate in Norfolk - being described as the \"Sandringham summit\" - will be the first time the monarch has come face-to-face with Harry since the Sussexes' announcement, which was posted on their official Instagram account.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the trickiest area will be to agree the financial position of the Sussexes, who said in their statement on Wednesday they intend to \"step back\" as senior royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nThe couple also said they plan to split their time between the UK and North America, while \"continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages\".\n\nThere are likely to be tax implications to any decision to base themselves outside the UK for any length of time and Buckingham Palace will want \"tight protocols to prevent them cashing in on their royal status\", our correspondent added.\n\nMonday's royal summit may not be the last such gathering needed to sort things out; but enough progress has been made by palace staff and civil servants for the most senior members of the family to meet to discuss some pretty concrete proposals on the way ahead for Prince Harry and Meghan.\n\nThere are still formidable obstacles - it's not at all clear how much in the way of royal duties the prince and Meghan see themselves doing.\n\nOn that will hang issues such as funding and liaison between the palace and Prince Harry and Meghan's new organisation. Unpicking the current relationship is complicated - creating a new one, that lasts, will be even tougher.\n\nThere's a strong desire to get this done. But equally the deal must be robust and workable.\n\nPrecedent is being established here - a way of doing things that may extend in years to come to other members of the royal family.\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles, William and Harry are expected to review a range of possibilities for the Sussexes, taking into account plans outlined by the couple.\n\nIf a deal is agreed in the coming days, there is a general understanding that it will take some time to implement.\n\nMeanwhile, Meghan is in Canada with her eight-month-old son Archie after flying there amid the ongoing discussions, which have involved the UK and Canadian governments.\n\nShe and Prince Harry had been in Canada over Christmas, before they returned to the UK on Tuesday after a six-week break from royal duties.\n\nOn Friday, the couple's official Instagram account returned to publicising their appearances.\n\nPictures were posted showing the couple during a private visit on Tuesday to a community kitchen in north Kensington, west London, where meals were cooked for families displaced by the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nLast October, Prince Harry and Meghan publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight.\n\nThe couple were already preparing to launch their own Sussex Royal charity, which they set up after splitting from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's foundation in June last year.\n\nAnd in December it was revealed that the couple had made an application to trademark their Sussex Royal brand across a string of items including books, calendars, clothing, charitable fundraising, education and social care services.\n\nDo you have any questions about Harry and Meghan's decision to step back as senior royals?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Cheryl Grimmer disappeared shortly after her family moved to Australia\n\nDetectives investigating the suspected murder of a British toddler abducted from an Australian beach 50 years ago are offering a million dollar reward.\n\nThree-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, originally from Bristol, vanished from a shower block in Wollongong, New South Wales, on 12 January 1970.\n\nA man was due to face a murder trial but the charges were dropped last year.\n\nCheryl's brother, Ricki Nash, said he hoped the reward, equivalent to £528,000, would bring justice.\n\nHe said: \"There are no words to describe the pain of losing a sister and the impact Cheryl's disappearance has had on our entire family.\n\n\"Every day we are reminded of the tragic way she was taken from us and we hope this reward is what is needed to bring justice for Cheryl.\"\n\nThe family had emigrated from England to Australia not long before Cheryl disappeared from Fairy Meadow beach, where a memorial walk will be led by her brothers and other relatives later.\n\nWitnesses reported seeing an unknown man carrying Cheryl towards the car park of the Fairy Meadow Surf Club, police say\n\nEfforts to find her were fruitless, despite extensive searches of the area\n\nIn 2017, a man - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was arrested and later charged with Cheryl's murder.\n\nBut a judge ruled statements made by the suspect during a police interview in 1971, when he was aged 17, were inadmissible.\n\nThe Supreme Court of New South Wales found the evidence could not be heard because the teenager had not had an adult representative present during the interview.\n\nCheryl, second right, will be remembered during a memorial walk led by her three brothers\n\nDet Supt Daniel Doherty, from New South Wales police, said he was appealing to those who knew something but had not previously been inclined to assist officers.\n\nHe added: \"Witnesses at the time reported seeing an unknown male carrying Cheryl towards the car park 50 years ago today, but there has been no trace of her ever since.\n\n\"We welcome any information that may assist the investigation. There are now a million reasons to come forward.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HIV positive pilot goes public in bid to tackle stigma\n\nAn HIV positive man who successfully challenged rules which prevented him from training as an airline pilot has decided to reveal his identity.\n\nJames Bushe had previously wanted to remain anonymous, using the pseudonym \"Pilot Anthony\" on Twitter to write about his battle to become a pilot.\n\nThe 31-year-old said he had decided to go public to challenge the stigma which surrounds people living with HIV.\n\nHe was not allowed to train because he could not get a medical certificate.\n\nHowever, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) eventually overturned the ruling.\n\nJames has been flying alongside Loganair training captains since November but he has now completed his training to qualify to regularly fly the airline's Embraer 145 Regional Jets from its base at Glasgow Airport.\n\nIt makes him the first newly-qualified pilot in Europe living with HIV.\n\nThe CAA's previous interpretation of European regulations meant that pilots who were already qualified could continue to fly if they contracted HIV, subject to medical fitness.\n\nHowever, a \"catch 22\" situation meant that a person who was HIV positive could not get the accreditation needed to be able to start the training to become a pilot.\n\nJames explained: \"The reason is that the CAA considered there was a risk of that HIV positive person becoming incapacitated during the flight, potentially. That rule would also have covered other conditions, like diabetes.\n\n\"The evidence for this was studies done in the early 90s.\n\n\"Someone that is on successful treatment and living with HIV now, is undetectable. They can't pass that virus on to others and they pose no risk to themselves or anyone around them.\n\n\"It didn't make any sense. I wanted to challenge it.\"\n\nJames, originally from Stoke-on-Trent, took that fight to the CAA and won.\n\nIt changed its rules to stop refusing to grant medical licences to people with HIV.\n\nInstead, people with HIV will be eligible to receive a certificate that allows them to fly, but restricts them to multi-pilot operations.\n\nThe body said it was the furthest it could go until the European Aviation Safety Agency reformed its rules.\n\nJames, who was diagnosed with HIV five years ago, had gained his private pilots licence at the age of 17 before he was able to drive a car.\n\nHe had wanted to be a pilot since he was a child, and began flying when he was 15.\n\nHe said he was shocked when he discovered his HIV status meant he could not train to be a pilot.\n\n\"This has been a lifelong dream and to hear that it wasn't going to happen was devastating,\" he said.\n\nAfter 18 months of training, James said it was an incredible feeling to actually be a pilot.\n\n\"The joy of flying I felt when I first started to train is even bigger today, particularly in light of this victory,\" he said.\n\nHis decision to \"come out\" as an HIV positive pilot was a tough one, he said.\n\nHis inspiration was ex-rugby player Gareth Thomas, who disclosed his HIV status in the summer.\n\nJames Bushe said it was a lifelong dream to be a pilot\n\nJames said he felt that using an alias on Twitter was perpetuating the stigma that surrounds people living with HIV.\n\n\"I'm doing this as me today because I want to challenge that stigma,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not just about me, it's about anybody who is living with HIV who wants to become a pilot. I want to get the message out there that they can do.\n\n\"My message to anyone living with HIV who is facing discrimination is to challenge it and you can win.\"\n\nLife expectancy for people diagnosed with HIV is now close to the population average due to advances in antiretroviral therapy, which reduces the ability of the virus to attack the body's immune system.\n\nJames says living with HIV today is not like it was in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\n\"HIV should be no barrier to anybody pursuing whatever their dreams are and becoming whatever they want to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ewan Hutchison, head of medical assessment at the CAA, said: \"We are very pleased to see James starting his career, having now finished his commercial pilot training. He has worked hard to raise awareness of the challenges faced by aspiring pilots living with HIV.\n\n\"For a number of years we have promoted changes at an international level to the current rules affecting pilots with certain medical conditions, including HIV.\"\n\nHe said the CAA was providing medical expertise to support the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), with a review of recent research relating to HIV and its findings likely to be published within the next few months.\n\nDr Hutchison added: \"We expect that this may result in the removal of some restrictions related to the medical certificates of commercial pilots who are living with HIV.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBarcelona have sacked coach Ernesto Valverde and replaced him with former Real Betis coach Quique Setien.\n\nValverde, 55, helped the club to two successive La Liga titles and they lead on goal difference this season.\n\nHowever, the Catalan side have produced a series of unconvincing displays under his leadership and have failed to reach the Champions League final.\n\nSetien, 61, led Betis to their highest finish since 2005 and to the Copa del Rey semis before leaving in May.\n\nHe has agreed to a two-and-a-half-year deal and will be presented to the media at 13:30 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, Barca said they had reached an agreement with Valverde to terminate his contract and thanked him \"for his professionalism, his commitment, his dedication and his always positive treatment towards all that make up the Barca family\".\n\nValverde was under pressure towards the end of last season following the ignominious Champions League semi-final defeat by Liverpool, having led 3-0 after the first leg, and the Copa del Rey final loss to Valencia.\n\nThe defeat by the Reds particularly rankled, because it was reminiscent of the collapse at the hands of Roma in the competition the previous season and suggested he had failed to correct a weaknesses in his team.\n\nValverde did guide the Catalans to the top of the table at the halfway stage of this season, but the fluid displays that fans had become accustomed to during the past 15 years were only sporadic.\n\nTheir away form was especially disappointing with losses at Athletic Bilbao, Granada and Levante plus draws at Osasuna, Real Sociedad and Espanyol.\n\nSetien arrives at the Nou Camp as a highly-regarded coach.\n\nAfter managing lower-league sides, he led Las Palmas to 11th in La Liga - their best finish for 40 years - and enjoyed further success at Betis, where in his first season he led them to sixth place and qualification for the Europa League.\n\nBetis also secured wins over Barca, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid during his two-year tenure. He left the Seville outfit by mutual consent in the summer.\n\nFormer Barcelona midfielder Xavi had been strongly linked with the head coach's role. He confirmed media reports that he spoke to the club's sporting director Eric Abidal and chief executive Oscar Grau over the weekend, before he reportedly rejected the club's offer, .\n\nOther names to have been linked with the club included former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino, who managed rivals Espanyol, and current B team manager Xavi Garcia Pimienta.\n\nThe most surprising thing about Ernesto Valverde being fired by Barcelona is that it took so long to happen.\n\nEver since that earth-shattering night at Anfield in May, Valverde never really looked capable of turning around the team's pretty aimless path.\n\nNow that task will fall to former Las Palmas and Real Betis manager Quique Setien, who will be fervently focused on restoring the team's famed fast-paced, high-pressing, incisive-passing style, which had been slowly eroded by the more pragmatic Valverde.\n\nSetien - whose stubborn nature makes him a divisive figure across Spain - is a devout disciple of Cruyffian football, and from now on it is certain that Barca will once again play 'Barca' football.\n\nWhether they can play it well, though, is another matter - the ageing legs of Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba may struggle to maintain the physical intensity required to make that approach successful, and the coming months will be fascinating test of whether a high-minded football philosophy can still deliver results.", "Police cordoned off Market Street near the tram stop\n\nA stabbing in which four people were hurt was a feud between rough sleepers, a councillor has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) officers were called to Market Street in Manchester at about 18:20 GMT on Sunday, where they Tasered and arrested a 30-year-old man.\n\nOne of the injured people was taken to hospital.\n\nCity centre councillor Pat Karney tweeted that it was \"a rough sleeper feuding with other rough sleepers\".\n\nThere was a large police presence in the city centre after the stabbings\n\nThe arrested man was held on suspicion of serious assault after a Taser was deployed, GMP said.\n\nAppealing for information, a force spokesman said it was \"being treated as an isolated incident and there is not believed to be any wider threat to the public\".\n\nPart of Piccadilly Gardens was cordoned off and Metrolink services were affected, but Transport for Greater Manchester tweeted that roads had reopened at about 21:00.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSergio Aguero scored his 12th hat-trick to become the highest overseas goalscorer in Premier League history in rampant Manchester City's six-goal hammering of struggling Aston Villa.\n\nThe Argentine moved level - and then past - Thierry Henry, before joining Frank Lampard on 177 goals in England's top flight.\n\nOnly three men - Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Andy Cole - are still ahead of him on the all-time Premier League list. Aguero's number of hat-tricks is a Premier League record.\n\nIt was part of a merciless City performance as they took apart a Villa side who were suffering their worst defeat since Liverpool beat them at 6-0 at Villa Park in February 2016 and have dropped into the relegation zone.\n\nRiyad Mahrez scored the first two, with Gabriel Jesus splitting Aguero's double just before half-time.\n\nThe result leaves City second, the highest position they have occupied following a full round of matches since the beginning of November, although they remain 14 points behind leaders Liverpool, having played a game more.\n\nIt is scarcely believable now but there were some people who thought City had wasted their money when they spent £40m to buy Aguero from Atletico Madrid in 2011.\n\nHe scored twice against Swansea on his debut and it feels like he has not stopped finding the net since.\n\nAguero's most famous goal came at the end of that first season, against QPR to win the title, but for City fans his impact goes way beyond that single strike.\n\nThe 31-year-old is the club's record scorer and now needs only one more to reach 250 for the Blues in all competitions.\n\nHis first was a ferocious effort, the third a clinical strike after he had been given a clean sight of goal.\n\nBut maybe the best indication of the relentlessness with which Aguero goes about his job came from the long conversation he had with Mahrez after the half-time whistle had gone, when he demanded to know why his team-mate had not set him up about five minutes earlier.\n\nCity were 4-0 up at the time.\n• None Can you name the highest-scoring foreign players in the Premier League?\n• None 'Aguero is a legend and will die scoring goals' - Guardiola\n\nIt was a sobering return to action for Danny Drinkwater, who joined Villa on loan from Chelsea in midweek after a similar stint with Burnley came to an end.\n\nThis was Drinkwater's fourth appearance since March 2018 and remarkably meant four of the last five games he had played were against City - for three different clubs - all of which have ended in defeat.\n\nDrinkwater started quite well, with a couple of simple touches.\n\nBut it wasn't long before he was showing clear signs of rustiness after being deprived of match action for such an extended period of time.\n\nDrinkwater would have known Mahrez's strengths - he shared a dressing room with him as Leicester won the title. But he was powerless to stop the Algerian stepping around him, before darting into the area to put the visitors in front.\n\nSix minutes later, Drinkwater unwisely decided to control and assess his options as the ball broke to him off Aguero deep inside his own box.\n\nDavid Silva afforded no time, biting into the challenge and providing Mahrez with the opportunity to crash home his second.\n\nAfter that it was an exercise in chasing shadows for the former England man, who needs to find his form quickly if he is to help Villa out of the problems they find themselves in.\n\nWatching from the stands, goalkeeping duo Tom Heaton and Pepe Reina were powerless to stop the first-half carnage.\n\nWith Heaton on crutches as a legacy of the season-ending knee injury he suffered at Burnley on 1 January, and Reina not registered in time to feature as he is about to complete a loan move from AC Milan, Orjan Nyland was handed his Premier League debut.\n\nIt proved to be a torrid afternoon for the 29-year-old Norwegian, who became the first goalkeeper in Premier League history to concede six goals on his first start in the competition.\n\nNyland was beaten at his near-post for the opener and Aguero's historic effort seemed to go straight through his hands.\n\nReina will surely start at Brighton next Saturday, knowing Villa must improve on their record of two top flight clean sheets since 16 September.\n\nVilla now have a worse goal difference than Southampton, and they suffered that 9-0 home defeat by Leicester on 25 October.\n\nA few fans headed for the stairs with their side 3-0 down after half an hour but the majority stayed with their team to the end and cheered loudly when Anwar el Ghazi scored their injury-time consolation from the penalty stop.\n\nBut, with a Financial Fair Play issue hanging over them if they return to the Championship after a single season in the top flight, it looks like being a busy couple of weeks for Villa as they try to bolster Dean Smith's squad.\n\n'We gave City too much respect' - what they said\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith: \"It's tough when you come up against world-class teams.\n\n\"There's a professional pride as a coach and a team, and the third goal summed it up - they had about 20 passes without us laying a glove on them.\n\n\"We gave them too much respect.\n\n\"Our season is not going to be defined by defeats by Man City and Liverpool. You have to learn from this.\n\n\"We have to ask why weren't we competitive and why we gave them too much respect.\"\n• None Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Manchester City have scored 343 Premier League goals - 42 more than any other team.\n• None This was Pep Guardiola's 300th top-flight league win as a manager - he has reached that tally in just 390 games with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and City.\n• None City's David Silva has assisted 21 Premier League goals for team-mate Sergio Aguero - the only player to assist another more in the competition is Frank Lampard for Didier Drogba (24 goals).\n• None City's Riyad Mahrez is the only Premier League player to both score and assist 20 goals since the start of last season in all competitions (21 goals, 23 assists).\n• None In all competitions, City's Kevin de Bruyne has assisted 15 goals this season - five more than any other Premier League player.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has started 76 matches for City in all competitions - he has been directly involved in 71 goals in those matches (54 goals, 17 assists).\n\nVilla need to regroup quickly before their game at Brighton next Saturday (15:00 GMT), while Manchester City host Crystal Palace at the same time.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Manchester City 6. Anwar El Ghazi (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Anwar El Ghazi (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ahmed El Mohamady with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Anwar El Ghazi (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trézéguet with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Trézéguet (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 0, Manchester City 6. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Thousands of burned tubes of Pringles could be seen at the side of the vehicle\n\nThousands of tubes of Pringles were burnt to a crisp when a lorry caught fire on the M1 motorway.\n\nFlames took hold of the HGV near junction 25 in Derbyshire at about 07:00 GMT, closing a slip road.\n\nThe driver, who was unhurt, managed to save the tractor unit before escaping, Highways England said.\n\nCountless burnt tubes were seen at the side of the vehicle in the aftermath. The clean-up meant the road did not reopen until about 14:20.\n\nFire crews started tackling the blaze from about 07:00\n\nThe clean-up following the blaze took several hours\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists have discovered the secret of how the ginkgo tree can live for more than 1,000 years.\n\nA study found the tree makes protective chemicals that fend off diseases and drought.\n\nAnd, unlike many other plants, its genes are not programmed to trigger inexorable decline when its youth is over.\n\nThe ginkgo can be found in parks and gardens across the world, but is on the brink of extinction in the wild.\n\n\"The secret is maintaining a really healthy defence system and being a species that does not have a pre-determined senescence (ageing) programme,\" said Richard Dixon of the University of North Texas, Denton.\n\n\"As ginkgo trees age, they show no evidence of weakening their ability to defend themselves from stresses.\"\n\nA man walks on fallen leaves under gingko trees as autumn arrives in the Chinese capital, Beijing\n\nResearchers in the US and China studied ginkgo trees aged 15 to 667, extracting tree-rings and analysing cells, bark, leaves and seeds. They found both young and old trees produce protective chemicals to fight off stresses caused by pathogens or drought.\n\nThese include anti-oxidants, antimicrobials and plant hormones that protect against drought and other environmental stressors. Genetic studies showed that genes related to ageing didn't automatically switch on at a certain point in time as in other plants, such as grasses and annuals.\n\nThus, while a tree that has lived for centuries might appear dilapidated due to frost damage or lightning strikes, all the processes needed for healthy growth are still functioning.\n\nDr Dixon suspects the picture will be similar in other long-lived trees, such as the giant redwood, which has wood \"packed with antimicrobial chemicals\".\n\n\"Hopefully our study will encourage others to dig deeper into what appear to be the important features for longevity in ginkgo and other long-lived trees,\" he said.\n\nCommenting on the study, Mark Gush, head of horticultural and environmental science at the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society), said the oldest living tree in the world - a Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) - is estimated to be more than 4,800 years old.\n\n\"Apart from a consistent supply of food, light and water, the ability to live to such a great age is thought to be linked to slow growth rate, cellular adaptations and relative protection from secondary influences such as pest and disease, climate extremes and catastrophic physical damage,\" he said.\n\nAs the UK embarks on an ambitious tree planting programme, understanding the mixture of tree species that will deliver the greatest ecosystem rewards over the long term, and where they should best be planted, is likely to be increasingly important, he added.\n\nThe research is published in the journal PNAS.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA volcano in the Philippines has begun spewing lava, as authorities warn that a \"hazardous eruption\" is possible \"within hours or days\".\n\nIn the early hours of Monday, a weak flow of lava began seeping out of Taal volcano - located some 70km (45 miles) south of the capital Manila.\n\nTaal had earlier emitted a huge plume of ash, triggering the mass evacuation of 8,000 people from the area.\n\nTaal is the Philippines' second most active volcano.\n\nSituated on an island in the middle of a lake, it is one of the world's smallest volcanoes and has recorded at least 34 eruptions in the past 450 years.\n\nAuthorities in the surrounding province, Batangas, have declared a \"state of calamity\", signifying major disruption.\n\nOn Sunday, the volcano emitted a giant plume of ash, with rumbling sounds and tremors also reported.\n\nWeak lava has begun flowing out of the Taal volcano\n\nA total of 75 earthquakes have occurred in the Taal region, with 32 of these earthquakes ranking 2 and higher on the earthquake intensity scale, said Phivolcs.\n\n\"Taal volcano entered a period of intense unrest... that progressed into magmatic eruption at 02:49 to 04:28... this is characterised by weak lava fountaining accompanied by thunder and flashes of lightning,\" the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said in a statement.\n\nBut Phivolcs director Renato Solidum said that signs of a hazardous eruption, including \"flows of ashes, rocks, gas at speeds of more than 60km/h horizontally\" had not yet occurred, according to CNN Philippines.\n\nPhivolcs has now raised the alert level from 3 to 4, out of a maximum of 5.\n\nAuthorities have also warned of a possible \"volcanic tsunami\", which can be trigged by falling debris after an eruption, pushing the water and generating waves.\n\nThe UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that more than 450,000 people are estimated to live within the 14km danger zone of the Taal volcano.\n\nAsh fell on several areas nearby with residents advised to wear masks. One resident in metro Manila said shops had begun to run out of masks.\n\n\"When I went to my car, I saw it was covered in ash. I hurriedly went to buy a mask from a drugstore but they had run out,\" Angel Bautista, a resident of Paranaque told Reuters.\n\nThe government has warned retailers not to hike mask prices amid the surging demand.\n\nEarthquakes and volcanic activity are not uncommon in the Philippines, which lies along the Ring of Fire - a zone of major seismic activity, which has one of the world's most active fault lines.\n\nAs we approached the Taal volcano area this morning we saw local residents shovelling thick wet ash from the roads. Pineapple groves, normally verdant and luscious, now looked grey and lifeless.\n\nIn the distance Taal continued to billow ash and smoke miles into the sky. As the morning went on the ash clouds became darker.\n\nPolice manning a 14km exclusion zone stopped people from travelling into the area close to the volcano, but there was a steady flow of cars and trucks moving out.\n\nOn the back of one pick-up truck, I saw a large family with their treasured household possessions. They were moving in the direction of the Philippine capital Manila, where many people are choosing to stay with relatives.\n\nCars, buildings and roads have been left covered in ash\n\nEven birds have been blanketed by ashfall\n\nThe volcanic ash had forced Manila's international airport to suspend all flights on Sunday. Phivolcs had warned that the \"airborne ash and ballistic fragments from the eruption... posed hazards to aircrafts\".\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority announced later on Monday that it had resumed \"partial operations\" as of 10:00 local time (02:00 GMT) for flights departing the airport and 12:00 for arrivals.\n\nThe Philippine stock exchange also announced it would halt all trading on Monday.\n\nAsh from the Taal volcano has affected thousands of residents in nearby areas\n\nPresident Rodrigo Duterte's office has also ordered the suspension of government work in Manila and the closure of all schools in the capital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Alina Jenkins looks at the forecast for Storm Brendan\n\nStorm Brendan has hit the UK, bringing rain and gusts of more than 80mph to parts of the country.\n\nThe Met Office issued a 14-hour yellow warning for wind, covering Northern Ireland, the west coasts of England, Wales and Scotland, south-west England and north-east Scotland.\n\nSeven flights due to land at Gatwick were diverted to other UK airports on Monday evening.\n\nTrains and ferry services have also been delayed or cancelled.\n\nGatwick Airport said two Wizz Air flights, four easyJet services and one Norwegian Air flight were diverted, amid gusts of 40mph.\n\nMeanwhile, an easyJet flight from Edinburgh landed at Birmingham.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, thousands of homes have lost power and roads have been shut.\n\nIn Scotland, ferry routes covering much of the west coast as well as the Northern Isles were cancelled or disrupted.\n\nIn Wales, more than 1,000 properties were left without power, and a school was closed due to a power failure after a tree fell on power lines and also hit a car at Bontnewydd, Gwynedd.\n\nThe driver of the bin lorry was treated by medical staff following the incident in Onchan\n\nThe effects of the storm could be seen in Bontnewydd, Gwynedd\n\nAnd in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, large waves crashed against the coast\n\nIn England, South Western Railway said all lines were blocked due to a fallen tree blocking the railway between Yeovil Junction and Exeter St Davids. Disruption is expected until 20:00, said SWR.\n\nTravellers on the Great Western Railway line between Plymouth and Penzance were also warned of delays because of a speed restriction due to high winds.\n\nAll Skybus flights between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were cancelled on Monday, with a warning that gale-force winds could see more disruption on Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday morning rush hour, trains running through Preston station were suspended after the roof was damaged. Services were later returning to normal, Northern Rail said. The wind warning lasts until midnight, with turbulent weather set to continue into the evening and heavy rain sweeping eastwards.\n\nThe Met Office's yellow weather warning for wind - meaning travel disruption is likely - is in place until midnight.\n\nIt covers Northern Ireland, Wales, the South West and the west coasts of England and Scotland, as well as north-east Scotland.\n\nIt warned people should expect travel delays, large waves along coastal roads and sea fronts and power cuts.\n\nA gust of 87.5mph was recorded on South Uist in the outer Hebrides, while a 76mph gust hit Capel Curig in Wales. and in Northern Ireland the highest gust was 63mph at Magilligan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from Bel Hawson shows waves crashing onto the A83 in Ardrishaig as cars drive along\n\nWaves crash against the promenade at Blackpool\n\nMeanwhile, across the Irish Sea at Warrenpoint, County Down, waves send spray into the traffic\n\nNorthern Ireland was among the first parts of the UK to be battered by the storm.\n\nAbout 2,000 customers remain without electricity and power has been restored to 6,400 Northern Ireland Electricity users, after damage to the network.\n\nRoads have been closed including a stretch of the Belfast Road in Carrickfergus after part of the sea wall has collapsed.\n\nAt Belfast International Airport - where there was some disruption to flights - passengers were stuck on one plane for two hours after wind speeds were too high to disembark.\n\nBBC presenter Holly Hamilton, who was on board, said: \"The captain announced we would be unable to disembark as the wind speed was at 46 knots and it needed to be a maximum of 40 to allow the steps to be brought out to allow passengers off.\n\nThe captain invited the children to the cockpit to keep them entertained, said Holly Hamilton\n\n\"Everyone understood why it was necessary as the plane itself was swaying from side to side when we weren't even in motion.\n\n\"Most people were just relieved we'd landed safely as it was a pretty choppy landing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kevin Scott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe yellow weather warning is in place until midnight\n\nWaves have been crashing onto the shoreline in Troon in South Ayrshire\n\nThe lighthouse at Port Ellen in Islay received a battering\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) issued 28 flood warnings and 16 flood alerts around the country.\n\n\"Combined with naturally high tides next week, the sustained winds will create an unusual and dangerous combination of tide, storm surge and inshore waves,\" said Sepa.\n\nAnd there are eight flood warnings for England.\n\nOn the Isle of Man, roads were closed, winds brought down trees, and flights and ferries were cancelled.\n\nAnd a bin lorry was blown over, with the driver needing medical treatment.\n\nThree more yellow weather warnings are in place for Tuesday - including one for wind across England and Wales from 12:00 GMT until midnight and another for snow and ice in northern Scotland.\n\nThe third warning, for heavy rain, covers south-east England from 13:00 on Tuesday until 9:00 on Wednesday.\n\nStorm Brendan's name was picked by the Irish meteorological service Met Éireann.\n\nIn December, Storm Atiyah swept into the UK, leading to power cuts and travel disruption in Wales and the South West.\n\nThis year's storm names have already been chosen with Ciara the name for the next storm.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Brendan? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Brendan has battered the coastline around the island of Ireland\n\nAbout 800 homes and businesses remain without power as a result of the high winds and adverse weather brought by Storm Brendan, Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) has said.\n\nA yellow weather warning for Northern Ireland is in place.\n\nThe Met Office said it is in effect until midnight.\n\nNIE said that it had restored power to about 9,500 customers. The worst affected areas were counties Down and Antrim.\n\nWaves were crashing in Carrickfergus as Storm Brendan swept along the coastline\n\nNIE said the storm had caused a \"low level of damage\" to the electricity network.\n\nA spokesman added that teams have been out all day working to repair any damage caused and restore power as quickly as possible.\n\nA number of flights and ferry sailings were also cancelled.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sara Girvin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Éireann has warned of \"several hours of very dangerous weather\".\n\nThe highest wind gust recorded in the Republic of Ireland so far was 83mph (134km/h) at Roches Point on the County Cork coast and in NI it was 63mph (101km/h) at Magilligan.\n\nAcross the Republic of Ireland, more than 48,000 customers were left without power.\n\nAbout 9,000 remained without electricity on Monday night.\n\nThe worst affected areas have been Cork, Kerry, Galway and Mayo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Met Éireann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTravel has also been affected with road closures due to the weather.\n\nThe PSNI said Seaview in Warrenpoint and the South Promenade in Newcastle are closed in both directions, due to the adverse weather conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Translink This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Belfast Road, Carrickfergus was closed at the junctions with Sloefield Road and Albert Road, as part of the sea wall has collapsed.\n\nMotorists were advised to avoid the area and seek alternative main routes for their journey.\n\nA tree fell on the train line near Seahill station, disrupting travel for a time on Monday. Translink said staff worked quickly to remove it.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council closed all its open spaces and play parks on Monday due to adverse weather conditions.\n\n\"The public are asked to avoid these areas due to the high winds,\" a council spokeswoman said.\n\nA tree has been felled on Londonderry's Strand Road\n\nShe added: \"The council is urging the public to stay safe by taking the necessary precautions to secure their properties following the Storm Brendan Met Office Weather Warning that has been issued for the region.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the city's Strand Road, one of Derry's busiest dual carriageways, was down to one lane in the direction of the city centre due to a fallen tree.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Flybe boss Mark Anderson has told staff that he and the management team remain \"focused\" on turning the airline round.\n\nMr Anderson's comments came in an email to staff following reports that the airline is in crisis talks in an attempt to put together a rescue deal.\n\nAccording to Sky News, Flybe, which has already been bailed out once, has been struggling to secure fresh finance.\n\nIn his email, Mr Anderson stressed that Flybe was continuing to operate as normal.\n\n\"All my energy, and that of our Leadership Team, is very focused on continuing to turn Flybe, soon to be Virgin Connect, around and deliver the heartfelt service that our customers expect,\" he said.\n\n\"I do appreciate that the headlines some of you have already read are disturbing but I want you to know that we are determined to do everything we can to make this work.\"\n\nHe told staff he was \"extremely grateful\" for their hard work and commitment.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Flybe said it was focusing on \"providing great service and connectivity for our customers, to ensure that they can continue to travel as planned\".\n\nFlybe boss Mark Anderson has asked staff not to speculate on rumours and to focus on their work while it works to turn the airline around\n\nFlybe, the UK's biggest regional carrier, added: \"We don't comment on rumour or speculation.\"\n\nThe reports come a year after Flybe was bought for £2.8m by a consortium including Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group.\n\nSince then, the consortium has invested tens of millions of pounds in the troubled carrier, but losses have continued to mount.\n\nTourism adviser and researcher Prof Annette Pritchard, of the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research in Cardiff, commented on Twitter that Flybe provided \"a vital social and cultural link for many marginal economies\".\n\nBased in Exeter, Flybe carries about eight million passengers a year from airports such as Southampton, Cardiff and Aberdeen, to the UK and Europe.\n\nIts network of routes includes more than half of UK domestic flights outside London.\n\nIf the business collapses, more than 2,000 jobs will be at risk.\n\nMatthew Mills, a graphic designer based in Shropshire, recently booked flights for his family to Germany with Flybe.\n\nHe is also one of the 10,000 consumers still waiting to receive a refund from collapsed travel firm Thomas Cook on a holiday that was meant to take place in November.\n\n\"You don't know whether to laugh or cry,\" he told the BBC. \"We've used Flybe quite a bit in the past because we have family in Germany and we don't have many alternatives in the UK - if Flybe goes under, we'd be looking at 50% more in prices on flights to Germany, easily.\"\n\nWorried Flybe customers have taken to Twitter to express their concerns, saying they are still waiting for information on whether their flights will go ahead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC understands that EY has been lined up as administrators if Flybe were to go under.\n\nBrian Strutton, general secretary of pilots' union Balpa, said: \"I am appalled that once again the future of a major UK airline and hundreds of jobs is being discussed in secret with no input from employees or their representatives.\n\n\"According to reports, the airline could have collapsed over the weekend, which would have been devastating news.\"\n\nMr Strutton called on Flybe's owners and the government to talk to the union, saying staff had a right to know what was going on.\n\nExeter is home to Flybe's headquarters and a quick look at the departures and arrivals board here illustrate just how important the airline's connections are to the area. Of the eight departures to destinations such as Manchester, Newcastle and Jersey, seven of them are operated by Flybe.\n\nThe taxi driver who brought me from the train station told me his firm had paid £40,000 to secure a concession inside the terminal. \"Flybe is a massive part of our business\" before helpfully reeling off a list of arrivals and departure times he knew off the top of his head. Its not just the flights - over 400 people work at HQ, plus they run a training academy for apprentice plane engineers.\n\nThe airline is in talks with both the Department for Transport and the Business Department to see if the government can provide or facilitate a rescue. The government refused a request from Thomas Cook for £150m in emergency funding, with Boris Johnson claiming it would have provided a \"moral hazard\" - a dangerous precedent that would see the government called on to rescue other failing private companies.\n\nHowever, the government may face a political hazard. It has vowed to focus on regional connectivity which the collapse of Flybe would do nothing to improve.\n\nProf Loizos Heracleous, an aviation industry expert from Warwick Business School, said it would be \"no easy task\" for Flybe to attract new finance.\n\nHe added: \"The aviation industry is an unattractive industry in terms of performance and returns on investment at the best of times.\n\n\"It is saddled with high-cost assets, namely planes, and key costs that fluctuate uncontrollably, mainly fuel, which accounts for around a third of total airline costs.\n\n\"On top of that, they face high regulation, often aggressive unions, low barriers to entry that increase competition, and high bargaining power of buyers.\"\n\nBen Bradshaw, Labour MP for Exeter, said Flybe provided \"valuable connectivity throughout the UK\" and called on the government to intervene. He called Flybe \"a strategically important business\".\n\nThe industry regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, said: \"We do not comment on the financial situation of any of the organisations we regulate.\"\n\nAs long as Flybe carries on flying, there is no need to worry and certainly no reason to try to get your money back, writes Simon Gompertz, BBC personal finance correspondent.\n\nIf the airline was to fail, however, all flights would most likely be cancelled. Those with paid-for bookings could find they lose their flights and their cash.\n\nIf your flight is part of a package deal covered by the ATOL scheme, then you should be protected and have the right to a re-booking or refund.\n\nOtherwise you can try to retrieve the money from your credit card company, if that's how you paid. There is also a debit card chargeback scheme which can help.\n\nMany travel insurance policies are not much use in these situations, unless you stumped up extra for the Scheduled Airline Failure option or something similar.\n\nThose stuck overseas might be left hoping that the government will direct the CAA to step in, as it did when Monarch and Thomas Cook went under, to bring back stranded passengers for free.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US air base Al Asad in Iraq was targeted by Iran in response to the death of Qasem Soleimani, the top Iranian military commander, who was killed in a US air strike.\n\nBBC Persian correspondent Nafiseh Kohnavard was allowed inside the high security base to see the damage and speak to soldiers who survived the attack.", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said \"the regime in Tehran is at a crossroads\" as he warned Iran against slipping \"further and further into political and economic isolation\".\n\nHe urged Iran to \"engage in diplomacy and chart a peaceful way forwards\".\n\nIt comes as Iran's ambassador to the UK met officials at the Foreign Office following the detention of his British counterpart in Tehran last week.\n\nMr Raab said the arrest was \"a flagrant violation of international law\".\n\nResponding to an urgent question in Parliament, Mr Raab said the detention of UK diplomat Rob Macaire after a vigil for victims of last week's plane crash was \"without grounds or explanation\".\n\nMiddle East Minister Andrew Murrison expressed the UK government's \"strong objections\" to the incident, during the meeting with Iranian ambassador Hamid Baeidinejad on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe Foreign Office called for an investigation and said the arrest was a breach of the Vienna Convention - an international agreement that governs diplomatic relations between countries.\n\nMr Macaire was attending an event on Saturday that was advertised as a vigil for the 176 people who died in Wednesday's crash of an Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737, shortly before he was arrested.\n\nHe was held for three hours when he stopped at a barber shop for a haircut on his way back to the British embassy.\n\nIran's ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad (left) was summoned to the Foreign Office after Rob Macaire was detained\n\nMr Macaire said he attended the event because it was \"normal to want to pay respects\", pointing out that some of the victims were British, but added that he left the vigil when some people started \"chanting\".\n\nBut Iran's foreign ministry said Mr Macaire's presence was \"against diplomatic norms\".\n\nThe statement, reported by state TV, said: \"Any new mistake of Britain will be severely confronted by Iran, and London will be responsible for that\".\n\n\"Threatening Iran with fresh sanctions over that will cause tension between Tehran and London.\"\n\nNo 10 said it was \"seeking full assurances\" the detention would not happen again.\n\nDuring the debate in the Commons earlier, Labour MP Barry Sheerman asked the foreign secretary whether he would support sending faith leaders to Iran to speak \"at a level of faith\" to help ease tensions.\n\nMr Raab replied: \"I sympathise very much with the spirit of the idea of an all-faith diplomatic initiative.\n\n\"I think right at the moment he will have seen that we advise, through our Foreign Office, travel advice against travel to Iran and I think for the moment that's probably the safest bet.\"\n\nFive nations whose citizens were on board the airliner will meet in London on Thursday to discuss possible legal action, Ukraine's foreign minister told the Reuters news agency.\n\nProtests have been taking place on the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials who initially denied shooting down the plane.\n• None What happens when an ambassador is summoned?\n• None Brexit: What is the Vienna Convention?", "A robot cat designed to ferry plates of food to restaurant customers has been unveiled at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.\n\nBellaBot, built by the Chinese firm PuduTech, is one of a number of wacky robotic inventions being shown off at the event this year.\n\nThere is also UBTech's Walker, which can pull yoga poses.\n\nAnd Charmin's RollBot. It speeds a roll of toilet paper on demand to bathrooms that have run out of the stuff.\n\nOne expert said it was likely that robots exhibited at CES would only continue to get more bizarre in the future.\n\nBellaBot, the table-waiting robot cat, is a service bot with personality.\n\nThe device has four trays, each capable of bearing up to 10kg of grub\n\nIt updates a previous model that had a more utilitarian design. BellaBot, in contrast, features a screen showing cat-face animations.\n\nIt mews when it arrives at tables to encourage customers to pick up their food.\n\nAnd if the diners stroke BellaBot's ears, it initially reacts with pleasure.\n\n\"The owner's hand is so warm,\" the bot is programmed to say in response.\n\nBut if customers continue petting it for too long, its expression changes.\n\n\"It gets mad to remind you not to interrupt its job,\" explains the firm.\n\nBellaBot becomes irate if diners rub its ears for too long\n\nThe Chinese company is targeting the machine at restaurant owners in China, who often struggle to employ enough waiting staff, according to PuduTech.\n\nThe firm's existing robots are already in use at 2,000 restaurants worldwide.\n\nIt plans to show off the new device at a booth designed to look like a futuristic restaurant when the CES show floor opens on Tuesday.\n\nBut BellaBot may find it harder to operate in the real world, commented tech consultant Paolo Pescatore from PP Foresight, because of the challenge of navigating restaurants at busy times.\n\nHe added, however, that restaurants are expected to become increasingly dependent on automation in one form or another.\n\nIt does yoga - but Walker will not buy you a quinoa salad afterwards\n\nUBTech's newly-updated Walker bot is also being shown off at CES this year.\n\nThe model can perform a series of Tai Chi and yoga poses, demonstrating a \"huge improvement in motion control\", according to its maker.\n\n\"It's continuously tracking its overall centre of gravity throughout the yoga positions - the kind of dynamic [artificial intelligence] you would expect of a robot that 'lives' in your home alongside your family, going up and down stairs, carrying heavy objects for you,\" explains UBTech spokesman Jeff Gordon.\n\nWalker's other abilities including being able to push a cart, draw pictures and pour liquid into a cup.\n\nAnd Procter & Gamble's American loo roll business, Charmin, has attracted a flurry of attention with an unusual droid designed to complement toilets and bathrooms: RollBot.\n\n\"Imagine yourself there, you've run out of toilet tissue, nobody hears your call,\" P&G researcher Gregg Weaver told the BBC.\n\n\"The robot will find you in the home and deliver you a fresh roll.\"\n\nRollBot is summoned via Bluetooth on a smartphone.\n\nHowever, P&G currently has no plans to make it commercially available - which may mean waiting a little longer for that desperately needed roll.\n\nThanks to improvements in hardware and software capabilities, robots will gradually become better and better at expressing themselves and mimicking human capabilities, predicted Mr Pescatore.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Robot wheels that make it possible to move chairs about via voice command are also at CES\n\nHe also suggested that in commercially competitive, consumer-facing settings, quirky robots were likely to stand out from the crowd.\n\n\"It is one of the fast-growing tech trends,\" he added.\n\n\"Expect far more wackier robots in years to come.\"", "Police maintained a cordon at the scene of the incident\n\nThe death of a man in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, is now being treated as murder, police have said.\n\nGlen Quinn's body was found in Ashleigh Park in the Woodburn area on Saturday.\n\nTwo men, aged 38 and 39, and a woman aged 47, earlier arrested in connection with Mr Quinn's death, were rearrested on suspicion of murder on Monday night.\n\nThey were later released on police bail pending further enquiries. Police said forensic examinations and further investigations were ongoing.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said he was aware of speculation circulating that the death \"is in some way related to the activities of South East Antrim UDA\".\n\n\"The investigation remains at a very early stage and it is not yet possible to be definitive about the motivation for this man's murder but the potential for it to be linked to those associated with paramilitary organisations will form part of our investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"Rumour and speculation within the community is likely to be unhelpful as we seek to establish the circumstances surrounding this man's death and I would appeal to the community to contact us.\"\n\nMr Quinn, who was in his 40s, was found dead on Saturday night.\n\nInvestigators in forensic suits examined the scene of Mr Quinn's death\n\nOn Sunday, police maintained a cordon around a block of six flats in the area.\n\nOne neighbour told the BBC that Mr Quinn lived alone and had only recently moved into the area.", "Chancellor Sajid Javid has set 11 March as the date for his first Budget - the first since the general election.\n\nMr Javid says billions of pounds will be invested \"across the country\".\n\nThe Treasury will \"prioritise the environment\", he said and reiterated a plan to make use of low borrowing rates to spend on public services.\n\nJohn McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor, said he doubted whether the government would deliver on its investment or climate goals.\n\nMr Javid will update his cabinet colleagues on the performance of the economy before facing MPs later on Tuesday.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"There will be an infrastructure revolution in our great country.\n\n\"We set out in our manifesto during the election how we can afford to invest more and take advantage of the record low interest rates that we are seeing, but do it in a responsible way.\n\n\"There will be up to an extra £100bn of investment in infrastructure over the next few years that will be transformative for every part of our country,\"\n\nHe added: \"In the Budget, we will be setting out how we are going to take advantage of all the huge opportunities that Brexit will bring.\n\n\"Also, how we are going to help hard-working people in particular - especially with the cost of living - and how we are going to level up across the entire country.\"\n\nMr Javid cancelled a 6 November Budget in October to make way for the general election.\n\nThis means that the Office for Budget Responsibility, which monitors the government's performance on money management, may not be able to comply with its legal requirement of publishing two forecasts in the financial year, which ends on 31 March.\n\nCritics say this means less independent scrutiny of the public finances.\n\nThe Budget is the government's yearly announcement on its plans for tax and spending for the coming financial year, which starts in April.\n\n\"After a decade of wrecking the economy, we can have no confidence in a Tory government delivering the scale of investment needed for renewal, especially with a no-deal Brexit still on the table,\" said Mr McDonnell.\n\n\"The lack of foresight in not focusing this budget on the threat of climate change is also criminally irresponsible.\n\n\"The government has learnt nothing from the fires in Australia and the floods on Indonesia. This will be a budget of climate change recklessness, not renewal.\"\n\nThis is not just about a change of date for a Budget originally postponed because of the Brexit delay and then an election.\n\nA rewiring of the Treasury is in the works. First, the Budget to be presented on 11 March will be quite fundamentally different to the Budget that never happened. The election result gives a Commons majority and a mandate to act confidently and decisively, and in a manner that fleshes out the election rhetoric about \"levelling up\" - helping slow-growing regions of the economy.\n\nIn the intervening two months, the Treasury will have to work up a new national infrastructure strategy that delivers on the plan to rebalance regional inequalities, some of which stem from decisions made nationally on, for example, transport spending.\n\nInsiders suggest that the changes could reach into the heart of the Treasury, taking up advice from independent economists and regional mayors to change the way that the government calculates the value for money of public spending on investment projects.\n\nThe so-called \"Green Book\", used to evaluate big investment projects, could be changed to rectify a formula and a process that biases government investment to where economic growth, high productivity, and high house prices are already concentrated - in and around London.", "The mother of a British woman convicted of lying about being gang-raped said she needed treatment for PTSD\n\nThe mother of a British woman convicted in Cyprus of lying about being raped by 12 Israeli men has backed calls for tourists to boycott the country.\n\nThe 19-year-old was found guilty of causing public mischief, prompting the Foreign Office to express \"serious concern\" about the case in Ayia Napa.\n\nCritics of the verdict have called for people to avoid visiting Cyprus.\n\nThe woman's mother told the BBC that Ayia Napa - where her daughter had been on a working holiday - was unsafe.\n\nThe 19-year-old was convicted following a trial after recanting a claim that she was raped in a hotel room in July.\n\nThe teenager has said Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about the incident at a hotel - something police have denied.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the teenager's mother - who the BBC is not naming - said she believed her daughter's experience in Ayia Napa was not an isolated incident.\n\nShe said: \"The place isn't safe - it is absolutely not safe. And if you go and report something that's happened to you, you're either laughed at, as far as I can tell, or, in the worst case, something like what's happened to my daughter may happen.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lawyer Michael Polak described it as \"a very worrying conviction\"\n\nThe Independent's travel editor Simon Calder said about one in three visitors to Cyprus were British, with more than 1.3 million Brits visiting Cyprus in 2019.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme his two daughters and their friends have said they would not travel to Ayia Napa, adding: \"I imagine that there are similar conversations going on around the kitchen table in many homes with teenage children.\"\n\nHowever, he said he doubted the Foreign Office would implement a travel ban because Cyprus is \"generally a very safe country for British travellers\".\n\nLawyers representing the woman have criticised the conviction and the way the case was handled by the Cypriot police and Judge Michalis Papathanasiou.\n\nThey say her retraction statement was given when no lawyer or translator was present and point to the fact the judge refused to hear any evidence about whether the alleged rape took place.\n\nThe Foreign Office has described the conviction as \"deeply distressing\" and pledged to raise the issue with Cypriot authorities.\n\nSeveral senior legal figures in Cyprus have signed a letter written to the Attorney General Costas Clerides asking him to intervene in the case, including former Justice Minister Kypros Chrysostomides.\n\nMr Chrysostomides said the teenager had \"already suffered a lot\" and he expects her sentence will be \"very lenient\".\n\nHe added: \"She has already been in detention for four and a half weeks and she has already been prevented from travelling for about five months already.\"\n\nThe teenager faces up to a year in jail and a £1,500 fine when she is sentenced on 7 January, but he said such punishments would be \"excessive under the circumstances\".\n\nThe woman's mother said she had not personally heard from the Foreign Office, but added that she \"would love\" Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to get involved.\n\nShe said she understood that the judicial process had to be followed but \"when that starts becoming broken\" it was necessary for the authorities to step in, adding that her daughter had experienced human rights violations \"throughout\" the process.\n\nProtesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women were outside the court\n\nShe also questioned the authenticity of her daughter's retraction statement - local police said it had been written by her daughter but she cited an expert witness who said it was \"highly improbable\" that it had been produced by a native English speaker.\n\nWhen delivering the guilty verdict on Monday, the judge said his decision was backed up by video evidence showing the woman having consensual sex.\n\nBut her mother said the video showed her daughter having consensual sex with one man, and then it showed a group of people trying to enter the room.\n\n\"[The video] shows her and the guy telling them to get out of the room,\" she said. \"That gives you a very strong flavour of what happens next.\"\n\nThe 12 men arrested in connection with the alleged rape were later released and returned home. A lawyer representing some of them welcomed the guilty verdict, saying the woman had \"refused to this day to take responsibility for the horrible act she's done against the boys\".\n\nThe woman's mother said her daughter was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, hallucinations, and was sleeping for 18 or 20 hours a day because of a condition called hypersomnia.\n\n\"She needs to get back to the UK to get that treated - that's my absolute primary focus. She can't be treated here because hearing foreign men speaking loudly will trigger an episode...\n\n\"It needs resolving otherwise she's going to carry on having this for the rest of her life.\"\n\nThe woman's mother also revealed that her daughter had planned to start university this year after being accepted by all of the universities she applied for.\n\n\"She'd been offered a bursary at one of them - she'd got three unconditional offers.\n\n\"So, no question, she would have gone to university, but it was in a career that she wouldn't be able to do with this 'public mischief' verdict, so - again, life-changing for her - she needs to totally rethink her options.\"\n\nThe woman's legal representatives have already said they plan to appeal against the conviction.\n\nThe woman's mother said they plan to take the case to the Cyprus Supreme Court, but there is a long waiting list.\n\n\"Our lawyers are looking at what can be done to expedite that, and that's maybe something the Foreign Office could help us with, so to get that as soon as we can.\"\n\nAyia Napa is a popular holiday destination, known for its nightlife and beaches\n\nA GoFundMe page for legal costs has raised more than £80,000 towards a target of £100,000.\n\nThe woman's mother said she was \"astounded\" by the support, but believed legal costs would end up being even greater than that.\n\n\"Unfortunately we're going to have to increase the target in a little bit to appeal with the appeal process.\n\n\"I'm not totally sure what the figure needs to be to do that yet, but we will be doing that.\"\n\nHuman rights campaigner Joan Smith told the BBC that the Foreign Office's strong response to the verdict was a \"very unusual\" and \"welcome\" intervention.\n\nShe said: \"They wouldn't have done it if they hadn't felt that there were serious questions about the fairness of the trial that she's been through, but also the events leading up to that trial.\"\n\nThe Cypriot government responded to criticism by saying it had \"full confidence in the justice system and the courts\".", "Sam Thompson was raped by two men after getting separated from his girlfriend during a night out in Manchester in 2016.\n\nHe's retelling his story, following the conviction of Reynhard Sinaga, who was jailed for life for 136 rapes.\n\nSam - who was not assaulted by Sinaga - hopes to challenge the stigma around male rape.\n\nHe was talking to BBC Breakfast.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this video, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said anyone who believes they might have been attacked by Sinaga can report information online or call its police line on 0800 092 0410 from inside the UK, or 0207 158 0124 from abroad.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham say no evidence was found to support allegations of racism from their fans towards Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger during the sides' Premier League match last month.\n\nPlay was stopped during the game after Rudiger said he heard monkey noises.\n\nSpurs say they \"fully support Antonio Rudiger with the action he took\" and the club and police \"exhausted all avenues of investigation\".\n\n\"There is no evidence to corroborate or contradict the allegation,\" they said.\n\nChelsea said: \"We support Toni Rudiger totally and unequivocally on this matter, and as Tottenham's statement makes clear, a lack of evidence does not mean an incident did not take place.\n\n\"In responding to this incident, we must be very careful about the climate we create for players who experience and report racist behaviour.\n\n\"It is vitally important that we continue to encourage all players, whatever shirt they wear, to report racist abuse without fear of doubt or reprisal.\"\n\nA total of six arrests were made following Chelsea's win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 22 December as part of the Metropolitan Police operation at the fixture, but none were linked to the incident involving Germany international Rudiger.\n\nOne Chelsea fan was arrested for a racially aggravated public order offence against Spurs forward Son Heung-min, who had been sent off after a collision with Rudiger.\n\nSpurs said they were able to \"track every fan\" using cameras at their new 62,062 stadium and that any supporter found to be guilty of racism would \"receive a lifetime ban\".\n\nIn their statement on Monday, the club said they had worked with professional lip-readers, and that all reports had also been reviewed by the police.\n\n\"We are fiercely proud of our anti-racism work and our zero tolerance of any form of discrimination,\" the club said. \"This is one reason why we have attributed so much time and resource to investigating this matter.\n\n\"Had we identified anyone guilty of this we were intent on issuing them with a lifetime ban from our stadium as they would have no place among our proud, diverse fanbase.\n\n\"If any new information comes to light, this will be fully investigated.\"\n\nThey said the police had notified them that \"they have closed the crime report as they can find no evidence to support the allegation of racial abuse\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters say they believe the British woman's rape claim\n\nA British woman found guilty of lying about being raped by a group of young Israelis in Cyprus has landed back in the UK.\n\nThe 19-year-old was given a four-month sentence, suspended for three years, and ordered to pay €148 (£125) in legal fees by a court in Paralimni earlier.\n\nShe arrived at Heathrow airport with her mother but avoided waiting media.\n\nHer lawyer said she is planning to appeal against her conviction and the case was \"not finished by any means\".\n\nThe teenager was put on trial and convicted in December after recanting a claim that she had been raped by a group of 12 young men in a hotel room in July.\n\nShe said Cypriot police had made her falsely confess to lying about the incident - something police have denied.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, her lawyer, Lewis Power QC, said: \"We will be seeking an expedited appeal to the Supreme Court of Cyprus and we will also be considering going to the European Court of Human Rights.\n\n\"We do not feel we have had justice in terms of how the trial progressed, the manner in which it was conducted, the initial police investigation and the fact that we feel she did not receive a fair trial.\"\n\nIn an interview with the Sun newspaper before arriving home, the teenager said: \"I really thought it would be a custodial sentence when I arrived at court. When the translator said four months, I thought I was going to jail.\n\n\"It was only when she said suspended that I realised I was actually finally going home. I looked at my mum and we both had tears in our eyes.\n\n\"It's been a nightmare for me, mum and everyone,\" she said. \"What kept me going was my family and the amazing support of my friends and all other people who got in contact to say they believed me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're pleased she's going home,\" lawyer Lewis Power QC says\n\nIn court on Tuesday, Judge Michalis Papathanasiou told the teenager he was giving her a \"second chance\" by suspending her sentence - allowing her to fly back to the UK.\n\nHe said the woman's \"psychological state, her youth, that she has been away from her family, her friends and academic studies this year\" had led him to the decision.\n\nBBC world affairs correspondent Caroline Hawley said the case \"has had diplomatic ramifications\" for Cyprus and the UK's relationship.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, Boris Johnson's spokesman said the UK prime minister was \"pleased\" she could now return home.\n\nHowever, Downing Street said the UK government had highlighted its \"concerns about the judicial process in this case and the woman's right to a fair trial\" to the Cypriot authorities.\n\nThis is a case that has had diplomatic ramifications.\n\nThere's been disquiet over the teenager's treatment by police and her trial and last week the Foreign Office took the unusual step of calling the case \"deeply distressing\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab spoke to his Cypriot counterpart last Friday and the UK government says it will now be working with Cyprus to make sure a case like this can never happen again.\n\nCyprus, a former UK colony, attracts huge numbers of British holidaymakers every year and there have been calls for a boycott.\n\nBut it's also a country that has been forging closer relations with Israel of late. It recently signed a gas deal for a pipeline and that has led some to question whether this could have had any bearing on the handling of the whole case.\n\nCampaigners also point out that a rape claim would potentially be a PR disaster for the holiday island.\n\nThe Briton's conviction has also been met with a backlash from women's rights groups in Cyprus, Israel and the UK.\n\nSupporters from Cyprus and a group of 50 women who travelled from Israel gathered outside the Famagusta District Court on Tuesday holding placards.\n\nOrit Sulitzeanu, head of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, told BBC News the conviction was \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"She is not to blame at all,\" Ms Sulitzeanu said. \"This sentence reflects backward thinking and not understanding the dynamics of rape. The judge here must learn what happens to the victim of sexual abuse.\"\n\nOrit Sulitzeanu (right) with supporters from Israel\n\nSusana Pavlou, director at the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies in Cyprus, said the case had sparked a \"culture of protest\" in the country.\n\n\"This year it has been revealed how broken our criminal justice system is - broadly in terms of police and social services response to violence against women, and the lack of specialist services.\n\n\"It's heartening to see how this has ignited women's rights campaigners and a women's rights movement focusing on this issue.\n\n\"This is not going to go away, we will not be silenced.\"\n\nThe teenager told police she was raped on 17 July at the Pambos Napa Rocks Hotel.\n\nTwelve men were arrested but later freed and returned home after she retracted her claims.\n\nShe was charged and spent about a month in prison before being granted bail in August ahead of her trial, at which she pleaded not guilty to causing public mischief by falsely accusing the group of raping her.", "PC Andrew Harper was married four weeks before he was killed\n\nA teenager has admitted killing a police officer who was dragged along the road by a vehicle after being called to reports of a break-in.\n\nPC Andrew Harper, 28, died in August in Berkshire, four weeks after he had married.\n\nHenry Long, 18, from Mortimer, Reading, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the Old Bailey but denies murder.\n\nThe Thames Valley Police officer from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, died from multiple injuries.\n\nA 17-year-old co-defendant, who cannot be identified, entered not guilty pleas to PC Harper's manslaughter and conspiracy to steal.\n\nAnother 17-year-old boy denied the same charges at an earlier hearing.\n\nA fourth defendant, Thomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, has admitted conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nLong, who is alleged to have been driving the vehicle, also admitted conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThe three teenagers are due to face a six-week trial at the Old Bailey from 9 March.\n\nPolice officers lined the streets for PC Harper's funeral in October\n\nIn a Facebook post written on New Year's Day, PC Harper's widow Lissie said she missed him \"more than anyone could ever imagine\".\n\nShe wrote: \"You were loved by so many but by no one more than me. You loved so many but it was me you gave your heart.\n\n\"I used to tell you I knew you better than you knew yourself, you used to smile and say I probably did.\"\n\nMrs Harper said she hoped to \"go forward with hope...surrounded by friends new and old\" in 2020.\n\nA fundraising page for PC Harper's family raised nearly £328,000 after it received 14,100 donations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than a quarter of a million reports of online images and videos of child sexual abuse were dealt with by the Internet Watch Foundation in 2019.\n\nOf this record number of reports, more than 132,000 contained child sexual abuse material, up 26% on 2018 and double the number identified in 2016.\n\nThe charity said much of the abusive content is available on the open internet, as opposed to the dark web.\n\nChief executive Susie Hargreaves described it as an \"epidemic\".\n\n\"What's really shocking is that it's all available on the open internet, or 'clear web',\" she said.\n\n\"That's the everyday internet that we all use to do our shopping, search for information, and obtain our news.\"\n\nMs Hargreaves said it was \"really shocking\" to find the number of reports going up.\n\nThe charity's hotline manager, who asked to be identified only as Chris, said there were several factors behind the increase, including better staff awareness and expertise.\n\n\"We look at every report which comes into our hotline, but not every report leads to child sexual abuse content.\n\n\"Whilst we actively encourage people to report to us content within our remit because it helps us do a good job, actually, far too many people are wasting our time,\" Chris said.\n\n\"Our analysts have to look at everything they're sent. So, our message is, yes please report to us, but please, please stop reporting material outside our remit.\"\n\nThe IWF works to find and remove online sexual abuse content, and false reports to the charity in 2018 cost £150,500 - the equivalent of 4.3 years' worth of analyst time.\n\nIts website provides a list of organisations to help members of the public to report material to the correct place.\n\nThe charity, which launched in 1996, began actively carrying out its own searches as well as reacting to reports in 2015.\n\nMs Hargreaves said: \"Child sexual abuse is an horrific topic for people to talk about, but as a society we have got to take on board a heavy dose of reality and face up to what's right in front of us.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "South Western Railway's auditor said there was \"significant doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern\"\n\nA rail firm has said it could lose its franchise after declaring a £137m loss.\n\nSouth Western Railway (SWR) said it was in talks with the government over the future of the contract, which is due to expire in 2024.\n\nThe operator, owned by FirstGroup and Hong Kong-based firm MTR, said it had been affected by issues including strikes and infrastructure reliability.\n\nSWR services were disrupted for 27 days in December by the latest in a series of strikes over the future of guards.\n\nRMT union members have staged a series of strikes over the future of guards\n\nSWR's accounts, for the year ending 31 March 2019, showed a loss after tax of £136.9m.\n\nIt said talks with the DfT could lead to a new contract or \"termination of the [current] contract within the next 12 months\".\n\nSWR said its owners had set aside funds for the \"maximum unavoidable loss\".\n\nA spokesman for the train operating company said: \"SWR's recent performance has been affected by issues including infrastructure reliability, timetabling delays and industrial action.\n\n\"We continue to be in ongoing and constructive discussions with the DfT.\"\n\nThe RMT rail union said the firm should be stripped of the franchise immediately to avoid a \"chaotic collapse\".\n\nRMT members have been involved in more than two years of strikes over a move by SWR to allow drivers to operate train doors.\n\nSWR has not been balancing the books for some time. After two years of strikes by guards in the RMT union, that isn't a surprise.\n\nNew trains are late, the infrastructure has been unreliable and performance has been falling for years. This railway is not doing well and most of its promises to passengers have not been met.\n\nBut here, in black and white for the first time, is an acknowledgment by the new managing director, Mark Hopwood, that the company could fail. Operations could be transferred to a government controlled body.\n\nI don't think it's the most likely outcome. A new deal with revised terms is more likely. But what's clear is that the option of last resort is being actively considered.\n\nA DfT spokesperson said: \"We monitor the financial health of all our franchises closely and we expect them to meet their contractual obligations.\n\n\"The government will shortly bring forward a White Paper containing reforms recommended by the Williams Review that will put passengers first, end the complicated franchising model and simplify fares.\"\n\nSWR operates routes between London Waterloo, Reading, Bristol, Exeter, Weymouth, and Portsmouth, as well as Island Line on the Isle of Wight.\n\nFirstGroup and MTR were awarded the franchise in August 2017, after outbidding previous operator Stagecoach.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samsung claims to have \"virtually eliminated\" the frame around its latest 8K TV.\n\nThe firm says the Q950's display has the highest screen-to-body ratio of any television on the market.\n\nThe achievement gives it extra bragging rights at a time when it has taken a strong lead against its nearest competitor, LG, in terms of market share.\n\nFind out what else will be on show at CES 2020", "William Reid was due to find out soon if he had secured a place on the Scottish orthopaedic training programme.\n\nA trainee surgeon has died in a skiing accident while on a family holiday in the French Alps.\n\nWilliam Reid, 25, from Edinburgh, was returning from lunch in the resort of Avoriaz when he plunged over a 30ft cliff.\n\nThe Edinburgh Evening News reported his girlfriend and step-brother witnessed the tragedy on Friday.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was providing the family with consular assistance.\n\nA statement released by his father Dr Hamish Reid, mother Sarah, step-mother Anne, brother Cameron and step-brother, Murray, said: \"His family were immensely proud of his achievements but more than that they were proud of who William was as a person.\n\n\"He was an extremely kind and caring son, brother, step-brother, grandson, nephew, cousin and good friend to so many people.\n\n\"William will be missed by so many people, he was an exceptional young man.\"\n\nMr Reid was a graduate of Aberdeen University Medical School and had completed a placement at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.\n\nThe keen sportsman was doing foundation training in Newcastle as he prepared for a future career as a surgeon.\n\nHe was due to find out soon if he had secured a place on the Scottish orthopaedic training programme.\n\nAn FCO spokesman said: \"We are providing assistance to the family of a British man who died in a skiing accident in France, and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Newlands, Cape Town (day five of five):\n\nEngland forced a dramatic 189-run victory over South Africa late on day five of the second Test in Cape Town to level the series at 1-1.\n\nWith the tourists still needing three wickets in the final hour, man of the match Ben Stokes claimed them all to cap a stunning all-round performance.\n\nHe removed Dwaine Pretorius and Anrich Nortje in consecutive balls before dismissing Vernon Philander to secure the win with just 8.2 overs remaining.\n\nThe Proteas looked to be grinding their way to a draw, with opener Pieter Malan making a superb 84 off 288 balls on debut, before Rassie van der Dussen and Quinton de Kock resisted for almost 34 overs.\n\nEngland's attack was also limited with all-time highest Test wicket-taker James Anderson missing most of the last two sessions because of injury.\n\nBut De Kock slapped a long hop from Joe Denly to mid-wicket to fall for 50 and Van der Dussen, who spent 140 balls over his 17, flicked Stuart Broad to leg gully.\n\nEngland's chance of victory was boosted but they still needed Stokes to seize it, the all-rounder finding seam movement and bounce in a devastating spell to secure the tourists' first win at Newlands since 1957.\n\nThe third Test of the four-match series starts in Port Elizabeth on 16 January.\n• None Anderson to have scan on side injury\n\nStokes had a majestic 2019 - he starred in England's World Cup final win, led his side to a remarkable one-wicket win over Australia at Headingley in the Ashes and won BBC Sports Personality of the Year.\n\nAfter a tough start to this tour for Stokes, whose his father Ged spent Christmas in intensive care in a South African hospital, and for England in general, the Durham all-rounder has ensured a spectacular start to 2020.\n\nIn his final spell, Newlands finally looked like a real fifth-day pitch, Stokes finding pace and bounce to have Pretorius and Nortje caught in the slips - the latter off a fine juggling effort by Zak Crawley - before Philander fended a brutal ball to Ollie Pope.\n\nIt was a vital intervention in the absence of Anderson, who was excellent in his opening spell, pinning Keshav Maharaj in front and troubling Faf du Plessis, who would have been out lbw to Anderson too but England failed to spot the ball had hit the skipper's pad before his bat.\n\nWith five wickets still needed in the final session, Anderson tried two overs but was clearly not fit and England needed others to step up.\n\nBroad went first, getting Van der Dussen to glance a leg-side delivery to Anderson, who had been moved into that position after the previous delivery, before Stokes' brilliant late surge.\n\nEngland were comfortably beaten by 107 runs in the first Test and failed to capitalise on a strong position in the first innings here, needing Pope's enterprising 61 not out to at least post a competitive total.\n\nYet the tourists were much improved from that point on, putting in comfortably their best bowling performance of the winter to dismiss South Africa for 223 and claim a 46-run first-innings lead.\n\nThe top order then batted with the patience that has been lacking in recent years, with opener Dom Sibley compiling a sublime 133 not out, to lay a platform that allowed Stokes to blast a magnificent 72 off 47 balls and set up the declaration.\n\nEngland may have had the best part of five sessions to bowl South Africa out, but the pitch had slowed and flattened out and the obdurate hosts had Du Plessis and Philander, who have experience of saving matches in similar situations.\n\nSo to force victory in this fashion was hugely encouraging and gives England coach Chris Silverwood a welcome first win of his tenure.\n\nThe hosts were never interested in chasing down a record 438 for victory and showed great resilience for much of days four and five.\n\nOpener Malan, making his debut at 30, was particularly impressive and could only be undone by a superb delivery from Curran.\n\nBut ultimately batsman error cost the hosts, with Du Plessis coaxed into sweeping Dom Bess straight to Denly by England putting a fielder in at silly point and Van der Dussen playing at a ball he could have left.\n\nDe Kock made the worst mistake and looked horrified as he slowly dragged himself from the field after falling to part-time leg-spinner Denly.\n\nYet the hosts showed impressive fight to hopefully indicate there are two close Tests to come.\n\nAnd in a week of much debate about whether Tests should become four days, Cape Town delivered a five-day thriller.\n\n'What an advertisement for Test cricket' - what they said\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes: \"It's why five-day cricket should always be around. It's the best form of the game.\n\n\"We have three members of the group who are 21. The future looks great for us. We showed an outstanding amount of character.\"\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"It was a brilliant performance by the whole group. We showed a great amount of character, patience and a lot of belief. Credit to South Africa - they threw a lot back at us and made it difficult.\n\n\"You can put Ben Stokes in any situation and he will stand up for you. He plays 100% for the team and is a brilliant role model for all of the guys coming through.\"\n\nSouth Africa captain Faf du Plessis: \"What an advertisement for Test cricket. It's sad to to be on the losing side. All I asked for was a team effort and we fought hard. There has to a winner.\n\n\"Credit to England, they had a little bit more in the tank than we had.\"", "The government has previously announced HMS Montrose will resume duties escorting shipping through the Straits of Hormuz\n\nThe UK has put the Royal Navy and military helicopters on standby amid rising tensions in the Middle East, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nThe government was putting in place \"urgent measures\" to protect British nationals and interests in the region, Mr Wallace told the House of Commons.\n\nHe said non-essential UK personnel had also been moved out of Baghdad.\n\nHis comments come in the wake of the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Iraq on Friday.\n\nMr Wallace, answering questions from MPs on the growing crisis, reiterated the government's calls for all sides to \"de-escalate\".\n\nBut hours after his statement, the US Department of Defence said an airbase housing US troops in Iraq had been hit by more than a dozen ballistic missiles.\n\nIranian state TV said the attack was in retaliation to Soleimani's death.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said all British service personnel in Iraq had been accounted for and there were no British casualties following the attacks.\n\nAnd a government spokesperson said: \"Our first priority continues to be the security of British personnel.\"\n\nThere are around 400 UK troops stationed in Iraq, primarily to assist in defeating IS.\n\nWhen asked earlier on Tuesday about the prospect of a UK military strike on Iran, Mr Wallace said he was \"not going to rule out anything\".\n\nHe said if British citizens or armed service personnel were killed by Iranian actions the UK's response \"would no doubt be proportionate\".\n\n\"The UK will do what it has to do to defend its persons, its citizens and wherever it needs to do that. That is our duty.\"\n\nThe defence secretary also said the Department for Transport was reviewing its advice to British shipping on a daily basis, while \"a small team\" had been sent to the region to provide assistance with \"situational awareness and contingency planning\".\n\nAsked by Labour MP Chi Onwurah about the risks of the UK's \"unquestioning\" support of President Donald Trump - who ordered the drone strike - Mr Wallace said the support was \"not unquestioning at all\".\n\nHe added: \"We are friends and allies but we are also critical friends and allies when it matters.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn wanted to know why Boris Johnson was not addressing MPs\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of \"hiding behind his defence secretary\" by not making the Commons statement himself.\n\nMr Corbyn said that the US killing of Soleimani amounted to \"an illegal act\" and now what was urgently required was \"dialogue preferably through the UN\".\n\nHe said it was \"very odd\" that the prime minister \"couldn't be bothered to come and answer questions\" in Parliament on the matter.\n\nResponding, Mr Wallace said: \"This prime minister actually believes in a cabinet government and letting the members of the cabinet who are responsible for the policy come to the House to be able to answer the questions around the policy matter.\"\n\nMinisters have been chorusing the case for constraint and there is a lot of talking going on.\n\nThe defence secretary and the foreign secretary have been in touch with their counterparts in the region and in Europe and Boris Johnson has been on the phone to President Trump and to the Iraqi leadership.\n\nBut he hasn't spoken publicly and he was conspicuous by his absence in the Commons today, which laid him open to mockery and accusations of weakness from Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe official line is ministers are being left to do their job. Senior Conservatives point out that past prime ministers tended to be front and centre when dealing with a crisis on this kind of scale.", "Reynhard Sinaga filmed himself assaulting unconscious victims at his student flat in Manchester\n\nA man convicted of 159 sex offences, including 136 rapes, will \"never be safe to be released\", a judge has said.\n\nReynhard Sinaga was found guilty of luring 48 men from outside Manchester clubs to his flat, where he drugged and assaulted them - filming the attacks.\n\nPolice say they have evidence Sinaga, 36, who is being named for the first time, targeted at least 190 victims.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Sinaga was \"the most prolific rapist in British legal history\".\n\nThe judge ruled his life sentence must include a minimum of 30 years in jail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Reynhard Sinaga? The BBC's Judith Moritz reports on the case\n\nReporting restrictions were also lifted at a sentencing hearing at Manchester Crown Court on Monday, meaning Sinaga could be identified for the first time.\n\nThe post-graduate student was already serving life, with a minimum term of 20 years, for the offences he was convicted of in two earlier trials, which took place in summer 2018 and last spring.\n\nAcross four separate trials, the Indonesian national was found guilty of 136 counts of rape, eight counts of attempted rape, 14 counts of sexual assault, and one count of assault by penetration, against a total of 48 victims.\n\nDetectives say they have been unable to identify a further 70 victims and are now appealing for anyone who believes they may have been abused by Sinaga to come forward.\n\nAt the hearing, Judge Suzanne Goddard QC said Sinaga was \"an evil serial sexual predator who has preyed upon young men\" who wanted \"nothing more than a good night out with their friends\".\n\n\"In my judgment you are a highly dangerous, cunning and deceitful individual who will never be safe to be released,\" she said - adding that the decision to release prisoners is made by the Parole Board.\n\nSinaga would wait for men leaving nightclubs and bars before leading them to his flat in Montana House, Princess Street, often with the offer of somewhere to have a drink or call a taxi.\n\nHe drugged his victims before assaulting them while they were unconscious. When the victims woke up many of them had no memory of what had happened.\n\nThe student, who denied the charges, had claimed all the sexual activity was consensual and that each man had agreed to being filmed while pretending to be asleep - a defence described by the judge as \"ludicrous\".\n\nAt an earlier sentencing, the judge said she was sure that Sinaga had used a form of date rape drug such as GHB.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"deeply concerned\" by the use of such a drug.\n\nPolice say they have evidence Sinaga assaulted at least 190 victims, but many men have not been identified and will have no recollection of what happened\n\nIn victim impact statements read out in court, one victim said Sinaga had \"destroyed a part of my life\", while another said: \"I hope he never comes out of prison and he rots in hell.\"\n\n\"I have periods where I can't get up and face the day,\" another added.\n\nMany of the victims were unaware they had been raped until they were contacted by police.\n\nLisa Waters, of the St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, where victims received support, said some men found this \"very difficult to process\", with some experiencing mental health issues and suicidal thoughts.\n\nEvidence given in the trial suggested Sinaga drugged the men by giving them spiked drinks\n\nSinaga, who was studying for a PHD at the University of Leeds, carried out his attacks over several years.\n\nThe rapist was caught in June 2017 when one victim, who regained consciousness while being assaulted, fought Sinaga off and called the police.\n\nWhen officers seized Sinaga's phone they found he had filmed each of his attacks - amounting to hundreds of hours of footage.\n\nThe discovery led to the launch of the largest rape inquiry in British history.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mabbs Hussain said the true extent of Sinaga's offending would probably never be known.\n\n\"We suspect he's offended over a period of 10 years,\" he said. \"The information and evidence we are going from is largely from trophies that he's collected from the victims of his crimes.\"\n\nInvestigators traced dozens of victims from the videos using clues found in Sinaga's Manchester flat, such as stolen phones, ID cards and watches.\n\nThe University of Manchester, where Sinaga was previously a student, said some members of its community had been \"directly affected\" by the case and it had set up a dedicated confidential phone line to offer support.\n\nA statement from Vice-Chancellor Dame Nancy Rothwell, said the news was \"profoundly distressing\" and her thoughts were with all those affected.\n\nJudge Goddard said the \"scale and enormity\" of Sinaga's offending meant it was \"accurate\" for one of his victims to have described him as a monster.\n\nShe added that Sinaga had shown \"not a jot of remorse\" and at times appeared to be \"actually enjoying the trial process\".\n\nFollowing the sentencing, Ian Rushton, from the CPS, said Sinaga was \"the most prolific rapist in British legal history\" and possibly \"in the world\".\n\n\"His extreme sense of sexual entitlement almost defies belief and he would no doubt still be adding to his staggering tally had he not been caught,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he thought Sinaga took \"a particular pleasure in preying on heterosexual men\".\n\nJurors were shown CCTV footage of Sinaga leaving his flat on the hunt for victims\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said in response to Sinaga's \"truly sickening crimes\" she had asked an independent council to prioritise a review into whether controls for drugs like GHB were \"tough enough\".\n\nGHB (gammahydroxybutyrate) is a class C drug. Anyone found in possession of it can be imprisoned for up to two years.\n\nSinaga's trials took place across 18 months at Manchester Crown Court, resulting in unanimous guilty verdicts on all charges.\n\nHis convictions relate to crimes he committed from January 2015 to June 2017, but police believe he began offending years earlier.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said anyone who believes they might have been attacked by Sinaga can report information online or call its police line on 0800 092 0410 from inside the UK or 0207 158 0124 from abroad.\n\nThe force said anyone in need of support from specialist agencies could call 0800 056 0154 from within the UK or 0207 158 0011 from abroad.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.", "Jack Merritt, right, who died in the London Bridge attack, worked with Steve Gallant, left, on the Learning Together rehabilitation course\n\nA convicted murderer has said he \"did not hesitate\" to join the fight against the London Bridge knifeman in November.\n\nSteven Gallant, 42, told how he started to tackle Usman Khan armed only with a chair during the attack which began at a nearby prisoner rehabilitation event.\n\nGallant, who was out on licence to attend the event, is serving a minimum of 17 years for killing ex-firefighter Barrie Jackson in Hull, 15 years ago.\n\nKhan, who killed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, was later shot dead by police.\n\nThree others were injured in the attack which began at Fishmongers' Hall on November 29.\n\nGallant is the last of three people who were filmed restraining Khan on the bridge to be identified.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nIn his first interview since what he called \"that tragic day\", Gallant said he went to investigate after he heard noises from a lower floor of the building.\n\n\"I could tell something was wrong and had to help,\" he told PA news agency.\n\n\"I saw injured people. Khan was stood in the foyer with two large knives in his hands.\"\n\n\"He was a clear danger to all, so I didn't hesitate.\"\n\nLast month, civil servant Darryn Frost described how a man - now identified as Gallant - used a wooden chair to keep the knifeman at bay, before throwing it at Khan when he revealed his suicide belt, which was later shown to be fake.\n\nMr Frost said he then handed Gallant a narwhal tusk, which he had found on a nearby wall display, as Khan \"started running towards him (Gallant) with knives raised above his head\".\n\nSouth African born Londoner Darryn Frost, left, rushed to find a second tusk with which he tackled Khan, right, on London Bridge\n\nGallant has offered \"special thanks\" to Mr Frost. \"Had he not passed me the narwhal tusk at that crucial moment, not only could I have been killed, the situation could have been even worse,\" he said.\n\nHe also described reformed ex-prisoner John Crilly, who used a fire extinguisher to help subdue Khan, and a chef - known only as Lukasz - who was stabbed five times when he stepped in to help, as \"extremely brave\".\n\nGallant was jailed, alongside his accomplice James Gilligan, in 2005 for carrying out a fatal attack on 33-year-old former firefighter Mr Jackson.\n\nDuring their trial, Hull Crown Court heard the attack was carried out because Gallant wrongly believed Mr Jackson had attacked his girlfriend.\n\n\"Nobody has the right to take another's life and I offer my sincere apologies to my victim's family for the hurt caused,\" Gallant said.\n\nBarrie Jackson was killed by Steven Gallant and James Gilligan in an attack outside of a pub in Hull\n\n\"I can never bring that life back, and it is right that I was handed a severe penalty for my actions.\n\n\"Once I'd accepted my punishment, I decided to seek help.\n\n\"When you go to prison, you lose control of your life. Your own future relies on the decisions of others.\n\n\"Bettering yourself becomes one of the few things you can do while reducing the existing burden on society.\"\n\nSince going to prison, Gallant, who will be eligible for parole in 2022 subject to approval, has \"vowed never to turn to violence again\".\n\nHe has since learned to read and write, is studying for a business studies degree and was taking part in the Learning Together rehabilitation project, which was hosting the event at which Khan struck.\n\nHe said the deaths of course co-ordinators Mr Merritt, who he met in 2016, and Miss Jones were an \"unbearable blow\" and the \"sense of loss is immense\".\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders\n\nGallant described Mr Merritt as a \"role model and friend\".\n\nHe said: \"Jack didn't care who you were: he cared about you and your future; he saw who you could become and did not define you by your past. I will miss him badly.\"\n\nMiss Jones, he said, was \"highly respected and loved\" by those involved with the course.\n\nHe added that he was \"certain\" the pair would wish for the Learning Together programme to continue.", "New York Governor Andrew Cuomo leapt into action after a car crash on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The governor reportedly cut the seat belt of a man trapped in a wrecked car and helped him clamber from the vehicle. The NYPD arrived at the scene shortly after, and reported no injuries.", "Children living at Quarriers homes were among those abused\n\nChildren in homes run by Quarriers, Aberlour Child Care Trust, and Barnardo's suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has concluded.\n\nLady Smith, who is chairing the inquiry, said children who were at the institutions between 1921 and 1991 lived in \"harsh, rigid regimes\".\n\nShe also said \"scant regard was paid to their dignity\".\n\nQuarriers, Aberlour and Barnardo's have apologised for the abuse suffered.\n\nIn her findings, Lady Smith said: \"Many children did not find the warmth, care, and compassionate comfort they needed.\n\n\"The previous lives of the children who came into the care of the QAB (Quarriers, Aberlour and Barnardo's) providers had all been blighted in some way, whether by being abused in the family home, the death of one or more parent, parental illness, families who could not cope with caring for them, abandonment, or by other similar circumstances.\n\n\"The QAB providers could have made a real and positive difference to every child, but that did not happen. For many, further damage was inflicted upon them.\"\n\nThe inquiry heard evidence from 110 witnesses during the third phase of the inquiry, which lasted 43 days from October 2018 to February 2019.\n\nIt considered evidence about the nature and extent of abuse of children in care at institutions run by the QAB providers at locations across Scotland.\n\nThe inquiry also examined any systems, policies and procedures in place and how they were applied.\n\nLady Smith added: \"The QAB providers now recognise and accept that there was widespread abuse of children in their establishments. They have all apologised for it.\n\n\"A particularly frank and clear apology was offered on behalf of Quarriers by their current chief executive. Counsel for Barnardo's and for Aberlour indicated that those providers, having heard evidence in this case study, also tendered their apologies.\"\n\nChildren at the Smyllum Park Orphanage were sexually abused and beaten with leather straps, hairbrushes and crucifixes\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry looked at children under the care of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul between 1917 and 1981, with a particular focus on Smyllum Park Orphanage, Lanark, and Bellevue Children's Home in Rutherglen.\n\nIt found that children at Smyllum Park orphanage were sexually abused and beaten with leather straps, hairbrushes and crucifixes and that the homes were places of fear, threat, and excessive discipline.\n\nLady Smith said the children found \"no love, no compassion, no dignity and no comfort\".\n\nLady Smith said Nazareth House orphanages were places of fear, hostility and confusion\n\nThe second phase concentrated on homes run by the Sisters of Nazareth in Aberdeen, Cardonald, Lasswade and Kilmarnock between 1933 and 1984.\n\nIt concluded that some children at the Nazareth House orphanages in Scotland were subjected to sexual abuse of the \"utmost depravity\".\n\nLady Smith said the children's homes were places of fear, hostility and confusion where youngsters were physically abused and emotionally degraded \"with impunity\".\n\nThe fourth phase findings have not yet been published.\n\nDavid Whelan, spokesman for Former Boys and Girls Abused in Quarriers (FBGA), said the findings \"vindicate\" its campaign for a public investigation.\n\nHe accepted that the organisation was now \"very different\" but added: \"Lady Smith's findings are unequivocal in their condemnation of the past Quarriers organisation and the effects of this abuse and its impact on those who suffered such abuse in Quarriers past care.\n\n\"The extent and nature of the abuse which Lady Smith has found to have occurred in Quarriers is truly shocking.\"\n\nLady Smith will take the findings into account when she analyses all the evidence gathered by the inquiry and decides on her final recommendations.\n\nThe inquiry is now in its fifth phase and is examining the alleged abuse of children who were sent to other countries, mainly Canada, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nLady Smith said the charities did not offer many children the \"warmth, care and compassionate comfort they needed\"\n\nAlice Harper, chief executive of Quarriers, said: \"We repeat our unreserved apology to those who suffered abuse while in our care and acknowledge that children were subjected to physical, sexual and emotional abuse.\"\n\nShe added that Quarriers was committed to doing all it could to help survivors and families.\n\n\"We understand it may be difficult for former residents and survivors to make contact and our door remains open for anyone who wishes to speak to us and share their experiences, both good and bad,\" she said.\n\nAberlour's chief executive SallyAnn Kelly said: \"We welcome today's interim findings from Lady Smith and wish to again reiterate our unreserved apology to those who suffered abuse while in the care of Aberlour.\n\n\"Undoubtedly the report is difficult to read in many places and includes harrowing testimonies from people who suffered great harm as children. We would like to acknowledge the strength and courage of all of those who were able to come forward.\n\n\"Aberlour is committed to ensuring that we continue to learn lessons from our past and improve our support to children and their families.\"\n\nThose who continue to come forward to the inquiry with evidence about the care provided by Quarriers, Aberlour or Barnardo's will still be considered by Lady Smith.", "Two-year-old Isla is believed by medical experts to be the only person in the world living with a genetic condition that accelerates the ageing of her cells.\n\nSo little is known about it that even specialists do not know what her future holds and what support she might need.\n\nHer parents Stacey Kilpatrick and Kyle Screaton told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme they are considering taking legal action against the hospital that treated her.\n\nUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said it was \"very sorry Isla's parents have concerns about her care in our hospitals. We urge them to contact us directly if they have ongoing concerns.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Apple and O2 have confirmed that one of the most popular iPhones is not working as it should on O2's network.\n\nThe iPhone XR completely lost signal several times a day, some O2 customers said on Twitter.\n\nMany customers have been unable to make and receive calls or send and receive texts.\n\nThey have also struggled to get a reliable 4G internet connection, making apps such as Facebook and Instagram redundant unless there is wi-fi.\n\n\"We're working closely with our partners to resolve an intermittent issue affecting some of our customers using iPhone XR,\" an O2 spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We thank any customers affected for their patience.\"\n\nO2 declined to say exactly how many users were affected by the issue.\n\nTurning the phone off and on again temporarily fixed the problem, O2 said.\n\nApple said the issue will be resolved in a new software release.\n\n\"We are aware of an issue causing intermittent network connectivity effecting some O2 customers, and we will have a fix in an upcoming software release,\" the company said.\n\nO2 customer Jim Buckley told BBC News he had first noticed a network issue on 16 December.\n\n\"I've had virtually no signal at all since,\" he said.\n\n\"It may come with a weak signal for a few minutes once or twice a day then go again.\"\n\nMr Buckley said he had resorted to buying a second-hand iPhone 7 for £180 as his son had special needs and he needed to be contactable in case of an emergency at school.\n\nHe said O2 had told him Apple had introduced the issue with a recent update to the iPhone's iOS software.\n\nBBC News is waiting for O2 to confirm if this is the case.\n\nMr Buckley added O2 had offered him a month's free line rental as compensation.\n\nO2 and Apple are telling customers seeking answers on Twitter to direct message them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReleased in October 2018, the iPhone XR costs £629 for the basic 64GB version and £679 for the 128GB version.\n\nThe device can be obtained through an O2 contract for £30 a month.\n• None 5G: Not yet ready for primetime", "Further potential victims of \"an evil serial sexual predator who preyed upon young men\" have come forward following his sentencing, police have said.\n\nReynhard Sinaga lured 48 men from outside Manchester clubs to his flat, where he drugged and assaulted them.\n\nOn Monday, he was jailed for life with a 30-year minimum for 159 sex offences, including 136 rapes.\n\nPolice said a dedicated incident room for reporting sexual abuse has seen \"a very positive response\".\n\nA spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: \"For operational reasons we are unable to give out specific numbers of calls made to the incident room or information made online via the Major Incident Public Portal at this time.\n\n\"However, we can confirm that some of these reports relate to potential further victims of Sinaga.\"\n\nPolice say they have evidence Sinaga assaulted at least 190 victims, but many have not been identified\n\nSinaga would wait for men leaving nightclubs and bars before leading them to his flat in Montana House, Princess Street, often with the offer of somewhere to have a drink or call a taxi.\n\nHe drugged his victims before assaulting them while they were unconscious, and filmed the attacks.\n\nWhen the victims woke up many of them had no memory of what had happened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Talking about male rape will help victims step forward\"\n\nSurvivors Manchester, a charity that helps male survivors of sexual abuse, said the case \"generates the ability to talk\" about abuse.\n\nChief executive Duncan Craig said: \"There are people ringing up who are not directly affected by this particular case, but are people who have been sexually assaulted, maybe even in childhood that are now feeling like the time is right to step forward and talk.\n\n\"It's something that we don't do enough of.\"\n\nIt was only when I listened to their individual stories in court that I began to understand the trauma experienced by Sinaga's victims.\n\nThe anguish of a student who'd dropped out of university as a result. Another who'd left his job. A third whose relationship had broken down. One who couldn't bring himself to talk about what happened to his family. And distressingly, another whose pain is so great, it drove him to contemplate suicide.\n\nThe publicity surrounding the case yesterday has been hard for them to endure. The media jointly agreed not to report it until after the Christmas break so that counselling services were fully in place for victims before it was made public.\n\nHelplines set up for people affected have received multiple calls including some from potential victims.\n\nSinaga's convictions relate to crimes he committed from January 2015 to June 2017, but police believe he began offending years earlier.\n\nPolice say they have evidence the 36-year-old targeted at least 190 victims, but they have been unable to identify a further 70 victims and are now appealing for anyone who believes they may have been abused by Sinaga to come forward.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said Sinaga was \"the most prolific rapist in British legal history\" as he was jailed at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nJudge Suzanne Goddard QC described him as \"an evil serial sexual predator who has preyed upon young men\" who wanted \"nothing more than a good night out with their friends\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police said anyone who believed they might have been attacked by Sinaga could report information online or call its police line on 0800 092 0410 from inside the UK or 0207 158 0124 from abroad.\n\nThe force said anyone in need of support from specialist agencies could call 0800 056 0154 from within the UK or 0207 158 0011 from abroad.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.", "Traffic Scotland said two lorries had overturned on the road\n\nTwo lorries have overturned on the A1, despite the road being closed to high-sided vehicles due to severe winds.\n\nThe road was shut to all traffic between Haddington and Thistly Cross on Tuesday, and was closed to high-sided vehicles along its whole route between Edinburgh and the English border.\n\nHowever, Police Scotland said some drivers had been ignoring the warnings.\n\nA Met Office yellow \"be aware\" warning is in place for strong south westerly winds between 05:00 and 21:00.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTraffic Scotland reported one overturned vehicle on the A1 between Thistly Cross and the Spott Roundabout, and another at Thorntonloch.\n\nIn Culloden, near Inverness, drivers saw a trampoline blow across the road.\n\nInsp Peter Houston, of Police Scotland, described the conditions as \"atrocious\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"We have two high sided vehicles blown over despite the road being closed to high sided vehicles.\n\n\"Drivers are continuing to ignore police warnings that the road is closed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRail travel into and out of Edinburgh proved difficult during the evening rush hour after high winds caused an overhead line to come down at Haymarket Station.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers were at the scene but that trains would need to cross over to platform three and back again.\n\nScotRail warned of delays and advised passengers that tickets would be accepted on some First Bus routes.\n\nAn overhead electrical line came down at Haymarket Station in Edinburgh\n\nDuring the day, gusts reached 74mph in Barra, with winds recorded at 70mph in Inverbervie and 65mph at The Forth Bridges.\n\nStrong winds caused delays on the Friarton, Erskine and Dornoch bridges and the Kessock and Skye bridges were closed to high sided vehicles.\n\nDouble decker buses are being kept off the Tay Road Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge remains closed to motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing remains open to all motorway traffic, thanks to its wind shielding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said it was prepared for any impact to its power supplies.\n\nIt said storm force winds and heavy rain could affect the Western Isles, north west Highlands and Argyll.\n\nSSEN said its weather modelling suggested wind gusts of up to 80mph were possible in exposed western areas.\n\nWest coast ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac) has warned of potential disruption to its services.\n\nAlmost all CalMac's 28 routes were affected by bad weather on Monday, and the company has warned customers of possible delays and cancellations on Tuesday.\n\nAll sailings on its Ullapool to Stornoway passenger service on Tuesday have been cancelled, and CalMac warned of possible disruption to the freight service on the same route.\n\nNetwork Rail said waves were hitting the sea wall at Saltcoats on Tuesday morning but trains were still running as normal\n\nAmong other sailings cancelled were Ardmhor to Eriskay and the Oban, Coll and Tiree service.\n\nNorthlink Ferries said bad weather could affect its sailings between Aberdeen and Orkney and Shetland and across the Pentland Firth through to Thursday.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said it was keeping a \"close eye\" on coastal areas like Saltcoats in Ayrshire where the railway line has been affected by a rough weather coming at the same time as a high tide.\n\nThe company said waves were hitting the Saltcoats sea wall on Tuesday morning but trains were still running normally.\n\nThe travel warnings follow high winds on Monday, which affected some CalMac services and closed Edinburgh Zoo.\n\nCairngorm Mountain snowsports centre said it had experienced \"extremely high winds\" and the site would be closed on Tuesday.\n\nAnother snowsports centre, Nevis Range near Fort William, was unable to operate its gondola system on Monday due to high winds.\n\nFor the latest on the situation on the roads, visit BBC Scotland Travel\n\nBelow are a number of other traffic information sources for road, rail and ferry services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Large crowds turned out for the funeral of the Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.\n\nAs he led prayers for Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei wept.", "Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not be endorsing a candidate to replace him as Labour leader.\n\nWhen asked whether he had made up his mind, he said: \"I won't be saying who I'll be voting for.\"\n\nIt comes as six leadership hopefuls set out their stall at a meeting of Labour MPs at Westminster.\n\nAll emphasised the need for change after its recent election defeat, Lisa Nandy saying the party would \"deserve to die\" if it didn't change course.\n\nThe MPs need to get the backing of at least 20 of their colleagues to get on to the ballot paper. The winner will be announced on 4 April.\n\nSheffield City region mayor and MP Dan Jarvis has, meanwhile, ruled out a leadership bid.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey, the latest candidate to enter the race, has vowed to build on Mr Corbyn's socialist policy agenda if she is elected leader.\n\nSpeaking earlier to ITV News, she said Mr Corbyn deserved full marks for his leadership of the party, describing him as the \"most honest, kind, principled politician\" she has ever met.\n\n\"What we can't ignore was that Jeremy was savaged from day one by the press.\n\n\"We have a role as a party to develop the image of our leader and to put them forward in the most positive way, but we also have a duty to rebut criticism and attacks.\"\n\nMr Corbyn told BBC News that Mrs Long Bailey was a \"wonderful colleague\", who had given him \"ten out of ten\", but added: \"I never mark my own homework.\"\n\nThe Labour MPs' leadership hustings was closed to the media, but some of the contenders released the text of the speeches they planned to make.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer planned to tell MPs: \"I think we can restore trust in our Labour Party. We have got the talent in this room to do that, if we use it and if we pull together. I do believe we can force a way to victory.\"\n\nBackbencher Jess Phillips's team said she planned to make \"a passionate case for the party to elect a different sort of leader\".\n\n\"I don't want to be the leader of the opposition - I want to be prime minister,\" she was expected to tell her Labour colleagues.\n\nBBC Political Correspondent Iain Watson was among the reporters listening to the speeches in the corridor outside the meeting room.\n\nHe said Lisa Nandy told MPs ''never again can we let factions and friends of the leader determine where resources go\" during elections.\n\nThe Wigan MP said in her opening speech: \"This leadership debate is possibly the most important in our history. Now is not the time to steady the ship. If we do not change course we will die and we will deserve to.\"\n\nAll the candidates, including Emily Thornberry and Clive Lewis, were asked by Halifax MP Holly Lynch what they had done personally to help root out anti-Semitism in the party and what more they would do.\n\nMrs Long Bailey said voters didn't trust the party to deal with the issue and rectifying that was part of the process of \"rebuilding trust\".\n\nAccording to Labour peer Lord Hain, who was in the room, Ms Nandy said she would accept all the findings of a review into the party's procedures by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and implement all its recommendations.\n\nMr Lewis told BBC's Newsnight he would be \"brutally honest\" about the state that Labour was in, saying policy making had become too centralised and the right and left were incapable of working together \"without putting a heel on the throat of the other\".\n\nHe also suggested that some people who had voted for Brexit were racist. \"The Brexit project had a number of components to it and one of them was racist. Some of it was about taking back control.\"", "Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins was helping a robbery victim when she was mugged by the girl\n\nA 15-year-old girl has admitted mugging singer Katherine Jenkins and stealing her phone in London.\n\nThe 39-year-old Welsh mezzo-soprano was attacked after intervening in a street robbery as she went to rehearse for a carol concert, on 4 December.\n\nAt Highbury Corner Youth Court, the girl admitted stealing Ms Jenkins' iPhone and assaulting a police officer.\n\nThe teenager was handed a six month referral order. She has offered to apologise to Ms Jenkins.\n\nThe singer was on her way to a rehearsal for the Henry van Straubenzee charity event, when she witnessed an \"older lady being mugged\" and intervened to help, her agent said.\n\n\"Katherine was then mugged herself,\" her agent added.\n\nAt the hearing, district judge Susan Williams also ordered the girl's mother to pay £20 in compensation.\n\nSabrina Fitzgerald, the girl's counsel, said the teenager took the phone \"because she thought she was being filmed\".\n\nThere were \"issues around peer pressure and poor decision-making skills\", she added.\n\nMs Jenkins was not in court for the hearing.", "A popular tourist rock formation in Puerto Rico has collapsed after a strong earthquake shook the island, damaging homes and causing power cuts.\n\nThe stone arch, known as Punta Ventana, was destroyed on Monday, when the earthquake hit.\n\nThe 5.8-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 6km (3.7 miles), off the Caribbean island's southern coast.\n\nNo tsunami alerts were issued and no casualties have been reported.\n\nThere were, however, reports of severe damage to buildings, landslides and widespread power cuts after the earthquake, which struck at 06:32 local time (10:32 GMT).\n\nPictures of the aftermath, showing homes upended from their foundations and cars crushed under buildings, were posted to social media.\n\nAmong them was a picture of Punta Ventana after it had collapsed into the ocean, near the southern town of Guayanilla.\n\nA local told the Miami Herald that Punta Ventana was \"one of the biggest tourism draws of Guayanilla\".\n\n\"Playa Ventana has collapsed. Today our icon rests in everyone's memory,\" Glidden López, a press officer for Guayanilla council, wrote in a Facebook post.\n\nIn an earlier post, Mr López said the rock formation had been damaged by previous tremors in recent days.\n\nSome homes were badly damaged by the powerful earthquake\n\nPuerto Rico, a US territory of around 3.2 million people, has been rattled by a series of earthquakes since 28 December. Monday's earthquake was the strongest yet, the US Geological Survey said.\n\nSeveral aftershocks, including a 5.1-magnitude quake more than four hours later, shook parts of the island.\n\nPuerto Rico, situated between the North America and Caribbean tectonic plates, is vulnerable to earthquakes, which have caused significant damage in the past.\n\nThe island is still recovering from Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm that devastated parts of the Caribbean in September 2017. In Puerto Rico alone, the hurricane is estimated to have killed 2,975 people and caused $100bn (£75bn) of damage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Six months after Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans suffered in the dark", "The assassination of Qasem Soleimani has plunged Iran and the United States into their most serious confrontation since the hostage crisis in 1979.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's decision to kill Soleimani removes one of the most obdurate and effective enemies of the US, and delivers a blow to the heart of the Islamic republic of Iran. It is also a dangerous escalation in a region that was already tense and full of violence.\n\nThe killing at Baghdad airport has increased tensions sharply, creating fears of a slide into an all-out war. That is no certainty. Neither the Americans nor the Iranians want one. But the crisis brought on by the killing of Soleimani - and a senior Iraqi ally - amplifies the chances of a bloody miscalculation.\n\nIran has sworn vengeance. That threat has to be taken seriously. Soleimani was at the core of the regime, and a talisman for Iran's hardliners. They will want to get even, perhaps more than that.\n\nDespite arms embargoes, Iran has developed a modern arsenal of rockets and missiles. But if it wanted to use them against US forces as part of a reprisal, Iran would risk making matters worse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn act of war to answer that of the US - for example attacking US ships in the Gulf - would risk provoking a devastating response. Iran's oil refineries are on the coast and would be easy targets for the vast firepower the US has in and around the Gulf.\n\nWhen Iran retaliates, it is likely to follow Soleimani's own indirect tactics: so-called asymmetric warfare, spurning an attack through the front door for one through a side window.\n\nSoleimani cultivated a range of well-armed militias, which give Iran options short of a head-to-head confrontation with the Americans which it would only lose.\n\nThe Americans will now be looking at their most vulnerable deployments in the Middle East. One is the small force in Syria.\n\nA big question is why the Americans chose now to kill Soleimani.\n\nHe had been a thorn in their sides since at least the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. He made sure Iraqi Shias raised, trained and equipped militias which became effective and ruthless fighters against the US and its allies.\n\nThe Americans and their allies in Israel and the West have tracked Soleimani closely for years. It's likely that he has been in their sights before.\n\nThe fact that this time the Americans pulled the trigger suggests that President Trump believes the reward is worth the risk, that the Iranian regime has been so weakened by isolation, economic sanctions and recent demonstrations that it will rage but not offer a serious strategic threat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump - We took action to stop, not start a war\n\nBut it is not at all clear whether the assassination fits into a coherent US strategy, and such an assumption could be dangerous and wrong.\n\nSoleimani was a colossal figure inside Iran. He was its strategic mastermind. Perhaps he left a plan of steps to take if he were killed.\n\nThis assassination at the start of a new year and a new decade might turn into another Middle Eastern milestone, touching off another sequence of bloody events.\n\nTo begin with, the Iranian regime must now be planning its answer to his death, to show that the position Soleimani spent so long creating outside its borders in the Middle East can be defended.", "Iwan Roberts was a striker at Norwich City for seven years\n\nA former Wales and Norwich City footballer has agreed to brain tests for the rest of his life as part of a study into early signs of dementia.\n\nIwan Roberts, 51, who played more than 800 games, is urging other male and female ex-players to sign up.\n\nRecent research found they had a higher risk of dying from dementia than the average person - linked to repeated heading of the ball.\n\nThe University of East Anglia study will use online tests to spot changes.\n\n\"I scored with my head a lot,\" said the striker, who chalked up 239 goals during his 20-year career, which ended in 2005.\n\n\"I want to see if there is anything I should be concerned about in the foreseeable future.\"\n\nRoberts has already taken a series of simple memory, attention and spatial-awareness tests and he will repeat them every six months.\n\nResearchers will then compare his results with those of an active person of similar age.\n\n\"I'm a big believer in prevention is better than cure,\" Roberts said.\n\n\"The sooner I know the signs are there, the better.\"\n\nThe balls were lighter now, Roberts said, but there were still risks to players, particularly children, who he thinks should be banned from heading the ball until a certain age.\n\nLittle is known about when ex-players start to show signs of dementia, and even less about the effects in women\n\n\"When I started playing, the balls were hard to head, it was painful sometimes - but I didn't think of it at the time,\" he said.\n\n\"The pain was worth it though.\"\n\nNow, Iwan said, he was going to ask other former Norwich City players to get involved in the Scores study, which will be published anonymously.\n\n\"The research they are doing here will help everybody,\" he added.\n\nUEA wants to raise £1m to fund the research and plans to crowdfund at least 10% of it.\n\nLead researcher Dr Michael Grey, from the school of health sciences, said: \"We now know that there is much higher risk of dementia in former professional footballers and we think this is related to repetitive heading of the ball.\"\n\n\"So there will be many footballers out there who are understandably very worried about their futures.\"\n\nThe Drake Foundation, which funds research into concussion and head injuries in sport, said: \"We're very pleased to see the issue of the long-term effects of head impacts in sport gaining more momentum.\"\n\nIt added the study would \"provide new insights that will contribute to a richer understanding of the link between football and neurodegenerative disease\", and particularly in women.\n\nThe FA said it welcomed all research in this area and looked forward to the findings of the study.\n\n\"We have taken steps... to review possible changes to heading coaching and training at all levels of the game, as well as identifying new areas of research,\" it said.\n• None BBC One - Alan Shearer- Dementia, Football and Me\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An early life full of neglect, deprivation and adversity leads to people growing up with smaller brains, a study suggests.\n\nThe researchers at King's College London were following adopted children who spent time in \"hellhole\" Romanian orphanages.\n\nThey grew up with brains 8.6% smaller than other adoptees.\n\nThe researchers said it was the \"most compelling\" evidence of the impact on the adult brain.\n\nThe appalling care at the orphanages came to light after the fall of Romania's communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.\n\n\"I remember TV pictures of those institutions, they were shocking,\" Prof Edmund Sonuga-Barke, who now leads the study following those children, told the BBC.\n\nHe described the institutions as \"hellholes\" where children were \"chained into their cots, rocking, filthy and emaciated\".\n\nThe children were physically and psychologically deprived with little social contact, no toys and often ravaged by disease.\n\nThe children studied had spent between two weeks and nearly four years in such institutions.\n\nPrevious studies on children who were later adopted by loving families in the UK showed they were still experiencing mental health problems in adulthood.\n\nHigher levels of traits including autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and a lack of fear of strangers (disinhibited social engagement disorder) have all been documented.\n\nThe latest study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to scan the brains for answers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere were 67 Romanian adoptees in the study and their brains were compared to 21 adoptees who did not suffer early life deprivation.\n\n\"What we found is really quite striking,\" Prof Sonuga-Barke told the BBC.\n\nFirst the total brain volume - the size of the brain - was 8.6% smaller in the Romanian adoptees on average.\n\nAnd the longer they spent in the Romanian orphanages, the greater the reduction in brain size.\n\nHowever, the impact on the brain was not uniform.\n\nProf Mitul Mehta, one of the researchers, said: \"We found structural differences between the two groups in three regions of the brain.\n\n\"These regions are linked to functions such as organisation, motivation, integration of information and memory.\"\n\nThe researchers say these findings could help explain lower IQ and higher rates of ADHD in these adults.\n\nWhat the study cannot explain is what exactly about early life neglect and deprivation has this effect on the brain.\n\nIt means it is hard to work out the effect of other early life traumas such as abuse or being a refugee.\n\nHowever, the study is clear that the impact on the developing brain goes far beyond just poor nutrition.\n\nProf Sonuga-Barke said: \"This study is important because it highlights for the first time, in a compelling way, the power of the early environment and early adversity to shape brain development.\n\n\"It drives impairments over this long period of time - over 20 years - even when children have received top-notch care in loving adoptive families.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn theory, the Iran nuclear deal is still in existence. But only just.\n\nThe country has announced that it will no longer be bound by any of its restrictions in terms of the numbers or type of centrifuges that can be operated or the level of enrichment of uranium that it can pursue.\n\nBut Tehran insists that all of the steps it has taken to breach the agreement - formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - are reversible. Other parties have to honour its terms, which presumably means that the US must abandon its crushing economic sanctions and endorse the deal once more.\n\nIt is very hard to imagine President Donald Trump abandoning his \"maximum pressure\" campaign and lifting the sanctions, so that may well be a non-starter.\n\nAt the very least, the Europeans must find some payment mechanism to make up for the damage that is being done to the Iranian economy. They have tried to do this but so far to no great effect.\n\nGovernments can posture from the sidelines but it is up to individual companies to decide if they want to trade with Iran and risk the weight of US sanctions. The evidence so far is that they do not.\n\nSo is the nuclear agreement dead and buried, or could it be revived? If it is well and truly defunct, then why not simply acknowledge this fact? And who exactly killed it?\n\nThe last question is the easiest to answer. For in a purely technical sense, looking at the agreement and its implementation, the Iranians have a point when they blame the US.\n\nThe deal has effectively been on life support ever since the Trump administration abandoned it in May 2018. Donald Trump has consistently railed against former President Barack Obama's \"bad deal\". But all of its other signatories - the UK, France, Russia, China, Germany and the EU - still believe it has merit.\n\nThe JCPOA was never designed to be a perfect deal - there is no such thing. Its purpose was to constrain Iran's nuclear programme for a set period in a largely verifiable way.\n\nThere was a hope that as economic benefits came to Iran, its wider disruptive policies might change. By the time the constraints of the agreement finally expired, perhaps there would be an altogether different Iran from the one we know today.\n\nBut the deal's main rationale - a particularly significant one given the current crisis - was that it helped to avert war. Before its signature, there was mounting concern about Tehran's nuclear activities and every chance that Israel (or possibly Israel and the US in tandem) might attack Iran's nuclear facilities.\n\nIran has always insisted that it does not want the bomb. But at one point it certainly had a military nuclear programme. The specifically military aspects of its nuclear programme were halted some time ago, but its enrichment effort, the hardening of its facilities against attack, and its developing missile programme, all stoked fears that Tehran would one day get to a point where it could \"break out\" and dash towards a bomb.\n\nThe whole point of the 2015 deal was to make this \"break-out\" time sufficient to ensure that any military-related activities would be spotted in time for international action to be taken.\n\nThe deal went into force. But then along came President Trump and he wanted the agreement gone. Sanctions were re-imposed. Iran condemned this as a breach of the whole deal and thus determined to take action itself.\n\nIt should be noted that prior to the US withdrawal, the international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, was clear: Iran was living up to its side of the bargain.\n\nSince the US withdrawal, Iran (albeit after some delay) has successively breached some of the key constraints of the deal. Now it appears to be throwing these constraints over altogether. What matters now is precisely what it decides to do.\n\nWill it up its level of uranium enrichment to 20%? This would significantly reduce the time it would take Tehran to obtain suitable material for a bomb. Will it continue to abide by enhanced international inspection measures?\n\nMuch has been made in Washington of Iran's wider regional behaviour. Signing the nuclear deal made no difference to this. Indeed, the initial relaxation of sanctions may have provided funds for Iran's expansive regional campaign of influence.\n\nBut that is not what the agreement was designed to constrain. It was a nuclear agreement alone and according to most of its signatories it was working up until the US walked away.\n\nWe are now at the destination the Trump administration clearly hoped for in May 2018. But the major powers, while deeply unhappy about Iran's breaches of the deal, are also shocked at the controversial decision by Mr Trump to kill the head of Iran's Quds Force - a decision that has again brought the US and Iran to the brink of war.\n\nThe tensions between the US and many of its European allies complicate things no end. Nobody other than President Trump wants to declare the agreement dead. Once it is gone and Iran is breaching its terms, the Europeans will have to decide whether to renew nuclear-related sanctions themselves.\n\nAccepting the deal's demise might make a difficult situation even worse and Iran clearly sees value in holding to the empty shell of the agreement - a least, to differentiate itself from Washington.", "The teenager had a list of weapons he wanted to buy\n\nThe youngest person to be convicted of planning a terror attack in the UK has been detained for more than six years.\n\nThe now 17-year-old wrote about an \"inevitable race war\" in his diary and listed locations from his home city of Durham in a \"guerrilla warfare\" manual.\n\nA jury had found the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, guilty of preparation of terrorist acts between October 2017 and March 2018.\n\nHe was sentenced to six years and eight months at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nJudge David Stockdale QC told the boy: \"These are offences of the utmost seriousness.\"\n\nThe teenager drew up a \"hit list\" of areas he wanted to attack\n\nHe also ordered the detention be followed by an extension period on licence of five years.\n\nThe six-week trial heard he was an adherent of \"occult neo-Nazism\", and described himself as a \"natural sadist\".\n\nHis attack preparations included researching explosives and trying to obtain the dangerous chemical ammonium nitrate.\n\nHe also wrote of planning to carry out an arson spree targeting synagogues in the Durham area using Molotov cocktails.\n\nThe teenager was flanked by a guard during the hearing\n\nAddressing the defendant, the judge described him as a widely-read \"young man of high intellect\", adding this made it a matter of \"infinite regret\" that he had persisted on \"such a twisted and - many would say sick - ideological path\".\n\nHe said the evidence in the trial \"tells its own macabre story\", and while his young age was a powerful mitigating factor, it was also a \"most disturbing\" aspect of the case.\n\n\"You suffer from an autistic spectrum disorder\", he told him, saying it was common ground between experts.\n\nThe judge also said the teenager had written him a letter expressing \"remorse\".\n\nAs well as being found guilty of preparation of terrorist acts, he was also convicted of disseminating a terrorist publication, possessing an article for a purpose connected with terrorism and three counts of possessing a document or record containing information likely to be useful to a terrorist.\n\nHis trial heard he had visited websites on firearms and was in communication with a gun auctioneer.\n\nAfter his arrest in March 2019, police found him in possession of instructions showing to make bombs and ricin - and that he had distributed firearms manuals online by uploading them to a neo-Nazi website.\n\nEarlier in the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Michelle Nelson QC described it as \"a gamut of offending across the terrorism legislation\".\n\nMitigating, Nigel Evans QC said the teenager's lack of contrition may be \"interpreted as part of his autism, his ADHD\", and his parents, who previously \"didn't believe anything was wrong\", were \"now fully engaged\".\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, Det Ch Supt Martin Snowden from Durham Police said: \"It is never an easy decision to investigate, to arrest and prosecute children of this age.\n\n\"We only do this when we think it is the last resort for us to go down that line.\n\n\"Prevention is always better than prosecution - we would have always preferred to engage earlier and divert him away from these beliefs and this activity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hackers are holding foreign exchange company Travelex to ransom after a cyber-attack forced the firm to turn off all computer systems and resort to using pen and paper.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, hackers launched their attack on the Travelex network.\n\nAs a result, the company took down its websites across 30 countries to contain \"the virus and protect data\".\n\nA ransomware gang called Sodinokibi has told the BBC it is behind the hack and wants Travelex to pay $6m (£4.6m).\n\nThe gang, also known as REvil, claims to have gained access to the company's computer network six months ago and to have downloaded 5GB of sensitive customer data.\n\nDates of birth, credit card information and national insurance numbers are all in their possession, they say.\n\nThe hackers said: \"In the case of payment, we will delete and will not use that [data]base and restore them the entire network.\n\n\"The deadline for doubling the payment is two days. Then another seven days and the sale of the entire base.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it had not received a data breach report from Travelex.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Organisations must notify the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of a personal data breach unless it does not pose a risk to people's rights and freedoms.\n\n\"If an organisation decides that a breach doesn't need to be reported, they should keep their own record of it and be able to explain why it wasn't reported if necessary.\"\n\nUnder General Data Protection Regulation, a company that fails to comply can face a maximum fine of 4% of its global turnover.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is leading the investigation into the attack.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"On Thursday, 2 January, the Met's Cyber Crime Team were contacted with regards to a reported ransomware attack involving a foreign currency exchange. Inquiries into the circumstances are ongoing.\"\n\nTravelex says it is working with police and has deployed teams of IT specialists and external cyber-security experts who have been working continuously.\n\nAccording to Fabian Wosar, a ransomware expert at cyber security company Emsisoft, the attack has all the hallmarks of the REvil gang.\n\n\"With what we know about the incident and the hackers' mode of operation in the past paints a consistent picture, which leads me to believe that REvil indeed hit Travelex,\" he said.\n\n\"The REvil/Sodinokibi group has been a quite sophisticated group for a long time now. The quoted ransom demands are consistent for the gang's victims of Travelex's size.\n\n\"Stealing data essentially gives threat actors additional bargaining chips when it comes to dealing with companies unwilling to pay the ransom. The idea is to weaponise the hefty fines associated with GDPR violations to pressure the company into paying.\"\n\nThe recovery operation is being co-ordinated from a Travelex office in the UK and the company insists that no customer data has been leaked.\n\nBut it would not say what data could potentially be at risk.\n\nTravelex websites across Europe, Asia and the US have been offline since 31 December, with a message to visitors that they are down for \"planned maintenance\".\n\nVisitors to the Travelex website are told that the site is down for \"planned maintenance\".\n\nCustomers have not been sent any email communication about the cyber-attack, but queries are being replied to on social media by the company.\n\n\"The public response from Travelex has been shockingly bad,\" said security researcher Kevin Beaumont.\n\n\"The Travelex UK website still only says 'planned maintenance', a week after the problems began - many customers will be completely unaware hackers gained access to their network, and allegedly their personal data,\" he said.\n\n\"Travelex have a responsibility to clearly communicate with customers and business partners the gravity of the situation.\"\n\nTravelex's decision to take down its site has meant the large network of other firms that use its services cannot sell currency online.\n\nThe company has said it is keeping its partners up to date on the response to the cyber-attack.\n\nVirgin Money's site showed an error message, which said: \"Our online, foreign currency purchasing service is temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance. The system will be back online shortly.\"\n\nSainsbury's Bank also said its online travel money services were unavailable, although it said customers could still buy travel money in its stores. In a statement to the BBC, the bank said: \"We're in close contact with Travelex so that we can resume our online service as soon as possible.\"\n\nSainsbury's Bank's website said it was not able to take money orders online.\n\nA spokesperson for First Direct, which is owned by HSBC, said: \"Unfortunately, our online travel money service is currently unavailable due to a service issue with third party service provider, Travelex.\"\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Travelex boss Tony D'Souza said: \"We regret having to suspend some of our services in order to contain the virus and protect data.\"\n\nThe company has resorted to carrying out transactions manually, providing foreign-exchange services over the counter in its branches.\n\n\"We apologise to all our customers for any inconvenience caused as a result,\" Mr D'Souza said in the statement.\n\nThe company has since told the BBC that its systems are currently down and it is unable to sell or reload its pre-paid travel cards. But, it said: \"Existing cards continue to function as normal and customers in the UK can continue to spend and withdraw money from ATMs.\n\n\"For customers who have ordered money online, please contact Travelex customer services by phone or via social media to discuss their individual situation and requirements.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters say they believe the British woman's rape claim\n\nA British woman has been given a four-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of lying about being raped by a group of young Israelis in Cyprus.\n\nThe 19-year-old hugged her family and left court weeping after she was sentenced for public mischief.\n\nHer sentence was suspended for three years, and she has been ordered to pay €148 (£125) in legal fees. She is is now on her way back to the UK.\n\nWomen's rights groups protested outside court ahead of the sentencing.\n\nBBC correspondent Anna Holligan said the puffy-eyed teenager embraced her mother as chants of \"We believe you,\" and \"No means no,\" filtered into the courtroom from the protest outside.\n\nSupporters from Cyprus and a group of 50 women who travelled from Israel gathered outside the Famagusta District Court on Tuesday holding placards.\n\nThe teenager's mother shouted \"she's coming home\" to the group following sentencing, and told reporters she felt \"relieved\".\n\nAddressing the crowd, the teenager's mother said: \"I just want to thank each and every one of you for turning up today, having belief, having faith and making sure we get justice.\"\n\nThe teenager was later pictured with her mother at Larnaca Airport ahead of their flight back to the UK.\n\nIn court, Judge Michalis Papathanasiou told the teenager he was giving her a \"second chance\".\n\nThe 19-year-old was put on trial and convicted in December after recanting a claim that she had been raped by a group of 12 young men in a hotel room in July.\n\nShe said Cypriot police had made her falsely confess to lying about the incident - something police have denied.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're pleased she's going home\", lawyer Lewis Power QC says\n\nThe woman's lawyer, Lewis Power QC, told BBC News the case was \"not finished by any means\".\n\nHe said: \"We will be seeking an expedited appeal to the Supreme Court of Cyprus and we will also be considering going to the European Court of Human Rights.\n\n\"We do not feel we have had justice in terms of how the trial progressed, the manner in which it was conducted, the initial police investigation and the fact that we feel she did not receive a fair trial.\"\n\nWhen Cyprus gained its independence from the UK in 1960 it inherited the English Common Law system, so there are great similarities between its system and our own before then.\n\nWhile both systems have moved on, there has been major reform of the UK criminal justice process which does not apply in Cyprus.\n\nIn the 1970s a series of miscarriages of justice cases, including the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six, highlighted shortcomings in the treatment of those detained by the police.\n\nSince 1984 new legislation in the UK introduced codes of practice governing the rights of suspects in detention.\n\nIn enshrined, for instance, tape recorded interviews, the right to a solicitor, and the supervision and oversight of suspects by custody sergeants independent of the investigation.\n\nThis does not apply in Cyprus, where interviews are still hand-written.\n\nIn that sense the Cypriot criminal justice system provides less protection to suspects than the UK system does.\n\nHowever, it is a fair trial system and criticisms that can be levelled at it, could be equally levelled at other countries who are signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nOnce the appeal system in Cyprus has been exhausted, there could be an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the grounds that the system in Cyprus has breached the right to a fair trial.\n\nDuring sentencing, the judge said he was \"troubled\" about the case.\n\n\"All the evidence shows that she had lied and prevented the police from doing other serious jobs,\" he said.\n\n\"Twelve people were arrested and seven of them were there for at least 10 days. That was also a serious offence.\n\n\"Her psychological state, her youth, that she has been away from her family, her friends and academic studies this year.\n\n\"This has led me to decide to give her a second chance and suspend the sentence for three years.\"\n\nIsraeli lawyer Nir Islovich, who represented four of the 12 men in the case, welcomed the decision. \"What was important to us was that she would be convicted of the charges brought against her,\" he said.\n\n\"That happened with full adoption of the facts as presented by my clients.\"\n\nProtesters outside court insisted she should never have been convicted.\n\nOrit Sulitzeanu, head of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, told BBC News the conviction was \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"She is not to blame at all,\" Ms Sulitzeanu said. \"This sentence reflects backward thinking and not understanding the dynamics of rape. The judge here must learn what happens to the victim of sexual abuse.\"\n\nShe added: \"This is a young lady, she will go to university, she will go to have a job and she has a criminal offence. It will influence her life. This four-months suspended sentence is bad from the beginning.\"\n\nOrit Sulitzeanu (right) with supporters from Israel\n\nSusana Pavlou, director at the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies in Cyprus, said the case had sparked a \"culture of protest\" in the country.\n\n\"This year it has been revealed how broken our criminal justice system is - broadly in terms of police and social services response to violence against women, and the lack of specialist services.\n\n\"It's heartening to see how this has ignited women's rights campaigners and a women's rights movement focusing on this issue.\n\n\"This is not going to go away, we will not be silenced.\"\n\nThe teenager told police she was raped on 17 July at the Pambos Napa Rocks Hotel.\n\nTwelve men were arrested but later freed and returned home after she retracted her claims.\n\nShe was charged and spent about a month in prison before being granted bail in August ahead of her trial, at which she pleaded not guilty to causing public mischief by falsely accusing the group of raping her.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was \"pleased\" she could now return to the UK, his spokesman said.\n\nDowning Street said the UK government had highlighted its \"concerns about the judicial process in this case and the woman's right to a fair trial\" to the Cypriot authorities.", "Jeremy Corbyn now responds for Labour, first asking where the prime minister is and what he is doing instead of being in the Commons. He says Mr Johnson has not answered his letter of concern about the Iran crisis and is \"hiding behind his defence secretary\".\n\nMr Corbyn asks whether the government believes the killing of General Soleimani was legal and what evidence it has for the claim the US was acting in self defence.\n\nHe says the country which will suffer the most in the aftermath of the killing is Iraq and asks whether the UK will respect Iraqi sovereignty if it asks for all foreign troops to leave its territory.\n\nFinally, he also asks what the government is doing to secure the release of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from an Iranian jail.\n\nMr Wallace responds that Mr Johnson is \"running the country\" and he is the right person to answer these questions.\n\nThe defence secretary says the government has seen evidence of threats posed by Soleimani and it's main priority now is de-escalation and \"keeping people safe\".", "Russian firm Yandex is hoping to impress CES delegates with its self-driving cars\n\nDriverless cars have become a staple of CES but in the past they've generally been kept stationary on the show floor.\n\nWhen Russian tech giant Yandex invited me to go for a ride on the actual streets of Las Vegas in its model - a reworked Toyota Prius loaded with sensors and a big computer in the boot - I was expecting to be underwhelmed.\n\nI've seen mini-delivery trucks pootle around at walking speeds on test tracks and I've been in a driverless car with a human very much at the wheel, fingers nervously poised millimetres from the steering wheel \"just in case\".\n\nAnd rightly so - when autonomous car tech goes wrong, as Tesla and Uber can both testify, the results can be catastrophic.\n\nWith all that in mind, I wasn't expecting there to be no driver at all.\n\nIt's a disconcerting thing to be sitting in the backseat of a car with nobody between you and the windshield, especially when that vehicle is travelling at 40mph (64km/h) with pedestrians nearby.\n\nA man called Alexei, the \"engineer\", was in the front passenger seat - so there was a \"just in case\" of sorts.\n\nAlexei had a comically large red button that would have done, well, something dramatic, I suppose. They wouldn't let me press it.\n\nBut as we hit speeds of 44mph on our 20-minute driverless drive, we changed lanes numerous times and negotiated busy junctions without human input - emergency or otherwise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Zoe Kleinman @ CES 🎙️💻🤖 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nYandex has a surprisingly low profile in the West given that it is often referred to as \"the Russian Google\". Just like Google, it is a tech giant with fingers in many pies. It says most of its revenue still comes from its search engine, which enjoys a 60% market share in Russia.\n\nIt entered the driverless car game in 2016, and got its vehicle on public roads in December 2017. Since then, it has honed the tech on the streets of Moscow and Tel Aviv.\n\nYandex's fleet has clocked 1.5 million miles (2.4 million km) of autonomous driving so far. That puts it behind the likes of Google's Waymo, which had achieved more than 10 million as of July 2019.\n\n\"The robot drivers which we are developing, they cannot get distracted,\" Yulia Shveyko, head of media relations for Yandex driverless cars, tells me.\n\nThe fleet is already used by Yandex's rideshare service in Moscow.\n\n\"So we have passengers who are using our app to order rides. They're going to the university, post office, grocery store, and it's completely integrated into their typical routines,\" she adds.\n\n\"And what we've seen is that within a very quick time period, once they feel safe it starts to feel very normal.\"\n\nI can't vouch for this of course - except to say next time I am in Moscow, I will try to rock up at a supermarket in a driverless car and see if anybody bats an eyelid.\n\nI have to admit that after an exhilarating first few minutes, it all felt pretty normal to me too.\n\nLater, I decided to take a second driverless ride - this time from rideshare service Lyft, which is offering driverless journeys around Las Vegas in its fleet of adapted BMWs during CES.\n\nMy colleague Cody and I didn't tell them we were journalists, mainly because we couldn't get a word in edgeways, but this was a far more cautious journey.\n\nThere were two humans in the front - a driver and a man called Dan who seemed to be a kind of tour guide. The vehicle was actually in manual mode much of the time. Not all of the hotels have agreed to this tech being used on their private property, so getting on and off the strip required human effort.\n\nIf you want an opinion about anything, ask a cabbie. So, later on, I hopped into yet another car, showed the driver, Steve, a little video I filmed of the Yandex experience and asked him what he thought.\n\n\"Driverless cars are scary to me,\" he said.\n\n\"I need to be in control or somebody needs to be in control, not the computer-control.\"\n\nYandex may well claim everyone is happily hopping into driverless cars in Moscow - but the mood might be colder elsewhere.", "Jozef Dudek died after an Ikea Malm dresser toppled over onto him in 2017\n\nThe Swedish furniture giant Ikea has agreed to pay $46m (£35m) to the parents of a child who was killed when a chest of drawers fell on him.\n\nJozef Dudek, 2, suffocated in May 2017 when the company's Malm drawers toppled over at the family's California home.\n\nThe item, which weighs 70lbs (32kg), had been recalled a year earlier over safety concerns after three other children were killed.\n\nIt is the largest child wrongful death settlement in US history, lawyers say.\n\n\"While no settlement can alter the tragic events that brought us here, for the sake of the family and all involved, we're grateful that this litigation has reached a resolution,\" a spokeswoman for Ikea said.\n\n\"We remain committed to working... to address this very important home safety issue,\" she added.\n\nIn a statement, the child's parents, Joleen and Craig Dudek, said they were \"devastated\" by the loss of their son.\n\nMalm dressers are seen at an Ikea store in China where they were also recalled in 2016\n\n\"We never thought that a two-year-old could cause a dresser just 30 inches (76cm) high to topple over and suffocate him,\" they said. \"It was only later that we learned that [it] was unstable by design.\"\n\n\"We are telling our story because we do not want this to happen to another family,\" the couple added. They urged anyone who still has a recalled Ikea dresser to return it.\n\nThe family also said they would donate $1m of the settlement to groups working to protect children from dangerous products.\n\nIn 2016, Ikea recalled millions of Malm chests of drawers in North America over safety concerns. It was the largest recall in the company's history.\n\nInitially, the company warned customers to use wall mounts with them, but the death of a third child prompted the action.\n\nLeft to right: Camden Ellis, Curren Collas and Ted McGee were killed by falling Ikea dressers\n\nCamden Ellis, 2, Curren Collas, 2, and 23-month-old Ted McGee were all crushed by the product.\n\nIn December of that year, the company agreed to pay $50m (£40m) in a combined settlement to the families of the three toddlers.\n\nUnder that settlement, Ikea agreed to only sell chests in the US that meet or exceed the national voluntary safety standard for clothing storage units.\n\nThe deaths prompted the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to launch an education campaign about the risk of falling chests of drawers.\n\nIn 2017, the company re-launched the recall in the US and Canada. It said items in its Malm range and other chests and dressers pose a \"serious tip-over and entrapment hazard\" if not secured to a wall.", "Artwork: The 250kg satellites have a \"flatpack\" design which unfolds a solar array in orbit\n\nCalifornia's SpaceX company has launched another 60 satellites in its Starlink network.\n\nIt brings to 182 the number of spacecraft the firm has now put in the sky as part of its plan to provide a global broadband internet service.\n\nThe latest platforms went up on a Falcon-9 rocket, which left from Cape Canaveral in Florida.\n\nThe new additions mean SpaceX now operates more commercial satellites in orbit than any other company.\n\nPlanet Labs, also of California, has the next biggest working constellation at just under 150. Its spacecraft are used to image the Earth's surface.\n\nSpaceX has permission from regulators to launch up to 12,000 platforms but has talked of an eventual 40,000, depending on how the project develops.\n\nTwo more batches of 60 could go up before the month is out, as the firm endeavours to start offering some regional broadband links later this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SpaceX This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the roll-out has brought a wave of criticism from astronomers who complain that large numbers of artificial objects in the night sky will ruin their view of the cosmos.\n\nTo reinforce these complaints, scientists have been releasing pictures of trains of bright dots passing overhead - reflections from the satellites as they move around the globe.\n\nSpaceX believes the concerns are overstated, however.\n\nThe company concedes the Starlinks are bright shortly after launch but says this is the result of the configuration the satellites adopt as they raise themselves up from an altitude of 290km to 550km.\n\nOnce in their final orbit, the spacecraft should be barely visible, the company says; and it is providing detailed Starlink coordinates to astronomy groups so that they can better plan their observations to avoid interference.\n\nOne the 60 satellites on the latest mission also had an experimental coating to see if that could further reduce its reflectivity.\n\nWhether the scientists will be satisfied remains to be seen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A time-lapse of the Starlink satellites taken from the Peak District\n\nThe American Astronomical Society has convened a special session this week at its meeting in Hawaii to discuss the issue. Patricia Cooper, vice president of satellite government affairs at SpaceX, will be participating.\n\nWhat alarms many skywatchers is that the Hawthorne-headquartered company is not the only one with a design for a so-called \"mega-constellation\".\n\nUK-based OneWeb wants to put up an initial 650 broadband satellites. Six demonstrators were launched last year but from next month, the London firm hopes to be lofting about 30 a month.\n\nThe Amazon online retailer wants to get into this business, too. Its proposed Kuiper project is at a less advanced stage but the numbers of satellites being considered for the operational network are in excess of 3,000.\n\nAn earlier flight: This rocket has launched on three previous occasions\n\nTo put all these numbers in some context: today, there are just 2,200 working satellites of all types in the sky, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.\n\nThe broadband mega-constellations will cost billions of dollars to roll out. SpaceX, though, can mitigate a lot of the financial pressure because it is flying re-usable rockets.\n\nEvery time a Starlink mission goes up, it does so on a vehicle that has essentially already been purchased by someone else for a previous satellite deployment.\n\nThe rocket used this week was making its fourth ascent.", "The damaged mound is believed to be at least 3,000 years old\n\nPolice are investigating \"appalling damage\" at a Bronze Age burial mound which dates back 3,000-4,000 years.\n\nGwent Police Rural Crime Team said the destruction was caused by off-road vehicles and said immediate prevention measures were being put in place.\n\nThe Woodland Trust shared pictures of its Wentwood site, near Newport, on Monday afternoon, where tyre tracks covered the monument.\n\nSite manager Rob Davies said damage has been \"an ongoing problem\".\n\n\"A feature that is around 3,000-4,000 years old has been damaged within a few minutes,\" he added.\n\n\"This is a Bronze Age burial mound, a scheduled ancient monument, and the damage caused is therefore a criminal offence.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Davies went on: \"There has, unfortunately been an on-going problem with damage to this and similar features within Wentwood.\n\n\"The Trust has been spending around £1,500 a year to try to keep vehicles way from them, and following this damage, we will be undertaking further work.\"\n\nGwnt Police Rural Crime Team described the damage as \"appalling\"\n\nSite managers believe the damage took place sometime between Christmas Day and 6 January\n\nSite managers believe the latest damage took place sometime between Christmas Day and 6 January.\n\nThe Woodland Trust said that Wentwood forms part of the largest block of ancient woodland in Wales, with a number of Bronze Age burial mounds on its ridge tops.\n\nIn a tweet, police said: \"Investigating appalling damage caused to a #Bronze Age burial mound by off road vehicles. Immediate intervention measures being introduced to prevent further damage.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nRebecca Long Bailey has become the sixth candidate to join the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn an article for the Tribune magazine, she said Labour needed a \"socialist leader who can work with our movement, rebuild our communities and fight for the policies we believe in\".\n\nShe joins Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry, Clive Lewis, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips in the contest.\n\nLabour's new leader, and deputy leader, will be announced on 4 April.\n\nThe six leadership contenders are facing questions from Labour MPs at a hustings in Westminster, as the three-month contest officially gets under way.\n\nIn her article, Mrs Long Bailey said Labour had a \"mountain to climb\" to get back to power, but there was a \"path to victory\" if the party stayed true to its socialist values.\n\nThe Salford and Eccles MP, who has been shadow business secretary since 2016, is backed by her flatmate and deputy leadership contender Angela Rayner. She also has the support of key figures within Mr Corbyn's inner circle, including shadow chancellor John McDonnell.\n\nMr McDonnell said he was also backing the shadow justice secretary, Richard Burgon, to be his party's deputy leader.\n\nMr Corbyn, though, said he would not be publicly backing anyone - although he commented that Mrs Long Bailey was a \"wonderful colleague\".\n\nAsked what he thought of her telling ITV she rated his leadership at \"10 out of 10,\" he commented: \"I never mark my own homework.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour chairman Ian Lavery has ruled out a bid for the leadership and also thrown his weight behind Mrs Long Bailey, saying she \"has the intellect, drive and determination to take forward and develop the popular, common sense socialist policies that Jeremy Corbyn has championed\".\n\nBarnsley Central MP Dan Jarvis, who had previously indicated he might stand for the leader post, also ruled himself out of the contest on Tuesday, saying he wanted to concentrate on his role as mayor for the Sheffield City region.\n\nRebecca Long Bailey is pitching herself as the \"carry on Corbyn\" candidate.\n\nIt's no big surprise - she has long been a stalwart of Camp Corbyn. She's been ultra loyal to the Labour leader in the shadow cabinet and in the NEC (the party's ruling body).\n\nIn her launch article in the Tribune, she makes absolutely clear that she stands by the Corbyn policies that the party put before the electorate.\n\nInterestingly, though, in a subsequent interview with the BBC, she adopted a slightly more nuanced approach.\n\nShe acknowledged that Brexit harmed the party in the election. She also conceded on anti-Semitism - saying that behind the scenes she was pressing for tougher action on this.\n\nMrs Long Bailey said Labour's election defeat last month, its fourth in a row, was due to a failure of campaign strategy and the \"lack of a coherent narrative\", rather than a rejection of its policies.\n\nIf elected leader, she said there would be no return to the \"Tory lite\" agenda which she said had held the party back for many years.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she was \"not your typical politician\" and could be trusted to \"fight the establishment tooth and nail\".\n\nShe also said that she had argued against Labour's Brexit policy in shadow cabinet, suggesting the focus at the election should have been on getting a \"good deal\" rather than another referendum.\n\nMeanwhile, Ian Murray, Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, and MP for Tooting Rosena Allin-Khan are the latest to join the race to replace Tom Watson as deputy leader.\n\nAnnouncing his candidature, Mr Murray - a long-time critic of Jeremy Corbyn - said the architects of the party's ''catastrophic failure\" in 2019 could not be allowed to lead the response.\n\nLabour MP for Tooting Rosena Allin-Khan has announced she will run for deputy leader\n\nAnd Dr Allin-Khan, in her pitch, told Today the party had to \"learn from mistakes from the past\" and \"listen to those who have lost faith\".\n\nUnder the timetable agreed by Labour's ruling body on Monday, the contenders have until 13 January to show they have the support of the 22 MPs and MEPs required to get on the ballot paper.\n\nThey must also demonstrate they have the backing of 5% of local Labour parties and three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.", "Jay Sewell was fatally stabbed through a car window, the Old Bailey heard\n\nA man who recruited his parents and a group of his friends to kill a love rival has been jailed for life.\n\nDaniel Grogan, 20, was \"consumed with hatred and jealousy\" of Jay Sewell, 18, after finding out he was seeing his ex-girlfriend, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMr Sewell was attacked by a group of people in Lee, south-east London, on 11 December 2018.\n\nGrogan was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 21 years having previously been found guilty of murder.\n\nThe court was told Grogan deliberately engineered a stand-off with Mr Sewell and his ex-girlfriend Gemma Hodder near to his family home.\n\nMs Hodder, 18, had driven her partner and some of their friends from Kent to see Grogan when they were set upon by a group armed with knives, hammers, a 4ft (1.2m) fireman's axe and wooden sticks.\n\nMr Sewell was fatally attacked through the car window while his friend Charlie Pamphlett was stabbed in the back but survived, jurors were told.\n\nJudge Wendy Joseph QC said Grogan \"desired only revenge on Gemma and Jay\" and had been driven by \"self serving anger beyond logic\".\n\nThe 20-year-old was also jailed for five years for wounding with intent and three-and-a-half years for violent disorder, with the sentences to be served concurrently.\n\nOther members of Grogan's family and friends also received jail sentences for their parts in the killing:\n\nIn an impact statement read in court, Mr Sewell's mother Sharon Louch said there was \"no sentence this court or any other can pass which can come close to healing the pain or make up for not being able to look at my Jay's face or hear him laugh\".\n\n\"Jay you were a blessing and made us proud from the day you came to us until the moment you were taken,\" she said.\n\nOthers were previously sentenced over the attack:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Soleimani - seen here in Iraq in 2015 - directed militia in Iraq who attacked US troops and later fought the Islamic State group\n\nNext to Iran's Supreme Leader, Qasem Soleimani was arguably the most powerful figure in the Islamic republic.\n\nAs head of its military abroad known as the Quds Force, Soleimani was the mastermind behind the country's activities across in the Middle East, and its real foreign minister when it came to matters of war and peace.\n\nHe was widely considered an architect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against rebels in Syria, the rise of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State group, and many battles beyond.\n\nCharismatic and often elusive, the silver-haired commander was revered by some, loathed by others, and a source of myths and social media memes.\n\nHe had emerged in recent years from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations to achieve fame and popularity in Iran, becoming the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.\n\nAs far back as 2013, former CIA officer John Maguire told The New Yorker that Soleimani was \"the single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".\n\nWhen his end came, it was violent and sudden. On 3 January the Pentagon announced that it had carried out a successful operation to kill him, at the direction of US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe assassination followed a sharp escalation between the US, Iran and Iran-backed groups in Iraq following the death of a US military contractor in a missile attack on a US base in Iraq - for which the US held Iran responsible.\n\nThe US responded with an air strike on the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah. Militia supporters then attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran had been rising since the US pulled out of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to curb Iran's nuclear programme and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. The US has also reimposed sanctions on Iran, sending its economy into freefall.\n\nSoleimani is believed to have come from a poor background and to have had very little formal education. But he had risen through the Revolutionary Guards - Iran's elite and most powerful force - and was reportedly close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.\n\nAfter becoming commander of the Quds Force in 1998, Soleimani attempted to extend Iran's influence in the Middle East by carrying out covert operations, providing arms to allies and developing networks of militias loyal to Iran.\n\nOver the course of his career he is believed to have aided Shia Muslim and Kurdish groups in Iraq fighting against former dictator Saddam Hussein as well as other groups in the region including the Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamist organisation Hamas in the Palestinian territories.\n\nAfter the US invaded Iraq in 2003 he began directing militant groups to carry out attacks against US troops and bases, killing hundreds.\n\nHe is also widely credited with finding a strategy for Bashar al-Assad to respond to the armed uprising against him that began in 2011. Iranian assistance along with Russian air support helped turn the tide against rebel forces and in the Syrian government's favour, allowing it to recapture key cities and towns.\n\nSoleimani himself was sometimes pictured at funerals of Iranians killed in Syria and Iraq, where Iran had deployed thousands of combatants and military advisers.\n\nHe also travelled frequently across the region, regularly shuttling between Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where Iranian influence has steadily grown. When he was killed he was travelling in a two-car convoy away from Baghdad airport with others including Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed.\n\nSoleimani was killed in an air strike near Baghdad's airport\n\nIn April 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Quds Force as foreign terrorist organisations.\n\nThe Trump administration has said the Quds Force provided funding, training, weapons and equipment to US-designated terrorist groups in the Middle East - including Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group based in Gaza.\n\nIn a statement, the Pentagon said Soleimani had been \"actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\n\"General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,\" it added.", "Are the days of families tucking into a Christmas pudding after their festive dinner slowly coming to an end?\n\nFigures from market research company Kantar suggest they may be, as sales of the traditional dessert fell by 16% in the UK in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThere was also an 11% drop in sales of seasonal biscuits in supermarkets, while turkey sales were down by 1%.\n\nThe figures come as Morrisons said its sales fell over the Christmas period amid \"challenging\" trading conditions.\n\nThe UK's fourth-largest supermarket group reported a 1.7% fall in like-for-like sales - which strip out the impact of new stores - excluding fuel, for the 22 weeks to 5 January.\n\nMorrisons is the first of the big four chains to report Christmas sales, with Sainsbury's and Tesco due to report later this week.\n\nOn Monday, discount chain Aldi said that its total UK sales in the four weeks to 24 December rose 7.9% from a year before, although it did not give a like-for-like comparison. It also said it sold 55 million mince pies over the festive period.\n\nAccording to Kantar, Aldi's sales over the 12 weeks to 29 December went up by 5.9%.\n\nFellow discount retailer Lidl had the highest percentage increase in sales growth for bricks and mortar supermarkets over the same period, with its sales up 10.8%.\n\nLidl and Aldi had their highest-ever combined Christmas market share of 13.7% - more than treble the figure in 2009.\n\nHowever, Britain's fastest-growing grocer according to Kantar was online retailer Ocado, where sales rose by 12.5%.\n\nThis industry data shows that it's been a pretty slow Christmas for the supermarkets, with next to no growth.\n\nHouseholds, on average, spent less this festive period than last. The big grocers have been working really hard to get us to part with our cash, with lots of promotions on alcohol and cut-price fuel.\n\nThe competition has been intense. According to Kantar, the big four grocers have all struggled to increase sales and have lost market share. Once again, Aldi and Lidl have pulled in shoppers, thanks largely to opening dozens of new stores.\n\nRetailers will be hoping that consumers will be feeling more confident in 2020, buoyed by wages rising faster than inflation. But the big grocers are likely to remain under pressure.\n\nThe discounters could reach a combined 17% market share this year and shopper behaviour continues to change. For instance, fast-food operators such as Deliveroo are growing in popularity.\n\nOverall, Kantar's figures indicated that in the 12 weeks to 29 December, supermarket sales grew by 0.2% from a year earlier - the slowest rate of growth over the Christmas period since 2015.\n\n\"There was no sign of the post-election rush many had hoped for in the final weeks before Christmas, with shoppers carefully watching their budgets,\" said Kantar's Fraser McKevitt.\n\nWhile sales of some foods went down, the fizz also went out of sparkling wine with its sales falling by 8%.\n\nMorrisons said recent trading had been \"unusually challenging\"\n\nHowever, beer and wine were more popular than in 2018 with respective rises of 1% and 2% in their sales over the previous year.\n\nAnd instead of Christmas pudding, the desserts that proved most popular were sponge puddings (up 12.4% on 2018), crumble (up 9.4%) and custard to go with them (up 28%).\n\nAnother data firm - Nielsen - using different methodology to Kantar, said supermarket sales grew by just 0.5% in the last four weeks.\n\nIt said grocery sales reached a peak of £6.2bn over the two weeks to 28 December - but this was down 0.2% compared with the same period in 2018.\n\nReflecting on the Morrisons figures, the company's chief executive, David Potts, said: \"It was encouraging that during an unusually challenging period for sales, our execution was strong and our profitability robust, demonstrating the broad-based progress we have made during the turnaround.\n\n\"As always, we will take some learnings into the new year and look forward to 2020 with a strong plan and solid foundations on which to continue to grow.\"\n\nMorrisons said its key Christmas items were \"once again very competitive\", with most prices the same as or lower than in 2018.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said the results suggested that Morrisons had been \"outmanoeuvred\" by its competitors.\n\n\"Shrinking sales demonstrate the fiercely competitive food sector,\" he added. \"Shoppers remained fixated on searching for the best value and highly price-sensitive against the backdrop of ongoing uncertainty.\"", "Drivers in Culloden, near Inverness, faced an unusual sight after a trampoline was blown down the road.\n\nStephen Davies filmed it as he was on his way to work.\n\nWind gusts of 74mph were recorded in Scotland on Tuesday.", "Michelle Williams has been praised by fellow actors after giving an impassioned speech about women's rights at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.\n\nThe 39-year-old made the comments, which alluded to abortion, after picking up one of the acting awards.\n\n\"I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose,\" she said. \"To choose when to have my children, and with whom.\"\n\nBut she came in for criticism from anti-abortion commentators in the US.\n\nThe four-time Oscar nominee won the Golden Globe for best actress in a limited series or TV movie for her role in drama series Fosse/Verdon.\n\n\"I am grateful to live in a moment in our society where choice exists, because as girls and women, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice,\" she told the ceremony.\n\n\"I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognise my handwriting all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I carved with my own hand.\"\n\nWilliams and actor Heath Ledger had a daughter in 2005, and the star is now expecting a child with director Thomas Kail.\n\nShe was applauded by stars in Los Angeles for encouraging women of all ages to vote \"in your own self-interest\" in this year's US presidential election.\n\n\"It's what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them,\" she said.\n\nReese Witherspoon described her acting colleague as a \"champion of women\" and an \"inspiration\", while the Time's Up movement, which aims to end harassment and gender discrimination, thanked Williams for her remarks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reese Witherspoon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWilliams' speech came three months after she tackled the issue of gender pay inequality in her Emmy Awards acceptance speech.\n\n\"Michelle Williams again drops truth!\" wrote Jamie Lee Curtis after the Golden Globes speech.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn making a politically-driven speech, Williams had ignored host Ricky Gervais's humorous request for winners not to do so.\n\nWhile many applauded her for it, others, including US President Donald Trump's legal advisor Jenna Ellis, strongly criticised her.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Jenna Ellis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther conservative commentators took issue with her message, with political comedian and author Tim Young writing: \"Regardless what side you're on, abortion should be more solemn than paraphrased: If you have one, you can win awards like me!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Tim Young This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jonathan Coe's book Middle England, which takes a humorous look at life in Britain before and after the Brexit referendum, has been named the best novel of 2019 at the Costa Book Awards.\n\nThe book was described by the prize's judges as \"the perfect novel for now\".\n\nAward organisers said Coe's 13th novel tells the story of \"a changing country and the cracks that appear within families and between generations\".\n\nHe is one of five winning authors in different genre categories.\n\nThey will each receive £5,000 and go forward to be in contention to be named the overall Costa Book of the Year on 28 January.\n\nMiddle England spans 2010 to 2018 and follows a range of characters including a couple who attend marriage counselling after voting different ways in the 2016 referendum.\n\nIn the other categories, Sara Collins won best first novel for her gothic romance The Confessions of Frannie Langton, about the twisted love affair between a Jamaican maid and her French mistress in 19th Century London.\n\nWelsh author and former war reporter Jack Fairweather's biography of unsung war hero Witold Pilecki, who infiltrated Auschwitz, won the biography award; while Jasbinder Bilan's first children's novel Asha & the Spirit Bird was also among the winners.\n\nLast year the novel award was won by Irish author Sally Rooney for her second effort Normal People, and the overall book of the year award was won by Bart van Es for his biography The Cut Out Girl.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One third of the roof of Koko in Camden was on fire at one point, the London Fire Brigade said\n\nOne of London's most famous music venues has been badly damaged in a blaze.\n\nThe dome on the roof of Koko in Camden has been destroyed by fire, according to the London Fire Brigade.\n\nSixty firefighters helped fight the flames after the blaze broke out just before 21:00 GMT on Monday. No injuries have been reported.\n\nThe venue began life as the Camden Theatre in 1900 and has hosted stars including Madonna, Coldplay and Prince.\n\nStation commander Jon Lewis said the fire was brought under control at about 02:30 on Tuesday, adding: \"Firefighters' quick action and hard work in the early stages meant the fire was contained to the roof and saved the rest of the building.\"\n\nKoko owner Olly Bengough said he was \"deeply saddened\", adding: \"We'll be doing our best to get the redevelopment of this iconic building back on track.\"\n\nThe fire in the building's roof was brought under control in the early hours of Tuesday\n\nKoko, which was closed for refurbishment, was also previously known as the Camden Palace and Camden Hippodrome and has been one of the capital's most iconic live music venues for decades.\n\nThe Rolling Stones, The Clash and Ed Sheeran are among other star names to have performed at the venue, which is close to Mornington Crescent underground station.\n\nIt was reportedly the last venue where AC/DC's Bon Scott was seen drinking before his death from alcohol poisoning in 1980.\n\nIn the early 80s it served as a major venue for the punk and New Romantic scene, with singer Steve Strange of the band Visage holding club nights.\n\nAbout 60 firefighters helped tackle the fire at Koko in Camden High Street\n\nMusic lovers have been sharing their Koko memories on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVeteran DJ Tony Blackburn who held his legendary soul nights Shakatak also tweeted about the fire.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Tony Blackburn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKoko and the nearby Roundhouse effectively \"bookended\" Camden's music scene, according to music writer Carl Allen.\n\nOn Twitter, the Roundhouse said it was \"really sad\" to hear the news about its Camden neighbours.\n\nCamden Council leader Georgia Gould said on Monday night: \"Heartbreaking watching the Camden Palace/Koko up in flames this evening, a building that holds so many memories and means so much to us in Camden.\"\n\nThe venue was set to reopen in the spring after a \"major state-of-the-art\" refurbishment, after the purchase of two adjacent buildings.\n\nAn investigation is under way into how the fire started.\n\nThe venue hosted the BBC's Electric Proms in 2007\n\nKoko has hosted some of music's biggest names including Madonna, The Rolling Stones and Prince\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Holders Manchester City will take a commanding lead into the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final after outclassing neighbours Manchester United at Old Trafford.\n\nMarcus Rashford's late reply will give United hope they can still turn this tie around in the return on Wednesday, 29 January, but it should not deflect from City's overwhelming superiority for the vast majority of the game.\n\nPep Guardiola's side stunned the home fans with three first-half goals, and in truth they could have had many more before the break, such was the gulf between the two sides.\n\nCity, who left Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus on the bench, started with a strikerless 4-4-2 system that saw Bernardo Silva and Kevin de Bruyne their furthest players forward.\n\nIt was Bernardo who broke the deadlock, with a superb strike from the edge of the box that arrowed into the top corner of the net.\n\nRiyad Mahrez made it 2-0 when he ran on to Bernardo's pass and rounded David de Gea, with the home side hopelessly exposed.\n• None 'The worst we have played this season' - Man Utd boss Solskjaer on first-leg loss\n• None 'Two out of 10 is nonsense. Pointless' - Savage on player ratings\n\nBy now, United were chasing shadows and it was soon 3-0, as a swift breakaway ended with De Bruyne twisting Phil Jones inside out before seeing his shot saved by De Gea but ricochet in off Andreas Pereira.\n\nUnited's limp resistance and lack of threat saw them booed off by some supporters at the break but they at least showed some resolve when they emerged for the second half.\n\nCity seemed content with their advantage, and United at last began to enjoy time on the ball, although they did not force Claudio Bravo into any meaningful action before Rashford's goal.\n\nThat came when the visitors, for once, gave the ball away cheaply and Mason Greenwood fed the England striker to run through and score.\n\nUnited never threatened to deny City a famous victory however, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side are left with a huge task if they are to stop them reaching their third successive final, and their fourth in the past five years.\n\nCity were torn apart in the opening stages when these two sides met at the Etihad in the Premier League last month, but this time it was United who were left reeling early on.\n\nGuardiola's line-up left many observers scratching their heads before kick-off but his system, a fluid 4-4-2 that saw De Bruyne, Bernardo, Mahrez and Raheem Sterling change position at will, worked like a dream.\n\nIn December, City had no answer United's raw speed but here it was the invention and improvisation of the visitors' attack that did the damage, time and time again.\n\nCity have made a habit of winning at Old Trafford in recent years but their sparkling first-half performance was impressive, even by their high standards.\n\nOnly 3,000 away fans were there to witness it in person, in a tiny pocket of the ground, because of a reduced ticket allocation after incidents in recent derby matches.\n\nBut for the supporters who got a ticket, this was a night they will never forget. They loudly revelled in United's misery and their own side's success before giving their players a standing ovation at the final whistle.\n\nWhile City's fans celebrated pretty much throughout, United's supporters endured a very different evening with all of their side's shortcomings in evidence.\n\nWhen United tried playing out from the back, they were not capable of passing through City, and repeatedly surrendered possession.\n\nAnd while the home fans urged their side to press City, they were not able to get near them for much of the match.\n\nIt meant they were unable to lay a finger on the visitors until the hour mark, when they finally managed their first sustained spell of pressure.\n\nRashford's goal aside, there were not many positives for Solskjaer to take away from this encounter but at least his side did not crumble completely, which looked likely at one stage, and finished the game showing some degree of fight.\n\nSolskjaer's side are, somehow, still alive in the tie but this game should be seen as a reminder of how urgently United need reinforcements this month, even if they are more expensive than the club's owners would like.\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola on BBC Radio Five Live: \"The last game against United [a 2-1 loss in December] we could not control when we lost the ball, and tonight we did it better.\n\n\"We lost the ball in a position which is so dangerous [for the United goal]. We cannot forget which team we play. Tonight we can be more than satisfied to come here to Old Trafford and win.\n\n\"It is not over. We have one more game and we'll see what happens.\n\n\"Of course Manchester United can come back. Last year here they lost to Paris St-Germain [in the Champions League] and qualified. They have the shirt which means history and pride.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: \"From their first goal, and especially the second, we struggled to get to grips with them. A good reaction second half, but first half until they scored it is was back and forth. We didn't cope with the setback well enough.\n\n\"We didn't deal with their system well enough, we know they can play that way. They played that way last season and beat Chelsea 5-0.\n\n\"First goal there is nothing we can do, second is sloppy and the third we just didn't recover.\n\n\"With Matic and his experience [coming on in the second half] he had more presence. It was more about wanting the ball and believing, passing the ball. Someone needed to take responsibility. We've shown before we have been down from a home tie and turned it around. PSG is the latest example and we have to believe that we can put on a performance.\n\n\"It was a decision late on who was fit, it was no excuse. We have the players we have. We put a team out believing we could get a result.\"\n• None United suffered their first home defeat since losing 2-1 to Crystal Palace in August 2019 and conceded three times at Old Trafford for the first time since losing 3-0 to Spurs in August 2018.\n• None City have won seven of their last 10 away matches against Manchester United (D1 L2) in all competitions, as many as in their previous 42 visits to Old Trafford.\n• None The past 15 teams to win away from home in the first leg of a League Cup semi-final have all progressed to the final, with Spurs the last side to fail to do so, against Arsenal in 1986-87.\n• None Bernardo Silva became the first Manchester City player since Sergio Aguero (three in a row between 2011 and 2015) to score in consecutive away games against United in all competitions.\n• None City have scored 44 goals in the first half of matches this season in all competitions - eight more than any other Premier League side, and only five fewer than United have scored in total (49).\n• None Only Raheem Sterling (20) has scored more goals among English players in all competitions than United's Rashford (17) this season.\n• None This was United's first home League Cup defeat against a fellow Premier League side since January 2005 against Chelsea, having won 16 consecutive games of this type before this 3-1 defeat.\n• None City are responsible for four of United's last 12 defeats at Old Trafford.\n\nLeicester host Aston Villa in the first leg of the second semi-final on Wednesday (20:00 GMT).\n\nUnited and City return to Premier League action this weekend. United host Norwich on Saturday (15:00), while City travel to Aston Villa on Sunday (16:30).\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Victor Lindelöf.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Benjamin Mendy tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Gabriel Jesus replaces Kevin De Bruyne because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The fleet of 44 new trains will run between Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Edinburgh\n\nTransPennine Express is to give season ticket holders a rebate that cancels out the annual fare increase after disruption to rail services.\n\nThe firm's managing director, Leo Goodwin, said the firm's performance was \"not up to scratch\".\n\nThe Department for Transport said the rail firm's performance in recent weeks had been \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nCancellations on routes in the north-east of England will continue until the end of January, the firm has said.\n\nThe firm has been trying to introduce new trains and implement staff training, but blamed delays to these on maintenance and infrastructure issues.\n\nA number of trains between Leeds and Edinburgh, stopping at Chester-le-Street, Durham, Darlington, Morpeth and Newcastle, have been cut.\n\nTransPennine Express said on Monday that customers who held a season ticket between 1 October and 31 December 2019 \"will be eligible for a 3% rebate, which will more than cover the 2.8% average increase on regulated fares\".\n\nMr Goodwin said: \"We know that our performance was not up to scratch at the end of last year and for this, we really do apologise. We have experienced a number of issues following the introduction of our new trains, resulting in disruption to a number of our customers journeys with us.\n\n\"I would like to thank our customers for continuing to travel with us and it is only right that we compensate them for the recent disruption.\"\n\nThe Nova fleet promises more luggage storage, extra plug sockets and free wi-fi\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Transport said: \"TransPennine Express' performance in recent weeks has been completely unacceptable.\n\n\"We understand how deeply frustrating this is for passengers, who should not have to put up with continued poor performance, and we will not tolerate continued significant reductions to services.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has \"demanded immediate explanations from the operator, Network Rail and rolling stock manufacturers, and will be convening an urgent meeting to determine how they will improve services for passengers,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nIf a rail firm is falling down on its contractual obligations, the Department for Transport can take measures ranging from demanding remedial action to taking the franchise over.\n\n\"We have been clear with the operator that they must take urgent steps to address their poor performance problems and, if appropriate, we will take action under the terms set out in the franchise agreement,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Trains must run on time\" has been a mantra of the Transport Secretary since he took up his post in the summer.\n\nThe opposite has been true on parts of the UK's railways so far this winter.\n\nIt's been chaotic on West Midlands Railway and London North Western Railway - both of which are run by West Midlands Trains.\n\nPassengers on that network had a torrid time in the autumn and say things have only slightly improved since then.\n\nSeason ticket holders there have already been given a rebate so their fares don't increase this year.\n\nAndy Street, the West Midlands Mayor, has given the company an ultimatum to get its house in order by the end of this month.\n\nSouth Western Railway is also under pressure to deliver a more punctual service.\n\nAnd then there is the case of Northern. That company's future hangs in the balance.\n\nOne theme is a tendency by train companies to try and deliver overly-ambitious timetables which they are ultimately unable to deliver.\n\nTrain companies have to try and live up to commitments they made to government under their franchising agreements.\n\nBut the franchising system of today is now widely seen as far too rigid and that's why the government's rail review will soon announce deep reform to the structures that underpin our railways today.\n\nA number of rail operators have either offered refunds or pledged to improve performance recently.\n\nSouth Western Railway, which like TransPennine Express is owned by transport giant First Group, pledged on Monday to increase the number of trains running on time.\n\nMark Hopwood, managing director of South Western Railway, said: \"I know it's been a very tough couple of years for everyone who uses South Western Railway.\n\n\"I also know that the recent strikes have had a very significant impact on our passengers and employees and I am determined to find a resolution.\"\n\nIn December, West Midlands Trains said passengers would not pay the season ticket fare rise after a \"drop in performance\".\n\nRail operators have been under pressure from Mr Shapps over their performance since he took over the role in July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mourners have filled the streets of the Iranian capital for the funeral of military commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US drone strike last week.\n\nSoleimani was hailed as a national hero in Iran, and widely viewed as the second most powerful person in the country after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.\n\nHe was killed on Friday in an attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad ordered by US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe killing has sparked concerns of a wider conflict, with Iran vowing \"severe revenge\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Tehran for the funeral of 62-year-old Soleimani, who headed the elite Quds Force and was tasked with protecting and boosting Iran's influence in the Middle East.\n\nMany mourners held up photos of Soleimani, with some even wearing clothes bearing his image.\n\nThe coffins of Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who also died in the US strike in Baghdad, were passed over the heads of mourners.\n\nSupreme Leader Khamenei was joined by top political and military figures in Iran in paying respects to the commander.\n\nHere, Mr Khamenei (centre) stands alongside Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (third from left) and other officials next to Soleimani's coffin.\n\nEsmail Ghaani, who has replaced Soleimani as the commander of the Quds Force, kissed the coffins of those killed in the drone strike.\n\nThe streets were filled with smoke as mourners burned incense during the funeral procession.\n\nSome people set fire to US and Israeli flags.\n\nOthers carried mock coffins decorated with the flags of the two countries, and pictures of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Using a walking frame, Harvey Weinstein arrives for his trial on sexual assault charges\n\nA judge has angrily threatened to lock up Harvey Weinstein for using his phone in a New York City court where a jury is being picked for his rape trial.\n\n\"Is this really the way you want to end up in jail for the rest of your life, by texting and violating a court order?\" asked Judge James Burke.\n\nThe Manhattan judge instructed the former Hollywood producer, who is out on bail, not to answer the question.\n\nMr Weinstein faces five charges and possibly life in jail if convicted.\n\nThe allegations include rape and predatory sexual assault relating to two unnamed accusers. He is charged with raping one woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, and performing a forcible sex act on the second woman in 2006.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Weinstein accusers take questions outside court in New York\n\nOn Monday, Mr Weinstein was charged with an additional two counts in Los Angeles: rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe 67-year-old has denied all charges and insists any sexual encounters were consensual.\n\nMr Weinstein was caught using two mobile phones on Tuesday, according to local media. He had already been admonished by Judge Burke at previous court appearances for using a handset.\n\n\"What did I say would happen if he so much has a cellphone or electronic device since there have been repeated violations of this, including some on the record?\" Judge Burke said.\n\n\"I believe you said remand,\" Mr Weinstein's lawyer replied after a heated exchange, meaning to put his client in jail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Why I broke my silence over Weinstein\" - an accuser talks about the criminal trial\n\nLead prosecutor Joan Illuzzi urged Judge Burke to jail Mr Weinstein, who is out on $5m (£3.8m) bail. He is required to wear an electronic tracking device.\n\n\"There is a grave risk that this defendant at some point will realise that the evidence against him is imposing and overwhelming\" and he will try to escape, Ms Illuzzi said.\n\nJudge Burke ultimately declined to revoke Mr Weinstein's bail, but told the former movie mogul he would not get any further warning.\n\n\"I'm not looking for apologies,\" Judge Burke said, \"I'm looking for compliance.\"\n\nIn court, Mr Weinstein's lawyer, Arthur Aidala, asked Judge Burke to delay jury selection, arguing that the jury pool had been tarnished by the extensive press coverage of the Los Angeles charges filed on Monday.\n\n\"For a prosecutor, this is Christmas morning,\" Mr Aidala said, holding a stack of Monday's newspapers. \"What better present than the morning of jury selection to have him smeared everywhere?\"\n\nAfter jury selection, Mr Weinstein's New York trial is expected to begin in around two weeks.", "Joaquin Phoenix is up for best actor for starring in the origin story of Batman's nemesis\n\nJoker leads the Bafta film nominations with 11, but there is criticism that the acting nominees are all white.\n\nJoker is followed by Martin Scorsese's The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood, which have 10 nominations each.\n\nScarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie are up for two acting awards each.\n\nBut no female directors were nominated for the seventh year in a row. Bafta boss Amanda Berry said she was \"very disappointed\" by the lack of diversity.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix will be the favourite for best actor for his role in Joker, which tells the origin story of Batman's nemesis and has divided some critics and audiences.\n\nIt's 11 years since Heath Ledger won a posthumous Bafta for playing the same character in The Dark Knight.\n\nJoker director Todd Phillips said: \"Recently, when Joaquin and I were in the UK, the love we felt for Joker was palpable and I just want to thank my British colleagues for connecting with the film on a cellular level.\"\n\nPhoenix will face competition from Taron Egerton, who played Sir Elton John in Rocketman, as well as Leonardo DiCaprio for Once Upon A Time..., Adam Driver for Marriage Story and Jonathan Pryce for The Two Popes.\n\nMargot Robbie is up against herself in the best supporting actress category for roles in Bombshell and Once Upon A Time...\n\nThat category also includes Scarlett Johansson for Jojo Rabbit, while she is also up for best actress for her role opposite Driver in Netflix's divorce drama Marriage Story.\n\nThe other best actress nominees are Renee Zellweger for playing Judy Garland in Judy, Jessie Buckley for Wild Rose, Charlize Theron for Bombshell, and Saoirse Ronan for Little Women.\n\nBut there is no room for Little Women film-maker Greta Gerwig - or any other women - in the best director category.\n\nTold on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the acting list \"seems very white\", Bafta CEO Berry replied: \"I'm going to totally agree with you. That's how I felt when I first saw the list.\n\n\"This isn't being disrespectful to anybody who has been nominated because it's an incredibly strong list this year.\n\n\"If you look at the director category, where I hoped we would see at least one female director, that is an incredibly strong list when you have people like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino and Sam Mendes, who have got multiple nominations in the past.\"\n\nThere was no room for Cynthia Erivo for playing slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman\n\nGerwig did pick up a nomination for best adapted screenplay, however.\n\nThe actors who were overlooked included British star Cynthia Erivo, who was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in Harriet, a biopic about Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery.\n\nThe lists drew strong criticism on social media, with #BaftasSoWhite trending. Director Rapman, whose controversial film Blue Story was overlooked except in the rising star category, wrote: \"The lack of of black faces is ridiculous.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rapman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBafta's deputy chairman Krishnendu Majumdar said the lack of female nominees in the best director category was an \"industry-wide problem\" and that Bafta was \"fiercely doing something about it\" with its schemes like Elevate.\n\nMarc Samuelson, chair of Bafta's film committee, said the issue was \"infuriating\".\n\nHe added: \"We can't make the industry do something, all we can do is encourage and push and inspire and try to help people coming in at the bottom end.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Emma Kelly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMetro film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh told BBC News that the lack of a nomination for Gerwig was \"a real omission\", while the main acting categories could have recognised Erivo, The Farewell star Awkwafina, and Us actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\n\"Certainly when the list of actors came up, and it was wall to wall white faces for this year, it was very disappointing,\" Ivan-Zadeh said.\n\n\"Margot Robbie and Scarlett Johansson both had two nominations each - well done for them - but it just felt like you're using up spaces that could be perhaps used for different and more diverse performances. And it's not that the performances aren't there.\"\n\n1917, directed by Sam Mendes (centre) met the diversity standards to be nominated for best British film\n\nLast year, Bafta introduced new criteria for two awards \"to encourage better representation and increased inclusivity across the British industry\".\n\nIt said films would not be nominated for best British film or best British debut unless they met at least two of four \"diversity standards\", which cover on-screen talent, storylines, creative leadership, training and underserved audiences.\n\nThis year's best British film category includes Rocketman, Sam Mendes's World War One drama 1917 and The Two Popes, starring Jonathan Pryce and Sir Anthony Hopkins as a pair of pontiffs.\n\nThe BFI, which oversees the diversity standards scheme, does not publish details of which criteria each film met, but confirmed all nominated films in the two categories met the diversity criteria. Those criteria do not extend to the acting and directing awards.\n\nAwkwafina, whose real name is Nora Lum, won a Golden Globe on Sunday\n\nThere was more diversity on the shortlist for the rising star award, which was announced on Monday.\n\nAwkwafina - who won a Golden Globe on Sunday - was nominated alongside Fighting with my Family's Jack Lowden, Booksmart's Kaitlyn Dever, Waves actor Kelvin Harrison Jr and Blue Story star Michael Ward.\n\nWard has said his nomination was a vindication of the film following controversies around its screenings.\n\nThe gang drama was temporarily withdrawn from Vue cinemas after seven police officers were injured in a disturbance at Star City in Birmingham in November, where there were reports of youths with machetes.\n\nWard was a model for online retailers such as JD Sports before turning to acting\n\nWinners and nominees in most categories are voted for by 6,700 Bafta members, who are industry professionals and creatives around the world.\n\n\"In many areas, our voting membership is more diverse than the industry,\" a Bafta statement said. \"However diversity continues to be an issue that needs to be tackled urgently within the industry, and Bafta continues to work hard to increase opportunities for underrepresented groups through all of our activities.\"\n\nThe ceremony will take place on 2 February at the Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Graham Norton.\n\nThis year has also seen the introduction of a category for best casting director - the Baftas' first new category for more than two decades - following a campaign last year to recognise that arm of the film industry.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Outbound trains in Wuhan have been stopped\n\nThere have been widely-shared reports on social media and some state-run services that healthcare services in Wuhan - one of China's largest cities - are under strain following the outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nHu Xijin, the editor of state-run newspaper Global Times, said there had been a \"failure\" to contain the virus, and videos of patients queuing to get seen in hospitals.\n\nHowever, other Communist-party outlets have praised the response to the outbreak.\n\nWuhan is a major transit hub with a population of about 11 million people, and has effectively been put on lockdown, along with other major cities in the region, in an unprecedented move to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe city serves as the main economic hub for the wider province, Hubei, and has the most advanced healthcare facilities in the region.\n\nThe metropolitan area has seven major hospitals - considered some of the best in China, with Tong Ji Hospital ranked third nationally - treating patients.\n\nIt has seven more hospitals supporting the efforts, and 61 clinics around the city which are testing patients for symptoms of the virus. A local government report from 2014 included Wuhan among the top six cities for medical treatment in the country - although it ranks behind Beijing and Shanghai.\n\nIn terms of capacity, the report said Wuhan had 6.51 hospital beds and 3.08 doctors per 1,000 people - this isn't a straightforward indication of healthcare capacity (more doctors doesn't always mean better healthcare), but it does rank Wuhan among the more developed places in the world. The UK and US have 2.8 and 2.6 doctors per 1,000 heads, respectively.\n\nSo - is is this enough for a such a large city undergoing a mass shutdown?\n\nThe lockdown in Wuhan has caused panic in the city - the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that containing a large city like this is \"new to science\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHubei as a province has a lower number of doctors per 1,000 people, at 2.55 according to the latest government statistics.\n\n\"It's yet to be seen whether the costs associated with this kind of mass quarantine measure (not just financially, but with respect to personal liberty too) will translate into effective infection control,\" said Dr. Maia Majumder, an expert at Harvard Medical School in the US, who is tracking the virus.\n\nHubei has declared a \"Grade 1 public health emergency\", the most severe level - that means the response is led centrally from Beijing by the State Council, the government's cabinet.\n\nBeijing has tried to allay concerns by sending more healthcare professionals, and constructing two hospitals from scratch providing more than 2,000 extra beds.\n\nReports from state-run media say there are 405 medical staff from Shanghai and 205 staff from Guangdong travelling to the region.\n\nThey're also expanding existing capacity in other facilities.\n\nThe government has also assigned 21 centres in Hubei province to help co-ordinate treatment, and train local health officials.\n\nProfessor Shenglan Tang, an expert in global health at Duke University in the US, says there are concerns that rural areas will struggle to cope.\n\n\"I'm confident that the health centres in Wuhan will be able to handle the outbreak, but I am a bit worried about Hubei province - rural workers have gone back home from Wuhan to celebrate Chinese New Year, and in these areas the hospital capacity is weak,\" said Professor Tang.\n\nDespite resilient rhetoric from the government, people are expressing concern about the city's ability to cope with the outbreak.\n\nThe BBC spoke to a number of people in the region who said that getting test results was taking longer than officials are claiming.\n\nWe were told that in some cases medical staff lack equipment and doctors are overstretched. There are also claims that local government, which was apparently made aware of the outbreak in mid-December, ignored initial warning signs.\n\nWe haven't been able to independently verify these claims.\n\nThe government has called for people to report poor medical responses to an online \"inspection\" platform.\n\nThe regional government has issued a statement appealing for donations to help with the response, including asking for facemasks.", "Sandy Seagrave and Amy Appleton were found dead outside a house in Crawley Down\n\nA man has been charged with murdering two women who were found dead in a West Sussex village.\n\nSandy Seagrave, 76, and Amy Appleton, 32, were found dead outside a house in Crawley Down on 22 December.\n\nDaniel Appleton, 37, of Hazel Way, Crawley Down, is accused of killing both women and is charged with two counts of murder.\n\nHe will appear before Crawley Magistrates' Court on Monday, a spokesman for Sussex Police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The shooting happened in a building a short distance from the railway station in Rot am See\n\nA man has shot dead six members of his family - including his parents - in the south-west German town of Rot am See, local police have said at a briefing.\n\nThe 26-year-old suspect called the emergency services at lunchtime to say he had shot several people in a restaurant.\n\nThe man, who had a gun licence, was arrested as he waited for police outside the building.\n\nThe bodies of three men and three women were found inside the restaurant.\n\nThe victims were aged between 36 and 69, the police in the state of Baden-Württemberg said.\n\nTwo other relatives were injured, one critically.\n\nThe police said the suspect had also threatened two teenage members of his family - but that the boys were not harmed.\n\nThe shooting is believed to be related to a family dispute.\n\nForensic experts are now examining the scene\n\nPolice are trying to determine the exact motive for the shooting.\n\nThere is no evidence that anyone else was involved in the shooting, they say.\n\nThe shooting happened at around 12:45 (11:45 GMT) in a building in the Bahnhofstrasse that features the Deutscher Kaiser restaurant.\n\nThe area has been sealed off. A team of forensic scientists are currently working at the scene.\n\nRot am See is a small town of some 5,000 residents in the Schwäbisch Hall district north-east of Stuttgart.", "The children's grieving father, Andrew McGinley, released a photo of his children after they were found dead in a house\n\nThe names of three children found dead in \"unexplained circumstances\" at a house in County Dublin have been released by gardaí (Irish police).\n\nThey were nine-year-old Conor McGinley, his seven-year-old brother Darragh McGinley and their little sister Carla McGinley, who was three years old.\n\nTheir bodies were found by ambulance staff and gardaí in a house in the suburb of Newcastle on Friday night.\n\nA woman found at the scene, believed to be their mother, was taken to hospital.\n\nThe woman, who is in her 40s, is currently receiving medical attention in Tallaght University Hospital.\n\nIrish broadcaster RTÉ has reported that a note was found at the scene of the children's deaths and the house has been cordoned off as a crime scene.\n\nGardaí have said they not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident and have described it as \"an enormous tragedy for the family\".\n\nThey confirmed that they responded to a call at the property at Parson's Court in Newcastle at about 19.45 local time on Friday.\n\nGardaí are currently treating the deaths as \"unexplained\" but said on Friday night that they did not believe the children died of natural causes.\n\nThe assistant state pathologist attended the incident on Saturday and investigating officers are awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations.", "Live coverage from Washington DC, as President Donald Trump's impeachment trial continues in the Senate.\n\nThe impeachment is in its final stages as senators prepare to cast their final vote on Wednesday, with acquittal almost certain.", "Plans by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to trademark their Sussex Royal brand could face an official challenge.\n\nA \"notice of threatened opposition\" was filed with the Intellectual Property Office, giving the complainant a month to lodge a formal objection.\n\nThat is now being rescinded, after an Australian doctor named in the filing said his details had been used without permission.\n\nBut since then, three more notices have been filed.\n\nIt is not yet clear on what basis the complainants might want to oppose the Sussex Royal trademark.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's foundation applied to trademark the term - used on their website and social media - in June last year. The application covered products such as clothing and stationery, as well as campaigning and charitable fundraising.\n\nTheir plans attracted further attention after the couple announced their intention to \"step back\" from royal duties and become \"financially independent\".\n\nRecords at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which governs trademarks in the UK, show that a notice of threatened opposition was filed on 21 January.\n\nThe World Trademark Review website said it was filed in the name of a doctor living in Victoria, Australia.\n\nBut the IPO said it was rescinding this notice after it had been \"advised by an individual that their personal details have been used without their permission to submit a 'Notice of threatened opposition' to the Sussex Royal trade mark\".\n\nSince the objection was first publicised, three similar notices also appear to have been filed on 24 January.\n\nThe notices mean the \"opposition period\", during which detailed objections can be made, is extended to 20 March.\n\nBen Evans, senior associate and chartered trademark attorney at Blake Morgan, said the IPO had considered the Sussexes' application for an unusually long time before publishing the trademark, perhaps because of rules over the term \"royal\".\n\nHe said someone might formally oppose a trademark registration because they have a competing brand with which it might be confused, or because they object to the description - since the couple are no longer senior royals.\n\nBut unlike a full objection, filing a notice of threatened objection requires no fee and no evidence, he said.\n\n\"You could just do it to be difficult,\" said Mr Evans. \"It looks like the IPO might be quite busy on this one.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the Sussexes have found themselves in a battle over their preferred brand.\n\nThe Sussex Royal name on Instagram was originally taken by driving instructor Kevin Keiley, who lives in West Sussex and supports Reading FC - nicknamed the Royals.\n\nInstagram handed the name to the duke and duchess, leaving Mr Keiley as @_sussexroyal_ instead.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA leading mental health charity for military veterans says it will not be able to take any new cases in England and Wales, because of a funding crisis.\n\nCombat Stress said its income has fallen from £16m to £10m in the current financial year partly due to cuts in NHS funding support.\n\nThe charity had been receiving around 2,000 referrals for treatment a year.\n\nThe NHS said new specialist services for ex-soldiers have helped more than 10,000 people to date.\n\nThe NHS said in a statement its \"number one priority is providing the best care for veterans\".\n\nNHS England had previously commissioned Combat Stress to provide a six-week residential programme, providing them with more than £3m funding a year.\n\nAfter consulting veterans and their families as part of a review, it has decided instead to use this money on new services, including community-based help.\n\nIt also provides a range of intensive treatments and interventions for a longer period of up to 32 weeks.\n\nBut veterans' minister Johnny Mercer said he will hold an \"urgent meeting\" over Combat Stress' problems.\n\nCombat Stress said that, until 2018, it was receiving more than £3m a year from NHS England.\n\nBut it said 90% of its income is now dependent on public donations.\n\nThe charity still receives more than £1m from NHS Scotland and it will continue to take on new cases there and in Northern Ireland.\n\nCombat Stress - which describes itself as the UK's leading charity for veterans' mental health - said its decision not to take on any new referrals in England and Wales has been taken \"with great sadness\".\n\nIt said it is now faced with scaling back its services and workforce and is consulting with staff about its proposals.\n\nAll new referrals will now be redirected to the NHS, which Combat Stress said \"needs to demonstrate\" it can deal with the additional demands.\n\nThe charity's president and former head of the Army, General Sir Peter Wall, said: \"The onus to treat the small minority of military veterans suffering from mental ill-health is falling on a charity that lacks the resources to meet the current demand\".\n\nHe added: \"We all have a responsibility to sort this out\".\n\nSue Freeth, chief executive of Combat Stress, has questioned whether NHS England will be able to cope.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I don't believe the NHS can pick this up. That is why we exist.\"\n\nMs Freeth said 80% of veterans who come to her organisation have either used the NHS and have not had their needs met, or have felt unable to use NHS services.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said: \"For anyone who has served in the armed forces and may be experiencing mental health difficulties help is available through speaking to their GP or contacting the dedicated NHS services directly.\"\n\nA number of groups and charities have warned of a spike in the number of veterans taking their own lives.\n\nEarlier this month the body of a former soldier, Jamie Davis, was found after he went missing.\n\nHis wife Alicia has criticised the \"lack of intervention\" to help him with his post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Army veteran Jamie Davis was found dead six days ago in Totton, Hampshire.\n\nMr Davis' former commanding officer in Afghanistan has also expressed his concern.\n\nRetired Major Richard Streatfield served in Sangin in 2010 and said Mr Davis was the fourth soldier under his command to have died at home in \"similar tragic circumstances\".\n\nHe said the British army and the government has a duty to dedicate time and resources to those who have been exposed to trauma.\n\nFormer Royal Navy engineer Paul Smith told the BBC the government needs to do more to support military veterans.\n\nHe said Combat Stress \"saved my life\" as he struggled with PTSD for 30 years after serving in the Falklands.\n\nMr Smith said he suffered nightmares and flashbacks and became an alcoholic as a result of his military service at the age of 17.\n\nHe said the clinicians at the charity know how to deal with veterans who are \"scared and frightened, people who are close to ending their lives\".\n\n\"The men and women of the military serve this country and are willing to die for this country,\" he explained.\n\n\"But they come back and it's as if the government is ignoring them.\"\n\nYou can find information and support on mental health from the BBC Action Line here.", "The area is popular with British skiers\n\nThe body of a 24-year-old British man has been found after a 12-hour search in the French Alps.\n\nLocal newspaper reports suggested he was the victim of a fall.\n\nThe man was reported missing in the early hours of Thursday morning after he became separated from his friends while returning from a night out.\n\nA spokesperson for the Foreign Office confirmed it is \"supporting the family of a British man who has died in the French Alps\".\n\nThe man's body was spotted by a helicopter at 16:50 local time on Thursday following an extensive search involving police, firefighters and mountain rescue, French newspaper Le Dauphine reported.\n\nIt is believed the man was returning to his accommodation in the ski resort of Brides-les-Bains in the early hours of Thursday, after a night out in the nearby village of Les Allues with other British people.\n\nHe was reported missing to the police around 05:00 on Thursday after failing to return to his accommodation.\n\nThe three-mile walk between Les Allues and Brides-les-Bains takes an estimated one-and-a-half hours. Temperatures were reported to be -3C (26F) at the time.\n\nThe Foreign Office said they were working with local authorities. The man's identity has not been released.\n\nThe resort of Brides-les-Bains is connected by cable car to the well-known resort of Meribel in France's Trois Vallees, an area popular with British skiers.\n\nThe latest tragedy follows the death of trainee surgeon William Reid who died earlier this month after plunging over a 30ft cliff while skiing in the French Alps.", "China has widened a lockdown in Hubei province - the centre of the coronavirus outbreak - as the death toll climbed to 25.", "Marianne Phillips says her agent dropped the asking price of her house without permission\n\nHome sellers could be at risk of losing large sums of money when using quick-sale estate agents to find a buyer, Trading Standards has warned.\n\nIt has seen dozens of cases of people losing tens of thousands of pounds off the market value of their homes.\n\nSome homeowners will accept a lower offer price to secure a speedy sale, and many firms provide a good service.\n\nBut investigator Alison Farrar said Trading Standards had \"a few of these companies on their radar\" at present.\n\n\"I would imagine there are quite a few more we don't know about,\" she added.\n\nAdverts on social media and in national newspapers promise to sell people's homes within seven or 14 days, and in many cases offer a valuable service for people needing to sell quickly.\n\nBut Radio 4's Money Box programme has heard examples where people have had the offer price of their homes reduced, without their knowledge or permission, by tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nMarianne Phillips is worried her three bed semi, which she agreed to put up for sale at £250,000, has effectively been devalued by the company she used. It dropped the asking price by £20,000 without her knowledge or permission.\n\nWhen she found out, Marianne says she was \"absolutely incredulous\".\n\n\"No way did I ever give my approval for that, I was absolutely devastated. It's a lot of money to reduce a house by without ever getting in touch with the person who owns it,\" she says.\n\n\"The equity I've built up in the house, they've just potentially wiped a lot of that out by reducing it by £20,000.\n\n\"It could have quite a dramatic effect on my future\".\n\nAfter Marianne's deal with the quick sale estate agent she was using ended, she relisted with a more traditional agent. This makes it hard to put an exact figure on how much money she might have lost.\n\nWhat is clear though is the stress and anxiety she has suffered, given her concern that her home has been potentially devalued by tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nLowering the asking price of someone's home without their permission is illegal\n\nLowering the sale price of a property without the seller's permission is also against the law.\n\nLee Reynolds, a lawyer who specialises in Trading Standards law, says \"dropping the price of someone's house is a potential breach of what's called Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading regulations\".\n\n\"That's punishable by up to two years in prison and/or an unlimited fine.\n\n\"If it was done knowingly or recklessly it's still a potential breach.\"\n\nConsumers have rights, but National Trading Standards says not many people know where to go to complain.\n\nIt wants anyone who thinks they may have been dealt with unfairly by a quick sale estate agent to get in touch.\n\nPeople can also complain to one of two government approved organisations: the Property Ombudsman Limited and the Property Redress Scheme.\n\nTo be an estate agent in the UK you must be registered with one of these schemes, which are able to issue financial awards to people who've been left out of pocket.\n\nMark Hayward, the chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents Propertymark, says people must do their research and find an estate agent - quick-sale or not - that works for them.\n\n\"I would warn people to make sure they've read the small print and to not be pushed into any price they're not comfortable with,\" he says.\n\n\"The safest way to get an estate agent is to look for one that is regulated and has professional indemnity insurance.\n\n\"[Your house] is your biggest asset, don't be rushed into making any decision.\"\n\nYou can hear more from BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening here.", "A non-league footballer has died after being attacked during a night out, police have said.\n\nJordan Sinnott, who played for Matlock Town, was found unconscious in Market Place, Retford, Nottinghamshire, at about 02:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nPolice have launched a murder investigation after the 25-year-old midfielder was found following \"two large-scale disturbances\" in the town.\n\nHe suffered a fractured skull and died in hospital. A man has been arrested.\n\nThe 27-year-old remains in police custody and was earlier being questioned on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nDet Insp Justine Wilson said: \"Mr Sinnott's death is a sad and significant development in this investigation.\n\n\"Our investigative team's focus will remain on identifying those responsible and bringing them to justice.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Matlock Town, who play in the Northern Premier League, said players found out about Sinnott's condition when they arrived for their match versus Mickleover Sports and \"agreed it should be postponed to a future date\".\n\nThe club issued a statement after Mr Sinnott died, which said: \"His family and friends were with him at his bedside and we send our sincere condolences to them all at this very sad time.\"\n\nThey tweeted: \"You weren't just a footballer, you were our friend and brother. You gave us incredible memories and scored your first career hat-trick in your final game for the club. Rest easy Jordan, we love, miss and will never forget you.\"\n\nSinnott had joined Matlock from National League North side Alfreton Town, who also issued a statement in which they described the player as a \"model footballer and an exceptional talent\".\n\nOthers have paid tribute on social media:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huddersfield Town This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Chesterfield FC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said officers had attended a \"large-scale fight\" involving eight men and women at the Dominie Cross pub car park in Grove Street at about 23:25 GMT on Friday.\n\nSinnott was found a couple of hours later following another \"large-scale disturbance\", police said.\n\n\"Officers were later called to assist ambulance crews who were attempting to treat Sinnott after he was found unconscious with a suspected fractured skull following a subsequent incident,\" Nottinghamshire Police said later.\n\nPolice said a 27-year old man suffered a suspected broken nose and a 44-year old man was left with a suspected broken jaw.\n\nDet Insp Wilson said: \"We are appealing to anyone who was in Retford town centre late last night and in the early hours of this morning to come forward.\n\n\"This incident happened at a very busy time and we believe there are still a number of witnesses who have still not yet come forward who may hold vital information about how a young man came to lose his life so tragically.\"\n\nSinnott, from Bradford, is the son of former footballer Lee Sinnott.\n\nHe started his career as a youth player at Huddersfield Town, for whom he made five appearances between 2013 and 2014, before joining non-league Altrincham.\n\nAfter a spell at Halifax, he went on to play again in the Football League, joining League Two Chesterfield for the 2017-18 season.\n\nEarlier this month he scored the first hat-trick of his career during a game against Basford United.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nBritish basketball has reacted with \"sadness\" to the \"shock\" news that Robert Archibald, the only Scot to play in the NBA, has died at 39.\n\nBorn in Paisley, the forward/centre also represented Scotland and Great Britain at the Olympics.\n\nBasketball Scotland counterpart Kevin Pringle said he was \"a trailblazer\".\n\nArchibald, whose first club was Dunfermline Reign, was the son of Scotland and GB captain Bobby Archibald, and went to high school and college in the USA on a basketball scholarship at the University of Illinois.\n\nHe began his senior career with Memphis Grizzlies in 2002 before moves to Phoenix Suns, Orlando Magic and Toronto Raptors.\n\nArchibald moved to Valencia in 2004 and played eight seasons in Europe's top leagues, joining Scavolini Pesaro, Joventut Badalona, with whom he won the Fiba EuroCup title in 2006, Azovmash Mariupol, Unicaja Malaga and CAI Zaragoza.\n\nHaving won his first cap in 2007, he played for Great Britain 42 times, including at the 2009 and 2011 EuroBasket tournaments, but retired in 2012 and went back to the USA to live and to work in insurance.\n\nGreat Britain centre Andrew Betts, who played with Archibald on the GB team and with Joventut, said: \"I'm heartbroken to hear the news of the passing of my friend and team-mate Rob.\n\n\"He was truly one of the nicest, funniest guys I ever met. I spent some of my favourite years of basketball with him and his family on and off the court. RIP big fella.\"\n\nGB basketball's Watkins was also \"deeply saddened\" to learn of Archibald's passing in Chicago.\n\n\"He was a fantastic ambassador for Scottish and British basketball and will be fondly remembered for his great contribution to the game in our country, his talent and his great achievements,\" he said.\n\nBasketball Scotland chief executive Pringle said that the death had come as \"a complete shock to us all\".\n\n\"He was a wonderful man and a great friend, as well as being a trailblazer and an inspiration to others,\" he added. \"Robert loved the sport and demonstrated what can be achieved through hard work and the right attitude.\n\n\"Throughout his extraordinary career, he always played with pride and determination and was always a credit to his country, whether representing Scotland or GB at home or abroad.\n\n\"The basketball community has lost a great role model and a true friend and the thoughts of the whole community are with his family at this difficult time. We will miss him.\"", "Crews were called to the fire at a property on Wensley Avenue\n\nA man and his 10-year-old daughter have died in a fire at a terraced house on the outskirts of Hull.\n\nCrews were called to Wensley Avenue, just off Cottingham Road, Cottingham, shortly before 08:00 GMT and battled to rescue them from the building.\n\nThe man was pronounced dead at the scene and his daughter was taken to hospital but died later.\n\nHumberside Police said fire investigators were working to establish the cause of the blaze.\n\nThe father and daughter were the only people in the property at the time, the fire service said.\n\n\"We pulled out an adult male, and what we now know is his 10-year-old daughter, and tragically both lives were lost to the fire,\" Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\n\"We have got fire investigation officers there who will be working tirelessly throughout today.\"\n\nNeighbour Carl Goodfellow said he saw smoke coming from the building and tried to rescue those inside.\n\n\"We tried to break the door down, but them composite doors are a bit strong,\" he said.\n\n\"I was banging on the window shouting, shouting through the letterbox.\n\n\"I was banging on the window to try and get some attention, but there was nothing.\n\n\"We did try to alert him, but there was no response.\"\n\nNeighbour Carl Goodfellow tried to break the door down to help the people in the house\n\nAnother neighbour Phillip Darwick said he saw a police car go by and came out to see what was happening.\n\nHe said: \"When I looked down [the street] I could see a load of action and smoke billowing out.\n\n\"We've lived here a lot of years and so have they, so we think we know them.\n\n\"It's quite shocking, you never think - it's a cliché - but you never think it's going to happen do you?\n\n\"It's shaken me and my wife up, it's quite sad really.\"\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire has begun with specialist officers working in the house\n\nTalking about the attempts by other neighbours to alert the people in the house about the fire Mr Darwick added:\n\n\"When I came out all I saw was a load of smoke come flying out of the window and it looked like it was coming out of the roof.\"\n\n\"This event has turned out to be tragic in the loss of two lives in a house fire,\" Steve Duffield from Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\n\"We worked tirelessly with emergency service colleagues to do everything we could.\n\n\"We sent breathing apparatus crews into the property immediately to attempt to rescue [people] but tragically it was too late for the individuals and we're reporting a loss of two lives in this event.\n\n\"It's a tragic event in any circumstance.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eminem is the only artist to have 10 straight UK number one albums\n\nEminem has started the weekend with a double, topping both the UK album and singles charts.\n\nThe rapper's surprise release, Music To Be Murdered By, came in for criticism as one track refers to the Manchester bomb attack, which killed 22 people.\n\nBut on Thursday, the 47-year-old defended his controversial lyrics, saying they were not intended to be taken literally.\n\nThe victory gives him a record-breaking 10th number one album in a row.\n\nDespite leading the race at the midweek stage, Manchester indie rockers The Courteeners finished in second place with 25,000 sales - their highest-ever chart position (More. Again. Forever. was also this week's best-selling album on vinyl).\n\nOn Monday, frontman Liam Fray said Eminem had \"crossed a line\" on the track Unaccommodating, which mentions an explosion outside of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nEminem replied to his critics by saying some lyrics on the album were \"designed to shock the conscience, which may cause positive action\".\n\nHe added the album, which recorded 36,000 chart sales, is not intended for people who are \"easily offended or unnerved\".\n\nEminem also topped the singles chart with one song from the album, Godzilla, which features Juice WRLD, the rapper who died in December after an accidental overdose.\n\nGodzilla only topped the singles chart by the narrowest of margins.\n\nThe song finished a mere 93 chart sales ahead of 2020's newest star, 21-year-old Compton rapper Roddy Ricch - who went viral on Tik Tok, with his track, The Box.\n\nThe Roddy Ricch dance challenge saw thousands of users of the social media platform film themselves showing off their moves.\n\nThe Official Charts Company described this week as \"one of the closest chart battles of recent times\".\n\nRoddy Ricch missed out on his first UK number one by 93 chart sales\n\nUltimately, it resulted in Eminem bagging his 10th number one single on these shores.\n\nLast year, only three tracks went similarly straight in at the top; Stormzy's Vossi Bop, Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber's I Don't Care, and LadBaby's charity Christmas number one, I Love Sausage Rolls.\n\nReturning indie band Bombay Bicycle Club's new album. Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, went back in at number four after their four-year hiatus.\n\nMeanwhile, UK drill rapper DigDat enjoyed the biggest opening week chart sales for an album from that genre, with his mixtape Ei8ht Mile landing in 12th place.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An Oxford professor given protection after alleged threats from transgender rights activists says she did not want to \"wait and see if I'd get hit in the face\" before taking action.\n\nSelina Todd, modern history professor at St Hilda's College, said members of staff accompanied her to lectures after learning of threats on social media.\n\nProf Todd has now warned against shutting down debates.\n\nThe University of Oxford said it did not comment on individual arrangements.\n\nThe academic told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she felt \"vulnerable\" having previously experienced hostility from some academics and students.\n\nProf Todd said the threats come from some campaigners who believe her views on the need to protect women's spaces, such as single-sex refuges, from people who self-identify as women but are anatomically male are unacceptable.\n\nThe academic said that she has witnessed \"quite antagonistic\" and \"quite confrontational\" protests outside women's rights meetings she has spoken at in the past.\n\nBut she insisted that discussions about women's rights should not be silenced.\n\n\"It's always the case that groups' needs and interests can conflict with those of other equally legitimate groups,\" she said.\n\nBut she added that in a democratic state an open debate on how to accommodate the needs of all legitimate groups within a society was needed.\n\n\"In the world today democracy is under threat and therefore we all have to defend the right of people to have freedom of speech and freedom of debate,\" she said.\n\nShe later tweeted to say that \"on the basis of limited info me and my employer could get, we decided not to wait and see if I'd get hit in the face\" before introducing security measures.\n\nThe story was first reported this week in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nProf Todd told the paper that two students had warned her they had seen threats made against her on email networks they were a part of.\n\nThe university, she said, carried out its own investigation and found there was enough evidence to provide her with protection.\n\nThe two male staff members providing protection arrive in lectures before students in order to \"diffuse\" any potential action that might take place, she said.\n\nProf Todd said universities were not a place for bigotry, but somewhere to have a \"respectful, democratic debate\" that was \"evidence-based\".\n\nShe continued: \"This might sound like a storm in a teacup and something that's just about student activists but students become graduates and Oxford students tend to become graduates who go into things like politics, the media or the civil service.\n\n\"So if they are learning that no debate is the way to run a society we should all be worried.\"\n\nThe University of Oxford said it did not comment on individual cases, but added in a statement: \"When staff raise concerns with us, the university will always review the circumstances and offer appropriate support to ensure their safety and their freedom of expression.\"", "The recruit was recovered from the sea at Tregantle beach in Cornwall\n\nA Royal Marine who was injured in a training incident earlier this week has died.\n\nThe Marine was part of a group that had been practising an assault from a landing craft on Tregantle beach, Cornwall.\n\nThe recruit had been wearing full kit and had \"gone under water\" during the exercise on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe Royal Navy said its \"thoughts and sympathies\" were with the recruit's family and friends.\n\nIt said the incident was under investigation.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said on Thursday it had been called to the incident on the beach shortly after 22:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\n\"The caller reported to us that a person had gone underwater. We sent land, air and other specialist paramedics to attend the incident,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"They treated a male patient at the scene and he was conveyed by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital for further care.\"\n\nThe man was in the last phase of his 32-week training.\n\nThe Royal Marines' principal military training centre is situated near Lympstone in Devon.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has told US President Donald Trump of \"the need\" for the suspect in the Harry Dunn case to return to the UK, No 10 has said.\n\nIn a telephone conversation with the president the prime minister spoke of \"the need to secure justice for Harry's family\", following the fatal crash.\n\nIt comes after the US rejected the UK's extradition request for Anne Sacoolas.\n\nShe was driving a car that was in collision with Mr Dunn's motorcycle near RAF Croughton in 2019.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson had raised the issue again in a phone call with the president on Friday.\n\nHarry Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles has said the family's determination to get justice is \"stronger than ever\"\n\n\"The Prime Minister raised the tragic case of Harry Dunn, and the need to secure justice for Harry's family,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"He reiterated the need for the individual involved to return to the UK.\"\n\nMs Sacoolas, 42, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash in August and was able to return home to the US.\n\nThe crash happened outside the Northamptonshire RAF base where Mrs Sacoolas's husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMs Sacoolas is to be charged with causing death by dangerous driving but Mr Johnson has previously said the chance of her ever returning to the UK is very low.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom met Mr Dunn's family on Friday, the day after she had informed them of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's decision to refuse the extradition request.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003", "Iraqi security forces (in the background) burned protesters' tents at Baghdad's Tahrir Square\n\nIraqi security forces have moved against the main anti-government protest site in central Baghdad.\n\nThey fired live ammunition and tear gas as they began removing tents and concrete barriers near Tahrir Square and a bridge across the Tigris river, eyewitnesses say.\n\nSeveral people are reported to have been injured in Saturday's clashes.\n\nProtesters have for months held anti-government demonstrations and camped in the capital.\n\nSaturday's violence comes a day after a separate massive rally in Baghdad against the presence of US forces in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany protesters in that rally were supporters of powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who had called a million of people to join Friday's march.\n\nThe US killing of the top Iranian military commander, Gen Qasem Soleimani, on 3 January at Baghdad airport has fuelled tensions.\n\nAlso assassinated in the US drone strike was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi who had commanded the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage, reportedly of the missile attack, was shown on Iranian state TV\n\nIran responded on 8 January to Gen Soleimani's assassination by carrying out a ballistic missile attack on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.\n\nA Pentagon spokesman has said that 34 US service members had suffered traumatic brain injuries.\n\nHours after the strike, Iran's armed forces fired two missiles at a Ukrainian passenger plane over Iran's capital, Tehran, by mistake, killing all 176 people on board.", "The guidance highlights the positive role dogs can play in people's lives\n\nA homeless shelter in Glasgow has announced it will allow dogs to stay with their owners, following advice from housing providers.\n\nThe Glasgow City Mission will supply items such as food, bedding and treats for pets from 24 January.\n\nIn November Simon Community Scotland issued guidance with Dogs Trust on the matter, highlighting how dogs could provide comfort for people with trauma.\n\nDogs Trust estimated only about 10% of hostels were dog-friendly at the time.\n\nThe document consists of several pieces of advice such as how to provide dog-friendly communal rooms in temporary shelters and create risk assessments to ensure there are no issues with staff members being allergic to, or afraid of, pets.\n\nThe animal welfare charity supplied the Glasgow City Mission with materials in order to accommodate pets.\n\nThe winter night shelter is located at the Lodging House Mission in East Campbell Street.\n\nA spokesperson for Glasgow City Mission said they \"recognised the importance of dogs\" to guests and wanted to make sure dog owners got a good night's sleep.\n\nThey continued: \"We thank our friends at the Dogs Trust for their generosity in supplying all the necessary materials and accessories to allow us to launch this scheme.\n\n\"We have food, treats, bedding and toys ready and waiting.\"\n• None Homeless 'should be allowed to stay with dogs'", "Grenfell Tower families have raised concerns to the PM about a potential conflict of interest involving a member of the inquiry into the disaster.\n\nBenita Mehra will join chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick for the inquiry's second phase, which begins this year.\n\nThe Guardian has revealed Ms Mehra ran a charity that received funding linked to US firm Arconic, which supplied the cladding that helped the fire spread.\n\nSeventy-two people died during the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nShah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the fire, told the BBC: \"We have to look into it and see what the facts are and, if there's a conflict interest, I'm afraid she has to go. She has to be replaced.\n\n\"She's going to be sitting on panel judging and analysing things and we can't have any sort of conflict of interest.\"\n\nHe added that, in a meeting with bereaved families on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to \"listen, look into it and he'd come back to us\".\n\nA report - following the first phase of the public inquiry into the fire - found in October last year that the tower block's cladding did not comply with building regulations and was the \"principal\" reason for the fire's rapid and \"profoundly shocking\" spread.\n\nArconic said the grant was made by its charitable arm, the Arconic Foundation, which is \"an independently endowed and managed foundation\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"It's part of Arconic Foundation's mission to create access to these fields for girls and women all over the globe. The grant we awarded in 2017 to this particular UK association was purely on this basis.\"\n\nMs Mehra, a civil engineer, was appointed to the Grenfell Tower inquiry panel shortly before Christmas, replacing academic Professor Nabeel Hamdi.\n\nIt has since emerged that Ms Mehra is an immediate past president of the Women's Engineering Society (WES), which previously received funding from the Arconic Foundation for an apprentice conference.\n\nEarlier, Karim Mussilhy, vice-chairman of the survivors and bereaved group Grenfell United, told the Guardian: \"Her society has been supported by Arconic. She will look at it from the perspective of Arconic doing good things for the industry, that they are a great organisation. Her perspective will be affected.\"\n\nHowever, a spokeswoman for the inquiry said they do not believe Ms Mehra's former role with the WES will have any influence on her ability to be impartial.\n\n\"The consideration and appointment of panel members is a matter for the Cabinet Office,\" said the spokeswoman.\n\n\"The inquiry does not consider that Benita Mehra's former presidency of the Women's Engineering Society in any way affects her impartiality as a panel member.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"There are robust processes in place to ensure the Grenfell Tower Inquiry remains independent and that any potential conflicts of interest are properly considered and managed.\"\n\nThey added that the Arconic Foundation donated to a \"specific scheme which provides mentoring for women in engineering and is unrelated to the issues being considered by the inquiry\".\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister \"reaffirmed his commitment to getting to the truth of what happened, learn lessons and deliver justice for victims\".\n\nOn Thursday's meeting with Grenfell families, a No 10 spokesman added: \"During the meeting, they reflected on the phase one report of the Grenfell Inquiry, and looked ahead to the next stage.\"\n\nMs Mehra stepped in for the second phase of the inquiry after Prof Nabeel Hamdi, a housing expert, decided to quit because of the commitment involved in taking part in the inquiry.\n\nThe second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry begins on 27 January.\n\nAfter considering the night of the fire, during the first phase, the focus will switch to the refurbishment of the building and its role in the fire, as well as issues surrounding the building regulations.\n\nThouria Istephan, who specialises in construction regulations, will join Sir Martin and Ms Mehra on the panel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescue teams rushed to help after the earthquake struck\n\nAt least 31 people have been killed and more than 1,600 injured in a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey.\n\nThe magnitude-6.8 quake centred on the town of Sivrice in Elazig province caused buildings to collapse and sent residents rushing into the street.\n\nForty-five people have been rescued so far, with more than 20 feared to remain trapped, officials say.\n\nEarthquakes are common in Turkey - about 17,000 people died in a quake in the western city of Izmit in 1999.\n\nTremors were also felt in neighbouring Syria, Lebanon and Iran.\n\nThis woman was pulled from the rubble in Elazig\n\nMore than 400 aftershocks were recorded, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (Afad) said.\n\nRescue teams worked through the night, using their hands, drills and diggers to try to find people in the rubble of fallen buildings. They also brought beds and tents for those displaced, and warned residents against returning to damaged buildings because of the danger of aftershocks.\n\nAfad said that most of the casualties were in Elazig province, and deaths were also reported in the neighbouring province of Malatya.\n\nSome 1,607 people were injured by the earthquake, according to the latest count.\n\nReports said an elderly woman was pulled alive from the rubble about 19 hours after the earthquake.\n\nAnother woman left buried was saved after calling her relatives from her mobile phone and telling them where she was trapped.\n\nBut a 12-year-old boy rescued from the wreckage later died in hospital.\n\nThe quake caused many buildings to collapse\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (centre-right) attends the funeral of some of the victims in Elazig\n\n\"It was very scary - furniture fell on top of us. We rushed outside,\" AFP news agency quoted 47-year-old Melahat Can, who lives in the city of Elazig, as saying.\n\n\"Our houses collapsed...we cannot go inside them,\" a 32-year-old man from Sivrice told Reuters.\n\nThe region struck by the quake, some 550km (340 miles) east of the capital Ankara, is remote and sparsely populated, so details of damage and fatalities could be slow to emerge.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled plans in Istanbul on Saturday to instead visit the affected area and attend the funeral of two of the victims.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can as the state and nation, and we will continue to do so. Our efforts at all rescue sites will continue,\" he said.\n\nIn its advisory on Saturday morning, the emergency authority said the overnight temperature had fallen to -8C (17.6F), with similar cold expected the following night.\n\nThe Turkish Red Crescent has also dispatched hundreds of personnel with emergency supplies, it said.\n\nSivrice, a town of about 4,000 people, is a popular tourist spot on the shore of Hazar lake, the source of the river Tigris.\n\nAre you in the area? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Sharon Green's daughter Rebecca went rollerblading in 1996 and \"never came home\"\n\nA mother who marks every anniversary of her daughter's death by placing flowers at the roadside was \"overwhelmed\" when a stranger left a poem for her to find.\n\nSharon Green leaves a floral tribute by the road in Sheffield where 13-year-old Rebecca was run over in 1996.\n\nPeter Fearnley actually wrote the poem in 2018 as the lyrics to a song. This year, he attached a laminated card of his verse to the railings.\n\nMs Green found his work and they were put in touch through social media.\n\n\"I was just overwhelmed to think that someone would go and put so much effort into writing the most beautiful verse,\" Ms Green told BBC Radio Sheffield.\n\nIn his poem, Mr Fearnley described the flowers as \"an epitaph and a shrine for a loved one lost too early\"\n\n\"I've seen this act of sweet remembrance for over twenty years\n\nFlowers on the railings full of tenderness and tears\n\nAll the colours of the rainbow wrapped up in a pretty bow\n\nThe flowers on the railings for a love that won't let go\"\n\nRebecca was knocked down at a crossing on Penistone Road on 20 January 1996, and each year since then her mum has left flowers as a \"reminder\" for passing drivers.\n\nOne of the motorists who noticed them over the years was Mr Fearnley, who commutes into Sheffield from Deepcar.\n\nTwo years ago Mr Fearnley recorded a song he shared online, in the hope the person who left the flowers would come across it - but to no avail.\n\n\"I thought it was a really touching tribute and always felt really moved [by the flowers],\" he said.\n\n\"I've been a songwriter for many years so it was natural for me to try and put those feelings into verse.\"\n\nAfter reading the verse, Ms Green asked her daughter Emma to share it on Facebook and the following day they made contact with Mr Fearnley.\n\n\"It's absolutely wonderful,\" Ms Green said. \"I can't believe someone has been driving past for the past 24 years and taking note that the flowers were there.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A newly-appointed Grenfell Tower fire inquiry panel member has resigned after she was linked to the charitable arm of a firm which supplied the block's deadly cladding.\n\nBenita Mehra said she recognised and respected the \"depth of feeling\" among some about her appointment.\n\nDowning Street said it had accepted her resignation but maintained there was no conflict of interest.\n\nIt comes ahead of the second phase of the inquiry beginning on Monday.\n\nMs Mehra, an engineer, had been appointed to replace academic Prof Nabeel Hamdi as an expert panellist for the second phase of the inquiry.\n\nVictims' families had raised concerns to the prime minister about her former role as a past president of the Women's Engineering Society, which received funding from the Arconic Foundation for an apprentice conference.\n\nArconic supplied the cladding on the outside of the west London tower block, which caught fire on 14 June 2017, claiming 72 lives.\n\nFamilies had been threatening to boycott the opening of the second phase of the Grenfell inquiry.\n\nThe Grenfell United group said the resignation had helped to \"lift growing anxiety ahead of phase two\".\n\nBut it continued: \"The government should never have put families in this situation.\n\n\"They failed to carry out basic checks and understand the importance and sensitivities around a fair and proper process.\"\n\nGrenfell United said the government must now urgently find a new panellist to replace Ms Mehra \"to bring expertise on community relations to the inquiry\", adding it \"does not need another technical expert\".\n\nIn her resignation letter to the PM, Ms Mehra said: \"As you know, I had hoped to draw on my experience and knowledge of the construction industry, of community engagement and of governance within housing management to contribute to the vital work of the inquiry in discovering how and why the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower happened.\"\n\nHowever, she said it was apparent her former role as president of the Women's Engineering Society had caused \"serious concern\" among a number of inquiry participants.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson thanked Ms Mehra for her commitment and said he was \"grateful for her sensitivity to the work of the inquiry\".\n\nA report - following the first phase of the public inquiry into the fire - found in October last year that the tower block's cladding did not comply with building regulations and was the \"principal\" reason for the fire's rapid and \"profoundly shocking\" spread.\n\nArconic said a \"confluence of unfortunate circumstances\" rather than the \"mere presence\" of the panels had caused the spread of the fire.\n\nIt has said that the grant was made by its charitable arm, the Arconic Foundation, which is \"an independently endowed and managed foundation\".\n\nOn Monday, the inquiry will switch from focusing on the night of the fire to the refurbishment of the building and its role in the blaze, as well as issues surrounding building regulations.", "Boris Johnson has signed the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Downing Street.\n\nThe prime minister hailed a \"fantastic moment\" for the country after he put his name to the historic agreement, which paves the way for the UK's exit from the European Union next Friday.\n\nHe said he hoped it would \"bring to an end far too many years of argument and division\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, European leaders signed the document in Brussels, before it was transported to London by train.\n\nThe signings mark another step in the ratification process, following Parliament's approval of the Brexit bill earlier this week. The European Parliament will vote on the agreement on 29 January.\n\nDowning Street officials said the PM marked the document with a Parker fountain pen, as is traditional for ceremonial signings in No 10.\n\nIt was witnessed by EU and Foreign Office officials, including the PM's Chief Negotiator David Frost, and Downing Street staff.\n\n\"The signing is a fantastic moment, which finally delivers the result of the 2016 referendum and brings to an end far too many years of argument and division,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We can now move forward as one country - with a government focused upon delivering better public services, greater opportunity and unleashing the potential of every corner of our brilliant UK, while building a strong new relationship with the EU as friends and sovereign equals.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier on Friday, the document crossed the channel on a Eurostar train, having been signed in Brussels by the European Council's president Charles Michel and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nThe UK will keep a copy of the agreement while the original will return to Brussels, where it will be stored in an archive along with other historic international agreements.\n\nNext week's European Parliament vote is seen as all but a formality, after it was backed by the parliament's constitutional affairs committee on Thursday.\n\nMrs von der Leyen and other senior EU figures are sceptical about the UK government's plan to negotiate a comprehensive deal on future relations before the end of 2020. They believe the timetable for that is too tight.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson is upbeat, insisting the UK can now move forward after years of wrangling over Brexit.\n\nMr Michel, the former Belgian Prime Minister who chairs EU summits, said in a tweet: \"Things will inevitably change but our friendship will remain. We start a new chapter as partners and allies.\"", "Fraudsters \"operate with impunity\" as a surge in cases has left police struggling to cope, a report has found.\n\nStaff feel they cannot identify criminals and bring them to justice, the report said, at a time when there has been a 15% rise in cases.\n\nThe report, by ex-Met Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Craig Mackey, found fraud now accounts for one-in-three crimes - but just 2% are detected.\n\nThe Home Office said it will study Sir Craig's findings.\n\nThe report also revealed fewer than 1% of police officers directly investigate fraud.\n\nAnd despite nearly 2,000 fraud offences being committed daily in England and Wales, just one in 50 is prosecuted.\n\nSir Craig warned that a lack of proper investment and inadequate technology was hampering efforts to tackle the crime.\n\nWhile overall crime in England and Wales has remained \"broadly static\" over the past 12 months, reporting of fraud has jumped by 500,000 cases - a rise of 15%.\n\nThe review follows an investigation by the Times last year, which claimed call handlers for Action Fraud, the national fraud reporting service, had mocked victims and misled people into thinking they were dealing with police.\n\nIt is estimated 86% of fraud is committed online and around 78% of cases involves offences where suspects and offenders do not live in the same area.\n\nVictims of fraud must report it to Action Fraud, which is overseen by the City of London Police, the force that specialises in fraud investigations.\n\nHowever, Action Fraud's call centre and computer systems are handled by private companies.\n\nLast year, an undercover Times reporter applied for a job as a call handler for one of the companies, Concentrix, at a call centre in Gourock, Inverclyde.\n\nThe Times' investigation, published last August, said:\n\nSir Craig visited Action Fraud as part of his review and found a number of staff had been dismissed following the newspaper's probe while others had been warned over their behaviour.\n\nHe recommended the service should now be \"re-defined and brought back into line with industry standards and public expectation\".\n\nOverall, the ex-police chief said \"fraud investigation in the UK needs a 'new future'\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"It is vital that fraud victims have the confidence to come forward and know that their case will be dealt with properly.\n\n\"We note this review into the standards, culture and management of Action Fraud and will look at it carefully.\"", "Police said the newborn was found in the street shortly after 06:15 GMT\n\nThe remains of a newborn baby have been found in a Portsmouth street.\n\nThe baby was found at the junction of Victoria Street and Old Commercial Road, near Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum, shortly after 06:15 GMT.\n\nPolice said they \"are extremely concerned for the welfare of the mother of this child\" and appealed to her to get in touch.\n\nA cordon remains in place, with officers carrying out house to house inquiries in the area.\n\nPolice have appealed for the mother to contact them\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Baker added: \"We want to speak with anyone who has concerns about someone who has recently been heavily pregnant, that you suspect may have been heavily pregnant or who has given birth very recently.\n\nMaking a direct appeal to the mother, he said: \"I know this must be a very distressing time for you, but I want to make sure you are getting the right help and care.\n\n\"I understand you may be frightened, but it is important that you get in touch with us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emily Thornberry, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Sir Keir Starmer are all hoping for the nomination\n\nLabour has experienced a surge in membership since the general election, BBC Two's Newsnight has learned.\n\nConstituency Labour parties (CLPs) have reported rises in local membership amid the ongoing leadership race, in which members will vote from 21 February.\n\nIn Hammersmith, west London, the CLP has seen a 32% increase while in Bury North numbers have gone up by 26%.\n\nIt is not clear whether these members have only joined to get a vote - but the surge will boost Labour's finances.\n\nThe average increase in membership in the CLPs contacted by BBC Newsnight was around 20%.\n\nIn Hammersmith, 413 members have joined in a single month and in Bury North 202 more people have signed up.\n\nElsewhere, Richmond, south-west London, now boasts 350 new members, up 30%, and Hove, East Sussex, has 477 more, up 21%, while Exeter has seen a 25% increase with 300 additional members.\n\nBBC Newsnight has been told the CLP of Sir Keir Starmer, who is a candidate in the leadership race, has seen its membership rise by 1,000 - almost a third.\n\nThese are large increases in a short length of time.\n\nOf the CLP chairmen and chairwomen and MPs who spoke to Newsnight, virtually all seemed certain these members joined in order to have a say about the next Labour Party leader.\n\nIn 2015 and 2016, the two Labour leadership contests in which Jeremy Corbyn ran, much was made about the \"entryism\" or programme of enlisting new members to vote for the left-wing candidate.\n\nThe intentions of all the new members this time is not certain - there are simply too many of them to be sure.\n\nHowever, sources within local parties are confident many if not most had joined to vote against the left-wing candidate, a reversal of what happened four years ago.\n\nOne MP, in a CLP that now numbers nearly 3,000 members, told Newsnight: \"We're just trying to figure it out, but it seems that overwhelmingly the new joiners since the election are moderates who want to vote against Rebecca Long-Bailey in some form.\n\n\"A lot joined for Jess Phillips and are now deciding who next.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nAnother constituency chairman added that in a single ward in his constituency \"there are around 100 new members and rejoiners just in my branch\".\n\n\"We've been phoning them and the overwhelming majority have joined to vote for a moderate candidate,\" he said.\n\nAnother Labour source was convinced this surge meant that the probable outcome of the leadership race was certain.\n\n\"I think the contest is over to be honest: [Angela] Rayner [as deputy leader] and Starmer in the first round, unless [Lisa] Nandy really surges,\" they said.\n\n\"A lot of solidly left activists I know are pretty resigned saying things like 'when Starmer wins we'll need to be organised'.\"\n\nMany CLP officers and MPs believe the party has been flooded by pro-EU members in favour of Sir Keir, someone they deem creditworthy after his advocacy of a second EU referendum.\n\nThe increases in Sir Keir's own constituency of Holborn and St Pancras lend weight to this theory.\n\nThese new members will be forbidden from taking part in the constituency nomination process, as a result of long-standing Labour Party rules.\n\nHowever, they will have a vote in the upcoming leader and deputy leader contests.\n\nSuch a large number of new voters in this electorate potentially makes the contest more unpredictable.\n\nHowever, few party insiders believe that this new infusion will benefit Jeremy Corbyn's preferred successor, Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nIt seems improbable that there are a large pool of left-inclined voters who didn't join for Jeremy Corbyn who would choose to join now.\n\nNew members will be also be a financial boon to the party.\n\nBut it isn't all good news for Labour.\n\nThe one exception to the new surge seems to be Scotland.\n\nIncreases for CLPs in Scotland were, in some cases, in single figures - with the prospect of influencing the future of Britain's second biggest party, but Scotland's fourth, apparently failing to excite many politically inclined voters.", "Universities and Science Minister Chris Skidmore has said that the UK will not implement the EU Copyright Directive after the country leaves the EU.\n\nSeveral companies have criticised the law, which would hold them accountable for not removing copyrighted content uploaded by users, if it is passed.\n\nEU member states have until 7 June 2021 to implement the new reforms, but the UK will have left the EU by then.\n\nThe UK was among 19 nations that initially supported the law.\n\nThat was in its final European Council vote in April 2019.\n\nCopyright is the legal right that allows an artist to protect how their original work is used.\n\nThe EU Copyright Directive that covers how \"online content-sharing services\" should deal with copyright-protected content, such as television programmes and movies.\n\nIt refers to services that primarily exist to give the public access to \"protected works or other protected subject-matter uploaded by its users\", such as Soundcloud, Dailymotion and YouTube.\n\nIt was Article 13 which prompted fears over the future of memes and GIFs - stills, animated or short video clips that go viral - since they mainly rely on copyrighted scenes from TV and film.\n\nCritics claimed Article 13 would make it nearly impossible to upload even the tiniest part of a copyrighted work to Facebook, YouTube, or any other site.\n\nHowever, specific tweaks to the law in 2019 made memes safe \"for purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody and pastiche\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson criticised the law in March, claiming that it was \"terrible for the internet\".\n\nGoogle had campaigned fiercely against the changes, arguing they would \"harm Europe's creative and digital industries\" and \"change the web as we know it\".\n\nYouTube boss Susan Wojcicki had also warned that users in the EU could be cut off from the video platform.\n\nKathy Berry, a professional support lawyer at Linklaters, welcomed the government's stance on the law, claiming it will \"allow the UK to agree to more tech-friendly copyright provisions in free trade deals with other countries\".\n\nThe law sparked suggestions from its biggest critics that it would end up \"killing memes and parodies,\" despite it permitting the sharing of memes and GIFs.", "Football has \"far too much dependency\" on sponsorship from gambling companies, according to the sports minister.\n\nNigel Adams MP says clubs \"need to look at different sources of income\".\n\nHis warning comes amid mounting scrutiny of the close relationship between sport and the betting industry.\n\n\"We're going to be reviewing the current Gambling Act and I'm sure the link between sports - football in particular - will form a part of that,\" said Adams.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with BBC Sport, the minister also said he met the EFL's new chairman Rick Parry this week to discuss ongoing financial concerns in the Football League.\n\nEarlier this month the Football Association was criticised for selling the live streaming rights to FA Cup matches to betting firms via a third party.\n\nSeven gambling websites were able to show some third round matches exclusively to anyone who placed a bet or put a deposit in their account in the 24 hours before kick-off.\n\nThe deal sparked outrage at a time when the FA were campaigning for mental health, and the betting companies then offered to give up their exclusivity.\n\nBut the controversy reinforced fears football is being used to normalise gambling among young fans via sponsorship of shirts, and advertising at matches and during TV coverage.\n\nHalf of all Premier League clubs have betting firms as shirt sponsors, with the figure rising to 15 in the Championship. The Football League itself is sponsored by Sky Bet.\n\nEarlier this season, Huddersfield Town were fined by the FA after wearing a kit advertising a bookmaker's logo that breached regulations in a friendly.\n\n\"We have to look at this very carefully because problem gambling leads to serious social problems, and in some cases people have done drastic things and taken their lives, so we are looking at this very closely,\" said Adams.\n\n\"Occasionally it boils over and you get incidents like you had with some clubs who get into bother over it, like at Huddersfield Town, and the stunt there.\n\n\"So there's way too much dependency, and I'm sure the football authorities are aware of that.\"\n\nLast year, Britain's biggest gambling companies voluntarily agreed to a \"whistle-to-whistle\" television advertising ban, ending commercials during live sports broadcasts.\n\nBut the government is now to review gambling laws, and is considering regulating the way bookmakers advertise through football.\n\nBut Labour - and anti-gambling campaigners - have called for shirt sponsorship by betting companies to be outlawed, as in countries like Italy. Adams would not be drawn on whether a blanket ban on shirt sponsorship by bookmakers was possible.\n\nThe EFL has said gambling companies contribute £40m to its clubs each year through sponsorship. In the Premier League the figure is estimated to be around £70m.\n\nAdams' warning comes at a time of financial turmoil in the EFL. Last week, Derby County became the latest club to be charged for breaching financial rules over the sale of its stadium.\n\nA review is also being conducted into the league's governance and financial sustainability after the collapse of Bury FC earlier this season, with a number of other clubs having struggled to pay wages.\n\n\"It's not a healthy picture. There aren't many football clubs in the EFL that are profitable,\" said Adams.\n\n\"I have met with the new EFL chief executive (Rick Parry) and I'm encouraged by what he said in terms of their review into broader governance.\n\n\"It's not healthy to see clubs like Bury go out of the league. You've got question marks with clubs like Macclesfield. We're taking a very keen interest.\"\n\nThe EFL told BBC Sport it has \"open and regular dialogue with the Government and relevant stakeholders regarding football's ongoing relationship with the gambling industry\".\n\nThe EFL added in a statement it believes the gambling industry should make \"a financial contribution back into football\".\n\n\"This is currently being achieved through commercial partnerships with the EFL and a number of our member clubs,\" they said. \"However, it is important that such arrangements are delivered in a responsible manner.\n\n\"With more than £40m a season paid by the sector to the League and its clubs, it continues to be an important part of the EFL's financial model alongside a domestic broadcasting deal worth £119m a year and a number of other key revenue streams including ticketing, sponsorship and negotiated solidarity payments achieved through the sale of media rights.\"\n\nAdams also described the current issues around racism in football as \"absolutely shocking\".\n\nIncidents of racism have marred a number of Premier League games this season, while England's Euro 2020 qualifying victory over Bulgaria in October 2019 was halted on multiple occasions due to racist chanting by supporters.\n\n\"It's a cancer in the game that we've had for many years,\" said Adams. \"The thought was that now we're in 2020 we would have got to a better place. It's not happened.\n\n\"It's good the players are taking back control and we've seen that in a number of games with the England-Bulgaria game in particular. The football authorities, the Premier League, the FA, the EFL, they're very mindful of the problem.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial we work with everybody because it's a societal problem, not just a football problem. Every time we meet with the football authorities we are being very clear and asking them for updates on where they're getting in terms of actions.\n\n\"I think what it might possibly take is some prosecutions. We need to, ideally, see the Crown Prosecution Service taking these cases forward and bringing people to book and that may very well have an impact.\"\n\nThe sports minister also confirmed ongoing talks on a \"potential bid\" for the United Kingdom and Ireland to host the World Cup in 2030, though he has called for a more \"transparent\" bidding process after the controversy that surrounded England's failed attempt to host the 2018 tournament.\n\nSince the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were awarded to Russia and Qatar respectively in December 2010, widespread corruption has been exposed in the global game, including allegations of bribery and payment for votes.\n\n\"We want to bid for the World Cup in 2030, it's about time we had the World Cup here,\" said Adams. \"But it has to be far more transparent than it potentially was in the past and I believe that is happening.\n\n\"The prime minister is incredibly keen we land the World Cup. I want to see it here in the United Kingdom and Ireland.\n\n\"As you probably know we've got some talks going on with the devolved nations and Ireland, I met again with the FA last week to discuss the potential bid.\n\n\"It's a work in progress but I think if we have the opportunity of being the European host nation option, I think we've got a very good chance.\"", "US Space Force logo on left and the Star Trek emblem on right\n\nThe newly unveiled logo for US Space Force appears to have boldly gone where Star Trek went before.\n\nTwitter users noted that the emblem, revealed by President Donald Trump, bears an uncanny likeness to the insignia from the cult sci-fi TV series.\n\nThe striking resemblance left many critics as stunned as though they had been zapped by Captain Kirk's phaser.\n\nBut others online insisted the logo was really based on the US Air Force One.\n\nThe intergalactic controversy comes after mockery erupted last week when it emerged Space Force troops would wear woodland camouflage uniforms.\n\nUnveiling the insignia on Friday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"After consultation with our Great Military Leaders, designers, and others, I am pleased to present the new logo for the United States Space Force, the Sixth Branch of our Magnificent Military!\"\n\nGeorge Takei, star of the original 1960s Star Trek TV series, tweeted archly in response.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Takei This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother Twitter user joked that the Space Force had copied Star Trek's \"homework\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Peter Botte This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut others pointed out that the new logo seemed to bear equal likeness to another, suborbital branch of the US military.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by John Noonan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Content moderators are being asked to sign forms stating they understand the job could cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to reports.\n\nThe Financial Times and The Verge reported moderators for Facebook and YouTube, hired by the contractor Accenture, were sent the documents.\n\nModerators monitor objectionable materials and often view hundreds of disturbing images in a day's work.\n\nAccenture said the wellbeing of workers was a \"top priority\".\n\nIn a statement the company added only new joiners were being asked to sign the forms, whereas existing employees were being sent the form as an update.\n\n\"We regularly update the information we give our people to ensure that they have a clear understanding of the work they do,\" Accenture said in a statement.\n\nAccenture is a professional services company hired by firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter. Its contractors work as outside monitors for social media sites to remove any inappropriate content. The job often requires watching and listening to disturbing posts that can be violent or sexual in nature.\n\nBoth The Verge and Financial Times report that moderators were sent documents that required to them to acknowledge the mental health risks of the role.\n\n\"I understand the content I will be reviewing may be disturbing. It is possible that reviewing such content may impact my mental health, and it could even lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),\" the statement read.\n\nThe notices were sent to Accenture employees in the United States and Europe.\n\nThe reports come as Facebook faces lawsuits from former content moderators over a range of mental health issues in California and Ireland.\n\nFacebook said it did not review Accenture's new form, but the social media firm does require its partners to offer psychological support for content moderators.\n\nGoogle - YouTube's parent company- also said it did not review the documents but required its partners to offer mental health support.\n\nThe forms sent to the moderators outline support services on offer, including a hotline and a wellness coach. But it concedes in the forms that neither one is staffed by medical professionals and \"cannot diagnose or treat mental disorders\".\n\nCases of PTSD and other mental health issues have been on the rise among content moderators. In 2019 The Verge published a behind the scenes report of the of Facebook Moderators. One moderator quoted in that report said he \"sleeps with a gun by his side\" after doing the job.\n\nMental health experts say understanding the psychological strains of this job does not mitigate its risks.", "A former British Army officer, Andy Roe has been at LFB since 2002\n\nLondon's new fire commissioner has been announced after the brigade's current chief stood down over criticisms of how it responded to the Grenfell fire.\n\nAndy Roe takes over from Dany Cotton from January after she announced last week she was stepping down.\n\nMr Roe was the fire officer who revoked the \"stay put\" advice minutes after becoming incident commander at the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nSeventy-two people died during the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nMs Cotton announced last week that she would step down at the end of December after facing pressure to resign after a critical public inquiry report into the fire.\n\nAn inquiry into the fire concluded \"many more lives\" could have been saved if the advice to residents to \"stay put\" had been abandoned earlier than 02:35 BST.\n\nIt said London Fire Brigades's (LFB) preparations for such a fire were \"gravely inadequate\".\n\nDany Cotton, second from right, in Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire\n\nMr Roe will be tasked with implementing the Grenfell Tower Inquiry's recommendations as well as producing the next London Safety Plan, which outlines how the brigade will make London safe.\n\nAs well as being deputy commissioner for operations at the brigade, Mr Roe is a former British Army officer. He joined LFB in 2002 as a firefighter and has been assistant commissioner since 2017. He was in charge of the response to the Croydon tram crash in 2016.\n\nDany Cotton is stepping down at the end of December\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the brigade's overall response to the disaster had been \"not good enough\", and there were \"significant lessons\".\n\nThe inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire opened in September 2017\n\nMr Roe said: \"We have some real challenges ahead, but I'll be working tirelessly with the brigade, the mayor and London's communities to ensure we deliver on the recommendations of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'Read the transcript' has become a feature at Trump rallies Image caption: 'Read the transcript' has become a feature at Trump rallies\n\nMike Purpera, Deputy White House Counsel, is making the president's case to the Senate.\n\nSo far, he's sticking to the subject of the now-infamous 25 July call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, President Zelensky.\n\n\"Read the transcript\" is now a common refrain among Trump and his supporters, and Purpera is making the same argument now.\n\nPurpera says that this call effectively exonerates the president, pinpointing a particularly contentious line, in which Trump asks Zelensky to \"do us a favour\".\n\nDemocrats say the call is damning in itself, as it clearly shows Trump was looking for a personal favour to have Ukraine investigate Joe Biden.\n\nThe \"us\" here refers to the United States, he says, insisting Trump was looking out for US national interests.\n\nWant to know more about the call?\n\nRead the BBC's Anthony Zurcher's analysis on how an overheard phone call could damage Trump.", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nThe Paralympic Games will remain on free-to-air television after the government added it to the 'crown jewels' list of protected events.\n\nBoth the summer and winter Games will be added in the first change to the list - which includes the Olympics and football World Cup - in 20 years.\n\nIn 2016, 31.6 million watched at least 15 consecutive minutes of Rio coverage.\n\n\"I am delighted the Paralympic Games has been added,\" said Paralympic champion Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.\n\n\"When you look at the other events it will now sit alongside, it means so much to athletes, current and retired, to know the level that the Paralympic Games has reached in the public consciousness and how much it means to everyone.\"\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is also expected to announce a decision on whether the women's equivalents of men's events already on the list will be added.\n\n\"The Paralympic Games is one of the highlights of the sporting calendar, as the country comes together to support our world-class Paralympic athletes,\" added sports minister Nigel Adams.\n\n\"So it is only right the event is available on free-to-air television for all to enjoy. Adding the Games to the crown jewels list of major sporting events guarantees it the platform it deserves every four years that will help inspire the sporting stars of the future.\"\n\nOfficially known as the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events, the so-called 'crown jewels' list was first created in 1991.\n\nIt was then revised in 1999 and split into two categories, A and B, with events on the A list being those which must offer live rights to free-to-air broadcasters at a \"fair and reasonable\" cost. Events on the B list must offer highlights packages.\n\nThe revised list of free-to-air listed events is as follows:\n• None All other matches at the Rugby World Cup\n• None The Cricket World Cup - the final, semi-finals and matches involving England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland", "NHS staff are being encouraged to drive to work less and bring in reusable cups and bottles to help the health service tackle climate change.\n\nThe suggestions are part of an NHS plan to cut carbon emissions to net zero and reduce air pollution.\n\nHospitals will also be told to switch to less-polluting anaesthetic gases and reduce emissions from buildings.\n\nThe plan follows the launch of Climate Assembly UK this week, which is looking at how the UK can best get to net zero.\n\nThe government has committed to the UK reaching the target - where the same volume of greenhouse gases is being emitted as is being absorbed through offsetting techniques like forestry - by 2050.\n\nThe NHS employs 1.3 million staff in England. The health and care system in England is responsible for an estimated 4%-5% of the country's carbon footprint, NHS England said.\n\nSeveral conditions such as heart disease, stroke and lung cancer have been partly attributed to air pollution. The three conditions are estimated to contribute to around 36,000 deaths in the UK annually.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS, said: \"With almost 700 people dying potentially avoidable deaths due to air pollution every week, we are facing a health emergency as well as a climate emergency.\n\n\"Patients and the public rightly want the NHS to deliver for them today, and to help safeguard the future health of our children and grandchildren.\"\n\nAs part of its plans, the NHS is proposing a new standard contract this year, encouraging staff to cut back on driving to work, for example by walking or cycling, taking public transport or car sharing.\n\nOther suggestions for staff include using refillable water bottles and turning off monitors, printers and photocopiers.\n\nThe health service is also establishing an expert panel to advise it on how to reach net zero and by what timescale this can be achieved.\n\nThe panel will look at changes the NHS itself can make, including better use of technology to make up to 30 million outpatient appointments \"redundant\".\n\nThis would spare patients \"thousands of unnecessary trips to and from hospital\", it said.\n\nIt is estimated some 6.7 billion road miles each year are from patients and their visitors travelling to and from the NHS.\n\nIt will also look at changes that can be made in the NHS's medical devices, consumables and pharmaceutical supply, and moving to more renewable energy.\n\nDr Helena McKeown, from the British Medical Association, said doctors were becoming \"increasingly concerned\" about the damaging impact air pollution was having on public health.\n\nShe added: \"As those tasked with looking after the health of the nation, it is positive to see that our health service is already leading by example by providing environmentally friendly healthcare for patients.\"\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said its members were already changing practices to help reduce their workplace's carbon footprint and they were \"committed to extending that\".\n\nBut Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said the implications for the NHS building stock were \"huge\".\n\n\"Everyone must now work together to understand how environment-harming heating and lighting systems can be replaced without redirecting funds from patient care,\" he added.\n\nThe panel will submit an interim report to NHS England in the summer with the final report expected in the autumn.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLeague Two Northampton earned a replay with Championship club Derby after a goalless draw in the fourth round of the FA Cup at the PTS Academy Stadium.\n\nCobblers forward Vadaine Oliver went closest to a breakthrough in the first half, striking the crossbar from close range.\n\nCurtis Davies headed wide in the second half for the visitors, who failed to register a shot on target.\n\nThe fifth-round draw is live on BBC One during The One Show on 27 January.\n• None How to follow the FA Cup action on the BBC\n\nNorthampton manager Keith Curle had hoped Wayne Rooney would be rested for Friday's tie, but the former England captain was one of three survivors from the Rams side that beat Hull in the Championship last weekend.\n\nRooney and his team-mates were firmly on the back foot in the opening exchanges, however, with Cobblers centre-forward Oliver proving a constant thorn in the Derby defence.\n\nThe striker scooped the ball on to the top of the crossbar from point-blank range after County had failed to clear Jordan Turnbull's effort, before sending a towering header narrowly wide from Paul Anderson's deep cross.\n\nDerby had created little up to that point, but they were adamant Northampton should have been reduced to 10 men when the otherwise impressive Charlie Goode hauled Jack Marriott to the ground with the Rams striker through on goal.\n\nThe visitors appealed for a red card, but their protests were waved away by referee Darren England, who didn't award a free-kick.\n\nPhillip Cocu's team offered more of a threat in the second half and went close to an opener when Curtis Davies sent a powerful header past the post from Marriott's teasing delivery.\n\nTown midfielder Chris Lines hooked a volley over the crossbar late on, but neither side could muster a winner.\n\n'Red card would have changed the flow' - what the managers said\n\nNorthampton manager Keith Curle, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We all needed to be on the same page. Today showed the work in progress and the work we put in at the football club.\n\n\"We've earned the draw over 94, 95 minutes. The replay gives us another opportunity, to go to Derby and put in another performance that we're proud of. We might be able to express ourselves a little more on the ball at their place.\"\n\nOn Charlie Goode's foul on Jack Marriott: \"I did see it. The referee was unsighted. A red card would have changed the flow of the game massively, but we showed that we can compete against a very good football club.\"\n\nDerby manager Phillip Cocu, speaking to BBC Sport about Goode's foul: \"If he doesn't pull Jack Marriott down, Marriott would be one-on-one and probably score.\n\n\"There's only one decision to make. I cannot imagine why he doesn't give it. The referee tried to be man of the match and he became man of the match.\n\n\"Northampton deserved credit. They played a good game. They had passionate home fans, it was a great atmosphere. They played a direct style of football.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Chris Martin (Derby County) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Wayne Rooney with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Ryan Watson (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jayden Bogle (Derby County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jason Knight.\n• None Attempt missed. Martyn Waghorn (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Martin. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A representative of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complained to the firm about the adverts\n\nA house building firm that used images of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in a bid to sell new homes has apologised over its advertising campaign.\n\nHagan Homes, one of Northern Ireland's biggest property developers, said its houses \"fit for part-time royalty' ads were meant to be \"light-hearted\".\n\nIt did not have the couple's permission and has been told to remove the ads.\n\nThe firm said it had not intended to cause any offence and it has offered to make a £10,000 donation to charity.\n\nOn Friday, the Belfast Telegraph reported that representatives of the duke and duchess were to take \"action\" over the advertising campaign.\n\nThe adverts, which appeared on Belfast billboards and on social media, featured photos of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with worried expressions.\n\n\"Buying a new home can be rather stressful,\" one of the adverts stated.\n\nIt followed an announcement from the couple earlier in January in which they said they intended to \"step back\" from royal duties and become \"financially independent\".\n\nIt was also confirmed that they wish to repay the £2.4m of public funds spent on the refurbishment of their UK home, Frogmore Cottage.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday the founder and chairman of Hagan Homes, James Hagan, said the firm was in the process of removing all the adverts.\n\n\"We have been in contact with representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and taken action to remove the social media posts and billboard advertising,\" Mr Hagan said.\n\n\"The 'Hagan Homes Fit For Part-time Royalty' campaign was intended to reflect Northern Ireland's typically light-hearted approach to a challenging situation.\n\n\"Many young people struggle with the complexities of buying a new home and we were keen to emphasise that support is available in such circumstances.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was not our intention to cause any offence and we sincerely apologise if any has been taken.\n\n\"We believe Harry and Meghan are strong role models for all young people who are trying to find their own path in life and in recognition of this Hagan Homes is keen to make a donation of £10,000 to a charity of Harry and Meghan's choice.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Hagan Homes confirmed to BBC News NI that the firm received an email from the couple's representatives, requesting the adverts be taken down.\n\nShe said the email referred to rules from the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP).\n\nThe rules makes specific mention of the Royal Family, saying its members \"should not normally be shown or mentioned in a marketing communication without their prior permission\".\n\nHagan Homes, based in Ballyclare, County Antrim, has already deleted its social media adverts and said its billboard adverts will be be \"taken down by close of play\" on Monday 27 January 2020.", "The Holburne Museum in Bath will have a nightmare on its hands if its exhibition Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years is even remotely successful. There will be havoc. Punters will turn on the genteel Georgian institution like Frankenstein's monster, furious with the darkly satirical show it has created.\n\nIt won't be the contents that rattles their collective cage, which is exactly what you'd expect from the Turner Prize-winning potter, but the way it has been displayed. Or, more specifically, the shortcomings of the first room of the show.\n\nPut a dozen or so people in there and it will feel more like a game of sardines than an art reconnaissance trip. One minute you'll be admiring a large photograph of a young, naked Grayson covered in paint, the next Mrs Stockbridge from The Crescent will be squeezing past his decorated member apologising for the coarseness of her tweed suit.\n\nThe first room, that is. The exhibition is hung chronologically and most people like to start at the beginning.\n\nThe good folk at the museum will have to figure out how to manage visitor flow (there's a secret door that could come into play) because the space isn't just very small, it is also full of objects and you stay in there for three films that collectively last over an hour.\n\nThis is where we first meet the recently graduated Grayson who, we discover, is on the hunt for his artistic voice. He's not short of things to say - he's never short of things to say - but is yet to find the medium through which to communicate. He is living in a north London squat and hanging out with a bohemian crowd, including a pre-pop star Boy George, and, on occasion, Derek Jarman, the avant-garde film-maker and elder statesman.\n\nPerry starts by making films, which have not aged well.\n\nHe dabbles in performance art, and then accepts an invitation from his girlfriend's sister to come along to her pottery night class. And that is where this show begins, with a small brown plate called Kinky Sex (1983), which he produced a few weeks after starting the course.\n\nIt is not very good, either technically or artistically, but it is distinctly Grayson Perry in tone and aesthetic.\n\nGrayson Perry made his first plate Kinky Sex, at an evening pottery class in 1983\n\nThe plate shows two heads in profile either side of a long-haired, crucified central figure welded to the plate by a melted coin over his or her privates (sexes are ambiguous). It is, like all his work, fantastical and pointed, realised with a drawn line that is as distinctive as his throaty cackle.\n\nThere is a Hieronymus Bosch-like detail in these early bits and pieces, mischievous layers of words, picture and material that subvert the medium and the apparent naivety of the image.\n\nEssex Plate (1985), for example, gives us a nice traditional coastal landscape with a boat bobbing around under a warming sun.\n\nUntil you see the black clouds gathered over the heads of the outlined faces and read the words printed on the rim:\n\n\"LA LA LA LA HARMONY PEACE AND LOVE THE NON MAGICK OF MEN WILL KILL US ALL.\"\n\nGrayson Perry grew up in Essex, which is reflected in many of his works such as Essex Plate, 1985\n\nGrayson wears his heart on his work.\n\nHe reveals his frustrations as well as his fetishes in pieces such as Self Portrait Cracked and Warped (1985), in which we see his likeness served upside down on a plate. It is a sarcastic homage to the German expressionist painter Georg Baselitz, who Perry resentfully saw as a \"macho\" artist with global recognition working in a respected medium, while he struggled in obscurity making pots often perceived by a sniffy art world as lowly craft objects.\n\nBaselitz was selling his work for huge sums, Grayson was selling his for a few quid.\n\nBut he was selling, as this show attests. Maybe it was only for £40 here and £50 there, but it was enough to stop him opting for career Plan B, which was to become a copywriter in an ad agency.\n\nAnd for that, we should be grateful.\n\nIn Self Portrait Cracked and Warped (1985), Perry is referencing the German artist Georg Baselitz\n\nBaselitz was famous for his upside-down portraits, which were on show at an exhibition in Venice last year\n\nI'm sure the witty Mr Perry would have been a big success at Saatchi & Saatchi or wherever he ended up, but the world would have been a poorer place without his pagan pots and confessional plates, on which he smuggled what were then outre ideas and opinions about gender, sex, class, and taste.\n\nAll art is autobiographical, but Perry's is specifically so, in much the same way as that of his fellow contemporary British artist Tracey Emin, who also uses craft materials to tell her story. The upshot of that means this show is more than a retrospective of his early works. It's also a diary of a young transvestite artist honing his talent and finding his way in the highly competitive art world of the late 1980s and early '90s when the YBAs (Young British Artists) ruled the roost.\n\nThere is a rawness to his art, which goes beyond what he describes as technical \"ineptitude\", and leans towards a punk-influenced anger and distaste for establishment conventions.\n\nCan you imagine Bernard Leach, the father of modern British pottery, approving of Untitled (1988)?\n\nIt is an oval, glazed terracotta plate with a cream background, on which we see a tableau consisting of a bemused transvestite with a shopping trolley surrounded by a variety of images from flowers on one side to a sinister wedding on the other.\n\nBernard Leach, regarded as the father of British studio pottery, and Grayson Perry's Untitled, 1988 were from different eras\n\nIt is testament to the formative influence of outsider art on Perry, who was struck by the honesty and directness of the images produced by the untrained and often mentally disturbed.\n\nFour years later he's riffing on Japanese teaware from the Edo period in a vase called Western Art in the Form of a Saki Bottle (1992).\n\nIn Western Art in the Form of a Saki Bottle (1992), Perry says he was starting to understand where he \"stood within the long history of ceramics\"\n\nHere he plays the ultimate post-modernist, referencing not only Asian culture, but also Pop Art, surrealism, modernism, northern European gothic and Hogarth's English satire - all wrapped up in sincere love for a William Morris-like commitment to craftsmanship.\n\nIf you're not a Grayson Perry fan, this show isn't going to convert you.\n\nBut if you are, like me, then it's well worth taking your chances with Mrs Stockbridge in Room 1.", "The Prince visited the Church of Mary Magdalene, where his grandmother is buried\n\nThe Prince of Wales has visited the tomb of his \"inspirational\" paternal grandmother, Princess Alice, during his first official trip to Jerusalem.\n\nShe was honoured by Jewish people for humanitarian efforts in Nazi-occupied Athens during World War Two.\n\nShe died in 1969, aged 84, and was buried near her aunt at the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem.\n\nPrince Charles said he had \"long drawn inspiration from the selfless actions of my dear grandmother\".\n\nThe prince laid flowers on her final resting place as his two-day visit to the Middle East came to an end.\n\nOn her tomb was a Greek royal standard which the prince had made in London after the original had become worn.\n\nOn Thursday in Jerusalem, he addressed world leaders at the World Holocaust Forum to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.\n\nHe warned that lessons of the Holocaust are still \"searingly relevant\" and called on leaders to be \"fearless in confronting falsehoods\" and violence.\n\nPrincess Alice of Battenberg married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, with whom she had a son, Prince Philip, who would later renounce his Greek title to become the Duke of Edinburgh after marrying the Queen.\n\nDuring World War Two, she helped shelter Jewish refugees from the Nazis, for which she was declared 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Israel's Holocaust memorial institution.\n\nAfter the war, she stayed in Greece and founded a Greek Orthodox order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary.\n\nBefore her death she gave away all her possessions and was buried at her request at the Church of Mary Magdalene, near her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, a Russian Orthodox saint.\n\nHer life was depicted in the third series of Netflix programme The Crown, in which she was portrayed in later life as a chain-smoking nun.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh with his mother Princess Alice Of Battenberg\n\nPrince Charles visited her tomb at the Church of Mary Magdalene\n\nHe met nuns at the Russian Orthodox Church\n\nIn a speech on Friday in Bethlehem, Charles said he would pray for \"a just and lasting peace\" in the Middle East.\n\nHe said he had been \"struck by the energy, warmth and remarkable generosity of the Palestinian people\".\n\nDuring the trip, the prince visited a mosque and a church, built on the site said to be where Jesus was born.\n\nThe prince visited the crypt at the Church of the Nativity, which was built on the site Jesus is said to have been born\n\nThe prince said he had \"endeavoured to build bridges between different religions\" across the world and that it \"breaks my heart... to see such suffering and division\".\n\n\"No-one arriving in Bethlehem today could miss the signs of continued hardship and the situation you face, and I can only join you, and all communities, in your prayers for a just and lasting peace,\" he said.\n\n\"We must pursue this cause with faith and determination, striving to heal the wounds which have caused such pain.\"\n\nHe added that it was his \"dearest wish\" that the future would bring \"freedom, justice and equality\" to Palestinians.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has been on a two-day tour of the Middle East\n\nEarlier, the prince visited the Mosque of Omar, which is named after Caliph Omar, who conquered Jerusalem in 637 but guaranteed that Christians would be free to continue to worship.\n\nThe prince said Bethlehem embodied the \"vital co-existence between Christians and Muslims\".\n\nCorrection 26 March 2020: This article has been amended to clarify that this was Prince Charles's first official trip to Jerusalem.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the US base attacked by Iranian missiles\n\nThe Pentagon has said that 34 US troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) following an Iranian attack on their base in Iraq.\n\nSeventeen troops are still under medical observation, a spokesman said.\n\nPresident Donald Trump had said no Americans were injured in the 8 January strike, which came in retaliation for the US killing of an Iranian general.\n\nMr Trump had cited the supposed lack of injuries in his decision not to strike back against Iran.\n\nBut last week, the Pentagon said 11 service members had been treated for concussion symptoms from the attack.\n\nAsked about the apparent discrepancy this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Trump said: \"I heard that they had headaches, and a couple of other things, but I would say, and I can report, it's not very serious.\"\n\n\"I don't consider them very serious injuries relative to other injuries I have seen,\" he said when asked about possible TBIs.\n\nThe Pentagon says no Americans were killed in the Iranian missile strike on the Ain al-Asad base, with most sheltering in bunkers as missiles rained down.\n\nOn Friday, defence department spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters that eight of the affected soldiers have been sent back to the US for further treatment, while another nine are being treated in Germany.\n\nSixteen troops were treated in Iraq and one in Kuwait before all 17 were returned to active duty, officials say.\n\nMr Hoffman added that the US Defence Secretary Mark Esper had not immediately been aware of the injuries in the days after the attack.\n\nIraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, a non-profit organisation, slammed the Trump administration for taking so long to reveal the extent of casualties.\n\n\"This is a big deal,\" its founder Paul Rieckhoff tweeted. \"The American people must be able to trust the government to share information about our sons and daughters in harms way. Nothing is more serious and sacred.\"\n\nTBIs are common in warzones, according to the US military.\n\nThe most common cause of a TBI for deployed soldiers is an explosive blast, writes the US Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.\n\nThey are classified as mild, moderate, severe or penetrating. A mild TBI is also known as a concussion, and can be caused by a blast's \"atmospheric over-pressure followed by under-pressure or vacuum\".\n\nThe air vacuum is capable of penetrating solid objects, making it possible for soldiers to avoid blunt force trauma but still receive an invisible brain injury.\n\nOn Friday, tens of thousands of Iraqis protested in the streets Baghdad against the presence of some 5,000 foreign troops in the country.\n\nThe Iraqi parliament has urged all foreign fighters - including from the US - to leave.", "Gardaí have described the deaths as \"unexplained\"\n\nGardaí have said they are investigating after the bodies of three children were found at a house in Newcastle, County Dublin, on Friday.\n\nThey described the deaths of two boys and a girl as \"unexplained\".\n\nA woman in her 40s has been taken to Tallaght Hospital.\n\nGardai were called to the property at about 19:00 local time and the scene has been preserved and the Office of the State Pathologist has been informed.", "When Lex Gillies uploaded a picture to Instagram highlighting her rosacea skin condition, the site removed the image.\n\nThe photo, captured by photographer Sophie Harris-Taylor, was part of a series celebrating natural beauty.\n\nBut Instagram said it \"doesn't allow ads that focus on aspects of a person's body to highlight an undesirable or idealised body state\".\n\nAfter sharing her story with her followers, the hashtag #undesirablesofinstagram quickly went viral as people called on the social network to stop censoring skin conditions.\n\nThe appeal worked, with Instagram contacting Lex to inform her guidelines on adverts had been permanently changed.", "Fourth Test, Johannesburg, (day two of five):\n\nMark Wood starred with bat and ball to give England complete control of the fourth Test against South Africa on a superbly entertaining second day in Johannesburg.\n\nWood crashed 35 not out in a last-wicket stand of 82 with Stuart Broad that took England to 400 all out, then claimed 3-21 to help reduce the Proteas to 88-6.\n\nEngland had earlier been at risk of surrendering the initiative, losing three wickets for 11 runs in an overall slip to 318-9 after Joe Root and Ollie Pope both made half-centuries in a stand of 101.\n\nThey were put back in the ascendancy by 8.2 overs of chaos caused by Wood and Broad.\n\nThe tourists followed that up with a relentless bowling display, led by the extreme pace of Wood, who had all of Pieter Malan, Temba Bavuma and nightwatchman Anrich Nortje caught off edges.\n\nWood was supported by some excellent catching and a wicket apiece for Sam Curran, Chris Woakes and Ben Stokes.\n\nLeading by 312 runs leaves England perfectly placed to wrap up a series win. At 2-1 up, they need only a draw at The Wanderers, while victory would mean they have won three Tests in a single series in South Africa for the first time since 1913.\n\nMeanwhile, Stokes has been fined 15% of his match fee for swearing at a spectator after being dismissed on day one.\n\nStokes accepted an International Cricket Council charge of using an \"an audible obscenity during an international match\" and was also given one demerit point.\n\nThis was another action-packed day in what has been a thoroughly enjoyable series, one that continued the trend of England improvement and South African regression.\n\nThe pace and bounce in this pitch has given encouragement to the pace bowlers and confidence to batsmen alike. The thin atmosphere at high altitude can help the ball travel either from the hand or off the bat.\n\nThe conditions are perfect for Wood, who bowls at high speed and is happy to swing the blade. Recalled for the last Test, he marked his first England appearance since the World Cup final by clubbing 42 and taking three wickets in the second innings.\n\nHere, he was at the crease when the match was in the balance. Root and Pope had cashed in on some poor South African bowling and tactics, only for the Proteas to be inspired into a fightback by Nortje, who picked up his first five-wicket haul in Tests.\n\nBut faced with the prospect of bowling the tourists out for a manageable first-innings total, South Africa were dazed by the Wood and Broad assault, then floored by the Wood-led England attack.\n\nOne slight negative in England's day was the continuing struggle of wicketkeeper Jos Buttler, who gave away his wicket with a wild swipe and was again untidy with the gloves.\n\nFrom 192-4 overnight, and after a 45-minute delay for rain, Root and Pope were able to score freely against South Africa's baffling short-pitched tactics.\n\nWhen the speedy Nortje found the right length, the turnaround was instant. Pope dragged on trying to leave, while Root, who had just been dropped, loosely edged to slip and Curran chased a wide one for a golden duck.\n\nWoakes' 32 steadied England before his edge to first slip gave Nortje a fifth wicket and left England on the verge of being bowled out.\n\nAs Wood and Broad threw the bat at virtually every delivery, the ball flew to all parts of The Wanderers - fielders scattered and the bowlers lost their composure.\n\nBroad hooked and lofted down the ground, Wood cleared his front leg to slap two outrageous sixes over cover. Between them, they hit seven maximums.\n\nWhen Broad finally top-edged Dane Paterson to deep square leg for 43, their partnership was England's highest for the 10th wicket in an overseas Test since 1923.\n\nIn the warm sunshine and on such a good pitch, South Africa were left to rue their decision to mirror England's five-strong pace attack - they looked desperately short of a spinner during the Wood-Broad partnership.\n\nEngland, though, showed they had no need for a frontline slow bowler by the way their fast men tore in, offering few opportunities to score, challenging the outside edge and causing the batsmen to hop around.\n\nWood and Woakes in particular were superb in a post-tea spell that finally resulted in Wood having Malan feather to Buttler with a delivery clocked at 94mph.\n\nCurran, himself finding extra pace, had Rassie van der Dussen poke to second slip, and Dean Elgar tamely patted Stokes to Woakes at point.\n\nWoakes got the wicket he deserved by nipping one back to have Faf du Plessis lbw and Stokes took a fine tumbling catch at second slip when another searing Wood delivery took Bavuma's edge.\n\nIt looked as though the untroubled Quinton de Kock would be seen to the close by the brave Nortje, only for the nightwatchman to give a thick edge to gully from the final ball of the day.\n\nEngland pace bowler Chris Woakes told the TMS podcast: \"Having Woody in the group is always good, he always makes it a little bit louder. He's not played much cricket since that World Cup final and it's great to see him bowling at full tilt. He's a really important bowler to have in your side in these conditions when you need that something special and that bit of pace. His batting has been incredible. He's a better batsman that he gives himself credit for.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"There was that moment when South Africa had a chance, but they were blown away by Wood and Broad slamming sixes all over the place. South Africa's innings never got going; they have been just grinding along at two an over. The thing we might not look forward to tomorrow is Joe Root inevitably batting on.\"\n\nFormer England assistant coach Paul Farbrace on The Cricket Social: \"The difference today has been the discipline and patience of the England attack compared to South Africa. It's England's day and it's England's series. They deserve to win this.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Vikram Solanki: \"It's been the perfect day for England. Rightly so, Wood will take all the accolades but the bowling group put together a real partnership against an inexperienced batting line-up.\"", "Rebecca Long-Bailey has won the backing of the Unite trade union in her bid to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nThe shadow business secretary now needs just one more union or affiliate group to endorse her to confirm her place on the members' ballot.\n\nUnite's general secretary, Len McCluskey, said Mrs Long-Bailey had the \"brains and the brilliance\" to take on PM Boris Johnson.\n\nThe union will also back Richard Burgon for the vacant deputy leader post.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting in London, Mr McCluskey said his union would make a \"substantial\" donation towards Mrs Long-Bailey's campaign.\n\nThe union, which was Labour's biggest financial backer during last month's election, had been widely expected to back her pitch for the top job.\n\nAfter receiving the nomination, Mrs Long-Bailey said she was \"honoured\" to receive the union's backing.\n\n\"I didn't see myself as the kind of person who could ever become an MP. It was Unite, my trade union, that supported me to realise my potential,\" she added.\n\nMr McCluskey said Unite's executive committee had concluded Mrs Long-Bailey was \"best placed to take the fight to the Tory party\" on behalf of its members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\n\"She is standing for unity, socialism and the determination to make Johnson's term in office short-lived,\" he added.\n\nHe added that the union was confident that Mr Burgon would make a \"superb deputy\" for the party.\n\nIn an apparent swipe at former deputy leader Tom Watson, he said Mr Burgon would display \"the qualities that have long been absent from that post,\" including \"pride in our values\" and \"loyalty to their leader\".\n\nMr Watson was often at odds with the leadership during his time in the role, and faced an attempt to oust him at Labour's conference last year.\n\nTo make the ballot, hopefuls need the support of three unions and affiliate groups representing 5% of the membership, or 33 local branches.\n\nShadow brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy have already secured this level of support ahead of the 14 February deadline.\n\nHaving already been nominated by bakers' union BFAWU, Unite's support for Ms Long-Bailey means she needs just one more union or affiliate to join them.\n\nHowever the fourth leadership contender, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, is yet to receive any union or affiliate backing and has only secured endorsements from three local branches so far.\n\nSir Keir has cancelled all campaign events this weekend after his mother-in-law was involved in a serious accident. She remains critically ill in hospital.\n\nHe sent Labour's Chris Matheson to the Unite meeting in his place.\n\nLabour's general secretary, Jennie Formby, also confirmed the hustings due to take place in Leeds between the leadership candidates on Saturday would be cancelled, although the deputy leadership event would go ahead.\n\nShe added: \"We have sent our very best wishes and solidarity to Keir and his family, and our hope that his mother-in-law recovers very soon.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner is the only candidate for the deputy leadership to have made it onto the ballot, with the support of Unison, the GMB, Usdaw and the NUM.\n\nAs well as Mr Burgon, the others in the running are Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, Ian Murray, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, and Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan.\n\nThe new leader and deputy will then be announced on 4 April.", "Sajid Javid and Steve Mnuchin had breakfast on Saturday morning\n\nThe US wants to agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK this year, the country's treasury secretary has said.\n\nAfter meeting Chancellor Sajid Javid in London, Steve Mnuchin said he believed the UK could negotiate trade deals with the US and EU at the same time.\n\n\"I'm quite optimistic,\" he told a Chatham House think tank event.\n\nAfter Brexit happens on 31 January, the UK will be free to negotiate and sign new trade deals with countries with no existing EU deals - like the US.\n\nAt the same time, the UK will also be negotiating a free trade deal with the EU to ensure that UK goods are not subject to tariffs and other trade barriers once the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nMr Mnuchin, who met Mr Javid for breakfast on Saturday morning and posted an image of them on Instagram, said the US was \"prepared to dedicate a lot of resources\" to securing a trade deal with the UK this year.\n\nHe said: \"We've said that our goal - your goal - is trying to get both of these trade agreements done this year. And I think from a US standpoint we are prepared to dedicate a lot of resources.\n\n\"If the UK and US have very similar economies with a big focus on services, and I think this will be a very important relationship.\"\n\nMr Mnuchin added President Donald Trump had previously said the UK would \"be at the top of the list\" for a deal.\n\nHe also reiterated the US's objections to a new tax on the revenues of big tech firms, calling it \"discriminatory\".\n\nHe told the audience at Chatham House it was \"not appropriate\" and has \"violations to our tax treaties and other issues\".\n\n\"So, we're working through that and I think we have a good outcome of trying to give some room now in 2020 to continue these discussions.\"\n\nMr Javid intends to introduce a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media platforms and online marketplaces which derive value from UK users.\n\nHe has said the digital services tax will only be a temporary measure until an international agreement is in place on how to deal with online giants such as Google and Facebook.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Mnuchin threatened new tariffs on UK carmakers after the chancellor defied US pressure to cancel the tax.\n\nThe issue of whether Chinese telecoms giant Huawei should have a role in the UK's 5G network was also raised.\n\nThe US recently warned the British government it \"would be madness\" to use Huawei technology in the UK's 5G network.\n\nA decision is expected imminently on whether to allow Huawei to supply some \"non-core\" parts for the UK network.\n\nMr Mnuchin said \"active discussions\" about that were ongoing with UK government and others.\n\nHe also said his criticisms of climate activist Greta Thunberg earlier this week had been meant as a \"joke\".", "Jones took to directing, notably on the Python films, such as Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. As well as being behind the camera he also appeared, here in one of his most memorable roles as Mr Creosote, served by John Cleese.", "Young people and over 60s are among those who can already buy a railcard\n\nA new railcard offering discounted train tickets for military veterans will be launched later this year, the government has said.\n\nThe railcard - to be released on Armistice Day in November - will save a third off most train fares.\n\nIt will benefit more than 830,000 veterans who do not already qualify for existing discounts, the Department for Transport said.\n\nServing armed forces personnel already qualify for their own railcard.\n\n\"Every part of society should honour the debt we owe those who've served our country,\" said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nHe said allowing ex-servicemen and women to travel more easily was \"the least we can do\".\n\n\"This railcard will help open up opportunities to veterans, whether through employment and retraining, or by strengthening links with friends and family,\" he added.\n\nMr Shapps said he was proud the government and rail industry was \"doing its bit\" for veterans\n\nThe latest discount follows two new railcards which were launched last year - one for those aged 26-30, and another for teenagers aged 16-17 that came with a half-price fare reduction.\n\nA HM Forces Railcard can already be bought by serving personnel for £21 a year.\n\nOther railcards exist that are aimed at the over 60s or people who have a disability.\n\nThe new railcard for veterans will be available to buy from 11 November and will cost £21 for a limited period, before rising to £30.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dorset veteran's wife wants more help for veterans with PTSD\n\nIt was one of the Conservatives' pledges during the general election campaign and forms part of the government's veterans strategy.\n\nIn February last year, a report from a committee of MPs found military veterans and their families were being \"completely failed\" when they needed mental health care.\n\nCabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden, who oversees work on veterans' issues, said: \"Our new action plan will help to make the UK the best place in the world for veterans.\"\n\nHe said the Office for Veterans' Affairs - which was created in July - will \"help veterans on jobs, housing and health through better data and a more joined-up approach\".\n\nThe price of train tickets rose by 2.7% at the start of January, hitting millions of commuters. The rise was lower than the 3.1% increase at the start of last year.", "An area of new planting in the Highlands using plastic protection\n\nScotland's forestry industry says it is taking action to reduce the plastic pollution caused by tree planting.\n\nHundreds of thousands of plastic tube tree guards are used every year to protect saplings from being eaten by deer, rabbits and voles.\n\nMost are made from single-use plastics and are often left to disintegrate in the open when a tree grows.\n\nForestry and Land Scotland said it would now use recyclable tubes or those containing half as much plastic.\n\nPlanting trees is widely seen as environmentally beneficial, so it is ironic that it can also be a source of vast quantities of plastic waste.\n\nFindhorn-based charity Trees for Life has planted more than 1.6 million trees in the Highlands as part of efforts to regenerate native forests.\n\nIt hardly ever uses plastic tree tubes. Instead, it uses fencing to keep hungry deer away from saplings.\n\nPlastic guards are used to protect saplings from being eaten by deer, rabbits and voles\n\nTrees for Life conservation manager Alan McDonnell said it was very easy to put tree guards out and then forget about them.\n\nHe said: \"If people are carrying out very large planting projects and relying on tree tubes then they are bringing a lot of plastic into the landscape. For years all you see is these cylinders sticking up.\"\n\nHe said the tube would eventually burst or the tree would fail inside it.\n\nHe added: \"The tube will stand there for years, then slowly fall down, break up and then gradually it will degrade.\n\n\"Those plastics will be left in the soil and just get absorbed into the environment. Then you get these localised pockets of plastic pollution, which are bad news.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has a target for 24,710 acres (10,000 hectares) of new forest to be planted each year, and plastic tree guards are often used by the public sector.\n\nFor example, about 16,000 trees and shrubs have been planted in tubes alongside the new dual carriageway stretch of the A9 between Kincraig to Dalraddy in the Cairngorms National Park.\n\nHowever, efforts are being made to tackle the pollution created by single use plastic tree guards.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to create large areas of new forest\n\nPublic body Forestry and Land Scotland said it used tree guards to aid the establishment of young trees in certain circumstances - depending on tree species and local deer, rabbit, hare or vole populations.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Of the 25 million trees that we plant annually when restocking or when creating new woodlands, only 1.6% of them will require tree guards.\n\n\"However, as a responsible land manager we are always looking for environmentally friendly ways of working and have recently started using new products that use half as much plastic or which are recyclable.\n\n\"We would certainly be very interested in trialling any effective and wholly biodegradable product that would meet the need to protect young trees for the necessary amount of time. Ideally, if a viable alternative was to become available, we'd like to stop using tree guards altogether.\"\n\nHe added: \"However, until such time as a suitable product becomes available, we will continue to look at minimising the use of tree guards, maintaining them in situ, removing them when trees are established and then disposing of them appropriately.\"\n\nPlastic tree guards, which were invented in Scotland, remain popular as they not only protect saplings from browsing animals but also encourage growth by creating a miniature greenhouse effect.\n\nManufacturer Berry Global is developing ways to reduce their environmental impact.\n\nMarketing director James Taylor said the key to this was ensuring responsible collection and disposal.\n\nHe said: \"We are working at the moment to see how we can collect used tree guards after their five to eight-year lifespan.\"\n\n\"We want to make sure it is as easy as possible for people to deposit them somewhere locally so we can collect them and reprocess them into new products to try to close the loop and get closer to that circular economy.\"", "Jess Phillips had not received any nominations from trade unions, affiliate bodies or local parties\n\nJess Phillips has dropped out of the Labour leadership contest, leaving four candidates in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIn a video message to supporters, the Birmingham Yardley MP said the next leader had to be able to unite the whole Labour movement.\n\nMs Phillips said she had to \"be honest\" with herself - \"that person is not me.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Lisa Nandy's campaign has received a major boost after she won the backing of the GMB union.\n\nThe organisation also backed Angela Rayner to be the next deputy.\n\nAnnouncing its decision to endorse Ms Nandy, the union's general secretary, Tim Roache, said she was \"a breath of fresh air in the debate over Labour's future\", and \"got the scale of the challenge\" facing the party after its fourth election defeat in a row.\n\nThe endorsement increases the chances of the MP for Wigan making it to the final stage of the contest - joining Sir Keir Starmer who has already qualified to get on the ballot.\n\nMs Nandy - who already has the support of the National Union of Mineworkers - said she could \"not be more proud\", and the next leader's challenge was to \"recover our ambition and inspire a movement\".\n\nThe other candidates still left in the leadership race are shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey - who has been tipped to get the backing of the Unite union later this week - and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey, Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Emily Thornberry are left in the contest\n\nMs Phillips missed the hustings organised by the GMB earlier on Tuesday, prompting speculation that her campaign was in trouble.\n\nShe had yet to receive any nominations from trade unions, affiliate bodies or local parties.\n\nConfirming her exit, the 38-year old said Labour needed a leader \"who can unite all parts of our movement, the union movement, members and elected representatives\".\n\n\"In order to win the country, we are going to have to find a candidate, in this race, who can do all of that, and then take that message out to the country. A message of hope and change, that things can be better.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Long-Bailey: Labour has to be \"ruthlessly focused\"\n\nShe thanked all those who had pledged their support for her, particularly Jewish members of the party who she said she would continue to stand up for.\n\n\"I will always speak out and I promise that we will change the problems in our party that we have seen. I'm going to go out into the country and join the fight back.\"\n\nIn a recent interview with LBC, Ms Phillips said if she couldn't be leader, she would support one of the other female candidates in the race.\n\nSir Keir praised her \"real courage\" for standing, saying she would \"play a huge part in the future of our party\".\n\nHe added: \"It's a shame to lose Jess but we keep our focus on where we go next.\"\n\nMs Nandy and Ms Thornberry also praised her contribution.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lisa Nandy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is a very significant day in the Labour leadership contest - both for determining who is in and who is out.\n\nLisa Nandy is almost certainly going to be joining Sir Keir Starmer on the ballot.\n\nShe currently has no constituency nominations so could well have struggled without union support. But the GMB's general secretary, Tim Roache, told me his union had given her the \"springboard\" she needs.\n\nAnd while she may lack name recognition, she doesn't lack talent.\n\nInterestingly, too, the GMB endorsement came at a meeting in which every region of the UK was represented, and nearly twice as many delegates backed Ms Nandy as supported Sir Keir.\n\nJess Phillips has dropped out, but she says her encouragement for people to join Labour in order to change it has worked - tens of thousands of new members have come in, so she may yet have an influence on the result.\n\nHer supporters are highly unlikely to back the most left-wing candidate, Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nBut Mrs Long-Bailey herself is likely to be on the ballot too if she can secure the backing of the influential Unite union on Friday.\n\nWhen she entered the contest earlier this month, Ms Phillips called on those who wanted to change Labour's direction to join the party in their thousands.\n\nShe insisted she had the \"big personality\" to alter how Labour was seen by the public, but she criticised her own performance in the first members' hustings last weekend in Liverpool.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, one of Ms Phillips' supporters, said he was \"gutted\" by her withdrawal, but praised her \"raw honesty\" in accepting that she had not built the breadth of support required.\n\nHe suggested Sir Keir was the clear frontrunner, but there was a \"Jess-shaped hole\" in the contest waiting to be filled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nTo make it to the final stage, the candidates have to secure nominations from 5% of constituency Labour parties (CLPs), or three affiliate groups - two of which must be trade unions - representing at least 5% of affiliated members.\n\nSir Keir cleared this hurdle after being backed by Unison, the UK's largest union, and a second union, Usdaw, as well as environmental campaign group Sera.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs Long-Bailey has said she is in favour of Labour MPs having to compete with other candidates if they want to continue representing their party at the next general election.\n\nOutlining plans to \"democratise\" Labour, she said so-called open selection - whereby sitting MPs are not automatically re-adopted by their local branches but face challenges if they do not command enough support - would help nurture new talent.\n\n\"We need to rip up our outdated rule book that has held back our members for too long and throw open the door to a new generation of MPs and candidates,\" she is expected to say at a rally. \"Being an MP or elected representative is a privilege that must be earned.\"\n\nMr Corbyn's successor - and the successor to his deputy, Tom Watson - will be announced on 4 April.", "Owners of Sonos products have reacted angrily to the firm's announcement that it will no longer issue software updates for its older devices from May.\n\nMany say they have spent hundreds of pounds on Sonos speaker products for their homes over the years.\n\nNewer Sonos products connected with the older ones will also be left out of future updates.\n\nThe change affects four models sold between 2006 and 2015, including the Connect:Amp and Connect.\n\nWithout the updates, they will eventually lose functionality.\n\nAccess to other services will also become limited.\n\nSonos said the hardware had been \"stretched to its technical limits in terms of memory and processing power\".\n\nAnd affected customers can upgrade to a newer device with a 30% discount in return for recycling the old product.\n\nBut the news has annoyed many Sonos owners.\n\nRichard Street told the BBC he had spent £1,000 ($1,300) on two Play 5 speakers. Even with the upgrade discount he believes it would cost him around £700 to replace them.\n\n\"This is money my family and I just don't have,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a feeling among the community that if Sonos gets away with this then they will do the same with all kit over time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sergeant Harrison Burns This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Dr Martin Kleppmann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSonos told BBC News 92% of the products it had ever shipped were still in use.\n\nBBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones tweeted it was \"very poor marketing and damaging for the brand\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC's David Sillito looks back at the Welsh comic actor, writer and director's life\n\nMonty Python stars have led the tributes to their co-star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77.\n\nThe Welsh actor and writer played a variety of characters in the iconic comedy group's Flying Circus TV series, and directed several of their films.\n\nHe died on Tuesday, four years after contracting a rare form of dementia known as FTD.\n\nDavid Walliams and Simon Pegg were among other comedians who remembered him.\n\nFellow Python star Sir Michael Palin described Jones as \"one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation\".\n\nIn a tweet, John Cleese said he was \"a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm\".\n\nEric Idle, another member of the highly influential comedy troupe, recalled the \"many laughs [and] moments of total hilarity\" they shared.\n\n\"It's too sad if you knew him, but if you didn't you will always smile at the many wonderfully funny moments he gave us,\" he went on.\n\nTerry Gilliam, with whom Jones directed the group's film The Holy Grail in 1975, described his fellow Python as a \"brilliant, constantly questioning, iconoclastic, righteously argumentative and angry but outrageously funny and generous and kind human being\".\n\n\"One could never hope for a better friend,\" he said.\n\nPalin added: \"Terry was one of my closest, most valued friends. He was kind, generous, supportive and passionate about living life to the full.\n\n\"He was far more than one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation, he was the complete Renaissance comedian - writer, director, presenter, historian, brilliant children's author, and the warmest, most wonderful company you could wish to have.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Fry This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScreenwriter Charlie Brooker posted: \"RIP the actual genius Terry Jones. Far too many brilliant moments to choose from.\"\n\nDavid Walliams thanked his comedy hero \"for a lifetime of laughter\".\n\nSimon Pegg - who acted in Jones' final film as director, 2015's Absolutely Anything - said: \"Terry was a sweet, gentle, funny man who was a joy to work with and impossible not to love.\"\n\nAnd comedian Eddie Izzard told BBC News: \"It's a tragedy - the good go too early. Monty Python changed the face of world comedy. It will live forever. It's a terrible loss.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Palin on Terry Jones: \"He was a wonderful companion\"\n\nShane Allen, BBC controller of comedy commissioning, wrote that it was a \"sad day to lose an absolute titan of British comedy\" and \"one of the founding fathers of the most influential and pioneering comedy ensembles of all time\".\n\nJones was born in Colwyn Bay and went on to study at Oxford University, where he met his future Python pal Palin in the Oxford Revue - a student comedy group.\n\nAlongside Palin, Idle and the likes of David Jason, he appeared in the BBC children's satirical sketch show Do Not Adjust Your Set, which would set the template for their work to come with Python.\n\nJones directed, starred in and co-wrote Monty Python's 1979 film Life of Brian\n\nHe wrote and starred in Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show and the comedy collective's films, as a range of much-loved characters. These included Arthur \"Two Sheds\" Jackson, Cardinal Biggles of the Spanish Inquisition and Mr Creosote.\n\nIn addition to directing The Holy Grail with Gilliam, Jones took sole directorial charge of 1979's Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life in 1983.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCleese said: \"Of his many achievements, for me the greatest gift he gave us all was his direction of Life of Brian. Perfection.\"\n\nBeyond Monty Python, he wrote the screenplay for the 1986 film Labyrinth, starring David Bowie.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by BBC Archive This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMonty Python's Flying Circus, the groundbreaking comedy series that made Jones and his fellow cast members international stars, first aired on BBC One in October 1969.\n\nSurreal, anarchic and bawdily irreverent, the show's blend of live-action sketches and animated interludes mocked both broadcasting conventions and societal norms.\n\nJones and Palin had met at Oxford, while Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle studied at Cambridge. After university, they took part in various comedy shows before forming Monty Python with US-born animator Terry Gilliam.\n\nAfter four series, the troupe moved to the big screen to make Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life of Brian, a controversial parody of Biblical epics.\n\nMonty Python's The Meaning of Life, their final film as a collective, returned to the original series' sketch-based format.\n\nThe surviving members reunited periodically after Chapman's death in 1989, most notably for a run of live shows at the O2 in London in 2014.\n\nJones (left) as the store manager and Eric Idle as Chris Quinn in Monty Python's sketch The Department Store-Buying an Ant\n\nThe statement from Jones' family noted his \"uncompromising individuality, relentless intellect and extraordinary humour [that] has given pleasure to countless millions across six decades\".\n\n\"Over the past few days his wife, children, extended family and many close friends have been constantly with Terry as he gently slipped away at his home in north London.\n\n\"His work with Monty Python, his books, films, television programmes, poems and other work will live on forever, a fitting legacy to a true polymath.\"\n\nTerry Jones as Mr Creosote, alongside John Cleese, in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life in 1983\n\nThe family thanked Jones' \"wonderful medical professionals and carers for making the past few years not only bearable but often joyful\".\n\nThey said: \"We hope that this disease will one day be eradicated entirely. We ask that our privacy be respected at this sensitive time and give thanks that we lived in the presence of an extraordinarily talented, playful and happy man living a truly authentic life, in his words 'Lovingly frosted with glucose.'\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Prince of Wales has met teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos.\n\nThe pair were introduced after Prince Charles delivered a speech at the event in Switzerland, where sustainability is the main theme.\n\nA \"paradigm shift\" is needed in the way the world deals with climate change, he said.\n\nHe outlined an initiative to encourage \"rapid\" decarbonisation and a shift towards sustainable markets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: 'Do we want to go down in history as the people who did nothing?'\n\nClarence House tweeted photos of his meeting with Miss Thunberg, who addressed delegates at the event on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking shortly after US President Donald Trump, she strongly criticised politicians and business leaders for what she said were continuous \"empty words and promises\".\n\nPrince Charles, the heir to throne, travelled around 80 miles to Davos from the Swiss city St Gallen in an electric Jaguar to deliver a keynote address to business and political leaders.\n\nHe said he is launching a \"Sustainable Markets Initiative\", which will bring together private and public sector leaders, heads of charities, and investors to work towards decarbonisation and a transition to sustainable markets.\n\nHe added that taxes could be used, as well as policies and regulations, to accelerate this shift.\n\nHis sons, the Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex, and grandchildren have been in his mind throughout his environmental campaigning, he said.\n\nHe called for 2020 to be \"the year that we put ourselves on the right track\" and for the private sector to \"lead the world out of the approaching catastrophe into which we have engineered ourselves\".\n\n\"Do we want to go down in history as the people who did nothing to bring the world back from the brink, in trying to restore the balance, when we could have done? I don't want to,\" he said.\n\n\"Just think for a moment, what good is all the extra wealth in the world gained from business as usual if you can do nothing with it except watch it burn in catastrophic conditions.\"", "Stormont's five main party leaders have asked that a £1,000 pay rise in MLAs' salaries is \"immediately deferred\".\n\nMLAs' pay is due to rise from £49,500 to £50,500 but the five leaders jointly asked the Assembly Commission to halt this until the decision is reviewed.\n\nStormont's Speaker Alex Maskey has now called commission members to a meeting on Thursday to discuss the issue.\n\nThe current rules on MLAs' salaries and expenses were set by the Independent Financial Review Panel (IFRP) in 2016.\n\nStormont's devolved government collapsed the following year and the panel's members terms later expired, but the IFRP's determination from 2016 still applies.\n\nThat determination provides MLAs with a £500 annual increase to their salaries, but pay rises were blocked while devolution was suspended after a request from the Assembly Commission to the then Secretary of State Karen Bradley.\n\nWith devolution restored, MLAs are due to automatically receive a £1,000 uplift - for the two years they did not get the additional money while Stormont was not running.\n\nHowever, many of the 90 MLAs have said they did not have any input into this decision and have offered to donate the money to charity.\n\nThe assembly sat for the first time in three years on 11 January\n\nIn a joint statement on Wednesday, the five main party leaders said: \"We share the broad public dismay at this development, only a matter of days after the Assembly and institutions have been fully restored.\n\n\"We have had a range of concerns over time around recommendations emerging from the Independent Financial Review Panel.\n\n\"We are jointly asking the Assembly Commission that any pay proposal is immediately deferred until the work of the Financial Review Panel has been comprehensively reviewed, and a new panel has the opportunity to consider this matter again and produce a fresh determination.\n\n\"We recognise that a number of MLAs and parties have indicated if the proposed pay increase cannot be halted, they will donate any additional sum to local causes and charities.\"\n\nOn Wednesday evening, a spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Assembly said: \"The Speaker is mindful of the concerns expressed by the five main political parties in relation to the Independent Financial Review Panel's inflationary increases to MLA salaries arising from its 2016 determination.\n\n\"He has therefore invited Assembly Commission members and those members who are due to be appointed to the commission, to attend a meeting tomorrow afternoon, to discuss how those concerns might be addressed.\"\n\nThe IFRP was established by the Assembly Commission in 2011 to make independent determinations in relation to MLAs' salaries, allowances and pensions.\n\nUnder its 2016 determination, MLAs are due to receive another £500 rise in April 2020, unless the assembly establishes another mechanism to deal with MLA pay.\n\nEarlier, the DUP and Sinn Féin both said they would look at ways to stop the £1,000 pay increase.\n\nSinn Féin vice president Michelle O'Neill said it was \"unjustifiable\".\n\nThe DUP said it was \"totally opposed\" to it, \"in light of the very recent restoration of the assembly\".\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin said they would explore ways to stop or return the pay rise\n\nThe DUP said it supported \"the concept that pay levels should be entirely independent of any MLA input\".\n\nHowever, the statement added: \"We are currently examining options to see whether this rise can be returned and if not then it is the view of our members that they will not keep any additional salary but instead support local causes.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster, Economy Minister Diane Dodds said: \"Whoever thought that this was a good thing to do, at this particular juncture, was way off the mark.\n\n\"It is incredibly unfortunate that this has jarred with the start of what has been quite a positive opening to the assembly.\"\n\nMs O'Neill tweeted on Tuesday that assembly members had \"no input into this decision, nor did they seek it\".\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the party said it was \"actively exploring options to stop it\".\n\n\"If that's not possible then we'll see if the money can be returned to public funds or donated to charity,\" it added.\n\nThis is quite the move by the party leaders.\n\nWhile it's clear they are doing this to try to curtail some of the public ire, how they are going about it might make some uncomfortable.\n\nMLAs stopped having an input into how their pay is set in 2011, when the independent body was established.\n\nUnder the law, it states that the panel should not be \"subject to the direction or control of\" the Northern Ireland Assembly, or the Assembly Commission.\n\nBut this statement is an indication that the politicians want to undo - or at least review - what the panel decided almost four years ago.\n\nThe situation is complicated by fact that the panel members' terms of office were allowed to expire and no action was taken to replace them.\n\nIt is now over to the Assembly Commission - made up of the Speaker and five members from the main parties - to respond.\n\nAll 12 SDLP MLAs said they would be donating their pay rises to charity.\n\nPeople Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll said it was \"a slap in the face to nurses who stood on freezing pickets for months for pay parity, and the civil service staff who are still taking industrial action to get what they deserve\".\n\nMr Butler, the UUP's Chief Whip, said in a Facebook post he would be donating the salary increase to a number of charities.\n\n\"Just for clarity, there is no way to refuse this pay increase. It is automatic. It was not voted on by MLAs,\" he added.\n\nThe Alliance Party said it was \"working with other party leaders to find a means to defer this\".\n\nThe former chair of the IFRP, Pat McCartan, said the determination in the 2016 report still applies.\n\n\"It did provide for a basic salary of an MLA of £49,000 with a less than 1% increase per annum of £500 provided inflation was running at more than 1%,\" he said.\n\n\"Now, when you roll that up, that is why you get the current level of salaries and it is entirely justified through the whole method that we use with job evaluation, pay comparison, and looking at all other legislatures in these islands.\n\n\"These are the lowest paid legislatures, whether they actually legislate or not is a matter for the electorate.\"", "An emotional support peacock was turned away from Newark airport in 2018\n\nThe US is seeking to limit the kinds of animals that airlines must allow on board for free.\n\nThe Department of Transportation has proposed to restrict that right to dogs that are trained to help people with disabilities.\n\nIt said the plan is a response to concerns that increasing passengers are falsely claiming pets as \"service animals\".\n\nThe proposal is subject to public comment before it goes into effect.\n\nAmong other changes, the proposal would mean that so-called emotional support animals are no longer entitled to the same rights as \"service animals\".\n\nWhile passengers could have psychiatric service animals, that classification would require animals to have training.\n\nUS airlines welcomed the plans. They had called for action, saying a rising number of animals travelling in aeroplane cabins has led to growing complaints and incidents such as biting.\n\n\"Airlines want all passengers and crew to have a safe and comfortable flying experience, and we are confident the proposed rule will go a long way in ensuring a safer and healthier experience for everyone,\" said Nicholas Calio, president of industry lobby Airlines for America.\n\nThe changes, if they move forward, would bring the US closer to the UK, which does not recognise \"emotional support\" animals.\n\nOnly guide dogs, and dogs that help people with disabilities are allowed on British flights.\n\nIn the US, passengers attempting to bring turkeys, peacocks and squirrels inside plane cabins in recent years have drawn attention to the issue and prompted some airlines to tighten their rules on their own.\n\nAmerican Airlines, for example, prohibited flying with frogs, ferrets, hedgehogs and goats, even if they are therapy animals.\n\nDelta noted in 2018 that some passengers \"attempted to fly with comfort turkeys, gliding possums known as sugar gliders, snakes\" and spiders.\n\nThe Department of Transportation proposal would allow airlines to limit the number of animals passengers may bring with them, impose size rules and require paperwork certifying their service animals.\n\nHowever, airlines would not be allowed to refuse transport to service animals based on breed.", "Edinburgh and Glasgow are battling to become the first \"net zero\" cities in the UK\n\nScotland is soon to be the focus of global attention with the UN climate change summit drawing ever closer.\n\nThe event will be held in Glasgow, which is battling with Edinburgh to become the UK's first \"net zero\" city - placing their greenhouse emissions at a neutral level.\n\nBut plans to cut traffic are in motion across the country in addition to numerous rejuvenation projects to create greener, more attractive public spaces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGlasgow faces a number of challenges before meeting its 2030 target, particularly city centre congestion and pollution.\n\nHowever, it was the first Scottish city to introduce a low-emission zone.\n\nMore improvements have been made in the past year, such as two new camera-controlled bus gates either side of Central Station.\n\nOne of the council's latest plans is to limit vehicles around George Square as part of multi-million project that could ultimately ban parking in the area entirely.\n\nA public consultation held over October and November last year showed huge public support for less traffic, more pedestrian areas and more green spaces for relaxing.\n\nPlans to limit vehicles on George Square will be considered by the council\n\nNext week the council will consider a proposal to fully pedestrianise the east and west sides of the square - at the City Chambers and Merchants House, respectively.\n\nThe north and south sides would allow public transport and cyclists. If approved this phase could be in place before the UEFA European Football Championships in June.\n\nFurther permanent works could also be carried out after the summer of 2023 to improve connectivity just beyond the square, costing an additional £3m.\n\nParking will be completely banned in the area if proposals are green-lit\n\nThere are also a number of ongoing projects in Aberdeen aimed at both cutting traffic and breathing new life into one of the city's most historic spaces.\n\nLike Glasgow, Aberdeen council bosses are considering plans to ban vehicles from certain streets overnight in order to make them safer and \"more welcoming\".\n\nThe ban would apply between 22:00-05:00 on certain areas off Union Street, which runs through the heart of the city.\n\nCertain exemptions would include emergency vehicles and cyclists.\n\nMeanwhile, Union Terrace Gardens - a historic park and thoroughfare - is in the middle of a refurbishment which took more than 10 years to get moving.\n\nThe design for Union Terrace Gardens includes new walkways and new disabled parking\n\nSince 2007, swaying public opinion and councillor debates have seen several proposals scrapped, plus £50m of investment from businessman Sir Ian Wood taken off the table.\n\nFinally, a £25.7m facelift was accepted, including new walkways, an amphitheatre, a play area, cafe, and improved toilets.\n\nHowever, project director Kirstin Taylor said the design would allow \"easier and more inviting access\" and include new disabled parking and lifts into the gardens.\n\nIt is expected to be completed in the summer of next year.\n\nEdinburgh has rolled out a number of green projects in the past year with several more on the horizon.\n\nIt became the first city in the UK to join the Open Streets movement by closing certain areas of the Old Town between midday and 17:00 on the first Sunday of each month.\n\nBy the end of 2020 it is hoped that the capital will introduce Scotland's second low emission zone, which means older cars will have to pay to enter the city centre.\n\nAnother broader city-wide zone would apply to buses, coaches and commercial vehicles.\n\nAnd earlier this month the council published plans for radical changes over the next 10 years to make the city carbon neutral.\n\nAn artist's impression of how a pedestrianised George Street would look\n\nIf the proposals go ahead, large portions of Edinburgh would become pedestrianised, George Street would be shut to vehicles by 2025 and the tram network extended by the end of the decade.\n\nAlong with Glasgow, Edinburgh is the only other Scottish city to signal that it would introduce the workplace parking levy.\n\nUse the tool below and we could be in touch.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Paul Gaultier says goodbye to the runway.\n\nCelebrities have descended on the final fashion show of French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier in Paris, as he bows out after a 50-year career.\n\nBoy George took to a stage studded with models and other stars in a performance to close the Paris Fashion Week event.\n\nGaultier shocked fans when he announced it would be his last haute couture runway last week.\n\nHe said the event, at the city's Théâtre du Châtelet, would be a \"party\" to celebrate his decades in fashion.\n\nGaultier, 67, has dressed stars from Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett to Lady Gaga and Rihanna.\n\nHe designed Madonna's \"cone bra\" corset, which she wore for her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour.\n\nAmerican models Gigi and Bella Hadid appeared on the runway.\n\nThey were joined by fellow US models Dita Von Teese and Karlie Kloss.\n\nVon Teese later appeared with British model Karen Elson alongside Boy George on stage.\n\nCanadian model Winnie Harlow also took to the runway.\n\nOther stars at the Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2020 show included former French first lady Carla Bruni, French singer Chris and American actress and model Larsen Thompson.\n\nCarla Bruni, Chris and Larsen Thompson are among the guests\n\nFrench designer Christian Louboutin - known for his signature red-soled stiletto shoes - was pictured with Lebanese-born British pop singer Mika.\n\nFashion designers Pierre Cardin - Gaultier's former mentor - and Christian Lacroix were also present.\n\nAt the opening of the event in Paris, Gaultier called the outfits on the runway his \"first upcycling haute couture collection\" and urged the audience to recycle their clothes.\n\nLast year he criticised what he called \"ridiculous\" fashion waste, saying big fashion brands are harming the planet by producing \"far too many collections with far too many clothes\".\n\n\"In my first show and this, my last, there are creations made with the jeans I've worn,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the most beautiful of materials. Like a lot of humans, it becomes even more beautiful as it gets older.\"\n\nHe added: \"Goodbye to the spanking new, hello to the spanking old!\"\n\nThe event comes less than a week after Gaultier tweeted a video announcing that this runway would be his last.\n\n\"It's going to be quite a party with many of my friends, and we're going to have fun until very, very late,\" he said.\n\nAhead of the show, Von Teese posted on Instagram that some of his \"legendary muses\" would be taking part.\n\nShe predicted it would be an \"emotional night\" and, in an earlier post, wrote: \"I'm so grateful to have been part of the story.\"\n\nCanadian model Coco Rocha tweeted that it was \"surreal\" that this would be Gaultier's last show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmerican actress and model Kat Graham described him as her \"fashion idol\".\n\n\"JPG was the first big design house to dress me, to believe in me,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Thank you JPG for showing me and the world that it's more than ok to be authentically yourself, and to go against the grain.\"", "The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador was hit with more than 70cm (27in) of snow in a record breaking blizzard.\n\nThe military has been called in to help with recovery efforts.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and online; Live text on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritain's Heather Watson showed tremendous fight to reach the Australian Open second round before Dan Evans missed out on the chance of a potential meeting with Novak Djokovic.\n\nBritish number one Evans, seeded 30th, lost 6-4 6-3 6-4 to Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka in his second-round match.\n\nWatson and Harriet Dart are the only remaining Britons in the singles draws.\n\nWatson will meet Belgian 16th seed Elise Mertens for the second time in a week after winning their Hobart International quarter-final last Thursday.\n• None Gauff sets up Osaka meeting in last 32\n\nAfter beating Pliskova, Watson said having played in similar conditions in Hobart last week - and growing up in windy Guernsey - had stood her in good stead.\n\n\"It was super windy today but I felt prepared because it was like that in Hobart a lot of the days,\" the 27-year-old said.\n\n\"But being a first-round match and being postponed I felt a bit nervous in that first set and a bit tense.\n\n\"I managed to loosen up, relax and enjoy the match.\"\n\nMertens beat Montenegro's Danka Kovinic later on Wednesday as, like Watson, she had to come back a day later as a consequence of the backlog of matches caused by Monday's rain washout.\n\nWatson has not enjoyed many victories in the Grand Slams recently, showing her pleasure at digging in and beating 65th-ranked Pliskova with a wide smile and clenched fist towards her box.\n\nThe Briton had won only one match in her last six appearances in the main draw in Melbourne but had come here in good form after her Hobart performances.\n\nIn difficult conditions in which both players struggled at times with their ball toss, Watson eventually dealt with them better as Pliskova - twin sister of second seed Karolina - began to show her frustration.\n\nWatson's service game improved as the match wore on and she continued to hit a steady stream of winners to clinch an impressive victory.\n\n\"I don't mind the wind and with the way I play - a lot of slice, drop shots, change-of-pace balls - I think it works well. And I'm patient,\" she said.\n\nBritish number one Evans needed to fight back from two sets down in his opening match against American Mackenzie McDonald, but there was no sign of another memorable comeback against an inspired Nishioka.\n\nEvans, 29, said he did not \"feel good at all\" going into Monday's match, possibly the effects of his heroics for Great Britain at the ATP Cup and playing in Adelaide last week.\n\nTwo days later he again looked out-of-sorts and this time he was unable to put any pressure on his opponent.\n\n\"I've not had the ranking to skip weeks, but maybe in hindsight I could not have played last week,\" Evans said.\n\n\"It's been a long few weeks since pre-season. I've been away a long time and I didn't feel great.\"\n\nEvans, who was competing in his first Grand Slam as a seeded player, could not force a single break point as 71st-ranked Nishioka eased into a two-set lead.\n\nThe Briton looked to be struggling physically as he sat in his chair at the end of the second set, although he recovered to push Nishioka, who made only two unforced errors in the previous set, closer in the third.\n\nHowever, Evans was broken in his penultimate service game as a tie-break loomed, unable to land a first serve before hitting a forehand wide of the line on Nishioka's first match point.\n\nThe 24-year-old Japanese fell to his knees on the court and looked up to the sky in celebration as he contemplated his achievement of reaching the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time.\n\nHis reward is a meeting with Serb defending champion Djokovic, who beat Nishioka's compatriot Tatsuma Ito 6-1 6-4 6-2.\n\nEvans was the third and final Briton to fall in the men's singles after Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie lost their opening matches on Tuesday.\n\nDan Evans was the first to admit that Yoshihito Nishioka handled the windy conditions better than he did.\n\nBut having confessed to feeling sore in his first-round victory over Mackenzie McDonald, it's clear Evans' success at the ATP Cup and in Adelaide earlier this month did come at a price.\n\nAs he said - in typical Evans style - he was at a bit of a loose end last week, and so couldn't resist a trip to Adelaide where he reached the quarter-finals.\n\nThe upside was a 10-place rise in the rankings and an extra $250 000 (£192,000) in the bank.\n\nEvans says he has no regrets, but hinted he will make a few changes to his schedule so he can arrive at the big events feeling fresher in future.\n\nThe men's doubles got under way on day three with two British players involved.\n\nJonny O'Mara progressed to the second round alongside partner Marcelo Arevalo, from El Salvador, with a 6-3 6-2 win over Bolivian Hugo Dellien and Argentine Juan Ignacio Londero.\n\nHowever, Dom Inglot and Saudi Arabia's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi were knocked out in the opening round, losing in three sets to Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.\n\nJamie Murray and Neal Skupski begin their campaign against Canadian Vasek Pospisil and Poland's Hubert Hurkacz on Thursday.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Gavin Jones, Darren Jones, Martin Roberts and Terence Whall have denied the charges\n\nA 74-year-old man was \"callously\" shot with a crossbow after going outside in the dark to fix his satellite dish, a murder trial has heard.\n\nMold Crown Court heard someone was hiding \"probably behind a wall\" armed with the \"silent, quick and deadly weapon\", waiting for Gerald Corrigan.\n\nHe died three weeks after the 19 April shooting at his remote Anglesey home.\n\nTerence Whall, 39, denies murder, telling police he was in a nearby field having a sexual encounter with a man.\n\nHe also denies a charge of perverting the course of justice, along with three others, amid allegations they conspired together to set fire to a vehicle later found burnt out.\n\nThe other three - Martin Roberts, 34, of James Street in Bangor, Darren Jones, 41, of the Bryn Ogwen estate at Penrhosgarnedd and Gavin Jones, 36, of High Street, Bangor - also deny the charges.\n\nJurors heard Mr Corrigan lived with his 64-year-old partner Marie Bailey, who had multiple sclerosis, and that he was in effect her carer.\n\nThey lived at Gof Du, situated in about 30 acres near South Stack, close to the coastal path.\n\n\"It isn't a place that you could simply pass by - to go there, you had to intend to go there,\" prosecution barrister Peter Rouch QC said.\n\nAccording to details retained by Sky, at about midnight Mr Corrigan was watching a recorded programme.\n\nGerald Corrigan died three weeks after being shot outside his Anglesey home\n\nSome time between 00:08 and 00:28 BST, the Sky signal was interrupted and Mr Corrigan went outside to look at the dish.\n\nThe court heard the outside security lights had not worked for the best part of 18 months.\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"He must have bent over the Sky dish, with his right hand resting on the house wall. This must have occurred within a minute or so before 12:30am.\n\n\"He felt a terrible pain to his body and thought that somehow he had been electrocuted by the Sky dish.\n\n\"He suddenly had a bleeding and broken arm, which he thought was part of the electrocution,\" he explained.\n\nThe court heard the bolt entered his left hand side, passing completely through his body, cutting his spleen and penetrating his large intestine and stomach.\n\nIt also caused damage to his gastric artery, penetrated his liver, colon and diaphragm, and bruised his heart, before exiting his body more or less through his right chest.\n\n\"So silent and quick is a crossbow that Mr Corrigan had no idea what had happened to him. All he knew was that he was in terrible pain,\" Mr Rouch said.\n\n\"He went back into the house and shouted loudly for his partner, managed to walk up the stairs, where she saw he was in lots of pain, bleeding heavily from his arm and was very frightened.\n\n\"Mr Corrigan said he thought he had been electrocuted by the Sky dish, and thought he was having a heart attack,\" he said.\n\nJurors heard a paramedic using a torch noticed the gate to a neighbouring field was open and also found an arrow on the grass which appeared to be covered in blood.\n\nMr Corrigan received emergency surgery at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, which included the removal of his spleen and surgical repairs to the damage to his colon and stomach, and was placed into an induced coma.\n\nHe was airlifted to the Royal Stoke Hospital but died on 11 May.\n\nMr Rouch told the jury the shooter was about 10m (32ft) away and would have to have been proficient in using a crossbow, while considerable planning - including angles and distance - would have been needed.\n\nThis Land Rover, belonging to Mr Whall's partner, was found burned out on the outskirts of Bangor\n\nJurors were also told a Land Rover Discovery belonging to Mr Whall's partner - who was away on holiday - had a system which recorded data of its use and showed the vehicle being used in the area for a recce the night before the shooting and then at the time Mr Corrigan was shot.\n\nAs well as tracking the car's location, the device also had details such as when the car was locked and unlocked, when a door or the boot was opened and closed, and each time the engine was switched on and off.\n\nThe car was found two weeks later burnt out at a disused quarry near Bangor and the defendant said it had been stolen.\n\nWhile the system was destroyed in the fire, the information about its movements was retained centrally by Jaguar Land Rover.\n\nThe court also heard that following the shooting one of the largest suppliers of crossbows contacted police offering to help.\n\nIts director provided a list of 17 people on Anglesey who had bought a crossbow from them within the last 10 years.\n\nA crossbow had been purchased in April 2019 by the defendant, after the date of the shooting, but police - unaware of the delivery date at that stage - went to see him.\n\nHe showed police the crossbow he had bought, which had not been used, and made a witness statement where he said he also had another crossbow that he had sold to a stranger who came to his home.\n\nBut the jury heard that purchases online showed he had ordered crossbow bolts on 7 April - some two months after claiming he had sold his original crossbow, and almost two weeks before Mr Corrigan was shot.\n\nThe bolts were exactly the same sort as the one that killed Mr Corrigan, said the prosecution.\n\nIt was \"another piece... of the jigsaw\" according to Mr Rouch.\n\nIn police interview, Mr Whall, of Bryngwran, said he had never met the victim or his partner and on the night of the shooting he was with friend Barrie Williams, who he was having an affair with, the court heard.\n\nHe said they travelled to Porthdafach beach car park and engaged in sexual activities in fields nearby.\n\nMr Rouch said Mr Whall told officers he had opened the car boot - as picked up on the data - to remove a bag containing latex gloves, handcuffs and baby oil.\n\nBut Mr Rouch told the jury Mr Williams was likely to tell them he had not seen the defendant that night.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The transport secretary said South Western Railway's performance was \"significantly below expectation\"\n\nA rail firm could be taken in to public ownership should it fail financially, the government has said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said South Western Railway's (SWR) franchise was now \"not sustainable in the long term\"\n\nIt said it was involved in \"ongoing and constructive discussions\" with the government over remedies for the problems with its franchise.\n\nContingency measures include issuing a short-term contract to SWR's owners or moving its operations to the Department for Transport, Mr Shapps said.\n\nSWR services were disrupted for 27 days in December by the latest in a series of strikes over the future of guards.\n\nIt's pretty clear SWR's franchise is not going to survive in its present form.\n\nThe government has three choices.\n\nIt can tear up the South Western franchise, and agree a new one.\n\nIt can hand the same people a short-term management contract in which the government bears the financial risk, and the operator receives a fee. That's how neighbouring Govia Thameslink Railway is run.\n\nOr, as a last resort, it can strip SWR of its contract and run the trains directly.\n\nChanging the owner won't alter the underlying problems. They're also partly down to Network Rail, partly down to new and refurbished trains arriving late, and partly down to the RMT union's two years of strikes.\n\nDo you blame the company for signing an ambitious deal that turned out to be undeliverable? Or do you blame the Department for Transport for not doing its due diligence and demanding the impossible? You choose. Either way, how this railway is run is going to change.\n\nMr Shapps said SWR had \"not yet failed to meet their financial commitments\" but the department \"must prepare suitable contingency measures\".\n\nHe said poor punctuality and reliability combined with slower revenue growth has led to the operator's financial performance being \"significantly below expectation\" since the franchise began in August 2017.\n\nSWR's operations could also be moved to the Operator of Last Resort (OLR), a public sector operator wholly owned by the Department for Transport.\n\nHe insisted the moves would \"not impact on the railway's day-to-day operations\" for passengers and staff.\n\nEarlier this month SWR's accounts, for the year ending 31 March 2019, showed a loss after tax of £136.9m.\n\nThe firm operates routes between London Waterloo, Reading, Bristol, Exeter, Weymouth, and Portsmouth, as well as Island Line on the Isle of Wight.\n\nSWR's owners FirstGroup and MTR were awarded the franchise in August 2017, after outbidding previous operator Stagecoach.\n\nIn a statement FirstGroup and MTR said: \"We continue to be in ongoing and constructive discussions with the Department for Transport regarding potential commercial and contractual remedies for the franchise and what happens next as we seek to ensure the right outcome for our customers, our shareholders and the government.\"\n\nThe RMT union, which is in dispute with SWR over the role of guards on its trains, said the government was \"throwing good public money after bad and trying to breathe life into the rotting corpse of privatised rail\".\n\nGeneral secretary Mick Cash said: \"Instead of dreaming up new ways to subsidise private sector profits by attacking civil liberties, [Grant Shapps] should stop pushing cost-cutting driver only operation and bring SWR into public ownership, running it in the interests of passengers and workers not his mates in the City.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Palin on Terry Jones: \"He was a wonderful companion\"\n\nSir Michael Palin and John Cleese have been remembering their \"warm\" and \"remarkable\" Monty Python co-star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77.\n\n\"Terry was first of all an enormous enthusiast,\" Sir Michael told the BBC.\n\n\"He threw himself into things with such passion and such energy, and he really refused to take on things which didn't excite him and which didn't feel different from what else was around.\n\n\"Part of his warmth was his love of all sorts of things and comedies - he knew an awful lot about the silent film comedians. There were so many aspects to Terry, but I would say enthusiasm and passion were the two main words that described him best.\n\n\"We had some very strange and silly moments together over the years. He was a very keen cook and I remember one time he was shucking oysters at his home. He loved entertaining people, he was the most marvellous entertainer, but unfortunately he nearly cut his finger off. Blood was spurting out of his finger and we were sent down to the nearest hospital.\n\n\"Terry had to keep his finger above his head so we entered the hospital, myself and Terry, with his hand up in the air like he was permanently asking for permission to do something. As we walked through casualty everybody laughed, it was wonderful. They couldn't believe the Pythons had visited them in this miserable place.\n\n\"I loved writing with Terry because he was very creative. He had some wonderful ideas for characters, he was very funny, he was very good at plot. That was something I was less good at, and when we did the Ripping Yarns, Terry was the one who was very keen to give each story a meaning and a significance.\n\n\"He felt everything he did was somehow important and had to be thought about. That was our creative working relationship, and also we both enjoyed a pint - that was very nice and we had lovely times together.\n\n\"Another bizarre thing we did [came] when I was first writing with Terry. He lived down in Waterloo and they opened a new men's toilets on Lambeth Walk. Being a local celebrity, Terry was asked to be the first person to use them!\n\n\"So Terry and I went down to the new toilets on Lambeth Walk with the band playing behind us. The only other person with us was the Mayor of Lambeth.\n\n\"So we enjoyed life together. He was a terrific person to enjoy things with. He really did increase the value of almost everything you did.\n\nPalin and Jones wrote Ripping Yarns and both appeared in the Tomkinson's Schooldays episode\n\n\"It was an awful form of dementia for someone who loved debating and cajoling and arguing and playing different characters, to be reduced to being able to say very few words, as he was over the last two or three years.\n\n\"I lived fairly nearby and I used to go see him quite a lot, and though his dementia was shutting him down there were little moments you absolutely treasured - maybe just a glance or a touch on the hand or something like that.\n\n\"Quite recently I went round with a book we'd written together, Dr Fegg's Encyclopaedia of All World Knowledge. I started reading a few little bits out of it and for the first time for a long time I heard real laughter, that little wispy laughter of Terry's.\n\n\"I thought that was a marvellously encouraging thing to happen, but what was best of all was that Terry was only laughing at the bits he'd written. I thought, that's defying dementia for you.\"\n\nSir Michael Palin was speaking on BBC Radio Four's The World at One.\n\nCleese described Jones as \"a man of so many talents\".\n\n\"He was a remarkable fellow because he had endless energy and enthusiasm. We used to laugh at him sometimes. I remember he got up one day when we were shooting on the south coast and he got excited about how green the grass was.\n\n\"So there was this hugely lively energy to him that was incredibly attractive.\n\n\"He also had a confidence that I rather envied. He'd take things on without any worry he might not do them terribly well. I'd always hold back, but I don't think Terry was ever assailed by those kind of doubts. He was a remarkable chap and had an enormous number of different talents - he was the most multi-talented [member] of the Pythons.\n\n\"He wrote a kind of sketch that was unlike what the rest of us wrote - for example, that wonderful sketch about the German joke that killed anyone who heard it. That was not something the rest of us could do.\n\n\"He used to [write] Icelandic sagas starting with some man heavily armoured in the tundra, or a long sketch about the Spanish smuggling pornography into Elizabethan England - much more visual, much longer sketches that were quite unlike what for example [Graham] Chapman and I were writing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"He was also a very good director. How he shot Life of Brian really was masterful. If I had to give a class in how to shoot comedy, I would show that.\n\n\"I would say, 'Just look at how he uses the camera and how economic he is'. Sometimes he would leave the camera there and let the actors be funny, which is the kind of direction you never see now. I think Life of Brian was his masterpiece.\n\n\"We had many good times together - we used to go out for dinners and have a little too much wine. He loved reds and we both thought good food was more important than anything else.\n\n\"There was also a good atmosphere [though] much of the arguing would go on late into the evening. He didn't back off his arguments easily, but it was all part of this terrific energy and confidence.\n\n\"The last time I saw him was at the funeral of [former Play School presenter] Beryl Vosburgh [in 2016]. He sort of recognised me but there wasn't any kind of ordinary communication between us.\n\n\"I shall remember him as Mr Creosote. He is so funny in it and it's one of the funniest things we did. So I shall think of him exploding.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Deborah Dugan described the Recording Academy as a \"boys' club\"\n\nVoting for the Grammy Awards is \"ripe with corruption\", Recording Academy chief Deborah Dugan has claimed, days after she was suspended from her job.\n\nDugan said she was removed as retaliation for uncovering misconduct at the Academy, which runs the awards.\n\nShe has detailed allegations of sexual harassment, conflicts of interest and voting irregularities within the body.\n\nThe Academy has questioned why she did not raise the \"grave allegations\" until she was accused of bullying herself.\n\nIn a statement, it said she was accused of workplace harassment by a female colleague in December. Dugan has denied the bullying claim.\n\nThe Academy said it has launched two independent investigations - into the complaints made by Dugan, and those made against her.\n\nDugan also said she was paid \"substantially less\" than her two male predecessors.\n\nThis year's Grammys ceremony will see some of the world's biggest pop stars honoured in Los Angeles on Sunday, but it risks being overshadowed by the row.\n\nThe allegations in Dugan's 44-page discrimination complaint, which has been filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, will prove deeply unsettling for the Academy. The body has struggled to reform its reputation after being criticised for overlooking women and BAME recording artists.\n\nDugan was hired last August to help correct these problems and rejuvenate the institution. But she claims she met resistance from the start, characterising the organisation as a \"boys' club network where men work together to the disadvantage of women and disenfranchised groups in order to line their own pockets and maintain a firm grip on the Academy's dealings\".\n\nHere are some of the main accusations.\n\nLizzo is one of the leading nominees at this weekend's Grammy Awards\n\nThe Grammys voting procedures are notoriously opaque, with what Dugan describes as \"secret committees\" reviewing a longlist of 15 to 20 nominees in most categories, before whittling them down to the five or eight artists they feel are best representative of the list.\n\nDugan alleges the process is compromised by numerous irregularities, such as:\n\nThe complaint also criticises the lack of diversity in these committees, saying that \"between 2012 and the present, the board has been approximately 68% male and 69% Caucasian\".\n\nDugan says she was sexually harassed by the Academy's general counsel and former board chair Joel Katz while she was being considered for the organisation's top job last May.\n\nKatz invited her to dinner, where she says he made her \"uneasy\" by repeatedly commenting on her appearance, remarking how pretty she was and calling her \"baby\".\n\nHe also \"talked about his marriage that had failed\" and at the end of the dinner \"leaned forward, lips pursed, as [if] to kiss me\", she said.\n\nKatz's lawyer Howard Weitzman said his client \"categorically and emphatically denies\" Dugan's account.\n\n\"Mr Katz believed they had a productive and professional meeting in a restaurant where a number of members of the board of trustees of the Academy, and others, were dining,\" he added.\n\n\"Ms Dugan's claims are made, for the first time, seven months after this dinner took place. Mr Katz will co-operate in any and all investigations or lawsuits by telling the absolute and whole truth. Hopefully Ms Dugan will do the same.\"\n\nDugan claims that her predecessor, Neil Portnow, stepped down from his job after being accused of rape by an unnamed female recording artist.\n\nShe says she was not told about the allegation until she had accepted her role; and that the Academy's board had been asked to vote \"on whether to give Mr Portnow a bonus\" of $750,000 (£571,000) despite several members being unaware of the accusation.\n\nPortnow, who was President and CEO of the Recording Academy for 17 years, called the allegations \"ludicrous and untrue\".\n\nIn a statement, he said the Academy had commissioned an \"independent\" and \"in-depth investigation\" into the accusation, and he was \"completely exonerated\".\n\n\"There was no basis for the allegations and once again I deny them unequivocally,\" he said, adding that he had never sought a \"$750,000 consulting fee\".\n\n\"I will vigorously defend all false claims made against me in this document,\" he concluded.\n\nDugan is a former lawyer who previously ran Bono's charity Red\n\nDugan's complaint alleges that her assistant was monitoring her emails and sharing information with Academy board members and executives.\n\nThe complaint says Dugan found her work unsatisfactory and she offered her a new position, but the assistant refused and took a leave of absence.\n\nA lawyer for the assistant later sent the Academy a letter accusing Dugan of \"being a bully\", eventually leading to the chief executive's suspension.\n\nThe Recording Academy said Dugan \"was placed on administrative leave only after offering to step down and demanding $22m (£16m) from the Academy, which is a not-for-profit organisation\".\n\nIn response, Dugan said the $22m figure was \"flat out false\", while her lawyers called the Academy's statement \"a transparent effort to shift the focus away from its own unlawful activity\".\n\nIn a statement, the Academy said: \"It is curious that Ms Dugan never raised these grave allegations until a week after legal claims were made against her personally by a female employee who alleged Ms Dugan had created a 'toxic and intolerable' work environment and engaged in 'abusive and bullying conduct'.\n\n\"We immediately launched independent investigations to review both Ms Dugan's potential misconduct and her subsequent allegations. Both of these investigations remain ongoing.\"\n\nThe statement did not address any of Dugan's specific allegations, but expressed regret that this weekend's Grammy Awards were being overshadowed.\n\n\"Our loyalty will always be to the 25,000 members of the recording industry. We regret that 'Music's Biggest Night' is being stolen from them by Ms Dugan's actions and we are working to resolve the matter as quickly as possible.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The couple unveiled Meghan's legal action against the Mail on Sunday during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have issued a legal warning to the media after photographs of Meghan in Canada were published in newspapers and on websites.\n\nLawyers say the photos of the duchess walking her dogs and carrying her son were taken by photographers hiding in bushes and spying on her.\n\nThey say she did not consent and accuse the photographers of harassment.\n\nThe couple say that they are prepared to take legal action.\n\nThey are believed to be alarmed by paparazzi activity near their current base on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.\n\nLawyers say there have also been attempts to photograph inside their home using long-range lenses and they accuse the paparazzi of being camped outside the property.\n\nUnder laws in British Columbia, the duchess may have grounds for a legal case if she can prove her privacy has been violated, although freedom of the press and expression is guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.\n\nThis comes after the Queen agreed to the couple's wish to step back from being full-time royals, to become financially independent and to split their time between the UK and Canada.\n\nOn Monday, Meghan was pictured carrying the couple's eight-month-old son Archie in a baby sling, while walking her two dogs, Guy and Oz, in Horth Hill Regional Park on Vancouver Island.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex arrived back in Canada on Tuesday morning after attending the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London on Monday.\n\nHe had been apart from Meghan and Archie for more than 10 days, after she flew back to Canada earlier this month.\n\nIt was announced on Saturday that from the spring, the Sussexes will no longer be full-time working royals.\n\nThey will stop using their HRH titles, no longer carry out royal duties or military appointments and no longer formally represent the Queen.\n\nOne day after that announcement, Prince Harry said he was \"taking a leap of faith\" in stepping back from being a senior royal, adding: \"There really was no other option.\"\n\nPrince Harry has long had an uneasy relationship with the media, having grown up aware of the impact the intense media interest had on the life of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in a car crash in Paris while being pursued by paparazzi on motorbikes.\n\nThe driver of Princess Diana's car - Henri Paul - had been drink-driving at the time of the crash on 31 August 1997.\n\nMeghan, pictured at a Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, is one of the most photographed women in the world\n\nThe prince has often compared his wife's experiences of the press with those of his late mother.\n\nIn a statement announcing Meghan's legal action against the Mail on Sunday last October, the prince said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nThe duchess is suing the newspaper over publishing one of her private letters to her father, Thomas Markle.\n\nMeghan accuses the paper of misusing her private information, breaching copyright and selective editing.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday rejects the claims and says there was \"huge and legitimate\" public interest in publishing the note.\n\nDays after confirming his wife's legal case, the duke announced he would take legal action against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nBack in 2016, Prince Harry attacked the media for subjecting Meghan - then his girlfriend - to a \"wave of abuse and harassment\".\n\nIn 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were awarded £92,000 (100,000 euros) in damages after French magazine Closer printed topless pictures of the duchess in 2012.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSergio Aguero scored his sixth goal in his last three games as Manchester City edged a gutsy Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.\n\nThe Blades had looked on course to claim a hugely credible draw against the reigning Premier League champions, with Dean Henderson saving a Gabriel Jesus penalty in the first half as well as making a string of excellent saves.\n\nBut Aguero came off the bench to score the decisive goal, tapping in a cross from Kevin de Bruyne towards the end of the second half.\n\nThat strike came just moments after Sheffield United came close to taking the lead themselves - Oli McBurnie stretching to meet a cross but just failing to turn the ball into an empty net.\n\nVictory for Manchester City means they strengthen their place in second. They have 51 points - 13 behind leaders Liverpool but six ahead of Leicester, who play West Ham on Wednesday.\n• None Returning Laporte is 'best in the world' - Guardiola\n\nIt is hard to imagine that a manager who has won trophies wherever he has worked is claiming he can still learn from others, but that's exactly what Pep Guardiola said prior to this game.\n\nThe former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss spoke highly of Sheffield United under Chris Wilder, saying they are a team he can learn from.\n\nFor large periods of this game the Blades certainly gave Guardiola plenty to think about, with their disciplined and organised defence frustrating City for well over an hour.\n\nIn the end, Guardiola had to turn to the ever-reliable Aguero to get the job done.\n\nAt 31, the Argentina international is in the twilight years of his football career but is arguably enjoying some of his best form.\n\nIt took him just six minutes to get on the scoresheet after coming on for Jesus, who had struggled to get the better of the Blades' defence.\n\nAguero has now scored 21 goals in just 23 appearances in all competitions this season, including eight in his last five appearances.\n\nThe league title may be increasingly out of reach for City but Aguero's form could be vital for their aspirations in other competitions.\n\nJust as crucial, though, could be the return of Aymeric Laporte. Injuries have meant Guardiola has often had to field a makeshift defence this season but Laporte made a surprise return at Bramall Lane after five months out with injury.\n\nThe result was a first clean sheet since City hosted Sheffield United at the Etihad at the end of December and Guardiola was delighted with the French player's return.\n\n\"We miss him the lot,\" he said. \"Imagine if the best teams in the world lose their best central defenders.\n\n\"We knew he could not play 90 minutes. He is an incredible guy. He was exceptional. It is good news for us.\"\n\nBlades beaten but impress once again\n\nIt is difficult to find different superlatives to describe Sheffield United in the Premier League this season.\n\nMatch after match they produce impressive performances, frustrating supposed bigger sides and, rather than being sussed out in the second half of the season, they are seemingly finding new ways to keep their opponents on the toes.\n\nThat was the case once again on Tuesday night. At the start of the season, Sheffield United fans could have been forgiven for spotting this game on the fixture list and fearing a cricket score, but instead their side showed no fear and went toe to toe with their opponents from the outset.\n\nThey were strong in the tackle and organised in defence. On the few occasions Manchester City did get through they found Henderson in inspired form.\n\nThe goalkeeper made a superb stop to deny Raheem Sterling from close range in the first half before then guessing the right way to keep out Jesus' spot kick.\n\nThat save prompted chants of \"England's number one\" from the home fans and this performance will have only increased his chances of being included in Gareth Southgate's squad for Euro 2020 this summer.\n\n'An incredibly good victory' - what the managers said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to Match of the Day: \"We knew it would be a difficult place to come. We concede one or two clear chances, nothing more than that.\n\n\"In the first half, the keeper was excellent with the penalty and two incredible saves, it was an incredibly good victory for us to take a step towards securing Champions League football next season.\n\n\"In the first half we were a little bit shy to play, but in the second half we were a little bit more like we are. But we controlled it really well, the chance to score goals.\n\n\"What Sheffield United do, they do it perfectly. They've been together for five years so their spirit is so good. They are so good at the second balls and arrive with a lot of people in the final third.\"\n\nSheffield United manager Chris Wilder, speaking to Match of the Day: \"Kevin de Bruyne has found an amazing pass and the movement of Sergio Aguero, he's done that to everyone in Europe and the world, it's a great finish.\n\n\"I've got nothing but an enormous amount of pride for my team, we went toe-to-toe with them.\n\n\"When opportunities arise you have to show a little bit of quality and we didn't do that sadly. Games like this are what we're here for, we've worked really hard to get here, we want no regrets and I don't think there were any tonight.\n\n\"When teams come here, we want to make sure they go through the mixer to get a result and I do believe Pep, his staff, the players and the fans will believe it's been a difficult night for them.\"\n• None Manchester City have scored more away league goals than any other team in Europe's big five divisions this season (34).\n• None Only at Selhurst Park (22) have there been fewer Premier League goals scored at a single stadium this season than at Bramall Lane (24), with the Blades netting just 13 and conceding 11.\n• None Manchester City have won three consecutive away league games against Sheffield United for the first time since a run of four between 1905 and 1908.\n• None Sheffield United have won just one of their last 16 league games against reigning top-flight champions (D3 L12), losing their last six in a row without scoring.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne is the first player in Premier League history to provide 15+ assists in three different campaigns (15 in 2019-20, 16 in 2017-18 and 18 in 2016-17).\n• None Sergio Aguero has been directly involved in 43 goals in 43 Premier League appearances against newly-promoted teams (35 goals, 8 assists).\n• None Manchester City's Gabriel Jesus has failed to score three of his five Premier League penalties (60%) - of all players to have taken at least five in the competition, no-one has a worse success rate than the Brazilian (level with Stewart Downing and El Hadji Diouf).\n\nSheffield United travel to Championship side Millwall on Saturday, 25 January (15:00 GMT), while Manchester City host Fulham on Sunday, 26 January (13:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Sergio Agüero.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Offside, Sheffield United. George Baldock tries a through ball, but John Lundstram is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Nicolás Otamendi following a corner.\n• None Rodrigo (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Lord Blunkett asks the government about the review of the continuation of the BBC licence fee at the next BBC Charter Review.\n\nBaroness Barran, answering for the government, says: \"The Royal Charter maintains the licence fee funding model until the end of the charter in 2027.\n\n\"However, the prime minister has indicated that the government will consider the licence fee funding model in the long term.\n\n\"In addition, under the charter, the BBC has committed to consider how alternative funding models, such as subscription, could supplement licence fee income.\n\n\"And the results of this will feed into the next charter review.\"\n\nLord Blunkett says the BBC and its funding model is “held in such esteem across the world”.\n\nHe says its right to independence should be defended, as well as its ability to hold politicians to account \"in a vigorous fashion\".\n\nHe also thanks Lord Hall for \"his stewardship over a very difficult and turbulent seven years at the BBC\".\n\nBaroness Barran also thanks Lord Hall for his \"extraordinary contribution to public service broadcasting\".\n\nShe says there is \"no question\" that the government supports the BBC to \"bring impartial news and hold politicans to account\".\n\nLord Hall announced earlier this week that he is to step down as director general of the BBC in the summer.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 36-year-old was shot dead in front of his wife and child.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, a Swedish national, died yards from his home in Battersea Church Road, south-west London, on Christmas Eve.\n\nPolice said the shooting could have been a \"targeted attack\".\n\nThe 22-year-old suspect was held under a European Arrest Warrant at Copenhagen Airport on Monday pending extradition back to the UK, the Met said.\n\nDet Insp Jamie Stevenson said Mr Beqiri was shot multiple times by a lone attacker who fled on foot.\n\nThe crime scene where Flamur Beqiri, 36, a father of one, was shot dead on 24 December 2019 in south-west London\n\nMr Beqiri was of Albanian heritage and had been living in London for four or five years.\n\nThe Met previously said it believed he may have been involved in some criminality in Sweden.\n\nIn a statement released through Scotland Yard shortly after his death, Mr Beqiri's family said: \"Our family are in a state of shock and are grieving. To have so much sadness at this time of the year is heartbreaking.\"\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Beqiri is the brother of former Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.\n\nFlamur Beqiri was attacked just yards from his home in Battersea Church Road\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The relationship between Jeff Bezos and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman soured after Jamal Khashoggi's murder\n\nSaudi Arabia has denied that its crown prince was responsible for hacking Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' phone.\n\nA message from a phone number used by the prince has been implicated in the data breach, according to reports.\n\nThe kingdom's US embassy said the stories were \"absurd\" and called for an investigation into them.\n\nRelations between Saudi Arabia and Mr Bezos - who owns the Washington Post - worsened after one of the newspaper's staff was killed in a Saudi consulate.\n\nJamal Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government, was murdered in Istanbul months after this alleged cyber-attack took place.\n\nIn a blog post last year, Mr Bezos insinuated that the Saudi regime was unhappy with the \"the Post's essential and unrelenting coverage\" of the killing. \"It is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Bezos' phone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message in May 2018 that was sent from Mohammed bin Salman's personal account, according to the Guardian newspaper which broke the story.\n\nAn investigation into the data breach reportedly found that the billionaire's phone had started secretly sharing huge amounts of data after he received an encrypted video file from the prince.\n\nThe Twitter account of the kingdom's US embassy issued an outright denial of the claims.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mohammed bin Salman is asked: \"Did you order the murder of Jamal Khashoggi?\"\n\nAmazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nThe allegations are based on a report that was commissioned by the private security firm FTI Consulting, which was hired by Mr Bezos.\n\nTwo UN officials are expected to make a statement about the credibility of the allegations later on Wednesday.\n\nWhile the details of how this happened aren't yet public, evidence is pointing towards a WhatsApp conversation between the two men during which an infected video file was allegedly sent.\n\nIt is unclear what the content of that video was, but there is huge interest in finding out what a crown prince might send to one of the world's most powerful tech leaders.\n\nSuch a hack is \"horribly easy to do once the vulnerability involved had been discovered,\" says cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward. The seemingly innocent video would have contained malware that surreptitiously installed itself on the targeted phone.\n\nFrom there it would have been possible for the hacker to gain access to all the functions of the phone, from the GPS locator, to the camera, to the banking facilities and messaging apps.\n\nSuch access is made possible via bugs in the code and, last year, a security flaw in WhatsApp was revealed that would have allowed hackers to hide malicious code inside video files.\n\nPhone hacking is, says Prof Woodward, all too common in certain countries that are keen to keep an eye on journalists, dissidents and other activists perceived to be a threat to their regimes. So-called stalkerware is available off the shelf to these governments.\n\nBut what about the involvement of the Saudi crown prince? Was it really him who installed the malware?\n\nIt is unlikely that he set the phone up himself. So was his phone also being spied on? Or was he simply a vessel being used by the Saudi authorities?\n\nThe reports come after private information about Mr Bezos was leaked to the American tabloid the National Enquirer.\n\nIn February 2019 Mr Bezos accused the National Enquirer of \"extortion and blackmail\" after it published text messages between him and his girlfriend, former Fox television presenter Lauren Sánchez.\n\nA month earlier he and MacKenzie Bezos, his wife of 25 years, had announced that they planned to divorce having been separated for a \"long period\".\n\nAn investigator for the Amazon founder later said Saudi Arabia was behind the National Enquirer leak and had accessed his data.\n\n\"Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information,\" Gavin de Becker wrote on the Daily Beast website at the time.\n\nMr de Becker linked the hack to the Washington Post's coverage of the murder of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.", "The Yangtze (brown) and Han rivers (blue) merge in Wuhan\n\nWuhan may not be a well-known Chinese mega-city like Beijing or Shanghai.\n\nBut the place where the coronavirus outbreak emerged is, in fact, a crowded metropolis with connections to every part of the globe.\n\nEstimates vary on the exact size of the population, with local government officials putting the figure at 11 million, though UN data from 2018 says 8.9 million people live in the central Chinese city.\n\nEither way, the city is around the same size as London, but much bigger than Washington DC.\n\nOne estimate makes it the 42nd biggest city in the world, and the seventh biggest in China.\n\nAnd it's the size - and economic clout - of Wuhan that explains why the virus has travelled quickly across Asia, and even to the US.\n\nIn short, the virus has spread so widely because lots of people visit Wuhan and take the virus home with them.\n\nWuhan was a host city for the 2019 Basketball World Cup - including this match between Argentina and Nigeria\n\nWuhan international airport handled 20 million passengers in 2016, and offers direct flights to London, Paris, Dubai, and other cities around the world.\n\nThe city is built along the Yangtze river and, according to its website, it is a \"foundation of in both hi-tech manufacturing and traditional manufacturing\".\n\nIt has a series of industrial zones, 52 \"institutions of higher learning\", and claims more than 700,000 students - including, reportedly, the largest number of undergraduates in the country.\n\nSome 230 of the world's 500 biggest companies (as measured by the Fortune Global list) have invested there.\n\nThere is also notable investment from France - which had a foreign concession in Hankou, in today's Wuhan, between 1886 and 1943. More than 100 French firms have invested in the city and Peugeot-Citroen has a Chinese joint-venture plant there.\n\nWuhan can also serve as a gateway to the Three Gorges - a tourist region and home to a huge hydroelectric dam.\n\nSo, although the coronavirus originated in a local seafood market, the flow of people in and out of Wuhan has ensured its spread.\n\nThe US patient, for example, had recently visited Wuhan, as had both Japanese patients. The Korean patient lived there. The case in Thailand is a Chinese tourist from Wuhan.\n\nThe huge flow of people in and out of Wuhan will only increase as Chinese New Year approaches, and millions of people return home to celebrate.\n\nChina's National Health Commission said travellers should avoid Wuhan, and that Wuhan residents should not leave the city.\n\nBut Wuhan's status as one of the biggest - and most connected - places in the world means international cases will almost certainly continue to emerge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Tesla has displaced Volkswagen as the world's second most valuable carmaker, after a dramatic rise in share price pushed its market value to more than $100bn (£76.1bn).\n\nThe milestone sets the stage for chief Elon Musk to collect billions in pay tied to hitting that target.\n\nTesla's share price has more than doubled since October, when the firm reported a rare quarterly profit.\n\nShares rose 4% on Wednesday, making its valuation second only to Toyota.\n\nAlthough Mr Musk's company has some way to go to catch up with the Japanese car making giant. Toyota has a stock market valuation of more than $230bn.\n\nSome analysts say the rise in price reflects Tesla's performance in recent months, during which it has opened a factory in Shanghai and met its production goals.\n\nThis month, Tesla said it had delivered more than 367,500 cars last year - up 50% from 2018. Investors expect the new factory to act as a springboard that will allow it to capture more of the Chinese market.\n\nDespite the increase, Tesla's sales remain small compared to those of its competitors.\n\nTesla has also never made an annual profit and it is facing investigations after complaints about battery fires and unexpected acceleration.\n\nThe company is due to report its latest quarterly results to investors this month.\n\nIf Tesla sustains the $100bn valuation, it could unlock the first piece of a $2.6bn compensation package for Mr Musk.\n\nThe plans calls for Mr Musk to receive payouts in shares over 10 years, with the first award contingent on the firm reaching $100bn in market capitalisation and sustaining that value over both a month, and six-month average.\n\nTesla also had to reach $20bn in revenue and earn $1.5bn, after adjusting for items like taxes - thresholds the carmaker reached in 2018.\n\nTesla was valued at about $55bn when the pay deal was approved.", "Peers have approved Boris Johnson's Brexit bill, but not before making changes to the legislation.\n\nThe House of Lords voted in favour of five amendments over two days of debate, leading the new government to its first parliamentary defeats.\n\nThe changes included backing the Dubs amendment to protect the rights of refugee children after Brexit.\n\nNo 10 said they were \"disappointed\" by the move, but planned to overturn them when the bill returned to the Commons.\n\nIf the amendments are voted down by MPs on Wednesday - highly likely due to the Conservatives' 80-strong majority in the House - the so-called \"ping-pong\" period between the two chambers will begin.\n\nThis means the bill will pass between the two Houses until both sides agree on the wording.\n\nThe Brexit bill - officially called the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill - ensures the UK leaves the EU on 31 January with a deal.\n\nIt passed through the Commons unamended by 99 votes, but has had a tougher battle through the Lords.\n\nOn Monday, peers agreed amendments on EU citizens, EU Court of Justice rulings and court independence, seeing three defeats for the government.\n\nEarlier, the Dubs amendment - allowing child refugees to be reunited with their families in the UK post-Brexit - passed by 300 votes to 220, making a fourth loss.\n\nA short time later, a fifth amendment narrowly got the backing of peers - with the government losing by 239 votes to 235 - changing the bill so it makes note of the Sewel Convention, under which Parliament should not legislate on devolved issues without the consent of the devolved institutions.\n\nThe amended bill was passed by peers on Tuesday night without needing a vote, and will now return to the Commons on Wednesday afternoon after Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nBrexit minister Lord Callanan said it was the \"right and duty\" of peers to \"rigorously scrutinise\" legislation and to ask MPs to \"think again when you think that is appropriate\".\n\nBut he added that he would \"like to... remind noble lords that we received a clear message from the elected House\" who overwhelmingly supported the bill.\n\nLabour's Lady Hayter criticised the government for \"turning a deaf ear to improvements\" made by the amendments.\n\nLady Hayter speaks for Labour in the Lords\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat peer Lady Ludford said her party's mind had not been changed, adding: \"We continue to think Brexit is a mistake and that the UK will sooner or later rejoin the EU. I just wish the government was in listening mode\".\n\nBut Tory peer Lord Hamilton said there had been \"a conspiracy... of Remainers\" throughout Parliament \"trying to ensure we stay in the EU\".\n\nHe accused colleagues of planning to \"make negotiations [with the EU] as difficult as possible for the government so they get a very bad deal, and they can then be justified in their view we should never have left\".\n\nHis fellow Conservative, Lord Cormack, said the comments equated to \"the most ill-judged speech I have heard for many long years\".\n\nHe added: \"The will of the people must, of course, prevail. But to pretend this House has behaved improperly is wrong.\"", "Why is Trump weighing in from Switzerland?\n\nThere was one thing in particular that Trump said which was kind of like a red rag to a bull.\n\nIt's when he said basically: \"Well things are going very well, we have all the information, and they [Democrats] have none of it.\"\n\nWell, if you want a fair trial, then maybe that information should be made available.\n\nWe keep using the word \"trial\", and the words \"jurors\" and \"witnesses\" and \"evidence\", but we must not lose sight that this is a political process.\n\nWe saw that clearly last night when the first votes started coming in. In a vote that split completely along party lines, 53 Republicans said \"no we should not be able to subpoena the White House for documents\", while 47 Democrats said \"yes we should\".\n\nSo we have Donald Trump kind of goading and saying: \"Look I've got the information. We know what happened, but we're not going to tell you.\"\n\nI think this might inflame public opinion. Polls are already indicating that a clear majority believe that evidence should be handed over and witnesses should be called.\n\nAre journalists overstating the significance of all this?\n\nPoliticians always over-estimate the extent to which the general public are paying attention to their words.\n\nIt is a condition not unique to the United States of America. It is a global phenomenon that whatever politicians say, they think the public will find tremendously important and fantastically interesting.\n\nBut, amazingly, members of the public are getting on with their lives.\n\nThat is an important thing to bear in mind. Some of us - obsessive forlorn political journalists like me - are watching in immense detail, while other people are just getting on with it.\n\nSome people will be watching this for its historical important. But for the overwhelming majority of Americans, I expect there to be just a few fleeting moments of attention paid to the serious discussion taking place in Washington.\n\nIt doesn't seem to be changing the lives, or minds, of the American people all that much.", "A woman who lost part of her leg when she was hit by a taxi in New York has made a prosthetic leg out of a vintage Louis Vuitton bag.\n\nSian Green-Lord, from Leicester, was walking with a friend in Manhattan on holiday when the vehicle mounted the kerb in 2013.\n\nThe aspiring model can now also wear high heels for the first time ever since the crash using her new leg, which was made using a vintage handbag.\n\nTaxi driver, Faysal Himon, who has never faced criminal charges, blames a cyclist with whom he was having an argument just before the crash.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Nandy: 'No support' for those on Universal Credit\n\nLisa Nandy is the second Labour leadership hopeful to get on to the final ballot, after Chinese for Labour announced it was supporting her.\n\nThe Wigan MP joins shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, having already got backing from the GMB union and the National Union of Mineworkers.\n\nTo progress, hopefuls need the support of three unions and affiliate groups representing 5% of the membership.\n\nEmily Thornberry and Rebecca Long-Bailey are yet to reach the threshold.\n\nJess Phillips quit the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday. She has said she will be giving her first preference vote to Ms Nandy, with Sir Keir her second choice.\n\nShe added that shadow business secretary Mrs Long-Bailey was not the right leader for Labour at the moment, but \"there's no reason to say she can't change.\"\n\nChairwoman of Chinese for Labour - a group affiliated to the party - and Luton North MP Sarah Owen said: \"Only in power can Labour make the radical changes that are so desperately needed for our towns and communities.\n\n\"We believe that Lisa is the right candidate to take us there.\"\n\nChinese for Labour aims to promote the interests of British Chinese and East Asian people in the Labour Party.\n\nReacting to the endorsement, Ms Nandy said: \"As someone of mixed heritage, I'm incredibly proud that it is Chinese for Labour who have secured my place on the ballot paper.\n\n\"They do incredibly important work to ensure we are a representative and inclusive party that can truly speak for modern Britain.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nIn a speech earlier, Ms Nandy said she would give claimants a bigger role in designing an \"empowering\" welfare system.\n\nThe current system lacked \"human empathy\" and was too complicated for people to understand, she said, and promised to reverse cuts by ditching planned reductions in national insurance.\n\nShe said the universal credit system, which rolls six benefit payments into one, was \"fundamentally flawed\" and could not recognise claimants' changing circumstances.\n\n\"That's why I say Labour has to scrap it and replace it with a system that is able to deal with the complexity and the lived reality of people in it.\"\n\nShe also said she backed higher taxes for bigger firms that fail to pay their staff the minimum wage, adding the government was often forced to \"top up\" low wages through the benefits system.\n\nMr Corbyn's successor - and the successor to his deputy, Tom Watson - will be announced on 4 April.\n\nWith Sir Keir's and Ms Nandy's places on the ballot secured, the two other candidates are locked in a battle to join them by securing support from local parties and affiliated groups.\n\nSir Keir cleared this hurdle after being backed by Unison - the UK's largest union - and a second union, Usdaw, as well as environmental campaign group Sera.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey has so far only received the backing of bakers' union the BFAWU, but is tipped to get nominated by the Unite union later this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Thornberry is pushed over her choice of school for her son\n\nSo far Ms Thornberry has not been backed by any affiliate group, and has only secured two out of the required 33 CLPs which would help her onto the ballot.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil, the shadow foreign secretary said the \"right way\" to entice Labour voters back was to have \"strong leadership\" and to listen to people.\n\nShe said the party needed to be clear with its priorities, and for her, the number one priority was social care.\n\nIn the contest to find Labour's new deputy leader, only shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has received the required support so far.\n\nShe faces competition for the role from Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, Ian Murray, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan and shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon.\n\nMs Rayner has been backed by the GMB union, NUM, Unison and Usdaw, while the BFAWU is supporting Mr Burgon and Chinese for Labour is backing Ms Butler.\n\nMs Phillips has endorsed Mr Murray, saying he has put forward \"a positive vision not only for our party, but also for the country\".\n\n\"He recognises that we can't just talk to ourselves - we must listen to voters in seats we held, seats we lost and seats we have never held,\" she said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bill and Terry Jones at the Baftas in Cardiff\n\nIt was fitting that Terry Jones's last public appearance was to receive an outstanding contribution to television and film award from Bafta Cymru back in Wales.\n\nAccompanied by his son Bill, he was given a standing ovation in Cardiff after being presented with the award by Monty Python co-star Michael Palin in October 2016.\n\nIt was only a few weeks after he announced he had a severe variant of dementia.\n\nThe actor, director, writer and popular historian - born in Colwyn Bay in February 1942 - always had his heart in Wales, despite leaving as a boy.\n\nIn later life, Jones took a keen interest in the fortunes of his home town's Victorian theatre, becoming its patron and officially re-opened Theatr Colwyn in 2011 after a £738,000 refurbishment.\n\nTerry Jones was supported by his friend and Monty Python co-star Michael Palin at the Bafta Cymru awards\n\nHe said: \"Theatr Colwyn means a lot to me because my grandfather [William Newnes] conducted the orchestra for the Colwyn Bay Operatic Society there and my mother and uncle both trod the boards on that very stage.\n\n\"This is a beautiful theatre, the oldest working cinema in the UK - it's an important thing to have in a community like this, you need a centre, a place for people to go.\"\n\nThanks to a BBC Wales programme, he traced his family back on his father's side to 1760, with ancestors working in lead mines and his great-grandmother a servant for the Mostyn family. His great-grandfather was a Methodist minister.\n\nJones's wartime memories included being taken to a field near the family home in Dolwen Road during the war by his brother.\n\n\"He told me that a bear lived in the brook at the end of it so I ran home and didn't dare go back,\" he said. \"I can also remember the thrill of seeing a tank driving up the road with these enormous searchlights.\"\n\nHe met his father - a bank clerk - for the first time on the platform of Colwyn Bay railway station when he returned from India after serving with the RAF during World War Two.\n\nHe said he always felt \"very Welsh\" despite his mother being from Bolton and his parents moving to Claygate in Surrey when he was five years old.\n\n\"I bitterly didn't want to leave and hated being transported to the London suburbs,\" he recalled. \"I always regretted that and was always saying 'I'm Welsh'.\"\n\nJones's work was not always appreciated in every part of Wales. Monty Python's Life Of Brian - the controversial 1979 film which Jones directed and appeared in - was banned in some towns over claims it was blasphemous for its parody of the life of Jesus Christ.\n\n\"I think it's popular because it is banned - that's the real reason. But it's wonderful to see it is popular,\" he added.\n\nJones and Palin attended a special 30th anniversary charity screening of the film in Aberystwyth - where it wasn't shown until 1981 - when the town's mayor was Sue Jones-Davies, who played Brian's girlfriend.\n\n\"Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more\" - Terry Jones and Eric Idle reprise a Python sketch live in London in 2014\n\nNo problem with his 1981 children's book Fairy Tales, which was adapted for the stage as Silly Kings by National Theatre Wales in 2013.\n\nAccompanying him to the Bafta Cymru ceremony for a final public farewell and acclaim, Palin - a friend since their Oxford University days - said Jones was \"very Welsh in his attitudes, his passion, his energy and inventiveness\".", "Terry Jones had a love of the absurd that contributed much to the anarchic humour of Monty Python's Flying Circus.\n\nHis style of visual comedy, leavened with a touch of the surreal, inspired many comedians who followed him.\n\nIt was on Python that he honed his directing skills, notably on Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.\n\nA keen historian, he wrote a number of books and fronted TV documentaries on ancient and medieval history.\n\nTerence Graham Parry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay in north Wales on 1 February 1942.\n\nHis grandparents ran the local amateur operatic society and staged Gilbert and Sullivan concerts on the town's pier each year\n\nHis family moved to Surrey when he was four but he always felt nostalgic about his native land.\n\nJones (R) with Palin and Idle in Do Not Adjust Your Set\n\n\"I couldn't bear it and for the longest time I wanted Wales back,\" he once said. \"I still feel very Welsh and feel it's where I should be really.\"\n\nAfter leaving the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he captained the school, he went on to read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.\n\nHowever, as he put it, he \"strayed into history\", the subject in which he graduated.\n\nWhile at Oxford he wrote sketches for the Oxford Revue and performed alongside a fellow student, Michael Palin.\n\nJones also got to know Graeme Garden, who suggested that he and Palin join a team of writers and performers on Twice a Fortnight, a BBC sketch show that aired for 10 weeks at the end of 1967.\n\nHe also wrote for The Frost Report, the series that first saw the future Pythons working together, and in the ITV sketch show, Do Not Adjust Your Set.\n\nHe and Palin went on to write another show, The Complete and Utter History of Britain, which aired on the London region of ITV in 1969.\n\nHe grew frustrated with The Complete and Utter History of Britain\n\nHis frustration at the way the show was put together made Jones decide he wanted to take charge of his own projects.\n\n\"It got me really convinced that you have to control everything,\" he said later. \"You not only act in the things, you've got to actually start directing the things as well.\"\n\nHe had the opportunity when Monty Python's Flying Circus launched in October 1969.\n\nIt was Jones who was the driving force behind abandoning punch lines at the end of sketches and developing what became the show's trademark stream of consciousness.\n\nThis also took a lot of pressure off the writers, who no longer had to dream up a killer line to round off a sketch.\n\nGraham Chapman would appear as an army colonel and declare the sketch over because it was \"too silly\". Alternatively an armoured knight would wander on and hit someone over the head with a rubber chicken.\n\nJones also appeared naked, apart from a collar and tie, playing an organ as a form of punctuation between sketches.\n\nThe gluttonous Mr Creosote was one of his most memorable Python characters\n\nHe made something of a speciality of playing middle-aged women, often one of the screeching harridans that populated the show.\n\nPossibly his most memorable appearance was in The Meaning of Life as the exploding Mr Creosote who, after a gargantuan feast, misguidedly accepted \"just one wafer thin mint\".\n\nLike many of the Pythons, he later found it hard to fathom why the show became such cult viewing\n\n\"The thing is we never thought Python was a success when it was actually happening - it was only with the benefit of hindsight.\"\n\nThe Monty Python films enabled Jones to further his skills as a director. After co-directing Monty Python and the Holy Grail he took sole charge of Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.\n\nHe remained bemused at the fierce opposition to Life of Brian expressed by many religious groups.\n\n\"It wasn't about what Christ was saying, but about the people who followed him,\" he said. \"The ones who for the next 2,000 years would torture and kill each other because they couldn't agree on what he was saying about peace and love.\"\n\nHe often appeared as one of Python's screeching female characters\n\nThe council at one town in his native Wales, Aberystwyth, actually banned the showing of the film for 30 years.\n\nIn 1987 he directed the film Personal Services, loosely based on the real-life story of Cynthia Payne, who achieved notoriety after being charged with running a brothel in suburban London\n\nHe went on to direct a comedy fantasy film, Erik the Viking, which featured a diverse cast including Mickey Rooney, Imogen Stubbs and Eartha Kitt.\n\nIn 1996 he wrote and directed an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, in which he also played the part of Mr Toad.\n\nThe film struggled initially, getting few showings in the UK, but received a positive welcome in the United States, where it won top prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.\n\nJones established himself as a popular children's author with a number of books, including Nicobobinus, the story of a boy who can do anything, and The Saga of Erik the Viking, which won the Children's Book Award in 1984.\n\nHe also wrote historical books such as Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary, which debunked the notion that medieval knights were paragons of Christian virtue\n\nRetracing the history of the Crusades for BBC TV\n\nHe also wrote and presented Crusades, a four-part documentary series that ran on BBC TV in 1995.\n\nThe latter featured scenes of Jones dressing in period costume to illustrate some of the events he was describing.\n\n\"My constant theme is that the medieval world is similar to ours in that the same people always take advantage of the same people,\" Jones said. \"Humanity doesn't change all through the centuries.\"\n\nHe enjoyed exploring alternative views of history such as his Emmy Award-winning Medieval Lives, in which he argued the Middle Ages had a more sophisticated culture than previously imagined.\n\nJones was an active anti-war campaigner and wrote a number of newspaper articles condemning the war in Iraq.\n\nIn 2016 it was announced he was suffering from dementia, a cruel blow for a man for whom communication was his lifeblood. He received a standing ovation in October that year when he appeared on stage to receive a Bafta Cymru Award for his outstanding contribution to film and television.\n\nDuring an interview at the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival in 2017, Palin revealed that Jones was no longer able to speak.\n\nJones was asked in a 2011 interview how, out of all his various achievements, he would best like to be remembered.\n\n\"Maybe a description of me as a writer of children's books or some of my academic stuff,\" he replied. \"Or maybe as the man who restored Richard II's reputation. \"He was a terrible victim of 14th Century political spin, you know.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire has addressed the news that her show is coming off air by telling viewers \"we don't give up\" and \"we're still here\".\n\nThe award-winning Victoria Derbyshire Show is expected to end on BBC Two after five years, as part of BBC cuts.\n\nOpening Thursday's programme, the host said: \"We are still here telling your stories and covering the issues that are important to you in your life.\n\n\"And do you know what? We don't give up.\"\n\nShe went on to introduce an investigation. \"And that's why we've been back to a housing estate in London after we exposed the shocking living conditions there last year,\" she continued.\n\nHer comments came a day after BBC media editor Amol Rajan said the cost of running the news and current affairs programme on a linear channel \"when savings are needed\" had been \"deemed too high\".\n\nIn 2016 it was announced that BBC News would need to find £80m of cuts over four years.\n\nThe broadcaster is due to make an announcement about its news operation next week.\n\nIt comes after Tony Hall announced his resignation as the BBC's director general.\n\nNumerous media personalities responded with shock to the news of the programme coming off air, praising its award-winning journalism.\n\nLouisa Compton, who edited the Victoria Derbyshire Show when it was first launched, said the decision was \"madness\" - while ITV's Piers Morgan said it was a \"very strange\" call.\n\nShadow culture secretary Tracy Brabin tweeted that the programme's \"rigorous campaigning and commitment to the public having their say made it pretty unique in daytime TV\".\n\nShe said she would be looking into why the show was being taken off air.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative MP Damian Collins, who is seeking re-election as chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said reports of the planned cuts were \"disturbing\".\n\nHe said there needs to be \"a proper review of BBC finances\" and licence fee payers should be asking what they value and want to see more of.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips tweeted that it was \"sad to see\" the end of a programme that had \"reached a largely working class audience\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jess Phillips MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnna Collinson and Jim Reed, journalists for the programme, both called the decision \"gutting\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Anna Collinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmol Rajan said he understands BBC News is \"committed\" to the presenter and the journalism of the show.\n\nThe BBC has declined to comment.\n\nAired at 10:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel every weekday, the show focuses on original stories, audience debates and exclusive interviews as well as breaking news.\n\nIt was launched in April 2015.\n\nIn 2017 the show won a Bafta for its news coverage of the abuse of footballers , while Derbyshire herself has won and been nominated for several awards for presenting the show.\n\nOther exclusive stories the show has uncovered include the number of deaths linked to Xanax and the way how family courts treat victims of domestic violence.\n\nWhen Victoria Derbyshire proposed a TV version of her Radio 5 Live Show to former BBC News boss James Harding, he gave her the green light within days.\n\nBBC News has a big problem in connecting with some licence fee payers away from big cities and from poorer backgrounds - or, in the jargon, \"underserved audiences\".\n\nFor Harding and BBC News, Derbyshire - and the show's first editor, Louisa Compton (now at Channel 4) - were the solution to a big problem.\n\nDerbyshire's programme was highly effective in reaching those people, through original journalism, investigations and scoops of a kind that the BBC generally struggles to do. But on linear TV channels it failed to garner a sufficiently big audience to justify its cost.\n\nFirst it was chopped from two hours to one. Now it is gone.\n\nBBC News is looking to make big savings and re-organise its structure so that digital journalism is prioritised.\n• None Lord Hall to step down as BBC's director general", "Failure to decide if Ross England will remain as a Conservative assembly candidate is leaving his local party \"in limbo\", its deputy chair has said.\n\nMr England was suspended in 2019 after news broke that his conduct as a witness led to the collapse of a trial.\n\nRussell Spencer-Downe of the Vale of Glamorgan Conservative Association said there had been \"no movement\".\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives said its investigation \"will be concluded very soon\".\n\nMr England had worked for former Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns in his constituency office.\n\nThe aide was giving evidence in a rape trial in April 2018 when he made claims about the victim's sexual history, which the complainant denied.\n\nA judge accused him of sabotaging the trial.\n\nA row over what Mr Cairns did and did not know about the case led to his resignation from his ministerial job.\n\nMr Spencer-Downe told BBC Wales the association was hoping for a \"quick decision\".\n\n\"It's the not knowing that is an issue,\" he said.\n\n\"We're stuck in a limbo where we can't promote a candidate for the assembly elections because we don't know if we're keeping our original candidate or looking to reselect.\"\n\nHe also said the association was not notified of Mr England's suspension in October before it was made public.\n\n\"The association only found out through a member reading on Twitter our candidate had been suspended in the first instance.\"\n\nCommunication from the party \"wasn't very good,\" he said.\n\nLord Davies said Ross England remained suspended from the party\n\nSenior Tories in the assembly have questioned Mr England's suitability to stand.\n\nPaul Davies, Welsh Conservative Senedd group leader, has said Mr England \"fell short\" of the standards required of an assembly candidate for the party.\n\nDarren Millar, vice-chairman of the Welsh Conservatives, has called for him to be \"ejected\" from the job if he does not resign.\n\nWelsh Conservative chairman Lord Davies said: \"Ross England is still suspended from the party and therefore as a candidate also, whilst our very thorough investigation continues.\n\n\"It will be concluded very soon.\"\n\nThe Vale of Glamorgan is one of the Conservatives' main target seats for the next assembly election, which takes place in May next year.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United were jeered by their own supporters as Burnley registered their first ever Premier League win at Old Trafford.\n\nBurnley took the lead just before half-time when Chris Wood spun off Harry Maguire to meet Ben Mee's knockdown and smash into the top corner from the edge of the six-yard box.\n\nJay Rodriguez doubled the Clarets' advantage when he played a one-two with Wood before firing into the top corner of David de Gea's near post with a venomous strike from the left-hand corner of the penalty area.\n\nIt was the third season in a row Burnley had gone 2-0 up at Old Trafford, but for the first time they hung on for all three points.\n\nUnited, who were without the injured Marcus Rashford, were lacklustre for large periods and barely threatened Nick Pope in the Burnley goal.\n\nThey were booed off at half-time and full-time and large parts of the ground emptied with five minutes left.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side remain six points behind Chelsea and off the top four, while Burnley climb to 13th, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None 'Toxic, embarrassing, worst squad in 30 years' - pundits and fans on Man Utd defeat\n\nA lot of pre-match conversation was focused on how United would cope without Rashford, who is sidelined for at least six weeks with a stress fracture of the back.\n\nThat gave an opportunity to Anthony Martial to stake his claim to be United's long-term number nine, but the Frenchman looked off the pace throughout and wasted two good first-half opportunities from Aaron Wan-Bissaka's cross and Nemanja Matic's throughball.\n\nSolskjaer turned to 18-year-old Mason Greenwood at half-time, and the teenager at least showed glimpses of his potential with a brilliant turn past Charlie Taylor followed by a driving run and shot which went just wide.\n\nHowever, the fact Solskjaer is regularly turning to a teenager in a desperate attempt to turn around games is a damning indictment of the quality of his squad, and could prompt United to act in the final nine days of the transfer window.\n\nBurnley's second-half display in their 2-1 win over Champions League-chasing Leicester on Sunday signalled a return to the grit and character that has been the Clarets' blueprint since they returned to the top flight in 2016.\n\nThere was more of the same in Manchester on Wednesday as Wood and Rodriguez showed the ruthlessness up front the east Lancashire side have sorely missed at times this season.\n\nBehind the front two it was a disciplined and well-organised display, with Mee and James Tarkowski superb at the heart of defence, married with a tenacious midfield display from Jack Cork and Ashley Westwood.\n\nBack-to-back wins mean Burnley move level on points with 10th-placed Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Everton and Newcastle - all five teams locked on 30 points.\n\n'It is not good enough' - what the managers said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, talking to BBC Match of the Day: \"There are loads of thoughts going through my mind. At one point it felt like we were creating openings and didn't take them. Now, it's one of disappointment. We hold our hands up, it is not good enough.\n\n\"The players are giving everything, they have done absolutely fantastic so far this season but they know it wasn't good enough tonight.\n\n\"The boys they looked mentally tired towards the end, we didn't find that creativity. We can't feel sorry for ourselves. When you are at Man Utd you are privileged because you are playing for the best club in the world. Sometimes you go through periods like this and it is a test I am sure they are going to come through.\"\n\nBurnley manager Sean Dyche, talking to BBC Match of the Day: \"I am very pleased with that. We know it's a tough place to come and it was a good performance from us. We scored two very good goals.\n\n\"They didn't find any killer moments, which was very pleasing. Strong, fit and organised will never go out of fashion.\"\n• None Burnley ended a run of 15 away league matches without a win against Manchester United, tasting victory for the first time since a 5-2 win in September 1962.\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was made permanent manager in March, United have lost more Premier League games (12) than they have won (11).\n• None Manchester United suffered consecutive Premier League defeats for only the second time under Solskjaer, losing back-to-back games for the first time since April 2019.\n• None Burnley manager Sean Dyche has now beaten 27 of the 29 teams he has faced in the Premier League, failing only against Arsenal (9 games) and Sheffield United (1).\n• None Since the start of the 2017-18 season, Burnley striker Chris Wood is one of only 12 players to have scored 30+ Premier League goals (30 in total).\n• None Three of the last seven occasions Manchester United have trailed by at least two goals in a home Premier League game have been against Burnley (also December 2017 and January 2019).\n• None Chris Wood's goal in the 39th minute was Burnley's first goal in the first half of a Premier League game since November, when they scored twice against West Ham.\n\nManchester United will travel to the winner of Thursday's FA Cup third-round replay between Tranmere and Watford on Sunday, 26 January (15:00 GMT) while Burnley host Norwich on Saturday, 25 January (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Mason Greenwood.\n• None Offside, Burnley. Jeff Hendrick tries a through ball, but Jay Rodriguez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Attempt blocked. Luke Shaw (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fred.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Attempt saved. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Jones (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Juan Mata with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Coca-Cola will not ditch single-use plastic bottles because consumers still want them, the firm's head of sustainability has told the BBC.\n\nCustomers like them because they reseal and are lightweight, said Bea Perez.\n\nThe firm, which is one of the biggest producers of plastic waste, has pledged to recycle as many plastic bottles as it uses by 2030.\n\nBut environmental campaigners argue many Coke bottles would still go uncollected and end up in landfill.\n\nThe drinks giant produces about three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year - equivalent to 200,000 bottles a minute.\n\nIn 2019, it was found to be the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic waste by the charity Break Free from Plastic.\n\nBut speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ms Perez said the firm recognised it now had to be \"part of the solution\".\n\nCoke has pledged to use at least 50% recycled material in its packaging by 2030. It is also partnering with NGOs around the world to help improve collection.\n\nHowever, Ms Perez said the firm could not ditch plastic outright, as some campaigners wanted, saying this could alienate customers and hit sales.\n\nShe also said using only aluminium and glass packaging could push up the firm's carbon footprint.\n\n\"Business won't be in business if we don't accommodate consumers,\" she said.\n\n\"So as we change our bottling infrastructure, move into recycling and innovate, we also have to show the consumer what the opportunities are. They will change with us.\"\n\nMs Perez said she respected the idealism of youth activists, such as 19-year-old campaigner Melati Wijsen, who with her sister Isabel, convinced the island of Bali to ban single-use plastic bags, straws and styrofoam last year.\n\nIsabel and Melati Wijsen convinced Bali to ban single-use plastic bags, straws and styrofoam\n\nSuch plastics were clogging up the seas around Bali, harming marine life.\n\nMs Perez also said she agreed with calls for Coca Cola to reach its environmental goals sooner than 2030 - although she would not say whether she would step down if the plans failed.\n\n\"We have to reach this goal and we will - there's no question.\"", "Daughter Kelly (left) has been helping her dad get back in the studio, she said\n\nRock star Ozzy Osbourne has revealed he has Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe Black Sabbath singer, 71, told US TV show Good Morning America he has a \"mild form\" and found out about it after suffering a fall last February.\n\nWife Sharon said: \"It's not a death sentence but it affects certain nerves in your body. You have a good day, a good day, then a really bad day.\"\n\nOzzy added it was hard to tell whether the numbness symptoms he had were from the Parkinson's or the fall.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Good Morning America This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe singer said: \"It's been terribly challenging for us all.\n\n\"I did my last show [on] New Year's Eve (2018). Then I had a bad fall. I had to have surgery on my neck, which screwed all my nerves.\"\n\nHe said he was now on medication for Parkinson's and nerve pain following the surgery he had after his fall.\n\nRumours had been circulating about his health, but Ozzy said: \"I'm no good with secrets. I cannot walk around with it any more 'cause it's like I'm running out of excuses, you know?\"\n\nOsbourne has a US tour coming up in the spring\n\nHe added that he was grateful to his fans. \"They're my air, you know. I feel better. I've owned up to the fact that I have... a case of Parkinson's. And I just hope they hang on and they're there for me because I need them.\"\n\nIt was his son Jack and daughter Kelly who first realised that something wasn't right with their dad. \"The hardest thing is watching somebody that you love suffer,\" Kelly said.\n\nJack, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012, said he could relate to his father.\n\n\"I understand when you have something you don't want to have - but if he wants to talk... and if not, I try to slip in information,\" said Jack.\n\nSon Jack was diagnosed with MS in 2012\n\nOzzy said his health was improving. \"I'm a lot better now than I was last February. I was in a shocking state.\"\n\nSharon said the next step was to consult doctors outside the US and explore other possible treatments.\n\n\"We've kind of reached a point here in this country where we can't go any further because we've got all the answers we can get here,\" she said.\n\n\"So in April, we're going to a professional in Switzerland. And he deals with... getting your immune system at its peak.\"\n\nOzzy had been due to go on the road in the UK with his No More Tours 2 in January 2019, but called off the shows due to ill health. He then postponed all his 2019 appearances following his fall.\n\nHe is due back on stage when his US tour starts in Atlanta, Georgia, on 27 May, before his rescheduled UK dates begin in Newcastle in October.\n\nIt was revealed back in 2007 that Ozzy had a condition called Parkinsonian syndrome - not Parkinson's disease - which also causes tremors.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The City regulator has stressed that seven out of 10 bank customers will be better off or unchanged as another big bank announces its new overdraft rates.\n\nCustomers of Lloyds Banking Group will be charged \"personalised\" rates of up to 49.9% from April, but most will pay a rate of 39.9% to go into the red.\n\nThe latter is the same rate as planned by many of the major High Street banks.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which demanded changes from banks, said the new system was much simpler.\n\n\"Customers at some large banks were charged effective arranged overdraft rates in excess of 80% per year once fees and charges are factored in,\" the FCA said.\n\n\"Our changes expose the true cost of an overdraft. We have eliminated high prices for unarranged overdrafts. This will result in a fairer distribution of charges, helping vulnerable consumers.\"\n\nBanks and building societies will no longer be allowed to charge higher prices for unarranged overdrafts than for arranged overdrafts.\n\nThe new rules, which come into force in April, require providers to charge a simple annual interest rate on all overdrafts and to get rid of fixed fees.\n\nMost banks and building societies have chosen to set a rate very close to 40%.\n\nLloyds Banking Group, which includes the Halifax brand, is no different, with the majority of its customers paying a new annual rate of 39.9% - in effect paying £39.90 for each £100 borrowed in an overdraft for a whole year.\n\nHowever, there will be various tiers, with Club Lloyds customers paying 27.5% but other customers paying up to 49.9%.\n\nThe banking giant will look at customers' past financial behaviour when determining which rate to offer. Lloyds said risk-based pricing was standard practice for loans and credit cards and meant it could continue to offer overdrafts to a wider range of customers.\n\nIn 2017, Lloyds scrapped unarranged overdraft fees and returned item fees - a charge after a customer attempts to make a transaction when they do not have sufficient funds in their account.\n\nChristopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA, said overdrafts were not designed to be used for large amounts for long periods of time and consumers should consider other methods of credit if they find they needed to borrow for longer.", "Stefan Sutherland's body was found 11 days after he was reported missing\n\nThe sister of a man whose body was found on a Highland beach 11 days after he went missing has made an emotional appeal for answers about his death.\n\nStefan Sutherland died after vanishing from Lybster in 2013.\n\nA team of 15 police officers has now arrived in the Caithness village to carry out fresh inquiries in the area.\n\nKatrina Sutherland, who believes her 25-year-old brother's death was suspicious, said: \"We would just like to find out what did happen to Stefan.\"\n\nMr Sutherland's disappearance on 6 September 2013 was followed by searches of the local area by police, search dogs and a mountain rescue team.\n\nHis body was discovered by a member of the public on the shoreline near Occumster near Lybster. Mr Sutherland had lived in the local area.\n\nHis family dispute that his death was accidental and say blood was found at a house he visited before he disappeared.\n\nPolice Scotland has previously said it would act on any new information in the case.\n\nMs Sutherland said the family still did not know what had happened to Stefan.\n\n\"At the moment police are still conducting inquiries. If that leads them to believe that foul play is a factor then I dare say they will turn it into a murder investigation.\n\n\"Nobody likes to believe that a family member was murdered, but it is something we've considered,\" she said.\n\nMs Sutherland described Police Scotland's review of the case as \"the best news in six years\".\n\nShe said: \"The family believe he was a victim of foul play but we need to get to the bottom of that and be able to deal with it once and for all.\"\n\nSandra Sutherland said her son was \"happy and healthy\" on the day he disappeared\n\nMr Sutherland's parents Sandy and Sandra have welcomed the police's presence in the area, and the review of the circumstances of their son's death.\n\nMrs Sutherland said her son had been \"happy and healthy\" on the day he vanished.\n\n\"He didn't just disappear. Something happened to him,\" she added.\n\nThe team of officers could spend up to two weeks in Lybster and the surrounding area\n\nPolice Scotland announced last year that \"all aspects\" of the initial investigation into Mr Sutherland's death would be examined.\n\nThey said the review was being done to address concerns raised by Mr Sutherland's family.\n\nDetectives met the family in November last year and visited locations connected to the case.\n\nThe team of officers has now begun door-to-door inquiries in Lybster and the nearby village of Latheronwheel.\n\nPolice have also urged anyone in the local community with information to come forward, and said a mobile police office would be parked in Lybster where people could speak to officers.\n\nMr Sutherland's body was found on a beach at Occumster close to his home\n\nMs Sutherland said her brother was never far from the family's thoughts.\n\nShe said: \"It's like Stefan is still the most talked about member of our family and he is not there.\n\n\"What happened to Stefan? What do you think happened to Stefan? Will we ever find out what happened to Stefan?\n\n\"It's constantly there at the back of your mind. It's never far from your thoughts.\"\n\nShe added: \"Somebody knows what happened to Stefan. Please, it's time to just put it to bed and let Stefan rest and let my family move on with their lives.\"\n\nDet Supt Graeme Mackie, who is leading the review, said police wanted to establish if any local residents, or anyone who visited the area between the date of Stefan's disappearance and the discovery of his body, had information that might assist the inquiry.\n\nHe added: \"Stefan was well known in the local community and I would also encourage those who saw him between 22:00 on Friday 6 September 2013 and 12:00 on Tuesday 17 September 2013 to contact us.\"", "Social media sites, online games and streaming services used by children will have to abide by a new privacy code set by the UK's data watchdog.\n\nElizabeth Denham, the information commissioner, said future generations will be \"astonished to think that we ever didn't protect kids online\".\n\nShe said the new Age Appropriate Design Code will be \"transformational\".\n\nThe father of Molly Russell, 14, who killed herself after viewing graphic content online, welcomed the standards.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office - the UK's data privacy regulator - published the new code of conduct on Wednesday, after a draft which was first revealed last April.\n\nIt hopes the changes will come into force by autumn 2021, once Parliament approves it, with large fines for breaches.\n\nThe dad of Molly Russell, who took her own life aged 14, welcomed the code\n\nThe code includes a list of 15 standards that companies behind online services are expected to comply with to protect children's privacy.\n\nExamples of online services which are included are toys which are connected to the internet, apps, social media platforms, online games, educational websites and streaming service.\n\nFirms who design, develop or run such products must provide a \"baseline\" of data protection for children, the code says.\n\n\"I believe that it will be transformational,\" Ms Denham told the Press Association.\n\n\"I think in a generation from now when my grandchildren have children they will be astonished to think that we ever didn't protect kids online. I think it will be as ordinary as keeping children safe by putting on a seat belt.\"\n\nChildren \"are using an internet that was not designed for them,\" says Ms Denham\n\nMs Denham said the move was widely supported by firms, although added that the gaming industry and some other tech companies expressed concern about their business model.\n\nShe added: \"We have an existing law, GDPR, that requires special treatment of children and I think these 15 standards will bring about greater consistency and a base level of protection in the design and implementation of games and apps and websites and social media.\"\n\nThe new standards follow concerns over young people suffering from grooming by predators, data misuse, problem gambling and access to damaging content which could affect their mental health.\n\nIan Russell believes his daughter Molly's use of Instagram was a factor in her suicide aged 14 in 2017.\n\nAfter she died, her family found graphic posts about suicide and self-harm on her account.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Molly Russell's father Ian travels to the United States and meets other parents bereaved by suicide\n\nThe response following her death led to Instagram pledging to remove images, drawings and even cartoons showing methods of self-harm or suicide.\n\nWelcoming the code, Mr Russell said: \"Although small steps have been taken by some social media platforms, there seems little significant investment and a lack of commitment to a meaningful change, both essential steps required to create a safer world wide web.\n\n\"The Age Appropriate Design Code demonstrates how the technology companies might have responded effectively and immediately.\"\n\nAndy Burrows, the NSPCC's head of child safety online policy, said the code would force social networks to \"finally take online harm seriously and they will suffer tough consequences if they fail to do so\".\n\nHe said: \"For the first time, tech firms will be legally required to assess their sites for sexual abuse risks, and can no longer serve up harmful self-harm and pro-suicide content.\n\n\"It is now key that these measures are enforced in a proportionate and targeted way.\"\n\nFacebook said it welcomed \"the considerations raised\", adding: \"The safety of young people is central to our decision-making, and we've spent over a decade introducing new features and tools to help everyone have a positive and safe experience on our platforms, including recent updates such as increased Direct Message privacy settings on Instagram.\n\n\"We are actively working on developing more features in this space and are committed to working with governments and the tech industry on appropriate solutions around topics such as preventing underage use of our platforms.\"", "The duchess, pictured meeting children and parents in Cardiff, has previously called children's early years \"the most important years, for life long health and happiness\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has launched a UK-wide survey to help improve early childhood.\n\nThe five-question online survey aims to \"spark a national conversation\" to help create \"lasting change for generations to come\", Kensington Palace said.\n\nCatherine is marking its launch with a 24-hour UK tour, visiting Birmingham, London, Cardiff and Surrey.\n\nThe NSPCC said the project would be a \"vital source of information\".\n\nIn the online survey, called Five Big Questions, participants are asked for their opinion on what influences development and what period of childhood is most important for children's happiness.\n\nThe duchess visited a baby sensory class at the Ely and Caerau Children's Centre in Cardiff\n\nOn Tuesday, the duchess visited Thinktank, a science museum in Birmingham.\n\nShe was shown around an interactive mini city inside the museum and spoke to parents and carers about the survey.\n\nOn Wednesday, Catherine visited a baby sensory class at the Ely and Caerau Children's Centre in Cardiff to hear about the support parents receive there.\n\nShe also attended HMP Send in Woking, Surrey, to speak with women prisoners taking part in a rehabilitation programme.\n\nThe scheme, run by The Forward Trust, aims to break cycles of addiction and crime and is the only 12-step prison-based drug and alcohol programme for women in the UK. The duchess also visited the prison in 2015.\n\nThe survey's launch comes after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they wanted to step back from being senior royals. Buckingham Palace said Prince Harry and Meghan will withdraw from royal duties from the spring.\n\nFormer press secretary to the Queen, Dickie Arbiter, suggested that the survey would have been planned nearly a year in advance, a long time before and Harry and Meghan's announcement.\n\nIt is stating the obvious to say it has been a difficult week for the Royal Family.\n\nBut with Harry and Meghan now back in Canada and big decisions made about their future there is a sense of returning to business as usual... at least for now.\n\nFor the Duchess of Cambridge that means an even sharper focus on one particular area - the problems of early childhood.\n\nRoyal engagements can cover a vast number of areas but for the duchess an increasing amount of her work is targeted at early years.\n\nThis new survey will ultimately help provide important data for all those working in the area of early years, and will also inform the kind of work the Duchess of Cambridge gets involved with in the future.\n\nThose who have worked with her in this area say she is totally committed and isn't just a figurehead.\n\nShe has built up an expertise and wants to prevent the same problems affecting the same families generation after generation.\n\nCatherine and her husband, the Duke of Cambridge, have three children - six-year-old Prince George, four-year-old Princess Charlotte, and 21-month-old Prince Louis.\n\nThe Royal Foundation website says Catherine believes \"many of society's greatest social and health challenges\" could be \"mitigated or entirely avoided\" if young children are given \"the right support\".\n\nKate Stanley, from the NSPCC, says the duchess's survey will \"provide fascinating insight into how we think about the early years and it will be a vital source of information for the sector\".\n\nAsked about the value of the questionnaire, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday the results of the survey would help inform \"the kind of conversation we need to have\" with parents about the importance of a child's early years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cambridge: ''Both William and I sincerely believe that early action can prevent problems in childhood from turning into larger ones later in life''\n\nKayte Lawton, from the charity Save the Children, welcomed the survey and said it was \"vital\" that all children are given access to \"high-quality services\".\n\nShe said: \"Parents on low incomes regularly tell us they struggle with childcare bills, especially when their children are little, and strive to juggle all of life's demands to support their children's early learning. It's not easy.\"\n\nIpsos Mori is conducting the survey on behalf of the Royal Foundation.\n\nThe company's Kelly Beaver added: \"Whilst many studies have been conducted to generate evidence of the importance of the early years, there is a real lack of evidence to understand whether this is understood by the British public.\"\n\nThe survey will be open until 21 February.\n\n1. What do you believe is most important for children growing up in the UK today to live a happy adult life? Rank from most important to least important:\n\n2. Which of these statements is closest to your opinion?\n\n3. How much do you agree or disagree with this statement? The mental health and wellbeing of parents and carers has a great impact on the development of their child(ren)\n\n4. Which of the following is closest to your opinion of what influences how children develop from the start of pregnancy to age five?\n\n5. Which period of a child and young person's life do you think is the most important for health and happiness in adulthood?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "To the casual observer, politics might at times seem like a game but the consequences of elections can be immediate and profound - not least for those MPs who lose their seats.\n\nJust over a month on from the general election, what is it like to lose, clear out your office, dust your self down and work out what to do next?\n\n\"The hardest thing I have had to do since the election is make members of staff redundant,\" says Stephen Gethins, who had been MP for North East Fife since 2015.\n\nIn the 2017 election he had won the seat by just two votes, the most precarious majority in the UK.\n\nLast month he was the only SNP MP to lose their seat.\n\nStephen Gethins had the most marginal seat in the UK\n\n\"It is always something that you are mindful of,\" he says. \"That's the nature of politics.\"\n\nLike the other defeated incumbents he is paid for just two months from the election, not exactly the never-ending political gravy train many might imagine.\n\n\"You don't get very long to find a new job,\" the 43-year-old former MP says.\n\n\"There is a balance between getting an income and thinking what I'm going to do longer term.\n\n\"I think trying to give yourself a bit of space is important and I've been lucky I have had lots of advice from friends in all political parties who have been through this process.\"\n\nJo Swinson was the only Scottish Lib Dem to lose their seat in the election but she did not want to be interviewed.\n\nShe had experienced defeat before in 2015 but fought back to successfully retake Dunbartonshire East and go on to become party leader.\n\nHowever, the 39-year-old lost both her seat and the Lib Dem top job after December's vote.\n\nLabour's Danielle Rowley said she was disappointed to lose but not shocked\n\nLabour's Danielle Rowley says she was more disappointed than shocked to have lost her seat in Midlothian.\n\n\"I was probably more shocked in 2017 when I did win,\" she says.\n\nAfter her defeat she had to return to Westminster to clear out her House of Commons office.\n\n\"It was strange being in parliament but not being able to go into the chamber,\" she says.\n\n\"The strangest part was knowing I would not be in that building representing my home any more.\"\n\nMs Rowley says there is an assumption that all politicians are privileged and it is not the case.\n\n\"My good friend Laura Smith, who was the MP for Crewe, had someone take a photo of her in her local job centre because he found it so funny that she should be there,\" she says.\n\n\"But we've lost our jobs, just like anyone else losing their jobs.\"\n\nMs Rowley, who is now a former MP at the age of just 29, expects to eventually return to the charitable sector where she feels she can make most difference in an era of a large Conservative majority.\n\nTory Luke Graham says he hopes to be re-elected some day\n\nLuke Graham, of the Conservatives, had only been MP for Ochil and South Perthshire since 2017 and faces a similar dilemma.\n\nTo return to his background in accountancy and business or to somehow keep going with politics in the hope of an eventual return of fortune with the electorate.\n\n\"I am still an accountant,\" says the 34-year-old. \"I can still go back to that world but I don't feel I'm finished with politics yet.\n\n\"If I'm honest I hope to be re-elected to be an MP. I haven't lost my passion for politics and I think I have still got something to give.\n\n\"It is a setback and a gutting experience but it is what you decide to do with that next that's important.\"\n• None The struggle to get a job after losing an election", "The group allegedly took migrants from France to the UK in refrigerated lorries and small rubber boats\n\nPolice in France and the Netherlands have arrested 23 people suspected of helping to smuggle about 10,000 Kurdish migrants into the UK.\n\nThe group is accused of picking up migrants from car parks in France and taking them to the UK in refrigerated lorries and small rubber boats, law enforcement agency Eurojust said.\n\nMigrants were allegedly charged up to €7,000 per person for the journey.\n\nEurojust said 19 suspects were arrested in France and four in the Netherlands.\n\nThe law enforcement agency set up an international investigation team after French authorities spotted suspects using vehicles with Dutch licence plates.\n\nMigrants were picked up from various car parks in France before being taken to the UK, Eurojust said.\n\nDetectives linked migrants' payments to an illegal hawala banking system in the Netherlands. Hawala is an informal system of money transfer based on trust where no money actually crosses international borders.\n\nEurojust executed European Arrest Warrants and the 23 suspects were arrested, while five premises were searched.\n\nThe law enforcement agency said the criminal network is alleged to have total profits of about €70m (£59.1m).", "Too many people are aspiring to work in art, culture and entertainment, the report says\n\nThe career hopes and dreams of young people in the UK are at odds with the types of jobs available, a study warns.\n\nResearch by the charity Education and Employers suggests five times as many 17- and 18-year-olds in the UK want to work in art, culture, entertainment and sport as there are jobs available.\n\nAnd this disconnect means far too many are \"destined for disappointment\".\n\nThe report, Disconnected: Career aspirations and jobs in the UK, is based on a survey of 7,000 teenagers.\n\nAlso using data from the Office for National Statistics, the charity found the greatest excess of aspiration related to jobs in art and culture, entertainment and sport, where five times as many 17- and 18-year-olds want to work (15.6%) compared with the projected demand in the economy (3.3%).\n\nAnd for most of those (51%), this was the only sector in which they expressed an interest.\n\nYoung people's career aspirations need to be \"constructively challenged\", the report says\n\nThe analysis suggests the greatest shortfall of interest is in accommodation and catering, which needs \"almost seven times as many students (9.7% of the economy) as are expressing an interest (1.5%)\".\n\nIt also says: \"Wholesale and retail trade similarly sees a very large shortfall - 2.6% expressing interest against 15.1% required.\"\n\nThe report says young people's aspirations are set early - as young as age seven - and do not change enough over time to meet demand.\n\nAnd this consistency of young peoples' career choices throughout their teenage years (and the frustrations and wasted energy it produces) will need significant effort to resolve.\n\nThe research says young people's career aspirations need to \"be engaged with and, if necessary, constructively challenged\".\n\nIt says a \"concerted effort\" is needed to address what it calls an aspiration-reality disconnect and calls for:\n\nThe report says: \"From age seven, we need to ensure that children get to meet a range of people from different backgrounds and doing different jobs.\n\nThe government says early careers advice can help young people \"set out on the right path\"\n\n\"People who can help bring learning to life, show them how the subjects they are studying are relevant to their futures.\n\n\"We need to stop children ruling out options because they believe, implicitly or explicitly, that their future career choices are limited by their gender, ethnicity or socio-economic background.\n\n\"This is not about providing 'careers advice' in primary schools but breaking down barriers, broadening horizons and raising aspirations, giving children a wide range of experiences of the world including the world of work.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"Young people are rarely short of ambition and we want them to have the skills and direction to match.\n\n\"As the report suggests, early careers advice can help young people set out on the right path to the job that channels their interests and unlocks their potential.\n\n\"That's why we're committed to having career leaders and have announced new funding for jobcentres to provide advice to more schools across the country.\"\n\nThe Education and Employers report is launched alongside new analysis of Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) data by international economics think tank the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which is being presented during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\n\nAndreas Schleicher, the OECD's director of education and skills, said: \"There are many interesting future-oriented jobs that British students are not seeing, particularly disadvantaged kids, and you can't be what you can't see.\n\n\"My concern is we are closing too many doors too early in the lives of pupils.\"\n• None Education and Employers – Working together for young people The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monty Python star Terry Jones has died at the age of 77, after having lived with dementia, his agent has said.\n\nA statement from his family said: \"We have all lost a kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man.\"\n\nThe BBC's David Sillito looks back on the Welsh comic actor, writer and director's life.", "Boris Johnson's Brexit bill is one step away from becoming law after completing its passage through Parliament.\n\nThe EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which paves the way for the UK to leave the bloc with a deal on 31 January, is now awaiting royal assent.\n\nEarlier, MPs overwhelmingly rejected all five changes - including on child refugees - made by peers to the bill.\n\nIt then returned to the Lords where peers backed down, despite some anger at their voices being \"dismissed\".\n\nNow it has completed its passage through Parliament, the UK's exit from the EU must be approved by the European Parliament next week.\n\nIn the House of Lords, Labour peer Lord Howarth said MPs had \"dismissed the changes requested with no serious consideration\".\n\nHe said peers accepted the government had a mandate to deliver Brexit but had \"sought to improve\" the legislation.\n\nNevertheless, peers chose not to continue a battle with the Commons and agreed to allow the bill to pass.\n\nA total of five amendments to the bill were sent to MPs for consideration from the Lords, including on EU citizens' rights, the power of UK courts to diverge from EU law and the independence of the judiciary after Brexit.\n\nAnother, the so-called Dubs amendment - which reinstated a guarantee that unaccompanied refugee children could continue to join relatives in the UK after Brexit - was also demanded by peers.\n\nA fifth amendment called for the bill to be changed to take note of the Sewel Convention, which states that Parliament should not legislate on devolved issues without the consent of the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Stormont Assembly in Northern Ireland.\n\nAs expected, with its large majority in the Commons, the government successfully overturned all five earlier on Wednesday.\n\nBaroness Hayter, deputy Labour leader in the Lords said she regretted \"what it says about the new government and its willingness to listen\" to the devolved administrations, legal experts, and others.\n\n\"Legislation is meant to be a dual responsibility,\" she said. \"Let's hope this is a one off and that normal service will shortly resume.\"\n\nThe Brexit bill will now return to the Lords\n\nThe Dubs amendment, in particular, was well-supported in the Lords and a number of MPs also argued in favour of it.\n\nIt would have required the government to commit to negotiating an agreement with the EU on child refugees - hardening up the existing promise in the bill merely to make a statement on the issue within two months.\n\nMinisters say they back the principle of the Dubs amendment but the Brexit bill is not the right vehicle for it.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay defended the government's record, saying more than 41,000 refugee children had settled in the UK since the start of 2010, including 3,500 unaccompanied children in the year to September 2019.\n\nHe said there was no point legislating before the UK reached an agreement with the EU on future numbers.\n\nBut shadow Brexit minister Thangam Debbonaire said it would be a mistake to take the government's promises on child refugees at face value.\n\n\"The government's predecessor government has got form on this, promising to take 3,000 children on the Dubs scheme, as originally committed to, and taking fewer than 500 in the end,\" she said.\n\n\"The government asking us to trust them... is just not good enough.\"\n\nIn the end, MPs voted, by a margin of 342 to 254, to reject the Dubs amendment, something the peer himself said was \"bitterly disappointing\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alf Dubs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Brexit bill is likely to be granted royal assent in the next day or two.\n\nWhat questions do you have about Brexit and how it will affect you in the future?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "As a result of Storm Gloria battering the Catalan coast, marine foam has been blown ashore.\n\nSea foam is created by the agitation of the organic matter in seawater.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour needs to sell a message of aspiration to voters, says Long-Bailey\n\nLabour had \"a great set of policies\" at the general election but got its \"messaging\" wrong, Rebecca Long-Bailey has told the BBC.\n\n\"We should have been talking about aspiration,\" the Labour leadership contender said, but too often talked about \"handouts\" instead.\n\nShe said she had the ability to sell \"a positive vision\" and \"hope for the future\" that wins elections.\n\nThe race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn is down to four after Jess Phillips quit.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy have made it on the final leadership ballot, after securing the necessary trade union and affiliated group support.\n\nEmily Thornberry and Mrs Long-Bailey have yet to reach the threshold.\n\nMs Phillips said she would be happy with either Ms Nandy or Sir Keir as leader, but argued that Mrs Long-Bailey would be the wrong choice for Labour at this moment.\n\nMr Corbyn announced he would be standing down after Labour suffered its worst defeat, in terms of seats, since 1935 in December's election.\n\nBut Mrs Long-Bailey - whose campaign is backed by grassroots organisation Momentum - refused to blame the party's manifesto, saying she was \"proud\" of the policies in it.\n\nLabour's \"compromise position\" on Brexit \"didn't satisfy our communities and meant that we weren't trusted,\" she told the BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd, she added: \"We didn't tackle anti-Semitism and we weren't trusted to deal with that issue within our own party.\"\n\nThe manifesto policies - which included nationalising utilities and a big increase in tax-funded public spending - were not drawn together into an \"overarching narrative\" that chimed with the electorate, she said.\n\n\"Our messaging really didn't resonate with voters. We should have been talking about aspiration and how all of the things within our manifesto would improve your life, would improve the outcome for businesses in our areas, but we didn't say that.\n\n\"Quite often we talked about handouts and how we will help people, rather than providing that broad positive vision of the future.\"\n\nShe said Labour had a history of talking \"about how bad the Conservatives are\" without \"showing that real vision and hope for the future\".\n\n\"That's what wins general elections, showing that real vision and hope for the future. And I know that I can do that and that's why I'm standing to be the leader of the party.\"\n\nThe shadow business secretary said Labour did not do enough to \"sell\" her flagship policy, the Green Industrial Revolution, which she said \"would have transformed our economy and delivered investment in regions and nations\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Whoever becomes leader, we have to reunite the party to make sure that we're unified in the message that we're putting forward. But we had many of the right answers to the right questions.\"\n\nShe also hit back at claims she was not forceful enough to be prime minister.\n\n\"I'm not shy. I mean, I have spent last four years, you know, locked in a room developing many of the policies that we've been trying to push forward as a party, but I don't think you could ever describe me as shy.\"\n\nShe said she believed her \"forensic approach\" to politics would be a challenge to Boris Johnson, whom she described as having \"a bit of a struggling relationship with the truth and with detail\".\n\nOn the prospect of being PM herself one day, she said she could picture herself living in 10 Downing Street, \"chilling out\" in her pyjamas on a Friday night, with \"Netflix and a Chinese takeaway\".\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Mrs Long-Bailey was asked whether she had any Conservative friends in Parliament.\n\n\"Not really, no,\" she replied, but added: \"I'm friendly to everyone.\"\n\nShe said her non-political friends would not tell her if they supported the Tories \"because I'd be angry\".\n\nShe also reiterated her belief that women had a \"right to choose\" when it came to abortion and she was not in favour of changing the law, after a row over comments she made to Catholic priests during the general election.\n\nAnd she backed a change in the law to allow transgender people to self-identify without the need for medical evidence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nLabour's manifesto committed to reform of the Gender Recognition Act to allow self-identification, but critics warn it will make it easier for someone born as a man but now identifying as a woman to gain access to women-only spaces such as toilets, changing rooms, prisons and domestic violence refuges.\n\nAsked whether she had any concerns about the policy, Mrs Long-Bailey said she understood the arguments, but Labour must \"fully support our trans community\".\n\nLaura Kuenssberg interviewed Sir Keir last week and is aiming to interview Ms Thornberry and Ms Nandy in the coming weeks.", "The mill depicted in the painting was demolished in 1984\n\nA painting by LS Lowry that experts had no knowledge of for more than 70 years has sold at auction for £2.65m.\n\nThe 1943 work - titled The Mill, Pendlebury - was sold to a private collector at Christie's in London.\n\nThe painting, which depicts workers in the Greater Manchester town enjoying a day off and children playing cricket, had spent most of its life in the US.\n\nIts existence came to light after the death of medical researcher Leonard D Hamilton, the painting's owner.\n\nLowry gave the painting to Mr Hamilton's parents more than 70 years ago, when the family lived in Manchester.\n\nMr Hamilton took it with him when he moved to the US in 1949, where he went on to make a major contribution to the discovery of the double helix shape of DNA.\n\nThe painting had been expected to fetch between £700,000 and £1m at Tuesday's auction.\n\nYet its new price tag falls some way behind those of Lowry's later works The Football Match (1949) and Piccadilly Circus (1960), which both sold for £5.6m in 2011.\n\nLaurence Stephen Lowry gained recognition for his seemingly simple depictions of working-class life in the industrial parts of northern England.\n\nLast year, the painter's relationship with his mother was dramatised in the film Mrs Lowry & Son, starring Timothy Spall as the artist and Vanessa Redgrave as his mother Elizabeth.\n\nAcme Mill, the mill depicted in the painting, was the first cotton spinning mill in England to be solely driven by electricity. Production ceased in 1959 and the building was demolished in 1984.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The ban is expected to clear its final hurdle next week\n\nA ban on parents smacking children in Wales has moved a step closer following a series of votes by assembly members.\n\nIt is expected to clear its final hurdle next week when it goes back to the assembly for the last time.\n\nAMs rejected Conservative amendments that would have forced the Welsh Government to provide more information about how the ban will work.\n\nMinisters say they have already committed to a publicity campaign about the change in the law.\n\nThe Abolition of the Defence of Reasonable Punishment Bill is likely to pass with the support of Labour and Plaid Cymru AMs.\n\nIt will come into force in 2022.\n\nIt follows a vote to outlaw smacking children in Scotland in October last year - but there are currently no plans to introduce a similar law in either England or Northern Ireland.\n\nTory opponents to the bill in Wales, who called it a \"snoopers' charter\", wanted to force the government to advise people on how to report concerns about the physical punishment of children.\n\nDeputy Social Services Minister Julie Morgan said the proposal \"doesn't make sense\" because the bill does not create any new offences.\n\nJulie Morgan said the bill did not create any new offences\n\nInstead, it would remove the defence of reasonable punishment in cases of common assault.\n\nBased on the impact of a smacking ban in New Zealand, the government estimates there will be about 38 cases of people breaking the law in the first five years.\n\nPlaid Cymru AM Helen Mary Jones said: \"I really do not believe that we are likely to see dozens and dozens of families facing prosecution who would not otherwise have done so.\"\n\nIs there anything you would like to know about the proposal?\n\nUse this form to send us your questions:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "London has become the \"epicentre of the elites\" in the UK, making it \"off limits\" for young people from poorer backgrounds, says a social mobility charity.\n\nThe Sutton Trust says the high cost of housing has become a social barrier.\n\nA report, using London School of Economics research, says social mobility is easier outside the capital.\n\nTrust founder, Sir Peter Lampl, said the idea of going to London to \"move up in the world\" had become \"a myth\".\n\nThe report says it is increasingly difficult for young people to move to London to get the high-paying jobs concentrated in the capital.\n\n\"Those that benefit most from opportunities in London were either born there or are the economically privileged from other parts of the country,\" said Sir Peter.\n\n\"London is essentially off-limits to ambitious people from poorer backgrounds who grow up outside the capital.\"\n\nThis is exacerbated by practices such as unpaid internships, which are available only to those who can afford to live and work in London without earning.\n\nThe report - Elites in the UK: Pulling Away? - highlights the rise of the ultra-rich in London in recent decades, with their wealth often deriving from finance and banking.\n\nLondon-born quantity surveyor Yusuf Vardalia says the city is now \"off limits for normal people\".\n\nWhile he was earning \"decent money\" living in London, buying property there was not an option.\n\n\"It was ridiculous. So in 2018 my wife and I decided to move to Leicester where we were able to get onto the property ladder and start building our life, which if we had decided to stick with London would have been an impossible dream,\" he said.\n\nMadison Hughes, a teaching assistant, says she can only afford to live in London because her parents pay her rent.\n\n\"My rent alone is over half my monthly salary and with bills and the general cost of living in London I would essentially be in debt every month,\" she said. \"I am so lucky to have generous parents who have the money to help me.\n\n\"My friends are all exactly the same - all the girls I live with either have parents paying their rent, or all their expenses.\"\n\nShe added that something needs to be done about London rent prices \"ASAP\".\n\nBut James Marsh, who moved to the capital eight years ago, said \"if you're hard-working enough and have the drive to succeed, you will do well\".\n\nHe had no financial help from his family and was in debt when he arrived in the city.\n\n\"It wasn't that easy at first living off £100 a week in London, for food and drinks, but it's not impossible,\" he said. \"It isn't unbalanced to other struggles you'd find in other major cities and quite frankly it's not the poverty line either.\"\n\nHe adds that if he had stayed in his home town \"I would not have got anywhere even close to where I am now, either at career level or financially\".\n\nThe study suggests a lack of wider awareness among this wealthy elite - reinforced by the small, self-reflecting circles in which they move.\n\nThese top earners do not see themselves as \"especially fortunate\" because they are \"surrounded by numerous other people like themselves\", says the study.\n\nThe report warns of a social and geographical separation, with very affluent people in London having infrequent contact with those facing much tougher circumstances.\n\nThey are likely to espouse values of meritocracy, while being part of a process that has seen social mobility becoming less likely.\n\nBut if social mobility has become difficult in London, the report says there seems to have been much greater opportunities for progress outside the capital.\n\nTwo thirds of the most socially mobile - who have come from working class backgrounds and then entered high-status professions - have done so by staying near to where they grew up.\n\nThis ladder of progress has been more available for people not moving far from their home towns, rising up into jobs such as in medicine or law.\n\n\"In spite of the dominance of London, over two thirds of the socially mobile have never made a long-term move,\" says Sir Peter.", "Wrongful death cases that were filed by Prince's family have been dismissed, almost four years after the star died.\n\nLegal claims had been filed against a doctor who prescribed Prince pain medication and a pharmacy that supplied him with medicine.\n\nDismissals usually occur after a settlement has been reached, but such agreements often remain confidential.\n\nThe 57-year-old died in 2016 after an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl at his home in Minneapolis.\n\nClaims that had been filed against the Walgreens pharmacy chain and Dr Michael Schulenberg, who treated Prince in the weeks before his death, have been dismissed.\n\nThe star's family had argued that failures in Dr Schulenberg's treatment played a \"substantial part\" in his death. Dr Schulenberg denied any wrongdoing.\n\nA claim against the Trinity Medical Center in Illinois, where he was treated for an opioid overdose the week before he died, has also been dismissed.\n\nA lawyer for Prince's estate, John Goetz, told the BBC he could not comment on what led to the cases being dismissed.\n\nOne final claim - for medical negligence - remains against Dr Howard Kornfeld, an opioid addiction specialist who was called by Prince's staff the day before he died. Dr Kornfeld sent his son to Minneapolis to discuss treatment options, but it was already too late.\n\nThat claim was dismissed by a judge in September, but the estate has appealed against the decision.\n\nAfter Prince's death, an investigation revealed the musician had experienced significant pain for a number of years, and hundreds of painkillers of various types were found at his house.\n\nEvidence showed Prince had thought he was taking the prescription drug Vicodin, when in fact he was taking a counterfeit Vicodin pill laced with potentially deadly fentanyl.\n\nProsecutors said there was no evidence that the pills had been prescribed by a doctor. No-one was criminally charged in relation to his death and the source of the counterfeit pills remains unknown.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Crannog restaurant was flooded following Storm Brendan\n\nStorm Brendan has been followed by wintry showers, flooding and more gales in parts of Scotland, causing further travel disruption.\n\nThe severe weather has led to problems across the country with trees brought down and ferry sailings cancelled.\n\nA yellow wind warning covering the Highlands and Argyll and Bute has been issued.\n\nTrains have been disrupted due to damaged overhead power lines on several sections of the railway in Ayrshire.\n\nCommuters across the country may experience longer journey times.\n\nA separate 24-hour yellow warning of strong southwesterly winds has also been issued for Tuesday.\n\nA fresh yellow warning for snow and ice which came into effect at 01:00 GMT has since been removed.\n\nA road at Applecross Bay in the Highlands was damaged in Monday's storm\n\nServices on 11 of Caledonian MacBrayne's 28 ferry routes were cancelled for the day, with a further four routes being disrupted.\n\nNorthlink Ferries also told passengers there may be disruption on services to Orkney and Shetland.\n\nAll schools in the Uist and Barra area have been closed and all bus services there have been cancelled.\n\nMoray College UHI in Elgin is closed to all staff and students due to storm damage. It will reopen on Wednesday following emergency repair work.\n\nSnow affected driving conditions on the A938 at Carrbridge in the Cairngorms on Tuesday morning\n\nA road along a shore of Applecross Bay at the village of Applecross was damaged during the storm.\n\nHighland Council said its staff would set up a temporary bypass to allow for repairs to be made to the road.\n\nCairngorm Mountain Rescue Team was called out to assist an injured walker in the Ben Alder area but had difficulty locating the man and Tayside Mountain Rescue joined the search. The walker was eventually found with his friends in a bothy.\n\nA Met Office warning for high winds across parts of the country has been issued\n\nA tree crashed into the garden of a house in the Garthdee area of Aberdeen\n\nThe harbour at Fort William was swamped by floods on Monday evening.\n\nThe Crannog restaurant, which sits on the town's pier, was one of the buildings most severely hit.\n\nThe wintry conditions are expected to cause icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nThe snow and ice warning, which will remain in place until 13:00, covers Central Scotland, Tayside, Fife, Angus, Perth and Kinross, Grampian, Highlands and Argyll and Bute.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued 24 flood warnings and 18 flood alerts.\n\nLarge parts of the harbourside area in Stornoway are under water\n\nFlooding is expected to affect several parts of Orkney as high tides combine with storm force winds.\n\nThe flood gates at Kirkwall Harbour are expected to remain closed for much of the day with the biggest risk of waves breaking over from about 11:00 until lunchtime.\n\nPolice Scotland's local area commander Ch Insp Matt Webb said the forecast suggested flooding could be the worst to hit the Orkney area since 2005.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from Bel Hawson shows waves crashing onto the A83 in Ardrishaig as cars drive along\n\nSepa's head of flood services Vincent Fitzsimmons told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that Storm Brendan had brought some of the highest sea levels in 15 years in some places.\n\nHe added: \"It's an unusual and really dangerous combination of storm surge, naturally high tides and high inshore waves.\n\n\"The time of concern is really around high tide so for Oban, Fort William and the Western Isles that is to around 9am this morning.\n\n\"Then the risk shifts to the Orkneys mid to late morning and then that risk continues into Moray, Caithness, Aberdeenshire, Stonehaven and down as far as Montrose where the high tides are around early evening.\"\n\nGritters have been used to clear sections of the A9 near Drumochter\n\nThe Met Office said: \"Icy patches are likely to develop on Monday night and into Tuesday morning as blustery showers fall on cold surfaces, especially untreated roads and pavements.\n\n\"Snow showers will become confined northwest of the Great Glen by the end of the morning.\"\n\nMeanwhile, there are two yellow weather warnings in place in England and Wales for later on Tuesday. There is a warning of wind affecting most areas from 12:00 GMT until midnight, and for heavy rain, in London and south-east England from 13:00 until 9:00 on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BEAR NW Trunk Roads This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeven stray cats being cared for at an animal welfare centre have escaped after their enclosure was damaged by Storm Brendan's high winds on Monday night.\n\nThe feral cats were being looked after at Munlochy Animal Aid's shelter on the Black Isle in the Highlands.\n\nBoxes to catch the cats have been set in the hope of returning them to the shelter.\n\nHeavy snow fell snow around the village of Daviot just south of Inverness\n\nIn the Garthdee area of Aberdeen one resident thought a branch had blown down when he received a mobile phone alert, triggered by his home CCTV system, at about 16:30.\n\nBut when Greg Paluch returned from work he was shocked to discover a tree had fallen into his garden and landed just inches from his front door.\n\nMr Paluch, 35, said: \"It could have been worse considering the height of the tree. But no-one was at home and no-one was hurt - that is the main thing.\"\n\nA large tree also fell at Maybole in South Ayrshire, partially blocking the A77.\n\nAith Pier in Shetland was barely visible after water levels rose\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Brendan? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGusts of more than 75mph hit parts of Wales for a second day after Storm Brendan caused problems on Monday.\n\nA new bout of low pressure moved in and the Met Office warned winds would bring further disruption until midnight.\n\nThere have been restrictions in place on the A48 Severn Bridge, the A55 Britannia Bridge on Anglesey and the Cleddau Bridge in Pembrokeshire.\n\nA fallen tree partially blocked the A470 near Rhayader, Powys, and a school had to close after its roof blew off.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council tweeted that Maerdy community primary school would remain shut on Wednesday \"due to a clear-up operation following storm damage\".\n\nThe highest gusts reached 77mph near Capel Curig in Snowdonia.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said a number of roads in the area were \"affected by the heavy rainfall and strong winds\".\n\nFlood warnings have been issued in Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, and on the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne.\n\nOn Monday, Storm Brendan caused power outages to more than 2,000 properties throughout Wales during the course of the day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ᴅᴇʀᴇᴋ ʙʀᴏᴄᴋᴡᴀʏ ᴡᴇᴀᴛʜᴇʀᴍ��ɴ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWestern Power Distribution said electricity supplies were hit in Newcastle Emlyn and Cardigan in Ceredigion.\n\nSP Energy Network, which manages power in north Wales, said it dealt with problems in Bangor, Treborth, Benllech, Moelfre and Corwen.\n\nYsgol Bontnewydd Primary School had to close due to a power failure after a tree fell on power lines and also hit a car at Bontnewydd, Gwynedd.\n\nIn Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the roof of a connecting walkway between two buildings at Greenhill School was damaged by winds, forcing it to remain closed on Tuesday.", "UK scientists say the recent fires in Australia are a taste of what the world will experience as temperatures rise.\n\nProf Richard Betts from the Met Office Hadley Centre said we are \"seeing a sign of what would be normal conditions under a future warming world of 3C\".\n\nWhile natural weather patterns have driven recent fires, researchers said it's \"common sense\" that human-induced heating is playing a role.\n\nLast year was Australia's warmest and driest year on record.\n\nUK researchers have carried out a rapid analysis of the impact of climate change on the risk of wildfires happening all over the world. Their study looked at 57 research papers published since the last major review of climate science came out in 2013.\n\nAll the studies in the review showed links between climate change and the increased frequency or severity of fire weather. This is defined as those periods of time which have a higher risk of fire due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, low rainfall and high winds.\n\nThe signal of human-induced warming has become clearer in different parts of the world with the passage of time. A paper published last year suggests the impact of climate change could be detected outside the range of natural variability in 22% of land that's available for burning.\n\n\"Overall, the 57 papers reviewed clearly show human-induced warming has already led to a global increase in the frequency and severity of fire weather, increasing the risks of wildfire,\" said Dr Matthew Jones, from the University of East Anglia, and the lead author of the review.\n\n\"This has been seen in many regions, including the western US and Canada, southern Europe, Scandinavia and Amazonia. Human-induced warming is also increasing fire risks in other regions, including Siberia and Australia.\"\n\nHowever, the review says that the dramatic fire situation witnessed in Australia in recent months is \"challenging to diagnose\".\n\nNaturally occurring weather patterns have played a significant role in creating the right conditions for wildfires. Conditions in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific have meant hot, dry spells across the country.\n\nBut the influence of human-driven climate change is also in the mix.\n\n\"This (the fires) would have happened naturally but we can be confident that they have been made hotter because of man-made climate change,\" said Prof Betts.\n\nDrought and record temperatures have contributed to the dramatic burning in Australia\n\nSpeaking at the launch of the global review, he pointed to the fact that Australia is now about 1.4C warmer than the global average temperature was in the pre-industrial period.\n\n\"Temperatures in December in Australia, that have occurred recently, they are extreme for now but they would be normal under a world getting on for three degrees of warming, so we are seeing a sign of what would be normal conditions under a future warming world of 3 degrees,\" Prof Betts explained.\n\nRight now, the world has warmed around 1C since the 1850s. Even with current government plans to limit emissions of CO2, the world is on course for around 3C of warming by the end of this century.\n\nOther experts involved in the review say that people are seeing the signal of global warming \"with their own eyes\" when it comes to wildfires and heatwaves.\n\n\"These are impacts we are seeing for one degree of global climate change. The impact will get worse as long as we don't do what it takes to stabilise the world's climate,\" said Prof Corinne Le Quéré, from the University of East Anglia in Norwich.\n\n\"And what it takes is to bring CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases down to net zero emissions. If we don't do it, we will have much worse impacts - so what we are seeing in Australia is not the new normal, it's a transition to worse impacts.\"\n\nThe details of the papers included in the review can be found at the ScienceBrief online platform.", "Boris Johnson has rejected the request from Nicola Sturgeon\n\nThe UK government has formally rejected a call from Scotland's first minister for a second independence referendum.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said a referendum would \"continue the political stagnation Scotland has seen for the past decade\".\n\nAnd he said First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had previously pledged that the 2014 referendum would be a \"once in a generation\" vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted that the Tories were attempting to \"deny democracy\".\n\nShe said Mr Johnson's formal refusal of her request for a referendum to be held later this year was \"predictable but also unsustainable and self defeating\", and insisted that \"Scotland will have the right to choose\".\n\nThe first minister also said the Scottish government would set out its response and \"next steps\" before the end of the month, and that the devolved Scottish Parliament would again be asked to \"back Scotland's right to choose our own future\".\n\nScottish voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% in the referendum in 2014.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she wants to hold another vote on independence, and made a formal request last month for the UK government to transfer powers - known as a Section 30 order - to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh that would ensure any referendum is legal.\n\nThe request came after Ms Sturgeon's SNP, which forms the Scottish government, won 48 of the 59 seats in Scotland in the UK general election.\n\nIn his written response to Ms Sturgeon, the prime minister said he had \"carefully considered and noted\" her arguments.\n\nBut he said: \"You and your predecessor (Alex Salmond) made a personal promise that the 2014 independence referendum was a \"once in a generation\" vote.\n\n\"The people of Scotland voted decisively on that promise to keep our United Kingdom together, a result which both the Scottish and UK governments committed to respect in the Edinburgh Agreement.\"\n\nA large pro-independence march was held in Glasgow at the weekend\n\nMr Johnson said the UK government would \"continue to uphold the democratic decision of the Scottish people and the promise you made to them\".\n\nAnd he said he did not want to see Scotland's schools, hospitals and employment \"again left behind because of a campaign to separate the UK\".\n\nThe prime minister added: \"For that reason, I cannot agree to any request for a transfer of power that would lead to further independence referendums\".\n\nThe formal rejection comes days after the UK government's Scottish secretary, Alister Jack, said another victory in next year's Scottish Parliament election would still not give the SNP a mandate to hold a referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously warned that a \"flat no\" from Mr Johnson to her request would \"not be the end of the matter\".\n\nBut she has made clear that she will not hold an unofficial referendum similar to the disputed one in Catalonia in 2017, arguing that it would not actually deliver independence as the result would not be recognised by the EU or wider international community.\n\nThe first minister said: \"The Tories are terrified of Scotland having the right to choose our own future. They know that given the choice the overwhelming likelihood is that people will choose the positive option of independence.\n\n\"The Tories - and their allies in the leaderships of Labour and the Lib Dems - lack any positive case for the union, so all they can do is try to block democracy.\n\n\"It shows utter contempt for the votes, views and interests of the people of Scotland and it is a strategy that is doomed to failure.\"\n\nThe prospect of an independence referendum on Nicola Sturgeon's preferred timetable - the second half of 2020 - now looks very remote.\n\nThe first minister is confident that Mr Johnson's refusal will help make the case for independence in the longer term, but for now her options are limited.\n\nIn the first instance, she is planning another vote at Holyrood to underline the backing of MSPs for a new referendum. With the SNP and Greens holding a majority between them, this is sure to pass - but this has happened before, to little avail.\n\nShe has not ruled out going to court, but this would hardly accelerate matters - constitutional lawyers have warned that \"there are no legal short cuts\" around the political battlefield.\n\nSo the next clear opportunity to break the deadlock may be the 2021 Holyrood elections. Ms Sturgeon clearly has one eye on that poll already, talking about the Tories being on a \"road back to political oblivion\".\n\nBetween now and then, another year of constitutional stalemate beckons.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nDalila Jakupovic says she was \"really scared\" as she retired from her Australian Open qualifying match because of the \"unhealthy\" air quality from ongoing bushfires in the country.\n\nThe Slovenian world number 180 had to be helped off court after she retired at 6-5 5-6 against Swiss Stefanie Vogele in the first round in Melbourne.\n\n\"It was really bad. I never experienced something like this,\" Jakupovic said.\n\n\"I was really scared I would collapse because I couldn't walk any more.\"\n\nQualifying was delayed by an hour on Tuesday and practice was temporarily suspended because of the air quality.\n\nOrganisers said the conditions were expected to improve and would be \"monitored constantly\".\n• None What is being done to fight the bushfires?\n• None We had to wear masks indoors - Swan on bushfires\n\nAsked about the decision to continue with qualifying, Jakupovic said: \"I think it was not fair because it's not healthy for us.\n\n\"I was surprised. I thought we would not be playing today but we really don't have much choice.\"\n\nPeople in Melbourne were advised to stay indoors and keep pets inside on Tuesday.\n\nAt least 28 people have died and an estimated 10 million hectares (100,000 sq km) of land has burned since 1 July.\n\nJakupovic added: \"I'm angry and sad. I'm more sad because I had the win [in my grasp] and I just couldn't finish it.\n\n\"I don't have asthma even and I don't have breathing problems from the heat. I was scared.\"\n\nAustralian Open organisers said prior to Jakupovic's retirement: \"Further decisions will be made based on onsite data, and in close consultation with our medical team, the Bureau of Meteorology and scientists from EPA Victoria.\n\n\"As always the health and safety of our players, our staff and our fans is our priority.\"\n\nEugenie Bouchard also left the court during her qualifying match against You Xiaodi, complaining of a sore chest. The Canadian returned after a medical timeout and won 4-6 7-6 6-1.\n\nMeanwhile, Maria Sharapova's exhibition match in Kooyong, which is in the east of the city, was called off after both players complained about the air quality.\n\nThe Russian was trailing Germany's Laura Siegemund 7-6 5-5 when the match was ended.\n\n\"I started feeling a cough coming toward the end of the second set but I've been sick for a few weeks so I thought that had something to do with it,\" Sharapova told broadcasters after the match.\n\n\"But then I heard Laura speak to the umpire and she said she was struggling with it as well.\n\n\"We were out there for over two hours, so from a health standpoint it's the right call from officials.\"\n\nPlayers rarely have any cause for complaint when they arrive at Melbourne Park each year, but this seems a clear unforced error by the Australian Open.\n\nVictoria's Environment Protection Authority was warning Melburnians to stay indoors, and keep windows and door shut.\n\nIt rated the air quality \"very poor\" - which is a sign \"everyone could be experiencing symptoms like coughing or shortness of breath\".\n\nThe decision to continue playing appears all the more surprising given Tennis Australia issued a statement on Tuesday morning stressing that the health and safety of players, staff and fans is always their priority.\n\nAnd there should have been no great urgency. The wind is due to change direction on Wednesday, and even though some rain is forecast, there is ample time to complete three rounds of qualifying before the main draw begins on Monday.", "Former Commons Speaker John Bercow spent £1,000 on a taxi fare and £12,000 on leaving parties for staff in the run-up to his retirement.\n\nMr Bercow, who stood down before the election, also spent £7,000 on a US visit in his final months in the job.\n\nHis expenses were obtained via a Daily Mail Freedom of Information request.\n\nA Commons spokesman said the 260-mile round trip from London to Nottingham, in April, was made by taxi rather than train for security reasons.\n\nMr Bercow, who was accompanied by an aide, travelled to Nottingham to deliver a speech at the Political Studies Association annual conference.\n\nThe speech was about how Parliament should respond to the \"anti-politics age\" and what the Parliament of the future might look like.\n\nMr Bercow had travelled from London to Nottingham by train in 2018, for a meeting of the UK Youth Parliament, at a cost of £70, according to earlier Freedom of Information disclosures.\n\n\"Due to heightened security concerns for the safety of MPs, Mr Bercow was advised it was safer for him to travel to Nottingham Trent University by taxi, rather than by train,\" said a Commons spokeswoman.\n\nIn May 2019, Mr Bercow spent £7,000 on a visit to Washington DC, to deliver a speech on the \"role of Parliament in today's Britain\" to a think tank, a trip that also took in Virginia and Boston.\n\nThe former Speaker's expenses also included a £118-a-month Sky TV subscription for Speaker's House, the apartment within the Palace of Westminster where Mr Bercow lived with his family.\n\nThe biggest expense in the final months of Mr Bercow's nine-year tenure as Speaker was staff leaving parties.\n\nThe £12,000 bill included an invoice for £3,168 for a retirement party for Speaker's chaplain Rose Hudson-Wilkin.\n\nRather than retire, she became the Bishop of Dover.\n\nMr Bercow also spent £2,376 on a retirement party for the Commons invitations secretary in February, and a month later another £3,187 for a formal farewell to Clerk of the House David Natzler.\n\nIn May, the Speaker's official account spent £3,696 on giving the principal clerk of the Table Office a send-off.\n\nA Commons spokeswoman said: \"The Speaker's Office has funded retirement receptions for senior staff many times in the past.\"\n\nBefore standing down on 31 October, Mr Bercow used his official account to settle a £234 drinks bill at a reception for the Panel of Chairs - MPs who help him oversee Parliamentary debates. He also spent £560 on lunch for his counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Speaker is not subject to the same rules on expenses as other MPs, whose claims for food and drink are capped.\n\nMr Bercow has faced scrutiny over his expenses in previous years - in 2018, he spent £13,000 on an official visit to Canada and a similar amount in 2014 on a trip to Australia.\n\nThe former Speaker has signed up to a public speaking agency since retiring from the chair. He has also made a number of lucrative media appearances, including as a pundit for Sky News on general election night in December.\n\nHis successor as Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has vowed to bring a \"different style\" to the job.", "The three streamers collectively have more than 21 million subscribers on YouTube\n\nYouTube has signed deals with three of the biggest gaming stars in an effort to boost its presence in the live-streaming space.\n\nRachell \"Valkyrae\" Hofstetter, Elliott \"Muselk\" Watkins and Lannan \"LazarBeam\" Eacott will exclusively screen their games on the Google-owned platform.\n\nThey were all previously active on Amazon's rival service, Twitch.\n\nYouTube said more than 200 million users watched video-game-themed content on its platform every day.\n\n\"Most people are used to thinking of the streaming wars in terms of Netflix and its rivals but this is also playing out in gaming,\" said Will Hershey, chief executive of Round Hill Investments.\n\nElliott \"Muselk\" Watkins has more than eight million subscribers on YouTube\n\nThe top four platforms for streaming games are:\n\nYouTube has not disclosed how much each star will be paid to dedicate themselves to its service. But combined, the three gamers have more than 21 million subscribers.\n\nYouTube's head of gaming Ryan Wyat said: \"Gaming on YouTube just had its best year yet [and] 2020 is poised to be even better than 2019.\"\n\nGamers on the service earn money via subscriptions and donations from their fans, as well as adverts. YouTube takes a cut of each.\n\nTwitch remains the dominant force in live-streamed gaming, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the hours spent watching the activity. But it has lost other talent in recent months.\n\nAustralian Lannan \"LazarBeam\" Eacott will pull back from Twitch as part of the deal\n\nMost notably, the gamer Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja, signed a deal to leave Twitch in August 2019 and joined Microsoft's Mixers, a much smaller service..\n\nNinja - who rose to fame for playing Fortnite - had 14.7 million followers on Twitch before he jumped ship.\n\n\"Almost every week, we see a new content creator sign a multi-million-dollar deal for streaming,\" said Mr Hershey.\n\nFacebook is also active in this space. It launched Facebook Gaming in 2018 to allow users to stream their games to other users of the social network.\n\nLazarBeam has the biggest following of the three players signed by YouTube.\n\nHe already has 12.3 million followers on YouTube. In 2019, his channel was its eighth most viewed.\n\nThe Australian joined YouTube five years ago but saw his subscriber count soar in 2018, when he started making videos of himself playing Fortnite: Battle Royale.\n\nAmerican Valkyrae had nearly one million followers on Twitch, where she was also best known for playing Fortnite.\n\nRachell Hofstetter says she wants to expand the type of content she makes\n\nShe said she now planned to \"venture into other areas of content and grow my brand even further\".\n\nMuselk, another Australian, began making gaming videos while studying for a law degree.\n\nHe has eight million YouTube subscribers and is co-owner of Click Management - a talent agency for digital game creators.\n\n\"Live-streaming is an incredible opportunity to both grow my channel as well as have even more meaningful interactions with my audience,\" he said.", "Huawei's main UK office is in Reading, west of London\n\nThe US has warned the British government it \"would be madness\" to use Huawei technology in the UK's 5G network.\n\nA US delegation presented the UK with new evidence claiming to show security risks posed by using the Chinese firm.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has sought to pressure Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the issue.\n\nA decision is expected this month on whether to allow Huawei to supply some \"non-core\" parts for the UK network.\n\nA US delegation led by deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger met ministers in London on Monday.\n\nSenior US officials handed over a dossier of technical information which sources claim challenged British intelligence's own technical assessment that it would be possible to use Huawei in the 5G infrastructure without risks to national security.\n\nUS sources refused to comment on the content of the file.\n\nThe move is being seen as the latest round in an intense lobbying effort by the Trump administration as the UK government prepares to makes its decision on the 5G network.\n\nLast year, the US banned companies from selling components and technology to Huawei and 68 related companies, citing national security concerns.\n\nThe US has previously warned that any use of Huawei would lead to a review of intelligence sharing.\n\nHowever, UK officials have suggested they are not worried that such a review would lead to any substantive change in behaviour.\n\nThe head of MI5, Andrew Parker, told the Financial Times he has \"no reason to think\" the UK's intelligence-sharing relationship with the US would be adversely affected if Britain used Huawei technology.\n\nA Huawei spokesperson said: \"We are a private company which has supplied 3G, 4G and broadband equipment to the UK's telecoms companies for 15 years. British experts are clear our technology does not pose a security risk.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative MP Bob Seely has said Huawei \"to all intents and purposes is part of the Chinese state\" and a deal with the tech giant would allow Beijing to access the UK's network.\n\nHe called on Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee to open an immediate investigation into the company's suitability to build parts of the UK's 5G infrastructure.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The security and resilience of the UK's telecoms networks is of paramount importance.\"\n\n\"The government continues to consider its position on high risk vendors and a decision will be made in due course.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBarcelona have sacked coach Ernesto Valverde and replaced him with former Real Betis coach Quique Setien.\n\nValverde, 55, helped the club to two successive La Liga titles and they lead on goal difference this season.\n\nHowever, the Catalan side have produced a series of unconvincing displays under his leadership and have failed to reach the Champions League final.\n\nSetien, 61, led Betis to their highest finish since 2005 and to the Copa del Rey semis before leaving in May.\n\nHe has agreed to a two-and-a-half-year deal and will be presented to the media at 13:30 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, Barca said they had reached an agreement with Valverde to terminate his contract and thanked him \"for his professionalism, his commitment, his dedication and his always positive treatment towards all that make up the Barca family\".\n\nValverde was under pressure towards the end of last season following the ignominious Champions League semi-final defeat by Liverpool, having led 3-0 after the first leg, and the Copa del Rey final loss to Valencia.\n\nThe defeat by the Reds particularly rankled, because it was reminiscent of the collapse at the hands of Roma in the competition the previous season and suggested he had failed to correct a weaknesses in his team.\n\nValverde did guide the Catalans to the top of the table at the halfway stage of this season, but the fluid displays that fans had become accustomed to during the past 15 years were only sporadic.\n\nTheir away form was especially disappointing with losses at Athletic Bilbao, Granada and Levante plus draws at Osasuna, Real Sociedad and Espanyol.\n\nSetien arrives at the Nou Camp as a highly-regarded coach.\n\nAfter managing lower-league sides, he led Las Palmas to 11th in La Liga - their best finish for 40 years - and enjoyed further success at Betis, where in his first season he led them to sixth place and qualification for the Europa League.\n\nBetis also secured wins over Barca, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid during his two-year tenure. He left the Seville outfit by mutual consent in the summer.\n\nFormer Barcelona midfielder Xavi had been strongly linked with the head coach's role. He confirmed media reports that he spoke to the club's sporting director Eric Abidal and chief executive Oscar Grau over the weekend, before he reportedly rejected the club's offer, .\n\nOther names to have been linked with the club included former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino, who managed rivals Espanyol, and current B team manager Xavi Garcia Pimienta.\n\nThe most surprising thing about Ernesto Valverde being fired by Barcelona is that it took so long to happen.\n\nEver since that earth-shattering night at Anfield in May, Valverde never really looked capable of turning around the team's pretty aimless path.\n\nNow that task will fall to former Las Palmas and Real Betis manager Quique Setien, who will be fervently focused on restoring the team's famed fast-paced, high-pressing, incisive-passing style, which had been slowly eroded by the more pragmatic Valverde.\n\nSetien - whose stubborn nature makes him a divisive figure across Spain - is a devout disciple of Cruyffian football, and from now on it is certain that Barca will once again play 'Barca' football.\n\nWhether they can play it well, though, is another matter - the ageing legs of Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba may struggle to maintain the physical intensity required to make that approach successful, and the coming months will be fascinating test of whether a high-minded football philosophy can still deliver results.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Alina Jenkins looks at the forecast for Storm Brendan\n\nStorm Brendan has hit the UK, bringing rain and gusts of more than 80mph to parts of the country.\n\nThe Met Office issued a 14-hour yellow warning for wind, covering Northern Ireland, the west coasts of England, Wales and Scotland, south-west England and north-east Scotland.\n\nSeven flights due to land at Gatwick were diverted to other UK airports on Monday evening.\n\nTrains and ferry services have also been delayed or cancelled.\n\nGatwick Airport said two Wizz Air flights, four easyJet services and one Norwegian Air flight were diverted, amid gusts of 40mph.\n\nMeanwhile, an easyJet flight from Edinburgh landed at Birmingham.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, thousands of homes have lost power and roads have been shut.\n\nIn Scotland, ferry routes covering much of the west coast as well as the Northern Isles were cancelled or disrupted.\n\nIn Wales, more than 1,000 properties were left without power, and a school was closed due to a power failure after a tree fell on power lines and also hit a car at Bontnewydd, Gwynedd.\n\nThe driver of the bin lorry was treated by medical staff following the incident in Onchan\n\nThe effects of the storm could be seen in Bontnewydd, Gwynedd\n\nAnd in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, large waves crashed against the coast\n\nIn England, South Western Railway said all lines were blocked due to a fallen tree blocking the railway between Yeovil Junction and Exeter St Davids. Disruption is expected until 20:00, said SWR.\n\nTravellers on the Great Western Railway line between Plymouth and Penzance were also warned of delays because of a speed restriction due to high winds.\n\nAll Skybus flights between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were cancelled on Monday, with a warning that gale-force winds could see more disruption on Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday morning rush hour, trains running through Preston station were suspended after the roof was damaged. Services were later returning to normal, Northern Rail said. The wind warning lasts until midnight, with turbulent weather set to continue into the evening and heavy rain sweeping eastwards.\n\nThe Met Office's yellow weather warning for wind - meaning travel disruption is likely - is in place until midnight.\n\nIt covers Northern Ireland, Wales, the South West and the west coasts of England and Scotland, as well as north-east Scotland.\n\nIt warned people should expect travel delays, large waves along coastal roads and sea fronts and power cuts.\n\nA gust of 87.5mph was recorded on South Uist in the outer Hebrides, while a 76mph gust hit Capel Curig in Wales. and in Northern Ireland the highest gust was 63mph at Magilligan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from Bel Hawson shows waves crashing onto the A83 in Ardrishaig as cars drive along\n\nWaves crash against the promenade at Blackpool\n\nMeanwhile, across the Irish Sea at Warrenpoint, County Down, waves send spray into the traffic\n\nNorthern Ireland was among the first parts of the UK to be battered by the storm.\n\nAbout 2,000 customers remain without electricity and power has been restored to 6,400 Northern Ireland Electricity users, after damage to the network.\n\nRoads have been closed including a stretch of the Belfast Road in Carrickfergus after part of the sea wall has collapsed.\n\nAt Belfast International Airport - where there was some disruption to flights - passengers were stuck on one plane for two hours after wind speeds were too high to disembark.\n\nBBC presenter Holly Hamilton, who was on board, said: \"The captain announced we would be unable to disembark as the wind speed was at 46 knots and it needed to be a maximum of 40 to allow the steps to be brought out to allow passengers off.\n\nThe captain invited the children to the cockpit to keep them entertained, said Holly Hamilton\n\n\"Everyone understood why it was necessary as the plane itself was swaying from side to side when we weren't even in motion.\n\n\"Most people were just relieved we'd landed safely as it was a pretty choppy landing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kevin Scott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe yellow weather warning is in place until midnight\n\nWaves have been crashing onto the shoreline in Troon in South Ayrshire\n\nThe lighthouse at Port Ellen in Islay received a battering\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) issued 28 flood warnings and 16 flood alerts around the country.\n\n\"Combined with naturally high tides next week, the sustained winds will create an unusual and dangerous combination of tide, storm surge and inshore waves,\" said Sepa.\n\nAnd there are eight flood warnings for England.\n\nOn the Isle of Man, roads were closed, winds brought down trees, and flights and ferries were cancelled.\n\nAnd a bin lorry was blown over, with the driver needing medical treatment.\n\nThree more yellow weather warnings are in place for Tuesday - including one for wind across England and Wales from 12:00 GMT until midnight and another for snow and ice in northern Scotland.\n\nThe third warning, for heavy rain, covers south-east England from 13:00 on Tuesday until 9:00 on Wednesday.\n\nStorm Brendan's name was picked by the Irish meteorological service Met Éireann.\n\nIn December, Storm Atiyah swept into the UK, leading to power cuts and travel disruption in Wales and the South West.\n\nThis year's storm names have already been chosen with Ciara the name for the next storm.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Brendan? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Takieddine Boudhane worked as a delivery driver for companies Deliveroo and Uber Eats\n\nThe killer of a fast food delivery rider who was fatally stabbed in a suspected road rage attack may have fled the country, police said.\n\nDeliveroo and Uber Eats employee Takieddine Boudhane, 30, was attacked on his moped in Finsbury Park, north London, on 3 January.\n\n\"There is information to suggest that the suspect travelled by plane to Austria on the morning following the incident,\" the Met Police said.\n\nNo arrests have yet been made.\n\nA force spokesman said although detectives were working with \"international law enforcement bodies\" they were still keen to hear from anyone who was in the Charteris Road area when Mr Boudhane was killed.\n\nA white van, which officers believe was been driven by the attacker, was found in Islington two days after the stabbing.\n\nThe victim's brother, Islam Boudhane, was at the scene as paramedics tried to save his life.\n\n\"When I got there I saw my brother lying on the floor, blood everywhere... trying to bring him back to life,\" he said.\n\n\"One [paramedic] was giving him blood, one was massaging his heart to bring him back but he was gone.\"\n\nIslam Boudhane, his mother and other family members visited the scene of Mr Boudhane's death on 7 January.\n\nIslam Boudhane was at the scene as paramedics tried to save his brother's life\n\nThe 30-year-old's mother, Saida Boudhane, said: \"He's doing an honourable job and it's not a job that's meant to be dangerous.\"\n\nMr Boudhane, an Algerian national, had been living in the UK for about three years, police said.\n\nA JustGiving page set up to raise money to repatriate his body has raised £10,000.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US air base Al Asad in Iraq was targeted by Iran in response to the death of Qasem Soleimani, the top Iranian military commander, who was killed in a US air strike.\n\nBBC Persian correspondent Nafiseh Kohnavard was allowed inside the high security base to see the damage and speak to soldiers who survived the attack.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thames Valley Police said no-one was believed to be injured\n\nA large section of a roof was blown off a block of flats in Slough as wind continued to hit the UK.\n\nThe roof is strewn across the high street and people have been warned to avoid the area.\n\nThe road is closed and emergency services are at the scene, though Thames Valley Police said no-one was believed to be injured.\n\nA taxi driver who narrowly missed being hit by the debris said it was \"a miracle no-one was killed\".\n\nThe UK has seen gusts of more than 80mph following Storm Brendan on Monday, with the Met Office issuing a number of weather warnings.\n\nThe roof is strewn across the high street in Slough\n\nTaxi driver Haris Baig, 30, from Slough, said his car was only metres away from being hit by the falling roof.\n\n\"At first I thought it was scaffolding, but then I realised the whole roof had come down,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a massive amount of noise.\n\n\"I was about 15 metres away and slammed on my brakes. I got out to see if everyone was alright.\n\n\"That was my first reaction, but at the same time I was thinking is this even safe?\"\n\n\"It was a disaster. It was a miracle no-one was killed,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SCAS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSebastian Rejnisz, 44, who lives in the building, said: \"I was moving my car out the back at the time when I heard a boom. I just thought it was the bins.\n\n\"I then went in and opened the front door and saw the roof was on the street.\n\n\"Everyone was just running around.\"\n\nA large police cordon is in place and part of the metal roof has been left pushed up against the side of the building.\n\nHousing provider Paradigm said it was \"aware of an incident\" affecting one of its properties, and that staff were \"working with the emergency services and supporting residents\".\n\nSlough MP Tan Dhesi called it a \"major incident\" and asked people to \"stay away\".\n\nSlough Borough Council said it had specialist officers on the scene and that there was heavy congestion in the area.\n\nA spokesman for Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service said three fire engines were at the scene and that it was not \"not aware of anyone trapped\" under the roof.\n\n\"The roof has come off in the wind. The current situation is trying to make the scene safe,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the fire service was not \"100% sure\" if anyone was still in the damaged building.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, Thames Valley Police said officers did not believe anyone had been seriously injured and thanked those affected for their patience.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Thames Valley Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Javed says the attack has ruined his life\n\nA Glasgow taxi driver has told how he thought he was going to die when two men attacked him over a £20 cab fare.\n\nSajid Javed was stabbed by Gordon McPherson, 21, and repeatedly punched by Dylan Sullivan, 20, near his home in Govan last August.\n\nThe 36-year-old's ear was sliced in two in the attack, which came after he requested his fare upfront in the early hours of the morning.\n\nThe pair have now been jailed for the \"vicious and sustained\" attack.\n\nSheriff Ian Fleming sentenced McPherson to 32 months in prison and jailed Sullivan for 10 months.\n\nMr Javed, who has been left with hearing problems and damaged eyesight, told BBC Scotland his life had been left in tatters.\n\nMr Javed needed 43 stitches for his injuries after the attack\n\nThe father-of-three, is still visibly shaken when he recalls what happened.\n\n\"The two men asked to go to Scotstoun then return,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't know the procedure but one of my friends told me on the phone I needed to get money upfront.\n\n\"I told him he could give me £20. He said that was a bit high, that the fare should be £8. The other guy punched on my window.\n\n\"I said if they had a problem with the fare they should call another taxi. As I drove away they smashed my window.\"\n\nWhen Mr Javed got out of his car to see what had happened, he was attacked.\n\n\"I saw they had a knife. I tried to run to my house but they both came to me.\n\n\"I thought it would be better to get in the car and drive, so I pushed them and got into my car. When I got home I saw my wife so I got out the car but then I fell down, everything was black.\n\n\"I thought I was gone. I was thinking I was going to die.\"\n\nThe cut which sliced his ear in two is now healed but the damage still causes pain for Mr Javed\n\nMr Javed's ear was sliced in two and he was cut on his back and hands. He has been left with hearing problems in his left ear, damaged eyesight and pain. He says he needs sleeping aids and depression medication.\n\nHe said: \"Everything has changed. I won't go out alone. I think if they realised that they wouldn't have done it.\n\n\"I have depression and nightmares and I wake up.\"\n\nHis wife, Shazia Shehzadi, 36, said had also been severely affected by the attack.\n\nShe said: \"It has been three or four months but it has been very distressing for us, especially my husband.\n\n\"All family members are on sleeping medication and antidepressants and referred for counselling, having bad dreams. Our parents are very upset.\n\n\"Whenever I open my door I see it all in front of my eyes. I fear people will follow me, stab me. The kids have these dreams.\n\n\"We can't forget this for the whole of our lives. They just did that and we will suffer for the whole of our lives. That's unacceptable.\"\n\nShazia Shehzadi says she forgives the men who caused so much harm to her family but she will never forget what happened\n\nHowever, she said she had forgiven McPherson and Sullivan for the attack.\n\n\"They should realise what they did,\" she said. \"There are families and generations who suffer this and they can't forget this for the whole of their lives. They admitted their guilt but they don't get strict punishments.\n\n\"I forgive them as a human being, as a Muslim, as a wife - but they should learn a lesson from this about how we will come out of the situation.\"\n\nMr Javed fears he will never be able to return to his full-time taxi driving job but he has begun to work on some school runs.\n\nHe is now campaigning for better safety and stricter laws to protect those working in the taxi trade and on other public transport.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sinkhole opened up at a bus stop in Xining, north west China\n\nAt least six people have been killed and 16 injured after an enormous sinkhole swallowed a bus and a number of pedestrians in central China.\n\nThe incident occurred on Monday evening outside a hospital in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province.\n\nCCTV footage showed an explosion inside the sinkhole shortly after the bus and bystanders fell inside on Monday evening.\n\nSeveral deadly sinkholes have been reported in China in recent years.\n\nThe footage from the latest incident shows the moment people waiting at a bus stop are forced to flee as the ground underneath the bus starts to cave in.\n\nA number of people gather to try to rescue the bus passengers, but are engulfed by the sinkhole as it suddenly widens.\n\nAccording to state media, the sinkhole stretched nearly 10m (32 feet) in diameter.\n\nIt is unclear how many people were inside the bus at the time of the incident.\n\nAccording to state media, the sinkhole stretched nearly 10m (32 feet) in diameter\n\nSinkholes in China are often blamed on construction works and the rapid pace of development in the country.\n\nIn 2018, four people were killed after a sinkhole opened up on a busy pavement in the city of Dazhou, south-west China.\n\nIn 2013, a similar incident killed five people at an industrial estate in the southern city of Shenzhen.", "A university is to hire 20 of its own students to challenge language on campus that could be seen as racist.\n\nThe University of Sheffield is to pay students to tackle so-called \"microaggressions\" - which it describes as \"subtle but offensive comments\".\n\nThey will be trained to \"lead healthy conversations\" about preventing racism on campus and in student accommodation.\n\nVice-chancellor Koen Lamberts said the initiative wanted to \"change the way people think about racism\".\n\nThe students will be paid £9.34 per hour as \"race equality champions\", working between two and nine hours per week to tackle \"microaggressions\" in the university.\n\nThese are described as comments or actions which might be unintentional, but which can cause offence to a minority group.\n\nIt gives examples of what it means by microaggression - such as:\n\nRather than being about controlling people's speech, the university says it is \"opening up a conversation\".\n\nIt says the equality roles are being created in response to demand from students, training them how \"to help their peers understand racism and its impact\".\n\n\"We think it's important to be open and honest about racism,\" said Prof Lamberts.\n\nA report last autumn from the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned that racism was a \"common occurrence\" for some students, with incidents of name-calling, physical attacks and racist material on campus.\n\nThe equality watchdog said that universities did not want to face up to the scale of the problem because of fears it could harm their reputations.", "One in five adults in England and Wales experienced abuse before they were 16 years old, according to a report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe research studies emotional, physical and sexual abuse from threats and belittlement to beatings and rape.\n\nThe ONS estimates that 8.5 million people aged between 18 and 74 were abused or witnessed abuse as children.\n\nAround 14% of adults who called one charity helpline last year had not told anyone before.\n\nThe research was compiled using data from the Department for Education, the Welsh Government, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac), which runs the helpline.\n\nIt aims to provide a better understanding of the scale and nature of the abuse of children.\n\nThere is no single definition of child abuse, and the report includes a variety of offences or negative experiences.\n\nIt includes sexual abuse, such as rape and other assaults like indecent exposure; physical abuse, such as throwing objects and smacking; and emotional abuse, including behaviour that suggests a child is not loved.\n\nThe report also takes into consideration people who witnessed as children any of those forms of abuse.\n\nIt shows that at the end of March last year, more than 54,000 children were in the care of local authorities in England and Wales because they had experienced or were at risk of abuse.\n\nIn the year leading up to March 2019, Childline delivered 19,847 counselling sessions to children in the UK where abuse was the main concern.\n\nThat is a slight fall from the previous year, when 22,133 counselling sessions were given for this reason.\n\nWhat's most significant about today's research is that it suggests 8.5 million people have not only experienced abuse, but could be living with the life-long effects of having experienced it.\n\nSexual abuse, in particular, can have an impact throughout adulthood - resulting in failed relationships, involvement in crime, depression and suicide.\n\nAny one of the victims may need help later in life, and experts working in the field increasingly talk about the need for what they call \"trauma-informed\" support.\n\nIn other words: help for adults that takes into account the experiences they had as children.\n\nAs for preventing the abuse of children, this research could add to the pressure for so-called mandatory reporting, making it a legal duty for people working with children to report evidence of abuse.\n\nThe ongoing public inquiry into child sexual abuse looks increasingly likely to support it.\n\nThe findings on adults experiencing abuse as children were compiled using data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).\n\nHowever, the CSEW underestimates the total number of adults who were abused as children because it does not count abuse against 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\nThe ONS report also found that half of adults (52%) who experienced abuse as children also experienced domestic abuse later on. Of those who did not experience abuse as children, the figure was 13%.\n\nAlexa Bradley, from the ONS Centre for Crime and Justice, said: \"Child abuse is an appalling crime against some of the most vulnerable in society, but it is also something that is little discussed or understood.\n\n\"Today's release is ONS's first attempt to fill an important evidence gap on this critical issue.\"\n\nNSPCC spokesman Andrew Fellowes said the report shows how the \"devastating effects\" of child abuse can impact victims in adulthood, but said that it is still not clear how many children \"are suffering right now\".\n\n\"It's crucial government conducts a prevalence study so we get a true picture of the scale of abuse in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"Only then will we know what services are needed to protect and support abused young people.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by these issues, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline", "The government has agreed a rescue plan for troubled regional airline Flybe.\n\nMinisters agreed to work with Flybe to figure out a repayment plan for a significant tax debt that is thought to top £100m.\n\nMeanwhile, the firm's owners have agreed to pump more money into the loss-making airline.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the deal would keep the company operating.\n\nThat will be a relief to many of the eight million passengers who fly with the airline each year.\n\nHowever, the chief executive of the owner of British Airways has attacked the move as a misuse of public funds.\n\nIn a letter to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, a copy of which has been seen by the BBC, Willie Walsh questioned why the taxpayer is picking up the tab for the airline's mismanagement.\n\nHe pointed out that one of Flybe's biggest shareholders Virgin Atlantic, is part owned by the US's Delta, one of the world's largest and most profitable airlines.\n\nFlybe services dozens of UK domestic routes that are not flown by other airlines, making it the largest carrier to fly out of some regional airports, like Newquay.\n\n\"Flybe plays a critical and unique role in the UK aviation system, supporting the development of the regions, providing essential connectivity to businesses and stimulating the growth in trade,\" the boss of the Airport Operators Association, Karen Dee, said in a statement welcoming the rescue deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs part of the agreement, Flybe's shareholders, which include Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group, have agreed to put more money into the business.\n\nThe government has promised to review the £26 air passenger duty that is levied on domestic UK return fights, which has added to the airline's losses.\n\n\"Delighted that we have reached agreement with Flybe's shareholders to keep the company operating, ensuring that UK regions remain connected,\" Ms Leadsom tweeted.\n\n\"This will be welcome news for Flybe's staff, customers and creditors and we will continue the hard work to ensure a sustainable future.\"\n\nLucien Farrell, the chairman of Connect Airways - which owns Flybe - said the group had agreed to \"keep Flybe flying with additional funding alongside government initiatives\".\n\n\"We are very encouraged with recent developments, especially the government's recognition of the importance of Flybe to communities and businesses across the UK and the desire to strengthen regional connectivity,\" he said.\n\nThe transport secretary said the government had worked closely with Flybe to ensure its planes were able to continue flying.\n\nMr Shapps said the Department for Transport would conduct an urgent review that will seek to assess how it can improve regional connectivity and ensure airports continue to function across the country.\n\nBut the prospect of cutting taxes on flying has angered climate activists who argue that it is the most carbon intensive mode of transport.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas said reducing air passenger duty was \"utterly inconsistent with any serious commitment\" to tackle climate change.\n\n\"Domestic flights need to be reduced, not made cheaper,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nBut the government has said the review of the tax will be consistent with its zero carbon targets.\n\n\"This is good news for 2,400 Flybe staff whose jobs are secured and regional communities who would have lost their air connectivity without Flybe,\" general secretary, Brian Strutton said in a statement.\n\nFlybe, which flies to 170 different destinations, has been struggling under the weight of an estimated £106m bill for air passenger duty as well as a slowdown in demand that has hurt the airline's finances.\n\nThe carrier's boss, Mark Anderson, said: \"This is a positive outcome for the UK and will allow us to focus on delivering for our customers and planning for the future.\n\n\"Flybe is made up of an incredible team of people, serving millions of loyal customers who rely on the vital regional connectivity that we provide.\"\n• None 'I would be devastated if Flybe went under'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amy Watkins says the centre's location puts her safety at risk due to a narrow path\n\nDisabled people are risking their safety when attending Wales' health assessment centres due to their poor locations, a woman has said.\n\nAmy Watkins, 31, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, uses a wheelchair and said the sites of some centres were \"hard to believe\".\n\nCampaigners said some disabled people have missed out on thousands of pounds worth of benefits due to the issue.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said people can request a home visit or recover transport costs.\n\nAssessments carried out at the centres determine whether people with disabilities and chronic illnesses are eligible for benefits.\n\nA campaign group, the Disability Advice Project, criticised the location of centres in Pontypridd, Bridgend, Cardiff and Swansea, and also has concerns across the rest of Wales.\n\nIt said some disabled people may have missed out on benefits as it is \"virtually impossible\" for some people to access centres.\n\nAt the Pontypridd centre, the group said the closest car park to the health assessment centre had no pedestrian access and routes in and out of the building were too steep for wheelchair users or people with impaired mobility.\n\nMs Watkins said: \"I wouldn't put myself at risk, I would request another location or home visit because I don't think it would be fair to put myself through the stress and anxiety of having to get to a building which I don't know is accessible.\"\n\nThe health assessment centre in Swansea is on the fourth floor of a building\n\nSome of the routes to assessment centres also open out on to main roads with no protective barriers, as well as having poor signage, uncontrolled road crossings and a lack of dropped kerbs.\n\nTony Crowhurst, from the Disability Advice Project, said the centres should be based in \"out of town locations with good public transport\".\n\nHe said he was advised to park illegally by one centre employee, adding: \"At the Pontypridd assessment centre we were told it would be alright to park in the bus lane, and dismount wheelchair users from that point.\n\n\"At Bridgend we were told it would be okay for us to park in the vehicle test centre, without asking any permission from anybody else, the alternative to that was a quarter of a mile walk,\" he said.\n\n\"They weren't understanding the needs of disabled people, they were telling us on the one hand to go to a car park that is virtually inaccessible, and on the other hand, to break the law.\"\n\nAt the Bridgend centre, campaigners have said the car park is too far away from the centre, the road is too steep for people with impaired mobility and there is an \"extremely short\" four-second pedestrian crossing time at traffic lights near the centre.\n\nThe group said the ramps to the centre \"exceed the recommended lengths of slopes that are accessible by independent wheelchair users\" and there was no \"rest\" area on the ramps.\n\nThe group also said the Swansea centre, which is on the fourth floor of a building, should not be used as a wheelchair user could become stuck if the lift fails.\n\nNone of the centres in Wales have advice about how disabled people can reach them, despite many of their visitors having disabilities, chronic illnesses or health issues, they said.\n\nThe DWP said it made decisions on paper evidence whenever it could do so, and took individual needs into consideration when arranging appointments.\n\n\"Claimants can recover the cost of transport to their appointment but if anyone is unable to travel to an assessment centre, they can request a home visit,\" a spokesman said.\n\nHowever some people have found it difficult to get home appointments.\n\nPauline Jones, director of the Disability Advice Project, said disabled people were missing out on benefits because they were unable to make appointments.\n\nShe said: \"We've had many people who've lost benefits as a result of not being able to attend.\n\n\"The largest one we've had as a back payment is £15,000. She went almost a year without money, the problem is during that time she had no money, she had bailiffs, she just about managed to hang on to her property, so is in quite severe financial difficulty.\"", "The Queen has issued a statement following talks held between senior members of the Royal Family on Monday. The so-called Sandringham summit was called to discuss a new role for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nHere is her statement in full:\n\n\"Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family.\n\n\"My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan's desire to create a new life as a young family. Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.\n\n\"Harry and Meghan have made clear that they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives.\n\n\"It has therefore been agreed that there will be a period of transition in which the Sussexes will spend time in Canada and the UK.\n\n\"These are complex matters for my family to resolve, and there is some more work to be done, but I have asked for final decisions to be reached in the coming days.\"", "James Murdoch (at right) sits on the News Corp board but his brother Lachlan (left) has a bigger role in the family business\n\nRupert Murdoch's son James has said he is \"disappointed\" with the ongoing \"denial\" in his father's news outlets as Australia's wildfires burn.\n\nJames and his wife Kathryn Murdoch told The Daily Beast of their frustration with News Corp and Fox coverage of the climate issue.\n\nMurdoch columnists have described linking the fires to climate change as \"hysterical\" and \"silly\".\n\nRupert Murdoch has described himself as a climate sceptic.\n\nBut critics of News Corp have pointed to its comment articles and reporting of the alleged role of arson in the wildfires as minimising the impact of a changing climate.\n\nMurdoch-owned titles account for about 70% of newspaper circulation in Australia's major cities.\n\nLast week a News Corp employee in Australia lashed out at the company's \"irresponsible\" coverage of the bushfire crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Social media claims that arson was a significant factor in the fires have proved inaccurate\n\nOn Monday News Corp announced it was donating A$5m (£2.7m; $3.5m) to bushfire relief. The pledge is in addition to donations from members of the Murdoch family personally.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nJames Murdoch remains on the board of News Corp but is not otherwise employed by his father's businesses. He runs a private investment company.\n\nOn Monday Kathryn Murdoch, a longstanding environmental advocate, tweeted a link to an article on Vice which criticised the Murdoch outlets for attempting to blame arsonists for the fires.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kathryn Murdoch This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Jerome Flynn appeared as soldier Bronn in Game of Thrones\n\nActor Jerome Flynn says people in a village have been \"gazumped\" by a council over farmland.\n\nLocals near Solva want to buy Trecadwgan Farm from Pembrokeshire council for community farming.\n\nHowever, after initially agreeing a price, the local authority said a higher bid for the land was made.\n\nGame of Thrones star Flynn, who lives nearby, said locals' plans could create a template for the whole of the UK to follow.\n\n\"It's important for all our local communities that we start to bring food production back to the community,\" he told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It is clear from the situation we have created for ourselves on the planet, we are facing a crisis.\n\n\"One large part is where is our food coming from?\"\n\nThe land at Trecadwgan has been farmed since the 11th century and was bought by Pembrokeshire council after World War One.\n\nSince then it has offered tenancies to young farmers, with some families working there for generations.\n\nFlynn takes an active part in the community and joined pupils and staff at Ysgol Dewi Sant in 2014 for a mindfulness session\n\nHowever, last July, the local authority decided to sell the land by public auction, which was when locals came in with a bid.\n\nThey want to turn it into a community hub for ecological farming, crafts and healthy living.\n\n\"It could set a precedent for holistic models for the whole country,\" Flynn added.\n\n\"Most farms around here have become holiday homes.\n\n\"We have to find our food locally - everything comes to our plates very easily. That can change.\"\n\nFlynn said the proposals would help local people stay connected to their food in the way their ancestors were\n\nLocals said they raised £50,000 to have Trecadwgan Farm removed from public auction.\n\nHowever, after their backer pulled out, they found another, with the council formally accepting their bid in December.\n\nDespite this, they said officials contacted them on 7 January saying a higher offer had been made and asked if they would like to make a counter offer.\n\nFlynn added: \"The council is gazumping its own people.\"\n\nCommunity group Cymdeithas Trecadwgan called for the local authority to halt the process so a workable solution can be found.\n\n\"Alongside our backer we have participated in the bidding process in good faith and submitted a strong bid, which was previously accepted,\" said secretary Gareth Chapman.\n\n\"But we both have serious concerns over our continued participation in a flawed process which, could prevent perfectly proceedable, accepted bids made by ourselves or any other bidder, reaching completion.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We are following due process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescue crews found Tyson Steele 23 days after his cabin burned down, killing his dog and leaving him with no shelter.\n\nSteele survived on rationed canned food that had been charred by the fire. He plans to return Alaska to rebuild his home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople may be able to donate money towards the cost of making Big Ben chime when the UK leaves the EU, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe prime minister said getting the famous bell to ring at 23:00 GMT on 31 January would cost £500,000, but some form of crowdfunding might be possible.\n\nBig Ben has only rung on a few occasions since refurbishment of the tower housing it began in 2017.\n\nA bid to get the bell-ringing enshrined in law was dismissed last week.\n\nAn amendment to the PM's Brexit bill, which would have required it to chime on Brexit day, was not selected for a vote in the House of Commons.\n\n\"We're working up a plan so people can bung a bob for a Big Ben bong, because there are some people who want to,\" Mr Johnson told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"Because Big Ben is being refurbished, they seem to have taken the clapper away, so we need to restore the clapper,\" he added.\n\n\"And that is expensive, so we're looking at whether the public can fund it.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was not a \"specific government fund\" to meet the costs, but added: \"If the public wants Big Ben to bong and the money is raised, then that is great.\n\n\"We will make sure that - whatever happens in regard to Big Ben's bongs - January 31 is properly marked. It is a significant moment in our history.\"\n\nThe House of Commons Commission, which manages the parliamentary estate, said the extra spending could not be justified, but it would listen to MPs on the matter.\n\nThe body heard that for the bells to chime, a temporary mechanism used on Remembrance Sunday and New Year's Eve would have to be restored to the Palace of Westminster's Elizabeth Tower, and a temporary floor of the belfry installed.\n\nCosts for this work, alongside testing and ringing the bell, were estimated at approximately £120,000. In addition, existing restoration works would be delayed by two to four weeks, at a cost of £100,000 per week.\n\nAuthorities said the £320,000 minimum cost could therefore rise to £500,000 - the figure cited by the PM.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission's estimate is made up of two separate costs - bringing back the bonging mechanism and installing a temporary floor, and the cost of delaying the conservation work.\n\nOn the former, the commission says the floor in the belfry has been removed - work that began on 2 January in order not to interfere with New Year's Eve.\n\nThe reconstruction work on the floor is likely to be significant, involving resurfacing and waterproofing.\n\nThe Commons has ruled out getting this done by 31 January, which is why a temporary floor would need to be installed and then removed - at a significant cost.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said: \"The Commission believes it is important to weigh up the costs this would involve if Big Ben is to chime on 31 January.\n\n\"You are talking about £50,000 a bong. We also have to bear in mind that the only people who will hear it will be those who live near or are visiting Westminster.\"\n\nHowever, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage questioned the £500,000 figure, and accused the commission of \"obstruction\".\n\nIn an article for the Telegraph, he wrote: \"It tolled on New Year's Eve, on Remembrance Sunday and on Armistice Day.\n\n\"Did this cost £500,000 on each occasion? I would love to know the answer.\"\n\nRestoration works on Elizabeth Tower, housing Big Ben, are due to finish in 2021\n\nClock restoration expert Paul Kembery said a temporary platform and electric motor had been used to chime the bell on Remembrance Sunday and New Year's Eve.\n\nBut he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that with only just over two weeks to go, there was probably not enough time to put both back in, even if the public raised the required funds.\n\nBrexiteer Mark Francois, one of the Tory MPs behind the bid to legislate for the Brexit day bongs, has said it would be \"inconceivable\" if Big Ben did not sound to mark the occasion.\n\n\"As we leave at a precise specified time, those who wish to celebrate will need to look to a clock to mark the moment,\" he added.\n\nBut Labour MP David Lammy said £500,000 was a \"huge amount of money to waste on jingoism\".\n\n\"I am not fussed about whether Big Ben bongs on Brexit day [...] what I care about is the £130bn and counting that leaving the EU has already cost,\" he tweeted.\n• None What happens after Brexit?", "The Old College was designed in the 18th Century and built in the 1860s\n\nA Grade I listed university building has received £10m of National Lottery funding to help pay for its 150th anniversary revamp.\n\nOld College in Aberystwyth is undergoing a £27m revamp ahead of the university's celebrations in 2022/23.\n\nIt is expected to house new science exhibitions, with interactive displays and items usually kept in storage.\n\nIt is hoped the project will attract 190,000 tourists to the town and create 50 new jobs.\n\nThe King Street entrance will be given a makeover as part of the project\n\nOld College, on the town's seafront, opened its doors to students for the first time in 1872 but became largely redundant when the university moved to a purpose-built campus in the 1960s.\n\nBaroness Kay Andrews, of the National Lottery Heritage Fund in Wales, said the building was about to embark on a \"new lease of life\".\n\n\"It will be a place which will welcome volunteers and visitors, the curious, the creative, and the entrepreneurs of all ages and the National Lottery Heritage Fund is proud to be part of that renaissance,\" she said.\n\nA new function room will look out over Cardigan Bay\n\nProfessor Elizabeth Treasure, vice-chancellor of Aberystwyth University, said: \"The Old College project will restore and re-purpose for future generations one of the nation's most important historic buildings and create a major centre for culture, learning and enterprise.\n\n\"But on a local level it will see one of our most loved landmarks regain its rightful place as a focus for community activity and a practical day to day working space.\"\n\nThe project has also received £3m from the Welsh Government and £3m from the European Regional Development Fund.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Billie Eilish was four years old when Daniel Craig first played James Bond in Casino Royale\n\nPop star Billie Eilish has recorded the title track for the new James Bond film, No Time To Die.\n\nThe US singer, who turned 18 last month, is the youngest artist in history to write and record a theme for the franchise.\n\n\"It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way,\" said the star, who called the assignment \"a huge honour\".\n\n\"James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I'm still in shock.\"\n\nThe last two Bond themes, Adele's Skyfall and Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall (from Spectre), have both won an Oscar.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Bond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEilish's take on the oeuvre was composed with her brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom she created her Grammy-nominated debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? last year.\n\n\"Writing the theme song for a Bond film is something we've been dreaming about doing our entire lives,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no more iconic pairing of music and cinema than the likes of Goldfinger and Live And Let Die. We feel so so lucky to play a small role in such a legendary franchise. Long live 007.\"\n\nThe Bond song is usually released in the month leading up to the film's premiere - No Time to Die will make its debut in cinemas on 3 April.\n\nBond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli described Eilish's song as \"incredibly powerful and moving\", adding it had been \"impeccably crafted to work within the emotional story of the film\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe film's director, Cary Joji Fukunaga, said: \"There are a chosen few who record a Bond theme. I am a huge fan of Billie and Finneas. Their creative integrity and talent are second to none and I cannot wait for audiences to hear what they've brought - a fresh new perspective whose vocals will echo for generations to come.\"\n\nNo Time To Die will mark Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond; and opens with the spy retired and enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. Needless to say, his reverie doesn't last for long.\n\nSeveral artists were thought to be in the frame for recording the title song, including Dua Lipa and Beyoncé - who sparked rumours after posing with a glass of vodka martini (shaken not stirred) on social media last week.\n\nEilish also dropped hints on her Instagram, sharing a series of images from Bond movies over the last 24 hours. Fans also noticed that Fukunaga had subscribed to her feed - making her one of just 81 people he follows on the platform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe US singer, who is known for her gothic aesthetic and whispery vocals, became one of last year's biggest break-out stars thanks to songs like Bad Guy and Bury A Friend.\n\nHer star rose so rapidly that she had to be upgraded to Glastonbury's second-biggest stage in June, after initially being booked to play in the smaller John Peel tent.\n\nEilish now joins the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Shirley Bassey, Duran Duran and Madonna in being asked to record the Bond theme.\n\nPreviously, Sheena Easton was the youngest artist to sing over the opening titles. The Scottish singer was 22 years old when she recorded For Your Eyes Only in 1981.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None What we learned from the first James Bond trailer", "The US has reversed its decision to brand China a currency manipulator as the two countries prepare to wind down their trade war.\n\nThe US said it made the change because China had agreed to refrain from devaluing its currency to make its own goods cheaper for foreign buyers.\n\nWashington and Beijing are expected to sign that \"phase one\" pact this week.\n\nThe deal is aimed at de-escalating the tit-for-tat tariff war the two countries have engaged in since 2018.\n\n\"China has made enforceable commitments to refrain from competitive devaluation, while promoting transparency and accountability,\" US Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has repeatedly accused China of allowing the value of the yuan to fall, making Chinese goods cheaper.\n\nBut, on Monday, the US said that the value of the yuan had appreciated since August, at the height of the trade war.\n\nMr Mnuchin also said that China had made \"enforceable commitments\" to refrain from devaluation and to share more information about its exchange rates.\n\n\"In this context, Treasury has determined that China should no longer be designated as a currency manipulator at this time,\" the Treasury said.\n\nThe US officially named China a currency manipulator in August when tensions were high between Beijing and Washington.\n\nChina had pledged to retaliate against Mr Trump's threat to put a 10% tariff on another $300bn (£246.7bn) of Chinese imports.\n\nAt the time, China blamed the weakening of its currency on the market, suggesting investors were concerned about the escalating trade war between the two countries.\n\nThat was supported by the International Monetary Fund, which found that the currency was valued fairly.\n\nUnder the US definition, currency manipulation is the deliberate effort by a country to influence the exchange rates between its currency and the US dollar to gain an \"unfair competitive advantage in international trade\".\n\nMr Trump, who blames China for a decline in US manufacturing, promised to label China a manipulator during his 2016 election campaign.\n\nBut after he took office, he appeared to soften his tone. The US Treasury did not apply the designation in its regular reports to Congress about currency movements.\n\nTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin eventually made the move, after reported pressure from the president. It was the first time the US had officially branded a country a currency manipulator since 1994.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says he is \"absolutely confident\" the Royal Family is going to \"sort out\" a future role for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nHarry and Meghan want to \"step back\" from being full-time working royals.\n\nMr Johnson told BBC Breakfast: \"I think they'll sort it out all the easier without any commentary from me.\"\n\nIt came as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said further talks were needed over who pays for Prince Harry and Meghan's security.\n\nMr Trudeau said the funding and shape of the couple's plans to relocate to North America are to be discussed.\n\nThe Queen has agreed a \"period of transition\" in which Prince Harry and Meghan will be in Canada and the UK.\n\nShe said she was \"entirely supportive\" of their desire for a new role but \"would have preferred\" them to remain full-time working royals.\n\nIn a statement following talks at Sandringham, the Queen's residence in Norfolk, on Monday involving senior royals, the Queen said she expected final decisions to be made in the coming days.\n\nThe Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry attended the summit. Meghan - who is in Canada - did not participate, according to the Daily Mail and Hello! magazine.\n\nIn his first major TV interview following December's general election, Mr Johnson was asked by BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker what he thought of Prince Harry and Meghan's decision to \"step back as 'senior members of the Royal Family\" and divide their time between the UK and North America.\n\nMr Johnson said that while \"everybody has got an opinion\" on the situation, \"the Royal Family is one of the great, great assets of this country and I'm sure they will sort it out\".\n\nWhen asked about media intrusion and whether there were any colonial undertones in the coverage of Meghan, the PM said: \"I don't think this is helped by running commentary by politicians.\"\n\nAmong the questions being asked about the Sussexes' future is who will fund their security.\n\nMr Trudeau said most Canadians were \"very supportive\" of having royals live there, but there were \"still lots of discussions to have\" over \"how that looks and what kind of costs are involved\".\n\nHe said the federal Canadian government had not been involved \"up until this point\" about what the couple's move to the country would involve.\n\nJustin Trudeau's comments came after the Queen's statement\n\nSpeaking to Global News, a Canadian TV network, he added: \"There are still a lot of decisions to be taken by the Royal Family, by the Sussexes themselves, as to what level of engagement they choose to have.\n\n\"We are obviously supportive of their reflections but have responsibilities in that as well.\"\n\nEarlier the Queen said the talks at Sandringham which also involved the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, had been \"very constructive\".\n\n\"My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan's desire to create a new life as a young family,\" she said.\n\n\"Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.\"\n\nShe said it had been agreed there would be \"a period of transition in which the Sussexes will spend time in Canada and the UK\" after Harry and Meghan \"made clear that they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives\".\n\nThe urgent talks were convened after the Sussexes surprised the rest of the Royal Family last week with their statement.\n\nThey also said they wanted a \"progressive new role\" within the institution, where they would be financially independent.\n\nBoth Prince Harry and Meghan spoke of the difficulties of royal life and media attention in recent months, with the duke saying he feared his wife would fall victim to \"the same powerful forces\" that led to his mother's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things Harry and Meghan did differently\n\nThis is a remarkably candid and informal, almost personal, statement from the Queen.\n\nHer regret over Harry and Meghan's move is obvious - she would have preferred them to stay in their current roles.\n\nBut she also makes clear that they are still royals and that they will be valued in the family as they become a more independent couple.\n\nThere are buckets of questions outstanding - on their future royal role, their relationship with the rest of the Palace, on who will pay what (not, the Queen says, the taxpayer), and on how Harry and Meghan will support themselves.\n\nThere's still a lot to thrash out and to agree on. Not all of it may become public.\n\nAnd it looks like the Queen sees this as a process, not an event. She writes of a transition period when Harry and Meghan divide their time between Canada and the UK.\n\nThe Queen has asked for decisions to be made over the next few days. But those decisions may well be up for review in the coming months and years.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe chances of an American accused of killing motorcyclist Harry Dunn being extradited to the UK are \"very low\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after being hit by a car allegedly driven by suspect Anne Sacoolas, who left the country for the US claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe US had criticised the UK's request to extradite her.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC the move was \"right\" and that the government would \"make every effort that we can\".\n\nHe said: \"I think the chances of America actually responding by sending Anne Sacoolas to this country are very low.\n\n\"That's not what they do. But we will continue to make every effort that we can.\"\n\nThe Home Office submitted a request on Friday to extradite her to the UK.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"I do not know what is in the prime minister's mind in making those comments because the parents and I have not yet had the opportunity to sit down and talk with him but we expect to do so within the next few days.\n\n\"If he is basing those comments on what is currently emanating from Washington he may well be right.\n\n\"However, the extradition request has now been delivered and therefore the legal process has commenced - Mr Johnson's officials have been working extremely hard over the last few months to prepare a thorough and diligent case.\"\n\nMr Seiger said the family's campaign for justice would consider blocking US bases and other measures should the Trump administration refuse to return Mrs Sacoolas to the UK.\n\nHe said: \"If that is what transpires, the campaign will swing into action deploying a number of measures, including blockading the bases, and we will sit down with British officials to discuss what they will do, not only on Harry's family's behalf, but the whole nation's to ensure that justice is done and that no one ever suffers the same fate as Harry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radd Seiger: Anne Sacoolas will \"100% be coming back...the only thing I can't tell you is when''\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton, where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer. Mr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe 42-year-old left the UK shortly after the crash on 27 August and returned to the US, prompting a justice campaign by the teenager's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn.\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in December by the Crown Prosecution Service with causing death by dangerous driving and the Home Office submitted its extradition request to the US Department of Justice.\n\nThe US State Department said \"a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an abuse\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samuel Barker was described as a \"happy, active child\"\n\nA minibus driver has been arrested after a collision in which a seven-year-old boy died.\n\nAmbulance crews were called to the A466 Hereford Road in Monmouth at about 15:50 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe boy has been named as Samuel Barker, from Monmouth, and his family said in a tribute he had a \"glowing personality and zany sense of humour\".\n\nThe bus driver, a man, 45, from Gloucester, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving.\n\nContinuing the tribute, Samuel's family said: \"He was always on the move, a happy, active child who loved toy cars, climbing trees, the great outdoors and especially skiing and ski lifts.\n\n\"As a family, we are upheld and sustained by our faith in Jesus. While we wish we might have had longer with Samuel, we know that he is now with the Lord Jesus Christ in eternal peace.\"\n\nOsbaston Church in Wales School said it was \"hugely saddened\" by the death of Samuel, who it described as \"a huge part of the school life\".\n\nThe school's head teacher, Catherine Jones, and chair of governors, Shonagh Hay, said in a joint statement: \"We are hugely saddened by the loss of our pupil.\n\n\"This lovely little boy was a huge part of the school life, lively and always smiling.\n\n\"The whole school community is coming to terms with this tragic news and we are holding our memories of a very popular little boy, full of character and energy.\n\n\"He will be deeply missed by all.\"\n\nThe A466 is the main road between Monmouth and Hereford\n\nPeter Fox, the leader of Monmouthshire council, said: \"It is just not possible to put into words how sad we feel.\n\n\"We are here to help and will be supporting the school, children and colleagues over the coming days and for as long as is necessary.\"\n\nA spokeswoman from West Midlands Ambulance Service - which attended the scene along with crews from Wales - said the boy was a pedestrian.\n\nShe said: \"Sadly, nothing could be done to save him and he was confirmed dead on scene.\"\n\nGwent Police closed the road between Withy Lane and Buckholt for several hours following the incident.\n\nThe driver remained in custody while the force appealed for witnesses.", "A Liberal Democrat peer has likened post-Brexit Britain to Nazi Germany in controversial remarks in the House of Lords.\n\nLord Greaves said he feared EU nationals could be targeted on 31 January - the day the UK will leave the bloc - and in the period afterwards in a way that was “reminiscent of things happening in Germany in the early 1930s”.\n\nDuring a debate on the government’s Brexit bill, he said there had been “widespread” verbal abuse of EU nationals in the aftermath of the 2016 Leave vote and a rise in racially motivated attacks.\n\n“The day after the referendum, people had their windows put in, people were abused in the street, paint was daubed on people’s houses, that kind of thing,” he said. “I am very worried that on the 1st February and 2nd February there will be a wave of this kind of thing…\n\n“I am fearful on the 31st January that some things may happen in some places which could be reminiscent of things happening in Germany in the early 1930s. I am worried because there is that sentiment among a hostile minority of the population and I’d like to know what the government is trying to stop this happening.”\n\nHe said he was concerned that “triumphalistic” events being planned to celebrate Brexit would make life even more difficult for the three million or so European nationals living in the UK, who were already experiencing feelings of loss akin to “bereavement”.\n\nHe was challenged by Labour peer Lord Grocott, who said his colleague was “stretching the point just a bit” and the comparison with the Nazis’ crackdown on Jewish people, minority groups and political opponents after they came to power had left him “reeling”.\n\nBut Lord Greaves stood by his remarks about the hostility faced by EU nationals, adding “I am not making this up, it is happening.”", "Scientists have discovered the secret of how the ginkgo tree can live for more than 1,000 years.\n\nA study found the tree makes protective chemicals that fend off diseases and drought.\n\nAnd, unlike many other plants, its genes are not programmed to trigger inexorable decline when its youth is over.\n\nThe ginkgo can be found in parks and gardens across the world, but is on the brink of extinction in the wild.\n\n\"The secret is maintaining a really healthy defence system and being a species that does not have a pre-determined senescence (ageing) programme,\" said Richard Dixon of the University of North Texas, Denton.\n\n\"As ginkgo trees age, they show no evidence of weakening their ability to defend themselves from stresses.\"\n\nA man walks on fallen leaves under gingko trees as autumn arrives in the Chinese capital, Beijing\n\nResearchers in the US and China studied ginkgo trees aged 15 to 667, extracting tree-rings and analysing cells, bark, leaves and seeds. They found both young and old trees produce protective chemicals to fight off stresses caused by pathogens or drought.\n\nThese include anti-oxidants, antimicrobials and plant hormones that protect against drought and other environmental stressors. Genetic studies showed that genes related to ageing didn't automatically switch on at a certain point in time as in other plants, such as grasses and annuals.\n\nThus, while a tree that has lived for centuries might appear dilapidated due to frost damage or lightning strikes, all the processes needed for healthy growth are still functioning.\n\nDr Dixon suspects the picture will be similar in other long-lived trees, such as the giant redwood, which has wood \"packed with antimicrobial chemicals\".\n\n\"Hopefully our study will encourage others to dig deeper into what appear to be the important features for longevity in ginkgo and other long-lived trees,\" he said.\n\nCommenting on the study, Mark Gush, head of horticultural and environmental science at the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society), said the oldest living tree in the world - a Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) - is estimated to be more than 4,800 years old.\n\n\"Apart from a consistent supply of food, light and water, the ability to live to such a great age is thought to be linked to slow growth rate, cellular adaptations and relative protection from secondary influences such as pest and disease, climate extremes and catastrophic physical damage,\" he said.\n\nAs the UK embarks on an ambitious tree planting programme, understanding the mixture of tree species that will deliver the greatest ecosystem rewards over the long term, and where they should best be planted, is likely to be increasingly important, he added.\n\nThe research is published in the journal PNAS.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTaiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has told the BBC that China needs to \"face reality\" and show the island \"respect\".\n\nShe was re-elected for a second term on Saturday, winning by a landslide after a campaign in which she focused heavily on the rising threat from Beijing.\n\nThe Chinese Communist Party has long claimed sovereignty over Taiwan and the right to take it by force if necessary.\n\nMs Tsai insisted that the sovereignty of the self-governing island was not in doubt or up for negotiation.\n\n\"We don't have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,\" the 63-year-old president told the BBC in an exclusive interview, her first since the election.\n\n\"We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic of China (Taiwan).\"\n\nSuch statements infuriate Beijing, which wants a return to the \"One China\" principle favoured by the main rival she saw off in the race for president, Han Kuo-yu from the Kuomintang party.\n\nHis party traces its roots to the defeated nationalists in the Chinese civil war, who fled to Taiwan and continued to see the island as part of a greater China from which they had been usurped.\n\nIn recent years, that concept of One China has proved a useful compromise, Taiwanese supporters of it argue.\n\nChina insists on its acceptance as a prerequisite for building economic ties with Taiwan, precisely because doing so is an explicit denial of its existence as a de facto island state.\n\nBut it is clear that Ms Tsai believes her victory is proof of how little appetite there now is for the One China concept and the ambiguity it allowed over Taiwan's real status.\n\n\"The situation has changed,\" she says. \"The ambiguity can no longer serve the purposes it was intended to serve.\"\n\nAnd what has really changed, she suggests, is China.\n\n\"Because [for more than] three years we're seeing China has been intensifying its threat... they have their military vessels and aircraft cruising around the island,\" she says.\n\n\"And also, the things happening in Hong Kong, people get a real sense that this threat is real and it's getting more and more serious.\"\n\nTaiwan's interests, she believes, are not best served by semantics but by facing up to the reality, in particular the aspirations of the Taiwanese youth who flocked to her cause.\n\n\"We have a separate identity and we're a country of our own. So, if there's anything that runs counter to this idea, they will stand up and say that's not acceptable to us.\n\n\"We're a successful democracy, we have a pretty decent economy, we deserve respect from China.\"\n\nFor President Tsai's critics, her stance is needlessly provocative, one that only risks increasing the very danger she warns about - open hostility.\n\nBut she says she has shown restraint. She has, for example, stopped short of the formal declaration of independence - amending the constitution and changing the flag - that some in her Democratic Progressive Party would like.\n\nChina has said it would regard such a move as a pretext for military action.\n\n\"There are so many pressures, so much pressure here that we should go further,\" she says.\n\n\"But [for] more than three years, we have been telling China that maintaining a status quo remains our policy... I think that is a very friendly gesture to China.\"\n\nWhile Ms Tsai says she is open to dialogue, she is also well aware that as a result of her victory, Beijing may well increase its pressure on Taiwan.\n\nIn response, she is trying to diversify Taiwan's trading relationships and boost the domestic economy, in particular by encouraging Taiwanese investors who have built factories in China to consider relocating back home.\n\nAnd she is planning for all eventualities.\n\n\"You cannot exclude the possibility of war at any time,\" she says.\n\n\"But the thing is you have to get yourself prepared and develop the ability to defend yourself.\"\n\n\"We have been trying very hard and making a lot of efforts to strengthen our capability,\" she replies.\n\n\"Invading Taiwan is something that is going to be very costly for China.\"", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said \"the regime in Tehran is at a crossroads\" as he warned Iran against slipping \"further and further into political and economic isolation\".\n\nHe urged Iran to \"engage in diplomacy and chart a peaceful way forwards\".\n\nIt comes as Iran's ambassador to the UK met officials at the Foreign Office following the detention of his British counterpart in Tehran last week.\n\nMr Raab said the arrest was \"a flagrant violation of international law\".\n\nResponding to an urgent question in Parliament, Mr Raab said the detention of UK diplomat Rob Macaire after a vigil for victims of last week's plane crash was \"without grounds or explanation\".\n\nMiddle East Minister Andrew Murrison expressed the UK government's \"strong objections\" to the incident, during the meeting with Iranian ambassador Hamid Baeidinejad on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe Foreign Office called for an investigation and said the arrest was a breach of the Vienna Convention - an international agreement that governs diplomatic relations between countries.\n\nMr Macaire was attending an event on Saturday that was advertised as a vigil for the 176 people who died in Wednesday's crash of an Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737, shortly before he was arrested.\n\nHe was held for three hours when he stopped at a barber shop for a haircut on his way back to the British embassy.\n\nIran's ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad (left) was summoned to the Foreign Office after Rob Macaire was detained\n\nMr Macaire said he attended the event because it was \"normal to want to pay respects\", pointing out that some of the victims were British, but added that he left the vigil when some people started \"chanting\".\n\nBut Iran's foreign ministry said Mr Macaire's presence was \"against diplomatic norms\".\n\nThe statement, reported by state TV, said: \"Any new mistake of Britain will be severely confronted by Iran, and London will be responsible for that\".\n\n\"Threatening Iran with fresh sanctions over that will cause tension between Tehran and London.\"\n\nNo 10 said it was \"seeking full assurances\" the detention would not happen again.\n\nDuring the debate in the Commons earlier, Labour MP Barry Sheerman asked the foreign secretary whether he would support sending faith leaders to Iran to speak \"at a level of faith\" to help ease tensions.\n\nMr Raab replied: \"I sympathise very much with the spirit of the idea of an all-faith diplomatic initiative.\n\n\"I think right at the moment he will have seen that we advise, through our Foreign Office, travel advice against travel to Iran and I think for the moment that's probably the safest bet.\"\n\nFive nations whose citizens were on board the airliner will meet in London on Thursday to discuss possible legal action, Ukraine's foreign minister told the Reuters news agency.\n\nProtests have been taking place on the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials who initially denied shooting down the plane.\n• None What happens when an ambassador is summoned?\n• None Brexit: What is the Vienna Convention?", "Councillors approved the application for a drive-thru on the outskirts of Oakham\n\nRutland will lose its status as the only county without a McDonald's after councillors rubber-stamped plans for a new restaurant.\n\nSome in the small rural East Midlands county have boasted of its unique independence from the American fast food giant.\n\nBut at a meeting on Tuesday councillors approved the application for a drive-thru on the outskirts of Oakham.\n\nMcDonald's said it was \"delighted\" at the decision.\n\nThe company said the plans had a \"great reception\" and would create \"at least 65 new jobs for local people\".\n\nBefore the meeting, Rutland County Council received 23 representations of support and 55 objections for the restaurant off Lands End Way.\n\nThe county is renowned for a number of traditions and landmarks, including Rutland Water\n\nCharlie Pallett, who runs a blog about Rutland, said: \"Our high streets are scattered with wonderful independents that offer something unique... I think we don't need a McDonald's.\n\n\"Our county is the last one in England without one. I think that is really special.\"\n\nBut many supported the plans, arguing the town \"needs\" more employment and entertainment for young people.\n\nChris Goodchild said he was \"all for\" a McDonald's in Rutland\n\nChris Goodchild told BBC East Midlands Today: \"I'm all for it. I think it's a load of nonsense we haven't got one already.\n\n\"The high street is full of charity shops and coffee bars, so what's the problem?\"\n\nRutland resident Ella Peters added: \"I think it is a positive thing in regards to bringing new jobs but I don't believe it is a good idea to bring fast food - it is not very good for children.\n\n\"I think it is better to support local compared to the big nationals.\"\n\nMcDonald's says the restaurant will create 35 full-time and 30 part-time jobs\n\nCouncil officers had recommended plans for the restaurant be approved with 27 conditions, including the walls and roof should not be built until the details of materials and colours have been agreed with the authority.\n\nOther conditions include trees should be protected and the restaurant should not open until a litter management plan has been approved by the council.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keira Markides was assisted by her parents and friends on the lemonade stand\n\nMore than 100 people turned out to buy lemonade from a six-year-old as she raised more than £2,000 for victims of the Australian bushfires.\n\nKeira Markides wanted to do something to help after hearing about the situation in Australia in school.\n\nWith the help of her parents she set up a lemonade stand at their Harlow home.\n\nAfter she posted letters through neighbours' doors it was shared on social media and about 100 people came to buy a drink.\n\nKeira Markides received a message from an Australian fireman \"which made her day\"\n\nKeira's mother, Angela Markides, 37, said the family did not expect the story to catch people's imaginations in the way it had.\n\nShe said: \"We are very proud of Keira but we aren't really jumping up and down as she hasn't done anything out of the ordinary for her, she has always been a very caring little girl.\"\n\nAfter seeing the interest online, Keira's parents stayed up until 02:00 GMT making lemonade to ensure there would be enough on Sunday and sold it for 50p a cup.\n\nKeira's Just Giving fund has already raised more than £1,700 and Mrs Markides said she still had to add the cash collected from the lemonade sales to that.\n\n\"She has received donations from Australia as well as here and she even got a message from an Australian fireman thanking her which made her day,\" Mrs Markides said.\n\nThe cash raised will got to the Salvation Army Bushfire Relief fund.\n\nIn a Facebook video Keira said: \"Thank you all for coming to my lemonade stand and thank you all for helping me raise money for the Australian fires.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Delta Airlines flight reportedly had to return to the airport shortly after takeoff\n\nA passenger plane has dumped fuel over several schools as it made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport.\n\nAt least 60 people, many of them children, were treated for skin irritation and breathing problems.\n\nFuel may be dumped in emergency landings, but only over designated areas and at a high altitude, aviation rules stipulate.\n\nThe Delta Airlines flight returned to the airport due to an engine issue.\n\nDelta confirmed in a statement that the passenger plane had released fuel to reduce its landing weight.\n\nThe children and adults treated following the dumping incident were connected with at least six local schools. All the injuries are said to be minor.\n\nAt Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy, some 16 miles (26km) east of the airport, two classes of children were outside when the fuel was released.\n\nElizabeth Alcantar, mayor of Cudahy, told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: \"I'm very upset. This is an elementary school, these are small children.\"\n\nAllen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, told Reuters news agency: \"The FAA is thoroughly investigating the circumstances behind this incident. There are special fuel-dumping procedures for aircraft operating into and out of any major US airport.\n\n\"These procedures call for fuel to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, typically at higher altitudes so the fuel atomises and disperses before it reaches the ground.\"\n\nMany planes, especially those used for long-haul flights, take off weighing more than their maximum allowed landing weight due to the amount of fuel they carry.\n\nThis weight is normally reduced as fuel is consumed during the flight.\n\nBut when a flight is cut short the aircraft may still be too heavy to land safely. In such situations the pilot may take the rare decision to dump fuel and reduce the aircraft's weight quickly.\n\nOnly certain planes have this capability, and it is done through valves in the aircraft's wings which allow fuel to be pumped out by a specific amount.", "Waiting times have been reduced to less than six days on average in the clinic\n\nA centre for quickly diagnosing cancer has reduced waiting times by up to 92% in its first year and cut costs, analysis has found.\n\nPatients going to GPs with non-specific but possibly cancerous symptoms were sent to a rapid diagnosis centre at Neath Port Talbot Hospital.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said waiting times were cut to less than six days.\n\nThe paper's authors said the clinic could also be more cost effective.\n\nBetween June 2017 and May 2018, GPs referred 189 patients to the half-day clinic, which ran twice a week.\n\nPatients were either diagnosed with a suspected cancer and referred to a specialist, given a different diagnosis, told no serious problem could be found, or sent for further investigation.\n\nIf no further investigations were needed, patients were diagnosed in an average of 5.9 days.\n\nFurther investigations took an average of 40.8 days, but control patients waited an average of 84.2 days, just under three months, for a diagnosis without using the clinic.\n\nCurrently GPs refer people who present signs to an urgent suspected cancer pathway, but half of UK cancer patients do not present with the necessary symptoms and their diagnosis takes an average of 34 days longer.\n\nThese patients, who often present vague symptoms such as unexplained weight loss or fatigue, are sent for outpatient appointments with diagnostic tests, which can take a long time and be expensive.\n\nThe cancer clinic runs out of Neath Port Talbot Hospital twice a week\n\nDuring the study, led by Bernadette Sewell from Swansea University's Centre for Health and Economics, 23 cancers were diagnosed, while 30 significant other diagnoses were made - including stomach ulcers, heart failure and tuberculosis.\n\nIn the first year of the study, the clinic did not see enough patients to be cost effective, but the clinic is now outperforming usual care and is seeing four or five patients each clinic.\n\nThe study found the rapid diagnosis clinic will provide better value for money for the NHS, alongside shorter waiting times for patients, if it is run at more than 80% capacity.\n\nSwansea University estimates the health board could save more than £150,000 per 1,000 patients.\n\nIf you have obvious or alarming symptoms of cancer, these are easier to pick up. The challenge has been those patients with vague or harder-to-spot symptoms.\n\nSince 2017, Swansea Bay, along with Cwm Taf health board, has been piloting rapid diagnostic centres which allow GPs to refer patients with less obvious symptoms.\n\nThey were set up following a fact-finding visit by Welsh cancer experts to Denmark to see how that country had transformed its cancer survival rates.\n\nWales has also introduced a single cancer waiting target - which is meant to reflect not only delays in getting treated but also delays in getting diagnosis.\n\nObviously the results in Neath Port Talbot are encouraging and will help make the case for rolling out this approach across the country but what's clear is there is a lot more to do as Wales - and the UK as a whole - have relatively low survival cancer rates compared to similar countries.\n\nDr Bernadette Sewell, the lead author of the paper, which was published in the British Journal of General Practice, said: \"Our study shows that rapid diagnosis centres are beneficial for patients and the NHS. They cut waiting times, which means any treatment that people need can start earlier.\n\n\"The longer it takes to diagnose cancer, the worse the outcomes can be for patients and the more expensive it may be for the NHS to treat.\n\n\"The key is to ensure that the centres run at least at 80% of capacity, as the rapid diagnosis clinic in Neath Port Talbot Hospital is now doing.\"\n\nDr Heather Wilkes, from Swansea Bay University Health Board, said: \"The provision of this service, and the ongoing commitment to it by SBUHB as a diagnostic resource for primary care, has made a massive difference in trying to speedily investigate and care for some of the most difficult cases in our community.\n\n\"It is highly valued by patients and GPs alike and has been established as a permanent service following our evaluation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe nominations for this year's Academy Awards have been announced, with Joker leading the pack with 11 nods.\n\nThe comic book villain origin story is up for best picture, best director and best actor for Joaquin Phoenix, plus eight other awards.\n\nThe Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood follow with 10 nominations each.\n\nBritain's Cynthia Erivo, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce and Florence Pugh are all up for acting prizes.\n\nHarriet, a biopic of anti-slavery campaigner Harriet Tubman, is up for two Oscars\n\nPugh, up for best supporting actress for Little Women, put her first Oscar nomination down to \"hard work\" and persistence.\n\n\"You've got to keep on going and hopefully you'll see something at the end of the tunnel,\" the 24-year-old told BBC News.\n\nJoker's 11 nominations equals its tally at the British Academy Film Awards, whose nominations were announced last week.\n\nAt the Oscars, though, at least one acting contender - Harriet star Erivo - will be from a BAME background.\n\nErivo said Harriet's two nominations were \"beyond anything I could have ever imagined\" and were \"more than a dream come true\".\n\nThe film's other nomination, for best song, comes for Stand Up, which the Tony-winning actress both sang and co-wrote.\n\nYet the Oscars are sure to receive some censure for announcing another all-male line-up in its best director category.\n\nGreta Gerwig, nominated for best director in 2018 for Lady Bird, did not make the cut again with Little Women.\n\nPugh called her omission both \"sad\" and \"hard to navigate\". \"She is in this film in the writing and the directing [and] in every single performance,\" she continued.\n\nOnly five women have ever been nominated for the best director Oscar and only one - The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow - has ever won.\n\nActress Issa Rae pointedly offered \"congratulations to those men\" as she revealed the nominations alongside actor John Cho on Monday.\n\nLike Joker, The Irishman, 1917 and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood are all up for the best picture prize.\n\nThe other nominees are Ford vs Ferrari (released in the UK as Le Mans 66), Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Marriage Story and South Korean film Parasite.\n\nPhoenix said he felt \"honoured and humbled\" by his nomination and congratulated his fellow nominees for giving \"inspiring performances that have enriched our art form\".\n\nAnthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce are both shortlisted for The Two Popes\n\nHe is joined in the best actor category by Marriage Story's Adam Driver, Once Upon a Time's Leonardo DiCaprio, Pain and Glory's Antonio Banderas and The Two Popes' Pryce.\n\nThe Welsh actor told BBC Radio Wales he had \"written off\" his chances of a nomination after missing out on an award at the Golden Globes.\n\n\"I was much more excited than I expected to be,\" the 72-year-old said of his first Oscar nomination. \"I felt quite emotional really. It's been a long time coming.\"\n\nDriver, who was up for best supporting actor last year for BlacKkKlansman, said he felt \"honoured and incredibly grateful to represent the people who made Marriage Story\".\n\nDiCaprio, meanwhile, said he had been \"incredibly fortunate [with Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood] to have partnered with brilliant collaborators\".\n\n\"So many [films] this year were truly original and impactful,\" he continued. \"I hope as we progress we continue to see even more of them.\"\n\nErivo's best actress rivals include Little Women's Saoirse Ronan, Bombshell star Charlize Theron and Renee Zellweger for Judy.\n\nScarlett Johansson is nominated for Marriage Story and gets another nod in the supporting actress category for Jojo Rabbit.\n\nJohansson plays a mother in both Marriage Story (left) and Jojo Rabbit\n\nJohansson's Marriage Story co-star Laura Dern is also in the running for that award, as is Bombshell's Margot Robbie.\n\nPugh and Kathy Bates - up for her fourth Oscar for Clint Eastwood film Richard Jewell - complete the line-up in this category.\n\nBates - who won the best actress Oscar for Misery in 1991 - thanked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \"for this wonderful recognition\".\n\nBrad Pitt is up for best supporting actor for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, as is The Irishman's Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.\n\nHopkins and Tom Hanks - recognised for The Two Popes and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood respectively - are the other supporting actor nominees.\n\nSir Anthony - who plays Pope Benedict XVI opposite Jonathan Pryce's Pope Francis - said it was \"a great honour to be nominated\" for his fifth Academy Award.\n\nBritain's Sam Mendes joins The Irishman's Martin Scorsese, Joker's Todd Phillips, Parasite's Bong Joon-ho and Quentin Tarantino in the best director category.\n\nThe recently knighted Sir Sam said he \"couldn't be more thrilled\" by the nominations for his World War One epic, which he called \"a labour of love for many people\".\n\nScorsese also called his mob drama The Irishman \"a labour of love\", adding: \"To be recognised in this way means a great deal to all of us.\"\n\nPhillips, meanwhile, said he was \"deeply honoured by the overwhelming recognition\" and paid tribute to \"the genius that is Joaquin Phoenix\".\n\nBrad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are both shortlisted for Tarantino's film\n\nParasite and Pedro Almodovar's Pain and Glory are also up for the international feature film award - previously known as best foreign film.\n\n\"Two nominations for #PainAndGlory from Academy Awards. Congratulations team!!! Very excited,\" tweeted Banderas in both English and Spanish.\n\nNetflix - the subscription giant behind Marriage Story, The Irishman and The Two Popes - has received more than 20 nominations.\n\nThese include two nods in the best animated film category, where its films I Lost My Body and Klaus are up against Missing Link, Toy Story 4 and the third How to Train Your Dragon film.\n\nThat means there is no room for Frozen 2, whose only nomination comes in the best song category for Into the Unknown.\n\nElton John biopic Rocketman also gets its only nomination in this category, alongside tracks from Toy Story 4, Harriet and Breakthrough.\n\nThat film's song, I'm Standing With You, marks the 11th time songwriter Diane Warren has been up for an Oscar - an award she has yet to win.\n\nParasite, a dark satire set in Seoul, has six nominations in all\n\nOther previous nominees in contention again include John Williams, who earns his 52nd nomination for his score for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.\n\nThe 87-year-old composer already holds the record for the most Oscar nominations ever received by a living individual.\n\nAlso up for best original score are Joker's female composer Hildur Gudnadottir, Little Women's Alexandre Desplat and a pair of Newmans - Randy and Thomas - for Marriage Story and 1917 respectively.\n\nThe 92nd Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on 9 February.\n\nThis year's ceremony, like last year's, will not have an overall host, with a variety of celebrity guests instead introducing each category.\n\nQueen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won the most awards last year, picking up four prizes including best actor.\n\nGreen Book was named best picture, while Britain's Olivia Colman won best actress for The Favourite.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nA man who racially abused England fast bowler Jofra Archer during the first Test against New Zealand in November has been banned from attending international and domestic matches in the country for two years.\n\nArcher said he heard comments during the final day of the innings-and-65-run defeat at Mount Maunganui's Bay Oval.\n\nAfter a police investigation a 28-year-old from Auckland admitted the abuse.\n\nHe has been issued with a verbal warning for using insulting language.\n\nNew Zealand Cricket (NZC) say they have contacted the man and written to him, advising of his ban until 2022. If he breaches the ban he could be \"subjected to further police action\".\n\n\"We'd again like to extend our apologies to Jofra and the England team management for such an unsavoury incident and reiterate once more that this type of behaviour is completely unacceptable,\" said NZC spokesman Anthony Crummy.\n\nCrummy said NZC would not be identifying the individual.\n\nHe added: \"We want to thank the New Zealand police for their efforts in identifying the person responsible, and for making it clear that this type of behaviour will not be minimised.\"\n\nArcher described the incident as \"disturbing\", while New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said the abuse was \"horrific\" and that he hoped \"nothing like that ever happens again\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nBoris Johnson will return to Downing Street with a big majority after the Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nWith just a handful of seats left to declare in the general election, the BBC forecasts a Tory majority of 78.\n\nThe prime minister said it would give him a mandate to \"get Brexit done\" and take the UK out of the EU next month.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said Labour had a \"very disappointing night\" and he would not fight a future election.\n\nThe BBC forecast suggests the Tories will get 364 MPs, Labour 203, the SNP 48, the Lib Dems 12, Plaid Cymru four, the Greens one, and the Brexit Party none.\n\nThat means the Conservatives will have their biggest majority at Westminster since Margaret Thatcher's 1987 election victory.\n\nLabour, which has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016, is facing its worst defeat since 1935.\n\nMr Johnson has addressed cheering party workers at Conservative headquarters, telling them there has been a political earthquake, with the Tories winning a \"stonking\" mandate, from Kensington to Clwyd South.\n\nSpeaking earlier at his count in Uxbridge, west London, where he was elected with a slightly higher majority, Mr Johnson said: \"It does look as though this One Nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.\"\n\nHe added: \"Above all I want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a December election that we didn't want to call but which I think has turned out to be a historic election that gives us now, in this new government, the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country.\"\n\nMr Johnson became prime minister in July without a general election, after the Conservative Party elected him as leader to replace Theresa May.\n\nSpeaking at his election count in Islington North, where he was re-elected with a reduced majority, Mr Corbyn said Labour had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" but \"Brexit has so polarised debate it has overridden so much of normal political debate\".\n\nLabour's vote is down around 8% on the 2017 general election, with the Tories up by just over 1% and the smaller parties having a better night.\n\nThe result so far is remarkable for the Conservatives - better than many of them had hoped for.\n\nThey have won a majority which will allow Boris Johnson to make sure Brexit happens next month.\n\nThere were some astonishing results, with a number of historic Labour heartlands falling to the Conservatives.\n\nLabour, by contrast, could hardly be in a worse position.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has made it clear he will go before the next election - but he wants to stay for a period of reflection. Many in his party want him to go immediately.\n\nIn Scotland, the picture is quite different.\n\nThe SNP have come close to sweeping the board - gaining seats from all their rivals.\n\nA Tory majority at Westminster means one constitutional quarrel - Brexit - might be over, but another - on Scottish independence - will be back with a vengeance.\n\nScottish National Party leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it had been an \"exceptional night\" for her party.\n\nShe said Scotland had sent a \"very clear message\" that it did not want a Boris Johnson Conservative government and the prime minister did not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the EU.\n\nIt was also a \"strong endorsement\" for Scotland having a choice over its own future in an another independence referendum, she added.\n\nLabour looks set for one of its worst election results since World War Two.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nLabour took Putney, in south-west London, from the Tories, in a rare bright spot for Jeremy Corbyn's party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: \"I think most people thought the polls were narrowing\"\n\nA row has already broken out at the top of the Labour Party, with some candidates blaming Jeremy Corbyn's unpopularity on the doorstep and others blaming the party's policy of holding another Brexit referendum.\n\nLeave-supporting Labour chairman Ian Lavery, who held his seat with a reduced majority, said he was \"desperately disappointed\", adding that voters in Labour's \"heartlands\" were \"aggrieved\" at the party's Brexit stance.\n\nDowning Street said earlier that if Mr Johnson was returned to Downing Street, there would be a minor cabinet reshuffle on Monday.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill, paving the way for Brexit on 31 January, would have its second Commons reading on Friday, 20 December.\n\nA major reshuffle would take place in February, after the UK has left the EU, No 10 added, with a Budget statement in March.\n\nThis is the UK's third general election in less than five years - and the first one to take place in December in nearly 100 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Stella Creasy was re-elected - and appeared at the count with her two-week-old daughter in a sling\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message, to \"get Brexit done\", while Labour primarily campaigned on a promise to end austerity by increasing spending on public services and the National Health Service.\n\nNigel Farage said his Brexit Party had taken votes from Labour in Tory target seats, although he himself had spoiled his ballot paper \"as I could not bring myself to vote Conservative\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the election result?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.\n• None When do we find out who has won the election?", "The Italian chain ASK mixed white fish with its lobster and charged £14.95\n\nThe Italian restaurant chain ASK has been fined for misleading customers about a lobster dish.\n\nThe Aragosta e Gamberoni (lobster and king prawns) dish contained a mixture of 35% lobster and 34% white fish, plus other ingredients, formed to look like lobster meat, an investigation found.\n\nThe dish, the most expensive on the menu, retailed at £14.95 while the cost of the raw ingredients was only £2.84.\n\nThe chain was fined £40,000 on Tuesday for misleadingly describing food.\n\nAzzuri Restaurants Limited, which trades as ASK Italian, admitted the charge at Swansea Magistrates' Court last November.\n\nThis came after the lack of lobster in the dish was spotted by a Trading Standards officer during a routine visit to a branch in the city.\n\nSales of the dish amounted to £3m across the UK since it was launched in 2014, though the charge spanned the period between 1 December 2016 and 20 March 2019 - when Swansea Trading Standards alerted ASK and it removed the dish from its menu.\n\nASK apologised for what it described as an error, and accepted that without reference to white fish, the menu description was incomplete and likely to mislead.\n\nIt denied having a financial motivation and said the item had the lowest profit margin of all the restaurant's pasta dishes, adding there was no health and safety risk associated with this case.\n\nWhite fish and lobster were mixed and formed to look like lobster meat\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"We will continue to pursue the democratic case for Scotland's right to choose\"\n\nScotland's first minister has called on the UK government to negotiate a transfer of powers to Holyrood to allow another referendum on independence.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said there was an \"unarguable\" mandate for a new vote after her SNP won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats in last week's general election.\n\nA document containing her arguments and draft legislation to transfer powers has been sent to the UK government.\n\nHe has argued that the result of the independence referendum in 2014 - when voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% - should be respected.\n\nAnd the government used the Queen's Speech at Westminster to say that the \"integrity and prosperity\" of the UK is of the \"utmost importance\".\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon warned the prime minister that a \"flat no\" to her request for another referendum would not be the end of the matter.\n\nMs Sturgeon has published a document outlining her case for another referendum to be held\n\nThe first minister says she wants to hold indyref2 in the second half of 2020, and believes the election result has made the case for this \"overwhelmingly clear\".\n\nBut she wants the UK government to agree to a so-called section 30 order, which would give the Scottish Parliament the power to hold a referendum and put its legality beyond doubt - as happened ahead of the 2014 referendum.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon has ruled out the possibility of holding an unofficial referendum similar to the one in Catalonia in 2017.\n\nThe argument over Scottish independence will not be settled anytime soon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will not stop pursuing her case, no matter how many times she is rebuffed by Westminster.\n\nAnd she clearly believes that if she keeps arguing that Scotland's democratic voice is being ignored she will build the case in voters' minds not just for another vote, but for independence itself.\n\nThe longer she has to wait, the more convinced she is that she will win. She may be asking for a vote before the end of next year, but she is really playing a much longer game.\n\nThe pro-independence SNP won a landslide in Scotland in the general election, while the Conservatives lost seven of their 13 seats north of the border despite winning a big majority across the UK as a whole.\n\nMs Sturgeon has published a paper arguing that \"consensus is growing by the day\" in Scotland for a second referendum, and that there is a \"clear mandate for this nation to choose its own future\".\n\nIn a statement at her official Bute House residence, she said: \"We are therefore today calling for the UK government to negotiate and agree the transfer of power that would put beyond doubt the Scottish Parliament's right to legislate for a referendum on independence.\n\n\"I anticipate that in the short term we will simply hear a restatement of the UK government's opposition. But they should be under no illusion that this will be an end of the matter.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon wants Boris Johnson to agree to hold a new referendum - but the prime minister \"remains opposed\"\n\nThe paper published by Ms Sturgeon includes draft legislation which would give Holyrood the power to call referendums, although she said she was open to negotiations about the details of how this would work.\n\nShe said: \"It is a fundamental democratic principle that decisions on Scotland's constitutional future should rest with the people who live here.\n\n\"The Scottish government has a clear democratic mandate to offer people a choice on that future in an independence referendum, and the UK government has a democratic duty to recognise that.\n\n\"The mandate we have to offer the Scottish people a choice over their future is, by any normal standard of democracy, unarguable.\"\n\nAnd in a letter to the prime minister, Ms Sturgeon said Mr Johnson had \"committed to engaging seriously with our proposals\" in their telephone conversation last Friday.\n\nShe added: \"I believe that on this - as on any issue - you have a duty to do so in a considered and reasonable manner. I therefore look forward to discussing matters further with you in the New Year.\n\nThe move comes on the same day as the devolved Scottish Parliament passed legislation that could help pave the way to a referendum.\n\nThe Referendums (Scotland) Bill passed on Thursday afternoon with the backing of the SNP and Scottish Greens, although Holyrood's three pro-union parties - the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems - voted against it.\n\nThe legislation sets the general rules for any referendum, but a separate bill would need to be passed for any new independence ballot.\n\nA series of pro-independence rallies have been held across Scotland in recent months\n\nWhile the polls have narrowed in recent months, they still generally give a slender lead to the pro-UK side.\n\nThe Conservative election campaign in Scotland was centred on opposition to independence and a referendum, and the prime minister told Ms Sturgeon in a telephone conversation last week that he \"remains opposed\" to a new vote.\n\nMichael Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said Ms Sturgeon and the SNP \"should concentrate on improving Scotland's hospitals and schools rather than trying to re-run an independence referendum they promised would be a once in a generation event\".\n\nMr Gove added: \"I think on that basis we should respect the referendum result and politicians across the United Kingdom should be concentrating on the issues that really matter to people: improving the NHS, fighting crime and helping to improve education.\n\n'The Scottish government have a lot on their plate. My friends and family in Scotland want them to concentrate on improving the NHS, making sure Scottish schools are better. I want to work with the Scottish government to make sure that Scottish people's lives are better.\"\n\nBut his colleague Andrew Mitchell, a Conservative MP and former government minister under David Cameron, told the BBC it would be \"extremely difficult\" for the prime minister to continue to \"resist the strong argument\" for people to have another vote on independence,\n\nHe added: \"I think it will stand for now, and I think it will stand until the end of the Brexit process and the new settlement is clear. They can resist it for a bit, but it would not be possible to resist it forever.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK government will \"strongly support\" the new Stormont executive, says Boris Johnson\n\nThe government's offer for extra money as part of the deal to restore Stormont \"falls way short\" of what was promised, Finance Minister Conor Murphy has said.\n\nMr Murphy was speaking after the Stormont parties met Secretary of State Julian Smith to discuss how much will be allocated.\n\nThe finance minister refused to comment on how much exactly had been proposed.\n\nEarlier the prime minister said the government had made \"huge commitments\" as part of the deal.\n\nThe British and Irish prime ministers were in Belfast on Monday to mark the return of devolution after a three-year impasse.\n\nSpeaking to the media, Mr Johnson did not state how much money would be provided to support the deal, saying it was not about money but leadership.\n\nMr Murphy said departmental officials would examine the figures tonight\n\nOn Monday evening Mr Murphy said: \"As far as I'm concerned the conversation hasn't ended, there's still work to be done.\n\n\"We have to analyse the verbal figures that were given to us tonight by the secretary of state, but my initial read of them is they fall way short and I wouldn't tend to accept that.\"\n\nHe said the government had made commitments to the Stormont parties.\n\n\"They can't come today and congratulate us for living up to our commitments and then not live up to their own,\" he said.\n\nMr Murphy had previously said more than £1.5bn was needed.\n\nBoris Johnson is greeted by the first and deputy first ministers and NI Secretary Julian Smith\n\nThe prime minister met the new executive ministers on Monday morning, having been greeted by First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Johnson said the government would \"strongly support\" the new power-sharing executive.\n\n\"What's so great about today is, as I say, that Northern Ireland politicians have put aside differences, stepped up to the plate and shown leadership,\" he added.\n\nThe prime minister said this was a chance to \"deliver on the priorities of the people\" in terms of health, education and crime fighting.\n\nHe acknowledged that there was a \"certain amount of conversation about funding\" and whether the government was going to be supportive.\n\nMr Johnson said the government was making \"huge commitments\" for health.\n\n\"Yes of course we are going to be supportive, but it's not just about money,\" he said.\n\n\"We are listening very carefully and will certainly do everything we can to support.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leo Varadkar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said the Good Friday Agreement \"is working again\".\n\n\"North-south cooperation is going to resume. We are going to beef up and deepen cooperation.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson meeting the new executive ministers at Stormont Castle\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the prime minister must \"step up to the plate\" and deliver what the government has promised in extra funding for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We need significant and sustained investment, not just this year but over a number of years. This is crucial in ensuring transformation in areas such as health and also our road and water infrastructures,\" she said.\n\nMrs Foster also said the possibility of water charges being introduced as a means of raising revenue was not supported by anyone in the executive.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she had impressed upon the two prime ministers \"the importance of coming through with the funding promised as part of the deal\".\n\n\"All executive ministers are committed to working together to tackle some very serious issues in our society and across public services but, quite simply, we need the money to make it happen.\n\n\"We have done our bit and I look forward to the fulfilment of the commitments made by the two governments to let us get to work.\"\n\nWe'll never know exactly what the new ministers said to Boris Johnson as they met him inside Stormont Castle, but one thing's for sure, money talks.\n\nThe government has been tight-lipped when it comes to revealing how much it's prepared to stump up for Stormont this time, but there are rumours of another few billion pounds coming our way.\n\nThe executive has a mountain to climb in terms of tackling waiting lists, school budgets and roads projects, with ministers relying on a big pot of money to take the necessary decisions.\n\nAsked about the exact figure, Boris Johnson said it wasn't \"just about money\" - an answer that might set alarm bells ringing.\n\nThe party leaders will want to ensure the government doesn't go back on its word - so they'll be meeting Julian Smith at some point on Monday to go over the final details of the deal.\n\nBoris Johnson arrives at Stormont to meet the new Northern Ireland Executive\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nOn Saturday, a new power sharing government was formed by Stormont's five main parties.\n\nThey agreed a deal with the governments that includes extra funding for Northern Ireland, but the exact figure is not yet known.\n\nThe deal - entitled New Decade, New Approach - was reached on Friday after months of negotiations between the parties and the two governments.\n\nStormont's power-sharing coalition, led by the DUP and Sinn Féin, had collapsed in January 2017 after a row over a green energy scandal.\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill were appointed first and deputy first ministers on Saturday\n\nThe return of devolution means the executive can now take decisions that had been stalled due to the three-year absence of ministers.\n\nThe executive is expected to hold its first meeting on Tuesday, the same day that the new chairs of Stormont's scrutiny committees are likely to be chosen.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBarcelona generated more money than any other club in Europe for the first time last season, a study has found.\n\nThe Spanish club earned £741.1m in revenue in the 2018-19 season according to Deloitte's Football Money League.\n\nReal Madrid swapped places with Barca and fell to second on £667.5m, with Manchester United third on £627.1m.\n\nThe Reds Devils are said to be \"at risk of losing the position as the Premier League's highest revenue generating club for the first time\" next year.\n\nWho makes up the top 20?\n\nMost revenue by clubs in 2018-19\n\nIn the 23rd edition of Deloitte's Football Money League the gap between first and second (83m euros/£73.6m) has never been bigger.\n\nBarca's substantial jump in year-on-year revenue is put down to the club taking charge of its own merchandising and licensing activities.\n\nDan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, commented: \"Barca is a clear example of a club adapting to changing market conditions, reducing the reliance on broadcast revenue and focusing on growing revenues within its control.\"\n\nDeloitte expect Barca to remain number one in next year's standings and state the Catalan club is on course to achieve its stated ambition to be the first to generate revenue of over one billion euros in years to come.\n\nWhat is wrong at Old Trafford?\n\nDeloitte state there are \"many ways of examining the relative wealth or value of football clubs\" but its revenue metric is extracted directly from the financial statements of the clubs in question.\n\nMoney from broadcast deals is the most significant to clubs, comprising 44% of total revenue.\n\nManchester United's year-on-year revenues rose from £589.8m to £627.1m but forecasted revenue for 2019-20 is between £560-£580m, partly because the club failed to qualify for the Champions League.\n\nDeloitte said those figures \"would likely see the Red Devils fall to their lowest ever Money League position in next year's edition.\"\n\n\"This could also put the club at risk of losing its position as the Premier League's highest revenue generating club for the first time in Money League history,\" Deloitte added.\n\nSam Boor, senior manager in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: \"The impact of participation and performance in Uefa club competitions on revenue is evident in London and the North West, with the rise of Liverpool, Manchester City and Spurs driven by reaching the Champions League knockout stages. The relative decline of Arsenal is a direct result of not participating in the competition for a second consecutive season, a fate that may also befall Manchester United.\"\n\nThe Premier League makes the biggest contribution to the top 20 of the Money League, with eight teams featured.\n\nTottenham achieved its highest-ever position of eighth by increasing revenue 21% to £459.3m.\n\nDeloitte said the jump was due to increased revenue from commercial sources and broadcasters after a season in which Spurs reached the Champions League final and moved into their new stadium.\n\nSpurs are now generating more money than any other club in London, with Chelsea ninth overall and Arsenal now outside the top 10 in 11th as a consequence of going consecutive seasons without qualifying for the Champions League.\n\nDeloitte's study does not include revenue from player transfer fees. The top 20 generated a record £8.2bn of combined revenue in 2018-19, an increase of 11% on the previous year.\n\nOnly Olympique Lyonnais - ranked 17th - and SSC Napoli - ranked 20th - broke into the top 20 after the 2018-19 campaign.\n\nItalian champions Juventus moved back into the top 10 and Deloitte said the arrival of forward Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid \"increased Juventus' commercial appeal\".\n\nRonaldo has more Instagram followers than Real Madrid and Barcelona combined.\n\n\"As a result, Juve saw an uplift in commercial revenue in part due to an increase in brand visibility in 2018/19,\" Deloitte said. \"The club also increased revenue from merchandise sales as a result of signing the marquee player.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson's first speech as prime minister in full\n\nBoris Johnson has delivered his first speech in Downing Street after becoming the UK's new prime minister.\n\nYou can read the full text of his speech below.\n\nI have just been to see Her Majesty the Queen who has invited me to form a government and I have accepted.\n\nI pay tribute to the fortitude and patience of my predecessor and her deep sense of public service.\n\nBut in spite of all her efforts, it has become clear that there are pessimists at home and abroad who think that after three years of indecision, that this country has become a prisoner to the old arguments of 2016 and that in this home of democracy we are incapable of honouring a basic democratic mandate.\n\nAnd so I am standing before you today to tell you, the British people, that those critics are wrong.\n\nThe doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters - they are going to get it wrong again.\n\nThe people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts, because we are going to restore trust in our democracy and we are going to fulfil the repeated promises of Parliament to the people and come out of the EU on October 31, no ifs or buts.\n\nAnd we will do a new deal, a better deal that will maximise the opportunities of Brexit while allowing us to develop a new and exciting partnership with the rest of Europe, based on free trade and mutual support.\n\nI have every confidence that in 99 days' time we will have cracked it. But you know what - we aren't going to wait 99 days, because the British people have had enough of waiting.\n\nThe time has come to act, to take decisions, to give strong leadership and to change this country for the better.\n\nAnd though the Queen has just honoured me with this extraordinary office of state my job is to serve you, the people.\n\nBecause if there is one point we politicians need to remember, it is that the people are our bosses.\n\nMy job is to make your streets safer - and we are going to begin with another 20,000 police on the streets and we start recruiting forthwith.\n\nMy job is to make sure you don't have to wait 3 weeks to see your GP - and we start work this week, with 20 new hospital upgrades, and ensuring that money for the NHS really does get to the front line.\n\nMy job is to protect you or your parents or grandparents from the fear of having to sell your home to pay for the costs of care.\n\nAnd so I am announcing now - on the steps of Downing Street - that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve.\n\nMy job is to make sure your kids get a superb education, wherever they are in the country - and that's why we have already announced that we are going to level up per pupil funding in primary and secondary schools.\n\nAnd that is the work that begins immediately behind that black door.\n\nAnd though I am today building a great team of men and women, I will take personal responsibility for the change I want to see.\n\nNever mind the backstop - the buck stops here.\n\nAnd I will tell you something else about my job. It is to be prime minister of the whole United Kingdom.\n\nAnd that means uniting our country, answering at last the plea of the forgotten people and the left-behind towns by physically and literally renewing the ties that bind us together.\n\nSo that with safer streets and better education and fantastic new road and rail infrastructure and full fibre broadband we level up across Britain with higher wages, and a higher living wage, and higher productivity.\n\nWe close the opportunity gap, giving millions of young people the chance to own their own homes and giving business the confidence to invest across the UK.\n\nBecause it is time we unleashed the productive power not just of London and the South East, but of every corner of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe awesome foursome that are incarnated in that red, white, and blue flag - who together are so much more than the sum of their parts, and whose brand and political personality is admired and even loved around the world.\n\nFor our inventiveness, for our humour, for our universities, our scientists, our armed forces, our diplomacy for the equalities on which we insist - whether race or gender or LGBT or the right of every girl in the world to 12 years of quality education - and for the values we stand for around the world\n\nEveryone knows the values that flag represents.\n\nIt stands for freedom and free speech and habeas corpus and the rule of law, and above all it stands for democracy.\n\nAnd that is why we will come out of the EU on October 31.\n\nBecause in the end, Brexit was a fundamental decision by the British people that they wanted their laws made by people that they can elect and they can remove from office.\n\nAnd we must now respect that decision, and create a new partnership with our European friends - as warm and as close and as affectionate as possible.\n\nAnd the first step is to repeat unequivocally our guarantee to the 3.2 million EU nationals now living and working among us, and I say directly to you - thank you for your contribution to our society.\n\nThank you for your patience, and I can assure you that under this government you will get the absolute certainty of the rights to live and remain.\n\nAnd next I say to our friends in Ireland, and in Brussels and around the EU: I am convinced that we can do a deal without checks at the Irish border, because we refuse under any circumstances to have such checks and yet without that anti-democratic backstop.\n\nAnd it is of course vital at the same time that we prepare for the remote possibility that Brussels refuses any further to negotiate, and we are forced to come out with no deal, not because we want that outcome - of course not - but because it is only common sense to prepare.\n\nAnd let me stress that there is a vital sense in which those preparations cannot be wasted, and that is because under any circumstances we will need to get ready at some point in the near future to come out of the EU customs union and out of regulatory control, fully determined at last to take advantage of Brexit.\n\nBecause that is the course on which this country is now set.\n\nWith high hearts and growing confidence, we will now accelerate the work of getting ready.\n\nAnd the ports will be ready and the banks will be ready, and the factories will be ready, and business will be ready, and the hospitals will be ready, and our amazing food and farming sector will be ready and waiting to continue selling ever more, not just here but around the world.\n\nAnd don't forget that in the event of a no deal outcome, we will have the extra lubrication of the £39 billion, and whatever deal we do we will prepare this autumn for an economic package to boost British business and to lengthen this country's lead as the number one destination in this continent for overseas investment.\n\nAnd to all those who continue to prophesy disaster, I say yes - there will be difficulties, though I believe that with energy and application they will be far less serious than some have claimed.\n\nBut if there is one thing that has really sapped the confidence of business over the last three years, it is not the decisions we have taken - it is our refusal to take decisions.\n\nAnd to all those who say we cannot be ready, I say do not underestimate this country.\n\nDo not underestimate our powers of organisation and our determination, because we know the enormous strengths of this economy in life sciences, in tech, in academia, in music, the arts, culture, financial services.\n\nIt is here in Britain that we are using gene therapy, for the first time, to treat the most common form of blindness.\n\nHere in Britain that we are leading the world in the battery technology that will help cut CO2 and tackle climate change and produce green jobs for the next generation.\n\nAnd as we prepare for a post-Brexit future, it is time we looked not at the risks but at the opportunities that are upon us.\n\nSo let us begin work now to create free ports that will drive growth and thousands of high-skilled jobs in left-behind areas.\n\nLet's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules, and let's develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.\n\nLet's get going now on our own position navigation and timing satellite and earth observation systems - UK assets orbiting in space, with all the long term strategic and commercial benefits for this country.\n\nLet's change the tax rules to provide extra incentives to invest in capital and research.\n\nAnd let's promote the welfare of animals that has always been so close to the hearts of the British people.\n\nAnd yes, let's start now on those free trade deals - because it is free trade that has done more than anything else to lift billions out of poverty.\n\nAll this and more we can do now and only now, at this extraordinary moment in our history.\n\nAnd after three years of unfounded self-doubt, it is time to change the record.\n\nTo recover our natural and historic role as an enterprising, outward-looking and truly global Britain, generous in temper and engaged with the world.\n\nNo one in the last few centuries has succeeded in betting against the pluck and nerve and ambition of this country.\n\nThey will not succeed today.\n\nWe in this government will work flat out to give this country the leadership it deserves, and that work begins now.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Football Association's Paul Elliott has called for the government to work alongside the sport's governing bodies to combat racism.\n\nStatistics compiled by football anti-discrimination campaigners Kick It Out suggested there had been a 43% increase in racist abuse in English football in 2018-19 from the previous season.\n\n\"We in football are giving off a message about zero tolerance,\" said the FA's inclusion advisory board chief.\n\n\"The government has to be alongside.\"\n\nIn December, the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) called for a government inquiry into racist abuse which followed alleged racist behaviour in the match between Tottenham and Chelsea.\n\nElliott added: \"There has to be a duty of care because the by-product of speaking out will be the positive impact and the positive behaviour in stadiums, which will then have a domino effect on societal behaviour.\n\n\"With the utmost respect, this is one area where there has to be a united front - we must be together.\"\n\nThe government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said in a statement: \"Racism or any form of discrimination has no place in football or society, and we must confront this vile behaviour.\n\n\"We are completely committed to working closely with football on tackling racism.\n\n\"The FA, Premier League and English Football League set out before the start of the season how they are taking further steps to address this issue. We are monitoring how their plans progress and are in regular dialogue with the football authorities throughout the season.\"\n• None 'Racism will never stop but it should die down' - Gibbs-White on racism and hero Regis\n• None Download and listen to the latest Football Daily podcast", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nTottenham gained a hard-fought victory over Championship side Middlesbrough in their FA Cup third-round replay.\n\nSpurs were gifted a second-minute lead when Boro goalkeeper Tomas Mejias passed the ball to Giovani lo Celso, who cut inside a challenge and scored.\n\nErik Lamela doubled the hosts' lead after 15 minutes when he flicked the ball past Mejias after a fine run.\n\nGeorge Saville pulled one back late on for Boro with a low strike from 20 yards out, but it was not enough.\n\nMiddlesbrough substitute Rudy Gestede had a chance to force extra-time but he could only head over the bar from eight yards as Spurs held on for the win.\n\nTottenham, who have won the FA Cup eight times, will play at Southampton in the fourth round on 25 January.\n• None Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast: Spurs go through but should they sell Kane?\n• None Tottenham v Middlesbrough as it happened and the rest of Tuesday's FA Cup action\n• None Quiz: Familiar faces in the Boro dugout but who played when Spurs won 2008 League Cup?\n\nThe FA Cup represents Tottenham's best chance of a trophy this season; they are eighth in the Premier League, out of the EFL Cup - after a shock third-round exit on penalties at League Two Colchester - and have a tricky tie against Bundesliga leaders RB Leipzig in the Champions League last 16.\n\nIf they were to win the FA Cup, it would be their first trophy since lifting the League Cup in 2008.\n\nBoro boss Jonathan Woodgate scored the winner for Spurs in that Wembley final against Chelsea 12 years ago, as part of a team that also included his assistant boss Robbie Keane.\n\nWoodgate and Keane's current side, cheered on by 3,700 fans who had travelled down from the north east in the first FA Cup tie at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, made an awful start after a horrible error from Mejias.\n\nThe Spanish goalkeeper, who played under Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid in 2011, tried to play a ball to Marvin Johnson, but Lo Celso intercepted the pass inside the penalty area, cut inside a challenge and curled a low effort into the net.\n\nBoro had a chance to equalise in the 13th minute but Lukas Nmecha, on loan from Manchester City, had his effort well saved by Paulo Gazzaniga and that proved costly as Lamela's goal three minutes later doubled the hosts' lead.\n\nWoodgate would be again unhappy with his side's defending as Jonny Howson was dispossessed 35 yards from goal, before Lamela was able to go on a jinking run and flick the ball with the outside of his foot past Mejias from 12 yards.\n\nSpurs then wasted numerous chances to kill the match off as Lamela shot over on the turn, Ryan Sessegnon had an effort pushed wide, Japhet Tanganga shot just off target and Lucas Moura wasted a chance from a counter-attack.\n\nBoro, 16th in the Championship, had opportunities to get themselves back into the tie, but Paddy McNair shot well over when unmarked eight yards out and Lewis Wing's direct free-kick was pushed around the post by Gazzaniga.\n\nSaville's 83rd-minute goal for the visitors gave them hope, but they could not find an equaliser.\n\nWith Harry Kane out until at least April after surgery on a hamstring injury, Spurs are light on attacking options and boss Mourinho took the chance to ease the workload on his other senior forwards, with Son Heung-min playing only the last 30 minutes, and Dele Alli making a brief appearance as a substitute, coming on after Saville's goal.\n\nThat meant another appearance in the starting 11 for Christian Eriksen, despite the midfielder, out of contract at the end of season, being linked with a January move to Inter Milan.\n\nEriksen, who has been with Spurs since 2013, had a chance to score after flicking the ball over the head of an opponent and being fouled - driving the resulting free-kick saved by Mejias.\n\nHe should have also been put through on goal, but team-mate Moura instead opted to shoot instead and could only drag an effort wide.\n\nEriksen nearly scored late in the second half when his low delivery in the penalty area was missed by everyone and Mejias had to get down well to push the ball away one-handed.\n\nThis was Tottenham's 31st match of the season and their 14th in a 53-day period since Mourinho's first game in charge on 23 November.\n\nHe will be pleased with the win and that extra-time was not needed but will be frustrated with the late goal conceded, meaning they have only kept one clean sheet in his 14 games in charge.\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in each of their past 41 FA Cup home matches against teams from a lower division (won 34, drew seven) since a 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest in January 1975.\n• None Middlesbrough have failed to keep a clean sheet in each of their past 13 meetings with Tottenham in all competitions since a 1-0 win at the Riverside Stadium in May 2005.\n• None For just the second time during his 923-game managerial career, Jose Mourinho has seen one of his clubs concede at least once in nine consecutive matches in all competitions, also suffering the same fate with Chelsea between May and September 2015.\n• None Timed at one minute 55 seconds, Lo Celso's strike was Spurs' earliest goal at the new stadium - and their earliest home goal since Eriksen scored against Manchester United at Wembley in the Premier League in January 2018.\n\n'We knew it was going to be difficult' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport, said: \"Three-nil was so close so many times. I told my players at half-time if we don't score [to make it] 3-0, then if it went 2-1 we would be in trouble and it happened.\n\n\"We knew the opponents were hard. They brought on Gestede and went direct and made problems and when it was 2-1 we knew it was going to be difficult.\n\n\"We tried our best. The boys are trying their best. They dealt well with many set-piece situations. We did lots of things well. We conceded the goal, a bit frustrating, but more frustrating was that we did not score three, four or five.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough manager Jonathan Woodgate, speaking to BBC Sport, said: \"I don't like losing games and when you gift Tottenham goals like that so early, you're fearing the worst. But my players showed character and we ran them close.\n\n\"If there's a way to lose then it's like that - putting a real show on and a real fight. The players gave everything for the shirt.\"\n\nOn the early error from keeper Tomas Mejias, Woodgate added: \"We all make mistakes and I won't hammer anyone for that - we want them to play out from the back.\"\n\nTottenham, who have only taken one point from their past three Premier League matches, return to league action on Saturday when they play at Watford (12:30 GMT). The fourth-round FA Cup tie at Southampton will be played on Saturday, 25 January (15:00).\n\nMiddlesbrough play again in three days time with an away match in the Championship at Fulham on Friday (19:45 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Fletcher (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marvin Johnson with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt missed. Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marvin Johnson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jonny Howson (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Tavernier.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Middlesbrough 1. George Saville (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rudy Gestede with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Marvin Johnson with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Winks. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Flybe boss Mark Anderson has told staff that he and the management team remain \"focused\" on turning the airline round.\n\nMr Anderson's comments came in an email to staff following reports that the airline is in crisis talks in an attempt to put together a rescue deal.\n\nAccording to Sky News, Flybe, which has already been bailed out once, has been struggling to secure fresh finance.\n\nIn his email, Mr Anderson stressed that Flybe was continuing to operate as normal.\n\n\"All my energy, and that of our Leadership Team, is very focused on continuing to turn Flybe, soon to be Virgin Connect, around and deliver the heartfelt service that our customers expect,\" he said.\n\n\"I do appreciate that the headlines some of you have already read are disturbing but I want you to know that we are determined to do everything we can to make this work.\"\n\nHe told staff he was \"extremely grateful\" for their hard work and commitment.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Flybe said it was focusing on \"providing great service and connectivity for our customers, to ensure that they can continue to travel as planned\".\n\nFlybe boss Mark Anderson has asked staff not to speculate on rumours and to focus on their work while it works to turn the airline around\n\nFlybe, the UK's biggest regional carrier, added: \"We don't comment on rumour or speculation.\"\n\nThe reports come a year after Flybe was bought for £2.8m by a consortium including Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group.\n\nSince then, the consortium has invested tens of millions of pounds in the troubled carrier, but losses have continued to mount.\n\nTourism adviser and researcher Prof Annette Pritchard, of the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research in Cardiff, commented on Twitter that Flybe provided \"a vital social and cultural link for many marginal economies\".\n\nBased in Exeter, Flybe carries about eight million passengers a year from airports such as Southampton, Cardiff and Aberdeen, to the UK and Europe.\n\nIts network of routes includes more than half of UK domestic flights outside London.\n\nIf the business collapses, more than 2,000 jobs will be at risk.\n\nMatthew Mills, a graphic designer based in Shropshire, recently booked flights for his family to Germany with Flybe.\n\nHe is also one of the 10,000 consumers still waiting to receive a refund from collapsed travel firm Thomas Cook on a holiday that was meant to take place in November.\n\n\"You don't know whether to laugh or cry,\" he told the BBC. \"We've used Flybe quite a bit in the past because we have family in Germany and we don't have many alternatives in the UK - if Flybe goes under, we'd be looking at 50% more in prices on flights to Germany, easily.\"\n\nWorried Flybe customers have taken to Twitter to express their concerns, saying they are still waiting for information on whether their flights will go ahead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC understands that EY has been lined up as administrators if Flybe were to go under.\n\nBrian Strutton, general secretary of pilots' union Balpa, said: \"I am appalled that once again the future of a major UK airline and hundreds of jobs is being discussed in secret with no input from employees or their representatives.\n\n\"According to reports, the airline could have collapsed over the weekend, which would have been devastating news.\"\n\nMr Strutton called on Flybe's owners and the government to talk to the union, saying staff had a right to know what was going on.\n\nExeter is home to Flybe's headquarters and a quick look at the departures and arrivals board here illustrate just how important the airline's connections are to the area. Of the eight departures to destinations such as Manchester, Newcastle and Jersey, seven of them are operated by Flybe.\n\nThe taxi driver who brought me from the train station told me his firm had paid £40,000 to secure a concession inside the terminal. \"Flybe is a massive part of our business\" before helpfully reeling off a list of arrivals and departure times he knew off the top of his head. Its not just the flights - over 400 people work at HQ, plus they run a training academy for apprentice plane engineers.\n\nThe airline is in talks with both the Department for Transport and the Business Department to see if the government can provide or facilitate a rescue. The government refused a request from Thomas Cook for £150m in emergency funding, with Boris Johnson claiming it would have provided a \"moral hazard\" - a dangerous precedent that would see the government called on to rescue other failing private companies.\n\nHowever, the government may face a political hazard. It has vowed to focus on regional connectivity which the collapse of Flybe would do nothing to improve.\n\nProf Loizos Heracleous, an aviation industry expert from Warwick Business School, said it would be \"no easy task\" for Flybe to attract new finance.\n\nHe added: \"The aviation industry is an unattractive industry in terms of performance and returns on investment at the best of times.\n\n\"It is saddled with high-cost assets, namely planes, and key costs that fluctuate uncontrollably, mainly fuel, which accounts for around a third of total airline costs.\n\n\"On top of that, they face high regulation, often aggressive unions, low barriers to entry that increase competition, and high bargaining power of buyers.\"\n\nBen Bradshaw, Labour MP for Exeter, said Flybe provided \"valuable connectivity throughout the UK\" and called on the government to intervene. He called Flybe \"a strategically important business\".\n\nThe industry regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, said: \"We do not comment on the financial situation of any of the organisations we regulate.\"\n\nAs long as Flybe carries on flying, there is no need to worry and certainly no reason to try to get your money back, writes Simon Gompertz, BBC personal finance correspondent.\n\nIf the airline was to fail, however, all flights would most likely be cancelled. Those with paid-for bookings could find they lose their flights and their cash.\n\nIf your flight is part of a package deal covered by the ATOL scheme, then you should be protected and have the right to a re-booking or refund.\n\nOtherwise you can try to retrieve the money from your credit card company, if that's how you paid. There is also a debit card chargeback scheme which can help.\n\nMany travel insurance policies are not much use in these situations, unless you stumped up extra for the Scheduled Airline Failure option or something similar.\n\nThose stuck overseas might be left hoping that the government will direct the CAA to step in, as it did when Monarch and Thomas Cook went under, to bring back stranded passengers for free.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Friends of high school student Arad Zarei held pictures of him at a vigil for victims of the Iran plane crash in Toronto\n\nA teenager who was brought up in London was among the 176 people killed when a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed in Iran, it has emerged.\n\nArad Zarei, 17, who relocated to Canada after attending St Mary's Primary School in Twickenham until 2014, was said to be visiting his mother.\n\nThe prime minister said four Britons are known to have died in the crash.\n\nThe Foreign Office has hardened its advice to warn Britons against all travel to, from and within Iran.\n\nA spokesman for Arad Zarei's former school said staff and governors were \"shocked and immensely saddened\" to hear of his death in the plane crash.\n\n\"Arad attended St Mary's until 2014 and is remembered fondly by his teachers.\n\n\"We wish to extend our prayers and condolences to Arad's family and friends at this time.\"\n\nThe crash on Wednesday came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.\n\nThe air strikes were in retaliation for the US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.\n\nWestern leaders, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have said evidence suggested the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile, possibly in error - something Iran denies.\n\nDominic Raab, [left] pictured at a news conference in Montreal, has said victims' families deserve to know the \"truth\" about what happened\n\nEchoing comments by Mr Johnson, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called for a thorough investigation, saying Iran should \"open up\" the crash site to international investigators, adding that grieving families deserved the \"truth\".\n\nAlso on board the flight from Tehran were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans and three Germans.\n\nThe names of three Britons who died in the crash have been released so far.\n\nBritish nationals Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, Sam Zokaei and Saeed Tahmasebi died in the crash\n\nMohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, 40, who ran a neighbourhood dry cleaners in Hassocks, West Sussex, had a nine-year-old daughter.\n\nBP engineer Sam Zokaei, 42, from Twickenham, and PhD student Saeed Tahmasebi, 35, who worked as an engineer for Laing O'Rourke in Dartford, were also killed.\n\nLast year, Mr Tahmasebi - whose full name was Saeed Tahmasebi Khademasadi - married his Iranian partner, Niloufar Ebrahim, who was also listed as a passenger on the plane.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe says the fallout from US-Iran tensions is a taking a toll on his wife\n\nMeanwhile, concerns have been raised for Britons detained in Iran, amid the growing tensions.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker from London who has been detained for more than three years over spying allegations she denies, held a meeting with Foreign Office officials on Friday.\n\nHe told the BBC the prime minister raised the cases of detained Britons when he spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday.\n\n\"This is a situation where there is a lot of anger in Iran and a lot of vulnerability, and it's very stressful for the people involved,\" he added.\n\n\"Nazanin was taken down to the clinic overnight two nights ago, through palpitations and panic attacks.\n\n\"So I think it's important for the government to just do what they can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mobile phone footage appears to show the plane in the moments before it came down\n\nThe wife of Anoosheh Ashoori, a British-Iranian dual national who has been in jail for more than two years over espionage charges which he denies, called on the UK government to do more to protect her husband.\n\nSherry Izadi said she was worried there could be a backlash against foreign prisoners.", "Children take part in a science lesson at Tower View Nursery in Glasgow\n\nFamilies are being urged to apply for new funded nursery places as the national entitlement increases this summer.\n\nPreviously parents could receive 600 hours of free childcare - roughly 16 hours per week in term time.\n\nIn August this increases to 1,140 hours a year for all three and four-year-olds, and a quarter of two-year-olds.\n\nIt is part of a \"landmark\" £1.5bn funding deal between the Scottish government and local authorities.\n\nChildren's minister Maree Todd said the new scheme could save each family as much as £4,500.\n\nHowever critics of the scheme have raised issues over cost, timing and a \"workforce crisis\" in nurseries.\n\nThousands more staff have been put in post in preparation for the new scheme\n\nIn 2017 the Scottish government announced it would almost double its funded childcare as part of a plan to reduce health, education and employment inequalities later in life.\n\nSpending watchdog Audit Scotland later warned of a \"significant risk\" that local authorities would not be able to fund the expansion.\n\nHowever the government and Cosla reached an agreement two months later. It set out plans to spend £990m on day-to-day funding for the scheme by 2021 - £150m more than the government's previous estimate.\n\nOpposition politicians had previously warned of a £160m \"black hole\" in the funding proposals.\n\nFunding will rise annually from £33m this financial year to £567m by 2021/22, totalling £1.5bn over five years.\n\nThe National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) produced research last year which showed 71% of employers struggled to recruit staff at practitioner level - and that Scotland's nursery staff turnover rate was 29%, higher than the UK average.\n\nIt recommended the scheme be reviewed annually to ensure nurseries could cover the cost of the new offer as well as keeping staff.\n\nSince March 2018 more than 270 nurseries have been built, extended or refurbished and an additional 4,300 full time equivalent staff are in post, according to the Scottish government.\n\nA phasing system was implemented last year giving approximately 50,000 children 1,140 hours of funded childcare ahead of the national rollout.\n\nMs Todd said this was to enable parents to explore work, training or education opportunities.\n\nShe said: \"Tens of thousands of children are already benefitting from high-quality early learning and childcare, and I've heard first-hand how it's helped to boost their confidence and communication skills, and given them access to more opportunities such as outdoor learning.\n\n\"I've also heard how it has made an enormous difference to families in terms of enabling mums and dads to get back into, or spend more time studying, working or training.\"\n\nEach council has separate application processes and deadlines.\n\nParents or carers can register through their local authority and apply for the option that suits their needs from the choices available.\n\nThis could be a council, private or third sector nursery, playgroup or childminder.\n\nThe Parent Club website will link to your local authority for more information.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man who broke into a Taco Bell in the early hours on Christmas Day was caught on CCTV making a snack and then taking a nap.\n\nThe incident happened in the US state of Georgia.\n\nPolice are appealing for the public's help in identifying him.", "A woman who says she was raped on holiday in Cyprus has told BBC News she was \"discouraged\" by Police Scotland from pursuing the case.\n\nShe said a Scottish man had spiked her drink at a beach party and then raped her in Ayia Napa two years ago.\n\nBut when she had told police back home, they had been \"dismissive\", saying it would be hard to find the man and she had decided not to take further action.\n\nThe force said she had been interviewed by specially-trained officers.\n\nHer story comes after a separate British woman was given a suspended sentence earlier this month for lying about being raped by a group of young men.\n\nSophie - not her real name - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she remembered \"going in and out of consciousness\" during the rape and had woken up on the beach.\n\n\"I was raped just outside the party but even the atmosphere inside was so sexualised,\" she said.\n\n\"It was almost as if the men felt entitled to touch the women, young women.\n\n\"It's just the culture there... and it's so not right.\n\n\"There were taxi men who would offer free lifts to bars just for girls.\n\n\"My friends took one of the free lifts one time and the following night the same taxi men just showed up at our villa unannounced - he touched my boobs.\n\n\"After seeing what Ayia Napa was like... and as I didn't know much about the laws there, I didn't feel comfortable going to the police there.\n\n\"Especially as the whole place had lots of men being creepy.\"\n\nSophie returned to the UK as quickly as possible and went to see a GP, who told her to report the rape to police.\n\nShe said they had told her they \"could do tests to see if I was drugged but in the end they didn't even do any tests\".\n\n\"They were very dismissive from the outset,\" she said.\n\n\"They said they'd have to hand over to the Cypriot police.\n\n\"I asked them to check if my anonymity would be compromised and they said they didn't know.\n\n\"They were discouraging and said it would be difficult to find the rapist, that the courts can be tough on victims and that I'd be scrutinised a lot.\"\n\nSophie decided at that point she would not take any further action.\n\nShe attended a sexual assault clinic, where swabs were taken for evidence in case she wanted to go back to the authorities in future, but she has yet to do this.\n\nDet Supt Donna Duffy, Greater Glasgow Division, said it was contacted in June 2017 by a woman seeking advice and reporting she may have been the victim of a sexual assault abroad.\n\n\"The woman was interviewed by two specially-trained officers from Greater Glasgow Divisional Rape Investigation Unit, however, no formal complaint was made,\" she said.\n\n\"We are unaware of any forensic tests confirming the presence of DNA following a medical examination at a sexual assault clinic.\n\n\"Police Scotland thoroughly investigates all reports of sexual offences and will be responsive to the needs of the victim. Given the information provided we will make efforts to speak to this woman again in the coming days.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "US regulators are seeking to fine Boeing $5.4m (£4.14m) for \"knowingly\" installing faulty parts on 737 Max planes.\n\nThe move comes after the release of internal messages that raised more questions about the jet's safety.\n\nIn one of the communications, an employee said the plane was \"designed by clowns\".\n\nBoeing has been under scrutiny since the fatal crashes of two 737 Max planes, which killed 346 people.\n\nThe fine announced by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday is not connected to the software system that investigators have implicated in those crashes.\n\nIt concerns \"slat tracks\" that are located on the wings.\n\nThe FAA said the company submitted the jets for FAA approval despite determining that the wing parts had failed a strength test. It also accused Boeing of failing to oversee its suppliers properly.\n\nThe planemaker has the right to contest the penalty, which follows a $3.9m fine the FAA proposed against the US aerospace giant for similar reasons last month.\n\nBoeing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nThe announcement heightens the pressure on the company, which is now facing multiple investigations following the 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.\n\nLast month, the company fired chief executive Dennis Muilenburg. The firm said Friday it had denied him severance and that he had forfeited stock awards worth about $14.6m.\n\nAs part of the investigations, Boeing has provided hundreds of messages to the FAA and Congress. It said it had released redacted versions this week as part of its commitment to transparency.\n\n\"These communications do not reflect the company we are and need to be, and they are completely unacceptable,\" Boeing said.\n\nIn one exchange in April 2017, an unnamed employee wrote: \"This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.\"\n\nThe documents also showed Boeing planning to push back against requirements that 737 Max pilots receive training on simulators, which would have led to higher costs for its customers, making its aircraft less attractive.\n\n\"I want to stress the importance of holding firm that there will not be any type of simulator training required to transition from NG to Max,\" Boeing's 737 chief technical pilot at the time, Mark Forkner, said in a March 2017 email.\n\n\"Boeing will not allow that to happen. We'll go face to face with any regulator who tries to make that a requirement.\"\n\nOn Tuesday this week, Boeing reversed its position by recommending 737 Max simulator training for all pilots.\n\nThese messages refer to Boeing employees telling lies, covering up problems and treating regulators with contempt.\n\nThey reinforce the impression - already expressed vividly by whistleblowers and in Congressional hearings - that Boeing was a company that had lost its way, focused on maximising production and keeping costs down, rather than on safety.\n\nWill all this actually harm Boeing though? It's questionable.\n\nThe company's reputation has already been savaged; it may be calculating that it now has little to lose by being transparent about past failures.\n\nBut it is easy to see now why the relationship between Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration has deteriorated so far - and why the recertification of the 737 Max has taken so long.\n\nStaff also appear to discuss problems with the simulators.\n\nIn February 2018, a Boeing worker asked a colleague: \"Would you put your family on a Max simulator-trained aircraft? I wouldn't.\"\n\nBoeing has said it is redesigning the automated control system thought to have been the primary cause of the crashes.\n\nBut 737 Max planes have been grounded worldwide since March and with no sign from regulators that the aircraft will be re-approved for flight anytime soon, the firm has been forced to halt production of the planes.\n\nOn Friday, the economic costs started to be felt as Spirit Aerosystems, a major Boeing supplier, said it would cut 2,800 jobs at a plant in Kansas, and expected smaller layoffs at some of its other factories.\n\n\"Spirit is taking this action because of the 737 MAX production suspension and ongoing uncertainty regarding the timing of when production will resume and the level of production when it does resume,\" the company said in a statement, which noted that Boeing has hundreds of 737 planes in storage.\n\nThe FAA said of the emails that safety problems had been addressed.\n\nHowever, the regulator added: \"The tone and content of some of the language contained in the documents is disappointing.\"\n\nIn the emails and instant messages, employees spoke of their frustration with the company's culture, complaining about the drive to find the cheapest suppliers and \"impossible schedules\".\n\n\"I don't know how to fix these things... it's systemic. It's culture. It's the fact we have a senior leadership team that understand very little about the business and yet are driving us to certain objectives,\" said an employee in an email dated June 2018.\n\nAnd in a May 2018 message, an unnamed Boeing employee said: \"I still haven't been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year.\"\n\nWithout citing what was covered up, the employee added: \"Can't do it one more time, the pearly gates will be closed.\"\n\nBoeing said that some of the messages \"raise questions\" about the company's interactions with the FAA in discussions about the simulator.\n\nBut the company dismissed safety concerns, saying that the issues raised in the emails occurred at the start of the simulators.\n\nIt said: \"We remain confident in the regulatory process for qualifying these simulators.\"", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said parts of the deal were \"compromise outcomes\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said the governments' draft deal is not \"perfect\", but \"there is a basis upon which the assembly and executive can be re-established\".\n\nThe text was published on Thursday night.\n\nArlene Foster said: \"There are elements within it which we recognise are the product of long negotiations and represent compromise outcomes.\"\n\nShe was speaking before Sinn Féin backed the deal on Friday.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith said he hoped the the deal could see the assembly reconvene on Friday but the speaker Robin Newton made clear that could only happen when the parties approached him.\n\nThe DUP leader Mrs Foster said the party had weighed the governments' paper against its 10 commitments for negotiations.\n\n\"There will always need to be give and take,\" she said.\n\n\"The key to making devolution work will be having the resources to do so.\n\n\"This element of the paper will require further scrutiny.\"\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary-Lou McDonald said her party would \"assess\" the text\n\nThe draft deal was welcomed as an \"historic advancement\" by the Irish language group Conradh na Gaeilge.\n\nHowever, it said the proposed legislation \"falls very much short\" of promises for an Irish language act.\n\n\"The role and remit of the commissioner being left to the sign-off of OFMDFM [Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister - now the Executive Office] leaves us at the whim of a veto being used against core components of the legislation and drafting and delivery of services, said Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin from the group.\n\n\"The use of any veto to limit, obstruct or frustrate delivery of services and rights would undoubtedly erode trust and could be potentially catastrophic for any incoming Executive.\"\n\nQuestioned earlier on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan show about whether a unionist veto around the Irish language was included in the small print of the draft document, DUP chief whip Sir Jeffrey Donaldson confirmed: \"Unionist consent will be required\".\n\nHe said: \"That is the way Stormont operates. It operates on the basis that there has to be cross-community consent.\n\n\"We will not agree to standards that impose Irish on people who don't speak it.\n\n\"There will be no compulsory Irish in schools and there will be no Irish road signs.\"\n\nThe Orange Order released a statement saying it has \"very serious concerns\" about the draft deal and could not support the proposal to appoint an Irish language commissioner.\n\n\"The document, which has been released with a purposely narrow window for meaningful consideration, is clearly far reaching in its provision for the Irish language and its subsequent future role in the political and civic life of Northern Ireland,\" the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland's statement said.\n\nIt added that in contrast to measures to promote the Irish language, \"references to Ulster-Scots/Ulster British culture are ambiguous -lacking meaningful detail\".\n\nThe Orange Order said it would comment further on the draft deal in the coming days after consulting more widely with its members\n\nUUP leader Steve Aiken said the party is \"committed to a return to devolution that is fair and sustainable\".\n\nUUP leader Steve Aiken said his party will attend if the Assembly is recalled\n\nHe said: \"We will consider this complex and far-reaching document carefully and consult widely within our party before making any further comments.\n\n\"If the assembly is recalled on Friday, the Ulster Unionist Party MLAs will attend and consider the business put before them.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong questioned whether the reforms of the petition of concern detailed in the draft deal go far enough.\n\nAlliance MLA Kellie Armstrong has concerns about the petition of concern\n\n\"That is what we are trying to consider at the moment. This is a new approach,\" she said.\n\nShe said detailed work was also needed on Friday to define the financial aspect of the deal and \"the amount of money that has been talked about\" for public services in Northern Ireland.\n\nGreen Party NI leader Clare Bailey echoed Alliance's concerns that proposed reform of the petition of concern was insufficient and expressed some disappointment that environmental protections in the deal do not go far enough.\n\nHowever, Ms Bailey added she was \"hopeful that this is a deal that will see the restoration of the devolved institutions\".\n\nShe said it \"provides a chance to build towards delivery and accountability\" at Stormont.\n\nA key focus of the deal is the implementation of health and social care reform, including an end to the healthcare strikes which demand pay parity and safe staffing levels.\n\nSpeaking at a picket line in Antrim, the Royal College of Nursing President Anne Marie Rafferty said nurses \"want to see the ink on the paper and the deal delivered\".\n\n\"Words are not enough, deeds are what actually counts.\"\n\n\"It has been a cliff edge moment.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing said \"words are not enough\"\n\nEducation is another area which has come under financial pressure, with the deal promising that schools will have a sustainable core budget.\n\nGeri Cameron, President of the National Association of Head Teachers in Northern Ireland, said while \"detail is scant\", its representatives are willing to work with MLAs going forward.\n\nIndustry leaders have also been reacting to the proposals. Trade NI, which is an alliance of Retail NI, Manufacturing NI and Hospitality NI, released a statement urging \"all the main parties in Northern Ireland to sign the deal today and get the assembly back up and running.\"\n\n\"The clear prioritisation of the Northern Ireland economy highlights the many challenges that businesses have faced over the past three years.\"\n\nThe Institute of Directors Northern Ireland (IoDNI) said commitments for infrastructure projects such as the York Street Interchange, upgrades to the A5 and A6 and Northern Ireland's sewage network were \"particularly pleasing\".\n\n\"Plans for multi-year budgets and increased civic engagement will also improve overall governance,\" said the IoD's National Director Kirsty McManus.\n\n\"From a business perspective however, we would have liked to have seen more around a new skills agenda, which urgently require focus alongside a renewed look at the Apprenticeship Levy which is not included in this deal.", "Counter-terrorism police in south-east England have admitted an \"error of judgement\" after listing Extinction Rebellion as an \"extreme ideology\".\n\nFirst reported in the Guardian, the police guide - aimed at stopping young people being radicalised - suggested referring those at risk of extremism to the government's Prevent programme.\n\n\"How dare they,\" said climate change group Extinction Rebellion.\n\nPolice are now reviewing and recalling the document.\n\nThe climate change group was listed alongside banned groups like National Action in the 12-page guide.\n\nThe document was produced by Counter Terrorism Policing South East - part of the national counter-terrorism policing network - and given to police forces and government organisations.\n\nCalled \"safeguarding young people and adults from ideological extremism\", the guide itself also says it was produced for those who work with young people or the public, as well as local authorities.\n\nIt was designed to help \"recognise when young people or adults may be vulnerable to extreme or violent ideologies\", it reads.\n\nIt says spotting one of the signs in isolation may not mean someone has been radicalised, but \"in combination or in circumstances where they do not 'fit', they may indicate an individual at risk\".\n\n\"In such cases, consider whether the individual is vulnerable to extremism and should be referred to the UK government's Prevent programme.\"\n\nThe Prevent programme is part of the government's counter-terrorism strategy and urges local communities to flag up anyone at risk of joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.\n\nThe guide lists several groups, such as the neo-Nazi group National Action and Islamist extremist group Al Muhajiroun - both of which are banned in the UK.\n\nIt also has pages on far-right youth network Generation Identity, extreme Satanism and animal rights extremism.\n\nOn the page about Extinction Rebellion, the guide describes the group as: \"A campaign encouraging protest and civil disobedience to pressure governments to take action on climate change and species extinction.\"\n\nUnder the heading \"why are they a threat?\", the guide reads: \"An anti-establishment philosophy that seeks system change underlies its activism; the group attracts to its events school-age children and adults unlikely to be aware of this.\n\n\"While non-violent against persons, the campaign encourages other law-breaking activities.\"\n\nThe guide says signs someone is involved in Extinction Rebellion might be the use of phrases like \"rise up\" or \"rebel\".\n\nOr \"you may see or hear of young people taking part in 'NVDA' (non-violent direct action) such as sit-down protests, 'die-ins',\" the guide suggests.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Extinction Rebellion group said: \"Teachers, grandparents, nurses have been trying their best with loving non-violence to get politicians and big business to do something about the dire state of our planet.\n\n\"And this is how the establishment responds.\"\n\nIn a statement, Det Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, said: \"I would like to make it quite clear that we do not classify Extinction Rebellion as an extremist organisation.\n\n\"The inclusion of Extinction Rebellion in this document was an error of judgement and we will now be reviewing all of the contents as a result.\n\n\"It was produced by CTPSE to assist our statutory partners - including police forces and government organisations - in identifying people who may [be] vulnerable as a result of their links to some organisations.\"\n\nLast year saw multiple protests organised by Extinction Rebellion across the UK\n\nDet Ch Supt Barnes added that the document was \"designed for a very specific audience who understand the complexities of the safeguarding environment we work within and who have statutory duties under Prevent\".\n\nShe said they are in the process of confirming who the guide has been shared with and recalling it.\n\n\"We as Counter Terrorism Policing, along with our partners, have a responsibility to protect vulnerable people. Officers are trained to spot those who may be vulnerable, and the membership of an organisation that supports environmental or animal welfare issues alone would not be a trigger.\"", "A woman disguised herself as a teenage boy to sexually assault girls after grooming them online.\n\nGemma Watts posed as 16-year-old \"Jake Waton\" on social media and swapped intimate photos with victims before meeting at locations across England.\n\nWatts, 21, of Enfield, pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court to sexual offences involving four girls and was jailed for eight years.\n\nPolice believe she may have assaulted up to 50 victims in total.\n\nScotland Yard said Watts had used her own picture on Snapchat and Instagram accounts as \"Jake\" and targeted girls aged 13 to 16 by liking their profiles.\n\nShe used teenage slang, sent flattering messages and shared intimate photographs before travelling to meet them in person.\n\nHer disguise included tying her hair back in a bun and wearing a baseball cap, jogging bottoms and a hoodie.\n\nPolice said all of her victims believed they were in a relationship with a teenage boy until officers revealed Watts was actually an adult woman.\n\nShe was so convincing she even spent time as \"Jake\" with some of the girls' parents.\n\nThe court heard two of the victims had since made several suicide attempts because of their experiences.\n\nOne 14-year-old girl said her \"heart exploded\" when she learned the truth about Watts from the police.\n\nIn a victim statement read out in court, she said: \"My world stopped, I actually stopped breathing... I loved him so much.\"\n\nThe offences she has admitted relate to a 13-year-old from Plymouth, two 14-year-olds from Surrey and Hampshire and a 16-year-old from the West Midlands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Con Phillipa Kenwright said the victims \"all believed they were in a relationship with a male\"\n\nBarnaby Shaw, prosecuting, said Watts repeatedly groped one of the victims during regular overnight stays over a three-month period.\n\nOn one occasion, he said the girl believed she was touching Watts' genitals but was deceived by \"what must have been a number of socks tightly rolled together\".\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Susan Evans QC said Watts had groomed young girls for her own gratification.\n\n\"Their youth, as you plainly knew, made them more naive and made you more likely to get away with your deception,\" she told Watts.\n\nDet Con Phillipa Kenwright said the victims \"all believed they were in a relationship with a male\" and had been \"completely taken in\" by Watts.\n\nShe added: \"It's been life-changing for all of the victims involved.\"\n\nThe officer said she believed Watts could have duped \"20 to 50\" victims in total.\n\nWatts arrives at Winchester Crown Court for her sentencing\n\nA doctor in Hampshire first raised concerns to police in March 2018 after a young patient revealed she was in a relationship with an older boy.\n\nIn July that year Watts admitted to Met officers she had been sexually active as \"Jake\" with the first three victims.\n\nShe was released under investigation and arrested again in October 2018 by British Transport Police who found her on a train with a fourth victim.\n\nOfficers initially thought Watts was a 16-year-old boy and were taking her home to London before they realised her true identity.\n\nIn November 2019, Watts pleaded guilty to one count of assault by penetration, three counts of meeting a child following sexual grooming and three counts of sexual assault.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nicholas Plummer, from Hampshire Constabulary, said: \"This is a truly shocking case. It serves as a reminder to us all about the lengths a perpetrator will go to exploit children.\n\n\"Parents and carers should have the confidence to speak to their children about their online activity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brusthom Ziamani was inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, his trial at the Old Bailey heard\n\nAn inmate suspected of attacking an officer at a maximum security prison was jailed for planning to behead a soldier, the BBC has learned.\n\nHe is understood to be Brusthom Ziamani, 24, who was found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism in 2015.\n\nThe attack at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire on Thursday, in which four other prison staff were injured, happened as cells were unlocked.\n\nOne officer was slashed and stabbed, the others had rushed to help.\n\nZiamani was assisted by another prisoner, a Muslim convert who was serving time for a violent offence.\n\nBoth inmates were wielding bladed weapons and wearing fake suicide vests during the attack.\n\nThe male officer suffered wounds to his face but his injuries are not believed to be life threatening.\n\nNo arrests have been made, the Met Police said.\n\nThe assault by two inmates at Whitemoor was \"quickly resolved,\" the prison service said\n\nDuring his trial at the Old Bailey it was revealed that Ziamani had been inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby and used the internet to research cadet bases.\n\nHe converted to Islam in 2014 and, months later, was arrested in east London in possession of a 12-inch-long knife and a hammer.\n\nZiamani was 18 when held in 2014 as part of a joint operation by the Met Police and MI5.\n\nHe was jailed for 22 years but the sentence was later reduced on appeal.\n\nThe Met Police said it was \"deemed appropriate\" its counter-terrorism command unit was sent to HMP Whitemoor \"due to certain circumstances relating to this incident\".\n\nA prison service spokesman said: \"The incident was quickly resolved by our brave staff and our thoughts are with the injured officers at this time.\n\n\"We do not tolerate assaults on our hardworking officers and will push for the strongest possible punishment.\"\n\nIn a tweet, the general secretary of the Prison Officers Association (POA), Steve Gillan, wrote: \"Having liaised with the Whitemoor committee today an official statement will be made tomorrow morning by the POA in a press release.\n\n\"Nothing will be said on social media by the POA that compromises an ongoing police investigation into a very serious incident.\"\n\nHMP Whitemoor houses more than 400 Category A and B prisoners on three wings, including a number of the highest-risk inmates.\n\nIn February last year, a \"small number\" of prison staff there had to receive medical treatment after violence broke out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Ministry Of Defence's \"poor management\" of Britain's nuclear weapons programme has led to rising costs and lengthy delays, according to the government spending watchdog.\n\nThe National Audit Office looked at three security sites in England, known as the Defence Nuclear Estate.\n\nIt found the infrastructure projects face delays of between one and six years, with costs increasing by £1.3bn.\n\nThe MoD said it would carefully look at the report's findings.\n\nThe projects, initially valued at £2.5bn, are being built to enhance or replace existing facilities at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, where four new submarines are being built by BAE Systems to carry Trident missiles.\n\nThe other sites are Raynesway near Derby, where Rolls Royce is developing nuclear reactors to power the submarines, and at Burghfield in Berkshire, where the Atomic Weapons Establishment are assembling nuclear warheads.\n\nNearly half of the £1.3bn in increased costs are due to construction starting too early and then having to be revised, the NAO found.\n\nThe watchdog acknowledged there have been unique challenges, including the need to comply with stricter security and safety regulations for the nuclear industry, such as the construction of buildings able to withstand seismic activity.\n\nBut it said the MoD did not have the controls in place to overcome these barriers and prevent infrastructure designs from being over-specified and to ensure designs are \"cost-effective\".\n\nThe NAO also criticised what it called \"poor contracts\", with the MoD taking all the risks and with the work being carried out by \"monopolistic\" suppliers.\n\nBAE Systems earned an extra £10m in management fees following cost increases.\n\nThe company has no liability for costs and damages relating to non-performance. AWE also received additional fees when work was deferred.\n\nThe report said it was disappointing to see the MoD making similar mistakes to ones it made 30 years ago.\n\nIt says the department should not have allowed work to start too early and should have more control to agree to cost-effective designs.\n\nIn not doing so, the MoD's early management of the programme has \"not delivered value for money\", said the NAO.\n\nGareth Davies, the head of the NAO, said the \"MoD's failure to mitigate commercial and delivery risks early on has led to project delays and cost increases as well as impacting its wider work\".\n\nDominic Cummings, the prime minister's chief special adviser, has been a harsh critic of defence procurement\n\nThe spending watchdog did acknowledge oversight had recently improved.\n\nBut the criticisms will likely catch the attention of the prime minister's chief special adviser, Dominic Cummings, who wants to overhaul the way the MoD buys military equipment.\n\nMr Cummings, who has been a harsh critic of defence procurement, has already held talks with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace about ways of tackling waste.\n\nMr Wallace recently admitted there was a shortfall in the department's budget.\n\nIn a statement the Ministry of Defence said it was carefully examining the conclusions of the report but was committed to strengthening the management of its nuclear programme.", "Rebecca Long Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips (l to r) have all secured the number of nominations needed\n\nRebecca Long Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips have secured support to run in the contest to succeed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe MPs for Salford and Eccles, Wigan and Birmingham Yardley join Sir Keir Starmer on the ballot paper.\n\nCandidates need 22 Labour MPs or MEPs to nominate them before Monday.\n\nEmily Thornberry and Clive Lewis have also declared they are running, but Barry Gardiner, who was considering joining, has now ruled himself out.\n\nMs Thornberry - the shadow foreign secretary - has only secured seven nominations so far, while Mr Lewis - a shadow treasury minister - has four.\n\nThere is also a contest to become deputy leader after Tom Watson stepped down in December.\n\nThe new leader and deputy leader will be announced on 4 April.\n\nShadow business secretary Mrs Long Bailey has 26 nominations so far.\n\nHer supporters include shadow chancellor John McDonnell, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery - who had been considering his own run.\n\nBoth Ms Phillips and Ms Nandy have 22 nominations.\n\nMs Phillips has the backing of former Labour ministers Margaret Hodge and Chris Bryant, while Ms Nandy has shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth and former shadow minister Jack Dromey on side.\n\nThe leadership candidates tweeted to thank the people who had nominated them, with Ms Phillips celebrating the amount she had raised through crowdfunding, adding: \"It means so much to be powered by people.\"\n\nMs Nandy said she was \"proud\" to have gained support from MPs \"representing different parts of the country and different traditions in our movement\".\n\nAnd Mrs Long Bailey tweeted that her nomination was \"an honour and responsibility\" that she took \"incredibly seriously\", adding: \"Together we will build a winning vision of a socialist future.\"\n\nHowever, all three candidates are behind the shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir, who has secured 63 nominations so far - including from the shadow leader of the House Valerie Vaz and shadow Brexit minister Paul Blomfield.\n\nHe also got the backing of the UK's largest union Unison.", "A packaging firm has announced plans to close two factories, which could lead to the loss of up to 208 jobs.\n\nMondi said it would close operations at the Deeside Industrial Park, Flintshire, where 167 jobs are at risk, and in Nelson, Lancashire, with 41 jobs affected.\n\nThe firm said a \"change in demand for the niche products\" at the sites has led to their potential closures.\n\nThe company also said its CEO, Peter Oswald, will step down by 31 March.\n\nMondi has a factory at the Deeside Industrial Park in Flintshire\n\nThe closure is expected by the second half of 2020.\n\nThe Mondi Group was formed in South Africa in 1967 and now employs about 26,000 people in about 30 countries and creates paper and plastic packaging products.\n\nIts Deeside and Nelson plants create bags, pouches and laminates for the consumer industry.\n\nA statement released by Mondi said it will start a 45-day consultation process which could lead to the closure of the factories.\n\nIt said: \"Mondi sees no alternative than to start a consultation process on the potential closure.\n\n\"Employees will be given support during the consultation and implementation of the ultimately agreed proposal, and Mondi will follow all legal procedures in accordance with UK labour law.\n\n\"Mondi remains fully committed to flexible plastics packaging and will continue to serve its UK customers from its wide network of production facilities across Europe.\"\n\nMore than 40 jobs will be lost from the firm's Lancashire factory under plans", "Segway's S-Pod was offline at CES after a crash during a demonstration\n\nSegway's prototype wheelchair crashed during a demonstration at the CES tech show.\n\nThe S-Pod - a self-balancing electric wheelchair - was being tested by a journalist at the time. The rider had accelerated the vehicle before accidently crashing into a wall.\n\nIts maximum speed is 24mph (38km/h). The company said no one was injured.\n\nThe crash made the S-Pod unavailable for further demos, but analysts say the company should not face lasting damage.\n\n\"In no way is a [malfunction] a total loss. It is still a sign to the public that the company is close to the finished product,\" said Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research.\n\nThe S-Pod is designed to be driven in enclosed spaces such as airports, theme parks and work campuses.\n\nSegway's director of marketing Jeff Wu told the BBC the concept model did not have a safety belt, but that his company intended to add one.\n\nThe Chinese firm did not say how much it had spent on the prototype, but companies often spend millions of dollars developing products to have them ready to exhibit at the annual Las Vegas expo.\n\nThe S-Pod is expected to go on sale in early 2021.\n\nThe demo model had received significant media attention for its design. It is inspired by the geospheres in the film Jurassic World. Many on social media have also compared the vehicle to the hover chairs in the animated Pixar film Wall-E.\n\nSegway's self-balancing electric chair was inspired by the movie Jurassic World\n\nSegway is best known for its electric scooters, which are controlled by riders moving forwards, backwards or to the side. However, the S-Pod is steered via a joystick on its armrest.\n\nThe crash is the latest in a long history of mishaps at the tech show.\n\n\"One reason that companies increasingly release products at their own separate events is because they have [greater] control over the environment,\"commented Mr Rubin.\n\nEven so, trade shows can be still a valuable way to show off new concepts to large audiences, especially for smaller brands, he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: LG's marketing chief said Cloi \"doesn't like me\" after it ignored his commands\n\nIts artificial intelligence robot Cloi repeatedly failed to respond to commands on stage.\n\nThe presenter was left to awkwardly joke that Cloi \"doesn't like me\".\n\nRazer claims that its three-screened Project Valerie concept laptop is a world first\n\nTwo unusual gaming laptops, each with three 4K screens, were among of the hits of 2017's CES.\n\nBut Razer's concept computers caught the wrong eye and were stolen from the PC-maker's booth before the event ended.\n\nOne of the models was later spotted for sale on a Chinese e-commerce site, although it is unclear whether this was a hoax.\n\nFuture Motion alleged that its designs have been illegally copied by rival firm.\n\nIn 2016, US Marshals raided the CES booth of a Chinese hoverboard maker, Changzhou First International Trade Co.\n\nUS-based rival Future Motion had accused the company of stealing its intellectual property.\n\nActing on an order from a judge, the authorities confiscated several of the Asian firm's one-wheeled scooters.\n\nBut the case was later dropped.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Bay initially said he would \"wing it\" after his autocue malfunctioned\n\nHollywood director Michael Bay is best known for being behind the cameras of movie series such as the Transformers films.\n\nBut in 2014, Samsung thought it wise to put him in front of the press to help call attention to its latest TVs.\n\nHis appearance was certainly memorable, but for all the wrong reasons after he walked off stage mid-presentation because of a problem with the autocue.\n\nBill Gates found himself in the middle of a technical glitch at CES in 2005.\n\nThe Microsoft founder was presenting Windows Media Center with US comedian Conan O'Brien.\n\nUsing a remote control he attempted to pull up a slideshow of photos, but nothing appeared after several clicks.\n\n\"Right now, nine people are being fired,\" Mr O'Brien joked.", "The attack happened as prison cells were being unlocked\n\nAn attack on prison staff by two inmates with bladed weapons is being treated as a terror attack, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.\n\nFour officers and a nurse were injured at HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire, on Thursday.\n\nOne attacker is understood to be Brusthom Ziamani, 24, found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism in 2015.\n\nAll five staff have since been released from hospital and the Met's Counter Terrorism Command is investigating.\n\nOne officer at the maximum security jail sustained serious stab injuries to his head, face and back when he was attacked from behind by the two inmates wearing fake suicide belts and using improvised weapons, POA general secretary Steve Gillan said.\n\n\"There is no doubt in my mind that but for the bravery of staff, then this morning we could have been talking about a death of a prison officer at Whitemoor Prison,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UK Prime Minister This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe officer was attacked as the cells were being unlocked on Thursday morning.\n\nHe was set upon from behind and the inmates attempted to force him into a storage cupboard he was unlocking.\n\nThe other four members of staff were hurt when they tried to help their colleague.\n\nWhitemoor inmate Brusthom Ziamani is understood to be one of those responsible for the attack\n\nThey were two male prison officers, one female officer and a prison nurse.\n\nOne officer was stabbed in the hand and the others received facial injuries, according to Mr Gillan.\n\nAll five were treated in hospital but have since been discharged.\n\nShouts of \"Allahu Akbar\" (God is the greatest) were reportedly heard during the attack.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken of the attack on Twitter, saying: \"My thoughts are with the prison staff who were injured in the suspected terrorist incident at HMP Whitemoor and I would like to thank them, and the emergency services, for their courageous response.\n\n\"We owe those who keep us safe a huge debt of gratitude.\"\n\nZiamani was inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, his trial at the Old Bailey heard\n\nZiamani, understood to be one of those responsible, was jailed in 2015 for planning to behead a soldier, the BBC has learned.\n\nIn the prison attack, he was assisted by another inmate, a Muslim convert who was serving time for a violent offence.\n\nThe Met said that \"due to the circumstances relating to this incident, it was deemed appropriate for the investigation to be carried out by officers from the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command\".\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, senior national co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP), has confirmed the matter is being treated as a terror attack.\n\nThe force said there was \"nothing to suggest any continuing threat inside or outside of the prison system linked to yesterday's incident\".\n\nNo arrests have yet been made.\n\nThe maximum security jail houses more than 400 inmates\n\nHMP Whitemoor houses more than 400 Category A and B prisoners on three wings, including a number of the highest-risk inmates.\n\nIn February last year, a \"small number\" of prison staff there needed medical treatment after violence broke out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online food ordering company Takeaway.com has won the battle for the UK-listed Just Eat with a £5.9bn all-share offer.\n\nThe deal will create one of the world's largest meal delivery companies.\n\nThe merged company, which will be led by Takeaway chief executive Jitse Groen, will have its headquarters in Amsterdam and a listing in London.\n\nThe joint group will bring together businesses that process 360 million annual orders worth €7.3bn (£6.6bn).\n\n\"I am thrilled,\" said Mr Groen. \"Just Eat Takeaway.com is a dream combination and I am very much looking forward to leading the company for many years to come.\"\n\nTakeaway said that 80.4% of Just Eat shareholders had agreed to its latest all-share offer, passing a 50% threshold needed to make the offer unconditional.\n\nThe bid was worth 889 pence per share at the latest close, trumping a rival bid of 800 pence per share in cash from Prosus.\n\nThe fight to buy Just Eat began in August, when Takeaway struck a management-backed deal to buy Just Eat that would see Takeaway holding a 48% stake in the combined firm.\n\nThat plan was upended when Prosus laid down the first of three unsolicited rival bids in October. All were rejected as inadequate by Just Eat managers.\n\nProsus argued Takeaway was underestimating the investment needed to fend off rivals such as Uber Eats and Amazon.com.\n\nMr Groen responded that food delivery was a low-margin business, and investments should focus on becoming the dominant ordering platform.\n\nThe combined firm will have 23 subsidiaries, mostly in Europe but also in Canada, Australia and Latin America.\n\nJust Eat was founded by a group of five Danish entrepreneurs in 2000 and launched a year later. It employs 3,600 staff globally.\n\nAs well as the Just Eat brand in Europe, it trades as Skip The Dishes in Canada, iFood in Mexico and Brazil, and Menulog in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nJust Eat is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100 share index.", "Fashion chain Superdry has warned that its profits could be wiped out after sales fell sharply over Christmas.\n\nThe firm, which has been trying to sell more clothes at full price, said it had been hit by \"unprecedented levels of promotional activity\" by rivals.\n\nSuperdry, which saw co-founder Julian Dunkerton return to lead the company last year, also blamed poor sales of old designs by the previous management.\n\nRevenues at the retailer fell 15.8% over the 10 weeks to 4 January.\n\nAs a result, the company said it now expected full-year profits to be between zero and £10m, compared with analysts' expectations of about £40m.\n\nShares in Superdry sank as much as 20% in reaction to the news.\n\nThe profit warning drew a high number of comments on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn April last year, Mr Dunkerton returned to the firm following a lengthy campaign against the previous management, who - he argued - were following a \"misguided\" strategy.\n\nSince his return, Mr Dunkerton has been trying to focus on full-price sales and reducing promotions, but this meant the chain suffered over the crucial Christmas trading period as other brands slashed prices.\n\nMr Dunkerton said: \"Everyone at Superdry continues to work intensively to deliver the turnaround of the business. While we have always said it will take time, we continue to make progress in implementing our strategy.\"\n\n\"We halved the proportion of discounted sales over our peak trading period, benefiting both our margins and the Superdry brand.\n\n\"However, this adversely affected our sales during the peak trading period, given the level of promotional activity in the market. Despite this, our disciplined plan to reinvigorate the brand and return Superdry to sustainable long-term growth is on track.\"\n\nThe company said it had been \"encouraged\" by the reaction to the limited range of new designs brought in by the new management, but added this had not been enough \"to offset weaker trading on older product\".\n\nAnalysts at Liberum said Superdry's problems were partly self-inflicted.\n\n\"We agree a full-price stance is appropriate for branded fashion companies,\" they said.\n\n\"However, this only works when the quality of the product and ranges are adequate, and maybe the management were too aggressive with this stance while still trying to clear a less-than-ideal mix of inventory.\"\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said the return of Mr Dunkerton was \"starting to look like a difficult second album rather than an overnight success\".\n\n\"After nine months in charge, and after a lengthy campaign to oust the previous management, there will be increasing pressure on him from the market to deliver tangible signs of progress as we move through 2020.\"\n\nFashion brand Joules added to the retail sector's woes after it said profits were set to be \"significantly below market expectations\" following poor Christmas trading.\n\nThe company said sales were \"significantly behind expectations\", dropping 4.5% in the seven weeks to 5 January from a year earlier, although it blamed this on \"one-off\" issues that hit the availability of stock.\n\nJoules also said it expected cost \"headwinds\" as a result of tariffs being imposed by the US-China trade war.\n\nShares in Joules fell 20% in response to the update.\n\nJoules chief executive Nick Jones said: \"We are disappointed with our inability to fully satisfy our customers' demand through our online channel during the important Christmas sale period.\n\n\"We have identified the root cause of this one-off issue and have taken steps to prevent its reoccurrence.\"", "The fires have already devastated huge swathes of Victoria and NSW\n\nGale force winds have fanned two of Australia's massive bushfires into a feared \"mega blaze\", with authorities warning of worse weather to come.\n\nIt had been feared for days that fire would spill over the New South Wales-Victoria border in the Snowy Mountains.\n\nForecasts are for more heat, strong winds and dry lightning. In South Australia, firefighters also battled infernos on Kangaroo Island.\n\nIn parts of both states, residents were told to leave their homes.\n\nMeanwhile, tens of thousands of people across Australia took part in climate change protests on Friday.\n\nIn cities including Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, demonstrators turned out to press the government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison to make a quick transition away from fossil fuels.\n\nAustralians took to the streets across the country to criticise government climate policy\n\nAcross many parts of the country deadly forest fires that have raged for weeks are threatening to advance again as temperatures soar. The winds mean fires could spread quickly and unpredictably this weekend.\n\nThe mega blaze south of the Snowy Mountains came after two fires at Dunns Road and East Ournie Creek joined up, following another massive fire merger nearby earlier in the week. An area totalling nearly 600,000 hectares (1.5m acres) - about four times the size of Greater London - is now ablaze.\n\nNew South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire Service spokesman Anthony Clark said a \"finger\" of the East Ournie Creek blaze had collided with the fire at Dunns Road on Friday evening.\n\nMr Clark said a number of small fires started by lightning strikes had merged and grown, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.\n\n\"It provides a challenge for firefighters as, when they merge, it increases the size and opens up more uncontained perimeter.\"\n\nFires in NSW have destroyed about 1,000 homes since the New Year and more than 150 bushfires are burning there.\n\nBut the danger is equally great further south in Victoria.\n\nVictoria's Country Fire Authority issued several emergency warnings on Friday, telling people to evacuate before it became too dangerous.\n\nMaking the task harder for fire crews, aircraft were unable to operate overnight in the dark.\n\nThe largest town on the island in South Australia was cut off by bushfires as the weather whipped up the most significant threat for almost a week.\n\nErratic winds amplified a blaze which isolated Kingscote from roads. Crews are battling strong winds, soaring temperatures and parched bushland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cooler air moves into bushfire areas, whilst parts of the north are seeing flooding rain.\n\nMore than 150,000 ha of forest have already been destroyed on the island, which is renowned for its unique ecology and wildlife.\n\nSince September, at least 27 people have died in Australia's bushfires, which have destroyed more than 10.3m ha nationally.\n\nFirefighters from the US, Canada and New Zealand are among those who have flown in to assist fatigued crews.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shane Fitzsimmons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe crisis has also taken a vast toll on wildlife. An estimated 25,000 koalas were killed when flames devastated Kangaroo Island last week.\n\nAustralia saw its hottest and driest year on record in 2019 due to two specific weather phenomena and climate change, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Thursday.\n\nAuthorities have warned that the huge fires, spurred by high temperatures, wind and a three-year-drought, will persist until there is substantial rainfall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Officials in the school where the shooting took place\n\nAn 11-year-old student has opened fire in a school in northern Mexico, killing a teacher and injuring at least six other people before shooting himself dead, officials say.\n\nThe incident happened at the private Colegio Cervantes school in the city of Torreón in Coahuila state.\n\nIt was not immediately clear what his motives were.\n\nThough murders are on the rise in Mexico, school shootings are rare.\n\nThe boy - who has not been identified - was a good student who lived with his grandmother and had normal behaviour, Mayor Jorge Zermeño told Milenio TV.\n\nHe carried two guns, Mr Zermeño said. It was not clear how the boy had obtained them.\n\nThe shooting happened at about 09:00 local time (15:00 GMT) on Friday in Torreón, some 800km (500 miles) from the capital, Mexico City.\n\nThe mayor said police were still trying to locate his parents. Dozens of police and soldiers have surrounded the school.\n\nThe injured included five students and a physical education teacher. They are in stable conditions in hospital.\n\nCoahuila state Governor Miguel Angel Riquelme said the boy had asked to go to the bathroom at the start of the school day.\n\nHis teacher went to look for him after 15 minutes, and the boy then emerged firing his weapons, Mr Riquelme said.\n\n\"He was well behaved, but he told some of his classmates that 'today was the day',\" he said.\n\nMr Riquelme said the boy had worn a T-shirt bearing the name of the video game Natural Selection, partly a first-person shooter game.", "A woman who would lose her vision if there was not enough male blood available to treat her condition is urging more men to donate.\n\nJo Daniels, 39, from Bristol, has the autoimmune disease Sjogren's syndrome, which attacks her tear glands and leaves her with painful ulcers on her corneas.\n\nShe uses a daily eye serum, made from male blood, to keep her sight.\n\nOnly 41% of new blood donors in England last year were men.\n\nThe high level of iron present in male blood makes it especially helpful to patients who rely on regular life-saving transfusions.\n\nUnlike men, women produce antibodies during pregnancy which makes their blood unviable for numerous specialist transfusions and blood-based products, such as complete blood transfusions in newborn babies.\n\nMrs Daniels's life turned upside down when her sight began to deteriorate at an alarming rate.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"My eyes were itchy for a while before my vision suddenly became blurry and painful.\n\n\"Over the course of four weeks, I went from seeing normally to being completely in the dark.\n\n\"To make matters worse, it came on over the Christmas period, so I couldn't get help very quickly.\n\n\"I was worried I would lose my career and not be able to see my young daughter grow up.\"\n\nNumerous treatments failed to help Mrs Daniels and she became resigned to the fact she may never be able to regain her vision.\n\nBut then a last ditch attempt using serum made from the plasma of male blood donors gave her hope.\n\n\"I can only see now because men donate blood that is used to extract serum that people like me put in their eyes hourly.\"\n\nThe NHS is hoping to correct the gender imbalance in blood donation\n\nMrs Daniels added: \"If enough men do not donate, then this treatment will no longer be available to me and I will begin to lose my sight again.\"\n\nSjogren's syndrome affects parts of the body that produce fluids such as tears and spit.\n\nIt is most common among women aged 40 to 60 and there is currently no cure.\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is aiming for a 26% increase in new male donors this year in a bid to help fix the widening gender imbalance.\n\nFor every 100 women who started giving blood in 2019, only 70 men did the same.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Finlay had three transfusions from male blood when he was born\n\n\"We need more than 68,000 men to start donating blood this year,\" said Mike Stredder, head of donor recruitment at NHSBT.\n\n\"Men's blood can be used in extraordinary, lifesaving ways but we don't have enough new male donors coming forward.\n\n\"This is not about recruiting as many donors as possible - it is about getting the right gender mix.\"", "An artist's impression of how a pedestrianised George Street would look\n\nLarge parts of Edinburgh's city centre could be pedestrianised and the tramline extended under a radical 10-year vision for the capital.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council has published its draft city mobility plan in a bid to become carbon neutral by 2030.\n\nGeorge Street would be shut to vehicles by 2025 and the tram network extended by the end of the decade.\n\nThe council said it planned to reinvest money raised by a workplace parking levy in improving public transport.\n\nThe final vision envisages widespread commuting by bike, integrated public transport and a largely car-free city centre.\n\nGeorge Street would be closed to traffic as well as parts of the Old Town including parts of the Royal Mile, Victoria Street and Cockburn Street.\n\nA review of the city's bus network could involve halting vehicles from Princes Street by creating hubs at either end of the city centre.\n\nThe city's tram network could be extended\n\nA \"seamless\" integrated ticketing system would allow passengers to use all modes of public transport, including the bike hire scheme.\n\nCouncil leaders said they had drawn inspiration from cities such as Copenhagen, Sydney and Paris as well as UK-initiatives in Manchester and London.\n\nIf approved by the council's transport committee, an eight week public consultation will begin in February with finalised proposals expected later in the year.\n\nCouncil leader Adam McVey said: \"We're already making great strides towards reducing carbon emissions in Edinburgh but, if we are to achieve our 2030 target, now is the time to be even bolder and more ambitious.\"\n\nDeputy council leader Cammy Day said: \"I think it's the right thing to do to make the city centre more liveable. It won't stop people from going to George Street.\"\n\nBus routes which currently use Princes Street could be altered\n\nThe consultation includes a proposal to introduce congestion charging \"if necessary\" but the council leader said the administration had no firm plans for such a measure..\n\nGreen councillor Gavin Corbett said: \"There is a huge amount to welcome in the draft plan which could and should improve quality of life in the city in so many ways: tackling congestion, pollution, poor health, social isolation and road safety.\n\n\"As the examples within the plan from across the world show, there is only one credible direction for Edinburgh.\n\n\"The status quo simply leaves the city further behind as other cities take dramatic steps towards public transport and cycling and walking.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Green Party, which has two assembly members at Stormont, said it is hopeful a deal can be done.\n\nLeader Clare Bailey said: \"I think that this deal provides a chance to build towards delivery and accountability within the institutions.\n\n“Of course, the devil is in the detail and we will continue to scrutinise the document in full in the hope that a two party agreement can create sustainable government.”\n\nBut Ms Bailey added that there was not enough in the deal on the environment or in terms of reforming the petition of concern.", "Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said her party was up for a return to \"genuine power sharing\".\n\nThe party has said they will re-enter devolved government in Northern Ireland after three years of deadlock.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had earlier also given tentative its support to a draft deal to restore Stormont's political institutions.\n\nThe British and Irish governments published the draft proposals on Thursday, after nine months of talks.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBetting companies with streaming rights for FA Cup ties say they would allow the games to be streamed on a free platform elsewhere.\n\nThe Football Association has been criticised for its decision to sell FA Cup broadcast rights via a third party to seven gambling websites.\n\nSince the start of last season the bookmakers have been able to show FA Cup ties on their websites and apps.\n\nBBC Sport understands the FA would be open exploring the possibilities.\n\nIt is understood the FA would not want matches shown to clash with other television broadcasts of live matches. There was a match broadcast in each of the kick-off slots during the FA Cup third round last weekend, except for the 15:01 GMT start time.\n\nThe seven gambling websites - Bet365, Betfair, William Hill, Coral, Ladbrokes, Unibet and Paddy Power - acquired the rights via agency IMG, who agreed a deal with the FA.\n\nIn the third round of the tournament, 23 matches were available to watch on Bet365 last weekend - all those that did not kick off at 15:01 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe matches were available to anyone who has placed a bet or put a deposit in their account in the 24 hours before kick-off.\n\nIn July 2017, the FA announced it was cutting its ties with gambling firms, but the deal with IMG was made in January 2017.\n\nLast weekend, ties started one minute late as part of the 'Heads Up' mental health awareness campaign.\n\nThe government is \"very angry\" about the issue and the sports minister Nigel Adams has said he will meet the FA next week.\n\nBut, Brigid Simmonds, chairman of the Betting and Gaming Council, said: \"Our members did not seek exclusivity for the rights to screen FA Cup games.\n\n\"They are therefore happy for IMG to offer the rights to screen these games to the Football Association or another appropriate body so that the games can be viewed for free by the public with immediate effect.\"\n\nThe FA has said it will \"review this element of the media rights sales process ahead of tendering rights from the 2024-25 season\", but the government want it to look at taking action earlier.", "The government has been urged to consider imposing restrictions on pay-as-you-go mobile phones to prevent county lines drug gangs using them.\n\nCurrent rules that allow people to buy the phones anonymously are being exploited by drug dealers, the policing watchdog for England and Wales said.\n\nIt called for a Home Office review of the \"criminal abuse\" of mobile phones.\n\nThe Home Office said it was investing £20m to further disrupt county lines activity.\n\nThe term \"county lines\" is used to describe gangs and organised criminal groups distributing drugs from typically larger cities to smaller towns around the country using mobile phones to arrange deals with suppliers and buyers.\n\nHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services' report into how police forces have responded to the crime found gangs were sidestepping court orders that block phones and numbers suspected of being used for drug dealing.\n\nThere was \"little support\" from officers for these orders, inspectors found, because dealers can obtain replacement numbers and phones - sometimes referred to as \"burners\" - \"quickly and anonymously\".\n\nIn one instance, officers told inspectors a drug gang received and shared a new phone number within an hour of the service provider acting on an order.\n\nFormer detective Mark Powell, one of the inspectors who worked on the report, told reporters the \"impression\" from officers they spoke to was that restrictions on buying phones anonymously would be \"welcome\".\n\nThis could involve people registering personal details when buying a mobile phone or replacement SIM card, the report said.\n\nMr Powell said: \"Officers have to resort to lengthy investigations to try to prove who had a phone.\n\n\"But clearly there's a wider debate to be had.\n\n\"We are not saying anonymity should no longer be available to everybody, but we are saying there needs to be a review of the criminal abuse of mobile phones.\"\n\nHe added this should look at whether regulations need \"strengthening\", but this was \"not the end of pay-as-you-go\".\n\nLatest analysis suggests there are more than 2,000 individual deal line phone numbers in the UK, linked to around 1,000 county lines.\n\nLondon, Birmingham and Liverpool are the main exporting areas, with other county lines originating from a further 23 forces, inspectors said.\n\nChief inspector of constabulary, Sir Thomas Winsor, said: \"People regard their communications as a species of privacy that should not be intruded into.\n\n\"That's why we say the matter should be considered.\"\n\nMeasures enabling the courts to block individual mobile phone numbers were contained in legislation passed in 2015, when county lines were starting to spread.\n\nIt took another two years for the powers to be implemented, by which time the drug gangs had strengthened their grip.\n\nThe paperwork involved in applying for the orders was burdensome - fewer than 50 have been granted since then - and police found that when mobile numbers were shut down others were quickly in their place.\n\nBeing able to pin a particular phone number to an individual would therefore be a huge advantage for detectives - and not just those investigating drug dealing.\n\nVirtually every criminal conspiracy and serious offence involves the use of mobiles or SIM cards, purchased anonymously.\n\nBut the ease and speed at which pay-as-you-go phones can be acquired is big business for retailers and a major attraction for customers, which is why the government is likely to proceed very cautiously before introducing any restrictions.\n\nCounty lines gangs typically coerce children and vulnerable adults to move and store the drugs and money.\n\nInspectors suggested those excluded from school could be some of the most at risk of being targeted.\n\nThey also raised concerns about how those who were considered vulnerable and had been drawn into the gangs were handled by police.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"We are investing £20m to further disrupt county lines activity and established the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre, which has so far resulted in more than 2,500 arrests and the safeguarding of over 3,000 vulnerable children and adults.\"", "More than a quarter of young people referred to specialist mental health services in England are rejected for treatment, says a think tank study.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute (EPI) says 133,000 were turned away last year, including people who had self-harmed or experienced abuse.\n\nThe report warns of average waits of almost two months and a system struggling to cope with the demand.\n\nAn NHS spokesman rejected the report as a \"flawed analysis\".\n\n\"The NHS is actually ahead of its target on ensuring as many children as possible receive mental health care - seeing an extra 53,000 children, teenagers and young adults last year, a 14% increase on the year before,\" said the NHS spokesman.\n\nThe NHS accused the report of using misleading measurements - arguing that it was wrong to assume that young people not given treatment by NHS mental health services were \"left to fend for themselves\", rather than being directed to get support elsewhere.\n\nThe EPI report, based on Freedom of Information responses from mental health service providers in England, warned of \"patchy\" provision for children and young people and a system \"under great strain\".\n\n\"There is a vast treatment gap, meaning the needs of hundreds of thousands of young people in England are not being met,\" said report author Whitney Crenna-Jennings.\n\nThe most common reason for the rejection of 26% of referrals to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) was because children's conditions were not suitable for treatment or they \"did not meet eligibility criteria\".\n\nBut the report raises concerns about a lack of consistency and transparency about support available to young people with serious problems.\n\nThe average waiting time of 56 days is an improvement on 2015, when it was 67 days. But the report warns of significant regional variations, with waits of more than 180 days in west London.\n\nDavid Laws, institute chairman and former education minister, said progress has been \"hugely disappointing\".\n\n\"Young people continue to be deprived of access to specialist mental health treatment, despite the government claiming significant investment in mental health services over the past five years,\" he said.\n\n\"This report confirms what schools know only too well - that thresholds for children's mental health services are often too high and waiting lists too long,\" said Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union.\n\nVicki Nash of Mind, the mental health charity, said the report's findings were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"We know that particularly for young people, timely and appropriate help can prevent further issues in later life. Too often the NHS is failing to provide this,\" she said.\n\nThe NHS says it is planning to increase spending on mental health services more quickly than the overall NHS budget, which it says will be \"worth at least £2.3bn a year by 2023-24\".", "Klaus O was filmed placing toxic substances on his colleagues' sandwiches\n\nA young man, who was in a coma for nearly four years in Germany after his work lunch was poisoned by a colleague, has died, German media report.\n\nThe 26-year-old ingested lead acetate and mercury after it was sprinkled on his sandwiches, resulting in severe brain damage.\n\nTwo of his colleagues were also targeted and suffered kidney damage.\n\nA man, named only as Klaus O, was found guilty of attempted murder last year and sentenced to life in prison.\n\nOn Thursday, state prosecutor Veit Walter said a new trial could be ordered by Germany's Supreme Court now that one of the victims had lost his life, the Bild newspaper reported.\n\nThe death was confirmed by a court in the city of Bielefeld, about 350km (218 miles) west of the German capital, Berlin.\n\nThe case came to light in 2018 after a colleague at a metal fittings company in the town of Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, in north-western Germany, noticed a white powder on his lunch.\n\nVideo surveillance cameras were later installed at the workplace, which captured Klaus O placing the substance on his colleagues' sandwiches.\n\nTests identified it as lead acetate and mercury, almost tasteless substances that if ingested could lead to serious organ damage.\n\nFurther searches at Klaus O's home uncovered mercury, lead and cadmium.\n\nFollowing his trial in March 2019, a judge ruled that Klaus O would not be eligible to have his sentence reduced because he was a \"danger to the general public\".\n\nA psychologist told the trial at the time that Klaus O \"came across like a researcher who was trying to see how different substances affected rabbits\".", "Caroline Jackson was downstairs and unaware of son Aidan's seizure\n\nThe parents of a teenager who suffered a seizure while chatting online have thanked his friend who called emergency services from 5,000 miles away.\n\nAidan Jackson, 17, was talking to an American gamer from his bedroom in Widnes on 2 January when he had a fit.\n\nHis friend, 20-year-old Dia Lathora, from Texas, alerted police in the UK.\n\nThe first Aidan's parents knew of the emergency was when police and an ambulance appeared at their front door, the Liverpool Echo reported.\n\nCaroline and Steve Jackson then rushed upstairs to find their son \"extremely disorientated\".\n\nMs Jackson, 48, said: \"We were at home watching TV and Aidan was upstairs in his room. The next thing we noticed was two police cars outside with flashing lights.\n\n\"I assumed they were in the area for another reason and then they ran up to the front door.\n\n\"They said there was an unresponsive male at the address. We said we hadn't called anyone and they said a call had come from America. I immediately went to check on Aidan and found him extremely disorientated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAidan had a seizure in May 2019 and is waiting for a new appointment following the latest incident.\n\n\"We are extremely thankful for what Dia did and shocked that we could be downstairs and not know anything was happening,\" Ms Jackson added.\n\n\"Dia had our address but didn't have any contact numbers, so it was amazing she managed to get help from so far away.\n\n\"I've spoken to her and expressed our thanks - she's just glad she could help.\n\n\"Aidan is a lot better and hopefully everything is OK when he has his appointment at the hospital but he's doing well.\"\n\nMs Lathora told the Liverpool Echo: \"I just put my headset back on and I heard what I could only describe as a seizure, so obviously I started to get worried and immediately started asking what was going on and if he was OK.\n\n\"When he didn't respond I instantly started to look up the emergency number for the EU. When that didn't work I just had to hope the non-emergency would work, it had an option for talking to a real person...and I can't tell you how quickly I clicked that button.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been jailed for 11 years and four months for his role in a £500,000 armed jewellery robbery at the Gleneagles Hotel.\n\nDean Jones, 39, was arrested in Brazil last year in connection with the 2017 raid.\n\nTwo other men were jailed in 2018 over their part in the robbery, which saw 50 Rolex watches taken from the Mappin & Webb boutique.\n\nJones was told the robbery was \"an act of serious, premeditated criminality\".\n\nDean Jones was extradited from Brazil to the UK in 2018\n\nThe stolen watches have not been recovered.\n\nThe two other accused, Richard Fleming and Jones' step-brother Liam Richardson were jailed 18 years, and 11 years and four months respectively.\n\nThe weekend before Fleming's trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, police discovered that Jones, had boarded a flight from Turkey bound for Brazil.\n\nThe Brazilian authorities were contacted and he was detained as he disembarked from a plane at Sao Paulo airport in August 2018.\n\nJones admitted taking part in the robbery in which masked raiders brandished hammers, a machete and pistol.\n\nHe also admitted, with others, repeatedly striking and smashing display cabinets, placing two employees in a state of fear and alarm for their safety.\n\nRichard Fleming (L) and Liam Richardson were jailed in 2018 for their part in the robbery\n\nThe entire raid took place in just two minutes, and the gang left the scene in an Audi which was then abandoned.\n\nThey then swapped to a Range Rover, which was later found burnt out at a graveyard in the east end of Glasgow, for their getaway.\n\nJudge Lady Carmichael told Jones: \"The robbery was an act of serious, premeditated criminality.\n\n\"You removed yourself from the country and as a matter of fact avoided, for a significant period, facing the course of justice for the robbery and there was the necessity for extradition proceedings.\"", "Chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-treated beef will be kept out of the UK under any trade deal with the US, the environment secretary has promised.\n\nTheresa Villiers told the BBC the current European Union ban on the two foods will be carried over into UK legislation after Brexit.\n\nUntil now the UK has been wavering on the issue.\n\nBut she told BBC Countryfile: “There are legal barriers to the imports and those are going to stay in place.”\n\nMs Villiers has previously talked of imposing tariffs on any future imports of US chicken and beef. But she’s been under great pressure from Britain’s farmers.\n\nIn the exclusive interview with the Countryfile programme, she said: “We will defend our national interests and our values, including our high standards of animal welfare.\"\n\nChlorine-washed chicken and hormone-treated beef are illegal under EU law for different reasons.\n\nThe EU says feeding cows with growth-enhancing chemicals could potentially result in harm to beef-eating humans – a suggestion the US fervently rejects.\n\nThere is, on the other hand, no human health threat from using a bleach solution to kill salmonella on chickens. In fact, it’s rather effective.\n\nBut the EU says using chlorine allows American farmers to be careless with the welfare of the chickens.\n\nThe US regards the rules against these products as a European ruse to protect its own producers, and has stated that the trade of both meat products will be central to any UK-US trade deal after Brexit.\n\nSo Ms Villiers’ promise may please British consumers unhappy with the thought of chicken sprayed with bleach. But it may make things more difficult for Britain’s trade negotiators.\n\nThe environment secretary has made a strong promise that \"legal barriers\" to the import of chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef will \"stay in place\" and that the government will \"hold the line\" on this even if insisted upon by President Trump in trade talks. This makes a quick trade deal with the US rather tricky to envisage.\n\nLeaked US-UK trade documents showed the US tried to establish how far the UK would, after Brexit, detach from the EU's hard line against US farm trade methods. US officials had made a presentation and repeatedly raised the \"unscientific approach the EU maintains towards Pathogen Reduction Treatments [chlorinated chicken]\". The US has been in a dispute with the EU over such methods since 1997.\n\nIf the environment secretary's rejection of such key US exports is echoed in the UK's negotiating position with the US, the US Congress might also object. When similar statements were made by Michael Gove, when he was former environment secretary, in 2017, it caused a rift in cabinet with Liam Fox, who was then trade secretary .\n\nIt is a clear example of the delicate balancing act and trade-offs involved in the UK's new post-Brexit trade freedom.\n\nThe full interview with the environment secretary will be shown on Countryfile on BBC1 on 26 January.", "Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sexually abusing dozens of girls\n\nSurveillance video from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's first suspected suicide attempt was destroyed by accident, prosecutors say.\n\nUS prosecutors say the jail mistakenly saved footage from the wrong cell.\n\nEpstein, a convicted sex offender, first tried to kill himself in July last year, then hanged himself in jail in August while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.\n\nHe had pleaded not guilty to abusing dozens of girls, some as young as 14.\n\nSoon after Epstein's death, in August, two of the CCTV cameras outside his cell had malfunctioned and were being examined by the FBI, US media reported.\n\nEpstein was found semi-conscious in his prison cell with injuries to his neck on 25 July. After this incident, he was placed on suicide watch.\n\nEventually, Epstein was moved to a different cell, where he died on 10 August. Two prison guards have since been accused of failing to check on him during this time and falsifying records to say that they had.\n\nThere have been ongoing questions over the July recording, which was initially deemed missing and then was said to have been located by jail staff.\n\nA letter filed by Assistant US Attorneys Jason Swergold and Maurene Comey said \"the footage contained on the preserved video was for the correct date and time, but captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located\", New York City media report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew spoke to the BBC in November about his links to Epstein\n\n\"The requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors.\"\n\nThe request for the video was made by a lawyer for Nicholas Tartaglione, a former New York police officer who shared a cell with Epstein in July and is charged with homicide in an unrelated case.\n\nThe attorney argued the video could show his client had acted \"admirably\", possibly helping Epstein.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nNew York-born Epstein worked as a teacher before moving into finance. Prior to the criminal cases against him, he was best known for his wealth and high-profile connections.\n\nHe was often seen socialising with the rich and powerful, including US President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and the UK's Prince Andrew.\n\nEpstein was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002-05. He was arrested on 6 July.\n\nHe avoided similar charges in a controversial deal in 2008, pleading guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "China has said it hopes to eradicate poverty in 2020\n\nA Chinese province has said just 17 people, out of its population of more than 80 million, are living in poverty.\n\nJiangsu province said only a handful of people lived below its benchmark of 6,000 yuan a year ($863; £660) following a successful state campaign.\n\nBut the figures were questioned online, with one person asking: \"I don't believe it. Are there no unemployed people in the province? No beggars?\"\n\nEliminating poverty is one of the Chinese government's major ambitions.\n\nSouth-eastern Jiangsu is one of the country's wealthiest provinces, second only in economic output to Guangdong.\n\nIts latest data from the end of 2019 shows that in the past four years, 2.54 million people have been lifted out of poverty, as defined by the province.\n\nIt ties in with the province's declared target of essentially eradicating poverty by 2020.\n\nThe 17 still living below the poverty standard are all capable of working, according to authorities who spoke to Chinese media, although four \"have diseases\".\n\nDespite a slowdown, China's economy is still growing at around 6% a year.\n\nBut even with the country getting much richer, the apparent staggering success of Jiangsu's anti-poverty campaign has been queried online.\n\n\"How could they be so accurate?\" was a typical comment on Weibo, China's social media platform.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Do people in China's rural communities think poverty reduction can work?\n\nWhile China's economy has skyrocketed in recent decades, poverty has not disappeared - and inequality has grown.\n\nStories about individual cases of extreme poverty continue to shock the country.\n\nIn 2019, well-wishers donated almost a million yuan to a Chinese student in a south-western province who was taken to hospital after living on 2 yuan ($0.30, £0.20) a day for five years.\n\nThe story echoed that of a young boy who in 2018 arrived at school with his hair full of frozen ice.\n\nDubbed \"Little Wang\", his story also went viral, leading to international donations from people impressed by his resilience, and shocked at his poverty.\n\nPictures of eight-year-old Little Wang were shared tens of thousands of times\n\nThere's no one standard definition of poverty across all of China, as it differs from province to province.\n\nOne widely-quoted national standard is 2,300 yuan ($331; £253) net income a year. Under that standard, there were around 30 million people living in poverty across the whole of China in 2017.\n\nBut many provinces have raised their poverty benchmark - as in the case of Jiangsu, where it is at 6,000 yuan.\n\nThe 6,000 yuan figure breaks down to around $2.40 a day - which is above the World Bank's international poverty line of $1.90.\n\nSince opening up to the global economy in the 1990s, China has seen its poverty rates tumble, and the government hopes to eradicate extreme poverty in 2020.\n\nAccording to the country's National Bureau of Statistics, the average disposable income in 2018 was 28,228 yuan ($4,059; £3,106) per person.\n\nThat breaks down to 39,251 yuan in urban and 14,617 yuan in rural households.\n\nChina has moved from being \"moderately unequal in 1990 to being one of the world's most unequal countries,\" according to a 2018 report by the International Monetary Fund.", "Mohammed Haji Sadiq was convicted of eight sexual assaults on children in 2017\n\nAn 83-year-old Koran teacher who was convicted of child sex offences at a Cardiff mosque has died less than three years after he was jailed.\n\nMohammed Haji Sadiq was found guilty in July 2017 of eight sexual assaults on a child by touching, and six indecent assaults.\n\nSadiq, of Cyncoed, Cardiff, died in Parc Prison, Bridgend on Wednesday.\n\nHis funeral is being held on Friday at the Madina mosque, where he committed his offences as a volunteer teacher.\n\nIn a statement, the mosque said: \"We wholeheartedly sympathise with the victims. The mosque is a place of worship for any Muslims. We sympathise with the victims and the bereaved family.\"\n\nSadiq was initially sent to prison for 13 years, but in December 2017 that sentence was reduced to nine years.\n\nAppeal Court judges dismissed his appeal against conviction. They said they were in no doubt the jury's verdicts were were safe, but decided the sentence was too high.\n\nHis trial at Cardiff Crown Court was told he taught for 30 years at the mosque, which was formerly at Woodville Road, Cathays, and is now in nearby Lucas Street.\n\nThe court heard he abused four girls aged between five and 11 between 1996 and 2006 as a form of punishment.\n\nHe denied the charges and blamed \"politics\" in the mosque for the accusations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Being abused by paedophile Koran teacher Mohammed Haji Sadiq 'felt normal eventually', says victim\n\nHe taught there from 1976, but had had no involvement in the mosque since 2006, when the Woodville Road building burnt down and was re-sited in Lucas Street.\n\nJudge Stephen Hopkins told Sadiq he was a man \"of some cunning\" with a \"dark and deviant side\".\n\nThe court was told some victims said they were afraid to attend the mosque because of his abuse, and one tried to take her own life.\n\nOthers said they felt they could not tell anyone about the abuse because it was \"not acceptable\" in their culture to talk about what was happening.", "A former Catholic monk has appeared in court on seven charges of child sex abuse.\n\nDenis \"Chrysostom\" Alexander, taught at Fort Augustus Abbey school in the Highlands in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nThe 84-year-old was brought back to Scotland from his home in New South Wales, Australia, after an extradition battle lasting almost five years.\n\nAt Inverness Sheriff Court he made no plea and was remanded in custody. The case was continued.\n\nThe charges include indecent assault, assault, and lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour.\n\nHis court appearance comes seven years after BBC Scotland first revealed claims against him.\n\nThe Crown Office launched extradition proceedings in December 2016, but since then Fr Alexander had contested the move on health grounds, saying he was too ill to face trial.\n\nHe was arrested in Sydney almost three years ago and has been in custody ever since.\n\nIn November, the Federal Court of Australia dismissed his case for a judicial review of the attorney general's decision to extradite him to Scotland.\n\nFr Alexander had until 5 December to lodge an appeal against that ruling, but failed to do so.\n\nRun by Catholic Benedictine monks, Fort Augustus Abbey school in the Highlands closed its doors in 1993.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters were called to the scene just before 07:00\n\nTwo people have been taken to hospital after a fire at a chemical plant in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEmergency services were called to Rathburn Chemicals in Walkerburn shortly before 07:00.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was at the scene for several hours before the fire was fully put out.\n\nTwo casualties were taken to Borders General Hospital as a precaution and the nearby local primary school was also closed.\n\nScottish Borders Council said a number of homes had been evacuated with a total of 26 people having to be accommodated in a rest centre at the village hall.\n\nEmergency services were called out to the incident shortly before 07:00\n\nResidents were allowed to return home at lunchtime.\n\nThe council added that debris from the fire - which it believed included roof tiles which could contain asbestos - had spread across the area.\n\nA risk assessment is being carried out, however the local authority said it believed that any danger to the public was very low due to the type of material involved.\n\nThe public has been asked to leave any debris alone and inform the environmental health team of its location.\n\nSpecialist contractors are expected on site to help begin clean-up operations and the fire service confirmed the blaze had been \"fully extinguished\" shortly after 14:30.\n\nWalkerburn Primary - with a roll of 26 pupils - has been shut as a precaution\n\nSouth of Scotland MSP Michelle Ballantyne said she was \"saddened\" to hear of the incident and said her thoughts were with those who had been injured.\n\n\"Rathburn is very important to our community by providing jobs and wealth to our small village,\" she said.\n\n\"I will be speaking to the owner to see if they need any assistance to ensure that we don't lose the valuable contribution that they play.\"\n\nThe local primary school, which has a roll of 26 pupils, was shut as a precaution on Friday.\n\nThe A72 was also closed in the area and diversions put in place, but the road has since reopened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresenter Samira Ahmed has won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay.\n\nAhmed claimed she was underpaid by £700,000 for hosting audience feedback show Newswatch compared with Jeremy Vine's salary for Points of View.\n\nThe unanimous judgement said her work was like that done by Vine, and the BBC had failed to prove the pay gap wasn't because of sex discrimination.\n\nAhmed said she was \"glad it's been resolved\".\n\n\"No woman wants to have to take action against their own employer,\" she said, adding: \"I love working for the BBC.\"\n\nIn response, the BBC insisted the pay for Ahmed and Vine \"was not determined by their gender\".\n\nDescribing Ahmed as \"an excellent journalist and presenter\", the corporation added: \"We regret that this case ever had to go to tribunal.\"\n\nThe BBC said it would \"work together with Samira to move on in a positive way\".\n\nAhmed (right) was accompanied by BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty on the tribunal's first day\n\nAhmed thanked the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), her legal team and \"everyone - all the men and women who've supported me and the issue of equal pay\". She added: \"I'm now looking forward to continuing to do my job, to report on stories and not being one\".\n\nAhmed had told the tribunal, which ended in November, that she \"could not understand how pay for me, a woman, could be so much lower than Jeremy Vine, a man, for presenting very similar programmes and doing very similar work\".\n\nVine got £3,000 per episode for BBC One's Points of View between 2008 and 2018. Ahmed was paid £440 for Newswatch, which is shown on the BBC News Channel and BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe tribunal judgement said: \"The difference in pay in this case is striking. Jeremy Vine was paid more than six times what the claimant was paid for doing the same work as her.\"\n\nThe BBC had argued that Ahmed and Vine performed \"very different roles\". But the judgement said the corporation did not produce evidence to prove the different levels of pay were based on differences in the presenters' roles, programmes and profiles.\n\nThe judgement did not say whether Ahmed will receive the compensation she said she was owed.\n\nThe judgement stated: \"We do not accept that the lighter tone of Points of View meant that the claimant's work and that of Mr Vine were not broadly similar.\"\n\nJeremy Vine hosted Points of View for a decade until 2018\n\nIt added that despite the BBC saying the presenter of Points of View \"needed to have 'a glint in the eye' and to be cheeky, we had difficulty in understanding what the respondent meant and how that translated into a 'skill' or 'experience' to do a job.\n\n\"The attempts at humour came from the script. Jeremy Vine read the script from the autocue. He read it in the tone in which it was written. If it told him to roll his eyes he did. It did not require any particular skill or experience to do that.\"\n\nThe BBC's legal team said Ahmed was paid the same as her Newswatch predecessor Ray Snoddy, who they said was her pay comparator, rather than Vine.\n\nBut Ahmed's closing submissions criticised the corporation's witnesses and evidence.\n\nShe also said BBC witnesses were prepared to give evidence \"about matters that they had little knowledge of\" and that the corporation had \"repeatedly sought to make other unfair comments\" about her credibility.\n\nThis is a complex judgement with potentially huge implications.\n\nThe position of the Tribunal is that all the arguments brought by the BBC to justify the difference in pay between Samira Ahmed and Jeremy Vine were insufficient.\n\nIn other words, the claim that Vine had greater profile, that Entertainment requires different skills to News, and that Points of View reaches more people didn't persuade the Tribunal that the difference is pay was justified.\n\nThe burden of proof fell on the BBC to show that that difference did not amount to sex discrimination. It failed.\n\nThe BBC and broadcasters across the globe have long thought it a common sense assertion that profile, fame, or stardust - call it what you will - justifies different pay rates for presenters who do similar work.\n\nThis case has exploded that proposition. It will encourage many other women to bring similar cases.\n\nThe BBC has made significant progress in recent years on both the gender pay gap across the organisation and some cases of equal pay.\n\nBut its journey on this issue, where it has sought to set a national example, is only just beginning.\n\nNational Union of Journalists (NUJ) general secretary Michelle Stanistreet said the union would seek the full back pay for Ahmed.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the BBC next week and hopefully common sense will prevail, this will be resolved, Samira gets her settlement and she can move on,\" she said.\n\nIt was \"an incredibly brave decision on Samira's part\" to bring the case to tribunal, Stanistreet told reporters. \"You couldn't get a more emphatic win, a resounding victory,\" she said.\n\nAround 20 similar cases are \"in the pipeline of the actual tribunal system\", with \"as many as 70\" unresolved at the time of the hearing, she added.\n\nThe BBC said it has been working hard to resolve these, adding the number of cases is significantly lower now.\n\n\"Some of them have already been satisfactorily resolved. But there are still more to sort out,\" she said.\n\nFigures from broadcasting and beyond tweeted their support after the judgement was released.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carrie Gracie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStressing its commitment to equality and equal pay, the BBC said presenters - both female and male - had always been paid more for Points of View than Newswatch.\n\nThe corporation said: \"We're sorry the tribunal didn't think the BBC provided enough evidence about specific decisions - we weren't able to call people who made decisions as far back as 2008 and have long since left the BBC.\"\n\nIt added that in the past its pay framework \"was not transparent and fair enough\" and that \"we have made significant changes to address that\".\n\n\"We're glad this satisfied the tribunal that there was sufficient evidence to explain her pay now.\"\n\nIn addition to Newswatch, Ahmed also co-hosts BBC Radio 4 arts show Front Row.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Canadian PM says evidence from multiple sources shows the plane taking off in Tehran was hit by an Iranian surface-to-air missile, possibly unintentionally.", "Anthony Knott was due home in the early hours of 21 December\n\nThe family of a man who went missing during a work night out have said they are \"utterly devastated and completely heartbroken\" after a body was found.\n\nLand and water searches with boats and drones took place to find London firefighter Anthony Knott, 33, who was last seen in Lewes on 20 December.\n\nSussex Police said a member of the public alerted it on Friday that a body had been found in Newhaven harbour.\n\nMr Knott's family thanked everyone who had helped in the search for him.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, they said: \"Anthony's story has reached out and touched the hearts of thousands of people.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for your incredible support, shares, posters, volunteers and donations.\n\n\"The people of Lewes, we will be forever grateful for your support and understanding during our searches.\n\n\"These three weeks have been so very hard for us all.\"\n\nEast Sussex Fire and Rescue Service crews carried out searches along the River Ouse\n\nDet Insp Mark Rosser said officers believed the body to be that of Mr Knott.\n\nHe thanked volunteers who had turned out to help with the search.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Anthony at this difficult time,\" Det Insp Rosser said.\n\nFamily, friends and members of the public had helped to search different locations across Lewes when Mr Knott failed to return home.\n\nSussex Police and London Fire Brigade joined forces to search Pells Pool in Lewes and the Pellbrook Cut waterway.\n\nEmergency teams also carried out searches of the nearby River Ouse.\n\nThe body was discovered by a member of the public in the River Ouse at Denton Island.\n\nThis is the final stretch of the Ouse before it reaches the sea at Newhaven, running through the town's industrial quarter just short of the port and ferry terminal and crossed by the A259 coast road bridge.\n\nIt's about six miles as the crow flies downstream from Lewes, where Anthony Knott went missing on 20 December.\n\nAt this stage, it is not known how and where he entered the water.\n\nMr Knott, of Orpington, south-east London, had left his friends at the The Lamb pub in Fisher Street, for unknown reasons, during his night out with colleagues.\n\nHe had been due to return home in the early hours the following day.\n\nAfter he disappeared, his partner Lucy Otto wrote on Facebook that he had been in a happy mood, had loved his job and loved his family and had simply been on a Christmas night out.\n\nMr Knott was found at Denton Island, a stretch of river running through Newhaven's industrial quarter\n\nMr Knott played for Orpington Athletic FC and the club has tweeted that it is \"incredibly saddened\".\n\nThe club said Mr Knott was one of a few remaining players who had been part of the team when it was created more than five years ago, adding: \"Anthony will be remembered for his tough tackling, his loud voice and his passion for the game.\"\n\nOn Twitter, London Fire Brigade Commissioner Andy Roe wrote: \"I'm saddened to hear the news about firefighter Anthony Knott. All our thoughts remain with his family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by London Fire Brigade This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe chairman of the National Fire Chiefs Council, Roy Wilsher, said: \"Anthony was part of our fire family and his loss will be felt across the entire UK fire service.\n\n\"He was a valued member of London Fire Brigade and this devastating news will impact on those he worked with during his career.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PM Viktor Orban said fertility clinics were of \"national strategic importance\"\n\nHungary will provide free in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment to couples at state-run clinics, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced.\n\nHe said fertility was of \"strategic importance\". Last month his government took over Hungary's fertility clinics.\n\nMr Orban, a right-wing nationalist, has long advocated a \"procreation over immigration\" approach to deal with demographic decline.\n\nThe country's population has been falling steadily for four decades.\n\nMr Orban described details of his fertility policy on Thursday, after bringing six fertility clinics under state control in December.\n\nFree IVF treatment will be offered from 1 February, but it is not clear who exactly will be entitled to it.\n\nMr Orban also said the government was considering an income tax exemption for women who have three children or more. Starting this month, those with at least four children have been exempt.\n\n\"If we want Hungarian children instead of immigrants, and if the Hungarian economy can generate the necessary funding, then the only solution is to spend as much of the funds as possible on supporting families and raising children,\" the prime minister said.\n\nMr Orban - who has been prime minister since 2010 - has based his campaigns on opposition to immigration.\n\nThe Hungarian government acquired six privately owned fertility clinics last month\n\nIn September last year, he told an international summit on demography that while other European leaders believed immigration was the solution to falling population numbers, he rejected this.\n\nThe prime minister then echoed the far-right \"great replacement\" theory, which claims that white European populations are being gradually replaced by people of non-European descent.\n\n\"If Europe is not going to be populated by Europeans in the future, and we take this as given, then we are speaking about an exchange of populations, to replace the population of Europeans with others,\" Mr Orban told the conference at the time.\n\n\"There are political forces in Europe who want a replacement of population for ideological or other reasons.\"\n\nWith an estimated birth rate of 1.48 per woman, Hungary is just one of many Eastern European countries facing demographic decline - due to both low birth rates and the emigration of working-age people to other EU nations.\n\nSome of these countries have implemented their own policies to encourage birth rates to increase. Poland, for example, pays parents 500 zloty (£100) a month per child under its 500+ policy.\n\nCroatia, which assumed presidency of the EU last week, said last year that population growth in the EU would be \"a key question\" for them.\n\n\"Demography needs to be put in the focus of EU policies in order to preserve the development of all member states,\" Croatian minister Vesna Bedekovic told a European Economic and Social Committee conference in November.\n\n\"The birth rate currently stands at 1.59 on average... This is why Croatia has recognised demographic revitalisation as a key question for its further development.\"", "Neil Peart had been battling brain cancer for three-and-a-half years, his band mates said\n\nNeil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Canadian rock band Rush, has died from brain cancer aged 67.\n\nThe musician, considered one of rock's greatest ever drummers, died on Tuesday in Santa Monica, California.\n\nRush, the band he played with for 45 years, confirmed his death in a statement posted to Twitter.\n\nThe statement said Peart, their \"soul brother\", had been suffering from glioblastoma - a type of brain cancer - for three-and-a-half years.\n\n\"It is with broken hearts and the deepest sadness that we must share the terrible news that on Tuesday our friend, soul brother and band mate of over 45 years, Neil, has lost his incredibly brave three-and-a-half-year battle with brain cancer,\" the statement says.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesperson for the Peart family also confirmed the drummer's death to US music magazine, Rolling Stone.\n\nPlaced at number four in Rolling Stone's list of all-time greatest drummers, Peart was well-known for his technical proficiency and animated live performances.\n\nHe joined Rush in 1974, drawing influences from hard rock, jazz and heavy metal in a career that spanned four decades.\n\nPeart retired from Rush in 2015 after the band's final tour, saying the time had come to take himself \"out of the game\".\n\nThe group, which also featured singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson, recorded hits including The Spirit Of Radio and Tom Sawyer. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.\n\nPeart is ranked at number four in Rolling Stone's list of all-time greatest drummers\n\nPeart is reportedly survived by his wife, photographer Carrie Nuttall, and daughter Olivia.\n\nMusicians have paid tribute to Peart on Twitter. Among them was Kiss frontman Gene Simmons, who described Peart as a \"kind soul\".\n\nHe added: \"My prayers and condolences to the Peart family, fans and friends.\"\n\nActor and Tenacious D musician Jack Black tweeted: \"The master will be missed - Neil Peart RIP.\"", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe Home Office has requested the extradition of a US woman to be charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of motorcyclist Harry Dunn.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in August which led to the suspect, Anne Sacoolas, leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe Home Office said the matter was \"now a decision for the US authorities\".\n\nThe US State Department said an extradition request would be \"highly inappropriate\" and insisted that Ms Sacoolas' status at the time of the crash meant she had diplomatic immunity.\n\nA spokeswoman said they expressed their deepest sympathies and offered condolences to the Dunn family for their loss, and would continue to \"look at options for moving forward\".\n\n\"It is the position of the United States government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an abuse,\" she said.\n\n\"The use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomat by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nThe 42-year-old left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Following the Crown Prosecution Service's charging decision, the Home Office has sent an extradition request to the United States for Anne Sacoolas on charges of causing death by dangerous driving. This is now a decision for the US authorities.\"\n\nWhen the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced extradition proceedings, US officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK.\n\nLawyer Amy Jefress said: \"Anne will not return voluntarily to the UK to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.\"\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nReacting to the extradition request on behalf of Harry Dunn's family, spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"Anne Sacoolas will come back. She has to come back. There is no other way forward.\n\n\"So, whether they put up a fight and whether they actually refuse it, we will only know in time and the parents are determined to just take this a step at a time. It's being handled by the officials now, by the lawyers, and we're not going to get ahead of ourselves.\"\n\n\"No-one, whether diplomat or otherwise, is above the law,\" he added.\n\nHe said in the circumstances, considering all the family had been through, the family was pleased with the extradition request and felt it was a \"huge step towards achieving justice for Harry\".\n\nIn December, Mr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the family was \"relieved\" Mrs Sacoolas had \"finally\" been charged.\n\n\"We made that promise to him the night we lost him to seek justice thinking it was going to be really easy,\" she said.\n\n\"We had no idea it was going to be so hard and it would take so long.\"\n\nThe family's constituency MP, cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom, has since written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking him to meet Mr Dunn's parents to hear their concerns.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have given their final backing to the bill that will implement the UK government's Brexit deal.\n\nThe Commons voted 330 to 231 in favour of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and it will now pass to the House of Lords for further scrutiny next week.\n\nIf peers choose to amend it will it come back before MPs.\n\nThe bill covers \"divorce\" payments to the EU, citizens' rights, customs arrangements for Northern Ireland and the planned 11-month transition period.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe bill comfortably cleared its third reading in the House of Commons, as expected, with a majority of 99. All 330 votes in favour were Conservative.\n\nIt took just three days for the bill to pass the remaining stages in the Commons, after MPs gave their initial approval to the legislation before the Christmas recess.\n\nTheresa May - Boris Johnson's predecessor in Downing Street - repeatedly failed to get her Brexit agreement passed by MPs, which led to her resignation as prime minister.\n\nThe latest vote gives approval to the 11-month transition period after 31 January, in which the UK will cease to be an EU member but will continue to follow its rules and contribute to its budget.\n\nThe purpose of the transition period is to give time for the UK and EU to negotiate their future relationship, including a trade deal.\n\nLiberal Democrat Brexit spokesperson, Alistair Carmichael said his party would continue to oppose the \"dangerous\" bill.\n\n\"They have voted for a bill that will slash the rights of future generations to live and work across 27 other countries,\" he said.\n\n\"They have voted for a bill that strips away our guaranteed environmental protections, despite the fact that we are facing a climate emergency.\"\n\nAnd SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Scotland would \"remain an independent European country\".\n\n\"This is a constitutional crisis, because we will not and we cannot accept what is being done to us,\" he told MPs.\n\nBut Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay has said the bill will deliver on the \"overwhelming mandate\" his party was given at the general election to take the UK out of the EU on 31 January.\n\nHe has also said he is \"confident\" the UK will be able to negotiate a trade deal with the EU by the end of the year, despite critics saying that the deadline is too tight.\n\nMr Johnson has also insisted a deal is possible by December 2020 and has said the transition period will not be extended.\n\nHe has said the UK is ready to start negotiations \"as soon as possible\" after 31 January.\n\nOn Wednesday, new European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen warned it would be \"impossible\" to reach a comprehensive trade deal by the end of 2020.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nShane Warne has raised one million Australian dollars (£528,514) for the bushfire appeal after his \"baggy green\" Australia cap was sold at auction.\n\nThe legendary leg-spinner, 50, wore the cap throughout his 145-Test career, in which he took 708 wickets.\n\nThe bushfire crisis has been ongoing in Australia since September and 27 people have died.\n\nAustralia's Commonwealth Bank was responsible for the winning bid which came in the auction's final minute.\n\nWarne said he was \"blown away\" by the generosity and the final figure was \"way beyond my expectations\".\n\nAll money raised - the final price was A$1,007,500 - will go to the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund.\n\nThe Commonwealth Bank revealed it bought the cap and will take it on a national tour to continue to raise money for communities affected by the bushfires, before it permanently resides in the Bradman Museum.\n\nWarne is Test cricket's second most successful bowler, with only fellow spinner Muttiah Muralitharan (800) of Sri Lanka taking more wickets.\n\nThe final price is more than double the A$425,000 (£225,000) legendary Australia batsman Sir Donald Bradman's baggy green fetched in 2003.\n\nThe baggy green is given to an Australia player when he makes his Test debut, and cricketers usually wear the same cap throughout their career.\n\nA host of tennis stars, including Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Serena Williams, have also pledged their support to the bushfire appeal.\n\nBrighton's Australian goalkeeper Mat Ryan has said he will donate A$500 (£263) for every save made by a Premier League goalkeeper this weekend.", "Sweden has seen a 4% drop in the number of people flying via its airports, a rare decrease in recent years for a European country.\n\nMore than 40 million people travelled through the country's 10 airports, compared with 42 million during 2018.\n\nThe figure for domestic travel was down 9%, according to Sweden's airport operators, Swedavia.\n\nThe figures come as the Swedish-born movement of \"flight shaming\" is gaining prominence.\n\nSwedavia spokesman Robert Pletzin said there were a number of reasons for the decrease, citing Swedish aviation tax, softening economy worries, the weak Swedish crown and the climate debate.\n\nFlygskam or \"flight shame\" originated in Sweden in 2017, when Swedish singer Staffan Lingberg pledged to give up flying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the boat Greta Thunberg travelled on to cross the Atlantic\n\nSwedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg set an example by crossing the Atlantic in a zero-emissions yacht last year.\n\nIn September, Citigroup analysts said greater consumer awareness about global carbon emissions had already had a tangible effect in Sweden and could call into question the longer-term growth potential of the entire industry.\n\nA number of people have since decided to take on the challenge of travelling without flying. More than 22,500 people have signed a pledge to go flight-free in 2020.\n\nThe last occasions where air passenger numbers dropped had distinct reasons - the 9/11 terror attacks and the financial crash.\n\nAside from Sweden, Europe is still seeing an increase in the number of people flying. The EU overall saw figures rise to 1.1 billion passengers in 2018, up from 1 billion the year before.\n\nIn 2018, the UK saw more than 272 million passengers, up from 264 million in 2017.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) says current trends suggest passenger numbers could double to 8.2 billion by 2037. Cities in Asia are expected to overtake European cities in regards to air passenger markets.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nBeau Greaves had a 16th birthday to remember as she reached the semi-finals of the BDO women's World Darts Championship.\n\nThe teenage debutant beat 29-year-old Dutch third seed Aileen de Graaf 2-1 to reach the last four.\n\nSixth seed Greaves, from Doncaster, averaged 86.3 and hit three maximum 180s.\n\nShe faces Japan's Mikuru Suzuki on Friday's after the reigning champion beat Anastasia Dobromyslova 2-0.\n• None Double trouble at new venue over ticket sales and prize money\n\nFour-time champion Lisa Ashton plays Corrine Hammond in the other semi after a straight-sets victory over Lorraine Winstanley.\n\nHammond earlier beat Laura Turner 2-0 in the women's quarter-finals at London's Indigo at the O2.\n\nAsked whether she felt she could now win the tournament, Greaves told BDO Darts: \"Of course I can. You've always got to be confident, but not too confident.\n\n\"But I felt really good and I'm looking forward to it. It's been an amazing week.\"\n\nIn the men's event, Welsh second seed Jim Williams defeated Ryan Hogarth 4-0 to qualify for the quarter-finals.\n\nWhile the BDO tournament has been hit by low ticket sales and prize money problems, the championship has also showcased some of the sport's rising stars.\n\nLeighton Bennett, who only turned 14 on New Year's Eve, took a set off 2015 champion Scott Mitchell before losing 3-1 on Tuesday.", "Bournemouth University's Talbot Campus was on lockdown for about 30 minutes and has since reopened\n\nA man wearing a fitness vest is believed to have sparked a terror alert on a university campus.\n\nPolice were called to the site in Poole, Dorset, at 14:33 GMT amid reports of a man wearing a suicide vest and \"covered in blood\".\n\nCCTV images suggested the man was using the vest for exercise and there was no threat to the public, police said.\n\nBournemouth University shut down its Talbot Campus for about 30 minutes while police searched the area.\n\nFitness vests are types of gilets, or sleeveless padded jackets, that have specially designed pockets or pouches enabling the wearer to carry extra weights to aid with resistance training.\n\nThey are intended to create more resistance for the wearer when they are exercising to give them a more difficult workout.\n\nStudents initially posted on social media that they were being kept inside their buildings because of a suspected terrorism incident involving a man described as having a suicide vest, a gun or a knife.\n\nIn a statement, Dorset Police said the man was seen in the area of the Boundary roundabout near the campus.\n\nPolice added: \"A review of CCTV footage... established that it was believed to be someone running in a fitness vest.\n\n\"The lockdown has now been lifted and we do not believe there is any further cause for concern or threat to the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The store refused to sell the television to customers at the bargain price\n\nPolice cleared a supermarket in France after customers refused to leave when they were denied a deal on televisions.\n\nGéant Casino in the southern city of Montpellier accidentally priced TVs at €30.99 instead of €399 on Wednesday.\n\nHowever the supermarket refused to honour the bargain price. The customers then blocked the checkout demanding that they be allowed to purchase the television sets.\n\nDozens of police officers were called in to help clear the store.\n\nAccording to French media, when customers arrived at the checkouts, staff told them they could not buy the television sets for the price advertised.\n\nCustomers then became angry and refused to leave the store unless they could purchase the televisions.\n\nJean-Christophe, who works inside the shopping mall, told Midi Libre: \"We are located right across from the Géant Casino checkout lines. I saw a lot of police and a crowd of people. \"\n\nHe added that some people had four or five televisions in their shopping trolley.\n\nImages and video posted to social media shows customers at the checkouts refusing to leave.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by viàOccitanie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice were eventually called to clear the store, getting customers to leave over an hour after the supermarket's closing time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by viàOccitanie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the consumer code, any seller is required to sell the product at the price displayed even if it is due to a labelling error. However if the price is clearly an obvious mistake, then the vendors can refuse to sell, BFM TV said.\n\nThere have been cases in the past where businesses have opted to honour the error price.\n\nLast January, Hong Kong based airline Cathay Pacific mistakenly sold business-class seats on August flights from Vietnam to New York for about $675 (£517) return.\n\nPrices on the same route in July and September cost $16,000. The airline later announced it would honour the fare purchases.", "Greta Thunberg has changed her name to Sharon on Twitter, in honour of a game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was.\n\nWhile appearing on BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, actor Amanda Henderson was asked to name the teenage climate activist.\n\nLooking stumped, Henderson shook her head and guessed: \"Sharon.\"\n\nA clip of her answer - and host John Humphrys' deadpan response - has been viewed more than five million times.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video soon made its way back to Ms Thunberg herself, and on Friday afternoon she changed her name on Twitter.\n\nMs Thunberg also changed her bio to reflect that she has turned 17 - as Friday was also her birthday.\n\nShe celebrated her birthday by going to the weekly Fridays for Future climate protest outside the Swedish parliament building in Stockholm.\n\nThe clip of Amanda Henderson calling Greta Thunberg \"Sharon\" has been viewed more than five million times\n\nMs Thunberg has been known to have fun with her Twitter profile.\n\nLast month, US President Donald Trump tweeted: \"Greta must work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill, Greta, Chill!\"\n\nIn response, Ms Thunberg edited her bio to say she was \"a teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nEarlier that week, she changed her bio to say she was a \"pirralha\" - the Portuguese word for brat - after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticised her for highlighting the plight of Brazil's indigenous people.\n\n\"Greta's been saying Indians have died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro had told reporters. \"It's amazing how much space the press gives this kind of pirralha.\"\n\nIn October she changed her bio to \"a kind but poorly informed teenager\" - which was exactly how Russian President Vladimir Putin had described her at a conference in Moscow.\n\nIn September President Trump posted a video of her speaking emotionally at the UN conference and sarcastically commented: \"She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.\"\n\nShe changed her bio accordingly: \"A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future\".", "Television medium and psychic Derek Acorah has died aged 69, his wife has announced.\n\nGwen Acorah Johnson said her \"beloved\" husband had passed away \"after a very brief illness\".\n\nShe announced his death on his official Facebook page, adding: \"Farewell my love! I will miss you forever!\"\n\nAcorah was best known for Living TV's Most Haunted, a reality TV series that followed a team of paranormal experts as they investigated haunted locations.\n\nMost Haunted ran from 2002 to 2010 although it returned in an online edition and on Really TV at various times until 2019.\n\nAcorah departed as the show's guest medium after six series in 2005 over claims of fakery.\n\nHis former co-host Yvette Fielding, who had previously said Acorah \"had to go\" following the allegations, said on Twitter: \"Our condolences go out to Derek's family at this time.\"\n\nAcorah, who was born Derek Johnson in Bootle, Merseyside, made a cameo appearance in the 2006 Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts and entered the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2017, finishing in fourth place.\n\nHe was banned from driving for more than two years in 2014 when he admitted to careless driving and failing to provide a further breath test following a car crash.\n\nIn addition to a 28-month ban, Acorah received a £1000 fine and had to pay a £100 victim surcharge.\n\nHe had performed regular live shows across the UK, with further tour dates planned for February and May, according to his website. He lived in Scarisbrick, near Southport, with his wife.\n\nMrs Acorah Johnson said she was \"devastated\", and thanked everybody who had supported her.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Newlands, Cape Town (day two of five):\n\nEngland fought back with the ball against South Africa to end day two on top in the second Test in Cape Town.\n\nThe Proteas slipped to 40-3 in reply to England's 269 all out in the morning.\n\nDean Elgar (88) and Rassie van der Dussen (68) put on a fine stand of 117 as the tourists failed to take a wicket in a frustrating afternoon session.\n\nBut England took five wickets after tea to leave South Africa 215-8, trailing by 54 runs and needing to bat last on a pitch already showing signs of wear.\n\nStuart Broad (2-36) and James Anderson (3-34) starred once again, while Sam Curran (2-39) also picked up two vital wickets and Ben Stokes took four superb slip catches.\n\nThe Proteas are 1-0 up in the four-Test series.\n• None Writing off Broad and Anderson is 'silly', says Curran\n\nWith Elgar and Van der Dussen carefully compiling throughout the afternoon, England looked in danger of drifting through another punishing day in the field in an overseas Test without much to show for their efforts.\n\nYet instead of overusing peculiar fields and trying to bounce batsmen out, the tourists stuck to a mainly orthodox approach, testing the batsmen's technique around off stump, and got their rewards.\n\nGranted, they were assisted by errors from Elgar and Quinton de Kock, both caught attempting needless lofted shots, but England were ruthless once they had exposed the lower order.\n\nCurran got Van der Dussen to chase one that just left him and nick it to Stokes, who dropped an easier chance to remove Dwaine Pretorius but made amends two balls later with another excellent low catch off Anderson.\n\nAnderson then dismissed Keshav Maharaj, inside edging into his pads to loop to third slip, with what turned out to be the final ball of the day. It leaves England in sight of a potentially decisive first-innings lead.\n\nThe day had begun in similarly fine fashion for England's bowlers, with the superb Broad and Anderson once again restoring their side's advantage after a disappointing batting performance.\n\nBroad bowled quickly and moved the ball away off the seam to dismiss opener Pieter Malan and Zubayr Hamza, while Anderson returned after an innocuous first spell to remove South Africa captain Faf du Plessis.\n\nJust as England did on day one, South Africa wasted a strong position by losing their discipline.\n\nAt 157-3, and having forced England's bowlers into their third or fourth spells, the hosts looked on course for a first-innings lead, only for Elgar, who had batted resolutely with minimal risk, to miscue off-spinner Dom Bess to a retreating Joe Root at mid-off.\n\nWicketkeeper De Kock, who scored a vital 95 in the first-Test victory, then chipped a Curran slower ball to Anderson to fall for 20.\n\nVan der Dussen had battled through a charmed innings - he successfully overturned when given out lbw on six because of an inside edge, was caught behind off a Broad no-ball on 16 and was dropped on 43 by Stokes from a tough one-handed chance.\n\nYet having brought up his second half-century in his second Test, he could not resist fending at Curran.\n\nEven if the hosts are able to achieve parity with their final two wickets on day three, a pitch starting to show variable bounce and some sideways movement off widening cracks should make batting last here a tough task.\n\n'A remarkable day' - what they said\n\nEngland's Sam Curran on the Test Match Special podcast: \"It was an amazing end to the day. Having them eight down with a nice lead is good.\n\n\"We bowled really well as a group. Hopefully we can get those two wickets quickly in the morning, then bat big.\"\n\nCricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"A remarkable day. It is a question of two very fragile batting line-ups. England have to wrap this up tomorrow, and then they have to bat, under pressure. We've seen many teams falter in that situation.\n\n\"The bowling quality is good and there is something in the pitch. I wouldn't put money on either side batting a day.\"\n\nFormer England bowler Graham Onions on The Cricket Social: \"England are well on top. Stokes changes games. If he's not getting runs or taking wickets, he can affect things in the field.\"", "The rise in the number of deaths in the UK is being driven by fentanyl being added to heroin, a report says\n\nDeaths caused by the drug fentanyl are on the rise in the UK, a report warns.\n\nDeaths related to Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid considered to be 50 times more potent than heroin, rose from eight in 2008 to 135 in 2017, the report said.\n\nThe Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said the government should introduce controls to tackle the \"emerging threat\" the painkiller poses.\n\nThe ACMD said a rise in the number of deaths in the UK is being driven by fentanyl being added to heroin.\n\nThe drug was originally designed as a painkiller but has entered the illegal drug market.\n\nSynthetic opioids have been linked to thousands of US deaths. Its potency means that even small doses can be deadly.\n\nThe ACMD, which advises ministers on drugs policy, said fentanyl-related deaths have risen in the UK despite the fact it is an illegal Class A substance.\n\nFentanyl is an extremely strong painkiller, prescribed for severe chronic pain, or breakthrough pain which does not respond to regular painkillers.\n\nIt is an opioid painkiller which means it works by mimicking the body's natural painkillers, called endorphins, which block pain messages to the brain.\n\nThe risk of harm is higher if the wrong dose or strength is used.\n\nTypical symptoms of a fentanyl overdose include slow and difficult breathing, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and increased blood pressure.\n\nDr Bowden-Jones said the introduction of fentanyl and other new opioid drugs into illegal UK markets was \"of great concern\".\n\n\"To respond to this emerging threat, we must carefully examine the lessons learnt in other countries, particularly the US and Canada, to understand and implement effective interventions,\" he added.\n\nThe advisory group urged ministers to commission further research into strong opioids.\n\nThe Home Office, which commissioned the ACMD report, said it would \"carefully consider\" the recommendations.\n\nA spokesperson said the Home Office has commissioned a major review of all drugs policy in an attempt to reduce the harm they cause.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England midfielder Paul Merson says he hopes to help people struggling with their mental health by revealing that his own battle left him wanting to take his own life.\n\nKick-offs at this weekend's FA Cup third-round matches will be delayed for 60 seconds to prompt fans to consider their wellbeing.\n\nMerson, 51, says he has been sober for a year after dealing with alcoholism.\n\n\"Now I know I have an illness. Before, I used to beat myself up,\" he said.\n\nMerson was capped 21 times by England between 1991 and 1998 and scored 78 goals in 327 games for Arsenal.\n\nHe previously spoke about his gambling addiction in March 2019.\n\nWriting in his Daily Star column, Merson added: \"When I see this weekend's FA Cup games kicking off a minute later I will remember that time when things got dark and think: 'Thank god that's not how I feel any more.'\n\n\"This time last year, I wanted to kill myself.\n\n\"I don't want to kill myself any more. I don't have those thoughts.\n\n\"I'm telling you this because I hope it helps someone.\"\n\nIn 2003, Merson received help from the Sporting Chance clinic, set up by former Arsenal and England team-mate Tony Adams, after saying he was unable to stop betting and had run up huge losses, including £30,000 on the outcome of one football match.\n\nIn 2012, he was given a 14-month-driving ban after pleading guilty to drink-driving following a motorway crash.\n\n\"I was on my own, which is not the best place when you're down. Isolating yourself, that's where the illness wants you,\" Merson said.\n\n\"On Monday, I'll have been a year sober. I keep my life to one day at a time.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by any issues raised in this story, help and support is available at BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet explains the significance of the attack\n\nThe killing of Gen Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, represents a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran and one whose consequences could be considerable.\n\nRetaliation is to be expected. A chain of action and reprisal could ensue bringing the two countries closer to a direct confrontation. Washington's future in Iraq could well be called into question. And President Trump's strategy for the region - if there is one - will be tested like never before.\n\nPhilip Gordon, who was White House co-ordinator for the Middle East and the Persian Gulf in the Obama administration, described the killing as little short of a \"declaration of war\" by the Americans against Iran.\n\nThe Quds Force is the branch of Iran's security forces responsible for operations abroad. For years, whether it be in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria or elsewhere, Soleimani has been a key instigator in expanding and extending Iran's influence through planning attacks or bolstering Tehran's local allies.\n\nFor Washington, he was a man with US blood on his hands. But he was popular in Iran itself. And in practical terms, he led Tehran's fightback against the broad campaign of pressure and US-imposed sanctions.\n\nWhat is most surprising is not that Soleimani was in President Trump's sights but quite why the US should strike him now.\n\nA series of low-level rocket attacks against US bases in Iraq were blamed on Tehran. One US civilian contractor was killed. But earlier Iranian operations - against tankers in the Gulf; the shooting down of a US unmanned aerial vehicle; even the major attack against a Saudi oil facility - all went without a direct US response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs for the rocket attacks against the US bases in Iraq, the Pentagon has already hit back against the pro-Iranian militia believed to be behind them. That prompted a potential assault on the US embassy compound in Baghdad.\n\nIn explaining the decision to kill Soleimani, the Pentagon focused not just on his past actions, but also insisted that the strike was meant as a deterrent. The general, the Pentagon statement reads, was \"actively developing plans to attack US diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\nQuite what happens next is the big question. President Trump will hope that in one dramatic action he has both cowed Iran and proven to his increasingly uneasy allies in the region like Israel and Saudi Arabia that US deterrence still has teeth. However it is almost unthinkable that there will not be a robust Iranian response, even if it is not immediate.\n\nCould Iran target US soldiers stationed in Iraq in response?\n\nThe 5,000 US troops in Iraq are an obvious potential target. So too are the sorts of targets hit by Iran or its proxies in the past. Tensions will be higher in the Gulf. No wonder the initial impact was to see a surge in oil prices.\n\nThe US and its allies will be looking to their defences. Washington has already despatched a small number of reinforcements to its embassy in Baghdad. It will have plans to increase its military footprint in the region quickly if needed.\n\nBut it is equally possible that Iran's response will be in some sense asymmetric - in other words not just a strike for a strike. It may seek to play on the widespread support it has in the region - through the very proxies that Soleimani built up and funded.\n\nIt could for example renew the siege on the US embassy in Baghdad, putting the Iraqi government in a difficult position, and call into question the US deployment there. It could prompt demonstrations elsewhere as cover for other attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could Iran instigate more attacks on the US embassy in Baghdad such as this one earlier this week?\n\nThe strike against the Quds force commander was a clear demonstration of US military intelligence and capabilities. Many in the region will not mourn his passing. But was this the wisest thing for President Trump to do?\n\nHow well is the Pentagon prepared for the inevitable aftermath? And just what does this strike tell us about Mr Trump's overall strategy in the region? Has this changed in any way? Is there a new zero-tolerance towards Iranian operations?\n\nOr was this just the president taking out an Iranian commander he would no doubt regard as \"a very bad man\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The death of Iran's top general could make things worse for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, husband fears.\n\nThe husband of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran has said he is worried about what the death of the country's top general could mean for her case.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker from London, has been detained for more than three years over spying allegations she denies.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said escalated tensions after the killing of Qasem Soleimani could make matters worse for his wife.\n\nHe plans to meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss her case.\n\n\"There's probably a concern, on a selfish level, as to what does this mean for Nazanin's case,\" he said.\n\n\"There's always a worry that things could get worse.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe, whose in-laws live in Iran, said he is concerned about the implications for the region as a whole.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's parole was refused shortly before Christmas, he said, noting that she was \"low\" when he spoke to her on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.\n\n\"We're obviously not hopeful at the moment... We were feeling like there's been no good news for a while, and I was getting ready to push the prime minister and the government to do more and to be a lot more assertive,\" he said.\n\n\"In some ways that still feels the right thing to do - but absolutely the wrong time.\"\n\nThe couple's British-born daughter Gabriella, who had been living with her grandparents in Tehran, returned to the UK in October.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a three-day release from prison in August 2018\n\nMr Ratcliffe's concern comes amid a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran.\n\nIran's supreme leader has vowed \"severe revenge\" on those responsible for the death of Soleimani, who was killed by an air strike at Baghdad airport early on Friday ordered by US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe 62-year-old spearheaded Iran Middle East operations as head of the elite Quds Force. Mr Trump said Soleimani killed or wounded thousands of Americans.\n\nUS officials have said 3,000 additional troops will be sent to the Middle East as a precaution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nMr Ratcliffe said it is \"time to find a way to improve relations\" between the West and Iran and to bring his wife home.\n\nHe said he received a letter from Mr Johnson shortly after the general election last month asking for a meeting, but that a date was not specified.\n\nWhile he was foreign secretary, Mr Johnson mistakenly said that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran training journalists.\n\n\"We've been quite clear in public that I feel he owes us and that he needs to do what he can to bring Nazanin home and to bring [home] the others held over similar reasons,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nHe added: \"As we're on the precipice of very dark times, it can only help that positive gestures are made.\"", "Phil Foden made one goal and scored another as holders Manchester City saw off a spirited Port Vale side to book their place in the fourth round of the FA Cup.\n\nCity, who won all four available domestic trophies last season, had to work hard to break down their League Two opponents, but eventually ran out comfortable winners.\n\nOleksandr Zinchenko put Pep Guardiola's side ahead with a rasping shot from distance that Vale captain Leon Legge could only help into his own net.\n\nBut City failed to turn their superior possession into further goals and were surprisingly pegged back by a superb Tom Pope header from a pinpoint David Amoo cross.\n\nThat sparked wild celebrations from more than 8,000 Vale fans who packed the top tiers of the south stand at Etihad Stadium, but their side were level for only seven minutes.\n\nCity kept pouring forward and Foden set up Sergio Aguero to fire home at the near post, with Legge again getting the final touch.\n\nThat goal was checked by the video assistant referee before being awarded; when City scored their third goal just before the hour mark, it was initially ruled out and needed VAR intervention before being given.\n\nTaylor Harwood-Bellis was flagged offside when it appeared John Stones had put the ball into the net but replays showed the 17-year-old had got the final touch, and was actually onside too.\n\nOn a good day for City's academy, two more graduates combined for City's fourth goal, with Foden running into the box to bury Angelino's shot past Scott Brown.\n\nThe derogatory comments Pope made about Stones on social media last summer, when he called him 'a target man's dream', added extra spice to this tie, especially when both men were named in their respective starting line-ups.\n\nBut Pope, 34, had given some more insight into his thinking this week when he talked about how he likes to prey on the weakest link in any defence, so it was no surprise to see him lurk near Harwood-Bellis instead.\n\nThat was how he found space to convert Amoo's cross at the near post, darting away from his teenage marker at the last second.\n\nStones, back in the City side after a month out with his latest injury, got the better of the veteran forward whenever their paths crossed directly.\n\nBut it was still fitting that he and Harwood-Bellis combined to score City's third goal, and ensure any personal battle with Pope finished all-square.\n\n'Why this competition is so special' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola told BBC Sport: \"When Port Vale get contact with Tom Pope and run, they are a danger. In the second half, we created a lot of chances so we are into the next round.\"\n\nOn Taylor Harwood-Bellis' performance: \"He is growing every day and he is a player with a lot of quality. He played in the Carabao Cup and did well and he is a guy who is always so focused.\n\n\"This is the oldest cup competition in this country, so of course these kind of games you take seriously and you do what you have to do. We will be in the draw but it is still a long way to reach the final.\"\n\nOn inviting Port Vale players into the home dressing room: \"It is a pleasure when these teams can be alongside our players and why this country and this competition is so special.\"\n\nPort Vale manager John Askey told BBC Sport: \"I thought they [Vale's players] were fantastic. I'm really proud of them to come here and hold them for so long. Going into half-time you have to pinch yourself that it's 1-1. We knew it was going to be tough and before the game I was worried that teams have come here and been annihilated but I'm sure the fans are proud of the team.\n\n\"We rode our luck a little bit at times. When that goal [Tom Pope] went in, you start to dream a little bit. I was disappointed in the three goals we conceded before the fourth because they were avoidable and it was somebody's heel that kept them onside.\n\n\"Our supporters never stopped throughout the game. I'm so proud, and to see so many people come from Stoke-on-Trent cheering us on, I could not have asked for much more. I have just been in his [Pep Guardiola's] office and he poured me a glass of red wine. We spoke about football and it was nice to have a chat.\"\n\nCity continue their defence of the Carabao Cup with the first leg of their semi-final against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Tuesday (20:00 GMT).\n\nVale are in action only a few miles down the road on the same night, taking on Salford City in the EFL Trophy (19:45 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Angeliño.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sergio Agüero.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 4, Port Vale 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Angeliño with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Angeliño. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Sir Rod Stewart has been charged by police after allegedly punching a security guard at a hotel in Florida.\n\nA police report says the altercation occurred after the singer and his companions, including his son Sean, failed to gain access to a private event on New Year's Eve.\n\nSean allegedly pushed the security guard and Sir Rod struck his chest \"with a closed fist\", the report says.\n\nSir Rod and his son were both charged with \"simple battery\".\n\nThe security guard at the Breakers Palm Beach Hotel, named as Jessie Dixon, told officers that he saw a group of people near the check-in table of the private event in the children's area, trying to enter without permission.\n\nMr Dixon told police that the group \"began to get loud and cause a scene\", refusing to leave.\n\nSean Stewart got \"nose to nose\" with the security guard, according to the affidavit, who told him to back away.\n\nThe report then alleges that Sean Stewart, 39, shoved Mr Dixon backwards, before Sir Rod stepped towards the security guard and threw a punch, hitting him in the left ribcage.\n\nThe arresting officer says in the report that he made contact with Sir Rod, who said he and his family approached the check-in table to try to gain access to the event for their children.\n\nAccording to the affidavit, Sir Rod told police that after the family were denied access, Mr Dixon became argumentative with them, causing his family to become \"agitated\".\n\nSir Rod, 74, apologised for his role in the incident, the officer's report says.\n\nThe officer says the altercation was witnessed by two other hotel employees, who signed witness statements confirming they saw the push by Sean Stewart and the punch by Sir Rod.\n\nVideo footage also revealed Sean Stewart and Sir Rod as the \"primary aggressors\" in the confrontation, according to the report.\n\nBoth father and son were charged and are due to appear at the Palm Beach County Criminal Justice Complex on 5 February.", "Travel money services for several UK banks are still being affected after foreign currency seller Travelex took its site offline to deal with a cyber attack.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Travelex said it had taken down its site to contain \"the virus and protect data\".\n\nThat has affected Sainsbury's Bank, Barclays and HSBC, among others, which all use the Travelex platform.\n\nThere is no indication when the Travelex website will be restored.\n\nThe company said it has been working on the issue since the software virus attack on New Year's Eve.\n\nA number of banks depend on the Travelex platform to provide online travel money services.\n\nThe company delivers the foreign currency to stores for customers to collect, as well as operating the software that is used to buy the travel money.\n\nBut Travelex's decision to take down its site has meant the firms that use its services cannot sell currency online.\n\nVirgin Money's site showed an error message, which said: \"Our online, foreign currency purchasing service is temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance. The system will be back online shortly.\"\n\nSainsbury's Bank also said its online travel money services were unavailable, although it said customers could still buy travel money in its stores. In a statement to the BBC, the bank said: \"We're in close contact with Travelex so that we can resume our online service as soon as possible.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesperson for First Direct, which is owned by HSBC, said: \"Unfortunately, our online travel money service is currently unavailable due to a service issue with third party service provider, Travelex.\"\n\nIn a statement on Thusday, Travelex boss Tony D'Souza said: \"We regret having to suspend some of our services in order to contain the virus and protect data.\"\n\nThe company has resorted to carrying out transactions manually, providing foreign-exchange services over the counter in its branches.\n\n\"We apologise to all our customers for any inconvenience caused as a result,\" Mr D'Souza said in a statement.\n\nHSBC told the BBC that some of its branches also stock dollars and euros, which it is still able to sell.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe friends of Harry Dunn have protested outside the RAF base where he died to \"get their feelings across\" to the US Government.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a road crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nLast month, the CPS announced she would be charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nBut US officials said it was not \"a helpful development\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK \"to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident\".\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car driven by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, where her husband worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nFriends gathered outside the RAF base on Saturday to take part in the protest\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Dunn's family, Radd Seiger, said the teenager's friends wanted to protest outside the base because they were \"being asked to forget their friend had been killed\".\n\nHe said they felt a demonstration was \"the only way we can get our feelings across to Washington\".\n\n\"Ultimately if they don't send [Mrs Sacoolas] back we will not accept [RAF Croughton] being in our community,\" he added.\n\nThe CPS said extradition proceedings had started when it charged Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nLast month the Home Secretary Priti Patel met Mr Dunn's father Tim Dunn to explain the process.\n\nA 'Justice4Harry' banner was placed on the sign for RAF Croughton\n\nA statement from Amy Jeffress, Mrs Sacoolas's lawyer, said she had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Seiger said the Christmas period had been a \"difficult time\" for the family.\n\nHe said Mr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles and father Tim Dunn were \"desperately sad\".\n\n\"What they've been through has been frankly unimaginable,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Callum has travelled to Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital six times since July\n\n\"I need to go on a car, a boat, another car, a plane and a bus to get my scan\".\n\nThe words of eight-year-old Callum Taylor, who travels from Shetland to Aberdeen for MRI scans, after being diagnosed with epilepsy.\n\nAt the moment, more than 600 patients a year do this - at a cost of more than £200,000 to the local health board in travel tickets alone.\n\nAn MRI machine costs £1.6m and NHS Shetland says it cannot afford one. So the community is raising funds instead.\n\nMagnetic resonance imaging uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the body.\n\nIt can be used to detect many - sometimes life-threatening - conditions such as cancer, heart defects and internal bleeding.\n\nPeople living in Shetland have to make the long return trip totalling about 400 miles by plane or ferry to Aberdeen to get a scan.\n\nHowever, unpredictable weather conditions can cause travel delays and even cancellations at times - and locals claim the situation cannot continue.\n\nCallum has travelled to Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital (RACH) six times since July for MRI scans, after being diagnosed with two different types of epilepsy.\n\nHis mother, Shona McNab said it can be difficult to keep his spirits up.\n\nEtta Hannah was diagnosed with tumours in her brain and spinal cord\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"Sometimes Callum is glad to be in Aberdeen, but he is sometimes a bit emotional.\n\n\"We try and play down his hospital appointments so as to not worry him but that can be harder to do if it's such a big deal.\n\n\"It is taking time off work and time out of school - it is kind of hard to play it down\".\n\nCallum's story is not unique in Shetland.\n\nSix-year-old Etta Hannah was diagnosed with tumours in her brain and spinal cord before she started school last year, after a routine optometry appointment picked up swelling on her optic nerve.\n\nSince then, she has had to travel to the mainland regularly for chemotherapy and MRI scans.\n\nJennifer Murray says her daughter has a lot to cope with\n\nEtta's mother Jennifer Murray said her daughter has nerve pain in her legs, so she tires very easily in comparison to other six-year-olds.\n\n\"I have actually stopped counting the number of times we have had to travel to Aberdeen in the last year because we have gone about sixty flights and some air ambulances because we have a lot of emergencies,\" she said.\n\n\"People think, it's only an hour's flight to get from Sumburgh to Aberdeen, but actually it is about four hours from walking out your house to setting foot in the hospital.\n\n\"For Etta when she is so poorly and sometimes when she is chemo-sick or very sore, it is a lot.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Nine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Nine\n\nShe added: \"If you miss your slot, they can't just put you in the next day - it doesn't work like that. But when Etta's tumours rely on being monitored regularly, you have to get there so sometimes it means we have to go a couple of days before just to make sure we get there.\n\n\"A day trip that is meant to be an overnight turns into two weeks - that happens quite a lot.\"\n\nThe community began fundraising for the MRI machine on the 70th anniversary of the NHS in July 2018.\n\nHarriet Middleton and fellow \"MRI Maakers\" knit hats, gloves and accessories and sell them locally and online (\"maarkin and yaarkin\" is a local term for knitting and chatting).\n\nThey put all the money raised towards the Shetland MRI Scanner Appeal, and have so far raised more than £70,000.\n\nHarriet has her own experience travelling to Aberdeen for regular MRI scans.\n\nHarriet Middleton and the \"MRI Maakers\" have been raising funds\n\nShe said: \"I started doing this because I had a cancerous polyp that had to be removed. I had it removed and as a result of that I had to go to Aberdeen once every three months for two years.\n\n\"It can be quite tiring and I was very fit an able to do it but it would be a horrible long journey for anybody who wasn't quite so fit.\"\n\nThe fundraiser said she thought it was a shame that money had to be found for it - but that Shetlanders were \"very, very, very good at raising money and when push comes to shove\".\n\nShe added: \"We can't stress strongly enough how important it would be to have it here, in the end I think it could probably be a lifesaver\".\n\nThe Scottish government said in a statement: \"In 2019-20, NHS Shetland received increased investment of £1.2m, taking total board funding to £50.6m.\n\n\"While the Scottish government provides funding for equipment including MRI scanners, NHS Shetland is responsible for its own financial management and NHS Scotland estimated there would only be enough activity for the MRI scanner to be used one day a week\".\n\nThe scanner could be situated at Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick\n\nAt Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick, consultant surgeon Gordon McFarlane believes the scanner would be in use more than that.\n\nHe said: \"I think it will be used two or three days a week. The list might not be quite as long as they have in Aberdeen, but also having it here and able to be used at least Monday to Friday is going make a big difference.\"\n\nNHS Shetland's interim chief executive Simon Bokor-Ingram said: \"We have rising cost pressures so we need to be more efficient in what we do.\n\n\"The reality is that up and down the country there are donated assets in every hospital and it is absolutely right that for Shetland, the community has identified this as a potential project to put their efforts in to.\n\n\"This is about reinvesting the money that we are not spending on patient travel back into the service\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Soleimani - seen here in Iraq in 2015 - directed militia in Iraq who attacked US troops and later fought the Islamic State group\n\nNext to Iran's Supreme Leader, Qasem Soleimani was arguably the most powerful figure in the Islamic republic.\n\nAs head of its military abroad known as the Quds Force, Soleimani was the mastermind behind the country's activities across in the Middle East, and its real foreign minister when it came to matters of war and peace.\n\nHe was widely considered an architect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against rebels in Syria, the rise of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State group, and many battles beyond.\n\nCharismatic and often elusive, the silver-haired commander was revered by some, loathed by others, and a source of myths and social media memes.\n\nHe had emerged in recent years from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations to achieve fame and popularity in Iran, becoming the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.\n\nAs far back as 2013, former CIA officer John Maguire told The New Yorker that Soleimani was \"the single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".\n\nWhen his end came, it was violent and sudden. On 3 January the Pentagon announced that it had carried out a successful operation to kill him, at the direction of US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe assassination followed a sharp escalation between the US, Iran and Iran-backed groups in Iraq following the death of a US military contractor in a missile attack on a US base in Iraq - for which the US held Iran responsible.\n\nThe US responded with an air strike on the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah. Militia supporters then attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran had been rising since the US pulled out of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to curb Iran's nuclear programme and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. The US has also reimposed sanctions on Iran, sending its economy into freefall.\n\nSoleimani is believed to have come from a poor background and to have had very little formal education. But he had risen through the Revolutionary Guards - Iran's elite and most powerful force - and was reportedly close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.\n\nAfter becoming commander of the Quds Force in 1998, Soleimani attempted to extend Iran's influence in the Middle East by carrying out covert operations, providing arms to allies and developing networks of militias loyal to Iran.\n\nOver the course of his career he is believed to have aided Shia Muslim and Kurdish groups in Iraq fighting against former dictator Saddam Hussein as well as other groups in the region including the Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamist organisation Hamas in the Palestinian territories.\n\nAfter the US invaded Iraq in 2003 he began directing militant groups to carry out attacks against US troops and bases, killing hundreds.\n\nHe is also widely credited with finding a strategy for Bashar al-Assad to respond to the armed uprising against him that began in 2011. Iranian assistance along with Russian air support helped turn the tide against rebel forces and in the Syrian government's favour, allowing it to recapture key cities and towns.\n\nSoleimani himself was sometimes pictured at funerals of Iranians killed in Syria and Iraq, where Iran had deployed thousands of combatants and military advisers.\n\nHe also travelled frequently across the region, regularly shuttling between Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where Iranian influence has steadily grown. When he was killed he was travelling in a two-car convoy away from Baghdad airport with others including Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed.\n\nSoleimani was killed in an air strike near Baghdad's airport\n\nIn April 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Quds Force as foreign terrorist organisations.\n\nThe Trump administration has said the Quds Force provided funding, training, weapons and equipment to US-designated terrorist groups in the Middle East - including Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group based in Gaza.\n\nIn a statement, the Pentagon said Soleimani had been \"actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\n\"General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,\" it added.", "Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq.\n\nBut who was the man behind the 'shadowy figure'?\n\nRead more: Top Iranian general killed by US in Iraq", "They were said to be able to withstand being scrunched into pockets and survive a spin in the washing machine.\n\nBut nearly 50 million plastic £5 and £10 notes have had to be replaced since they were launched due to wear and tear, new figures suggest.\n\nThe Bank of England introduced polymer £5 notes in 2016 and £10 notes the following year, because they were \"more durable\" than the old paper versions.\n\nThe Bank said damage was mainly caused by \"folds, tears, holes and foil wear\".\n\nAccording to figures obtained by the Press Association news agency, around 20 million polymer £5 notes and some 26 million £10 notes have been swapped because of damage.\n\nThe Bank - which will launch a new plastic £20 note featuring artist JMW Turner this year - has always said the new notes are not indestructible.\n\nThe Bank said it expected the new notes to last an average of five years in circulation - compared with an average of two years for the old paper designs.\n\nIt said damage to plastic notes was consistent with expectations and the number of plastic notes replaced represents a small percentage of the total number in circulation.\n\n\"While we expect the polymer notes to have a longer life, it is too early in the note's lifecycle to yet understand the rate of replacement of polymer notes,\" it added.\n\nLaunching the notes, governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, said the polymer notes would be cleaner, safer and stronger.\n\n\"The use of polymer means it can better withstand being repeatedly folded into wallets or scrunched up inside pockets, and can also survive a spin in the washing machine,\" he said.", "Wigan MP Lisa Nandy has announced she is joining the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn a letter to the Wigan Post, she said she wanted to \"bring Labour home\" to voters that have abandoned the party in its traditional strongholds.\n\nHer announcement came on the same day Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips announced she was joining the race.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis are also both standing.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey are among those also expected to stand.\n\nA timetable for the leadership election - and any rule changes - is set to be decided by the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) on Monday.\n\nThe contest was called because Mr Corbyn is standing down as leader following the party's heavy election defeat.\n\nMs Nandy said the \"political earthquake\" seen after the general election result had highlighted the need for a different approach within the party.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"People have been telling us for some time that we can't just keeping changing the man at the top, and determining the priorities and the solutions to the problems that they face from behind a desk in Victoria Street, Westminster or Whitehall.\"\n\nShe said she had a \"duty\" to provide a \"different sort of leadership\" for voters who wanted an end to political parties' \"paternalistic approach\" and to take back \"control\" over their own lives.\n\nShe added: \"I have the duty to stand up for those people and see if Labour can become a national force again, rooted in our communities and capable of speaking with and for those people.\"\n\nShe said the next Labour leader would also have to put a stop to the \"factions\" and \"in-fighting\" within the party to \"earn back\" the trust of voters.\n\n\"[They] will [have to] show people that we've changed, that we're kind and compassionate towards one another...that we have zero tolerance on issues like anti-Semitism and when we say that we believe in a more equal, compassionate society that we are walking the walk within our own party, not just talking the talk.\"\n\nLisa Nandy chose an unconventional way to launch her campaign - an open letter to constituents in her local paper.\n\nIn a challenge to London-based candidates such as Emily Thornberry and Keir Starmer, who will declare his candidacy soon, Ms Nandy argued that the next Labour leader should come from a community like hers.\n\nShe said she agreed with the perception that many political leaders were \"unable or unwilling\" to understand places such as Wigan - and that her party must elect, in her words, someone who has \"skin in the game\".\n\nShe also pledged not to indulge in faction-fighting. In her pitch to succeed Mr Corbyn, she said the response to anti-Semitism had been \"woeful\".\n\nShe promised to challenge Boris Johnson with \"passion and precision\" and argued that the best way for Labour to win back lost voters was by being \"brave and bold\" rather than \"trying to look all ways\".\n\nMs Nandy has represented the safe Labour constituency of Wigan since entering Parliament after the 2010 general election.\n\nShe served as shadow energy secretary during the first year of Mr Corbyn's leadership, but was among a clutch of shadow ministers to quit their posts in 2016 following the Brexit referendum.\n\nShe advocated remaining in the EU during the referendum campaign, but voted for the PM's Brexit deal in October and has argued the party's pledge to hold another referendum after renegotiating the deal alienated voters in Leave-supporting areas.\n\nShe has been urging her party to concentrate on winning support in smaller towns, and suggested it should move its headquarters outside London.\n\nMs Nandy's announcement comes after Jess Phillips joined the leadership race on Friday, stating that \"something has to change\" and \"more honesty\" in politics was required.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jess Phillips: Labour members are \"ready to try something different\".\n\nMs Phillips, a vocal critic of Mr Corbyn's leadership, acknowledged the campaign \"won't necessarily be an easy fight\" for her, but said she thought Labour members were \"ready to try something different\".\n\nThe Birmingham Yardley MP added that Labour needed a leader who would \"truly speak truth to power\" and be able to \"take on\" Mr Johnson.\n\nThere will also be an election for a new deputy leader, with shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler and shadow Europe minister Khalid Mahmood confirming they intend to run.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner has also received the backing of Ms Long-Bailey for the deputy post.\n\nUnder current rules, would-be candidates for both the leader and deputy leader roles must first be nominated by more than 20 MPs.\n\nThey must also secure nominations from at least 5% of Labour's constituency parties or three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.", "Stormzy has scored the first number one of the decade, as his song Own It climbs to the top of the singles chart.\n\nThe track is a collaboration with Burna Boy and Ed Sheeran, and earns Stormzy his third UK number one in 12 months, knocking Ellie Goulding off the top.\n\nBut it follows a Twitter spat this week between Stormzy and fellow rapper Wiley over the song.\n\nWiley criticised Stormzy for working with Sheeran, whom he had once said was using grime music to gain \"clout\".\n\nAnd he suggested that the only reason Jay-Z wanted to work with Stormzy on a different track was because of his association with Sheeran.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 1's Scott Mills about Wiley, Stormzy said: \"I don't think we'll be meeting up anytime soon. I think he just gets a bit 'woop' and then he hits the old social media. Obviously, when you get 'wooped' you're not meant to tweet.\n\n\"It's like a drunk uncle, it's like 'aw uncle, come on man... get back to bed'.\"\n\nStormzy added he felt bad that Sheeran was being dragged into the online argument.\n\n\"This is why it's even worse, because Ed's the kindest, nicest soul ever. He's just trying to travel the world and he's probably getting notifications,\" he explained. \"But I said 'don't worry I'll do all the trolling'. I don't mind trolling Wiley, he loves it.\"\n\nStormzy's previous number ones in the UK include Vossi Bop and Take Me Back To London, the latter another collaboration with Sheeran,\n\nThe last British rapper to score three chart-topping singles in the space of 12 months was Dizzee Rascal more than a decade ago.\n\nHe landed a trio of chart-toppers with Holiday, Dirtee Disco and Shout between September 2009 and June 2010.", "Forensic officers worked inside the police cordon off Charteris Road in Finsbury Park\n\nA moped rider thought to be working for food delivery companies Uber Eats and Deliveroo has been stabbed to death in north London.\n\nThe 30-year-old man was attacked in Charteris Road, near the junction with Lennox Road, Finsbury Park, shortly before 19:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nNo arrests have been made, but police believe there was a row with another driver.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil John said the stabbing appeared to be \"spontaneous\".\n\nDeliveroo confirmed the victim worked for the company, while Uber Eats said it was \"looking into it\".\n\nOn Saturday delivery riders gathered in nearby Stroud Green Road said the stabbed man had been the victim of a road rage attack.\n\nPolice said the stabbing appeared to be \"spontaneous\"\n\nOne delivery driver said the victim was a 30-year-old Algerian known as \"Taki\", although he was unsure of the English spelling.\n\nA man who said he was a friend of the victim said: \"He was a good man.\n\n\"He doesn't make any trouble - he works and he goes home and he ends up being killed while he's working.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's not safe to work by yourself any more - what can you do?\n\n\"If someone comes at you with a knife you give them what you have or they are going to stab you.\"\n\nA police forensic tent was put up at the scene of the stabbing\n\nAnother 23-year-old rider, who gave his name as Paul, said: \"Taki was a nice guy. He was a gentleman.\n\n\"I would talk to him every day. He always said hello.\"\n\nLast year, 95 people were stabbed to death in London, according to police statistics.\n\nIslington Council leader Richard Watts tweeted: \"I'm horrified to hear about this appalling crime\".\n\nHe added: \"What an awful start to the new year.\"\n\nDeliveroo rider Zakaria Gherabi, 37, showed Jeremy Corbyn a photo of injuries he has suffered in the past\n\nReacting to the stabbing, Labour leader and Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn called for better protection for delivery drivers.\n\nHe said: \"I am totally shocked. This is a very close-knit community, and this is yet another stabbing on the streets of London.\n\n\"People should not be carrying knives. A human life has been taken.\n\n\"There are a lot of people working as delivery drivers, they must have better conditions of employment and employers must take more responsibility for their safety too.\n\n\"Delivery drivers do a great job in London all of the time. Yet they are vulnerable. They are often on zero hours contracts, yet the food they are carrying is insured.\n\n\"So the delivery driver is less valuable than the food they are carrying - we need to end the whole culture of gig employment.\"\n\nThe Met Police said the victim's next of kin had been informed and a post-mortem examination would be held in due course.\n\nForensic officers spent most of Saturday searching the area where the victim was killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 13-year-old boy has died following a collision on the Springfield Road in west Belfast on Friday.\n\nEoin Hamill, who was from the area, was a student at Coláiste Feirste and a talented amateur boxer.\n\nGleann Amateur Boxing Club, where Eoin was a member, said: \"He was loved by us all outside the ring. He was admired for his skill in the ring.\"\n\nSeveral hundred people attended a vigil in Turf Lodge in memory of the teenager on Sunday night.\n\nPolice urged any eyewitnesses who were in the area between 16:15 GMT and 16:45 to get in touch.\n\nSeveral hundred people attended a vigil in Turf Lodge in west Belfast in memory of the teenager on Sunday night\n\nA man was arrested but was released on bail on Sunday pending further enquiries.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Micheal Donnelly said Eoin was \"well-regarded\" in the community and was known for his boxing, having represented his county in competition.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family, it's absolutely heartbreaking,\" he said.\n\n\"We as a community will come together to support the family.\n\n\"At the start of a new year it makes it raw, it's just devastating.\"\n\nColáiste Feirste said the school community was \"heartbroken\" by the news.\n\nIn a statement on social media Gleann Amateur Boxing Club, where Eoin was a member, said he was a \"talented boxer\" and \"lovely young kid\".\n\n\"He was loved by us all outside the ring. He was admired for his skill in the ring,\" the post added.\n\n\"Instead of wishing him all the best for his next fight or shouting at him to keep them hands up or cheering him on to a victory, we will be saying a very sad and truly heartbroken goodbye to one of our own.\"", "Jackson died in 2009 but his family have denied the claims made against him\n\nTwo men who featured in a documentary alleging sexual abuse by the singer Michael Jackson can pursue legal claims against two of his companies, a court has ruled.\n\nWade Robson and James Safechuck claim they were abused by the singer in the late 80s and early 90s while staying at his Neverland ranch.\n\nJackson died in 2009 but his family have denied the claims.\n\nThey described the documentary Leaving Neverland as a \"public lynching\".\n\nA lower court had dismissed lawsuits brought by the two men in 2014 because California's statute of limitations required that claims of childhood sexual abuse be filed before an accuser's 26th birthday.\n\nHowever a new law, which came into effect on 1 January, extends the timeframe up to a person's 40th birthday.\n\nBoth Mr Robson and Mr Safechuck claim they were abused by Jackson from the ages of seven and 10.\n\nVince Finaldi, the lawyer for the two men, said in a statement following the ruling: \"We are pleased that the Court has recognised the strong protections California has put into place for sexual abuse victims under the state's new law extending the statute of limitations.\"\n\nHoward Weitzman, a lawyer for Jackson's estate, said: \"The Court of Appeal's ruling merely revived lawsuits against Michael Jackson's companies, which absurdly claim that Michael's employees are somehow responsible for sexual abuse that never happened.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed he is standing in the contest to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary, seen as a frontrunner in the contest, has written in the Sunday Mirror that Labour needs to \"rebuild fast\" to restore trust.\n\nIt comes hours after MPs Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips said they were entering the race.\n\nThe contest was called after Mr Corbyn announced he would stand down as leader after Labour's heavy election defeat.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis have also confirmed they are standing.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, seen as another potential frontrunner, is also expected to officially join the contest.\n\nDeclaring his candidacy in the Sunday Mirror while releasing a video on Twitter, Sir Keir said Labour needed to listen to voters if it was to \"restore trust\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir Keir, who backed Remain in the EU referendum and was one of the leading figures in the party advocating for a new referendum, will kick off his leadership bid by visiting Brexit-backing Stevenage on Sunday.\n\nSome of Mr Corbyn's allies have blamed Sir Keir's Brexit stance for the party's disastrous election performance last month, where much of its traditional, Leave-backing Northern strongholds fell to the Conservatives.\n\n\"We cannot bury our head in the sand: Labour must rebuild and fast. We have to restore trust in our party as a force for change and a force for good,\" Sir Keir wrote in the paper.\n\n\"The millions of people who needed change at the last election still need change. The moral fight against poverty, inequality and injustice must continue.\"\n\nBefore Sir Keir, Lisa Nandy and Jess Philips were the latest MPs to enter the contest\n\nHowever, Sir Keir said Labour could not \"lose sight of our values or retreat from the radicalism of the past few years\".\n\nAmong other things, he said the party should push for a \"Green New Deal\" to fight climate change and make the case for a \"radically transformed economy that empowers trade unions and communities that have been left behind\".\n\nAnd he also called for a \"human rights approach\" to foreign policy and international relations, accusing ministers of \"failing to hold an irresponsible US president to account\" over the situation in Iran.\n\nThe human rights lawyer, who was made Queen's Counsel in 2002, served as head of the Crown Prosecution Service and accepted a knighthood in 2014, and has struggled to shake-off perceptions of privilege.\n\nThe 57-year-old was named after Labour Party founder Keir Hardie and has emphasised his upbringing by a toolmaker father and nurse mother in London's Southwark when dismissing allegations he is too middle-class to speak to the party's historic heartlands.\n\nHis CV includes co-founding the renowned Doughty Street Chambers and advising the Policing Board to ensure the Police Service of Northern Ireland complied with human rights laws.\n\nHe entered Parliament as the MP for Holborn and St Pancras in 2015.\n\nA timetable for the leadership election - and any rule changes - is set to be decided by the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) on Monday.\n\nUnder current rules, would-be candidates for both the leader and deputy leader roles must first be nominated by more than 20 MPs.\n\nThey must also secure nominations from at least 5% of Labour's constituency parties or three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.", "The old brand of Lidl's Frosted Flakes - featuring a cartoon lion - and the new brand\n\nLidl has said it will remove cartoon characters from its own-brand cereals to help parents buy healthy products.\n\nIt hopes that the rebranded packaging, to be introduced in the spring, will alleviate the pressure of children's \"pester power\".\n\nHealth experts welcomed the move but called for government regulations on \"junk food marketing\".\n\nA group of MPs has previously recommended a ban on cartoons on unhealthy foods.\n\nLidl said it will rebrand eight of its own-brand Crownfield products in total, including Choco Shells, which features two cartoon penguins on the box, and Rice Snaps, which is advertised with a grinning cartoon crocodile.\n\nThe new packaging will be free from cartoons.\n\nGeorgina Hall, the retailer's head of corporate social responsibility said it wants to help parents \"make healthy and informed choices\" about the food they buy for their children.\n\n\"We know pester power can cause difficult battles on the shop floor and we're hoping that removing cartoon characters from cereal packaging will alleviate some of the pressure parents are under,\" she said.\n\nShe stressed that the company seeks to make \"good food accessible for everyone\" and \"[help] customers lead healthier lives.\"\n\nAccording to Lidl's website, a serving of its Honey and Peanuts Corn Flakes - which features a cartoon bee on the box - contains 14g of sugar, compared to 0.4g in its regular Corn Flakes.\n\nCaroline Cerny, of the Obesity Health Alliance - a coalition of organisations such as the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the British Medical Association - welcomed what it called a \"responsible approach\".\n\n\"We know that the use of cartoon characters on sugary products is a marketing technique used by the food industry to put their unhealthy products firmly centre stage in children's minds,\" she said.\n\nHowever, she noted that more needs to be done than one retailer changing a category of products.\n\n\"We need the government to introduce regulations to create a level playing field and protect children from all types of junk food marketing,\" she added.\n\nThe old brand of Lidl's Choco Rice - featuring a cartoon monkey - and the new brand\n\nThe move comes more than a year and a half after the health select committee recommended a ban on cartoons on sugary foods, such as Tony the Tiger and the Milky Bar Kid.\n\nIn October, England's outgoing chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, called for extra taxes placed on unhealthy foods to tackle child obesity.\n\nIn her final report, she also called for tighter rules on advertising.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"It's encouraging to see companies taking action to tackle childhood obesity.\"\n\nIt added that it has reduced the amount of sugar in soft drinks and encouraged physical activity in schools. It said it will \"continue to assess\" the impact of marketing on children.", "From the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister in 1953, to tension and confrontation under President Trump, a look back over more than 65 years of tricky relations between Iran and the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS and British intelligence agencies orchestrate a coup to oust Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. The secular leader had sought to nationalise Iran's oil industry.\n\nThe US-backed Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, is forced to leave the country on 16 January following months of demonstrations and strikes against his rule by secular and religious opponents.\n\nTwo weeks later, Islamic religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returns from exile. Following a referendum, the Islamic Republic of Iran is proclaimed on 1 April.\n\nThe US embassy in Tehran is seized by protesters in November 1979 and American hostages are held inside for 444 days. The final 52 hostages are freed in January 1981, the day of US President Ronald Reagan's inauguration.\n\nAnother six Americans who had escaped the embassy are smuggled out of Iran by a team posing as film-makers, in events dramatised in the 2012 Oscar-winning film Argo.\n\nThe US secretly ships weapons to Iran, allegedly in exchange for Tehran's help in freeing US hostages held by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.\n\nThe profits are illegally channelled to rebels in Nicaragua, creating a political crisis for Reagan.\n\nThe American warship USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air flight in the Gulf on 3 July, killing all 290 people on board. The US says the Airbus A300 was mistaken for a fighter jet.\n\nMost of the victims are Iranian pilgrims on their way to Mecca.\n\nIn his State of the Union address, President George Bush denounces Iran as part of an \"axis of evil\" with Iraq and North Korea. The speech causes outrage in Iran.\n\nIn 2002 an Iranian opposition group reveals that Iran is developing nuclear facilities including a uranium enrichment plant.\n\nThe US accuses Iran of a clandestine nuclear weapons programme, which Iran denies. A decade of diplomatic activity and intermittent Iranian engagement with the UN's nuclear watchdog follows.\n\nBut several rounds of sanctions are imposed by the UN, the US and the EU against ultra-conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government. This causes Iran's currency to lose two-thirds of its value in two years.\n\nIn September 2013, a month after Iran's new moderate president Hassan Rouhani takes office, he and US President Barack Obama speak by phone - the first such top-level conversation in more than 30 years.\n\nThen in 2015, after a flurry of diplomatic activity, Iran agrees a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agrees to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nIn May 2018, US President Donald Trump abandons the nuclear deal, before reinstating economic sanctions against Iran and threatening to do the same to countries and firms that continue buying its oil. Iran's economy falls into a deep recession.\n\nRelations between the US and Iran worsen in May 2019, when the US tightens the sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports. In response, Iran begins a counter-pressure campaign.\n\nIn May and June 2019, explosions hit six oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, and the US accuses Iran.\n\nOn 20 June, Iranian forces shoot down a US military drone over the Strait of Hormuz. The US says it was over international waters, but Iran says it is over their territory.\n\nIran begins rolling back key commitments under the nuclear deal in July.\n\nOn 3 January 2020, Iran's top military commander, Gen Qasem Soleimani, is killed by a US drone strike in Iraq. Iran vows \"severe revenge\" for his death and pulls back from the 2015 nuclear accord.", "A portrait of the Queen with the next three heirs to the throne has been released to mark the start of the new decade.\n\nIt shows the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George standing with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe new photograph was taken in the week before Christmas, but has not been published until now.\n\nIt is the second official portrait of the four generations of royals together.\n\nThe Queen, 93, standing at the front of her family, wears a white dress with a blue brooch while holding a handbag on her arm.\n\nHer son, Prince Charles, who is dressed in a pinstripe suit, stands on the first step behind her.\n\nHis arm rests on the shoulder of his six-year-old grandson, who is wearing a pair of green and navy tartan trousers.\n\nPrince William, wearing a dark suit and navy tie, stands with his hands together to the right of his grandmother.\n\nThe photograph was taken by Ranald Mackechnie, who was also responsible for the only other portrait of the four royals together.\n\nA portrait of the four royals was previously released in 2016 to mark the Queen's 90th birthday\n\nIt was released in 2016 to mark the Queen's 90th birthday and was printed on commemorative stamps.\n\nThe latest portrait was taken on December 18 - the same day the four royals were photographed making a Christmas pudding together at the palace.\n\nThe moment, captured in front of a Christmas tree decorated with miniature corgis and crowns, featured in the Queen's Christmas Day message.\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince George made Christmas puddings last month", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jordi Casamitjana says he's \"really really satisfied\" with the judge's ruling\n\nEthical veganism is a \"philosophical belief\" and so is protected in law, a tribunal has ruled for the first time.\n\nThe landmark legal case was brought by vegan Jordi Casamitjana, who claims he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports because of his ethical veganism.\n\nHis former employer says he was dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe judge ruled that ethical vegans should be entitled to similar legal protections in British workplaces as those who hold religious beliefs.\n\nHe is yet to rule on Mr Casamitjana's dismissal - which is due at a later date.\n\nMr Casamitjana, 55, who lives in London, said he was \"extremely happy\" with the ruling - which is ongoing - adding that he hopes fellow vegans \"will benefit\".\n\nThe tribunal centres on his claim that he was sacked by the animal welfare charity League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing.\n\nMr Casamitjana says when he drew his bosses' attention to the pension fund investments, they did nothing so he informed colleagues and was sacked as a result.\n\nThe League Against Cruel Sports says it is \"factually wrong\" to link Mr Casamitjana's dismissal to his veganism. The charity did not contest that ethical veganism should be protected.\n\nA vegan is someone who does not eat or use animal products.\n\nSome people choose to simply follow a vegan diet - that is, a plant-based diet avoiding all animal products such as dairy, eggs, honey, meat and fish.\n\nBut ethical vegans try to exclude all forms of animal exploitation from their lifestyle. For instance, they avoid wearing or buying clothing made from wool or leather, or toiletries from companies that carry out animal testing.\n\n\"Religion or belief\" is one of nine \"protected characteristics\" covered by the Equality Act 2010.\n\nThe judge Robin Postle ruled that ethical veganism qualifies as a philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010 by satisfying several tests - including that it is worthy of respect in a democratic society, not incompatible with human dignity and not conflicting with the fundamental rights of others.\n\nAt the tribunal in Norwich on Friday, the judge said in his ruling that ethical veganism was \"important\" and \"worthy\" of respect in a democratic society.\n\nHe said: \"I am satisfied overwhelmingly that ethical veganism does constitute a philosophical belief.\"\n\nThough a ruling from an employment tribunal does not amount to binding legal precedent, this one will have important and far-reaching effects.\n\nEmployers will have to respect ethical veganism and make sure they do not discriminate against employees for their beliefs.\n\nSo, for example, could a worker on a supermarket checkout refuse to put a meat product through the till?\n\nThe implications are considerable, not least because the legal protection will apply beyond employment, in areas such as education and the supply of goods and services.\n\nIt could also encourage others to seek similar protection for their philosophical beliefs.\n\nWhile this is the first case concerning ethical veganism, a previous tribunal ruled that a strongly held belief in climate change amounted to a philosophical belief capable of protecting someone against discrimination in their employment.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC outside the tribunal, Mr Casamitjana said he was \"extremely happy\".\n\n\"I'm really, really satisfied and I hope all the vegans out there that have been supporting me - there have been many helping me in my crowdfunding - I hope they now feel their little donation has been properly used and all the vegans will benefit.\"\n\nHe added: \"Veganism is a philosophical belief and when you look at my life and anybody else's life who is an ethical vegan, you will see it.\n\n\"This is a positive belief, it's not a negative belief. And therefore a positive belief is bound to be protected.\"\n\nMr Casamitjana supports a range of ethical and animal rights causes\n\nHe added that he is \"passionate\" about veganism, which \"gives you hope\". Mr Casamitjana also said he was feeling \"optimistic\" for the ruling on his dismissal.\n\nMr Casamitjana describes himself as an ethical vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.\n\nHis beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.\n\nPeter Daly, the solicitor for Mr Casamitjana, said the ramifications of this judgement for companies that employ vegan staff are \"potentially significant\".\n\nHe said any abuse directed at ethical vegans \"might be seen to be harassment in the same way a racist or sexist slur might be discriminatory action\".\n\nActing for the League Against Cruel Sports, Rhys Wyborn, from the law firm Shakespeare Martineau, said: \"Although an interesting point of law, this hearing was preparation for the real crux of the matter: why Jordi Casamitjana was dismissed.\n\n\"In view of its animal welfare value, the League did not contest the issue of whether ethical veganism itself should be a protected belief, with the League maintaining that it's irrelevant to the core reason for the dismissal.\"\n\nThe tribunal will next consider whether Mr Casamitjana was treated less favourably because of his ethical veganism belief.\n\nReligion and belief is one of nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act. The others are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, sex and sexual orientation.", "The southbound side of the M1 was closed for more than 15 hours\n\nTwo lorry drivers have died in a crash on the M1 that led to part of the road being shut for nearly 16 hours.\n\nThe crash at about 06:45 GMT happened on the southbound side between junction 12 at Flitwick and 13 near Bedford.\n\nAn air ambulance was sent but both lorry drivers died at the scene, Bedfordshire Police said.\n\nThe northbound carriageway of the motorway reopened at about 13:00, the southbound lanes remained closed until 22:20.\n\nMotorists have been urged to avoid the area\n\nThe lorry drivers' next-of-kin have been informed, police said.\n\nSgt Aaron Murphy said: \"This was a serious collision which has taken the lives of two people so we are keen to hear from anyone who may have witnessed the incident or who has dashcam footage from around that time, so we can piece together the circumstances which led to this tragic incident.\n\n\"I'd also like to thank the public for their co-operation and patience during the recovery operation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson was not warned about the US airstrike in Iraq that killed a top Iranian general, the BBC understands.\n\nThe UK has 400 troops based in the Middle East and works alongside US forces in the region.\n\nBut President Donald Trump did not tell the UK PM about the attack he ordered that killed Qasem Soleimani on Friday.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has asked Mr Johnson to confirm what the UK was told before the airstrike.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, he asked whether, if it had been informed in advance, the government had expressed its opposition to the attack.\n\nHe also requested an urgent meeting of the privy council to discuss the airstrike's consequences, and asked what the government was doing to ensure the safety of UK nationals.\n\nMeanwhile Tory MP Tom Tugendhat said there was a \"pattern\" from the current White House not to share details with its allies, which was a \"matter of concern\".\n\nThe former chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee added: \"I have long believed the purpose of having allies is so we can surprise our enemies, not each other.\"\n\nThe death of Gen Soleimani \"will certainly be a huge blow to the Iranian regime\", but will \"doubtless have consequences\" elsewhere, Mr Tugendhat told BBC News.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab did speak to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, although the time of the call is not known.\n\nMr Pompeo tweeted that he was \"thankful that our allies recognise the continuing aggressive threats posed by the Iranian Quds Force\".\n\nMr Raab also issued a statement, urging \"all parties to de-escalate\" after the killing of Gen Soleimani.\n\nHe said the UK \"recognised the aggressive threat\" Gen Soleimani posed, but \"further conflict is in none of our interests\".\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office has warned British nationals to avoid any rallies, marches, or processions in Iran over the three days of national mourning the country has called for Gen Soleimani.\n\nAs well as troops, there are around 400 British personnel based in Iraq - where the strike took place.\n\nThe troops are there to train Iraqi forces tackling an Islamic State insurgency.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner earlier said he did not think anyone in the UK was given an indication the air strike was going to take place, adding: \"My sense is this has caught the British government largely by surprise.\"\n\nThe killing of Gen Soleimani marks a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran.\n\nIran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said \"severe revenge awaits the criminals\" behind the attack, but a statement from the Pentagon said Gen Soleimani \"was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said earlier that the \"US assassination\" was an \"extremely serious and dangerous escalation\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the UK \"should urge restraint\" from both Iran and the US - and called for the government to \"stand up to the belligerent actions and rhetoric coming from the United States\".\n\nHe added: \"All countries in the region and beyond should seek to ratchet down the tensions to avoid deepening conflict, which can only bring further misery to the region, 17 years on from the disastrous invasion of Iraq.\"\n\nThe acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, said Iran was governed by \"a brutal regime\", but accused President Trump of \"yet again radically and recklessly escalated tensions in an area where peace-keeping was already on a knife edge\".\n\nHe called for an immediate statement from Boris Johnson about the UK's position, adding: \"The UK should not automatically follow whatever position the Trump administration takes, but work with a broader group of concerned states at the United Nations.\"\n\nOther UK MPs have been reacting to the incident on Twitter.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said: \"For two years, I've warned about Trump's reckless lurch towards war with Iran. Last night's attack takes us even closer to the brink.\n\n\"Those of us who marched against the Iraq War must be ready to march again, and ensure we are not dragged into this morass.\"\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas called for the UK government to condemn the killing and \"work with colleagues in the US to counter Trump's reckless and dangerous foreign policy\".\n\nAnd the deputy leader of Northern Ireland's Alliance Party, Stephen Farry, said it was \"time for cooler heads\".", "Wang Zhimin served a little over two years as director of the liaison office\n\nChina has sacked the official in charge of relations with Hong Kong, Chinese state media reports.\n\nWang Zhimin was director of Beijing's liaison office for the territory.\n\nThe Xinhua news agency said Mr Wang had been replaced by Luo Huining, the Communist Party secretary for the northern province of Shanxi.\n\nThe sacking follows six months of often violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that have tested Beijing's patience with top officials there.\n\nCarrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, remains in office with the public support of the mainland leadership, despite being the face of a proposed bill which initially sparked unrest in March 2019.\n\nThe bill would have allowed for criminal suspects to be extradited from Hong Kong to mainland China, raising fears that the new law would be abused to detain dissidents and remove them from the territory.\n\nAnti-government protesters were detained on New Year's Day in Hong Kong\n\nHong Kong's protesters welcomed the new decade on Wednesday with a New Year's Day rally, which saw tens of thousands of people join a pro-democracy march. The gathering was largely peaceful, save for some small pockets of violence.\n\nPolice used water cannon to clear the Mong Kok market district and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.\n\nSome 40 parliamentarians and dignitaries from 18 countries sent an open letter to Ms Carrie Lam on New Year's Eve, urging her to \"seek genuine ways forward out of this crisis by addressing the grievances of Hong Kong people\".\n\nHong Kong was a British colony until 1997, when it was returned to Chinese control under the principle of \"one country, two systems\". While it is technically part of China, the territory has its own legal system and borders, and rights including freedom of assembly and free speech are protected.", "The crash happened close to the Baker's Arms roundabout on the A35 Upton Bypass\n\nA woman died and her eight-year-old daughter was critically injured when their car left the road and landed in a ditch.\n\nIt happened on the westbound carriageway of the A35 Upton Bypass in Poole, Dorset, at about 20:50 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe silver Vauxhall Astra crashed just before the Baker's Arms roundabout, police said.\n\nThe 28-year-old woman's daughter was airlifted to hospital.\n\nThe A35 was closed in both directions, and Dorset Police is appealing for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Libya has been torn apart by violence since Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in 2011\n\nAt least 30 people have been killed and 33 others wounded in an air strike at a military school in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, officials have said.\n\nThe UN-backed government blamed rebel forces loyal to Gen Khalifa Haftar for the attack. The rebels denied involvement.\n\nFootage from the scene showed bodies scattered across the ground.\n\nGen Haftar's troops launched an offensive in April to try and take control of Tripoli.\n\nThe foreign ministry called for an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss the air strike, and said Gen Haftar should be investigated by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.\n\nLibya has been torn by violence since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011 by Nato-backed forces.\n\nIt has two rival administrations, based in Tripoli and the eastern city of Tobruk.\n\nThe conflict has increasingly drawn in foreign states, with Turkey's parliament voting last week to deploy troops to support the UN-backed government in Tripoli.\n\nGen Haftar is allied with the Tobruk administration, and is the main military commander fighting the Un-backed government.\n\nHe has the support of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan and Russia.\n\nLibya is a major oil producer, and is used as a transit point by migrants trying to reach Europe.", "Crowds have gathered in Iraq for the funeral procession of Iran's top military commander Qasem Soleimani.\n\nThe leader of Iran's Quds Force was killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad airport on Friday.\n\nHis death marked a major escalation in tensions between Iran and the US with Iran vowing \"forceful revenge\".", "The off-duty officer answered the front door of his County Fermanagh home when the incident happened\n\nA 37-year-old man has been released on bail after being arrested over the attempted murder of an off-duty police officer on Thursday.\n\nThe officer was at home near Kesh, County Fermanagh when he was confronted at his front door by a masked man with a shotgun at about 02:00 GMT.\n\nPolice said the officer had noticed movement outside his property and went to the front door to investigate.\n\nThe attacker reportedly pointed the gun at the officer but it failed to fire.\n\nPolice said \"organised criminal elements may be responsible\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Julie Mullan said the officer was traumatised by the incident\n\nDet Ch Insp Julie Mullan said they \"firmly believe that this disturbing incident was a failed attempt to kill a local police officer\".\n\nThe suspect, described as being dressed entirely in black, fled on foot across nearby fields after the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mullan said the attack has had a huge impact on the officer and his family.\n\nShe added: \"He's being supported by his colleagues and ourselves and his family but he's traumatised by the incident.\"", "The number of working teenagers has almost halved in the last 20 years, a study suggests, sparking fears of the \"death of the Saturday job\".\n\nA Resolution Foundation report suggests a quarter of 16 and 17-year-olds were in work between 2017 and 2019 - falling from 48% in 1997-99.\n\nYoung people were instead prioritising studies over part-time work, it added.\n\nThe think tank says the number of people who have never worked increased by 52% over the last 20 years.\n\nThe report says 8.2% of people aged 16-64 - some 3.4 million people in total - had never had a paid job. That is a 52% increase since 1998 when 5.4% had never worked, the report added.\n\nThe figures come despite UK unemployment falling to its lowest level since 1975 in the three months to October 2019.\n\nLaura Gardiner, from the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The rising number of people who have never had a paid job has been driven by the death of the teenage Saturday job and a wider turn away from earning while learning.\"\n\nThere had also been a sharp fall in the employment rate of students in further and higher education. while people were taking longer to find a job after leaving full-time education, the report found.\n\n\"With young people today expected to end their working lives at a later age than previous generations, it's understandable that they want to start their working lives at a later age too,\" Ms Gardiner added.\n\n\"But this lack of work experience can create longer-term problems, particularly if they hit other life milestones like motherhood or ill-health before their careers have got off the ground.\"\n\nBoth household worklessness and economic inactivity are at record lows, the study said. Meanwhile, out-of-work benefits have become less generous in recent decades, it added.\n\n\"Lazy interpretations related to workshy Brits are very far wide of the mark,\" the report added.\n\n\"Instead, the rise in the proportion of working-age adults who have never had a paid job is above all a story about the complex choices many young people are facing in trying to get the most out of their education.\"\n\nMs Gardiner added: \"More and more of us are now working, with employment hitting record highs and worklessness hitting record lows, but despite this, around one in 12 working-age adults have never worked a day in their lives - a 50% increase since the late 1990s.\"", "Prince Harry and Meghan meet Ruby the koala at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in 2018\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have said their \"thoughts and prayers\" are with Australians affected by the massive bushfires.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh sent a message of condolence expressing thanks to emergency services.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said they were \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the loss of life.\n\nAnd the Duke and Duchess of Sussex urged support for fundraisers for those affected by the environmental crisis.\n\nThe Queen said she was \"deeply saddened\" to hear about the fires which have ravaged Australia since September, killing at least 23 people, destroying at least 1,200 homes and scorching millions of hectares of land.\n\nHer message addressed to the Governor General of Australia, Governor of New South Wales, Governor of Queensland, the Governor of Victoria and to all Australians was also posted on the Royal Family's Twitter account.\n\nThe Queen said: \"My thanks go out to the emergency services, and those who put their own lives in danger to help communities in need.\n\n\"Prince Philip and I send our thoughts and prayers to all Australians at this difficult time.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince William and Catherine said: \"We send our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who have tragically lost their lives, and the brave firemen who continue to risk their own lives to save the lives of others.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan said they were \"struck by the increasingly overlapping presence\" of \"environmental disasters\" across the world.", "A US judge has awarded $12.8m (£9.8m) to 22 unnamed women, ruling that they were tricked into appearing in widely distributed online porn videos.\n\nSome of the models duped by the owners and operators of the GirlsDoPorn website had become suicidal, he said.\n\nThey were told the videos were for a private collector or overseas DVDs, according to the 181-page judgement.\n\nThe women - aged 18-23 when they shot the videos - were also assured the videos would never appear online.\n\nBut they were uploaded to GirlsDoPorn's subscription-based amateur porn website, and clips were shared on some of the world's most popular free-to-view adult websites.\n\nSan Diego Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright ordered GirlsDoPorn chief executive Michael Pratt, 36, videographer Matthew Wolfe, 37, and porn actor Ruben Garcia, 31, to take the videos down from GirlsDoPorn and take steps to get them removed from other sites too.\n\nGirlsDoPorn markets itself on the premise that the women in the videos are not professional porn stars.\n\nIt claims to feature women filming their first and only porn videos, and many of the women on the site are students in need of extra money, according to court documents.\n\nDue to the one-time-only amateur paradigm, GirlsDoPorn required a constant stream of new models to keep the content on the website fresh.\n\nThe San Diego court ruled that the site used fraudulent practices to recruit new models including taking \"calculated steps to falsely assure prospective models that their videos will never be posted online, come to light in the United States, or be seen by anyone who might known them\".\n\nThe website operators had also assured models that their real names would never be linked to the videos.\n\nHowever, the court heard evidence that the accused had shared private and identifying information about the models on third-party forums that resulted in some of them and their families, being harassed online.\n\nIn a bid to recruit new talent, GirlsDoPorn persuaded former models to text words of reassurance to prospective models who were worried that the videos might be posted online.\n\nOn the day of the shoot, models were often given alcohol and cannabis before being asked to sign an eight-page contract.\n\nJudge Enright awarded the 22 women $9.48m in compensatory damages and $3.3m in punitive damages. Each woman will receive $300,000 to $550,000.\n\nHe said that the videos had become common knowledge to the women's friends and family due to the tactics used by those behind GirlsDoPorn.\n\n\"As a result, plaintiffs have suffered and continue to suffer far-reaching and often tragic consequences,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Collectively, they have experienced severe harassment, emotional and psychological trauma, and reputational harm; lost jobs, academic and professional opportunities and family and personal relationships; and had their lives derailed and uprooted,\" he continued.\n\n\"They have become pariahs in their communities. Several plaintiffs have become suicidal.\"\n\nJudge Enright gave both sides 15 days to appeal against his decision.\n\nThe defendants also face criminal charges filed in federal court in October.\n\nThe allegations filed against them are the same as those in the civil case.\n\nWolfe and Garcia are currently in federal custody. Pratt is a fugitive believed to be in New Zealand, his home country.\n\n\"Our clients were real,\" said Ed Chaplin, the lawyer representing the women, according to CourtHouseNews.\n\n\"They had similar stories because the defendants told the same lies to everyone,\" he said.\n\n\"I sat and talked to a lot of women. My heart just wept for them, how their lives have been impacted by this and how they were sucked into doing what they did.\n\n\"The attitude these defendants expressed when the women complained [and] the scheme to shut them up was despicable.\"\n\nCourtHouseNews reported that lawyers for GirlsDoPorn declined to comment when approached.", "Patients who fail to turn up for hospital appointments should be given a second chance, GPs in Wales have said.\n\nNearly 1.5 million outpatient appointments were missed in the past five years, costing about £240m.\n\nBut it means many patients need to go back to their GP for a new referral which takes up surgery appointments.\n\nGP leaders say no-shows are not always deliberate but the Welsh Government said it was up to the patient to let hospitals know they cannot attend.\n\nAccording to official statistics, 1,459,096 outpatient appointments were missed at hospitals across Wales over the last five years, of which 408,559 were new appointments.\n\nThere were more than 15.3 million appointments over that period. Cwm Taf and Cardiff and Vale health boards have consistently had the highest proportions of missed appointments.\n\nFreedom of information requests have suggested the average cost of a missed appointment is £157.\n\nDr Peter Saul, joint chairman of the Royal College of GPs in Wales said people not turning up was a \"wasted opportunity\" and \"depriving\" someone else of an appointment.\n\n\"At most hospitals in Wales if you miss one you will get kicked out of the clinic and then they have to come and see the GP - wasting one of our appointments asking to be referred again,\" he said.\n\n\"If somebody misses their appointment we haven't been able to fit somebody else in and that's quite critical given stresses on the system.\"\n\nHe added: \"People will then go to the A&E or out of hours and say they couldn't get an appointment at their GP practice.\n\n\"So the person who doesn't turn up for the GP appointment could be lengthening queues at A&E.\"\n\nDr Phil White, chairman of the British Medical Association's GP committee, also wants to give patients a second chance.\n\nHe added: \"From a GP's perspective, we do get people who say they missed one appointment but they say they have phoned in or didn't receive the letter.\n\n\"What has got worse is the lack of an offer of a second appointment. Now they [hospitals] have taken this draconian attitude of you've missed an appointment and you're off the list.\"\n\nDr Peter Saul says patients are being deprived appointments by those being referred back to GPs for missing hospital appointments\n\nHospitals have started sending texts to remind patients which health boards say has helped reduced the amount of missed appointments.\n\nFigures show there were just under 20,000 fewer missed appointments in 2018/19 compared to 2014/15 with year-on-year falls recorded.\n\nBut health boards have admitted there is still work to do.\n\nJohn Palmer, chief operating officer at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health board, said offering another appointment is based on a number of things including the nature of the treatment, the speciality, the number of times an appointment has been missed and why they were unable to attend.\"\n\nCardiff and Vale University Health Board said where patients did not show up, they could be be rebooked \"if there is a good clinical reason\" but it was looking to reform outpatient services which would reduce the need for face-to-face appointments.\n\nSue Wood, outpatient services improvement project lead for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said a survey had helped to understand why patients miss appointments.\n\nShe added: \"Patients asked us to add additional information to the text reminders... however, we really need our patients to help by consenting to this new information.\"\n\nRichard Evans, executive medical director Swansea Bay University Health board, said it plans to work with patients to \"develop appropriate strategies for a long-term solution to this problem\".\n\nAndrew Carruthers, director of operations at Hywel Dda University Health Board, said text reminders had \"already had a significant impact on non-attendance\", while Aneurin Bevan university health board said mobile phone numbers are collected \"to ensure as many receive text reminders as possible\".\n\nPowys Teaching health board said when appointments are made patients are given a choice of appointments to reduce the likelihood of non-attendance.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"There is a responsibility on the patient to let the hospital know when they are unable to attend appointments so that those appointments can be offered to other patients.\n\n\"For those patients who do not attend, the hospital will write back to the referrer and say the patient did not attend and they will be removed from the waiting list.\"", "Police said they were interviewing several witnesses to the fatal attack\n\nOne person was killed and two were injured in a knife attack near Paris, with the attacker shot dead by police.\n\nA man, 22, stabbed passers-by in a park in Villejuif, about 8km (5 miles) south of the French capital, on Friday.\n\nHe was later identified by prosecutors as Nathan C, a 22-year-old with a history of mental illness for which he had been admitted to hospital.\n\nAccording to French media, witnesses heard him say that he was \"out of medication\".\n\nProsecutors said that some religious items were later found in his bag, but that there was \"no evidence at this stage suggesting he was radicalised\".\n\nThe attack took place at about 14:00 local time (13:00 GMT) at Hautes-Bruyères park, and the targets appeared to have been chosen at random.\n\nIn a statement posted on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the victims.\n\n\"I extend my support to the victims of the attack, their families and the police,\" he said. \"We resolutely pursue the fight against indiscriminate violence and our fight for the security of all French people.\"\n\nThe mayor of Villejuif, Franck Le Bohellec, said the deceased victim was a 56-year-old man who was out walking in the park with his wife at the time of the attack.\n\nHe died trying to protect her, the mayor said. She was seriously injured.\n\nFrance's Deputy Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, who later visited the scene, praised the police response, calling it \"extremely courageous\".\n\nPolice cordoned off the area near the Hautes-Bruyères park", "Images on social media show officers wearing hazardous material suits near the property\n\nOfficers in hazardous material suits have been deployed in Manchester after a man reportedly consumed a poisonous substance.\n\nThe man was found at a property in Moor Lane, Northern Moor, before 09:00 GMT. It is thought he had consumed poisonous seeds.\n\n\"A man, aged in his 20s, is being treated at the scene and remains in a stable condition,\" police said.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"There is no wider threat to the community.\"\n\nImages on social media show officers wearing hazardous material suits near the property.\n\nMotorists have been advised to avoid the area as Moor Lane is closed for investigations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cairney and Jones spent years pretending that Ms Fleming was still alive\n\nThe police officer who first knocked on Avril Jones and Edward Cairney's door looking for missing woman Margaret Fleming has told how he knew \"something wasn't right\".\n\nSgt Chris McKay returned to the house in Inverkip during filming for a BBC Scotland documentary on the murder case.\n\nHe described the behaviour of those who were supposed to be caring for the vulnerable woman as \"very strange\".\n\nJones and Cairney were last year convicted of murdering Margaret whose disappearance went unnoticed for 17 years.\n\nThe two-part documentary, Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Margaret Fleming, follows their trial at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nFilmed by BAFTA Scotland award-winning director Matt Pinder, it features police officers, lawyers, witnesses and school friends of the victim.\n\nEntrusted by her dying father into the care of his friends Eddie Cairney and Avril Jones, it was believed she was living in a remote coastal property in the village of Inverkip, on the west coast of Scotland.\n\nBut an application for a Personal Independence Payment changed everything.\n\nSocial workers could not get in contact with the applicant, Margaret. Police were called and it was discovered that Margaret, who would have been 35, had seemingly vanished.\n\nSgt Chris McKay revisited the house where Margaret shared with her two carers\n\nSgt Chris McKay came on shift on 28 October 2016 and took a call from the concerned social worker. It was then decided he would visit the house.\n\nWhen he arrived Eddie Cairney claimed Margaret had just left by the back door.\n\nSgt McKay said: \"The one thing he said that stuck with me was that if we went away Margaret Fleming would come back, because authority figures had it drilled into her that she would be taken into care.\n\n\"From the outset it was very strange.\"\n\nRe-visiting the derelict house, he recalled the conversation he had there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sgt Chris McKay returns to the house where he first met Edward Cairney and Avril Jones.\n\n\"I still remember standing here on that night in question. Avril sitting here, Eddie sitting there. Asking him questions and he would control the conversation.\n\n\"He wouldn't allow Avril to speak. You could tell she was extremely nervous, just very fidgety with her hands and looked a bag of nerves.\n\n\"That's when we were thinking wait a minute, something's not right here.\"\n\nSuzanne Allan's interview with Eddie Cairney led to her becoming a witness in court\n\nBBC Scotland's Suzanne Allan was invited into \"Seacroft\", Cairney and Jones' home during the investigation into Margaret's disappearance.\n\nThe extraordinary interview she conducted was later used as evidence, with the reporter herself a witness in court.\n\nShe said the story was unlike any other she had worked on.\n\n\"It still shocks me when I see the condition of that house, to this day,\" she recalls. \"It was just bizarre from the word go.\"\n\nPolice described the house as \"uninhabitable\"\n\n\"I came back from that to the newsroom and everyone was asking what's the story - it was so unusual.\"\n\nIn the interview, conducted in October 2017, Cairney claimed Margaret was in Poland working as a gangmaster. Avril Jones looked blank when asked if she had a message for Margaret.\n\nThe documentary also hears from Alison Nugent, a friend of Avril Jones who was called to give evidence for the prosecution during the trial.\n\nShe said: \"I looked over at Avril and Avril was staring straight ahead. I was there as a friend and it was almost as if that had been erased. I was now the enemy.\"\n\n\"My head doesn't want to say that there was a murder involved. Maybe something happened and they just had to cover it up. That would be the lesser of two evils.\n\n\"But they are covering up something huge.\"\n\n\"No one said it would be easy - but no one warned me it would be this difficult.\"\n\nIn April 2019, Iain McSporran QC prosecuted one of the most difficult cases of his career.\n\nHe tells the documentary: \"There is no smoking gun in this case, we don't have an eyewitness to Margaret being killed, we don't have the discovery of her body.\n\n\"It would be idle to speculate as to whether a weapon was used. I don't and I am not sure that anyone does have a theory as to the circumstances that Margaret met her death.\n\n\"We say that all the evidence points to that having been a criminal act motivated by greed.\"\n\nHe says: \"My first impressions were of something bad having happened to Margaret but something which would be very difficult to prove.\"\n\nMurder Trial: The Disappearance Of Margaret Fleming is on the BBC Scotland channel on Tuesday 7 January at 22:00 and on BBC Two on Wednesday 8 January at 21:00.", "Outbound trains in Wuhan have been stopped\n\nThere have been widely-shared reports on social media and some state-run services that healthcare services in Wuhan - one of China's largest cities - are under strain following the outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nHu Xijin, the editor of state-run newspaper Global Times, said there had been a \"failure\" to contain the virus, and videos of patients queuing to get seen in hospitals.\n\nHowever, other Communist-party outlets have praised the response to the outbreak.\n\nWuhan is a major transit hub with a population of about 11 million people, and has effectively been put on lockdown, along with other major cities in the region, in an unprecedented move to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe city serves as the main economic hub for the wider province, Hubei, and has the most advanced healthcare facilities in the region.\n\nThe metropolitan area has seven major hospitals - considered some of the best in China, with Tong Ji Hospital ranked third nationally - treating patients.\n\nIt has seven more hospitals supporting the efforts, and 61 clinics around the city which are testing patients for symptoms of the virus. A local government report from 2014 included Wuhan among the top six cities for medical treatment in the country - although it ranks behind Beijing and Shanghai.\n\nIn terms of capacity, the report said Wuhan had 6.51 hospital beds and 3.08 doctors per 1,000 people - this isn't a straightforward indication of healthcare capacity (more doctors doesn't always mean better healthcare), but it does rank Wuhan among the more developed places in the world. The UK and US have 2.8 and 2.6 doctors per 1,000 heads, respectively.\n\nSo - is is this enough for a such a large city undergoing a mass shutdown?\n\nThe lockdown in Wuhan has caused panic in the city - the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that containing a large city like this is \"new to science\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHubei as a province has a lower number of doctors per 1,000 people, at 2.55 according to the latest government statistics.\n\n\"It's yet to be seen whether the costs associated with this kind of mass quarantine measure (not just financially, but with respect to personal liberty too) will translate into effective infection control,\" said Dr. Maia Majumder, an expert at Harvard Medical School in the US, who is tracking the virus.\n\nHubei has declared a \"Grade 1 public health emergency\", the most severe level - that means the response is led centrally from Beijing by the State Council, the government's cabinet.\n\nBeijing has tried to allay concerns by sending more healthcare professionals, and constructing two hospitals from scratch providing more than 2,000 extra beds.\n\nReports from state-run media say there are 405 medical staff from Shanghai and 205 staff from Guangdong travelling to the region.\n\nThey're also expanding existing capacity in other facilities.\n\nThe government has also assigned 21 centres in Hubei province to help co-ordinate treatment, and train local health officials.\n\nProfessor Shenglan Tang, an expert in global health at Duke University in the US, says there are concerns that rural areas will struggle to cope.\n\n\"I'm confident that the health centres in Wuhan will be able to handle the outbreak, but I am a bit worried about Hubei province - rural workers have gone back home from Wuhan to celebrate Chinese New Year, and in these areas the hospital capacity is weak,\" said Professor Tang.\n\nDespite resilient rhetoric from the government, people are expressing concern about the city's ability to cope with the outbreak.\n\nThe BBC spoke to a number of people in the region who said that getting test results was taking longer than officials are claiming.\n\nWe were told that in some cases medical staff lack equipment and doctors are overstretched. There are also claims that local government, which was apparently made aware of the outbreak in mid-December, ignored initial warning signs.\n\nWe haven't been able to independently verify these claims.\n\nThe government has called for people to report poor medical responses to an online \"inspection\" platform.\n\nThe regional government has issued a statement appealing for donations to help with the response, including asking for facemasks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In the footage from April 2018, Mr Trump can be heard saying \"Get rid of her!\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump in 2018 ordered the removal of the US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, according to a video made public on Saturday.\n\nIn the tape, Mr Trump can be heard saying \"Get rid of her!\" at a dinner with a group of donors in Washington.\n\nMs Yovanovitch, who was recalled from her post in May 2019, has testified in Mr Trump's impeachment inquiry.\n\nThe footage from April 2018 was provided by an attorney of Lev Parnas, a US businessman who was at the dinner.\n\nMr Trump has maintained that he does not know Mr Parnas, who worked for the president's personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani.\n\nThe businessman, who is a Republican party donor, says he went to Ukraine to pressure officials on behalf of the president and Mr Giuliani.\n\nPresident Trump has so far made no public comment on the emergence of the video recording.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday, his lawyers began defending him at his impeachment trial in the Senate, accusing Democrats of seeking to overturn the result of the 2016 election.\n\nThe Republican president faces two charges: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\n\nMr Trump is alleged to have withheld military aid to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into starting a corruption investigation into Mr Trump's political rival, Democrat Joe Biden, and his son Hunter.\n\nThe recording was made during a dinner at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on 30 April 2018.\n\nIt was shot on the mobile phone of Igor Fruman, a US businessman and former Giuliani associate.\n\nLev Parnas (left) and Igor Fruman (right) are accused of campaign finance violations\n\nBoth Mr Fruman and Mr Parnas were last year charged with violations of campaign finance laws.\n\nOn the tape, Mr Parnas at one point is heard describing the US ambassador in Ukraine as \"the biggest problem there\".\n\nWithout naming Ms Yovanovitch, Mr Parnas said: \"She's basically walking around telling everybody, 'Wait, he's going to get impeached, just wait.'\"\n\nMr Trump is then heard reacting shortly afterwards, saying: \"Get rid of her. Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it.\"\n\nThe president appeared not to have known the ambassador personally at the time, as he asked for the envoy's name.\n\nThe 33-year veteran of the foreign service was recalled as the American ambassador to Kyiv in May 2019 for reasons that remain murky.\n\nShe testified that her anti-corruption efforts had incurred the ire of influential Ukrainians who sought to remove her.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Yovanovitch said she was shocked that her enemies appeared to find allies in the Trump administration, including the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.\n\nThe former envoy's supporters say she was also smeared by US conservative media voices.\n\nIn her testimony to the impeachment inquiry, Ms Yovanovitch said the allegation she was disloyal to Mr Trump was false.\n\nPresident Trump has said that the diplomat \"didn't want to hang my picture in the embassy\" in Kyiv.\n\n\"She said bad things about me, she wouldn't defend me, and I have the right to change the ambassador,\" Mr Trump told Fox News.", "The virus originated in Wuhan City, Hubei province, and has infected 2,000 people since its discovery.\n\nAn airlift for Britons stuck in China's Hubei province by the coronavirus outbreak is being kept \"under review\", the government has said.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told Andrew Marr it was a \"fast-moving situation\" and the Foreign Office was working with Chinese authorities.\n\nUpdated Foreign Office guidance has warned against all travel to Hubei province - where the virus began - and urged Britons to leave if they can.\n\nThe virus has so far killed 56 people.\n\nA total of 52 tests have come back negative for the new strain in the UK, the Department of Health said on Sunday - indicating that the results of 21 tests have been concluded since its last update on Saturday.\n\nHubei province has been on lockdown for days as the authorities try to contain the virus which originated in the city of Wuhan and has infected almost 2,000 people since its discovery.\n\nSome British people in Hubei province say they are stuck and are unhappy with the government response.\n\nTony, from the UK, told BBC News he was en route to Wuhan when travel restrictions were first published by the British government. He is now in the city with his Chinese wife and her family.\n\nHe said: \"The feeling of many here is that the government are sacrificing the Wuhan people for the greater good of the country.\n\n\"The transport situation has made it difficult for people to go to those jobs that should still be done.\"\n\nTony said he tried to contact the British Consulate in Wuhan and the UK embassy in Beijing \"but the answer phone message has not been updated\".\n\nBritons Sophie and Jason, young graduates in Wuhan to teach English, said they had \"been stuck in the house for four days\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britons in Wuhan: 'It's manic, everyone is trying to stockpile food'\n\n\"We're frustrated by the fact we don't know what's going on,\" Sophie said. \"It's scary.\"\n\nYvonne Griffiths, a university lecturer from Cardiff, was due to fly home on Monday, but her family have told BBC Wales the journey has been cancelled.\n\nShe said: \"I am disappointed at the absolute silence on the issue of how stranded people are going to get home.\"\n\nDr Yvonne Griffiths is in a hotel room in Wuhan\n\nDr Griffths' daughter Bethan Webber said a government airlift would now be her mother's only option.\n\n\"Short of the government getting her out there's no getting out,\" she said.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping has warned the spread of the virus is accelerating, telling senior officials the country is facing a \"grave situation\".\n\nCheckpoints in Hubei province are preventing people from leaving, the airport has been closed, and many of the roads are blocked to all vehicles except those carrying patients or medical supplies.\n\nChina's health minister Ma Xiaowei told reporters the ability of the virus to spread appeared to be strengthening.\n\nBritish scientists have said that it may not be possible for China to contain the virus.\n\nResearchers at the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Diseases have calculated that each person is passing the virus on to two or three others.\n\nThe scientists, based at Imperial College, London, say the transmission rate needs to be cut by 60% in order to get on top of the outbreak.\n\nIn the UK, tests on 31 people suspected of contracting the virus have come back negative, the government said on Saturday.\n\nIn its most recent update, the Department of Health said there are currently \"no confirmed cases in the UK or of UK citizens abroad, and the risk to the public is low\".\n\nOfficials are trying to trace around 2,000 people who have flown to the UK from Wuhan in the past fortnight.\n\nMore people have been spotted wearing masks in London in recent days where many are celebrating the Lunar New Year.\n\nOn Saturday, Australia confirmed its first four cases - first in Melbourne, and then three more in Sydney.\n\nIt has also spread to Europe, with three cases confirmed in France.\n\nChina has flown specialist military medical teams into Hubei province and state newspaper the People's Daily reported that a second emergency hospital was under construction, as the virus continues to spread.\n\nAcross mainland China, travellers are having their temperatures checked for signs of fever, and train stations have been shut in several cities. Many Lunar New Year celebrations have been cancelled.\n\nFrom Monday, China is suspending all foreign trips by Chinese holiday tour groups, state media reported.\n\nA nationwide ban on wildlife trade has been welcomed by animal protection groups.\n\nKate Nustedt of World Animal Protection said she the move would \"put a stop to the horrific conditions that serve as such a lethal hotbed of disease\".\n\nMeanwhile the US has announced that staff at the Wuhan consulate will be evacuated on a special flight on Tuesday.", "The UK leaves the EU on Friday\n\nThe government is aiming to secure a \"zero tariff, zero quota\" free trade deal with the EU, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr the UK would not diverge from current EU trade regulations \"for the sake of it\".\n\nMr Barclay added the government's objectives for the trade talks would be published after Brexit on 31 January.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will make a speech next month setting out more details, he said.\n\nMr Barclay's comments come after the US treasury secretary said his country wants to agree to a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK this year.\n\nAfter Brexit happens at 23:00 GMT on Friday, the UK will be free to negotiate and sign new trade deals with countries with no existing EU deals - like the US.\n\nThe UK then enters into an agreed transition period with the EU, which lasts until 31 December 2020. During this time the UK will aim to negotiate a free trade deal with the EU to ensure that UK goods are not subject to tariffs and other trade barriers.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Barclay said: \"We are going to publish our objectives for the negotiation and we will set that out in due course after the 31st.\n\n\"The key issue is that we will have control of our rules, we will not be a rule-taker, we will not diverge for the sake of diverging.\n\n\"We start from a position of alignment but the key opportunity is that we will be able to set our standards, high standards, on worker's rights, on the environment, on state aid as part of that trade policy.\"\n\nHe said \"both sides are committed\" to securing a trade deal by the end of December, adding: \"It's in both side's interests to keep the flow of goods going.\"\n\nIrish minister for European affairs, Helen McEntee, told Sophy Ridge on Sky News that \"Brexit is really only at half-time, we have a huge amount of work still to do\".\n\n\"However, the idea that we can negotiate a trade deal with one that is comprehensive, one that provides very little change for our citizens, not just in the UK and Ireland, but the EU as well, within about a 12-month space, it's very difficult.\"\n\nThe new European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has previously shared concerns about the timeframe, saying it would be \"impossible\" to reach a comprehensive trade deal by the end of 2020.\n\nPriti Patel said that the government will be able to control levels of low-skilled migration after Brexit\n\nMeanwhile, the home secretary told Sophy Ridge UK businesses have been \"too reliant on low-skilled cheap labour from the EU\".\n\nPriti Patel said the government will be able to control levels of low-skilled migration after Brexit.\n\nShe also confirmed that the Migration Advisory Committee will report this week on the UK's future immigration system.\n\nThe government was \"absolutely determined to change the immigration system, end the complexity of the immigration system, have simpler rules, have a points-based system where we can absolutely have people that bring the right kind of skills for our labour market\", she said.\n\nOn the UK's post-Brexit relationship with EU rules, Ms Patel appeared to adopt a harder approach than Mr Barclay, saying: \"In terms of divergence, we are not having alignment. We will be diverging. We want to take control of our laws, money and our borders.\"\n\nLast week, Chancellor Sajid Javid said the UK would use the power to diverge from EU rules on trade only when it was in the interests of business.", "The genre awards are being handed out ahead of the main ceremony\n\nDolly Parton has won her 10th competitive Grammy Award, as \"music's biggest night\" kicks off in LA.\n\nThe country star picked up best contemporary Christian song for God Only Knows, a duet with King & Country.\n\nRap star Lil Nas X also won two awards for his viral hit Old Town Road: Best video and best pop group performance.\n\nMany recipients have paid tribute to basketball star Kobe Bryant, who played for 20 years at the Staples Arena, where the Grammys are taking place.\n\nRecording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr opened the pre-show, where the bulk of the night's 84 awards are distributed, by recognising the star's contribution.\n\n\"As most of you may know, we lost Kobe Bryant in a tragic helicopter accident today,\" Mason said,\n\n\"Since we are in his house, I would ask you to join me in a moment of silence.\"\n\nIt is thought Alicia Keys will commence the main ceremony with a further tribute to Bryant and his family.\n\nHundreds of fans have gathered outside the venue after the star died in a helicopter accident earlier in the day; while his image is being projected on screens around the arena.\n\nInside, musician John Legend said he was \"sad and stunned\" by the news.\n\n\"It's a very solemn day,\" added Motown legend Smokey Robinson. \"It's horrible.\"\n\nDJ Khaled added that a planned tribute to rapper Nipsey Hussle would be expanded to recognise Bryant.\n\n\"To be honest with you, it's real tough,\" he said. \"It's a real tough day. It's devastating.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Legend This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rachel Nichols This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tribute to Hussle, who was shot dead in Los Angeles last year, will come hours after he won a posthumous Grammy, best rap performance, for his song Racks In The Middle.\n\nThe trophy was collected by his family, including his grandmother, who told the audience: \"I want to thank all of you for sharing the love I felt for him for all of his life\".\n\nParton wasn't present to accept her award, but King and Country told the story of how she had ended up singing on a remix of their hit single.\n\n\"She said, 'I love this song because it's reaching to the marginalised, to the depressed, the suicidal, which is all of us at some point,'\" said the duo. \"And then she said, in her Dolly accent, 'I'm going to take this song from Dollywood to Bollywood to Hollywood.'\"\n\nNipsey Hussle's family attended the ceremony to collect his award\n\nOther early winners included British dance act The Chemical Brothers, whose single Got To Keep On was named best dance recording; and Michelle Obama, who won best spoken word recording for the audiobook of her memoir, Becoming.\n\nBeyoncé's Homecoming, which captured her historic headline performance at the Coachella music festival, won best music film,\n\nSpanish singer Rosalía also picked up best Latin recording for her album El Mal Querer - and said she was looking forward to her \"flamenco-inspired\" performance during the main ceremony, which starts at 01:00 GMT on Monday, 27 January.\n\nOther performers on the line-up include Ariana Grande, Aerosmith and Billie Eilish.\n\nLizzo leads the nominations, with eight nominations in total, while Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish have six apiece.\n\nAll three have picked up awards in their respective genre categories during the pre-show, leaving the race for the night's \"big four\" marquee categories (album, song and record of the year; and best new artist) wide open.\n\nScottish singer Lewis Capaldi is also in the running for song of the year, for his heart-rending ballad Someone You Loved.\n\nSpeaking on the red carpet, he said he intended to make the most of the night.\n\n\"Let's face it, it's never gonna happen again,\" he joked. \"It's all downhill from here.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "China has widened a lockdown in Hubei province - the centre of the coronavirus outbreak - as the death toll climbed to 25.", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nKobe Bryant was \"one of the most extraordinary players\" in the history of basketball who \"inspired people around the world\" to play the game.\n\nThe 41-year-old died in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna.\n\nBryant, who retired in 2016 after a 20-year career with the LA Lakers, was a five-time NBA champion and was named an NBA All-Star 18 times.\n\nHe and his wife, Vanessa, have three other daughters - Natalia, Bianca and Capri.\n\n\"The NBA family is devastated by the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna,\" said NBA commissioner Adam Silver.\n\n\"For 20 seasons, Kobe showed us what is possible when remarkable talent blends with an absolute devotion to winning. He was one of the most extraordinary players in the history of our game with accomplishments that are legendary.\n\n\"But he will be remembered most for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball and compete to the very best of their ability.\n\n\"He was generous with the wisdom he acquired and saw it as his mission to share it with future generations of players, taking special delight in passing down his love of the game to Gianna.\"\n\nShaquille O'Neal, who won three NBA titles alongside Bryant for the LA Lakers, said: \"There's no words to express the pain I'm going through with this tragedy of losing my niece Gigi & my brother, my partner in winning championships, my dude and my homie.\n\n\"I love you and you will be missed. My condolences goes out to the Bryant family and the families of the other passengers on board. I'm sick right now.\"\n\nThe NBA's all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who played for the Lakers from 1975-1989, said: \"It's very difficult for me to put in words how I feel. Kobe was an incredible family man, he loved his wife and daughters, he was an incredible athlete, he inspired a whole generation. This loss is hard to comprehend.\"\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama wrote on Twitter: \"Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day.\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump said: \"Kobe Bryant, despite being one of the truly great basketball players of all time, was just getting started in life. He loved his family so much, and had such strong passion for the future. The loss of his beautiful daughter, Gianna, makes this moment even more devastating.\"\n\nFormer LA Lakers president Magic Johnson, a five-time NBA champion in the 1980s, tweeted: \"Kobe was a leader of our game, a mentor to both male and female players. Words can't express the impact that he had on the game of basketball.\"\n\nSix-time NBA champion Michael Jordan added: \"I loved Kobe - he was like a little brother to me. We used to talk often, and I will miss those conversations very much.\n\n\"He was a fierce competitor, one of the greats of the game and a creative force. Kobe was also an amazing dad who loved his family deeply - and took great pride in his daughter's love for the game of basketball.\"\n\nLeBron James surpassed Bryant to become the NBA's third-highest scorer of all time on Saturday.\n\nSpeaking after the game, which was the day before Bryant's death, he said: \"I'm happy just to be in any conversation with Kobe Bryant.\n\n\"One of the all-time greatest basketball players to ever play, one of the all-time greatest Lakers.\"\n\nBryant finished his playing career as the Lakers' all-time leading points scorer, and is fourth on the NBA's all-time list with 33,643 points.\n\nIn his 1,566th and final game for the Lakers in April 2016 he scored 60 points for the sixth time.\n\nSome in the 18,000 sell-out crowd had paid upwards of $25,000 (£17,580) to be in the crowd to see the two-time Olympic gold medallist.\n\nThe Lakers retired both Bryant's number eight and 24 jerseys in September 2017.\n\nIn 2018 he won an Oscar for his five-minute film Dear Basketball, based on a love letter to the sport he had written in 2015.\n\nIconic golfer Tiger Woods, a 15-time major winner, said he heard the news after completing his final round at the Farmers Insurance Open in California.\n\n\"[Caddie] Joey La Cava told me coming off the 18th green. I didn't understand why the crowd was saying 'beautiful Mamba', now I know,\" he said.\n\n\"It's unbelievably sad and the reality is sinking in because I was told about five minutes ago.\n\n\"He brought a desire to win every night on both ends of the floor, not too many guys can say that. Any time he was in the game, he'd take on their best player.\"\n\nFormer England captain David Beckham, who also played for LA Galaxy, posted on Instagram: \"This was one special athlete, husband, father and friend. Having to write these words is hard enough but also knowing we have lost an amazing human being and his beautiful and talented daughter Gianna is heartbreaking.\n\n\"The commitment Kobe showed to his sport was inspiring, to go through the pain and to finish a game off like only he could inspired me to try to be better.\n\n\"Kobe always talked about Vanessa and his beautiful girls and how proud he was of them. Kobe's passion was his family and basketball. He was determined to inspire the next generation of boys and girls to embrace the sport that he loved. His legacy will live on.\"\n\nFormer world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson wrote on Twitter: \"I mourn with the world. Lost a legend. No words. I'm messed up. RIP Kobe Bryant, Gianna and the rest of the passengers.\"\n\nBarcelona forward Lionel Messi wrote on Instagram: \"I have no words... All my love for Kobe's family and friends. It was a pleasure to meet you and share good times together. You were a genius like few others.\"\n\nJuventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo said the news was \"heartbreaking\", adding Bryant was \"a true legend and inspiration to so many\", while Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba added: \"Heroes come and go, legends are for ever.\"\n\nBritain's six-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton said: \"I'm so sad to hear that we lost one of our greats. Bryant was one of the greatest athletes and was such an inspiration to so many, including myself.\"\n\nBrazil and Paris St-Germain forward Neymar paid tribute with a goal celebration in Sunday evening's win at Lille.\n\nAfter scoring a second-half penalty, he held up two fingers on one hand and four on the other, marking Bryant's Lakers shirt number of 24.\n\nThe Brazil striker, a basketball fan who had met Bryant, also bowed and pointed to the sky.\n\nWorld number one tennis player Rafael Nadal tweeted: \"I woke up this morning with the horrible news of the tragic death of one of the greatest sportsmen in the world. Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and other passengers. My condolences to his wife and families. I am in shock.\"\n\nManchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford tweeted: \"A true inspiration in the sporting industry. RIP legend.\" And Manchester City's Raheem Sterling added: \"Rest easy Legend.\"\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam tennis champion Naomi Osaka posted this letter to Bryant on Twitter.\n\nNick Kyrgios wore an La Lakers shirt with Bryant's name and number on it as he warmed up before his fourth-round match against Nadal at the Australian Open.\n\nA moment of silence was held before the Toronto Raptors' game against the San Antonio Spurs in Texas.\n\nThe two teams also let the 24-second shot clock run out at the start of their game to honour Bryant.\n\nThe New Orleans Pelicans and the Boston Celtics also started their game by each taking 24-second shot-clock violations.\n\nAt the Grammy Awards held at the Staples Arena, where Bryant played, many recipients paid tribute to the former Lakers superstar.\n\nHundreds of fans gathered outside the venue after his death; while his image was projected on screens around the arena.\n\nKim Kardashian and husband and rapper Kanye West, US singers Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift and Oscar-winning Leonardo DiCaprio were among those to tweet their tributes.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFor many, he's the soundtrack to the England cricket team.\n\nJerusalem being belted out? It's the first over of the day. Rocky theme? David Warner must be walking out to bat. Simply the Best? Ah, that means Dom Sibley's going well.\n\nBut Billy Cooper's trumpet will soon be no more. After 16 years of rousing England's fans and players alike with his greatest hits, Cooper - a classically trained musician who can usually be found in cricket grounds the world over - has decided to call it a day.\n\nCertainly when it comes to touring anyway - the current Test against South Africa will be his last one (at least in an official capacity).\n\n\"It's more complicated now, with a wife and kids,\" he tells BBC Sport, finding a quiet place to chat on the phone just as Zak Crawley scores his maiden Test 50 ('Land of Hope and Crawley'!).\n\nIt's a big moment and the Barmy Army are in full song behind him.\n\n\"It's good to be going out on a high,\" Cooper says, as England march towards a series win. Victory in the current Test in Johannesburg would be only the 15th win he has seen in 52 Tests abroad.\n\nBut how did Cooper get here in the first place? This, after all, is a man who has played in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Matilda in the West End.\n\nHis involvement with the group came about quite organically. Back in 2004, out in Barbados for the third Test against the West Indies, Billy, a professional musician, had to report his blue trumpet stolen after misplacing it.\n\nThe next Test was in Antigua.\n\n\"I didn't have anything to do with the Barmy Army back then, but I heard that noise and I saw it was my trumpet,\" Billy explained.\n\nHe says he approached the members of the Barmy Army about the trumpet, who subsequently asked him to prove it did indeed belong to him.\n\nThat, of course, wasn't a problem - and it soon led to a \"sing-song\" with the gang, where Billy met Paul Burnham, one of the founding members of the Barmy Army.\n\n\"Paul said 'we'd love you to come to South Africa with us for the next Test and we can pay for your flights',\" Billy recalled.\n\nHis first year with the supporters group began well, with England winning the Ashes in 2005 - their first win since 1986-87.\n\nThat brought about one of his proudest memories when victorious skipper Michael Vaughan invited him on stage at Trafalgar Square during the celebrations that followed.\n\nThere have been lows too. Billy cites the 2006-2007 Ashes, when England were walloped 5-0 and he was banned from playing his trumpet in the stadium.\n\n\"I don't think the Aussies wanted a home game to feel like an away game by letting us make too much noise,\" Billy observes.\n\nBilly had been escorted from The Gabba by officials after celebrating, sparking a row over the use of musical instruments in the stadium.\n\nHe tells us the number of losses he's witnessed have made the wins all the sweeter.\n\nAnd he says touring the world with England over the past 16 years has become addictive.\n\n\"You leave behind the winter in England for someone else's summer.\"\n\nFor now though, he's happy to call it a day: \"I don't want to overstay my welcome.\"", "A non-league footballer has died after being attacked during a night out, police have said.\n\nJordan Sinnott, who played for Matlock Town, was found unconscious in Market Place, Retford, Nottinghamshire, at about 02:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nPolice have launched a murder investigation after the 25-year-old midfielder was found following \"two large-scale disturbances\" in the town.\n\nHe suffered a fractured skull and died in hospital. A man has been arrested.\n\nThe 27-year-old remains in police custody and was earlier being questioned on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nDet Insp Justine Wilson said: \"Mr Sinnott's death is a sad and significant development in this investigation.\n\n\"Our investigative team's focus will remain on identifying those responsible and bringing them to justice.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Matlock Town, who play in the Northern Premier League, said players found out about Sinnott's condition when they arrived for their match versus Mickleover Sports and \"agreed it should be postponed to a future date\".\n\nThe club issued a statement after Mr Sinnott died, which said: \"His family and friends were with him at his bedside and we send our sincere condolences to them all at this very sad time.\"\n\nThey tweeted: \"You weren't just a footballer, you were our friend and brother. You gave us incredible memories and scored your first career hat-trick in your final game for the club. Rest easy Jordan, we love, miss and will never forget you.\"\n\nSinnott had joined Matlock from National League North side Alfreton Town, who also issued a statement in which they described the player as a \"model footballer and an exceptional talent\".\n\nOthers have paid tribute on social media:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huddersfield Town This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said officers had attended a \"large-scale fight\" involving eight men and women at the Dominie Cross pub car park in Grove Street at about 23:25 GMT on Friday.\n\nSinnott was found a couple of hours later following another \"large-scale disturbance\", police said.\n\n\"Officers were later called to assist ambulance crews who were attempting to treat Sinnott after he was found unconscious with a suspected fractured skull following a subsequent incident,\" Nottinghamshire Police said later.\n\nPolice said a 27-year old man suffered a suspected broken nose and a 44-year old man was left with a suspected broken jaw.\n\nDet Insp Wilson said: \"We are appealing to anyone who was in Retford town centre late last night and in the early hours of this morning to come forward.\n\n\"This incident happened at a very busy time and we believe there are still a number of witnesses who have still not yet come forward who may hold vital information about how a young man came to lose his life so tragically.\"\n\nSinnott, from Bradford, is the son of former footballer Lee Sinnott.\n\nHe started his career as a youth player at Huddersfield Town, for whom he made five appearances between 2013 and 2014, before joining non-league Altrincham.\n\nAfter a spell at Halifax, he went on to play again in the Football League, joining League Two Chesterfield for the 2017-18 season.\n\nEarlier this month he scored the first hat-trick of his career during a game against Basford United.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crews were called to the fire at a property on Wensley Avenue\n\nA man and his 10-year-old daughter have died in a fire at a terraced house on the outskirts of Hull.\n\nCrews were called to Wensley Avenue, just off Cottingham Road, Cottingham, shortly before 08:00 GMT and battled to rescue them from the building.\n\nThe man was pronounced dead at the scene and his daughter was taken to hospital but died later.\n\nHumberside Police said fire investigators were working to establish the cause of the blaze.\n\nThe father and daughter were the only people in the property at the time, the fire service said.\n\n\"We pulled out an adult male, and what we now know is his 10-year-old daughter, and tragically both lives were lost to the fire,\" Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\n\"We have got fire investigation officers there who will be working tirelessly throughout today.\"\n\nNeighbour Carl Goodfellow said he saw smoke coming from the building and tried to rescue those inside.\n\n\"We tried to break the door down, but them composite doors are a bit strong,\" he said.\n\n\"I was banging on the window shouting, shouting through the letterbox.\n\n\"I was banging on the window to try and get some attention, but there was nothing.\n\n\"We did try to alert him, but there was no response.\"\n\nNeighbour Carl Goodfellow tried to break the door down to help the people in the house\n\nAnother neighbour Phillip Darwick said he saw a police car go by and came out to see what was happening.\n\nHe said: \"When I looked down [the street] I could see a load of action and smoke billowing out.\n\n\"We've lived here a lot of years and so have they, so we think we know them.\n\n\"It's quite shocking, you never think - it's a cliché - but you never think it's going to happen do you?\n\n\"It's shaken me and my wife up, it's quite sad really.\"\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire has begun with specialist officers working in the house\n\nTalking about the attempts by other neighbours to alert the people in the house about the fire Mr Darwick added:\n\n\"When I came out all I saw was a load of smoke come flying out of the window and it looked like it was coming out of the roof.\"\n\n\"This event has turned out to be tragic in the loss of two lives in a house fire,\" Steve Duffield from Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\n\"We worked tirelessly with emergency service colleagues to do everything we could.\n\n\"We sent breathing apparatus crews into the property immediately to attempt to rescue [people] but tragically it was too late for the individuals and we're reporting a loss of two lives in this event.\n\n\"It's a tragic event in any circumstance.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nA-list celebrities lined the court to pay homage as Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Flea played the national anthem.\n\nSome in the 18,000 sell-out crowd had paid upwards of $25,000 (£17,580) to be there.\n\nKobe Bryant's 1,566th and final game for the LA Lakers, bringing to an end a career spanning two decades, was a big deal.\n\nHere are the numbers which tell you why:\n\nThe number of Most Valuable Player awards Bryant has won. The accolade given the best-performing player in a regular season, Bryant won it in 2007-08.\n\nThe number of NBA Finals MVP awards won by Bryant, in 2008-09 and the following year. It is also the number of Olympic gold medals he has won, helping the United States to the top of the podium in 2008 and 2012.\n\nAll-Star MVP Awards won - in 2001-02, 2006-07, 2008-09 and 2010-11. He is tied with Bob Pettit for the most in NBA history.\n\nBryant has won five NBA championships - only one other current player has won as many (Tim Duncan of San Antonio Spurs).\n\nJust four players in NBA history - Bryant, Michael Jordan, Kevin Garnett and Gary Payton - have been selected for the NBA All-defensive first team nine times.\n\nAnd only one other player, Karl Malone, has ever made the All-NBA First Team selections 11 times.\n\nThat is how many starts Bryant has made in the NBA's annual All-Star Game - the most in NBA history.\n\nAnd 16 is the number of times Bryant has played on Christmas day - again, the most in NBA history.\n\nAs well as making 15 starts, Bryant has been picked for the All-Star Game 18 times in a row. That is the longest streak in NBA history and only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with 19, made the All-Star Game more times.\n\nNo other player in NBA history has spent 20 seasons with just one club. Bryant is a Lakers man through and through.\n\nThe number of games in which he has scored 50 points - only Wilt Chamberlain (118) and Michael Jordan (31) have scored 50-plus points more times.\n\nThe number of points scored against Utah Jazz in his final game. It was only the seventh time he had scored 60-plus points and the first time he had achieved the feat since 2009.\n\nWhen the Lakers beat Toronto Raptors 122-104 on 22 January 2006, Bryant scored 81 of his side's points. Only Wilt Chamberlain, with a 100-point game in 1962, has scored more.\n\nBryant's 5,640 points scored in the NBA playoffs is the third highest total in NBA history behind Jordan (5,987) and Abdul-Jabbar (5,762).\n\nSince his rookie season in 1996-97, Bryant has scored 33,643 regular season points, putting him third on the all-time scoring list behind Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Karl Malone (36,928).\n\nOnly five other players have played more NBA minutes than Bryant. He was given 42 minutes in his final game - the most he has played since November 2014.", "An Oxford professor given protection after alleged threats from transgender rights activists says she did not want to \"wait and see if I'd get hit in the face\" before taking action.\n\nSelina Todd, modern history professor at St Hilda's College, said members of staff accompanied her to lectures after learning of threats on social media.\n\nProf Todd has now warned against shutting down debates.\n\nThe University of Oxford said it did not comment on individual arrangements.\n\nThe academic told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she felt \"vulnerable\" having previously experienced hostility from some academics and students.\n\nProf Todd said the threats come from some campaigners who believe her views on the need to protect women's spaces, such as single-sex refuges, from people who self-identify as women but are anatomically male are unacceptable.\n\nThe academic said that she has witnessed \"quite antagonistic\" and \"quite confrontational\" protests outside women's rights meetings she has spoken at in the past.\n\nBut she insisted that discussions about women's rights should not be silenced.\n\n\"It's always the case that groups' needs and interests can conflict with those of other equally legitimate groups,\" she said.\n\nBut she added that in a democratic state an open debate on how to accommodate the needs of all legitimate groups within a society was needed.\n\n\"In the world today democracy is under threat and therefore we all have to defend the right of people to have freedom of speech and freedom of debate,\" she said.\n\nShe later tweeted to say that \"on the basis of limited info me and my employer could get, we decided not to wait and see if I'd get hit in the face\" before introducing security measures.\n\nThe story was first reported this week in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nProf Todd told the paper that two students had warned her they had seen threats made against her on email networks they were a part of.\n\nThe university, she said, carried out its own investigation and found there was enough evidence to provide her with protection.\n\nThe two male staff members providing protection arrive in lectures before students in order to \"diffuse\" any potential action that might take place, she said.\n\nProf Todd said universities were not a place for bigotry, but somewhere to have a \"respectful, democratic debate\" that was \"evidence-based\".\n\nShe continued: \"This might sound like a storm in a teacup and something that's just about student activists but students become graduates and Oxford students tend to become graduates who go into things like politics, the media or the civil service.\n\n\"So if they are learning that no debate is the way to run a society we should all be worried.\"\n\nThe University of Oxford said it did not comment on individual cases, but added in a statement: \"When staff raise concerns with us, the university will always review the circumstances and offer appropriate support to ensure their safety and their freedom of expression.\"", "Kim Kyong Hui is seen here on the right, two seats away from Kim Jong-un\n\nThe aunt of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has been seen in public for the first time since the execution of her husband in 2013.\n\nKim Kyong-hui is the daughter of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, and sister to former leader Kim Jong-il.\n\nShe had not been seen since her husband, Chang Song-thaek, was executed by her nephew for \"acts of treachery\".\n\nBut on Sunday, state media released a photo of her enjoying new year celebrations.\n\nThe photo, released by North Korea's state news agency KCNA, showed Kim Kyong-hui seated next to Kim Jong-un and his wife in a crowded theatre in Pyongyang. She was also included in the list of top-ranking officials in attendance.\n\nOliver Hotham, editor at NK News, which covers events in the reclusive nation, said the reappearance was a surprise.\n\n\"Many North Korea watchers had assumed that Kim Kyong-hui had gone into exile or even been killed in the wake of her husband's death,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Concern is growing internationally for the stability of North Korea, as Lucy Williamson reports\n\nHer appearance seated next to the leader suggested she had retained - or regained - significant influence, he added - possibly as an advisor.\n\n\"It's also a reminder of how weird and brutal North Korea is, after all she's sitting next to the man who ordered her husband's execution.\"\n\nKim Kyong-hui and her husband Chang Song-thaek were major players within the North Korean state at the time of their nephew's ascension to power nearly a decade ago.\n\nMr Kim succeeded his father as leader in 2011, and it was widely believed that Mr Chang was one of his mentors during the transition.\n\nBut two years into the new leader's rule, Mr Chang was removed from a meeting by armed guards in dramatic fashion. Official statements claimed he had confessed to plotting to overthrow the state, and that he had been immediately executed.\n\nMany observers of the North Korean state believe he may have been considered a threat to the young leader, and killed as part of a purge.", "The recruit was recovered from the sea at Tregantle beach in Cornwall\n\nA Royal Marine who was injured in a training incident earlier this week has died.\n\nThe Marine was part of a group that had been practising an assault from a landing craft on Tregantle beach, Cornwall.\n\nThe recruit had been wearing full kit and had \"gone under water\" during the exercise on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe Royal Navy said its \"thoughts and sympathies\" were with the recruit's family and friends.\n\nIt said the incident was under investigation.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said on Thursday it had been called to the incident on the beach shortly after 22:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\n\"The caller reported to us that a person had gone underwater. We sent land, air and other specialist paramedics to attend the incident,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"They treated a male patient at the scene and he was conveyed by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital for further care.\"\n\nThe man was in the last phase of his 32-week training.\n\nThe Royal Marines' principal military training centre is situated near Lympstone in Devon.", "Two 21-year-old men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a non-league footballer who was attacked during a night out.\n\nJordan Sinnott, who played for Matlock Town, was found unconscious in Market Place, Retford, Nottinghamshire, at about 02:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe 25-year-old suffered a fractured skull and died on Saturday evening.\n\nAnother man, 27, who was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, remains in police custody.\n\nPolice said they were investigating two \"large-scale fights\" that took place in the town.\n\nDet Insp Justine Wilson said officers were still keen to speak to people who witnessed both fights.\n\n\"We are making progress in the investigation, but we have unanswered questions. I know there are people out there who saw what happened and can answer those questions for us,\" she said.\n\n\"Jordan's family deserves answers, so please come and talk to us.\"\n\nMatlock Town, who play in the Northern Premier League, postponed their match against Mickleover Sports on Saturday after players learned of Mr Sinnott's condition.\n\nThe club issued a statement after Mr Sinnott died in hospital, which said: \"His family and friends were with him at his bedside and we send our sincere condolences to them all at this very sad time.\"\n\nThey tweeted: \"You weren't just a footballer, you were our friend and brother. You gave us incredible memories and scored your first career hat-trick in your final game for the club. Rest easy Jordan, we love, miss and will never forget you.\"\n\nTributes have been paid to the footballer after his death\n\nMatlock Town have also cancelled Tuesday's fixture against Grantham Town.\n\nSinnott had joined the club from National League North side Alfreton Town, who also issued a statement in which they described the player as a \"model footballer and an exceptional talent\".\n\nOthers have paid tribute on social media:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huddersfield Town This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said officers had attended a fight involving eight men and women at the Dominie Cross pub car park in Grove Street at about 23:25 GMT on Friday.\n\nSinnott was found a couple of hours later following another \"large-scale disturbance\" in the town centre.\n\nPolice said a 27-year old man suffered a suspected broken nose and a 44-year old man suffered a suspected broken jaw in the fights.\n\nMr Sinnott was found unconscious by emergency services in Market Place, Retford\n\nSinnott, from Bradford, is the son of former footballer Lee Sinnott.\n\nHe started his career as a youth player at Huddersfield Town, for whom he made five appearances between 2013 and 2014, before joining non-league Altrincham.\n\nAfter a spell at Halifax, he went on to play again in the Football League, joining League Two Chesterfield for the 2017-18 season.\n\nEarlier this month he scored the first hat-trick of his career during a game against Basford United.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Iraqi security forces (in the background) burned protesters' tents at Baghdad's Tahrir Square\n\nIraqi security forces have moved against the main anti-government protest site in central Baghdad.\n\nThey fired live ammunition and tear gas as they began removing tents and concrete barriers near Tahrir Square and a bridge across the Tigris river, eyewitnesses say.\n\nSeveral people are reported to have been injured in Saturday's clashes.\n\nProtesters have for months held anti-government demonstrations and camped in the capital.\n\nSaturday's violence comes a day after a separate massive rally in Baghdad against the presence of US forces in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany protesters in that rally were supporters of powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who had called a million of people to join Friday's march.\n\nThe US killing of the top Iranian military commander, Gen Qasem Soleimani, on 3 January at Baghdad airport has fuelled tensions.\n\nAlso assassinated in the US drone strike was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi who had commanded the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage, reportedly of the missile attack, was shown on Iranian state TV\n\nIran responded on 8 January to Gen Soleimani's assassination by carrying out a ballistic missile attack on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.\n\nA Pentagon spokesman has said that 34 US service members had suffered traumatic brain injuries.\n\nHours after the strike, Iran's armed forces fired two missiles at a Ukrainian passenger plane over Iran's capital, Tehran, by mistake, killing all 176 people on board.", "Watch Kobe Bryant's poem entitled 'Dear Basketball', written when the five-time NBA champion retired in 2016.\n\nThe US basketball legend, 41, died in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday.\n\nREAD MORE: Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash - US media", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescue teams rushed to help after the earthquake struck\n\nAt least 31 people have been killed and more than 1,600 injured in a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey.\n\nThe magnitude-6.8 quake centred on the town of Sivrice in Elazig province caused buildings to collapse and sent residents rushing into the street.\n\nForty-five people have been rescued so far, with more than 20 feared to remain trapped, officials say.\n\nEarthquakes are common in Turkey - about 17,000 people died in a quake in the western city of Izmit in 1999.\n\nTremors were also felt in neighbouring Syria, Lebanon and Iran.\n\nThis woman was pulled from the rubble in Elazig\n\nMore than 400 aftershocks were recorded, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (Afad) said.\n\nRescue teams worked through the night, using their hands, drills and diggers to try to find people in the rubble of fallen buildings. They also brought beds and tents for those displaced, and warned residents against returning to damaged buildings because of the danger of aftershocks.\n\nAfad said that most of the casualties were in Elazig province, and deaths were also reported in the neighbouring province of Malatya.\n\nSome 1,607 people were injured by the earthquake, according to the latest count.\n\nReports said an elderly woman was pulled alive from the rubble about 19 hours after the earthquake.\n\nAnother woman left buried was saved after calling her relatives from her mobile phone and telling them where she was trapped.\n\nBut a 12-year-old boy rescued from the wreckage later died in hospital.\n\nThe quake caused many buildings to collapse\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (centre-right) attends the funeral of some of the victims in Elazig\n\n\"It was very scary - furniture fell on top of us. We rushed outside,\" AFP news agency quoted 47-year-old Melahat Can, who lives in the city of Elazig, as saying.\n\n\"Our houses collapsed...we cannot go inside them,\" a 32-year-old man from Sivrice told Reuters.\n\nThe region struck by the quake, some 550km (340 miles) east of the capital Ankara, is remote and sparsely populated, so details of damage and fatalities could be slow to emerge.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled plans in Istanbul on Saturday to instead visit the affected area and attend the funeral of two of the victims.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can as the state and nation, and we will continue to do so. Our efforts at all rescue sites will continue,\" he said.\n\nIn its advisory on Saturday morning, the emergency authority said the overnight temperature had fallen to -8C (17.6F), with similar cold expected the following night.\n\nThe Turkish Red Crescent has also dispatched hundreds of personnel with emergency supplies, it said.\n\nSivrice, a town of about 4,000 people, is a popular tourist spot on the shore of Hazar lake, the source of the river Tigris.\n\nAre you in the area? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Jessie Buchanan is campaigning to buy a Pembrokeshire farm for the local community\n\nYoung farmers are losing one of their few routes into the industry, Plaid Cymru has warned.\n\nLand held by local authorities has reduced by 10% in eight years, analysis of Welsh Government figures shows.\n\nFor more than a century, councils have rented agricultural land to new and young farmers, which provides a \"step on the ladder\".\n\nCouncils said they face \"acute financial pressures\" and the low-price sales are only a \"last resort\".\n\nPlaid Cymru assembly member Llyr Gruffydd said rural communities would be left with a \"gaping hole\" if sales continue at the same rate.\n\n\"This is one of the very few routes that young people and new farmers have into the industry,\" he said.\n\nCouncil farms are agricultural units owned by local authorities which are rented out to farmers. They have been a way for young people to enter the farming industry since 1908 to address a decline in the number of farms.\n\nThe farms are supported by law, for example the Agriculture Act states local authorities should \"make it their general aim to provide opportunities for persons to be farmers on their own account by letting holdings\".\n\nOfficial figures say there are now just 963 local authority farms - 430 with houses or buildings - in Wales.\n\nCouncils say they recognise the benefits of their farms and are trying to \"hold the line\"\n\nDenbighshire, Flintshire, Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Powys and Wrexham sold 184 hectares between them in 2016-17, which raised £4.2m.\n\nTrecadwgan Farm, near Solva, was put up for public auction last year by Pembrokeshire council and since then locals have raised tens of thousands of pounds to bid for it and make it a community farm.\n\nCampaign group chair Jessie Buchanan wants to avoid \"ending the life of a farm that has been there for 800 years\".\n\n\"The vision for Trecadwgan farm that we have put forward is something that will create employment and offer scope for wellbeing within the community,\" she said.\n\nPhil Dancer says he has been lucky to be able to stay in the area\n\nPhil Dancer, 32, is a first generation sheep famer who recently secured a 12-year tenancy on a council farm outside Machynlleth, Powys.\n\n\"When we came for the viewing day [at my farm], there must have been 20 [to] 30 applicants walking about the place,\" he said.\n\n\"I consider myself very lucky to have had it and to be able to stay in the area, which means a lot to me.\n\n\"It's a big difference for me now. I have the security of 12 years. I can invest a bit into the ground, which will in turn improve my livestock.\n\n\"At the end of the day it's a step on the ladder and my plan is to move up the ladder. It will make the next step easier hopefully.\"\n\nA Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) spokesperson said: \"Inevitably in the face of acute financial pressures, councils have had to consider selling off some of their farms and some have indeed done so.\n\n\"However, this is a last resort and local authorities are trying to hold the line, recognising their long term benefits. \"\n\nThe WLGA said a rural forum, made up of nine local authorities, is working to develop a 'rural deal' to \"complement the more urban focussed city and growth deals\".\n\nLocal authority farms are an \"important asset\" to the agricultural industry, the Welsh Government said.\n\n\"Whilst the management of these farms is ultimately a matter for Welsh local authorities, we are aware some are considering the rationalisation of their estate,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are committed to ensure opportunities exist for those wishing to make agriculture a career.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A newly-appointed Grenfell Tower fire inquiry panel member has resigned after she was linked to the charitable arm of a firm which supplied the block's deadly cladding.\n\nBenita Mehra said she recognised and respected the \"depth of feeling\" among some about her appointment.\n\nDowning Street said it had accepted her resignation but maintained there was no conflict of interest.\n\nIt comes ahead of the second phase of the inquiry beginning on Monday.\n\nMs Mehra, an engineer, had been appointed to replace academic Prof Nabeel Hamdi as an expert panellist for the second phase of the inquiry.\n\nVictims' families had raised concerns to the prime minister about her former role as a past president of the Women's Engineering Society, which received funding from the Arconic Foundation for an apprentice conference.\n\nArconic supplied the cladding on the outside of the west London tower block, which caught fire on 14 June 2017, claiming 72 lives.\n\nFamilies had been threatening to boycott the opening of the second phase of the Grenfell inquiry.\n\nThe Grenfell United group said the resignation had helped to \"lift growing anxiety ahead of phase two\".\n\nBut it continued: \"The government should never have put families in this situation.\n\n\"They failed to carry out basic checks and understand the importance and sensitivities around a fair and proper process.\"\n\nGrenfell United said the government must now urgently find a new panellist to replace Ms Mehra \"to bring expertise on community relations to the inquiry\", adding it \"does not need another technical expert\".\n\nIn her resignation letter to the PM, Ms Mehra said: \"As you know, I had hoped to draw on my experience and knowledge of the construction industry, of community engagement and of governance within housing management to contribute to the vital work of the inquiry in discovering how and why the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower happened.\"\n\nHowever, she said it was apparent her former role as president of the Women's Engineering Society had caused \"serious concern\" among a number of inquiry participants.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson thanked Ms Mehra for her commitment and said he was \"grateful for her sensitivity to the work of the inquiry\".\n\nA report - following the first phase of the public inquiry into the fire - found in October last year that the tower block's cladding did not comply with building regulations and was the \"principal\" reason for the fire's rapid and \"profoundly shocking\" spread.\n\nArconic said a \"confluence of unfortunate circumstances\" rather than the \"mere presence\" of the panels had caused the spread of the fire.\n\nIt has said that the grant was made by its charitable arm, the Arconic Foundation, which is \"an independently endowed and managed foundation\".\n\nOn Monday, the inquiry will switch from focusing on the night of the fire to the refurbishment of the building and its role in the blaze, as well as issues surrounding building regulations.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and online; Live text on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nTeenage phenomenon Coco Gauff missed out on her first Grand Slam quarter-final as fellow American Sofia Kenin fought back to win in the Australian Open fourth round.\n\nGauff, 15, lost 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-0 to the 14th seed in Melbourne.\n\nShe showed all her undoubted quality in the first set, but tired in the third as Kenin wore her down.\n\nKenin will next face Tunisia's Ons Jabeur, who beat Serena Williams' conqueror Wang Qiang in straight sets.\n• None Kvitova fights back to reach last eight\n\nAfter a warm embrace at the net, Kenin and Gauff broke out in tears following an intense battle on Melbourne Arena.\n\nKenin, 21, dropped her racquet and cupped her face with both hands after taking her second match point to reach her first Grand Slam quarter-final.\n\n\"I was just fighting,\" Kenin said. \"She played some good points at crucial moments but I just had to calm down and relax.\"\n\nAn emotional Gauff received a standing ovation as she walked off the court, understandably disappointed at the manner of her defeat but with the likelihood of much better moments ahead of her.\n\n\"I'm doing well right now at 15. I still have so much I feel like I can get better on,\" said Gauff, who will rise into the world's top 50 for the first time next week.\n\n\"I don't even think this is close to a peak for me, even though I'm doing well right now.\"\n\nGauff has become a global star in less than a year, announcing her arrival with a victory over seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams at Wimbledon before 'Cocomania' surrounded her run to the last 16.\n\nThe hype returned at Melbourne Park after the Florida teenager, who turns 16 in March, produced an assured performance to knock out defending champion Naomi Osaka in the third round.\n\nThat was as much down to Osaka's implosion as it was Gauff's brilliance, however.\n\nAgainst the streetwise Kenin, the question was always going to be whether she could soak up her opponent's relentless returning and then play aggressively to ask questions of her own.\n\nAfter a slow start where she lost the opening two games, Gauff rediscovered the things which have marked her out a potential great - hard-hitting from the baseline, fizzing angled winners and fleet of foot around the court - to break back for 4-4.\n\nGauff missed a set point on Kenin's serve at 6-5 before the older American produced two double faults as Gauff eventually took the tie-break with her fourth set point.\n\nMomentum swung back in Kenin's direction early in the second set.\n\nGauff's tendency to cough up double faults appeared again, three contributing heavily to Kenin breaking serve in the fourth game and pinching the advantage.\n\nThat proved pivotal as Gauff, with errors now starting to creep in, was unable to claw the break back.\n\nIn similar fashion to the opening set, the teenager started the decider slowly but this time could not recover like she did in the opening set.\n\nThe winners began to dry up for Gauff, allowing Kenin to dominate the rallies and breeze through the decider in 33 minutes.\n\n\"She definitely put a lot of balls in the court. She's quick. Also her drop-shots were good,\" said Gauff, who won just 15 points in the final set.\n\n\"I think I made a lot of errors too.\"\n\nGauff has admitted she struggled to cope with the intense scrutiny at the US Open a few months ago, culminating in an error-strewn performance against Japan's two-time Grand Slam champion Osaka.\n\nWhen the pair met again on Friday, Gauff responded with an assured performance.\n\nAsked what she has learned from her first experience in the senior competition at Melbourne Park, she said: \"I'm most proud of how I handled it on the court.\n\n\"I guess what surprised me is how calm I was going into all these matches. I wasn't really nervous.\n\n\"I'm happy that I'm not letting the moment seem too big than what it is.\"\n\nGauff came through the first set in flying colours. When the pressure was on she played some of her best tennis.\n\nBut Kenin, she's a tough competitor, and it was always going to be a challenge for Gauff to maintain that high level.\n\nIt was a bit surprising that Gauff started missing - the forehand went off and she struggled getting her rhythm back. Kenin was too solid and I think some of the nerves, the tension, the desire to get through that match got to Gauff.\n\nIt's been the most incredible, impressing thing about Gauff - we forget sometimes that she's 15 and she's handling these moments incredibly well. You still need experience to get through those deep, tough matches against players who understand how to play their game in the big moments.\n\nNobody likes losing a 6-0 set but I think in the end there are many positives Gauff can take from this and she's just got to keep building. Gauff wants to be the greatest - and that takes time. She's focusing on the right things with the help of the parents and her team.\n\nIt's her mental fortitude, the way she competes - how calm, how much poise she has in the big moments, and against the top players, from Venus [Williams] at Wimbledon to Naomi here, she just manages to find a high level through all that pressure. That's something that can take years to learn. It's something that's come at such a young age - and that's so impressive.", "Cow & Gate and Tesco are recalling 15 types of baby food jars as a \"precautionary measure\" amid concerns some may have been tampered with.\n\nCustomers who bought food for babies aged over seven months in Tesco stores in the UK are advised not to use them because they may pose a safety risk.\n\nThe jars should be returned to Tesco for a full refund, the companies said.\n\nNo other Cow & Gate, Tesco or other baby-branded products have been affected, they said.\n\nThe recall involves the following products bought in UK Tesco stores:\n\nThe 15 varieties that are being recalled\n\nCow & Gate 7+ months jars sold in other retailers' stores are not affected and no other Cow & Gate baby foods in jars or other packs are involved.\n\nConsumers can continue to buy and use these products bought from other retailers in \"complete confidence\", the companies said.\n\n\"We regret that this incident has happened and we are sorry for the concern and the inconvenience that this recall may cause,\" Tesco and Cow & Gate said.\n\nAnyone with concerns can contact Tesco Customer Services directly on 0800 917 6897 or contact Cow & Gate via Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or speak to a member of the Cow & Gate team directly on 0800 977 8880.", "Authorities in China are intensifying travel restrictions in an attempt to limit the spread of the deadly new coronavirus.\n\nThe BBC's Stephen McDonell and his team travelled into Hubei province, where the outbreak originated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Panorama has obtained a 999 call, made by a family who broke down on a smart motorway\n\nThirty-eight people have been killed on smart motorways in the last five years, the government has told BBC Panorama.\n\nIt is the first time that the total number of deaths has been reported.\n\nSmart motorways have been criticised because they do not have a hard shoulder and drivers who break down can be trapped in the speeding traffic.\n\nThe network is facing an overhaul with the results of a government review due to be announced shortly.\n\nA Freedom of Information (FoI) request sent by Panorama to Highways England revealed that on one section of the M25, outside London, the number of near misses had risen 20-fold since the hard shoulder was removed in April 2014.\n\nIn the five years before the road was converted into a smart motorway there were just 72 near misses. In the five years after, there were 1,485.\n\nA \"near miss\" is counted every time there is an incident with \"the potential to cause injury or ill health\".\n\nThe FoI request also revealed that one warning sign on the same stretch of the M25 had been out of action for 336 days.\n\nThe idea behind smart motorways was to improve the flow of traffic through the most congested parts of the network by using the hard shoulder as an extra lane.\n\nThe figure of 38 deaths over five years on the smart motorway network is significant because it only makes up a small proportion of the total miles of road.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Panorama he wants to fix smart motorways because they are too confusing for drivers.\n\nTransport Secretary, Grant Shapps told BBC Panorama that smart motorways have to be as safe or safer than normal motorways.\n\nHe said: \"We absolutely have to have these as safe or safer than regular motorways or we shouldn't have them at all.\"\n\nA government review, the results of which are due to be announced shortly, is expected to recommend reforms to improve safety.\n\nPanorama understands that radar will be fitted across the whole smart motorway network over the next three years.\n\nThe car detection system - which is currently only fitted on two sections of the M25 - can spot stranded vehicles as soon as drivers break down.\n\nNationally, motorists currently have to wait an average of 17 minutes to be spotted, and a further 17 minutes before they are rescued.\n\nThe government is also planning to scrap so-called dynamic hard shoulders, which are sometimes used as a hard shoulder and sometimes used as a live lane for traffic.\n\nThe BBC understands there will also be more emergency lay-bys.\n\nIt is unlikely to satisfy road safety campaigners.\n\nThe former government minister who approved the roll-out of smart motorways told Panorama he was misled about the risks of taking away the hard shoulder.\n\nSir Mike Penning agreed to the expansion in 2010 after a successful pilot on the M42 near Birmingham.\n\nThe pilot worked well because there were safe stopping points for motorists, called emergency safety refuges, on average every 600 metres.\n\nBut when the scheme was expanded across the country, the safety refuges were placed further apart. On some sections, they are 2.5 miles apart.\n\n\"They are endangering people's lives,\" said the Conservative MP. \"There are people that are being killed and seriously injured on these roads, and it should never have happened.\"\n\nAn all-party group of MPs, led by Sir Mike, will publish a report on Monday that accuses Highways England of \"a shocking degree of carelessness\".\n\nThe MPs say there should be no further roll-out of smart motorways until further research is conducted into their safety.\n\nEight-year-old Dev Naran (right) was killed on a smart motorway when he was on his way home from visiting his critically ill brother.\n\nHighways England said the plans to expand smart motorways were approved by ministers and that it was working to gather the facts about safety.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Any death on our roads is one too many, and our deepest sympathies remain with the family and friends of those who lost their lives.\"\n\nEight-year-old Dev Naran was killed on a smart motorway when he was on his way home from visiting his critically ill brother in Birmingham Children's Hospital.\n\nHis grandfather stopped the car on the inside lane of the M6 and the vehicle was hit by a lorry 45 seconds later.\n\nMum Meera Naran told the programme that after the accident Dev's body was then taken back to the hospital where his brother was being treated.\n\n\"I had both my boys, one fighting for his life still and Dev just there. It wasn't right, my two sons, one really sick, and the healthy one left me.\"\n\nAA president Edmund King said that taking away the hard shoulder had made breakdowns on the motorway more dangerous.\n\n\"It's just the most awful situation when you've broken down and your kids are in the back of the car, and there's nothing you can do to protect your kids.\n\n\"I certainly believe smart motorways are a scandal because, as we've been saying from the outset, they are dangerous, they're not fit for purpose.\"\n\nPanorama, Britain's Killer Motorways? is on BBC One at 20:30 GMT on Monday 27 January, or watch later on iPlayer", "Bats are not using a series of bridges built to protect them from traffic, figures suggest\n\nControversial bat bridges over a new £205m A-road do not work, putting the animals at risk of being hit by traffic, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThe seven gantries, costing £1m, were built to help bats fly safely over the Norwich Northern Distributor Road.\n\nBut data seen by the BBC showed none of the bridges was effective, with ecologists suggesting disturbance from the road may have driven the bats away.\n\nNorfolk County Council said it was still \"early days\" to gauge success.\n\nThe pylon-and-netting structures were built to mimic removed trees and hedgerows, guiding bats using sonar across roads at a safe height to protect them from passing traffic.\n\nThe seven bat bridges over the road were built at a cost of £1m\n\nA report on the first year of the 12-mile (19.5km) road, now known as the Broadland Northway, along with monitoring data later released to BBC Inside Out East, suggested none of the seven bridges was effective.\n\nSurveys in the summer of 2018 showed more than 40% of bats were crossing at unsafe heights - a proportion experts considered unsustainable for local populations.\n\nA briefing from the county council in October maintained there were \"positive early signs\" and that \"bat mitigation measures are proving effective\".\n\nBut just 49% of bats were flying close enough to the bridges to be considered to be using them.\n\nNational guidance said at least 90% of bats should be flying at a safe height within five metres (16ft) of the structure, and population numbers should be similar to those observed before construction.\n\nEcologists have raised concerns at the \"worryingly low numbers\" of bats seen on monitored flight routes along the road since it opened.\n\nA radio-tracking survey of one of the UK's rarest species - the barbastelle - conducted months after the opening of the NDR, could only locate one of the three previously healthy populations on the route.\n\nDr Anna Berthinussen, a bat ecologist commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to examine such measures on new roads, said it was likely the council's attempts to mitigate the impact had failed.\n\n\"The evidence in the report suggests that actually no, these structures are not effective, they're not meeting their purpose,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it's quite striking how few bats there are at any of the crossing points.\n\n\"At one of the bat gantries there weren't any bats recorded at all. At the others, just a handful of bats per survey, which is really worrying.\n\n\"The lack of bats at the crossing points is almost certainly down to the impact of the road. Bats may be avoiding crossing the road or disturbance caused by the road may have driven bats away from the area,\" said Dr Berthinussen.\n\nEcologist Dr Anna Berthinussen suggested the road may have forced the bats to new locations\n\nThe \"One Year After\" report issued by the county council in October did not include full monitoring data but a press briefing note in the same month emphasised the positive impact.\n\nIt did not mention none of the bridges could be considered effective by national guidelines, nor that 40% of bats were at risk of being hit by traffic.\n\nMartin Wilby, council member for road and infrastructure, denied the bridges had failed.\n\nMartin Wilby said it was \"early days\" in assessing the effectiveness of the bat bridges\n\n\"I've seen the report. And I've seen that numbers of the bats have been using the bridges across the NDR,\" he said.\n\n\"We should monitor them and if they don't work over a period of time, fine, we'll accept that - but at this present time it's very early days.\"\n\nThe report also found just 13 bats crossed a £1.2m \"green bridge\" during the surveys and no bats could use a £315,000 bat underpass because it was almost entirely flooded.\n\nWatch the full story on BBC Inside Out East at 19:30 GMT on BBC One on Monday 27 January, and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nKobe Bryant was called the \"greatest\" Los Angeles Lakers player of all time by Magic Johnson as his number eight and 24 shirts were retired.\n\nFive-time NBA champion Bryant, 39, ended his 20-year career in April 2016 as an 18-time All-Star.\n\nThe ceremony to retire his jerseys took place at half-time of the match against NBA champions Golden State Warriors.\n\n\"We're here to celebrate the greatest to ever wear the purple and gold,\" said ex-Lakers player Johnson.\n\nJohnson, who is now Lakers president of basketball operations, added: \"He made us rub our eyes and wonder what did we just see.\n\n\"There will never, ever be another Kobe Bryant.\"\n\nBryant won three NBA titles wearing the number eight and two in the 24, having played 10 seasons wearing each number.\n\nHe is the 10th player to receive the honour of having his jerseys retired with the list also including Johnson. The others are; Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, James Worthy, Jerry West and Jamaal Wilkes.\n\nThe crowd chanted Bryant's name and gave him a standing ovation during his ceremony.\n\n\"Thank you so much for tonight,\" said Bryant.\n\n\"It's not about my jerseys that are hanging up there for me. It's about the jerseys that were hanging up there before.\"\n\n'We asked for your hustle and you gave us your heart'\n\nSome of Bryant's achievements include being the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player and two-time NBA Finals MVP. He was also two-time NBA scoring champion and a two-time Olympic champion.\n\nHe finished as the Lakers' all-time point scorer and third on the NBA's all-time list with 33,643 points.\n\nIn his final game, he also became the oldest player in NBA history to score 60 points.\n\n\"What we're celebrating is the journey you took us on for those 20 years,\" said Lakers owner Jeanie Buss.\n\n\"If you separate the accomplishments of each of those jerseys, both of those players would be in the Hall of Fame.\n\n\"We asked for your hustle and you gave us your heart which was so much more. You have forever made your mark on this franchise.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn's critics used the issue of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party to undermine him, a union boss has said.\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey said such actions were \"despicable\" but added that the party \"never handled the anti-Semitism issue correctly\".\n\nLabour's response to alleged anti-Semitism among its members has been under investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission since last May.\n\nMeanwhile, his union has backed Rebecca Long-Bailey for Labour leadership.\n\nBut Mr McCluskey said it was \"unfair\" to describe her as the \"continuity Corbyn\" candidate as she will have different priorities.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, Wigan MP Lisa Nandy and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry are also running for the Labour leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr McCluskey said: \"I'm absolutely convinced that there were those individuals who opposed Jeremy Corbyn's election right from the beginning, used the anti-Semitism issue - which I think is quite despicable that they did this on such an important subject - to undermine Corbyn, there's no doubt about that.\"\n\nBut he said that the party had \"never handled the anti-Semitism issue correctly\", adding: \"We should have done things quicker.\"\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission is assessing whether Labour has \"unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are Jewish\".\n\nLabour has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism since mid-2016 - and the leadership has been accused by some of its own MPs of tolerating a culture of anti-Jewish prejudice.\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted he is getting to grips with the issue and the party's internal disciplinary procedures have been beefed up.\n\nOn Labour's losses in December's general election, Mr McCluskey said the party had \"suffered the consequences\" of \"being perceived as a Remain party\", adding that the timing of the poll was \"a trap\".\n\nHe said that Theresa May's Brexit deal - which was rejected by MPs - \"probably provided enough issues to try and reach a compromise\".\n\nEarlier, he told Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday that Labour's election defeat was \"virtually, solely down to Brexit\" and defended the party's policies.\n\nBut others criticised Mr Corbyn's leadership in the wake of Labour's fourth general election loss in a row.\n\nImmediately after the election result, former Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Labour's Caroline Flint, who lost her seat in Don Valley, said many of her voters \"could not and did not want to support Jeremy Corbyn\".", "The 252-foot-long passenger jet aeroplane has been delayed by some technical difficulties\n\nBoeing has successfully completed the first test flight of the world's largest twin-engined plane, the 777X.\n\nIt comes as the firm attempts to boost its image after its 737 Max plane was grounded last year following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people.\n\nThe flight took off near Seattle and lasted four hours. Two attempts were called off this week due to high winds.\n\nFurther tests are needed before the aircraft enters service with Emirates next year.\n\nThe 252-foot-long passenger plane had been due to launch this year but has been delayed by some technical difficulties.\n\nThe 777X is a larger and more efficient version of Boeing's successful 777 mini-jumbo. Standout features include folding wingtips and the world's largest commercial engines.\n\n\"It represents the great things we can do as a company,\" said 777X marketing director Wendy Sowers.\n\nBoeing says it has sold 309 of the plane - worth more than $442 million each at list prices.\n\nThe plane will go head-to-head with the Airbus A350-1000 which seats about 360 passengers.\n\nFurther tests are needed before the aircraft enters service with Emirates next year\n\nBoeing has been in crisis since the 737 Max crashes, which occurred within five months of each other - first in Indonesia in October 2018 and then in Ethiopia last March.\n\nIt is facing multiple investigations amid accusations that it sacrificed safety as it rushed to get its jets to customers. It is attempting to have the plane re-approved for flight.\n\nThe grounding of the 737 Max, which had been Boeing's best-selling plane, is estimated to have already cost Boeing more than $9bn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zipporah Kuria's father Joseph Waithaka was one of 157 people killed when a Boeing 737 Max crashed in March 2019", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay was questioned about HS2 by the BBC's Andrew Marr\n\nA cabinet minister has told the BBC it is his gut feeling that the HS2 high-speed rail line will get the go-ahead.\n\nStephen Barclay told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the project was vital for \"levelling up\" the UK's transport network and improving capacity.\n\nThe Brexit secretary's comments come amid a row over the rising cost of the project, which could reach £106bn.\n\nThe first phase of the project is due to link London and Birmingham, followed by extensions to Leeds and Manchester.\n\nMr Barclay was asked by Andrew Marr for his \"gut feeling\" about whether the HS2 would be approved. \"Yes\", he replied firmly.\n\nHe said the government had given a \"clear commitment to level up all parts of the United Kingdom... HS2 plays an important part in that\".\n\nThat levelling up was not just about improving the speed of transport, but also improving capacity in the UK.\n\nMr Barclay stressed, though, that it was \"important that we also get value for money\".\n\nEarlier this month, a leaked government-commissioned review suggested the total cost of HS2 could reach £106bn.\n\nThe findings of the independent review, conducted by former HS2 Ltd chair Doug Oakervee, have not yet been officially published. The Department for Transport has indicated it will be published soon.\n\nLord Berkeley, a vocal critic of HS2 who was deputy chairman of the Oakervee review before withdrawing his backing, published an independent assessment of the project.\n\nHe put the cost at at least £108bn, adding that the government should scrap the project to concentrate on improving the rail network in the north of England.\n\nThat drew criticism from northern political leaders and businesses, who said HS2 should be built in its entirety.\n\nWhitehall's spending watchdog said last week that HS2 is over budget and behind schedule because its complexity and risks were under-estimated.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) warned that it is impossible to \"estimate with certainty what the final cost could be\".\n\nHS2 was allocated £56bn in 2015. Phase One between London and Birmingham was due to open in 2026, but full services are now forecast to start between 2031 and 2036.\n\nConstruction firms have warned that scrapping HS2 would cause major damage to the industry, while several environmental groups say going ahead with the project will have a huge impact on natural habitats and ancient woodland.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported that former senior figures involved in HS2 have given signed statements to the prime minister's advisers, alleging the government-owned firm behind HS2 covered up spiralling costs on multiple occasions.\n\nIn a statement, HS2 responded: \"Following the collapse of Carillion, HS2 Ltd recognised the need to engage a healthy industry while continuing to protect value for money for the taxpayer.\n\n\"Instead of artificially passing risk back and forth, as has happened on other publicly-funded projects, contractors who do not meet the required performance will lose a proportion of their fee.\n\n\"This incentivises good performance and also prevents windfall profits from public money.\"\n\nThe statement said that by revising the terms and conditions, \"contractors have been able to reduce their prices and HS2 Ltd estimates £1bn of savings as a result\".\n\nHS2 is the talk of Westminster at the moment. Will it get the go ahead or come off the rails? Or somewhere in between? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the government is at pains to avoid saying what might happen next.\n\nMinisters don't want to pre-empt the findings of the Oakervee review, which despite a series of leaks, is yet to be officially published.\n\nSteve Barclay has gone further than any of his Cabinet colleagues by revealing he has a hunch that the project will get the green light. But it's unclear how much insight he has.\n\nWhile the Brexit secretary has a seat at the Cabinet table for now, he might not be there for too much longer. The Department for Exiting the EU will be wound up following the UK's departure this week.\n\nUltimately the decision on HS2 lies with Boris Johnson, in consultation with his chancellor and transport secretary.", "A former British Army officer, Andy Roe has been at LFB since 2002\n\nLondon's new fire commissioner has been announced after the brigade's current chief stood down over criticisms of how it responded to the Grenfell fire.\n\nAndy Roe takes over from Dany Cotton from January after she announced last week she was stepping down.\n\nMr Roe was the fire officer who revoked the \"stay put\" advice minutes after becoming incident commander at the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nSeventy-two people died during the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nMs Cotton announced last week that she would step down at the end of December after facing pressure to resign after a critical public inquiry report into the fire.\n\nAn inquiry into the fire concluded \"many more lives\" could have been saved if the advice to residents to \"stay put\" had been abandoned earlier than 02:35 BST.\n\nIt said London Fire Brigades's (LFB) preparations for such a fire were \"gravely inadequate\".\n\nDany Cotton, second from right, in Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire\n\nMr Roe will be tasked with implementing the Grenfell Tower Inquiry's recommendations as well as producing the next London Safety Plan, which outlines how the brigade will make London safe.\n\nAs well as being deputy commissioner for operations at the brigade, Mr Roe is a former British Army officer. He joined LFB in 2002 as a firefighter and has been assistant commissioner since 2017. He was in charge of the response to the Croydon tram crash in 2016.\n\nDany Cotton is stepping down at the end of December\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the brigade's overall response to the disaster had been \"not good enough\", and there were \"significant lessons\".\n\nThe inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire opened in September 2017\n\nMr Roe said: \"We have some real challenges ahead, but I'll be working tirelessly with the brigade, the mayor and London's communities to ensure we deliver on the recommendations of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coins had to be re-produced after Brexit was delayed\n\nA commemorative 50p coin marking the UK's departure from the EU has been unveiled by Chancellor Sajid Javid.\n\nThe coins bear the inscription \"Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations\" and the date of 31 January.\n\nMr Javid had first ordered production of the coins in advance of the UK's original 31 October departure date.\n\nBut the Brexit delay meant about a million coins had to be melted down and the metal put aside until a new exit date was confirmed.\n\nAbout three million Brexit coins will enter circulation around the UK from Friday, with a further seven million to be added later in the year.\n\nMr Javid, who is Master of the Mint, was given the first batch of coins and will present one to Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week.\n\nAs part of the launch of the coin, the Royal Mint will open the doors of its south Wales HQ for 24 hours on 31 January (from 00:01 to 23.59) to let people strike their own commemorative Brexit coins.\n\nMr Javid said: \"Leaving the European Union is a turning point in our history and this coin marks the beginning of this new chapter.\"\n\nThe European Parliament is expected to approve the Withdrawal Agreement on Wednesday, after the PM this week signed the treaty paving the way for the UK to leave on 31 January.\n• None Brexit coins to be 'recycled' amid further delay", "Crews were called to the fire at a property in Wensley Avenue\n\nTests are being carried out on the body of a 47-year-old man who died along with his 10-year-old daughter in a fire at a terraced house in Hull.\n\nCrews battled to rescue the pair from the building in Wensley Avenue, Cottingham, on Saturday morning.\n\nA post-mortem examination is taking place to establish the cause of his death, tests on his daughter's body will take place in the coming days.\n\nThe cause of the blaze is under investigation, Humberside Police said.\n\nThe man was pronounced dead at the scene, the girl died in hospital a short time later.\n\nThe father and daughter were the only people in the property at the time, the fire service said.\n\nNeighbour Carl Goodfellow said he saw smoke coming from the building and tried to rescue those inside.\n\n\"I was banging on the window to try and get some attention, but there was nothing.\n\n\"We did try to alert him, but there was no response.\"\n\nNeighbour Carl Goodfellow tried to break the door down to help the people in the house\n\nCh Supt Darren Downs said: \"We are continuing to support the families of those involved at this very difficult time and our thoughts are with them.\n\n\"Investigations into this kind of incident are very complex and take time to complete.\n\n\"In the meantime I would ask that people avoid speculating about the circumstances and if you have any information you believe would assist our investigation, please get in touch.\"\n\nMr Downs said there was support available from local agencies and charities for anyone who has been affected by the incident and wanted someone to talk to.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire has begun with specialist officers working in the house\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gary Webb said police had gone to his house with an arrest warrant for a different person\n\nA man who was wrongfully arrested and sent to prison on remand has been awarded £100,000 in compensation from Police Scotland.\n\nIn 2015 Gary Webb, from Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway, was handcuffed and spent a night in a police cell and three nights in prison.\n\nThe 60-year-old told The Sunday Post that police had his fingerprints and knew he was the wrong man.\n\nHe said: \"My life has been trashed after this. Completely trashed.\"\n\nMr Webb, who has no criminal convictions, was arrested at his home by detectives who had a warrant for a different person.\n\nHe said the officers held a photo of the suspect next to Mr Webb's face and decided they were the same person.\n\nMr Webb showed them his passport, driving licence and photos around his home as proof of mistaken identity.\n\nHowever, the detectives said they would need to take him to the police station and handcuffed him.\n\n\"I was at home with my wife then being held in cuffs with no-one believing who I was and facing the worst kind of criminal charges imaginable,\" he said.\n\n\"I thought I was going insane. How could no-one believe I was me?\"\n\nHe was taken to court and, after three nights in a cell at Addiewell Prison, he was released without any explanation or apology.\n\nMr Webb was kept in a cell at Addiewell Prison for three days before being released\n\nAfter his release, Mr Webb, a former timber yard manager, made a formal complaint for wrongful arrest but after two years this was rejected by an internal police investigation and recorded as a \"quality of service issue\".\n\nHe then contacted the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) who ordered the arrest of five officers and reported them to the Crown Office over allegations of criminal neglect of duty and attempting to pervert the course of justice.\n\nFollowing a two-year investigation, the Crown Office said none of the five officers would face prosecution.\n\nMr Webb said: \"I experienced things I should never have had to. I had to leave my work as my mental health was affected by everything.\n\n\"The Pirc did a fantastic job and left no stone unturned during its investigation, so without them and my own legal team I wouldn't be where I am now.\n\n\"But Police Scotland and its behaviour has been utterly despicable.\n\n\"They clearly know of wrongdoing or they wouldn't have paid damages.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Gordon Dalyell, a partner at Digby Brown Solicitors who represented Mr Webb, said: \"The life of an innocent man was completely ruined because of the deliberate and malign actions of police officers who are meant to keep people safe.\n\n\"I would like to think an inquiry will occur in due course to ensure innocent people are not illegally detained and Police Scotland staff who act illegally will be held accountable.\"\n\nPolice Scotland's Assistant Chief Constable Alan Speirs said: \"We recognise the significant impact this incident and our poor initial response had on Mr Webb and, following the conclusion of legal proceedings, will seek to discuss these matters with him and offer an unreserved apology.\n\n\"The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner to investigate the circumstances and the COPFS has instructed there should be no criminal proceedings.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our officers and staff work with commitment and professionalism day in, day out, to provide a high-quality policing service for the public.\n\n\"When learning opportunities are identified, Police Scotland is committed to supporting officers and staff who have acted in good faith, however we will not comment on internal misconduct matters.\"", "Sajid Javid and Steve Mnuchin had breakfast on Saturday morning\n\nThe US wants to agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK this year, the country's treasury secretary has said.\n\nAfter meeting Chancellor Sajid Javid in London, Steve Mnuchin said he believed the UK could negotiate trade deals with the US and EU at the same time.\n\n\"I'm quite optimistic,\" he told a Chatham House think tank event.\n\nAfter Brexit happens on 31 January, the UK will be free to negotiate and sign new trade deals with countries with no existing EU deals - like the US.\n\nAt the same time, the UK will also be negotiating a free trade deal with the EU to ensure that UK goods are not subject to tariffs and other trade barriers once the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nMr Mnuchin, who met Mr Javid for breakfast on Saturday morning and posted an image of them on Instagram, said the US was \"prepared to dedicate a lot of resources\" to securing a trade deal with the UK this year.\n\nHe said: \"We've said that our goal - your goal - is trying to get both of these trade agreements done this year. And I think from a US standpoint we are prepared to dedicate a lot of resources.\n\n\"If the UK and US have very similar economies with a big focus on services, and I think this will be a very important relationship.\"\n\nMr Mnuchin added President Donald Trump had previously said the UK would \"be at the top of the list\" for a deal.\n\nHe also reiterated the US's objections to a new tax on the revenues of big tech firms, calling it \"discriminatory\".\n\nHe told the audience at Chatham House it was \"not appropriate\" and has \"violations to our tax treaties and other issues\".\n\n\"So, we're working through that and I think we have a good outcome of trying to give some room now in 2020 to continue these discussions.\"\n\nMr Javid intends to introduce a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media platforms and online marketplaces which derive value from UK users.\n\nHe has said the digital services tax will only be a temporary measure until an international agreement is in place on how to deal with online giants such as Google and Facebook.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Mnuchin threatened new tariffs on UK carmakers after the chancellor defied US pressure to cancel the tax.\n\nThe issue of whether Chinese telecoms giant Huawei should have a role in the UK's 5G network was also raised.\n\nThe US recently warned the British government it \"would be madness\" to use Huawei technology in the UK's 5G network.\n\nA decision is expected imminently on whether to allow Huawei to supply some \"non-core\" parts for the UK network.\n\nMr Mnuchin said \"active discussions\" about that were ongoing with UK government and others.\n\nHe also said his criticisms of climate activist Greta Thunberg earlier this week had been meant as a \"joke\".", "The footpath currently runs to the right of this pond, adjacent to the naturist campsite, but is being rerouted to the left\n\nA public footpath that cuts through the middle of a naturist campsite will be rerouted.\n\nThe path runs alongside 15 caravan pitches at Dolcoed camping site in Maesycrugiau, Carmarthenshire.\n\nAfter a process lasting almost two years, the existing path will be blocked up and a new route introduced.\n\nJo Eveleigh, who runs the campsite with her husband Mike, said: \"We're relieved it's over and done with and the path is going to be diverted.\"\n\nWhen plans to change the route were first submitted to Carmarthenshire council, three neighbours opposed it as it would run through a field behind their homes.\n\nMrs Eveleigh described the original path as \"an error\" as it ran through the middle of her house - which dates back 200 years - and out of a back door that she does not have.\n\nThe path will now be rerouted around the edge of the site.\n\nIn its decision, the Planning Inspectorate said the home \"pre-dates the definitive map\" and acknowledged \"some discomfort might also arise to walkers passing the naturist campsite\".\n\nWork on the new path began shortly before Christmas, but the completion date has not been confirmed.\n\nThe council said the cost of the diversion would not be known until it was finished and would be paid for by the Eveleighs.\n\nLlanllwni Community Council wanted the path moved to \"reduce the possibility of the public coming into contact with, or sight of, the users of the campsite\".\n\nHowever, several people living next door to the campsite said they did not have a problem with the naturists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many people living near the site were not worried by the path\n\nBut Malcolm and Teresa Tulloch, whose home backs onto the field where the new path will go, previously said the public right of way should be scrapped as the path \"hasn't been used for donkeys years\".\n\nThe original path had several obstructions - which had not previously been complained about - but the Planning Inspectorate said there was \"interest from the local community to have the path reopened\".\n\nThe inspector acknowledged privacy issues raised by people living nearby, but said the new path would be \"in excess of 60m from the properties\".\n\nMrs Eveleigh added: \"It's great for us because it's completely out of the way. It's better for everybody concerned - better for us, better for our neighbours.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManager Sam Ricketts says Shrewsbury should have won their FA Cup tie with Liverpool after the League One club staged a magnificent fightback to earn a fourth-round replay at Anfield.\n\nRunaway Premier League leaders Liverpool looked to be heading into the fifth round for the first time since 2015 after a fine first-half finish by 18-year-old Curtis Jones was followed by Donald Love's own goal in the opening minute of the second half.\n\nYet Shrewsbury were excellent throughout and were rewarded with two goals in the space of 10 minutes by substitute Jason Cummings.\n\nLiverpool keeper Adrian was forced to make some excellent saves during a thrilling tie, and Ricketts said: \"We carried out the gameplan superbly well.\n\n\"After 32 seconds in the second half most teams would have crumbled. In the end my players got at least what they deserved.\n\n\"I think it was there to win. We've had the better chances. It wasn't until Jason scored his first we were clinical.\"\n• None 'We will respect the winter break' - Klopp says he and first team will miss replay\n• None Reaction as Shrewsbury fightback to earn FA Cup replay at Anfield\n\nSome Shrews fans booed when Callum Lang was replaced by Cummings after 60 minutes with Liverpool leading 2-0.\n\nBut former Hibernian forward Cummings launched the comeback from the penalty spot after Josh Laurent was fouled by Yasser Larouci before the same player tucked home the equaliser.\n\nLiverpool sent on Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino in search of a winner but, on a memorable day for the Shropshire club, Shrewsbury hung on to earn a deserved replay.\n\nDelighted home fans in the sell-out crowd at Shrewsbury's Montgomery Waters Meadow staged a good-natured pitch invasion at full-time after a glorious comeback.\n\nShrews players were mobbed as supporters celebrated the achievement of Ricketts' side - who sit 16th in the League One table - in holding the European champions.\n\n\"It's what football is about, it's what the FA Cup is about, a club like ours holding them to a 2-2 draw,\" added former Wolves player Ricketts.\n\n\"Everyone has to enjoy that.\"\n\nEven after falling behind to Jones' lovely finish, Shrewsbury had looked more than capable of scoring.\n\nThey were presented with three one-on-one chances - Adrian producing great saves to deny Shaun Whalley, who also screwed another chance wide, and Callum Lang either side of Love's own goal.\n\nIt looked all over when Love, a former Manchester United player, inadvertently steered the ball past Max O'Leary and inside the post while trying to deal with a cross from Neco Williams.\n\nBut Liverpool had ridden their luck and Shrewsbury were rewarded for their hard work when Cummings stroked home from the spot.\n\nAnd it was Cummings who earned his side a replay at Anfield next month when he went past two Liverpool defenders before tucking beyond Adrian to spark wild celebrations on and off the pitch.\n\nLiverpool were hoping for a two-week break between fixtures in February during the inaugural Premier League winter break.\n\nInstead, they will have to fit in this replay between hosting Southampton in the league on 1 February and travelling to Norwich a fortnight later - although manager Jurgen Klopp hinted afterwards that senior players would not be involved against the Shrews.\n\nHaving played 37 games this season, including two in Qatar for the Fifa Club World Cup and another in Isatanbul for the European Super Cup back in August, Liverpool could have done without an additional fixture.\n\nYet Liverpool only have themselves to blame for failing to finish the job in Shropshire.\n\nKlopp made 11 changes to the side that started the 2-1 win at Wolves on Thursday that sent them 16 points clear at the top of the Premier League.\n\nJones, whose sublime goal knocked out Everton in the third round, underlined his potential with a tidy finish from Pedro Chirivella's cleverly disguised pass.\n\nLove's own goal ought to have sealed it but Shrewsbury were gutsy throughout with Adrian forced to produce some smart saves as the hosts came roaring back.\n• None Jason Cummings is the first lower league player to score two goals from the bench in the FA Cup against Premier League opposition since Hull's Nick Barmby in 2011\n• None At 18 years and 361 days, Curtis Jones is the first teenager to score in consecutive appearances for Liverpool since Raheem Sterling in April 2014.\n• None Shrewsbury are unbeaten in their past three FA Cup home against Premier League opponents.\n• None Liverpool have failed to win a match after being two goals ahead for the first time since April 2018 when they drew 2-2 with West Brom in the Premier League.\n• None Shrewsbury have lost just one of their past 18 home FA Cup matches.\n• None Liverpool have failed to win away at third-tier opposition in the FA Cup in 12 of their past 14 matches - with their last such victory coming against Shrewsbury in February 1996.\n• None The Reds have conceded 11 goals in their past five domestic cup away games.\n• None Liverpool have benefited from four own goals across all competitions this season - the joint-most of any Premier League team.\n\nLiverpool will go 19 points clear at the top of the Premier League if win at West Ham on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) while Shrewsbury are at Gillingham in League One on the same night.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Attempt missed. Jason Cummings (Shrewsbury Town) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Roberto Firmino with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) left footed shot from very close range is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fabinho.\n• None Offside, Shrewsbury Town. Daniel Udoh tries a through ball, but David Edwards is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Shrewsbury Town. David Edwards tries a through ball, but Shaun Whalley is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Pedro Chirivella tries a through ball, but Divock Origi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Takumi Minamino. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nKobe Byrant, who has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 41, is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.\n\nThe number of Most Valuable Player awards Bryant won. The accolade is given to the best-performing player in the regular season - Bryant won it in 2007-08.\n\nAlso his number of Oscar wins. Bryant won the award for best short animated film in 2016 for Dear Basketball, a five-minute film based on a love letter to the sport he wrote in 2015.\n\nThe number of NBA Finals MVP awards won by Bryant, in 2008-09 and the following year. It is also the number of Olympic gold medals he won, helping the United States top the podium in 2008 and 2012.\n\nAlso the number of shirts the Lakers retired in his honour - eight and 24.\n\nAll-Star MVP Awards won - in 2001-02, 2006-07, 2008-09 and 2010-11. He is tied with Bob Pettit for the most in NBA history.\n\nJust four players in NBA history - Bryant, Michael Jordan, Kevin Garnett and Gary Payton - have been selected for the NBA All-defensive first team nine times.\n\nHe made the All-NBA First Team selection 11 times, second-equal with Karl Malone. LeBron James is the only player to have made it in 12 times.\n\nThat is how many starts Bryant has made in the NBA's annual All-Star Game - the second most in history, one behind James, who was selected to make his 16th just two days ago.\n\nAnd 16 is the number of times Bryant has played on Christmas day - again, the most in NBA history.\n\nAs well as making 15 starts, Bryant was picked for the All-Star Game 18 times in a row. That is the longest streak in NBA history and only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with 19, made the All-Star Game more times.\n\nBryant spent 20 seasons with the Lakers. Only Dirk Nowitzki, who had 21 seasons with the Dallas Mavericks, has had a longer one-club career in the NBA.\n\nThe number of games in which he scored 50 points - only Wilt Chamberlain (118) and Michael Jordan (31) have scored 50-plus points more times.\n\nThe number of points scored against the Utah Jazz in his final game. It was the seventh time he had scored 60-plus points and the first time he had achieved the feat since 2009.\n\nWhen the Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 122-104 on 22 January 2006, Bryant scored 81 of his side's points. Only Wilt Chamberlain, with a 100-point game in 1962, has scored more.\n\nBryant's 5,640 points scored in the NBA playoffs is the fourth highest total in NBA history behind James (6,911), Jordan (5,987) and Abdul-Jabbar (5,762).\n\nBryant, who made his debut in the 1996-97 season, scored 33,643 regular season points, putting him fourth on the all-time scoring list behind Abdul-Jabbar (38,387), Karl Malone (36,928) and LeBron James (33,655), who overtook Bryant while playing for the Lakers on Sunday.\n\nHis 48,637 minutes played is the eighth-highest total in the NBA.", "Pictures showing benches being burned were handed to the Edinburgh Evening News by a whistleblower\n\nAn investigation is under way amid claims about 70 memorial benches were burned by Edinburgh council workers.\n\nThe Edinburgh Evening News reports damaged benches were removed from West Princes Street Gardens and held for more than a year at the Inch depot.\n\nSome of those destroyed were dedicated to Victoria Cross holders, it reported.\n\nA council spokeswoman confirmed a probe had been launched and said \"appropriate action will be taken\".\n\nA whistleblower claimed managers told staff to burn the benches - after the memorial plaques had been removed - instead of patching them up, in a bid to save money.\n\nUntil 2018 City of Edinburgh Council was in effect maintaining benches in perpetuity but it decided to end the practice, due to cost, and instead introduce a 20-year maintenance warranty.\n\nThe memorial plaques were removed before the benches were torched\n\nA council spokeswoman said: \"We have a very clear policy in place to decommission benches respectfully when they reach the end of their life.\n\n\"This involves storing the benches and plaques and reaching out to donors to discuss future arrangements and this was correctly followed.\n\n\"Standard practice is to recycle the parts of the benches which can be reused and very regrettably this part of the process was not followed.\n\n\"An investigation is under way to understand why this has happened and appropriate action will be taken.\"\n\nWooden benches cost families £3,925, while a metal bench costs £1,965. Both come with a 20-year warranty.\n\nIf a seat is deemed to be damaged beyond repair, the commemorative plaque is removed and stored until it can be returned to the donor, if they wish.\n\nThe donor is also contacted and offered the opportunity to purchase a new metal bench or a wooden model, if the original was in either Princes Street Gardens, Saughton Park or the City Chambers Quadrangle.\n\nIn the event of the council being unable to contact a donor, the seat is removed and stored for 12 months.\n\nIf the donor does not respond within a year then the bench is decommissioned.\n\nThis usually involves it being broken up so any salvageable parts can be recycled.", "The boy was standing by shops in Northern Avenue when he was shot\n\nPolice investigating the shooting of a 12-year-old boy in South Yorkshire have charged a man with attempted murder.\n\nStephen Dunford was detained after the boy, an \"innocent bystander\", was hit in the leg in the Arbourthorne area of Sheffield, last Sunday.\n\nMr Dunford, of Fellbrigg Road in Sheffield, is due to appear before magistrates in the city later.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is also accused of being in possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nThe boy, who remains in a stable condition in hospital, needed surgery for a wound to his left thigh.\n\nHe was injured when a gun was fired from a moving car, at about 15:45 GMT, South Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe victim was with three friends, aged 13, 15 and 16, when he was injured outside a sandwich shop in Northern Avenue.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Universities in England are to face a \"value for money\" review of how £1.3bn per year of funding might give more support to \"priority\" subjects.\n\nHigher education watchdog the Office for Students (OFS) is understood to be launching the review in the spring.\n\nBut it will not consider tuition fees - with the government set to publish a separate response to calls to cut fees.\n\nUniversities UK warns it will matter \"how much\" funding is left after the review, as well as how it is allocated.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto has promised to tackle what it calls \"low-quality courses\" in university - and the review will examine how funding can be targeted for priority subjects.\n\nWhile most university funding is delivered through tuition fees, the government still provides a significant direct stream of grants.\n\nThis includes subsidies for subjects that are more expensive to teach, such as medicine, science and technology.\n\nThere is also money to improve access to higher education for disadvantaged youngsters.\n\nAt present the funding is widely distributed, to more than 300 higher education providers.\n\nBut the future allocation and focus of the money is to be examined by the OFS review.\n\nThe Russell Group, representing some of the UK's major research universities, says the annual grants represent 13% of funding for undergraduate places.\n\nThe university group has raised concerns about these grants being cut, arguing that funding for many courses is already stretched.\n\nA separate consultation has already been launched on £70m reductions to next year's teaching grant.\n\nBut the OFS review has been backed by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\n\"I am strongly in support of this move to evaluate value for money and to consider the best way to target grant funding to the higher education sector in future,\" said Mr Williamson, in a letter to the OFS earlier this month.\n\nThe education secretary has told the OFS he wants to prioritise support for the government's industrial strategy, which aims to invest in \"skills, industries and infrastructure\".\n\nThere will also be a push for more effective ways to spend money allocated for recruiting disadvantaged students, and support for specialist institutions.\n\nBut Jo Grady, leader of the University and College Union, criticised how value for money was based on an \"obsession with flimsy metrics\" around graduate earnings.\n\n\"What can future employment or earnings potential really tell us about teaching quality?\" she said.\n\nBut what remains unknown is how the OFS review will combine with the government's promised response to Philip Augar's review, which recommended reducing tuition fees from £9,250 to £7,500 per year.\n\nThe review, commissioned by the former prime minister, Theresa May, also called for further education and skills to have a fairer share of funding.\n\nA spokeswoman for Universities UK warned that any changes to the teaching grant or fees could leave a \"funding gap\".\n\n\"The fundamental review will cover 'how' teaching funding will be allocated - what will also matter is 'how much' teaching funding will there be, particularly if the government is minded to make any changes to fees,\" said the spokeswoman.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some, such as this thirsty koala, have been making the most of the wet conditions\n\nHeavy rains and thunderstorms have lashed parts of Australia's east coast, dousing some of its fires but bringing a new threat of flooding to some areas.\n\nThere have been downpours in the states of Victoria, New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, which have all been badly hit by the bushfire crisis.\n\nMajor roads were closed in Queensland and power cuts were reported in parts of NSW as a result of the weather.\n\nBut fire officials said the rain was helping to tackle some of the blazes.\n\nFires have been raging in Australia since September, killing at least 28 people, destroying thousands of homes and scorching millions of acres of land.\n\nNSW reported severe rainfall and storms in several areas, and warned of potential flooding.\n\nNew South Wales' capital Sydney has seen heavy rainfall\n\nFirefighters in the state said they were making the most of the \"benign conditions\" of rain and cooler temperatures to try to tackle the remaining bushfires. Some 75 fires were still burning in the state on Saturday, down from well over 100 a few days ago.\n\n\"Rain continues to fall across a number of firegrounds, however the Far South Coast and along the border are still yet to receive any moisture,\" the Rural Fire Service said on Twitter.\n\nIt also urged people to \"take this time to discuss your bush fire survival plan\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe state of Queensland has had some of the heaviest rainfall Australia has seen in months. Some major roads were closed and residential areas flooded, but no deaths or injuries were reported.\n\n\"Heavy, intense rainfall has eased, but showers and thunderstorms still possible through the weekend. Take care on the roads - if it's flooded, forget it,\" the Bureau of Meteorology in Queensland wrote on Twitter on Saturday.\n\nForecasters in Victoria said thunderstorms were possible across much of the central and eastern state on Saturday. \"Thunderstorms could become severe due to heavy falls across the northeast of the State. Damaging winds and large hail are a slight risk,\" the state's Bureau of Meteorology said.\n\nMajor bushfires continued to rage on Saturday in regions in the south and south-east of the country - including on Kangaroo Island - which have so far missed out on the rain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Runners on Kangaroo Island say it's a good way to deal with the stress of the fires", "Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led Friday prayers in the capital Tehran - the first time he has done so in eight years.\n\nHis country has faced criticism at home and abroad after it admitted shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane by mistake.\n\nThe BBC's Martin Patience said he delivered \"a defiant message designed for domestic consumption\".", "The minister said his speech was a \"rhetorical coincidence\"\n\nBrazil's culture minister has been sacked after using parts of a speech by Nazi Germany's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in a video, sparking outrage.\n\nIn the clip posted on the ministry's Twitter page, Roberto Alvim detailed an award for \"heroic\" and \"national\" art.\n\nLohengrin by Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, played in the background. Earlier, Mr Alvim said the now-deleted video was a \"rhetorical coincidence\".\n\nFar-right President Jair Bolsonaro said the speech had been \"unfortunate\".\n\n\"I reiterate our rejection of totalitarian and genocidal ideologies, such as Nazism and communism, as well as any inference to them. We also express our full and unrestricted support for the Jewish community, of which we're friends and share many common values,\" the president said on Twitter.\n\nIn the six-minute video detailing the National Arts Awards, Mr Alvim said: \"The Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and will be national, will be endowed with great capacity for emotional involvement... deeply linked to the urgent aspirations of our people, or else it will be nothing.\"\n\nParts of it were identical to a speech quoted in the book Joseph Goebbels: A Biography, by German historian Peter Longerich, who has written several works on the Holocaust.\n\n\"The German art of the next decade will be heroic, it will be steely-romantic, it will be factual and completely free of sentimentality, it will be national with great pathos and binding, or it will be nothing.\"\n\nGoebbels led the Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda, designed to brainwash people into obeying the Nazis and idolising leader Adolf Hitler. Its methods included censorship of the press and control of radio broadcasts, as well as control of culture and arts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Secretaria Especial da Cultura This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a post on his Facebook page, Mr Alvim, a theatre director who was appointed to the ministerial post last year, said \"the left was doing a fallacious remote association\" between the two speeches, and that \"there was nothing wrong with his sentence\".\n\n\"The whole speech was based on a nationalistic ideal for the Brazilian art and there was a coincidence with ONE sentence of a speech by Goebbels. I didn't quote him and I'd NEVER do it... But the sentence itself is perfect.\"\n\nLater, in a second post, he said \"the speech had been written from various ideas linked to nationalist art that had been brought by his advisers\". He did not comment on the music that played in the video in any of his posts.\n\nAmong those who called for him to be fired was the Speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress, Rodrigo Maia, who said Mr Alvim had \"gone beyond all limits\" with an \"inacceptable\" video.\n\nThe Brazilian Israelite Confederation said: \"To emulate [Goebbels'] view... is a frightening sign of his vision of culture, which must be combated and contained.\"\n\nIt called for Mr Alvim's immediate removal, adding: \"Brazil, which sent brave soldiers to combat Nazism on European soil, doesn't deserve it.\"\n\nMr Bolsonaro, a former army captain with a conservative social agenda, has frequently accused Brazil's artists and cultural productions including schoolbooks and movies of \"left-wing bias\".", "\"'Twas the festive season to be jolly.\" Now \"'tis the awards season to be angry\".\n\nThis year's Bafta and Oscar nominations have annoyed a lot people for featuring, as they do, a line-up in the main categories (Best Film, Director, Actress, Actor, Supporting Actress and Actor) that has been seen by some to be as about as diverse and textured as a bowl of watery soup.\n\nIt is reasonable to say that the two national film academies have developed a Mr Bean-like capacity for stepping on the most conspicuous banana skins and landing themselves in a heap of stinking opprobrium.\n\nThis time around they've excelled themselves by successfully upsetting both the #OscarsSoWhite and Time's Up camps, which have complained about a men-only directing shortlist, and acting categories that feature almost exclusively white performers.\n\nGreta Gerwig (in the middle), the director of Little Women was notably absent from the all-male line-up\n\nOf the 35 individual nominations in the main award sections (39 if you include the extra four films the American Academy has included in its Best Picture grouping), all but three are identical on both shortlists.\n\nIronically, one of those not doubling-up is the English actress Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) - the only black actor to be recognised on either side of the Atlantic. She received an Oscar nod but was ignored by her home team at Bafta, which only last year picked her out as a \"rising star\".\n\nBritish actress Cynthia Erivo got a Best Actress Oscar nomination as the American abolitionist, Harriet Tubman in Harriet\n\nHave the 6,700 voting Bafta members and the 8,469 at Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences made a total Horlicks of this year's shortlists? Have they overlooked worthy films and talented actors and directors, or have they chosen the best from what was on offer?\n\nThis is a subjective matter, with individual tastes informed by experience and perspective, which is why a diverse membership is important if you want more than the usual suspects cropping up each year. If that happens (and it's worth noting there's been a reasonable range of winners in recent years - unless you happen to be a female director) the whole charade will become intellectually and artistically obsolete.\n\nI'll put my cards on the table.\n\nIMO the 2020 awards season line-up is conservative and cock-eyed. It lauds several films that are standard four-star movies (Joker, The Irishman, Little Women, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood) with others that are no more than three-star (Marriage Story and 1917).\n\nJoker leads the pack with 11 Bafta and Oscar nominations, including one for Joaquin Phoenix for Best Actor\n\nMartin Scorsese (right) has Best Director and Best Film Bafta and Oscar nominations for The Irishman\n\nMy beef with the nominations isn't about gender or race (although both remain a serious issue across the arts in terms of recognition and opportunity), but how mediocre movies have been recognised at the expense of some truly excellent films and performances. I'm not talking about one or two anomalies, there are more misses than an England football team taking part in a penalty shoot-out. (The Golden Globes are not included as they are structured differently and are not voted for by members of a national academy.)\n\nParasite and Jojo Rabbit are worthy contenders, and should be battling it out with The Farewell, Queen & Slim, and Uncut Gems for Best Film.\n\nThe South Korean film Parasite was recognised in the Best Film and director categories, but its leading actors were ignored\n\nJodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya in Melina Matsoukas's debut film Queen & Slim received no nominations\n\nYou might well disagree, others have in the past.\n\nA year or so ago a middle-aged man approached me on the London Underground, paused, stared, and then said cryptically, \"You owe me £16\". \"Why?\" I asked. \"Shape of Water\" he said, and walked off.\n\nAt least he gave it a chance. Which is more than either academy appears to have done for many-a decent movie this year.\n\nThe 2020 awards season feels reminiscent of France in 1863. Then, its official fine art academy rejected so many avant-garde painters from its all-important Paris Salon, that Napoleon III - fearing another uprising - decided to hold an alternative, concurrent exhibition called the Salon des Refusés. It was a popular success (although many came to laugh at the work on show), which would change the course of art forever. It heralded a new age, a new order, and a new way of looking, encapsulated in Édouard Manet's magnificent Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863), which was then derided by an establishment that now accepts it as a masterpiece.\n\nLe Déjeuner sur l'Herbe by Edouard Manet, (1863) was one of the works shown in Napoleon III's Salon des Refusés, in Paris, after being rejected by the jury of the official salon\n\nAnd so, in the spirit of 1863, based on the movies I've seen and taking into account would-be nominees cited as overlooked by other critics (in the spirit of Napoleon III), I offer you an alternative combined Bafta-Oscar shortlist for the main categories in the… Awards des Refusés:\n\nI know which awards show I'd rather watch and whose speeches I'd rather hear.", "Carol Norton had £4,000 stolen from her even though the criminals knew her husband Keith (pictured) was terminally ill\n\n\"I couldn't believe I could lose £4,000 as easy as that. It was terrible\".\n\nCarol Norton is talking about the moment she realised she'd had thousands of pounds stolen from her and her dying husband.\n\nIt is when fraudsters convince often elderly, sometimes vulnerable, victims to take cash out of their bank account and hand it over to criminals posing as couriers or police officers.\n\nKent Police and City of London Police are launching a nationwide awareness campaign about this type of fraud.\n\nIt comes after figures showed £7m was stolen from around 2,000 elderly people last year.\n\nIn Carol's case, she was convinced she'd been called by genuine police officers after being told to hang up and immediately dial 999.\n\nThe thieves kept the line open and in the few seconds between when she hung up and picked up the phone again, the line did not disconnect.\n\nThat tricked Carol into thinking she was speaking to an emergency operator when in fact it was another member of the gang.\n\nThey now had Carol hooked, so was just a case of reeling her in.\n\n\"I had a phone call from someone who said they were the chief fraud officer at my local police station,\" she said.\n\n\"They said someone had tried to use my card details to spend £600 in Birmingham and were worried someone at my local bank was passing on customers' details, so would I be willing to help them in an investigation?\"\n\nCarol felt a sense of public duty to people she thought were the police and agreed.\n\nThe fraudsters instructed her to go to her local bank and withdraw £4,000 in cash.\n\nAbout 20 minutes after she returned home, someone else arrived.\n\n\"I saw somebody walking up the path and I had to give him a password which I'd arranged with someone I thought was a police officer,\" she said.\n\n\"He took the money and as I saw him walking away I saw him get into a taxi and then I thought something was wrong because undercover policemen wouldn't be using a taxi.\n\n\"So I ran next door to my daughter and told her what happened, and straight away she said 'you've been scammed'.\"\n\nCarol and her daughter told the police. A neighbour's CCTV footage meant police had a picture of the fraudster and were able to find and arrest him.\n\nBut in many cases, there is no lucky break.\n\nAnother victim who spoke to Money Box, but did not want to be named, was targeted on six occasions by the same gang.\n\nHe was tricked into visiting his bank three times and travel agents on a further three. In all he had £37,000 stolen.\n\nHis bank, unlike Carol's, decided to refund the money.\n\n\"I felt extremely stupid. I can [now] easily see ways in which I should have realised long before I did that the transaction was not what it seemed,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously I was extremely annoyed, to put it mildly, to lose the money.\n\n\"It's an extremely unpleasant kind of crime, carried out by people who are very clever at what they do, who are taking advantage of vulnerable people.\"\n\nDetective Sergeant Marc Cananur from Kent Police said the criminals behind this type of crime are ruthless and expert.\n\n\"It's simplistic in its methods, equally it's really sophisticated and difficult for the police to catch the people involved,\" he said\n\n\"The exploitation of the vulnerable, from a generation which trusts the police, culminates in the criminals making significant amounts of money.\"\n\nDS Cananur said people need to be aware that the police or their bank will never cold call to verify personal details.\n\n\"When in doubt, terminate that call and use an alternative line to call your local force on 101 or Action Fraud,\" he said.\n\nPeople should always wait five minutes before ringing back too, to make sure the line has completely disconnected.\n\nFraudsters will often try to rush their victims, so they don't have time to think - police advise never to be rushed into doing anything.\n\nThey say people should talk to someone they trust and never follow instructions not to speak to other people. Don't worry about being rude and hanging up, police said.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "The US Space Force posted a picture its new uniform on Twitter\n\nThe US Space Force has defended its newly unveiled camouflage uniforms after they were roundly mocked on social media.\n\nThe force, officially launched by US President Donald Trump last month, posted a picture of the uniform to its Twitter account.\n\nThe uniform in the picture has a woodland camouflage design with badges embroidered on the arm and chest.\n\nReacting to the uniform, many critics had the same question: \"Camo in space?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by United States Space Force This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne Twitter user asked: \"Have they never seen space before?\"\n\nAnother illustrated the difference between space and camouflage, which is designed to help military personnel blend in with their surroundings.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by JRehling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFlanked by US troops, Mr Trump officially launched the force at an army base near Washington in December last year.\n\nMr Trump said the force would help the US military \"deter aggression\" in what he called \"the world's newest war-fighting domain\".\n\nBut the new military service, overseen by the US Air Force, is not intended to put troops into orbit.\n\nRather, it will protect US assets such as the hundreds of satellites used for communication and surveillance.\n\nUS Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said the Space Force would comprise about 16,000 air force and civilian personnel.\n\nThe Trump administration has allocated $40m (£34m) to fund the force in its first year.", "The author of the best-selling Jack Reacher novels is handing over the writing duties to his younger brother.\n\nLee Child, 65, reportedly considered killing off the 6ft 5ins vigilante hero, who is played by actor Tom Cruise in film adaptations.\n\nBut the writer said: \"I love my readers and know they want many, many more Reacher stories in the future.\"\n\nHis brother Andrew Grant, 51, who will write under the pen name Andrew Child, is already an established author.\n\nChild, whose real name is James Grant, said he felt he was \"ageing out\" of being able to produce more of the books.\n\nHe said: \"So I have decided to pass the baton to someone who can.\"\n\nHe described his younger sibling as the \"best tough-guy writer I have read in years.\"\n\n\"We share the same DNA, the same background, the same upbringing,\" he said, adding: \"He's me, fifteen years ago, full of energy and ideas.\"\n\nThere have been two Jack Reacher films starring Tom Cruise\n\nThe Coventry-born author said they would work on the next few novels together \"and then he'll strike out on his own\".\n\nChild started writing after being fired from his job as a presentation director at Granada Television in 1995.\n\nHis first Reacher novel, Killing Floor, was published in 1997.\n\nHe has since sold more than 100 million books and Amazon has announced it is adapting the series for TV.\n\nThe novels, which are set in the United States, have been translated into 40 languages and adapted into two movies starring Cruise.\n\nThe protagonist of the book series is a former major in the US Army military police who roams the US investigating suspicious and dangerous situations.\n\nGrant said he had been \"blown away\" by his elder brother's first Reacher novel.\n\nHe said: \"The more time I spent with him in each new adventure, the more I craved the next. So I know what it's like to wait for the new Reacher novel.\"\n\nHe added: \"I understand what Reacher fans want - because I am one. And I'll do my best to deliver for them.\n\n\"I'll have to. Because my big brother will be watching.\"\n\nThe Sentinel, the 25th Jack Reacher novel, is due to be published on 29 October 2020.", "A report in 2014 found at least 1,400 children were subjected to sexual abuse in Rotherham\n\nA survivor of sexual abuse in Rotherham has told the BBC she feels \"vindicated\" by a watchdog's investigation that found South Yorkshire Police did not do enough to protect her.\n\nIn a report initially leaked to the Times newspaper, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said officers failed to deal with offenders adequately.\n\nThe force has accepted the findings.\n\nThe complainant, who was repeatedly abused as a girl, said she was \"astounded\" when she read the report.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) report also upheld a complaint that the victim's father was told by a senior officer, whom the IOPC has been unable to identify, that the force was aware abuse \"had been going on 30 years and the police could do nothing because of racial tensions\".\n\nA report in 2014 by Prof Alexis Jay found at least 1,400 children were subjected to sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage.\n\n\"For 18 years I have being trying to prove that I'm not a liar, that I didn't make it up,\" said the woman, who was abused over several years from about 2003.\n\n\"I'm really, really disgusted in what were in that [the report] - basically, that victims and their families were sacrificed. Their lives ruined, living with a life sentence because of fear of racial tension.\"\n\nThe watchdog's report, seen by the BBC, upheld the victim's complaints that \"police took insufficient action to protect you from harm\" and that \"police failed to adequately deal with offenders and this failure led you to be exposed to abuse\".\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"South Yorkshire Police accepts the findings of this report and have been working to address the issues it raises since the publication of the Jay Report in 2014.\n\n\"After such a lengthy IOPC investigation it is disappointing that no individual officer has been identified as this is not something we would tolerate in today's force.\"\n\nEarlier this week, a report found that police and social workers investigating child sex exploitation in Manchester knew children were suffering \"the most profound abuse... but did not protect them\".\n\nSteve Noonan from the IOPC said the watchdog had \"completed more than 90% of the inquiries\" as part of its investigation into abuse in Rotherham.\n\n\"At the conclusion of all of our investigations we intend to publish an overarching report covering all of the findings, outcomes and learning from our work on Operation Linden,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Maclennan was once acting leader of the Liberal Democrats\n\nLord Robert Maclennan, former leader of the Social Democrat Party, who also served as joint interim leader of the Liberal Democrats, has died aged 83.\n\nThe peer led the SDP in the late 1980s as it carried out negotiations to merge with the Liberal Party.\n\nLord Maclennan then became joint interim leader of the merged party.\n\nHe served as an MP in the Highlands for 35 years, retiring from his Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross seat in 2001.\n\nActing Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey said: \"Bob was the kind of politician we all strive to be.\n\n\"Considerate, honest and hardworking with an uncanny ability to reach out across the political spectrum to find common ground.\n\n\"He was also a great servant, over many decades, to his Highland constituents. A passionate advocate of devolution, he campaigned tirelessly for the creation of the Scottish parliament and wider constitutional reform.\n\n\"As Liberal Democrats, we also pay him a huge debt of gratitude. It was his determined leadership and bravery that proved critical in the formation of the movement we know today.\"\n\nLord Maclennan led the Social Democrat Party before its merger with the Liberal Party\n\nLord Maclennan, who was a Labour MP before joining the SDP, was parliamentary under-secretary at the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection in the late 1970s.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"Bob was such a kind and generous gentleman who was passionate about social democracy and fairness.\n\n\"He was a dedicated servant for the Caithness and Sutherland and founder of the Liberal Democrats. A close friend and mentor to many in the party he will be missed so much.\"", "Sainsbury's has beaten rivals Morrisons and Asda to be named the cheapest supermarket of 2019, according to a survey by Which?.\n\nThe consumer group tracked the prices of 53 branded items like Andrex toilet roll and Weetabix cereal over the year.\n\nEach month it compared the cost of the basket on supermarket websites - an average of £107.01 at Sainsbury's.\n\nWhich? only tracked stores that sell their full range online, so Lidl and Aldi were not included.\n\nThat stood in contrast to the average monthly cost of buying the goods at Waitrose - the most expensive supermarket according to the survey - where the price came to £117.81, 10% more.\n\nSainsbury's, which was only the third-cheapest supermarket in 2018, stole the title from Morrisons, where the basket would have cost £109.13 last year.\n\nThis year, Morrisons was relegated to third place, behind Asda, where the basket of branded goods carried an average price tag of £107.65.\n\nAt Tesco, Which? recorded a £112.40 average bill when it reached the checkout. Meanwhile, the receipt was for £116.40 at Ocado.\n\n\"Your weekly supermarket shop can have a significant impact on your wallet, and the start of a new year is a good time to look at your household spending to see if there are areas where you can save money,\" said Natalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at Which?.\n\n\"Our analysis shows how important it can be to shop around to ensure you get the best price for your groceries.\"\n\nOther items in the basket included Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ice cream and Mr Kipling's cherry bakewells.", "The pair were first pictured together at the 2017 Invictus Games after months avoiding the cameras\n\nMeghan Markle was the American actress, with a passion for humanitarian and feminist causes. Harry was the rebel prince turned soldier, considered the world's most eligible bachelor.\n\nIn the summer of 2016, the two were brought together on a blind date by a mutual friend in London.\n\n\"Beautiful\" Meghan \"just tripped and fell into my life\", Harry later told the press, and he knew immediately she was \"the one\".\n\nAfter just two dates, the new couple went on holiday together to Botswana, camping out under the stars.\n\nThey fell in love \"so incredibly quickly\", proof the \"stars were aligned\", said Harry.\n\nTo the British press, their romance was catnip. Here was a golden couple who were able to draw vast crowds, speak the language of younger generations and sprinkle royal stardust on any cause.\n\nFor months the couple avoided the cameras and it wasn't until the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto that the the two were first photographed holding hands in public, smiling and laughing.\n\nBut there had been signs early on that the fairytale was some way off a \"happily ever after\".\n\nWhen Harry first confirmed the relationship in late 2016, it came with a stark attack on the media, accusing them of subjecting his girlfriend to \"a wave of abuse and harassment\".\n\nHe spoke of nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers, attempts by reporters and photographers to get into Meghan's home and the \"bombardment\" of nearly every friend and loved one in her life.\n\nIt was a problem that was only going to get worse.\n\nDespite that - or perhaps because of that - the two grew ever closer and in September 2017, Meghan declared to Vanity Fair magazine: \"Personally, I love a great love story.\"\n\nThe two of them had been enjoying a special time together and were really happy and in love, she said.\n\nThe media was now on high alert for the sound of royal wedding bells - and they didn't have to wait long.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle posed for the cameras in the garden at Kensington Palace\n\nIn November 2017, Harry got down on one knee to propose to Meghan as they made roast chicken together at their home in Kensington Palace.\n\nHarry had designed the ring, made with two diamonds which had belonged to his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. At the centre was a diamond from Botswana.\n\nThe couple shared their story in a candid interview with the BBC, and appearing brimming with positivity for the future.\n\nThey revealed Meghan would give up acting to focus on causes close to her heart, working alongside her husband-to-be.\n\n\"I know that she will be unbelievably good at the job part of it,\" said Harry.\n\nThings began to shift as preparations got under way for a May 2018 wedding in Windsor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt quickly became clear that this was a royal couple who wanted to do things differently - their way.\n\nThe wedding, which much of the world tuned in to watch, had all the traditions - a stunning dress, cheeky bridesmaids and heartfelt vows.\n\nBut, as our royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said at the time, the service with its gospel choir, young black cellist and breathtaking address from Bishop Curry, marked it out as a modern, diverse wedding for a modern, diverse couple, which seemed to point to a different future for the Royal Family.\n\nMarried life brought with it new titles - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - and a new home at Windsor in Frogmore Cottage.\n\nDuring a trip to Merseyside, the duchess told well-wishers she was six months pregnant and did not know if it was a boy or a girl\n\nIn October of that year, the couple embarked on their first royal tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, over 16 days. It was there that they shared the news that they were expecting their first baby.\n\nArchie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, seventh in line to throne and the Queen's eighth great-grandchild, was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nTo Harry, who was by Meghan's side at the birth, little Archie was \"absolutely to die for\".\n\nThroughout Meghan's pregnancy, the continual redrawing of battlelines had gone on between the press and the couple.\n\nThis was to be no repeat of the Duchess of Cambridge's birth with the circus of journalists and photographers lying in wait outside hospital doors for days on end.\n\nThe press had been told there would be no information about the birth, beyond that it was happening.\n\nSuch scrutiny and pressure proved to be a struggle for the newly-wed Meghan during her pregnancy and in early motherhood, she later admitted in an ITV documentary filmed during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\n\"Not many people have asked if I'm OK,\" she said, looking lost. She spoke of her vulnerability during pregnancy and the challenges of having a new-born - \"it's a lot\".\n\nAsked if she could cope, she said she had long told Harry it was not enough to just survive - \"that's not the point of life - you have got to thrive\".\n\nArchie was christened in a private ceremony, from which the press and the public were excluded\n\nThere were further signs that the couple were not happy, when the prince opened up about his mental health.\n\nHe said it was under constant management and he lived with the pressures of avoiding a repeat of the past that took his mother, the Princess of Wales, from him.\n\nShe died in a car crash in Paris when Harry was just 12. The driver had been drinking and the car was being followed by paparazzi on motorbikes.\n\n\"Everything that she went through, and what happened to her, is incredibly important every single day, and that is not me being paranoid,\" he said.\n\n\"Part of this job is putting on a brave face but, for me and my wife, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue,\" he added.\n\nIt has also been suggested the scrutiny of Meghan has been greater because of her African-American heritage.\n\nFormer US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she wanted to hug Meghan for the British media's \"racist\" treatment of her, while Harry has highlighted how \"unconscious bias\" can lead to racist behaviour even if people do not consider themselves to be racist.\n\nTheir struggles were shared in an interview while touring southern Africa\n\nThe couple's frustration and anger with some sections of the press has gone from being a matter between the palace and editors into the full glare of the public spotlight.\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters and Harry filed proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nAs such a dramatic year came to a close, the royal couple took an extended break from royal duties over Christmas, taking Archie to the Canadian province of British Columbia.\n\nIt gave them time to mull over their next move and, within days of the start of a new decade, they dropped their bombshell announcement.\n\nNeither Harry's father, Prince Charles, nor his older brother, Prince William, with whom Harry has said he has \"good days\" and \"bad days\", were consulted.\n\nHarry and Meghan were, they told their Instagram followers, planning to leave their royal duties - and the royal purse - behind.\n\nThey hope their next chapter, spent in North America as well as the UK, will see the two of them, together with baby Archie, make their own path to the future.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nA police chief has asked to meet the commander of the RAF base near where Harry Dunn died, to discuss cars being driven on the wrong side of the road.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, was hit by a car driven by Anne Sacoolas, who left for the US claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nVideo has now emerged of a car being driven on the wrong side of the road near RAF Croughton on Friday night.\n\nNorthamptonshire Chief Constable Nick Adderley said these events \"cannot keep happening\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This car was filmed on Friday on the wrong side of the road near the RAF base close to where Harry Dunn died\n\nA police vehicle was also struck by a car on the wrong side of the same road in October.\n\nThe footage that was captured on Friday shows a blue BMW having to brake sharply on a road near the base.\n\nHarry Dunn's family, including his mother Charlotte Charles, have been campaigning for justice\n\nIn a statement, the chief constable said: \"I do not underestimate how much of a concerning incident this was and how much worse it could have been, especially considering the circumstances in which 19-year-old Harry Dunn tragically died.\n\n\"This is compounded by the fact that yesterday, myself and Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold were made aware of another incident in Northampton in which a police vehicle was struck in early October by a vehicle also driving on the wrong side of the road.\n\n\"Thankfully, there were no injuries.\n\n\"I want to be absolutely clear on the fact that these incidents just cannot keep happening.\"\n\nHe said he had requested a meeting with officials from the base to discuss road safety and that he expected it to take place next week.\n\nThe Dunn family spokesman, Radd Seiger, said watching the footage made him feel sick.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\n\"Harry's parents want, more than anything else, for this to never happen to a family again, and I look forward to entering into talks with the authorities, on both sides of the Atlantic, to make sure it never does,\" Mr Seiger said.\n\nMr Dunn died in hospital after a head-on collision with a car on 27 August last year near RAF Croughton.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence officer, is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road and is to be charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nShe claimed diplomatic immunity after the collision, left for her home country and has refused to return to the UK despite an extradition attempt.", "Owen Jones was attacked during a night out to celebrate his birthday\n\nA man launched an unprovoked attack on Guardian columnist Owen Jones because of his sexuality and political views, a judge has ruled.\n\nJames Healy, 40, admitted assaulting Mr Jones by The Lexington pub in Islington last year but claimed it was because the 35-year-old had spilled his drink.\n\nHowever, Mr Jones said he \"absolutely did not\" spill the drink.\n\nAt the end of a two-day hearing, the judge ruled the attack could only have been due to his media profile.\n\nRecorder Judge Anne Studd QC said Healy, of Portsmouth, would have had \"plenty of opportunity to remonstrate\" with Mr Jones in the pub if he had spilled the drink but made no attempt to do so.\n\n\"This was a deliberate and targeted attack on Mr Jones personally,\" she said.\n\nFollowing Healy's arrest, a search of his home revealed a photograph of him performing a Nazi salute.\n\nThe court heard the photo showed him as a teenager but had been printed out in 2015.\n\nHealy, who has admitted affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, faced a trial of issue to determine his motivation for attacking Mr Jones.\n\nIn her ruling Judge Studd said that while it could not be proven Healy had been performing a Nazi salute in the photograph, she was \"sure that [Healy] holds particular beliefs that are normally associated with the far right wing\".\n\n\"I therefore propose to sentence Mr Healy on the basis that this was a wholly unprovoked attack on Mr Jones by reason of his widely published left-wing and LGBTQ beliefs by a man who has demonstrable right-wing sympathies,\" she said.\n\nMr Jones told the court some people see him as a \"hate figure\"\n\nMr Jones suffered cuts and swelling to his back and head and bruises all down his body in the assault which happened on his birthday night out on 17 August.\n\nIn his evidence at Snaresbrook Crown Court, the journalist said: \"I'm an unapologetic socialist, I'm an anti-racist, I'm an anti-fascist and I've consistently used my profile to advocate left-wing causes.\"\n\nMr Jones has almost one million Twitter followers, 125,000 followers on Instagram and 350,000 followers on Facebook.\n\n\"What I use these platforms for is to advocate left-wing ideas and a passion and unwavering commitment to opposing racism, fascism, Islamophobia and homophobia,\" he told the court.\n\n\"Almost every single day I am the subject of an unrelenting campaign [of abuse] by far-right sympathisers.\n\n\"They've come to see me as this hate figure in their ranks.\"\n\nMr Jones said he received death threats on a daily basis, adding: \"It's the combination of being left-wing, gay, anti-fascist - that's everything the far right hate.\"\n\nOwen Jones had been drinking in The Lexington in Islington\n\nDescribing the evening of the attack, Mr Jones said: \"My recollection is that I was saying goodbye to a friend and then I was on the floor completely disoriented.\n\n\"In those 10 seconds, I don't really remember what happened because I was attacked from behind, I had no sense of what was going to happen.\"\n\nWhen asked about the claim he had knocked Mr Healy's drink, he said: \"That absolutely did not happen.\n\n\"If I thought I had accidentally spilled someone's drink, I would apologise profusely, I would say, 'I'm so sorry' and I would insist - whether they liked it or not - on buying them another drink.\"\n\nThe court heard Healy has a string of convictions for football violence and is currently subject to a football banning order for encroaching on a pitch.\n\nHe also allegedly had a football hooligan flag adorned with SS symbols and a collection of pin badges linked to white supremacist groups.\n\nHealy told the court: \"I'm a hoarder. I never throw anything away. I just had them all that time tucked away in the back of a drawer.\n\n\"Bearing in mind they came into my possession in 1998, there was no internet back then, the information now is easily available.\n\n\"As far as I knew, they were connected to football and football violence.\"\n\nA date has yet to be set for Healy's sentencing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One charity says the number of youth suicides in Wales is a \"scandal\"\n\nChildren at risk of suicide in Wales are still \"falling through the gaps\", the children's commissioner has warned.\n\nSally Holland said some young people were being \"bounced around the system\" and wants a more joined-up approach.\n\nIt comes as the youth suicide prevention charity Papyrus opens its first Welsh office - calling youth suicides a \"scandal\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would invest £5m for support in schools.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was everybody's responsibility to \"weave together a safety net\" for young people.\n\nSally Holland says children cannot be told they're \"at the wrong door\" when they reach out for help\n\nMs Holland welcomed the spending commitment but warned: \"There'll be some children who need more support than the school or universal services can offer and that's where we need to make sure they don't get lost in the system.\n\n\"Children tend to often now, with their families, fall down through the gaps so they sit on a waiting list for one service, perhaps get turned away from that, get told to go and try somewhere else, what we might say is being bounced around the system.\n\n\"We need to make sure there's a no-wrong-door approach - if you reach out for help you don't keep being told you're at the wrong door.\"\n\nGemma Bowen described her son Alfie \"as a really talented, artistic young man\"\n\nGemma Bowen's son Alfie was 14 when he took his own life in 2018.\n\n\"He was a gorgeous boy. He was really clever. He had taken up with a load of friends at his new school. He was a really talented, artistic young man, very thoughtful. He was brilliant fun,\" she said.\n\nGemma, from Cardiff, has been raising money for Papyrus since Alfie's death and is pleased the charity has opened a Welsh office.\n\n\"I've been looking out for them to come to Wales and to meet with the team so I think it's brilliant that it's going to shine a spotlight on the problem of young suicide in Wales.\n\n\"The number of young lives that are being lost is an absolute tragedy.\"\n\nDespite not having an office in Wales at the time, Richard Owen from Morganstown in Cardiff said Papyrus were \"very helpful\" when his 17-year-old son Rhod killed himself in 2010.\n\n\"We really welcome the fact that Papyrus has opened an office in Wales. Suicide is preventable and Papyrus do marvellous work in equipping people to deal with people in crisis.\"\n\nIn recent months, Ms Holland has travelled across Wales asking organisations to work together through the regional partnership boards.\n\n\"I'm pleased to say that some regions are rapidly changing how they respond to those kinds of calls for help so that they get support really quickly from the right people early enough, but other areas still have some way to go.\"\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, 38 young people aged 10-24 took their own life in Wales in 2018.\n\nFrom its new Cardiff office Papyrus will provide advice over the phone to young people contemplating suicide, and those who are worried a young person might be at risk.\n\nThe charity will also do outreach work with schools and youth clubs.\n\nPapyrus' head of Wales Kate Heneghan said: \"One is too many, 38 is a scandal.\n\n\"We know that the more outreach work we do within our Welsh communities the more calls we receive to our helpline from young people struggling, and from concerned others too, not knowing where to turn for support.\"\n\nAsked if the Welsh Government was doing enough in this area, Ms Heneghan said: \"We always say it's not enough, more can be done.\"\n\nSuicide prevention is \"everybody's responsibility\" says First Minister Mark Drakeford\n\nSpeaking at the official opening of Papyrus' new office, Mr Drakeford said: \"The only way that we manage to weave together a safety net that is strong enough to reach out to those young people who've reached that desperate point in their lives is by making it everybody's responsibility.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Assembly Members will debate how much support is available to families who have lost a child to suicide.\n\nLynne Neagle, chairwoman the Young People Committee, said: \"It's crucially important, not just because suicide bereavement is a uniquely devastating loss, but also because we know that people bereaved by suicide are much more likely to die by suicide themselves.\"\n\nIf you or anyone you know is having suicidal thoughts, you can contact the Samaritans at 116 123 or jo@samaritans.org; or see their website. The confidential Papyrus line for young people is 0800 0684 141. Or you can visit the BBC Action Line website.\n\nYou can also contact the Community Advice and Listening Line for Wales, which offers a free confidential support service with help to find local mental health services, on 0800 132 737 or text 'Help' to 81066.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reigning champions Saracens will be relegated from rugby union's top flight at the end of this season following persistent salary cap breaches, Premiership Rugby has confirmed.\n\nSarries had already been deducted 35 points for the current Premiership campaign and fined £5.4m for three seasons' spending above the cap.\n\nProof of immediate cap compliance was required to avoid further sanctions.\n\nSaracens \"accept\" the relegation and \"apologise for the mistakes made\".\n\nIn a statement, the club added: \"Our goal is to rebuild confidence and trust. We have accepted the unprecedented measure of automatic relegation from the Premiership at the end of the 2019-2020 season.\n\n\"The board must embody the values of the club, learn from its mistakes so the club can come back stronger.\n\n\"It is in the wider interests of the Premiership and English rugby to take this decisive step, to ensure everybody is able once again to focus on the game of rugby, which we all love.\"\n\nSaracens will finish this season before entering the Championship for 2020-21.\n• None 'The most remarkable scandal in the domestic game'\n• None Saracens Q&A: Why are Saracens being relegated and what happens next?\n• None Stars can still play for England despite relegation\n\n\"Premiership Rugby is prepared to take strong action to enforce the regulations governing fair competition between our clubs,\" chief executive Darren Childs said.\n\n\"At the conclusion of dialogue with Saracens about their compliance with the Salary Cap Regulations, it has been decided that Saracens will be relegated at the end of this season.\n\n\"At the same time as enforcing the existing regulations, we want to ensure a level playing field for all clubs in the future, which is why we have asked Lord Myners to carry out an independently-led review of the salary cap.\"\n\nIn the past five years Saracens have dominated both domestically and in Europe, winning four Premiership titles and three European crowns.\n\nThis decision also means that should the club successfully retain its European Champions Cup crown, they would not be permitted to defend the title next season.\n\nTheir cup campaign continues on Sunday, when they welcome Pool Four leaders Racing 92 to Allianz Park, hoping to better Munster's result and qualify for the knockout phase.\n\nNeil Golding, who took over from Nigel Wray as Saracens chairman earlier this month, said: \"I acknowledge the club has made errors in the past and we unreservedly apologise for those mistakes.\n\n\"I and the rest of the board are committed to overseeing stringent new governance measures to ensure regulatory compliance going forward.\"\n\nPremiership Rugby introduced the salary cap in 1999 to ensure the financial viability of all clubs and the competition.\n\n'They had two choices - they took relegation'\n\nAlthough Saracens' relegation is the punishment some clubs were seeking, there is still a sense of dissatisfaction with the outcome among their fiercest critics.\n\nExeter Chiefs were beaten by Sarries two years in succession in the Premiership's showpiece final, and their chief executive Tony Rowe is still bitter about how long it has taken the game's authorities to take firm action.\n\n\"They've taken relegation,\" Rowe told BBC Radio Devon following the news. \"Let's be very honest about this before people have sympathy with Saracens.\n\n\"They had two choices: they could either open up their books so that Premiership Rugby could do a forensic audit of exactly what has gone on, or they could take relegation. So it was their choice not to open up their books.\n\n\"Premiership Rugby - all the chairmen - we just want to move on. It was their opportunity to open up everything to the salary cap people, or take relegation. They have decided to take relegation.\"\n\nHe added: \"We just want to move on. They have cheated. And I'm just a bit upset it has taken so long to do this. At the moment they are still picking their team each week largely from the squad they had last year which is still in breach of the salary cap. They have been asked by the rest of the Premiership clubs to reduce that (the squad) back as well.\n\n\"Everybody has had their suspicions for a long time. Five years ago they were hauled over the coals for similar offences. We just want a level playing field. Every club just wants the same opportunity and chances and let's hope we get back to that.\"\n\nAsked whether Saracens should be allowed to keep their titles, he replied: \"I'm not sure about that. There is still some more to come out and I'm not privy to talk about that at the moment.\"\n\nThe move calls into question the futures of the club's international stars, such as England players Owen Farrell, Mako Vunipola and Maro Itoje, given the need to trim the wage bill and the fact the club will no longer be competing in elite competition, both domestically and continentally.\n\nWhile the Rugby Football Union have confirmed that players operating in the Championship will be eligible for England duty, financial constraints could make it difficult for the club to retain the services of their elite personnel.\n\nOne issue the players themselves may find is that potential suitors among other clubs have already put much of their recruitment for next season in place and already spent a large extent of their cap.\n\nThe other concern is that a move to France's Top 14, a regular destination for top-level southern hemisphere talent and rugby league converts from the Australasian National Rugby League, may be a potentially lucrative option.\n\nSuch a move would guarantee elite-level competition but would also rule out international representative rugby as the RFU will only select home-based talent.\n\nThus far, Scarlets-bound full-back Liam Williams is the only confirmed departure from the club, and the Wales international was due to end his contract at Saracens at the end of the season in any event.\n\nThis is an extraordinary story - the biggest in English club rugby history - as the Saracens dynasty dramatically crumbles.\n\nWho knows what would have happened if the club had taken a different approach back in November, when they met the initial punishment with indignation rather than contrition - a stance that infuriated their rivals.\n\nBut with the club still breaching the cap in January, Saracens and Premiership Rugby have come to what appears to be a negotiated settlement, with the club accepting relegation.\n\nHowever, while there is finally confirmation of their fate, the questions still come thick and fast: namely, what on earth happens to this star-studded squad between now and next season?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nThe five Labour MPs standing for leader have said party divisions stand in the way of winning an election.\n\nIn the first hustings, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Emily Thornberry, Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips made their pitches to the membership.\n\nSir Keir said \"we've had far too much division\", while Ms Phillips said the \"name-calling has been horrendous\".\n\nParty members in Liverpool questioned them on issues from Brexit to anti-Semitism.\n\nIt was the first in a series of events across the country before Jeremy Corbyn's successor is elected on 4 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The five candidates in the race for the Labour leadership set out how they would take on Boris Johnson.\n\nDeputy leader candidates Rosena Allin-Khan, Dawn Butler, Richard Burgon, Ian Murray and Angela Rayner are also answering questions in a separate hustings.\n\nThe five leadership candidates all acknowledged that Labour had suffered from division and in-fighting.\n\n\"We have to be honest with ourselves that over the last four years we haven't been united as a party,\" said Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\nSir Keir said that the unity of the party \"has to be modelled from the top\". \"Don't trash the last Labour government, don't trash the last four years,\" he said.\n\nAlthough all the candidates criticised the party's record on anti-Semitism, Ms Phillips accused some others of \"keeping quiet\" on the issue.\n\n\"As somebody who was in the room, struggling for an independent system - at lots and lots of meetings - I have to say I don't remember some of the people here being in that particular room or being in those particular fights,\" she said.\n\nMs Nandy said a \"collective failure of leadership at the top of the party has let us all down\", while Mrs Long-Bailey, a Jeremy Corbyn ally, said: \"We can never let that level of mistrust happen again.\"\n\nMs Thornberry said Labour \"must be critical of a far-right government of Israel\" but said that blaming Jews is \"where racism begins\".\n\nCandidates were asked how they would bring the party and the country together over Brexit.\n\nWarning of the threat of no trade deal with the EU at the end of the transition period this year, Ms Thornberry said the party needs \"someone in this fight who has been on the right side all along\".\n\nMs Nandy said Labour has allowed the Tories to divide people, pitting the young against the old and cities against towns, as they \"airbrushed out the nuance\".\n\nShe called for the Labour HQ to be moved out of London, as a \"powerful symbol\" of its commitment to empower regional communities.\n\nSir Keir urged the party to let go of the Leave and Remain labels and \"focus on the future\", while Ms Long-Bailey said the country needed a \"democratic revolution\" because voters disliked the centralisation of power in Westminster as much as Brussels.\n\nMs Phillips said the party needed to \"start talking to people's hearts and talking to people in a language people hear and receive, because that is what Boris Johnson does\".\n\nFind out more about the candidates, including their early life, time before Parliament, record as an MP, and leadership pitch:\n\nThe hunt for a new Labour leader was triggered when Mr Corbyn stepped down following the party's fourth general election defeat in a row.\n\nIn order to make the final ballot, each of the Labour leadership hopefuls must secure the backing of unions and local parties.\n\nThe five contenders need the support of 5% of local parties or at least three affiliates - two must be unions - by 14 February to make the final ballot.\n\nMembers of the public who join the party or become affiliated supporters before 20 January will be eligible to vote in the contest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What matters to members in this leadership election?\n\nA YouGov poll of 1,005 Labour members for the Times on Friday suggested Ms Thornberry would go out in the first round of voting with just 3%, with Ms Nandy knocked out in the second round and Ms Phillips in the third, with most of her second preference votes going to Sir Keir.\n\nThe poll - which only includes full Labour members, and not others who are entitled to vote - indicates Sir Keir would beat Mrs Long-Bailey in the final round by 63% to 37%, once the other candidates have been eliminated.\n\nIt suggests Angela Rayner is on course to win the deputy leadership election in the first round with 57%.", "In the great chess game that is world trade, the pieces are shifting slowly around the board. Only in this game there are three major players not two: the US, China and the European Union.\n\nWe've now had a chance to see the first moves from new EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan after his appearance at an event in Washington. And he's choosing a new way to play the game.\n\nWhereas here in the UK, the government treads delicately when dealing with the nations it wants to strike trade deals with, Mr Hogan was rather more blunt, talking about the \"bluffing\", \"sabre-rattling\" and \"short term thinking\" of the Trump administration.\n\nMr Hogan reflected sceptically on whether yesterday's China-US partial deal had achieved much, and also suggested that the EU would examine that deal for compliance with global trade rules.\n\nThe US administration has threatened to withdraw security cooperation from countries that use 5G equipment from the Chinese firm Huawei. Mr Hogan said: \"I think it's a bit of sabre rattling. At the end of the day we can call their bluff on that one\".\n\nAnd yet at the same time, he has joined forces with the US and Japan to tackle the \"threat\" of China's use of industrial subsidies.\n\nThere are other emerging fronts in the US-EU battle - on tech taxes, and on the environment and carbon taxes.\n\nThe UK is about to join the players at the table in its own right, stepping in at a time of tumult, and working out how closely it wants to sit by the EU.\n\nThe EU meanwhile has other priorities on the world stage. That is one reason why Mr Hogan dismissed Boris Johnson's self-imposed end of 2020 deadline for a post-Brexit trade deal as \"just not possible\" describing it as \"brinkmanship\".\n\nMore than that, he specifically indicated that if this was the approach the UK wanted to take, then only a subset of the agreed Brexit political declaration would be up for detailed discussion, and that agreement on that would be needed by 30 June.\n\nThis suggests that the EU may be planning to \"prioritise\" - ie not follow the mandate from the EU27 for UK-EU talks to reflect the UK's timetable - and will not talk about the full 36-page political agreement.\n\nThe UK now has to choose its strategy: on whether to pursue fully parallel talks with the US, whether to publish a detailed negotiating mandate for such talks, and how to assert itself alongside Japan at a World Trade Organisation dominated by US-EU-China. That is all still to be fleshed out.\n\nNo one seems entirely sure if the Department for International Trade will even continue to exist as the government contemplates restructuring Whitehall. There are many fundamental decisions to be made.\n\nBut when it comes to sizing up the UK's opponents across the table, the EU is making one thing clear: it can talk as tough as Trump.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Danny Butcher's family said he was reassured that after the course he would soon make enough money to pay off his debts\n\nA soldier killed himself after paying £13,000 for training with a property company that promises to help people become \"financially free\".\n\nThe family of army reservist Danny Butcher, 37, said he never made the money he thought he would.\n\nDozens of people want refunds from Property Investors, which has been described as operating like a \"cult\".\n\nThe company, run by former illusionist Samuel Leeds, said: \"People should only purchase courses they can afford.\"\n\nMr Butcher's widow Charlotte has visited his grave almost every day since he died in October\n\nMr Butcher, from Doncaster, had spoken about his mental health in the past and his family said he had existing debt before he took on loans and credit card debt to pay Property Investors.\n\nHis family said he had been led to believe he would make enough money from property deals and rental income to replace a wage or salary.\n\nMr Butcher's widow Charlotte, 32, said: \"I think that he felt that he'd let everyone down, that he'd messed everything up and that there was no way out of it.\n\n\"All he wanted was his own chance at making something of himself for me and his son, he saw this as his opportunity.\n\n\"Obviously taking out all of the loans, he put himself on the line, but it was a bit like 'yeah it's scary but without risk there's no reward'.\n\n\"He genuinely thought this was his chance because of how easy they made it all sound.\"\n\nSamuel Leeds said at the time of Mr Butcher's death he was \"heartbroken\" it had happened\n\nProperty Investors puts on free two-day crash courses, offering people the option to sign up to a training academy where they will learn how to become \"financially free\" by investing in property.\n\nThe company described Mr Leeds as having \"found his own success\" after attending training courses, with his wealth coming \"primarily from his property investment activity\".\n\nMr Leeds posts videos on YouTube nearly every day promoting his methods. In one he joked that he would punch people in the throat unless they subscribed to his YouTube channel.\n\nIn one clip he promises to work one-on-one with his customers, to provide \"a custom, tailored, bespoke plan\" and \"hold your hand, make it happen\".\n\nMr Butcher attended a free course in March with his brother-in-law Glyn Jones.\n\nGlyn Jones, Mr Butcher's brother-in-law, said he felt people on the crash course were \"pressurised\" into signing up for further training\n\nMr Jones said: \"It felt like brainwashing, like a religious cult kind of thing but done on a much smaller scale.\n\n\"What he's offering never appears, I don't see how it can.\"\n\nAccording to his wife, Mr Butcher's \"gut instinct\" told him not to sign up for the academy and he held out for two days before changing his mind, swayed by the promise of exclusive mentorship and one-to-one training.\n\nMr Butcher's family said he did not get the support he had been promised.\n\nThe company said academy members had access to weekly video calls and monthly webinars with specialist property coaches.\n\nAfter failing to make any money, Danny Butcher took his own life in October.\n\nAt the time, Mr Leeds made a public statement on Facebook: \"I am deeply saddened to hear that Danny Butcher took his own life.\n\n\"This tragic news comes as a great shock to many and I am heartbroken that this has happened. My thoughts and prayers are with Danny's family at this time.\"\n\nMr Butcher took his own life just 11 weeks after his wedding\n\nThe BBC has become aware of dozens of people who have said they signed up for Property Investors' training and now wanted their money back.\n\nAt least 78 people are trying to claim back more than £200,000 between them.\n\nDianne Granville got a refund from Property Investors in 2018 and has been helping a group of people to try to get their money back.\n\nShe said: \"There are very vulnerable people out there and he's preying on them.\n\n\"I'm lucky. I realised what was happening to me and I dealt with it.\"\n\nIn a statement, the company said it was \"proud to run the largest property investment training business in the UK\".\n\n\"We are humbled to have the opportunity to help thousands of people on their journey towards financial freedom through property investments every year,\" the statement said.\n\nAndrew Whyte said all he had to show for his money was a folder full of documents\n\nArmy veteran Andrew Whyte, who served in the Falklands and Afghanistan, said he intended to pursue the company through the small claims court.\n\nHe said he handed over his armed forces pension payout to cover the cost of the training.\n\nMr Whyte said: \"I ended up having to skip meals or have Pot Noodle sandwiches, stuff like that, the cheapest tins and cheapest noodles, just to have food and to eat.\n\n\"If I was living on my own I'd probably be on the streets by now. I'd be surviving off the street if I hadn't had the support from friends and family members.\"\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"While we are not lenders or financial advisors, our stated view is that people should only purchase courses that they can afford.\"\n\nIt said there was no obligation for people who attended the crash course to sign up for further paid training, while there was a two-stage application process for the training academy and a 14-day cooling-off period during which people could request a refund.\n\nThe company said any requests for refunds outside the cooling-off period would be considered on a case by case basis but it was not \"fair or right\" for people to attend courses and then \"seek not to pay for them with no legitimate reason\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the training academy provides the same information freely available on Mr Leeds's YouTube channel\n\nA BBC reporter went undercover on one of Property Investors' crash courses and filmed a speaker telling people it was possible to make up to £50,000 a month from something called \"deal sourcing\".\n\nThis involved finding houses for sale on property websites such as Rightmove and working out how much rental income they could generate before selling this information to investors.\n\nOn the first day of the course, which lasted from 09:00 to 23:00, the reporter was invited to apply for the training academy.\n\nDuring a selection interview the next day, she was encouraged to sign up despite saying she was unable to afford it and would have to increase her credit card limit to cover the costs.\n\nProperty expert Bruce Collinson said: \"There's nothing easy about property investing, you get out of it what you put in to it.\n\n\"This is a scheme, an investment, a gamble, where you could lose the lot and if you haven't got anything to start with then where are you going to end up? Bankrupt, repossessed, if you have property, or worse.\"\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"Investing in property is not for everyone. We do not advise those who cannot fully commit to the time and effort it takes to participate.\"\n\nMr Butcher's dad Alan said his son \"totally believed\" what he had been told by Property Investors\n\nThere is currently no regulation of the property training industry in the UK, anyone can set themselves up as a trainer and no-one verifies whether they are what they say they are, or if they provide the training they promise.\n\nThis is something Mr Butcher's family said they wanted to see changed.\n\nHis father Alan said: \"The only thing I can do for Danny is to try and make people aware so they don't end up wasting their money and putting themselves in a bad place. If it does that, what's a meaningless loss of life won't be quite so meaningless.\"\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"We think that debate about standards and regulation in our sector is a good thing and it is something that we look forward to actively leading as it develops.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this story, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline\n\nInside Out (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) investigates the company charging thousands for training courses on BBC One at 19:30 GMT on Monday 20 January and can be seen afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rebecca Long-Bailey and Emily Thornberry have launched their leadership campaigns\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey has promised to \"shake up\" how government works and put power into the hands of voters if elected Labour leader.\n\nLaunching her campaign in Manchester, she said the last few years showed many people \"instinctively\" thought there was something wrong with laws being drafted by an \"elite\" in Brussels.\n\nShe added that Westminster \"didn't feel much closer\".\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary highlighted her experience challenging Boris Johnson, in a speech in her home town of Guildford in Surrey.\n\nThe first Labour hustings event will take place in Liverpool on Saturday.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey and Ms Thornberry will be joined at the debate by fellow candidates Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips and Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nLabour members will also be able to put questions to the contenders to become Labour's deputy leader - Rosena Allin-Khan, Dawn Butler, Richard Burgon, Ian Murray and Angela Rayner.\n\nIt comes as a YouGov poll of 1,005 Labour members for The Times suggests Sir Keir has extended his lead over Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\nAt her leadership campaign launch at Manchester's Science and Industry Museum, Mrs Long-Bailey said the British state needed \"a seismic shock, to prise it open at all levels to the people\".\n\n\"Where I grew up, Westminster, even London, felt like a million miles away,\" she said.\n\n\"The story of the last few years is that many people feel there is something wrong with their laws being drafted hundreds of miles away by a distant and largely unaccountable bureaucratic elite in Brussels.\n\n\"But I'll be honest, Westminster didn't feel much closer, and it still doesn't today.\"\n\nShe vowed to end the \"gentlemen's club of politics\" by moving power from London to local levels and from chief executives to workers.\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey pledged to replace the House of Lords with an elected senate if elected Labour leader\n\nThe shadow business secretary said she wanted to \"shake up the way government works\", adding: \"We will put power back where it belongs - in your hands.\"\n\nShe pledged to \"sweep away the House of Lords\" and replace it with an elected senate outside of London.\n\n\"My kind of socialism is the kind we all rise together,\" she told Labour members and supporters.\n\n\"My kind of socialism is a Britain in which everyone is free to dream, free to climb and free to succeed\".\n\nShe said Labour's election defeat was in part down to voters not trusting the party - adding Labour had a lot of work to do to win trust back.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey said the \"most upsetting thing\" for many Labour members has been \"what has happened with the anti-Semitism crisis within our party\".\n\nShe said the party \"didn't tackle it properly\" or \"act quickly enough\" and despite \"vast advances\" in procedure in dealing with allegations, \"we still haven't won back the trust of Jewish members\".\n\n\"I won't ever let that happen again,\" she said. \"We have got to take robust action.\"\n\nOn Thursday, she received a boost on when she secured the support of the grassroots organisation Momentum.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs Long-Bailey recently said she was opposed to abortion after 24 weeks on the grounds of disability, adding that this was a personal view rather than a policy position.\n\nHer spokesman said she \"unequivocally supports a woman's right to choose\".\n\nLaunching her campaign, near the Bellfields estate where she grew up, Ms Thornberry warned that Labour faces \"a long, tough road back to power after the painful and crushing defeat we suffered last month\" in the general election.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry launched her leadership campaign in Guildford\n\n\"We're going to need someone tough, someone resilient, someone experienced and battle-hardened,\" the shadow foreign secretary said.\n\nMs Thornberry, who scraped through the first stage of the race, securing the required amount of support from MPs minutes before the deadline, said she had the \"skills and the values\" to be leader and emphasised her experience in the shadow cabinet.\n\nShe drew attention to her role \"on the front line in the fights against climate change, universal credit, and anti-abortion laws in Northern Ireland\".\n\nMs Thornberry also said that if she ever lost the confidence of colleagues or thought she was going to lose an election she would stand down.\n\n\"I will always put the Labour Party first,\" the MP for Islington South and Finsbury said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nThe latest YouGov poll showed that Ms Thornberry would go out in the first round of voting with just 3%, with Ms Nandy knocked out in the second round and Ms Phillips in the third, with most of her second preference votes going to Sir Keir.\n\nReacting to the poll, Ms Thornberry said it would be a \"long campaign\" and that it would be \"short-sighted\" to stop now.\n\nShe said she had \"never taken the easy way\" and that \"people can work out who is the best leader at the hustings\".\n\nThe poll indicates Sir Keir would beat Mrs Long-Bailey in the final round by 63% to 37%, once the other candidates have been eliminated.\n\nA YouGov poll last month suggested the shadow Brexit secretary was on 61%, compared with Mrs Long-Bailey on 39%.\n\nThe poll suggests Angela Rayner is on course to win the deputy leadership election in the first round with 57%.\n\nIt is a poll of full Labour members only, and does not include registered and affiliated Labour supporters, who are also entitled to cast a ballot.\n\nMeanwhile, speaking on the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast, Ms Nandy said she was a \"sceptic\" about the monarchy.\n\nShe went on to say she believed patriotism was \"a profoundly left-wing value... it is about being part of something bigger than yourself\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Delta Airlines flight returned to the airport shortly after takeoff\n\nFour teachers are suing Delta Air Lines after one of its aircraft dumped fuel over schools as it made an emergency landing.\n\nThe flight was forced to return to Los Angeles International Airport because of engine problems.\n\nDelta confirmed the plane had dumped the fuel to reduce its landing weight. Nearly 60 people were treated at six local schools, many of them children.\n\nThe four teachers are now seeking unspecified damages over the incident.\n\n\"The plaintiffs could feel the fuel on their clothes, their flesh, their eyes and their skin,\" a lawyer for the teachers said, adding that the fuel \"penetrated their mouths and noses as well, producing a lasting and severe irritation\".\n\nThe teachers filed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday. According to the Los Angeles Times, the suit says jet fuel is dangerous to humans and cites the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.\n\nDelta has yet to comment on the lawsuit.\n\nThe flight was bound for Shanghai. It landed safely shortly after the fuel dump, with all 167 passengers and crew unharmed.\n\nDelta has already been cited by the South Coast Air Quality Management District for a violation. The agency characterised the fuel dump as a public nuisance.\n\nIt comes after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) launched an investigation into the incident immediately after Tuesday's emergency landing.\n\nAviation rules say that planes can dump fuel in emergency landings, but only over designated areas and at a high altitude.\n\nOn Wednesday, the FAA said the crew had released the fuel without telling air traffic control.\n\nA transcript of radio transmissions made public after the incident revealed that the pilot had initially told controllers there was no need to dump, before later releasing the fuel.", "Officers have been at the flats since 05:55 GMT\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who fell to her death from a block of flats.\n\nThe woman fell from the seventh floor of Clarendon House in Clarendon Road, Hove, at about 05:55 GMT.\n\nA 52-year-old man, said by police to have known the victim, was arrested.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has been notified, as Sussex Police had had recent contact with the man and woman.\n\nThe force has notified the Independent Office for Police Conduct\n\nThe victim was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nPolice said the suspect and victim were known to each other\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Khagendra Thapa Magar was named the shortest living man who could walk\n\nThe world's shortest man who could walk, as verified by Guinness World Records (GWR), has died at a hospital in Nepal at the age of 27.\n\nHis brother told AFP news agency he died on Friday following a battle with pneumonia.\n\nGWR paid tribute to Mr Magar, saying he \"didn't let his small size stop him from getting the most out of life\".\n\nMr Magar was recognised as the world's smallest man on his 18th birthday in 2010, at a ceremony attended by local and international dignitaries.\n\n\"I don't consider myself to be a small man. I'm a big man. I hope that having this title enables me to prove it and get a proper house for me and my family,\" he said at the time.\n\nGWR has two categories for people of short stature - mobile and non-mobile. Filipino Junrey Balawing, who is unable to walk or stand unaided, is the world's shortest non-mobile man, measuring 59.93cm.\n\nMr Magar lost his title as the world's shortest mobile man to fellow Nepalese national Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who measured 54.6cm. However, he regained it following Mr Dangi's death in 2015.\n\nMr Magar was first spotted by a travelling salesman when he was 14 and taken to local fairs, where children paid to be photographed next to him.\n\nAfter gaining recognition from GWR in 2010, he travelled around the world and made television appearances in Europe and the US. He also became an official face of Nepal's tourism campaign.\n\nCraig Glenday, GWR's editor-in-chief, said he was \"terribly sad\" to hear the news of Mr Magar's death.\n\n\"His bright smile was so infectious that he melted the hearts of anyone who met him,\" he said.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by guinnessworldrecords This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe record for the shortest living mobile man is now held by Edward Hernandez of Colombia, who measures 70.21cm.", "Canada has offered compensation to help with the immediate costs for families of some victims of Flight PS752\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada will compensate families of the victims of the Ukraine Airlines crash.\n\nThe funds are designed to assist families of victims who are Canadians citizens or permanent residents in covering related costs such as travel.\n\nMr Trudeau said families would receive C$25,000 ($19,200; £14,600) per victim.\n\nFifty-seven Canadian nationals were on the plane when it was hit by an Iranian air defence missile earlier this month.\n\n\"This is a unique and unprecedented situation because of the international sanctions place in Iran and the difficulties that that imposes on these families,\" Mr Trudeau said on Friday.\n\n\"This is the first step. These families have lost a loved one in extraordinary circumstances and this grieving is even more difficult as a result,\" he said.\n\nFamilies are facing immediate financial pressures as they sort out the necessary funeral arrangements and travel in the wake of the tragedy, said Mr Trudeau. \"These families need help now,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister said Canada still expected Iran to financially compensate the victims' families for their loss.\n\nThe Ukraine International Airlines flight crashed shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran on 8 January, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. Iran initially denied it was involved, but later admitted the plane was brought down by a missile fired in error.\n\nMr Trudeau said Iran has been asked to send the \"black box\" flight and cockpit data recorders from a crashed jet to France, saying it was one of the few countries with the ability to quickly analyse the badly damaged devices.\n\nHe also said 20 families of Canadian victims had requested the repatriation of remains and that the first of those remains are expected to be returned to Canada in the coming days.\n\nAlso on Friday, Canada's Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne met with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Oman to press Mr Zarif on full access for officials from Canada and other affected nation to assist in the investigation into the passenger plane crash.\n\nOn Thursday, ministers from five nations which lost citizens on the flight demanded full co-operation from Iran in a transparent international inquiry into the crash. The foreign ministers of Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine also said Iran must pay compensation.\n\nThey agreed on five key demands to Iran, including a \"thorough, independent and transparent international investigation\" and compensation to the victims' families.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recovered artwork was put on display by police\n\nA painting discovered by chance last month is a Gustav Klimt original that was stolen nearly 23 years ago, Italian authorities have confirmed.\n\nThe painting, Portrait of a Lady, was taken from a gallery in the northern city of Piacenza in 1997.\n\nIt was thought to have disappeared for good until gardeners clearing away ivy found it concealed in an external wall at the same gallery.\n\nThe Klimt has an estimated value of at least €60m ($66m; £51m).\n\nWhy the painting was left in the wall at the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art is still a mystery.\n\n\"It is with no small emotion that I can tell you the work is authentic,\" said Prosecutor Ornella Chicca.\n\nShe said further tests would clarify whether the painting had been inside the wall space ever since it was stolen, or if it was placed there later.\n\nAfter those tests were complete the artwork would go back on display, Ms Chicca added.\n\nThe painting was found inside this recess in a wall at the gallery\n\nTo determine its authenticity, experts studied the painting under infrared and ultraviolet light and compared the images to those taken during tests in 1996.\n\n\"The correspondence between the images allowed us to determine that it's definitely the original painting,\" art expert Guido Cauzzi said.\n\nHe said the condition of the work was \"relatively good\", adding: \"It's gone through a few ordeals but only needs some routine care, nothing particularly complicated.\"\n\nPortrait of a Lady was painted in 1916-17 by Viennese artist Gustav Klimt towards the end of his life.\n\nIt was bought by Giuseppe Ricci Oddi in 1925 and kept in the gallery until it was stolen on 22 February 1997 amid preparations for a special exhibition.\n\nThe frame of the painting was discarded on the roof of the building to make it appear that thieves had broken in through the skylight. That was not the case as the skylight was too small for the painting to fit through.\n\nIn December, gardeners clearing ivy from a wall stumbled on a metal panel. Behind it lay a recess, within which was a black bag containing the missing painting.\n\nThe ivy covering the space had not been cut back for almost a decade, officials said.\n\nShortly before it was stolen, art student Claudia Maga revealed that it had been painted over another Klimt painting, Portrait of a Young Lady, which had not been seen since 1912.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe managed to prove her theory by persuading the Piacenza gallery's former director to have it X-rayed.\n\nThe original painting was of a young girl from Vienna who had died. Klimt had painted over the portrait when the girl died suddenly, to forget the pain of her death.", "Artwork: Powerful thrusters should push the Dragon capsule clear of the rocket\n\nAmerica aims to take another step on Sunday towards being able to send its own astronauts into orbit again.\n\nCalifornia's SpaceX company will practise what to do in the event that one of its rockets carrying a human crew fails shortly after lift-off.\n\nIf the test is completed successfully, it should clear the way for regular astronaut launches later this year.\n\nThe US has not launched from its own soil since the retirement of the space shuttles nine years ago.\n\nIt has been riding the Russian Soyuz system instead.\n\nThe US space agency (Nasa) has contracted both SpaceX and the aerospace giant Boeing to come up with home-grown alternatives.\n\nSpaceX - with its Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule - is now in the final stages of development.\n\nSunday's in-flight abort manoeuvre is really the last major obstacle the firm faces before receiving the full certification it needs to begin operational astronaut taxi services.\n\nThe Dragon capsule is fitted with four main parachutes to slow its return to Earth\n\nThe test, to be conducted at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, will see a Falcon 9 rocket climb out over the Atlantic and accelerate to supersonic speeds.\n\nThen, at a little over 80 seconds into the flight when the vehicle is travelling at almost twice the speed of sound, the engines will shut off.\n\nSoftware will trigger the Dragon capsule riding atop the Falcon to fire its powerful SuperDraco thrusters to push the vessel to a safe distance.\n\nEngineers expect the Dragon to continue on upwards, reaching an altitude of roughly 40km (25 miles) before dropping its lower service module structure, or trunk, and beginning the release of descent parachutes.\n\nThese should bring the capsule to a gentle splashdown roughly 30km offshore of Cape Canaveral, where a rescue team will be waiting to recover it.\n\nLift-off to touching the water should take about 10 minutes.\n\nAs for the rocket - it will be destroyed in the course of the demonstration.\n\n\"We expect that the Falcon will start to break up,\" said Benji Reed, director of crew mission management at SpaceX.\n\n\"Both stages (of the Falcon) are loaded with fuel because we want to have the right mass and do all the tests the right way. So with both stages loaded with fuel, we do expect there'll probably be some amount of ignition. Flame. We'll see something.\"\n\nSpaceX has developed its rocket and capsule solution under Nasa's Commercial Crew Program.\n\nKathy Lueders, who manages this project, said the in-flight abort promised an exciting spectacle - the kind of \"exciting\" that her agency would prefer never to see.\n\n\"But this is a big test for us,\" she told reporters. \"This is a test of a system that's supposed to protect our crews... a very important step in us making progress towards crew transportation to the International Space Station (ISS).\"\n\nNo people will be aboard for this test; only a couple of anthropomorphic test devices (\"dummies\") to record on-board conditions. But if the demonstration passes off without incident, SpaceX ought to be able to move to crewed operations fairly quickly.\n\nThe company has already demonstrated an abort manoeuvre straight off the launch pad and has even conducted an end-to-end practice run to the International Space Station in which a dummy took the place of real people.\n\nLast year, Nasa selected space shuttle veterans Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken as the astronauts it wants to go on the first SpaceX crewed flight.\n\nDoug Hurley (l) and Bob Behnken are waiting to make the first crewed flight in Dragon\n\nThe importance of having an effective abort capability was underlined by the 2018 experience of Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and Nasa flight engineer Nick Hague.\n\nThey were in the midst of a routine journey to the ISS when their Soyuz rocket damaged itself two minutes into the ascent. The men only escaped death because their capsule also had an emergency system to pull the crew compartment to safety.\n\nIt will be recalled that the Challenger space shuttle in 1986 had no such escape capability and all seven crew members died when the orbiter began to break up 72 seconds into its mission.\n\nBoth SpaceX and Boeing were scheduled to enter crewed service in 2017, but have had to grapple with - and overcome - some tricky technical challenges.\n\nSpaceX saw one of its capsules explode on a testbed in April last year. And it has had to work hard recently to get the Dragon's parachute system performing to the specifications.\n\nLikewise for Boeing. Just last month, the company's Starliner capsule failed to complete fully its own dummy run to the ISS.\n\nThe ship experienced an anomaly immediately after launch that led it to waste fuel reserves, leaving it short of the propellant necessary to reach the orbiting outpost.\n\nAll that said, it seems likely both SpaceX and Boeing will get to debut crewed flights in the coming months.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Belper Street was cordoned off while police carried out inquiries\n\nA 10-year-old boy has been stabbed in the street while out with his mother.\n\nThey were approached by a man in Belper Street, Leicester, at about 17:20 GMT on Saturday, who stabbed the boy and then ran off, police said.\n\nA member of the public called emergency services and the child was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where he remains in a stable condition.\n\nHis mother was not injured in the attack and a cordon at the crime scene has been lifted.\n\nLeicestershire Police described the suspect as a light-skinned Asian man, in his mid-20s, about 5ft 10in tall, of chubby build, and wearing a brown jacket.\n\nDet Insp Tim Lindley said: \"This was an act of violence against a young child who was out, in the street, with his mother.\"\n\nHe appealed for witnesses or anyone with dash-cam or CCTV footage of the area around the time of the attack to contact police.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The news has shocked France, where Paul Bocuse was viewed as a \"pope\" of cuisine\n\nThe restaurant of famed French chef Paul Bocuse has lost its three-star Michelin rating, stirring controversy.\n\nL'Auberge du Pont de Collonges, known simply as Paul Bocuse, had held its crème de la crème rating since 1965 - a world record.\n\nBut the Michelin Guide said the food quality was \"no longer at the level of three stars\". It will now have two.\n\nThe family of Bocuse - a culinary icon in France - said they were \"upset\" by the decision.\n\nThe Michelin Guide's head Gwendal Poullenec visited the restaurant near Lyon on Thursday to deliver the news.\n\n\"Obviously, there was a lot of emotion,\" he told the Washington Post in an interview, adding that there had been \"a variation in the level of the cuisine, but it remains excellent.\"\n\nBocuse, who died in 2018 aged 91, was a household name in France. He was the head of an international food empire and known as the \"pope\" of cooking in his home country.\n\nThe restaurant's loss of a highly coveted third star has shocked France and drawn confusion and outrage from food critics around the world.\n\nFood critic Périco Légasse called it \"an absurd and unfair decision\".\n\n\"Michelin cannot be so stupid,\" he said on radio station FranceInfo, arguing that critics agreed the quality of food had improved since Bocuse's death.\n\n\"Today its discredit is total, the institution is dead,\" he said of the Michelin Guide.\n\nThis is the most recent controversy surrounding the Michelin Guide, which has made efforts in recent years to stave off criticism that is biased towards French cuisine and overvalues formal dining.\n\nIn December, French chef Marc Veyrat lost his court case against the guide after it stripped him of a Michelin star.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBocuse died in a room above the restaurant on 20 January 2018.\n\nAbout 1,000 people attended his funeral, with more mourners watching the ceremony on big screens set up outside the cathedral. French President Emmanuel Macron at the time described him as the \"incarnation of French cuisine\".\n\n\"Although upset by the inspectors' judgment, there is one thing that we never want to lose, it is the soul of Mr Paul,\" the restaurant and Bocuse's family said in a statement.\n\n\"From Collonges and from the bottom of our hearts, we will continue to bring the Sacred Fire to life with audacity, enthusiasm, excellence and a certain form of freedom.\"", "More than 1,000 people joined police to search through the night for a six-year-old boy who vanished from an M1 service station while on a school trip.\n\nAadil Umair Rahim was found near roadworks just off the northbound carriageway at about 04:15 - nine hours after he went missing at Newport Pagnell services.\n\nHis father said he was \"thankful to everyone\" who searched \"tirelessly\".\n\nHe said he was still \"kind of in shock and panic\", adding: \"he's safe now\".\n\nThe school coach had stopped at the services near Milton Keynes for a break as the pupils travelled back to Nottingham after a trip to London.\n\nHe was initially believed to be hiding but was not found for nine hours\n\nA police helicopter was deployed to find the boy on Friday night, aided by officers on the ground, fire service staff and members of the public.\n\nSearch teams initially thought he could be hiding in the service station but grew concerned as the hours went by and the weather got colder.\n\nTemperatures fell to 1°C before he was found close to a footbridge near Newbolt Close in an area which police said \"houses the matrix system\".\n\nHe was found about half a mile from the service station where he went missing\n\nHis father Umair Rahim said he was \"in shock\" but relieved he was safe.\n\nHe added on Facebook: \"My son has arrived and he is safe now. Thanks for the prayers. Shukar to Allah.\n\n\"Thank you to Thames Valley Police helicopter services fire department, and safe and rescue department who worked tirelessly for 9 hours and found him safe.\n\n\"There was more than a 1,000 people looking for him I'm thankful to everyone.\"\n\nSupt Amy Clements, said: \"This was a very difficult operation involving a very young boy and we are relieved to say that Aadil has been found safe and well.\n\n\"I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the local community, who immediately offered help in trying to find Aadil.\"\n\nThe six-year-old went missing from Newport Pagnell services, near Milton Keynes\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two bombs went off in Guildford on 5 October 1974\n\nPolice investigating the 1974 Guildford pub bombings have \"seized\" archives and may destroy some of them, a memo seen by the BBC has claimed.\n\nThe records at Surrey History Centre were gathered by retired officers and deposited by ex-Ch Supt Bob Bartlett.\n\nCorrespondence said one file, dated 1967-74, covering the year of the bombs, had information on wanted people but \"will be destroyed\" on retention.\n\nSurrey Police said no papers had been destroyed and files would be audited.\n\nFive people were killed and 65 injured in the IRA attacks and 11 people were wrongly convicted and spent up to 15 years in jail.\n\nFor decades, questions have been asked about the police investigation after no-one else was prosecuted.\n\nLawyers representing the family of victim Ann Hamilton and survivor Yvonne Tagg in the resumed Guildford pub bombings inquest said if files were being retained, closed or marked for destruction, it raised \"serious concerns\".\n\nFour soldiers and a civilian died in the first explosion at the Horse and Groom\n\nCorrespondence given to the BBC said police \"entered the Surrey History Centre to recover any Guildford bombings related material because there is to be an inquest\".\n\nIt said they \"seized\" files on 14 November covering both the terror attacks and other \"diverse material\" including retirement certificates, photographs of the Operations Room and pocketbooks, along with information on a rabies alert and disruption in the countryside, without consulting Mr Bartlett, who runs the Surrey Constabulary History website.\n\nIt also claimed \"archivists felt compelled to comply with police demands\" and went on to criticise the move as \"over-interpreting the law\" and \"over-zealous\".\n\nThe papers included an appendix setting out reasons given by Surrey Police for taking the documents, citing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, Management of Police Information (MoPI), the Public Records Act, the Freedom of Information Act and other guidance.\n\nFiles listed as withdrawn included a major incident handbook from the 1970s; photographs of the interiors and exteriors of the bombed pubs; and a file dated 1973-75 covering actions in dealing with incendiary devices, which were closed and may now apparently be retained for 100 years.\n\nAn open file containing four photographs of the pub bombing scene by war photographer and Fleet Street journalist Terry Fincher was also listed as retained while the force checked whether he was working for them.\n\nMr Fincher's daughter, Jayne Barlow, who holds his work in a separate archive, has said he was not working for the police.\n\nChristopher Stanley, from KRW Law, said: \"If files in the public domain which could have any relevance or significance to the pub bombings in Guildford, Woolwich and Birmingham - or the IRA bombing campaign in England between 1973 and 1975 generally - are being retained, closed or marked for destruction by the Surrey Police or other agency, then this is cause for serious concern.\n\n\"These files need to be independently assessed for their relevance, if any, to the resumed inquest and other inquiries and investigations which are ongoing or in the future - for example the current live investigation into the Birmingham pub bombings being undertaken by the West Midlands Police.\"\n\nHe said material that might have evidential value to answering questions about the Northern Ireland conflict was too often being destroyed, retained or closed by agencies of the state.\n\n\"The practice represents a corporate culture of secrecy and evasion which robs the relatives of victims of the conflict and survivors of the possibility of truth and reconciliation,\" he said.\n\nThis month it also emerged the Home Office had taken more than 700 files out of The National Archives in a move that campaigners said was \"a disgrace\".\n\nThe resumed inquest has also heard Surrey Police destroyed five boxes of police files \"in error\".\n\nThe wrongly convicted Guildford Four served 15 years in jail\n\nRetired lawyer Alastair Logan, who represented the wrongly-jailed Guildford Four, said police had in effect seized private property and the basis they claimed for seizing the files needed to be legally examined.\n\nHe said the file covering 1967-74 that was apparently earmarked for destruction could be relevant to the inquest and to the history of the matter of the Guildford bombings, adding: \"There appears to be no public oversight on what is happening.\"\n\n\"That file could point to people other than the Guildford Four as potential culprits - we don't know,\" he said.\n\n\"What is contentious is if it were to indicate that advance knowledge could have prevented the offences - that would be extremely important to the coroner.\"\n\nOn that particular file, the full reason for withdrawal stated in the memo was: \"Breach of GDPR and unknown if any are MoPI 1. This information will be destroyed under MoPi guideline when it has reached retention.\"\n\nThe total number of files seized is not known but, of those listed as withdrawn, nine were requested by the BBC on 26 September when it was established many of Mr Bartlett's files held at the archives were closed.\n\nThat request went to the Surrey History Centre but a revised request has since been submitted to Surrey Police to see day book entries from 1974.\n\nThe BBC has been seeking to view first-hand records of police activity on the night of the bombings after hearing claims of a discrepancy in timings by Charles King, whose son Rob, a reporter who went on to work for national newspapers, was on the scene and insisted the first explosion happened 20 minutes earlier than the time given.\n\nThe bombs killed five people, injured 65 and saw 11 wrongly convicted\n\nA statement issued by the force said: \"Surrey Police fully recognises the importance of recording information for historical value and works closely with the Surrey History Centre to encourage and support the archiving of material where it is lawful.\"\n\nIt said it came to light last summer that alongside material deposited by Surrey Police through an agreed process, other material gathered by retired officers had been submitted directly by a former officer.\n\nThe statement said: \"Material generated in the course of employment with Surrey Police should be submitted to the information management team who will assess and identify whether it is suitable for archiving.\n\n\"Submission of material directly to an archive does not satisfy our legal obligations. As the owner of this material and a data controller, Surrey Police is subject to strict guidelines.\"\n\nSurrey Police met archivists last September to advise them the collection would need to be removed and audited and the centre agreed the removal \"would be done by appointment\" on 14 November, it said.\n\n\"None of the material has been destroyed,\" the statement added. \"It will be audited against the relevant legal guidelines and, where possible, returned to the history centre.\"\n\nIt said any material that was still within retention must remain within the possession of Surrey Police.\n\nA spokesman for Surrey's police and crime commissioner (PCC) said: \"We have been informed that very little of the material in question relates to the Guildford pub bombings.\n\n\"The PCC was satisfied the action taken by Surrey Police, who are the owners of this material, was entirely appropriate to ensure the Force met its legal obligations.\"\n\nSurrey County Council, which runs Surrey History Centre, said it was not its place to comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jo Swinson resigned as party leader after losing her seat in the 2019 general election\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have announced they will have a new party leader in place by the middle of July.\n\nEx-leader Jo Swinson resigned after losing her East Dunbartonshire seat at the general election in December.\n\nThe party's federal board has set out a timetable that will see nominations for candidates open on 11 May and close on 28 May.\n\nThe ballot for the new Lib Dem leader will then start on 18 June and conclude on 15 July.\n\nThe party says it has more than 100,000 members who will be eligible to take part in the selection process.\n\nEx-cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey and party president Mark Pack will continue as joint acting leaders of the Lib Dems until the election process is completed, the party said.\n\nMr Pack said: \"I want first to thank Jo Swinson for her determined leadership of the Liberal Democrats.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats are the home for everyone who shares our vision of an outward-looking, caring country that celebrates diversity and benefits from high-quality public services.\n\n\"With our party membership at record levels, I urge everyone else who shares our values to join us in the coming days and vote in the leadership election.\"\n\nMs Swinson lost her seat to Amy Callaghan of the Scottish National Party by 149 votes.", "The voice actor who plays the Indian character Apu in The Simpsons has said he is stepping down from the role, following years of controversy.\n\nWhite actor Hank Azaria has performed the voice of the Indian convenience store owner since the character was created in 1990.\n\nBut the character has been accused of reinforcing racial stereotypes.\n\nIt was not immediately clear if Apu would get a new voice or be dropped from the cartoon.\n\n\"All we know there is I won't be doing the voice anymore, unless there's some way to transition it or something,\" Mr Azaria told the website SlashFilm.\n\n\"We all made the decision together... We all agreed on it. We all feel like it's the right thing and good about it.\"\n\nControversy over the character of immigrant shopkeeper Apu Nahasapeemapetilon intensified in 2017 when Indian-American comic Hari Kondabolu made a documentary saying he was founded on racial stereotypes.\n\nMr Kondabolu told the BBC that the character was problematic because he is defined by his job and how many children he has in his arranged marriage.\n\nIn his documentary, The Problem with Apu, he said Apu was one of the only representations of South Asians on US television when he was growing up and other children imitated the character to mock him.\n\nOthers joined the criticism, while some defended the show, saying all of its characters were stereotypes.\n\nAt the time, Mr Azaria - who also provides the voice of popular characters Moe Szyslak and Chief Wiggum, among others - said he found it \"very upsetting to me personally and professionally\" that anyone was marginalised because of Apu.\n\nHank Azaria provides the voices of numerous characters in the hit show\n\nHe also said he would be willing to stop playing the character.\n\nThe Simpsons itself addressed the controversy in a 2018 episode. In the scene, Marge changes a bedtime story to make it more politically correct, but her daughter objects. A distressed Marge then asks her daughter what she is supposed to do.\n\nLisa turns to the camera and says: \"It's hard to say. Something that started a long time ago, decades ago, that was applauded and was inoffensive, is now politically incorrect. What can you do?\"\n\nShe then signals to a photograph of Apu by her bedside, which is signed: \"Don't have a cow - Apu\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hari Kondabolu: \"The show threw Lisa Simpson under the bus\"\n\nReacting to reports that Mr Azaria had stepped down, Mr Kondabolu said he hoped the character remained in the show and that \"a very talented writing staff do something interesting with him.\"\n\n\"My documentary \"The Problem with Apu\" was not made to get rid of a dated cartoon character, but to discuss race, representation & my community (which I love very much). It was also about how you can love something (like the Simpsons) & still be critical about aspects of it (Apu),\" he wrote on Twitter.", "Businesses have warned that food prices may rise and jobs may be affected after the chancellor vowed to end alignment with EU rules after Brexit.\n\nSajid Javid told the Financial Times the UK would not be a \"ruletaker\" after Brexit, urging businesses to \"adjust\".\n\nThe Food and Drink Federation said the proposals were likely to cause food prices to rise at the end of this year.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry said for many firms, keeping existing EU rules would support jobs.\n\nThe automotive, food and drink and pharmaceutical industries all warned the government last year that moving away from key EU rules would be damaging.\n\nIn an interview with Financial Times, the chancellor said the Treasury would not support manufacturers that favour staying aligned with EU rules, as companies had known since 2016 that the UK was going to leave the EU.\n\n\"Admittedly they didn't know the exact terms,\" he said.\n\nThe UK's 11-month transition period begins after it leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nMr Javid declined to specify which EU rules he wanted to drop, but said some businesses would benefit from Brexit, while others would not.\n\nHe added: \"There will not be alignment, we will not be a ruletaker, we will not be in the single market and we will not be in the customs union - and we will do this by the end of the year.\"\n\nTim Rycroft, chief operating officer of the Food and Drink Federation, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it sounded like the \"death knell\" for frictionless trade with the EU.\n\nAcknowledging that some industries might benefit from Brexit, he said: \"We also have to make sure the government clearly understands what the consequences will be for industries like ours if they go ahead and change our trading terms.\"\n\nThe Food and Drink Federation warned of price rises at the end of the year\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said it welcomed the chancellor's \"ambitious\" vision but said the government should not feel an \"obligation\" to depart from EU rules.\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn, CBI director-general, said for many companies, \"particularly in some of the most deprived regions of the UK\", keeping the same rules would support jobs and maintain competitiveness.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said the automotive industry in the UK and EU was \"uniquely integrated\" and its priority was to avoid \"expensive tariffs and other 'behind the border' barriers\".\n\nIt said it was vital to have \"early sight\" of the government's plans so companies could evaluate their impact.\n\nAnd the Chemical Industries Association said: \"The industry continues to support regulatory alignment with our European counterparts, which represents the largest single market for our products.\"\n\nBBC business correspondent Katy Austin pointed out that the association's members were concentrated in the north of England, an area the government is particularly keen to be seen to support.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell tweeted that Conservative promises about frictionless trade with the EU after Brexit were \"now exposed as not worth paper they were written on\".\n\nThis tough tone from the chancellor appears to have a two-pronged intention.\n\nFirstly, there's the message to business, which is, effectively, that Brexit is going to happen so just get on with it.\n\nGetting on the wrong side of businesses has never been familiar ground for the Conservatives, but a majority government gives you the freedom to do the uncomfortable stuff.\n\nIt means the Tories can now be emboldened to say some companies will suffer because of Brexit in a way they never would have before. And with the general election now behind them, they can also pay little heed to warnings from the shadow chancellor that no alignment could lead to food shortages and job cuts.\n\nThe second motivation for this tough talk is likely to be about positioning ahead of the trade deal yet to be done with the EU.\n\nThe rhetoric around not being a \"rule-taker\" suggests the Conservatives want to be seen as preparing to have a tough battle with the EU to secure a deal without regulations - if they can.\n\nThe government has not yet agreed a future trading relationship with the EU - it plans to do so during the 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK will continue to follow EU rules and contribute to its budget.\n\nThe chancellor also said he wanted to double the UK's annual economic growth to between 2.7 and 2.8%.\n\nThe outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, told the Financial Times last week he thought the UK's trend growth rate was much lower, at between 1 and 1.5%.\n\nMr Javid said the extra growth would come from spending on skills and infrastructure in the Midlands and the north of England - even if they did not offer as much \"bang for the buck\" as projects in other parts of the country.\n\nHe also pledged to rewrite Treasury investment rules, which have tended to favour government investment in places with high economic growth and high productivity.", "The first votes of the 2020 primary presidential election have been cast in the Midwestern state of Minnesota.\n\nVoters are deciding which Democratic presidential hopeful they want to become the party's eventual nominee in the November presidential election.\n\nThough Iowa's contest next month will be the first to announce a candidate as winning the state, early voting began in Minnesota on Friday.\n\nThousands of early ballots have already been cast.\n\nThe nation is fixated on Iowa's caucus - party-held elections across the state's precincts - on 3 February as the start of the 2020 election season, but voters from several states will have already had their say by then.\n\nAfter this primary election process, each party will name their presidential nominee in the summer. Voters will then cast their ballots for the next president of the United States on 3 November.\n\nFacing frigid temperatures of -2°F (-19°C), voters in Minneapolis - the seat of Minnesota's largest county - were already arriving to vote at 08:00 local time, when polling stations opened.\n\n\"We even had a little bit of a line,\" Ginny Gelms, the Hennepin county elections manager, told the BBC.\n\nRepresentative Ilhan Omar speaks in support of candidate Bernie Sanders on the first day of early voting in Minneapolis\n\nOver 280 people had cast ballots in person in the county before noon and over 6,000 more had been received by post, Ms Gelms said.\n\nThirty-eight US states and the District of Columbia allow voters to cast ballots before election day, either in person or by mail.\n\nThese 'absentee' ballots are often used by soldiers, US personnel overseas, or those not able to get to a poll station on election day.\n\nThough some jurisdictions have already begun accepting ballots by post, Minnesota is the first to open polling stations where voters can turn up.\n\nMinnesota voters braved freezing temperatures to get to the ballot box\n\nThey have 46 days to vote before the state's primary election day on 3 March, when over a dozen other states and territories will also hold their primary contests on the so-called 'Super Tuesday'.\n\nVermont, Virginia and North Dakota will also open polls for early voters on Saturday.\n\nEarly voting has become increasingly popular, though most voters still wait until election day. In 2000, 16% of voters cast early ballots in the general election, compared to nearly 40% in 2016.\n\nAmy Klobuchar, a Minnesota senator who is running for president, campaigned in her home state as polls were open, but others were on the ground in Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold primary contests next month.\n\nDemocratic candidate Amy Klobuchar campaigned in her home state of Minnesota on the first day of voting\n\nA strong result in the two February races can give a lift to campaigns. Joe Biden, the former vice president, and Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator, are the frontrunners, according to polls.\n\nThough Mr Sanders was not there for the first ballots, Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota congresswoman and supporter, campaigned in the state Friday on his behalf.\n\nCandidates still have a long road ahead. Americans won't know their next president until the general election on 3 November.", "The Duke of Sussex grew up in the media spotlight - from a young royal dealing with his mother's death, through his partying teenage years, to his career in the military.\n\nSince then Harry has followed in his mother's footsteps, doing charity work across the globe. He has got married and become a father.\n\nNow he and the Duchess of Sussex have begun a new chapter: giving up their royal duties, HRH titles and public funding and living in California.\n\nHarry has tried to balance his public and private lives. At times, the publicity that comes with being sixth in line to the throne has helped him to bolster support for his charitable endeavours. But there have also been times when that attention has become too much, and he has fought fiercely for his family's privacy.\n\nPrince Harry was born in 1984, the second child of the Prince and Princess of Wales\n\nBorn at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, on 15 September 1984, the prince was christened Henry Charles Albert David by the Archbishop of Canterbury in December of that year in St George's Chapel, Windsor.\n\nBut it was officially announced from the start of his life that he would be known as Harry.\n\nAlthough christened Henry, he has always been known as Harry\n\nHarry with his mother and brother on a trip to Thorpe Park in 1993\n\nThe prince's childhood was cut short when his mother died in 1997.\n\nPrincess Diana was killed in a crash in Paris, aged 36, as the car she was in sped through a tunnel followed by paparazzi photographers.\n\nHer death shook royal fans the world over, but it was 12-year-old Harry and 15-year-old William whose lives changed forever.\n\nThe funeral, which featured the image of the boys walking behind their mother's hearse to attend the service at Westminster Abbey, remains one of the most-watched programmes on the BBC.\n\nPrince Harry stood between his father, Prince Charles, and his older brother, Prince William, as they watched the hearse carry Diana's coffin\n\n\"I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well,\" the prince said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 2017.\n\nHe added: \"I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and all sorts of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.\"\n\nThe prince followed the educational path of his older brother William, at Wetherby School in Notting Hill, before entering Eton in 1998.\n\nHarry, five, on his first day at Wetherby School, Notting Hill\n\nPrince Harry watching his brother sign the Eton College entrance book in 1995 - he would follow in his footsteps, joining the school three years later\n\nAfter leaving Eton with two A-levels in 2003, Harry took a gap year.\n\nHe worked on a sheep farm in Australia and with Aids orphans in Lesotho, paving the way for the charity he later set up there.\n\nPrince Charles took his sons on annual skiing holidays to Switzerland\n\nAttention from the press has been a constant in Harry's life.\n\nThe front page of a 2002 edition of the (now defunct) News of the World roared: \"Harry's drugs shame\", and claimed Prince Charles sent his son to visit a rehab clinic as punishment for smoking cannabis.\n\nSt James's Palace confirmed the then 17-year-old had \"experimented with the drug on several occasions\" but said the use was not \"regular\".\n\nThen in October 2004, there was a scuffle with a photographer outside a club.\n\nA royal spokesman said at the time the 20-year-old prince was hit in the face by a camera \"when photographers crowded around him\".\n\nAs part of his gap year, Prince Harry spent time at an orphanage in Lesotho, in southern Africa\n\nWhen Harry pushed the camera away, \"it's understood that a photographer's lip was cut\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe following year, an image of the prince dressed as a Nazi at a fancy dress party sparked outrage.\n\nClarence House later said the prince had apologised for any \"offence or embarrassment\" caused and had realised \"it was a poor choice of costume\".\n\nAnd in 2009, video footage emerged of Harry using offensive language to describe an Asian member of his Army platoon.\n\nSt James's Palace said the prince was \"extremely sorry for any offence his words might cause\" but said he had \"used the term without any malice and as a nickname about a highly popular member of his platoon\".\n\nHarry enjoyed lighter-hearted press coverage during the London 2012 Olympic Games, in his role as an Olympic ambassador.\n\nThe prince was an Olympic ambassador at the London 2012 Games\n\nIn the same year he spent a lot of time in front of the cameras for the Queen's Jubilee. As part of those celebrations Harry completed his first royal solo tour overseas with visits to Belize, the Bahamas, Brazil and Jamaica.\n\nHowever, that August, photos emerged of the prince and a young woman naked in a Las Vegas hotel room.\n\nThe two photos, published on US gossip website TMZ and later in the Sun newspaper, were taken on a private break with friends, with the site reporting the prince was in a group playing \"strip billiards\".\n\nHe later said he had \"probably let myself down\" but added: \"I was in a private area and there should have been a certain amount of privacy that one should expect.\"\n\nThere is, however, a saving grace to the scrapes Harry has found himself in.\n\nAs the younger brother to the expected future king, Harry has relatively little responsibility.\n\nLike the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and Prince Charles's younger siblings, Harry is a \"spare to the heir\" - and a world away from the throne.\n\nSo Harry's indiscretions have done little to dent public opinion of him.\n\nAnd he has perhaps had a freer existence because of it; security worries would have made active service in Afghanistan impossible for his older brother, for example.\n\nHarry served a tour in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot\n\nHarry spent 10 years in the armed forces, becoming the first royal in more than 25 years to serve in a war zone.\n\nHe was left disappointed in 2007 when Army chiefs decided not to send him to Iraq because of \"unacceptable risks\", but later spent 10 weeks serving in Afghanistan in 2008.\n\nHarry returned to the country as an Apache helicopter pilot from September 2012 to January 2013, before qualifying as an Apache commander in July 2013.\n\nHe later described how he had shot at Taliban insurgents, and said that being in Afghanistan was \"as normal as it's going to get\" for him.\n\nThe prince said quitting the Army had been a \"really tough decision\"\n\nWhen he announced he would be leaving the Army in 2015, the prince said his time in the military would \"stay with me for the rest of my life\".\n\nThis is reflected in his charity work, which mostly concentrates on mental health and helping service veterans.\n\nHarry's most notable charity work so far is his founding and chairing of the Invictus Games in 2014.\n\nThe Paralympic-style international competition for injured ex-service personnel has been held in London, Orlando, Toronto and Sydney.\n\nThe prince has been the driving force behind the Invictus Games\n\nHe has also supported the charity Walking With the Wounded, for injured veterans.\n\nThe prince's other charity work includes supporting conservation projects in Africa and jointly founding Sentebale, a charity to help orphans in Lesotho.\n\nOn his visit to Angola in September, Harry said landmines are \"an unhealed scar of war\"\n\nHarry and his brother William have worked together on various charity initiatives\n\nHe has continued his mother's work helping children affected by HIV and Aids, and supporting the Halo Trust's work in clearing landmines.\n\nDiana captured global attention when she walked through a live minefield in central Angola in 1997.\n\nShe died in Paris later that year, before seeing the full impact of her visit - such as the signing of an international treaty to outlaw the weapons - but Harry highlighted her achievements when he retraced her steps in September 2019.\n\nPrince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge supported Heads Together runners at the London Marathon in 2017\n\nIn later years, Harry has had counselling to help him deal with his mother's death.\n\nHe was best man at his brother William's wedding in April 2011, and has since spoken of how hard it was not to have Diana there.\n\nIn a candid interview with the Daily Telegraph, he described shutting down all of his emotions for nearly 20 years and refusing to thinking about his mother.\n\nThis, he said, had a \"quite serious effect\" on his personal life and his work, and brought him close to a breakdown \"on numerous occasions\".\n\nHe also said he would probably regret \"for the rest of his life\" how brief his last phone call with his mother was, and spoke of her \"fun\" parenting. She was a \"total kid through and through\", he said.\n\nHarry, William and the Duchess of Cambridge joined forces to focus their campaigning efforts on mental health.\n\nThey founded Heads Together, which aims to tackle stigma and fundraise for new support services.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle were first pictured together at the Invictus Games in 2017\n\nAs one of the world's most high-profile bachelors, Harry's love life has drawn much interest over the years.\n\nIn late 2016, he confirmed a new relationship with US actor, Meghan Markle, while issuing a statement accusing journalists of harassing her.\n\nHe described \"nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers\", attempts by reporters and photographers to get into her home and the \"bombardment\" of nearly every friend and loved one in her life.\n\nThe pair had met on a blind date, organised by a mutual friend. Then after just two dates, they went on holiday together to Botswana.\n\nIn September 2017, the year before their wedding, Meghan told Vanity Fair magazine she and Harry were \"two people who are really happy and in love\".\n\nAnd in an interview that November, when their engagement was announced, Harry admitted he had never heard of Meghan before his friend introduced them, and was \"beautifully surprised\".\n\nHe designed the engagement ring for Meghan, including two diamonds from his mother's jewellery collection.\n\nThe couple married in May 2018 at a ceremony at St George's Chapel in Windsor, and consequently became known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nOn a 16-day tour of Australia that October, the duke and duchess announced they were expecting their first child, adding that they were happy to share the \"personal joy\" of their news.\n\nBaby Archie, described by Harry as \"our own little bundle of joy\", was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nPrince Harry said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" with the birth of his first child, Archie\n\nThe duke's past few years have been a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.\n\nIn 2019, he and his wife split their household office from that of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the subsequent launch of the Sussexes' Instagram account amassed more than one million followers in record-breaking time (five hours and 45 minutes).\n\nThe joy of becoming parents was followed days later by news Harry had accepted damages and an apology from a paparazzi agency that had used a helicopter to take photographs of his home in the Cotswolds.\n\nIn June, the Sussexes announced they would split from the charity they shared with the Cambridges - fuelling speculation of a rift between brothers Harry and William.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry on his brother, William in 2019: \"We are certainly on different paths at the moment\"\n\nA 10-day tour of Africa at the end of September 2019 started well.\n\nHarry raised awareness for causes close to his heart, and the couple introduced Archie to anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nBut during the tour, the Duchess of Sussex launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nThe duke and duchess went on a 10-day tour of Africa in September 2019\n\nIn a lengthy statement Harry said \"positive\" coverage of the tour of Africa had exposed the \"double standards\" of the \"press pack that has vilified [the duchess] almost daily for the past nine months\".\n\nAnd in an ITV documentary, filmed during the tour and broadcast the following month, the duchess admitted she was struggling to adjust to royal life, while the duke said his mental health was a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nThen, at the start of 2020, the couple made a bombshell announcement that they would be stepping back as senior royals.\n\nLater, Harry would tell host James Corden that the decision to step back was taken to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" situation created by the UK press.\n\nTheir difficult relationship with the UK press saw both Harry and Meghan take legal action against publishers, as well as cutting ties with tabloid newspapers.\n\nAfter a brief stint in Canada, the couple now lives in California and are expecting their second child.\n\nThe duke has since spoken out on several issues, including on structural racism, human rights and unconscious bias.\n\nThe duke and duchess gave an interview with Oprah, who went to their wedding\n\nAnd the couple have signed deals to make shows and podcasts with Netflix and Spotify.\n\nHis charity work continues - although he has returned his military appointments and royal patronages. Buckingham Palace said he and Meghan will keep their \"private patronages and associations\".\n\nHe told interviewer Corden that his \"life is always going to be about public service\". But much of the rest of his future - including how he will continue to carve his own path - remains unclear.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of Australia's east coast have been hit by heavy rain and thunderstorms, dousing some bushfires but also bringing the threat of flooding.\n\nSome, such as this thirsty koala, have been making the most of the wet conditions.\n\nRead more: Storms lash some of Australia's fire-hit regions", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe couple said last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals, and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn 2016, Kensington Palace released a statement confirming Harry had been dating US actress Meghan Markle \"for a few months\". They were pictured in public for the first time in Toronto, attending a wheelchair tennis match during the 2017 Invictus Games.\n\nThey announced their engagement a few weeks after being first pictured together. Meghan told BBC News that Harry's proposal was \"just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic\".\n\nIn February 2018, the couple took part in their first joint engagement with Prince Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As Meghan joined their Royal Foundation charity, Harry joked the foursome were now \"stuck together\".\n\nThe couple were married at Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018, with 1,200 public invitations to the grounds of the castle. They travelled through the town in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nUp to 100,000 well-wishers lined the route as the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThe couple kissed on the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family attended the wedding.\n\nThe newlyweds held hands after the ceremony.\n\nIn June 2018, the Queen and the duchess were seen at their first royal engagement together, as they officially opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre.\n\nThat autumn, Kensington Palace revealed the duchess was pregnant and the couple's baby was due in the spring. Shortly after the announcement, they embarked on their first official overseas tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nOn one of their engagements, the couple posed with OneWave, a surfing community group that raises awareness of mental health and wellbeing, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia\n\nOn 6 May, 2019, Meghan gave birth to a boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who became seventh in line to the throne. Harry told reporters: \"It's been the most amazing experience I could ever possibly imagine\".\n\nIn June 2019, the couple announced they were splitting from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own foundation.\n\nLast autumn, Archie travelled with the couple to southern Africa on their first royal tour as a family, and was a big hit with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAn image of a beaming Prince Harry holding his son while on an extended stay in Canada was released by the couple as part of an Instagram compilation summing up their year.\n\nFollowing their trip, the couple were pictured in January on a visit to Canada House.\n\nIn February, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child.", "The 20th Century Fox logo will lose a word but retain the same look, according to reports\n\nDisney executives have cut the word \"Fox\" from their 20th Century Fox film studio in an apparent bid to distance it from operations of the previous owner, Rupert Murdoch.\n\nUS media suggests Disney does not want to be associated with the media mogul's highly partisan, right-wing Fox News network.\n\nHowever, Disney has not clarified its reasons.\n\nIt bought the studio, with other media operations, in a $71bn deal last March.\n\n20th Century Fox is known for producing some of the biggest films of all-time, including Avatar and Titanic.\n\nVariety magazine, which broke the news about the name change, said it had spoken to an unnamed Disney source, who said: \"I think the Fox name means Murdoch, and that is toxic.\"\n\nHollywood is known for being liberal, unlike the Australian tycoon.\n\nDisney has also renamed Fox Searchlight Pictures, the arthouse arm, as simply Searchlight Pictures.\n\nStaff emails were changed on Friday, from @fox.com to @20thcenturystudios.com or @searchlight.com.\n\nRupert Murdoch's Fox News has been a cheerleader for Donald Trump\n\nThe original 20th Century Fox company was formed in 1935 following a merger.\n\nRupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought it in the mid-1980s, and the Fox News channel was created in 1996, growing to become most-watched in the US.\n\nNews Corporation was later split into News Corp and 21st Century Fox - which Disney acquired as the parent company of various film and television studios, including the renowned 20th Century Fox.\n\nThe Murdoch family retained the news outlets in a spin-off company, Fox Corporation, which is run by Rupert Murdoch's son Lachland.\n\nVariety says the 20th Century Fox studio's well-known fanfare theme and searchlight logo will be retained.\n\nDisney also runs 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios. Any changes to their names have not been announced.\n\nDisney is already a dominant force in US news, as the owner of the ABC network. It is also hoping to challenge Netflix with its own streaming service Disney+, which launched in the US last year.", "The cordon has now been lifted\n\nArmed police were deployed in Shrewsbury after a report of a man with a firearm on the roof of a Tesco supermarket.\n\nWest Mercia Police said it received a call at about 16:00 GMT that an armed man was on the Tesco Extra on Battlefield Road.\n\nThe police helicopter was sent out and a cordon was in place while a search of the area was carried out.\n\nPolice said no-one was found but the call was \"made in good faith\".\n\nSupt Jim Baker said they took \"all reports involving firearms incredibly seriously\" and armed officers were deployed to carry out a search of the area.\n\n\"An extensive search has been carried out by officers on the ground, the police helicopter and a fire and rescue service drone and we're satisfied the call was made in good faith and have been able to discount the information we initially acted on,\" he said.\n\nHe thanked the public for their patience during the disruption the search caused.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Paul Fulgoni said he saw \"at least 10 armed police\" as well as a helicopter. He said all of Battlefield had been cordoned off, including McDonald's, Frankie & Benny's and the residential estates.\n\nThe supermarket, which was sealed off for about three hours, has since reopened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A clock counting down to the moment the UK leaves the EU on 31 January will be projected on to Downing Street as part of government plans to mark Brexit Day.\n\nThe clock will tick down to 23:00 GMT, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson will give a \"special\" address to the nation in the evening, the government said.\n\nA special 50p coin will also enter circulation to mark the occasion.\n\nBut the plans do not include Big Ben chiming, after Commons authorities said the cost could not be justified.\n\nA campaign to find the £500,000 needed to make Big Ben ring when the UK leaves the EU has raised more than £200,000, but the House of Commons Commission cast doubt on whether it was permitted to use public donations to cover the costs.\n\nMillionaire businessman Arron Banks and the Leave Means Leave group donated £50,000 to the campaign.\n\nDowning Street has said the prime minister will chair a cabinet meeting in the north of England during the day, to discuss spreading \"prosperity and opportunity\".\n\nHe will then make a special address to the nation in the evening.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to be one of the first people to receive one of the newly-minted 50p coins, which will bear the motto \"peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations\".\n\nBuildings around Whitehall will be lit up to mark Brexit, with the government saying that, \"in response to public calls, the Union Jack will be flown on all of the flag poles in Parliament Square\".\n\nThe government says it will use the \"significant moment in our history\" to \"heal divisions, re-unite communities and look forward to the country that we want to build over the next decade.\"\n\nThe exterior of the prime minister's residence will be the backdrop for the Brexit countdown\n\nHowever, hopes have faded that Big Ben - which is currently out of action due to renovation work going on at the Houses of Parliament - will chime to mark the moment the UK leaves the EU.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Johnson told BBC Breakfast he wanted the public to raise funds to ensure this can happen.\n\nBut Downing Street later distanced itself from the campaign, with a spokesman saying the prime minister's focus was on the government plan for marking the day, and that Big Ben was a matter for MPs.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission estimates the cost will be up to £500,000, and it has raised concerns over the \"unprecedented approach\" of using donations to fund the project.\n\nIt says this would involve bringing back the chiming mechanism and installing a temporary floor, resulting in delays to the conservation work.\n\nThe campaign group Stand Up 4 Brexit set up an online appeal to raise the money, collecting more than £200,000 by Friday evening.\n\nConservative MP Mark Francois told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that the pro-Brexit Leave Means Leave campaign and Mr Banks had donated £50,000.\n\nHe queried whether the cost of getting the bell to ring again was really £500,000, adding that he believed officials had \"deliberately inflated the figure\" because \"they don't want to do it\".\n\nIt comes as Downing Street has said EU citizens will not automatically be deported if they fail to sign up to the settled status scheme by the 2021.\n\nUnder the settlement scheme, EU citizens living in the UK can apply to stay in the country after Brexit.\n\nSo far the number of applicants to the scheme has hit more than 2.7 million.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Why I broke my silence over Weinstein\"\n\nLawyers have chosen the 12 jurors who will sit in the trial of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nAbout 700 candidates - including model Gigi Hadid - were screened over the course of two weeks before a group of seven men and five women were picked.\n\nMr Weinstein faces five charges, including rape and sexual assault. The trial will begin on Wednesday in New York.\n\nThe 67-year-old has denied all charges, saying the encounters were consensual.\n\nHe could face life in prison if convicted.\n\nOnce one of Hollywood's most decorated and lauded producers, more than 80 women have accused Mr Weinstein of sexual misconduct - allegations which helped drive the #MeToo movement.\n\nHowever, few of the complaints have led to criminal charges and in the New York case he faces charges related to allegations made by two women.\n\nJudge James Burke told potential jurors on Thursday that the trial was \"not a referendum on the #MeToo movement\", and that they were expected to decide Mr Weinstein's fate \"on the evidence\".\n\nThe trial is expected to conclude in early March.\n\nMr Weinstein was also charged with an additional count of rape and one of sexual assault in Los Angeles earlier this month, which he also denies.\n\nLos Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey has said she expects Mr Weinstein to appear in court in California in that case, saying he could be extradited or could come voluntarily after the conclusion of the New York trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hired by Weinstein to extract information on celebrities", "Police have defended the inclusion of environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace in a counter-terrorism guide, saying it was produced to help frontline officers.\n\nThe Guardian reported that the 24-page police guide was distributed to teachers and medical staff as part of anti-extremism briefings last year.\n\nThey appeared next to extremist right-wing groups such as National Action.\n\nExtinction Rebellion warned it could have a \"chilling effect\" on people.\n\nIt comes after counter-terrorism police in south-east England admitted an \"error of judgement\" earlier this month - after listing Extinction Rebellion as an \"extreme ideology\" in a 12-page guide.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, the police document includes other non-violent groups such as ocean pollution campaigners Sea Shepherd, animal rights group Peta and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).\n\nA signs and symbols guide referred to by the paper shows a Nazi swastika in one section and the Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace symbols in another.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, senior national co-ordinator for the UK's Counter Terrorism Policing, said police do not consider legitimate protest groups to be extremist or a threat to national security.\n\nHe said the visual aid was produced with the aim of helping police \"identify and understand signs and symbols\" so they know the difference between them.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"The guidance document in question explicitly states that many of the groups included are not of counter-terrorism interest, and that membership of them does not indicate criminality of any kind.\n\n\"To suggest anything else is both unhelpful and misleading.\"\n\nHe said the document was used by the government's counter-terrorism strategy, known as the Prevent programme, but \"only as a guide to help them [Prevent] identify and understand the range of organisations practitioners might come across\".\n\nHowever, Extinction Rebellion said its inclusion in the document was \"nothing short of pointing a finger at anyone that thinks differently to 'business as usual'.\"\n\nThe group said: \"The chilling effect is to leave people feeling under scrutiny, watched and pressurised, feeling othered, ashamed or afraid to be open about the things they care about such as the environment and the world around us.\"\n\nKate Hudson, general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, also questioned the group's inclusion in the guide, saying it \"threatens our right to political engagement and peaceful protest\".\n\n\"We have no secrets and act in the public interest,\" she added.\n\nGreenpeace UK's executive director, John Sauven, said there was \"nothing extremist about people from all walks of life taking peaceful, non-violent action to stop climate chaos and ecological collapse\".\n\n\"Tarring environmental campaigners and terrorist organisations with the same brush is not going to help fight terrorism. It will only harm the reputation of hard-working police officers.\"", "Jacob Young, 18, appeared on an episode of Supernanny in 2005, aged three\n\nA teenager who appeared on the reality TV show Supernanny as a child has been described as a danger to women and detained for 10 years for rape.\n\nJacob Young, 18, of Ipswich, strangled his victim almost to unconsciousness in her own home, making her fear for her life, Ipswich Crown Court heard.\n\nThe judge dismissed a letter from his mother which said the 2005 show led to a \"campaign of abuse and mockery\".\n\nHe said Young had an \"extreme form of sexual curiosity or unhealthy fantasy\".\n\nThe court heard Young spent the night of 13 October 2018 stalking and taking photos of \"vulnerable\" women, before he spotted the victim being supported by her boyfriend as he walked her home.\n\nDuring a trial last year, Young's defence claimed he was making sure she got home safely, but the court heard he had a \"premeditated plan\" to steal the stranger's bag, so he could return it as a \"hero\" figure.\n\nSue and Paul Young and their five sons, then aged eight months to eight years, appeared on the show in 2005\n\nOnce the boyfriend left, Young entered the flat and attacked her.\n\nJudge Levett said evidence from the victim suggested Young enjoyed the violence and she only escaped after promising to let him \"do whatever to me\" if he let her go to the bathroom.\n\nThe family featured in a 2005 episode of Supernanny, in which the five young boys were described as having \"no respect for their home, their parents or each other\".\n\nIn a letter to the court, his mother described the impact that appearing on the Channel 4 show had on each of her five sons.\n\n\"Your mother said appearing on that TV programme led to a campaign of mockery and abuse from the public and peers and school friends,\" Judge Levett said.\n\nYoung's mother claimed he was \"very protective\" of women following a fire at the family home in 2007, which led to \"considerable media attention\".\n\nShe suggested her son was a person of good character who could not have done what was alleged. All her claims were dismissed as \"embellishment\" by the judge.\n\nThe court heard Young had a previous conviction for threatening a 12-year-old girl with a knife when he was 14.\n\nYoung, of Beechcroft Road, had denied rape, committing actual bodily harm and theft but was found guilty by a jury.\n\n\"You took advantage of a vulnerable woman in her own home, where she should have expected she was safe in her bed,\" said Judge Levett.\n\nYoung was sentenced to 10 years in a young offenders' institution with an extended licence period of five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Pasi Vainikka at the Solar Foods plant near Helsinki\n\nFinnish scientists producing a protein \"from thin air\" say it will compete with soya on price within the decade.\n\nThe protein is produced from soil bacteria fed on hydrogen split from water by electricity.\n\nThe researchers say if the electricity comes from solar and wind power, the food can be grown with near-zero greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nIf their dreams are realised, it could help the world tackle many of the problems associated with farming.\n\nWhen I visited Solar Foods' pilot plant on the outskirts of Helsinki last year the researchers were raising funds for expansion.\n\nNow they say they have attracted 5.5m euros of investment, and they predict – depending on the price of electricity – that their costs will roughly match those for soya production by the end of the decade - perhaps even by 2025.\n\nI ate a few grains of the precious protein flour - called Solein - and tasted nothing, which is what the scientists have planned.\n\nThey want it to be a neutral additive to all sorts of foods.\n\nIt could mimic palm oil by reinforcing pies, ice cream, biscuits, pasta, noodles, sauces or bread. The inventors say it can be used as a medium for growing cultured meat or fish.\n\nIt could also nourish cattle to save them eating soya raised on rainforest land.\n\nEven if things go according to plan – which, of course, they may not – it will be many years before the protein production is scaled up to meet global demand.\n\nBut this is one of many projects looking towards a future of synthesised food.\n\nThe firm’s CEO is Pasi Vainikka, who studied at Cranfield University in the UK and is now adjunct professor at Lappeenranta University.\n\nHe told me the ideas behind the technology were originally developed for the space industry in the 1960s.\n\nHe admits his demonstrator plant is running some months behind time but says it will be ready by 2022. A full investment decision will come in 2023, and if all goes according to plan, the first factory will appear in 2025.\n\nHe said: “We are doing pretty well so far. Once we scale the factory from the first one by adding reactors (to ferment protein) and take into account the amazing improvements in other clean technologies like wind and solar power, we think we can compete with soya possibly as early as 2025.”\n\nTo make Solein, water is \"split\", using electrolysis to make hydrogen. The hydrogen, carbon dioxide from the air and minerals are fed to bacteria, which then produce the protein.\n\nA key determinant, he said, would be the price of electricity. The firm anticipates that as more renewables come on-stream, the cost will fall.\n\nThe progress of this extraordinary technology has been hailed by the environmental campaigner George Monbiot, who has made a TV documentary, Apocalypse Cow, broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK at 22:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nMonbiot is generally pessimistic about the future of the planet, but says Solar Foods has given him hope.\n\nHe said: “Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown.\n\n“But just as hope appeared to be evaporating, ‘farmfree food’ creates astonishing possibilities to save both people and planet.\n\n“By temporarily shifting towards a plant-based diet, we can help buy the time to save species and places.\n\n“But farmfree food offers hope where hope was missing. We will soon be able to feed the world without devouring it.”\n\nResearch by the think tank RethinkX, which forecasts the implications of technology-driven disruption of many kinds, suggests that proteins from precision fermentation will be around 10 times cheaper than animal protein by 2035.\n\nIt forecasts the result will be the near-complete collapse of the livestock industry - although critics will complain that this doesn’t take into account the ability of meat producers to harness the novel proteins to feed their own stock .\n\nA consortium of leading scientific research and academic institutions has been formed to identify innovative solutions to tackle climate change linked to the agri-food sector.\n\nA paper last year concluded that microbial protein was several times more efficient than soya in terms of land use, and required just a tenth as much water.\n\nAnother factor, though, will be cultural. Many people will still want to eat lamb chops that look like lamb chops.\n\nProfessor Leon Terry from Cranfield University told BBC News there was growing interest from investors in novel foods.\n\n“There is increased momentum and investment round synthetic foods,” he said. But he asked: \"Is there really an appetite for their consumption?”", "The Iraqi military, which also reported no casualties, said the country was hit by 22 missiles between 01:45 and 02:15 local time on Wednesday (22:45-23:15 GMT on Tuesday).\n\nSeventeen missiles were fired towards Al Asad air base, it said.\n\nSatellite photographs taken by a commercial company, Planet, for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, showed what appeared to be at least five destroyed structures at Al Asad.\n\nDavid Schmerler, an analyst at the Middlebury Institute, told NPR : \"Some of the locations struck look like the missiles hit dead centre.\"\n\nTwo of the missiles aimed at Al Asad fell in the Hitan area, west of the town of Hit, and did not explode, according to the Iraqi military.\n\nPhotos of the remnants of one of those missiles, including three large parts of its fuselage, subsequently emerged on social media.\n\nThe Iraqi military said Iran fired five missiles towards Irbil air base, in the northern Kurdistan region.\n\nIt did not say how many hit the base, but state TV reported that two missiles landed in the village of Sidan, 16km (10 miles) north-west of the city of Irbil, and that a third missile came down in the Bardah Rashsh area, about 47km north-west of Irbil.\n\nJournalists meanwhile photographed residents standing beside what they believed was the crater caused by the missile that hit Bardah Rashsh.", "Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, Sam Zokaei and Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board\n\nTributes have been paid to three British nationals who died when a Ukrainian plane crashed in Iran.\n\nMohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, who owned a dry cleaners, BP engineer Sam Zokaei and PhD student and engineer Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board the flight.\n\nThey were among the 176 people from seven countries who died in the crash.\n\nUkraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed just after taking off from Imam Khomeini airport at 06:12 local time (02:42 GMT).\n\nThe airline said the plane underwent scheduled maintenance on Monday.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the UK was \"working closely with the Ukrainian authorities and the Iranian authorities\" over the crash, and there was \"no indication\" the plane was brought down by a missile.\n\nIran said it will not hand over black box flight recorders recovered from the plane. Under global aviation rules, Iran has the right to lead the investigation, but manufacturers are typically involved and experts say few countries are capable of analysing black boxes.\n\nAs well as the three Britons, the victims in the crash included 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians - including all of the crew, 10 Swedes, four Afghans and three Germans, Ukraine foreign affairs minister Vadym Prystaiko said.\n\nRescue teams were sent to the crash site but the head of Iran's Red Crescent told state media that it was \"impossible\" for anyone to have survived the crash.\n\nTributes were paid locally to Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh, 40, who ran a neighbourhood dry cleaners in Hassocks, West Sussex, and had a nine-year-old daughter.\n\nSteve Edgington from the pet shop next door said he had known Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh for 14 years, and described him as a lovely, hardworking man who was good at his job and loved by staff.\n\nSavvas Savvidis, 36, who rented a room in Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh's home in Brighton, said he was a \"super-nice person\".\n\n\"It's so sad. Before he left we had a conversation, he told me that he spent all his life working, working really hard, and now finally he wants to start to enjoy life a bit more.\"\n\nMr Savvidis described Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh as a humble man who loved his daughter very much.\n\nThe dry cleaners closed on Wednesday, with neighbouring businesses telling the BBC that staff were too upset to stay open.\n\nA sign on the window of Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh's dry cleaners in Hassocks\n\nMeanwhile, in a statement, BP said \"with the deepest regret\" that its employee Mr Zokaei, 42, from Twickenham, was among the passengers.\n\nMr Zokaei had been on holiday. He had worked for BP for 14 years and was based at the company's site in Sunbury-on-Thames in Surrey.\n\n\"We are shocked and deeply saddened by this tragic loss of our friend and colleague and all of our thoughts are with his family and friends,\" BP said.\n\nA friend of Mr Zokaei, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC they were \"still in shock\".\n\n\"He was a highly accomplished person. Very clever and very friendly. Always smiling and full of positive energy. He will be sorely missed.\n\n\"He was always trying new adventures. He cycled and toured Europe on bikes a few times. He also loved travelling to interesting far out places.\"\n\nAlso killed was Mr Tahmasebi, 35, who worked as an engineer for Laing O'Rourke in Dartford.\n\nLast year, Mr Tahmasebi married his Iranian partner, Niloufar Ebrahim, who was also listed as a passenger on the plane.\n\nMr Tahmasebi, pictured here last Valentine's Day, recently married his partner\n\n\"Everyone here is shocked and saddened by this very tragic news,\" said Laing O'Rourke.\n\n\"Saeed was a popular and well respected engineer and will be missed by many of his colleagues. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this most difficult time and we will do all we can to support them through it.\"\n\nMr Tahmasebi - whose full name was Saeed Tahmasebi Khademasadi - was also a part-time PhD student at Imperial College London's Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation.\n\nA spokeswoman for the university said: \"We are deeply saddened at this tragic news. Saeed Tahmasebi Khademasadi was a brilliant engineer with a bright future.\n\n\"His contributions to systems engineering earned respect from everyone who dealt with him and will benefit society for years to come.\n\n\"He was a warm, humble and generous colleague and close friend to many in our community. Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with Saeed's family, friends and colleagues, as well as all those affected by this tragedy.\"\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both said their thoughts were with the families of those killed.\n\nA UK Foreign Office spokesman has said: \"We are deeply saddened by the loss of life in the plane crash in Iran overnight.\"\n\nThey said it was \"urgently seeking confirmation\" about how many British nationals were on board and would be supporting any families affected.\n\nMelinda Simmons, British ambassador to Ukraine, said her thoughts are with those affected.\n\nUkraine's state aviation service has forbidden its national airlines from using Iranian airspace from Thursday, with the restrictions in place until an investigation into the cause of the crash has concluded.\n\nUkraine's embassy in Tehran and Iranian state television both initially said technical issues caused the crash.\n\nBut the embassy later removed this statement and said any comment regarding the cause of the accident prior to a commission's inquiry was not official.\n\nUkraine said its entire civilian aviation fleet would be checked for airworthiness and criminal proceedings would be opened into the disaster.\n\nThe country's president warned against \"speculation or unchecked theories regarding the catastrophe\" until official reports were ready.\n\nFlowers were laid outside the Canadian embassy in Kiev in remembrance of the 63 Canadians on board the flight\n\nUkrainian International Airlines said the flight disappeared from radar just a \"few minutes\" after take-off.\n\nThe Ukrainian national carrier said according to preliminary data there were 167 passengers and nine crew members on board but its staff were \"clarifying the exact number\".\n\n\"The airline expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the victims of the air crash and will do everything possible to support the relatives of the victims,\" a statement said.\n\nThe airline, which is investigating the crash, said the aircraft - a Boeing 737-800 - was built in 2016 and had its last scheduled maintenance on Monday.\n\nThere was no sign of any problems with the plane before take-off and the airline's president said it had an \"excellent, reliable crew\".\n\nA statement from Boeing said its \"heartfelt thoughts\" were with all those affected following the \"tragic event\".\n\nThere are several thousand Boeing 737-800s in operation around the world which have completed tens of millions of flights. They have been involved in 10 incidents, including this crash, where at least one passenger was killed, aviation safety analyst Todd Curtis told the BBC.\n\nThis is the first time a Ukraine International Airlines plane has been involved in a fatal crash.", "Millions of Iranians turned out for Qasem Soleimani's funeral\n\nGiven the significance of General Qasem Soleimani and the passions that his killing aroused, Iran's military strike against US bases in Iraq was a modest response.\n\nIran is claiming to have inflicted significant US casualties but this does not appear to be the case. The US says that its radars provided warning of the attacks and the Iranian missiles appear to have landed in areas where there were no US forces present.\n\nThe question now is what happens next. Is this the end of Iran's retaliation? Only time will tell.\n\nAny dramatic Iranian response - the assassination of a high-ranking US officer for example - would take time and depend upon both detailed planning and opportunity.\n\nIran said that it would respond. It said that the response would come from the Iranian military and not an ally or proxy. And in using missiles, fired from within Iran itself, Tehran has done what it said it would.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage, reportedly of the missile attack, was shown on Iranian state TV\n\nIndeed the initial mood music from both Tehran and Washington suggests the potential for de-escalation.\n\nPresident Trump's initial tweet was mild and seemingly reassuring about the absence of US casualties. The Iranians too seem to be signalling - for all the continuing threats - that this could be the moment for both sides to pause and take breath. It is clear that neither the US nor Iran, for all their rhetoric, want a wider conflict.\n\nSo this could be a moment to try to reduce tensions. But this is just a dangerous spike in an unfolding competition between Iran and the US for regional influence. It is hard to see Iranian policy changing. It is still going to try to secure its regional goals, not least, the departure of US forces from Iraq. The Soleimani killing has weakened the US position there. US officials insist that they have no desire or reason to pull out.\n\nThe Iraqi parliament has called for a withdrawal of US forces, but the resolution has no legal weight. Iraq's current political difficulties mean any formal decision on the future of the US presence could be some time away. But many analysts believe that Washington's position in Iraq is more tenuous than it was a few weeks ago.\n\nIt is also important to remember that this episode of direct confrontation between Tehran and Washington was preceded by a long-running Iranian campaign over many years to hamper US activities in the region. Indeed it was rocket attacks from Iran's proxies - a local Shia militia - against US bases in Iraq that formed the prelude to this recent crisis. This then raises a whole series of questions.\n\nIn killing the Quds Force leader Gen Soleimani has the US now established any measure of deterrence? Will Tehran seek to constrain its allies in the region to avert further attacks against US bases or interests? And if not, will Iranian-inspired attacks resume in due course? What will President Trump do then?\n\nSo is this crisis over? This could be the end of one particularly dangerous episode, but the bitter regional tensions and strategic rivalry remain. Gen Soleimani's death is going to cast a shadow over the interactions between the US and Iran for many years to come.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Iraqi security forces find and collect pieces of the missiles\n\nDominic Raab has condemned a ballistic missile attack by Iran on air bases in Iraq where coalition forces, including British personnel, are stationed.\n\nThe foreign secretary urged Iran not to repeat \"reckless and dangerous attacks\" after strikes on bases in Irbil in the north, and al Asad, west of Baghdad.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said there were no UK casualties.\n\nIran's Revolutionary Guard said the action was in retaliation for the death of General Qasem Soleimani on Friday.\n\nHe was killed outside Baghdad airport in a missile strike ordered by US President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Raab said he was concerned by reports of casualties and that a war in the Middle East would only benefit terrorist groups.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will update the House of Commons later, and discuss the situation at a meeting with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nActing Lib Dem leader Sr Ed Davey urged the PM to ensure \"dialogue and a de-escalation of this intensifying situation\" and said the strikes should be \"unequivocally condemned\".\n\nIran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei described the attack as \"a slap in the face\" for the US.\n\nThe missile attack showed just a \"small part\" of the capabilities of the Iranian armed forces, the chief of staff the military said\n\nBut Iran's ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, said the attack was an act of self-defence and the country \"does not seek escalation or war\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe US president tweeted \"all is well\" following the strikes, adding that casualties and damage were being assessed and that he would make a statement on Wednesday morning.\n\nBBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said there was provocative language used on both sides of the crisis, in Washington and Tehran.\n\nSpeaking on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, he added that the attack may mark the end of Iran's overt retaliation but there are a number of ways the country could choose to respond covertly in the coming weeks and months.\n\n\"The hardliners in Iran will still be baying for blood, so it's quite provocative for Donald Trump to say 'all is well',\" he said.\n\n\"There are hardliners in the Iranian deep state - the whole security, intelligence and judicial apparatus - who distrust everything that the outside world and particularly the West does.\n\n\"They will want to carry on harassing and attacking US interest in the region until America leaves altogether.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage, reportedly of the missile attack, was shown on Iranian state TV\n\nMore than a dozen missiles were fired from Iranian territories into Iraq at about 02:00 local time on Wednesday (22:30 GMT, Tuesday).\n\nThe al Asad airbase - located in the Anbar province of western Iraq - was hit by at least six missiles.\n\nThere are around 400 UK troops stationed in Iraq, primarily to assist Iraqi troops in defeating IS.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman added: \"We are urgently working to establish the facts on the ground. Our first priority continues to be the security of British personnel.\"\n\nIn the UK, police are \"extremely alert\" to any impact the crisis in Iran may have in Britain, the Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has said.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK put the Royal Navy and military helicopters on standby in the Gulf amid the rising tensions in the Middle East.\n\nThe government said non-essential UK personnel had also been moved out of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.\n\nIran vowed \"severe revenge\" following the assassination of Soleimani on 3 January.\n\nThe general - who controlled Iran's proxy forces across the Middle East - was regarded as a terrorist by the US government.", "A machine that rapidly chills packaged drinks is on show at the CES tech expo.\n\nThe start-up involved hopes to launch Juno later this year to cool cans and bottles of drink at point of use, meaning they do not need to be stored in refrigerators in advance.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Fox tested the prototype being exhibited in Las Vegas.\n\nCatch up with all the BBC's CES 2020 coverage", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters say they believe the British woman's rape claim\n\nA British woman found guilty of lying about being raped by a group of young Israelis in Cyprus has landed back in the UK.\n\nThe 19-year-old was given a four-month sentence, suspended for three years, and ordered to pay €148 (£125) in legal fees by a court in Paralimni earlier.\n\nShe arrived at Heathrow airport with her mother but avoided waiting media.\n\nHer lawyer said she is planning to appeal against her conviction and the case was \"not finished by any means\".\n\nThe teenager was put on trial and convicted in December after recanting a claim that she had been raped by a group of 12 young men in a hotel room in July.\n\nShe said Cypriot police had made her falsely confess to lying about the incident - something police have denied.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, her lawyer, Lewis Power QC, said: \"We will be seeking an expedited appeal to the Supreme Court of Cyprus and we will also be considering going to the European Court of Human Rights.\n\n\"We do not feel we have had justice in terms of how the trial progressed, the manner in which it was conducted, the initial police investigation and the fact that we feel she did not receive a fair trial.\"\n\nIn an interview with the Sun newspaper before arriving home, the teenager said: \"I really thought it would be a custodial sentence when I arrived at court. When the translator said four months, I thought I was going to jail.\n\n\"It was only when she said suspended that I realised I was actually finally going home. I looked at my mum and we both had tears in our eyes.\n\n\"It's been a nightmare for me, mum and everyone,\" she said. \"What kept me going was my family and the amazing support of my friends and all other people who got in contact to say they believed me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We're pleased she's going home,\" lawyer Lewis Power QC says\n\nIn court on Tuesday, Judge Michalis Papathanasiou told the teenager he was giving her a \"second chance\" by suspending her sentence - allowing her to fly back to the UK.\n\nHe said the woman's \"psychological state, her youth, that she has been away from her family, her friends and academic studies this year\" had led him to the decision.\n\nBBC world affairs correspondent Caroline Hawley said the case \"has had diplomatic ramifications\" for Cyprus and the UK's relationship.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, Boris Johnson's spokesman said the UK prime minister was \"pleased\" she could now return home.\n\nHowever, Downing Street said the UK government had highlighted its \"concerns about the judicial process in this case and the woman's right to a fair trial\" to the Cypriot authorities.\n\nThis is a case that has had diplomatic ramifications.\n\nThere's been disquiet over the teenager's treatment by police and her trial and last week the Foreign Office took the unusual step of calling the case \"deeply distressing\".\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab spoke to his Cypriot counterpart last Friday and the UK government says it will now be working with Cyprus to make sure a case like this can never happen again.\n\nCyprus, a former UK colony, attracts huge numbers of British holidaymakers every year and there have been calls for a boycott.\n\nBut it's also a country that has been forging closer relations with Israel of late. It recently signed a gas deal for a pipeline and that has led some to question whether this could have had any bearing on the handling of the whole case.\n\nCampaigners also point out that a rape claim would potentially be a PR disaster for the holiday island.\n\nThe Briton's conviction has also been met with a backlash from women's rights groups in Cyprus, Israel and the UK.\n\nSupporters from Cyprus and a group of 50 women who travelled from Israel gathered outside the Famagusta District Court on Tuesday holding placards.\n\nOrit Sulitzeanu, head of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, told BBC News the conviction was \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"She is not to blame at all,\" Ms Sulitzeanu said. \"This sentence reflects backward thinking and not understanding the dynamics of rape. The judge here must learn what happens to the victim of sexual abuse.\"\n\nOrit Sulitzeanu (right) with supporters from Israel\n\nSusana Pavlou, director at the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies in Cyprus, said the case had sparked a \"culture of protest\" in the country.\n\n\"This year it has been revealed how broken our criminal justice system is - broadly in terms of police and social services response to violence against women, and the lack of specialist services.\n\n\"It's heartening to see how this has ignited women's rights campaigners and a women's rights movement focusing on this issue.\n\n\"This is not going to go away, we will not be silenced.\"\n\nThe teenager told police she was raped on 17 July at the Pambos Napa Rocks Hotel.\n\nTwelve men were arrested but later freed and returned home after she retracted her claims.\n\nShe was charged and spent about a month in prison before being granted bail in August ahead of her trial, at which she pleaded not guilty to causing public mischief by falsely accusing the group of raping her.", "Veteran Labour MP Barry Gardiner has said he is considering running for the party's leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, the shadow energy minister said colleagues had told him he could bring \"dynamism to the debate\".\n\nCandidates have until 13 January to win the backing of the 22 MPs and MEPs needed to get on the ballot paper.\n\nOn Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer became the first candidate to pass this threshold, amassing 41 nominations.\n\nHe also won the backing of the UK's largest union Unison, the first union to state a preference.\n\nThe other contenders to succeed leader Jeremy Corbyn are shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis, Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy.\n\nThe party's new leader and deputy will be announced on 4 April.\n\nMr Gardiner, who is at a climate change conference in Abu Dhabi, has been MP for Brent North since 1997. He has served in Mr Corbyn's frontbench team since 2016.\n\nHe said he would run if he believed he had \"the best chance of winning a general election\".\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey dismissed claims he had approached Mr Gardiner about running because of his concerns about the chances of Mrs Long Bailey, who is regarded as the standard bearer for the left of the party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Len McCluskey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnite, Labour's largest financial backer, has said it will not make a decision on who to back until later this month.\n\nMr Gardiner said Mr McCluskey had not asked him to stand but added he would be happy to talk to the union leader.\n\nMrs Long Bailey currently has 17 nominations, one more than Mrs Phillips. Ms Nandy has 12, Ms Thornberry three and Mr Lewis one.", "The Commons Speaker said the officers' actions should be recognised\n\nThe Commons Speaker has hailed the bravery of Parliament's security team after they saved a man who fell into the River Thames near the building.\n\nRon Dowson and Habibi Syaaf came to the rescue on Tuesday after the man was found submerged in the freezing water.\n\nSpeaker Lindsay Hoyle said the duo, and another man who alerted the officers after seeing the incident on CCTV, should be recognised for their actions.\n\nMr Syaaf said they were \"not heroes\" and \"did what we were trained for\".\n\nThe incident took place on Victoria Tower Gardens, on the north side of the Thames.\n\nMr Syaaf, a Met Police constable, and Mr Dowson, part of Parliament's security detail, found the man clinging to the steps and \"struggling to breathe\".\n\n\"I got down to the last step and urged him to give me his hand, but as I did he lost his grip from a metal mooring ring and started drifting away,\" explained Mr Syaaf, who has only been working in Parliament for two months.\n\n\"I just shouted 'grab my hand' and managed to pull him back onto the first step... The guy was shaking and could not speak.\n\n\"I am just so grateful he survived. I'm not a hero - Ron and I just did what we are trained for and what we could do to help.\"\n\nSir Lindsay also praised the quick thinking of control room operator Dave Thomas. He spotted the man falling into the water on CCTV and alerted the officers as well as the Police Marine Unit.\n\n\"There's no doubt in my mind that if it had not been for Ron, Habib and Dave Thomas, that man could have drowned,\" he said.\n\n\"We are so lucky to have so many brave security staff looking after us in Parliament but also keeping people in the vicinity safe. I would like to think their bravery could be recognised.\"", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Future medical advances are at risk because NHS pressures are hampering the ability of staff to take part in vital research, leading academics say.\n\nThe Academy of Medical Sciences said the number of doctors involved in research had fallen, while budgets had been frozen.\n\nIt said despite shortages of staff on the front line, more priority still needed to be given to research.\n\nThe government said it was looking to invest more in research generally.\n\nDuring the election, the Tories said they wanted to see funding double over the next five years to £18bn a year.\n\nThat is for the whole research sector - although the NHS is expected to be a major beneficiary of this.\n\nThe Academy of Medical Sciences said this would help, but NHS staff would need protected time to ensure they could take part in research.\n\nIt wants to see a pilot scheme launched involving 10 UK hospitals which would allow one in five consultants to have one day a week to carry out research.\n\nAcademy of Medical Sciences president Prof Sir Robert Lechler said investing in research was \"critical\" and needed to be prioritised even at a time when the NHS was struggling with a shortage of doctors and nurses.\n\n\"We are enjoying an exciting era of unprecedented medical discovery.\n\n\"Patients need us to convert this progress into new cures and better care.\"\n\nThe report by the Academy of Medical Sciences said the NHS had played a vital role in a number of important discoveries, including the link between smoking and lung cancer, and medical advances which led to progress on organ transplantation, stem cell research and the invention of MRI scanning.\n\nEvery year, more than one million people take part in research programmes involving the NHS.\n\nAll NHS trusts are involved in one way or another, whether that involves participating in trials or data analysis.\n\nMuch of the work relies on senior doctors taking on academic roles in partnership with universities to lead programmes.\n\nBut the proportion of consultants in England involved in such arrangements has fallen from 7.5% in 2004 to 4.2% in 2017, the report said.\n\nThis has happened as the budget for the National Institute for Health Research, the main funding body for the sector, has seen its budget frozen in recent years, the report added.\n\nSpending by pharmaceutical companies in the UK has also fallen.\n\nA spokesman for NHS England said research programmes in the health service were still growing despite the pressures.\n\n\"As NHS staffing expands further over the next five years, the opportunities for more research will increase.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "South Western Railway's auditor said there was \"significant doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern\"\n\nA rail firm has said it could lose its franchise after declaring a £137m loss.\n\nSouth Western Railway (SWR) said it was in talks with the government over the future of the contract, which is due to expire in 2024.\n\nThe operator, owned by FirstGroup and Hong Kong-based firm MTR, said it had been affected by issues including strikes and infrastructure reliability.\n\nSWR services were disrupted for 27 days in December by the latest in a series of strikes over the future of guards.\n\nRMT union members have staged a series of strikes over the future of guards\n\nSWR's accounts, for the year ending 31 March 2019, showed a loss after tax of £136.9m.\n\nIt said talks with the DfT could lead to a new contract or \"termination of the [current] contract within the next 12 months\".\n\nSWR said its owners had set aside funds for the \"maximum unavoidable loss\".\n\nA spokesman for the train operating company said: \"SWR's recent performance has been affected by issues including infrastructure reliability, timetabling delays and industrial action.\n\n\"We continue to be in ongoing and constructive discussions with the DfT.\"\n\nThe RMT rail union said the firm should be stripped of the franchise immediately to avoid a \"chaotic collapse\".\n\nRMT members have been involved in more than two years of strikes over a move by SWR to allow drivers to operate train doors.\n\nSWR has not been balancing the books for some time. After two years of strikes by guards in the RMT union, that isn't a surprise.\n\nNew trains are late, the infrastructure has been unreliable and performance has been falling for years. This railway is not doing well and most of its promises to passengers have not been met.\n\nBut here, in black and white for the first time, is an acknowledgment by the new managing director, Mark Hopwood, that the company could fail. Operations could be transferred to a government controlled body.\n\nI don't think it's the most likely outcome. A new deal with revised terms is more likely. But what's clear is that the option of last resort is being actively considered.\n\nA DfT spokesperson said: \"We monitor the financial health of all our franchises closely and we expect them to meet their contractual obligations.\n\n\"The government will shortly bring forward a White Paper containing reforms recommended by the Williams Review that will put passengers first, end the complicated franchising model and simplify fares.\"\n\nSWR operates routes between London Waterloo, Reading, Bristol, Exeter, Weymouth, and Portsmouth, as well as Island Line on the Isle of Wight.\n\nFirstGroup and MTR were awarded the franchise in August 2017, after outbidding previous operator Stagecoach.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Helen McCourt was murdered by Ian Simms in Billinge, Merseyside, in 1988\n\nA man jailed over the 1988 murder of Helen McCourt is to be released after an appeal to keep him behind bars was rejected.\n\nIan Simms, 63, was convicted of killing the 22-year-old, who disappeared in Merseyside, but has never revealed where he hid her remains.\n\nHer mother, who appealed against the Parole Board's recommendation for his release, said she was \"disappointed\".\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice has now been ordered to free Simms.\n\nThe Parole Board said it was \"satisfied that imprisonment is no longer necessary for the protection of the public\".\n\nSimms, who never admitted his guilt, killed Ms McCourt as she walked home from work in Liverpool.\n\nHer mother Marie said in a statement: \"I am very disappointed with the Parole Board's announcement and do not accept what they are saying - that Simms is safe to be released.\n\n\"I am consulting my legal team to discuss my next steps.\"\n\nShe has previously said she was left shaking with anger after receiving a call from her victim liaison officer at the Parole Board confirming Simms' likely release.\n\nIan Simms, pictured here in 1988, was jailed for murder\n\nMrs McCourt has urged the government to introduce Helen's Law, legislation that would deny parole to killers who do not disclose their victims' remains.\n\nThe bill recently ran out of time, when the general election was called.\n\nSimms was denied release at a hearing in 2016, but was later transferred to an open prison \"due to progress made\", where he had \"followed the rules\" when granted temporary release.\n\nMrs McCourt has described not knowing the whereabouts of her daughter's body as \"torture\".\n\nA Parole Board spokesman said: \"The Parole Board has decided that the original decision to release Ian Simms should stand, after considering a reconsideration application from the Secretary of State.\n\n\"Whilst the Parole Board has every sympathy with Helen McCourt's family, if the board is satisfied that imprisonment is no longer necessary for the protection of the public, they are legally obliged to direct release.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has previously announced HMS Montrose will resume duties escorting shipping through the Straits of Hormuz\n\nThe UK has put the Royal Navy and military helicopters on standby amid rising tensions in the Middle East, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nThe government was putting in place \"urgent measures\" to protect British nationals and interests in the region, Mr Wallace told the House of Commons.\n\nHe said non-essential UK personnel had also been moved out of Baghdad.\n\nHis comments come in the wake of the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Iraq on Friday.\n\nMr Wallace, answering questions from MPs on the growing crisis, reiterated the government's calls for all sides to \"de-escalate\".\n\nBut hours after his statement, the US Department of Defence said an airbase housing US troops in Iraq had been hit by more than a dozen ballistic missiles.\n\nIranian state TV said the attack was in retaliation to Soleimani's death.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said all British service personnel in Iraq had been accounted for and there were no British casualties following the attacks.\n\nAnd a government spokesperson said: \"Our first priority continues to be the security of British personnel.\"\n\nThere are around 400 UK troops stationed in Iraq, primarily to assist in defeating IS.\n\nWhen asked earlier on Tuesday about the prospect of a UK military strike on Iran, Mr Wallace said he was \"not going to rule out anything\".\n\nHe said if British citizens or armed service personnel were killed by Iranian actions the UK's response \"would no doubt be proportionate\".\n\n\"The UK will do what it has to do to defend its persons, its citizens and wherever it needs to do that. That is our duty.\"\n\nThe defence secretary also said the Department for Transport was reviewing its advice to British shipping on a daily basis, while \"a small team\" had been sent to the region to provide assistance with \"situational awareness and contingency planning\".\n\nAsked by Labour MP Chi Onwurah about the risks of the UK's \"unquestioning\" support of President Donald Trump - who ordered the drone strike - Mr Wallace said the support was \"not unquestioning at all\".\n\nHe added: \"We are friends and allies but we are also critical friends and allies when it matters.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn wanted to know why Boris Johnson was not addressing MPs\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of \"hiding behind his defence secretary\" by not making the Commons statement himself.\n\nMr Corbyn said that the US killing of Soleimani amounted to \"an illegal act\" and now what was urgently required was \"dialogue preferably through the UN\".\n\nHe said it was \"very odd\" that the prime minister \"couldn't be bothered to come and answer questions\" in Parliament on the matter.\n\nResponding, Mr Wallace said: \"This prime minister actually believes in a cabinet government and letting the members of the cabinet who are responsible for the policy come to the House to be able to answer the questions around the policy matter.\"\n\nMinisters have been chorusing the case for constraint and there is a lot of talking going on.\n\nThe defence secretary and the foreign secretary have been in touch with their counterparts in the region and in Europe and Boris Johnson has been on the phone to President Trump and to the Iraqi leadership.\n\nBut he hasn't spoken publicly and he was conspicuous by his absence in the Commons today, which laid him open to mockery and accusations of weakness from Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe official line is ministers are being left to do their job. Senior Conservatives point out that past prime ministers tended to be front and centre when dealing with a crisis on this kind of scale.", "A Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 crashed shortly after take-off in Iran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board.\n\nIn total, 82 Iranians and 63 Canadians were on board the Kyiv-bound Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Flight PS752, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said.\n\nThere were also 11 victims - including nine crew members - from Ukraine, four Afghans, four Britons and three Germans.\n\nIran's head of emergency operations said 147 of the victims were Iranian, which suggests many of the foreign nationals held dual nationality.\n\nA list of passengers was released by the airline, but the BBC is awaiting confirmation from people known to the victims.\n\nThe majority of the passengers on the flight were headed for Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed. Out of the 176 victims, 138 had listed Canada as their final destination.\n\nOf them, 57 of them carried a Canadian passport, but many others were foreign students, permanent residents or visitors.\n\nInitially, the number of Canadian victims was given as 63.\n\nA number of the passengers on board the plane were reportedly students and university staff from Canada returning at the end of the holidays.\n\nThe tragedy was a national one, touching many communities across the country.\n\nArdalan Ebnoddin Hamidi, Niloofar Razzaghi and their teenage son Kamyar, a family of three from Vancouver were returning from Iran where they had taken a short vacation and were confirmed to have been on the flight.\n\nThe University of British Columbia said it is mourning the loss of Mehran Abtahi, a postdoctoral research fellow, and sibling alumnus Zeynab Asadi Lari and Mohammad Asadi Lari.\n\n\"She was full of dreams, and now they're gone,\" Elnaz Morshedi told the BBC of her friend Zeynab Asadi Lari, who was studying health sciences.\n\nHer brother Mohammmad was the co-founder of STEM fellowship, a youth-run charity that helps students in maths and sciences.\n\nOther victims from the west coast province include Delaram Dadashnejad, an international student studying nutrition at a college in Vancouver, and couple Naser Pourshaban Oshibi and Firouzeh Madani.\n\nThe University of Alberta confirmed that 10 members of the institution's community were killed in the tragedy.\n\nPedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand, a married couple who taught engineering at the University of Alberta, were killed in the crash, along with their two daughters, Daria, 14, and Dorina, 9.\n\nPedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand with their two daughters\n\nArash Pourzarabi, 26,and Pouneh Gourji, 25, were graduate students in computer science at the university, and had gone to Iran for their wedding.\n\nOther students who died included Elnaz Nabiyi, Nasim Rahmanifar, and Amir Saeedinia, as well as alumnus Mohammad Mahdi Elyasi, who studied mechanical engineering and graduated in 2017.\n\nObstetrician Shekoufeh Choupannejad, her daughter Saba Saadat, who was studying medicine at the university, and Sara, who had recently graduated, were also among those on the flight\n\nThe \"community is reeling from this loss,\" said university president David Turpin on Thursday.\n\nAlso from the province of Alberta was Kasra Saati, an aircraft mechanic formerly with Viking Air, the CBC confirmed.\n\nVictims from Winnipeg included Forough Khadem, described \"as a promising scientist and a dear friend,\" by her colleague E Eftekharpour.\n\n\"I can't use past tense. I think he's coming back. We play again. We talk again. It's too difficult to use past tense, too difficult. No one can believe it,\" his friend Amir Shirzadi told CTV News.\n\nAmirhossein Bahabadi Ghorbani, 21, was studying science at the University of Manitoba and hoped to become a doctor, his roommate told the CBC.\n\nCBC also confirmed that a family of three from that city - Mohammad Mahdi Sadeghi, his wife, Bahareh Hajesfandiari, and their daughter, Anisa Sadeghi, were travelling together on the flight.\n\nFarzaneh Naderi, a customer service manager at Walmart, and her 11-year-old son Noojan Sadr were also killed.\n\nMany of the victims were returning to their homes in Toronto and other nearby cities in the province of Ontario.\n\nThey included Ghanimat Azhdari - a PhD student at the University of Guelph, Ontario. She specialised in promoting the rights of indigenous groups and her research group described her as \"cherished and loved\".\n\nToronto resident Alina Tarbhai was also among the victims, her employer, the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation (OSSTF), told the BBC. Her mother Afifa Tarbhai was also on board.\n\nThe University of Windsor, Ontario, confirmed five people from their school had died on the plane. PhD student Hamid Kokab Setareh and his wife Samira Bashiri, who was also a researcher at the school, were among those killed.\n\nOmid Arsalani told CBC that his sister Evin Arsalani, 30, had travelled to Iran to attend a wedding with her husband, Hiva Molani, 38, and their one-year-old daughter Kurdia. All three were killed in the crash.\n\nThe University of Toronto confirmed the loss of students Mojtaba Abbasnezhad, Mohammad Amin Beiruti, and Mohammad Amin Jebelli, and Mohammad Salehe.\n\nSeyed Hossein Mortazavi, a childhood friend of Mohammad Salehe, said he was a bit reserved and shy but a brilliant computer programmer whose talent was widely recognised.\n\nMcMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario confirmed the loss of PhD students Iman Aghabali and Mehdi Eshaghian, as well as of former postdoctoral researcher Siavash Maghsoudlou Estarabadi.\n\nThe CBC confirmed that Mahdieh Ghassemi and her two children Arsan Niazi and Arnica Niazi, were on the flight.\n\nTirgan, an Iranian cultural charity, said \"it is with a heavy heart that we bid farewell\" to some volunteers with their organisation, including couple Parinaz and Iman Ghaderpanah.\n\nThe organisation said it was joining in mourning with another volunteer, Hamed Esmaeilion, who lost his wife Parisa Eghbalian, and their daughter Reera Esmaeilion.\n\nWestern University said it was mourning four international students: Ghazal Nourian, Milad Nahavandi, Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Sajedeh Saraeian.\n\nThe University of Waterloo shared the news \"with heavy hearts\" that their community had lost two PhD students Marzieh (Mari) Foroutan and Mansour Esnaashary Esfahani.\n\nEngineer Siavash Ghafouri-Azar was returning home with his new wife, Sara Mamani, when the plane crashed. The couple had just bought their first home near the Canadian city of Montreal.\n\nHis uncle, Reza Ghafouri-Azar, told the BBC \"I cannot come up with words for my kind, dedicated nephew.\"\n\n\"He has been a very positive and passionate from childhood until his soul's departure from his body. Rest in peace my dearest side by your beloved wife,\" he said.\n\nMr Ghafouri-Azar is a professor of engineering in Toronto, and he introduced his nephew to Ali Dolatabadi, an engineering professor at Concordia University who would become Siavash's thesis supervisor.\n\n\"It is a great loss,\" Mr Dolatabadi told the BBC. \"He was very intelligent, a gentleman. He had a kind and a gentle soul.\" He said his wife Sarah Mamani was \"very kind, very polite\". The couple were looking forward to throwing a housewarming party in the New Year.\n\nArmin Morattab was worried when his twin Arvin Morattab, called him from the airport in Tehran, amid reports that Iran had fired missiles at US targets in Iraq.\n\n\"He said he was coming back home soon,\" Mr Morattab told the Montreal Gazette.\n\nArvin Morattab and his wife Aida Farzaneh were both killed.\n\nThe Gazette also confirmed that Mohammad Moeini, from Quebec, was also killed.\n\nGlobal News confirmed that five of the victims have ties to Nova Scotia, a province on Canada's east coast.\n\nDalhousie University student Masoumeh Ghavi, her sister, Mandieh Ghavi, were both killed, as was local dentist Dr. Sharieh Faghihi, and two graduate students at St Mary's University, Maryam Malek and Fatemeh Mahmoodi.\n\nAli Nafarieh, a professor at Dalhousie and president of the Iranian Cultural Association of Nova Scotia, employed Masoumeh Ghavi part-time at his IT company. He says she was one of the university's \"top students\".\n\n\"I remember she has always a smile on her face. What she brought in our company in addition to skills and knowledge and experience was her energy. She changed the atmosphere over there. We'll miss her a lot,\" he told CTV News.\n\nWe have no information on the 82 Iranian nationals who died.\n\nFour British nationals were among the victims.\n\nMohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, Sam Zokaei and Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board\n\nThree have been named as Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, who owned a dry cleaners in West Sussex, BP engineer Sam Zokaei from Twickenham, and PhD student and engineer Saeed Tahmasebi, who lived in Dartford.\n\nLast year, Mr Tahmasebi married his Iranian partner, Niloufar Ebrahim, who was also on the plane.\n\nMr Tahmasebi's colleagues at Imperial College London described him as \"a brilliant engineer with a bright future\", and said that his contributions to engineering \"will benefit society for years to come\".\n\nHis friend and business partner, Nima Shoja, told the BBC that Mr Tahmasebi and his wife were planning to have a baby.\n\n\"I talked with Saeed every other day,\" Mr Shoja said. \"I also tried to call him the day before his flight. [It] was late in Tehran and I was not successful.\n\n\"He sent me a message in the morning [saying], 'I will call you tomorrow' - the tomorrow that he did not have.\"\n\nTen Swedish nationals died in the crash. Many of them are believed to have also had Iranian citizenship.\n\nSwedish media report that several children were among the victims.\n\nSweden's foreign ministry confirmed that Swedes were among those killed. It provided no further details.\n\nNine of the 11 Ukrainian nationals killed were staff at Ukraine International Airlines (UIA).\n\nValeriia Ovcharuk, 28, and Mariia Mykytiuk, 24, were among the flight attendants who died.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by teplo_maria This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn their social media accounts, which are now being filled with tributes, they frequently shared photographs from their travels.\n\nValeria posted just two weeks ago from a hotel in Bangkok with the caption: \"Work, I love you.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by o_valeriia This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIhor Matkov, was flight PS752's chief attendant. The other three flight attendants were named by the airline as Kateryna Statnik, Yuliia Solohub and Denys Lykhno.\n\nThree pilots were on board at the time of the accident: Captain Volodymyr Gaponenko, First Officer Serhii Khomenko and instructor Oleksiy Naumkin.\n\nAll three had between 7,600 and 12,000 hours experience flying a 737 aircraft, according to the airline.\n\nA former UIA pilot said he had flown together with each of the three pilots. Writing on Facebook, Yuri, who wanted to be known only by his first name, described them as \"great pilots\".", "The action began at 08:00 GMT on Wednesday in a second wave of protests over pay and staffing levels.\n\nAbout 9,000 nurses across Northern Ireland have begun a 12-hour strike.\n\nThe action began at 08:00 GMT on Wednesday in a second wave of protests over pay and staffing levels.\n\nMore than 2,000 appointments and procedures have been cancelled, including a number of elective caesarean operations.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board said it expects \"significant disruption\". Information from health trusts on affected services can be found here.\n\nSome schools for children with special needs will be closed as they cannot provide medical cover.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing (RCN) director Pat Cullen told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme that nurses felt \"bullied\" by health officials.\n\nHer comments followed a warning by the heads of Northern Ireland's health trusts on Tuesday that this week's strikes could push the system \"beyond tipping point\".\n\nShe said there was a feeling among nurses that they were an \"easy target\" for budgetary cuts.\n\n\"Nurses don't need sympathy, they need action,\" she said.\n\n\"We need a health service that doesn't have trolleys lined up in every corridor.\n\n\"Yet again we see responsibility being transferred to the lowest paid workers and nurses having to take the brunt for bullying now going on and saying that those nurses are responsible for the mess we find ourselves in.\"\n\nSeamus McGoran, interim chief executive of the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, also speaking to BBC Radio Ulster, said staff were \"making a major statement\" through strike action and that trusts \"completely support the staff in their legitimate claim for pay parity\".\n\nHe added: \"We are not blaming staff for taking industrial action, we understand why they have taken the action they have taken.\n\n\"It is very important for staff to keep calm in this situation.\"\n\nBut he said there were concerns about the timing of the action during the \"busiest week of the year\".\n\n\"It is probably the straw that potentially could break the camel's back.\n\n\"This is going to be a difficult day.\"\n\nServices across health and social care will be affected.\n\nPatients with a scheduled outpatient appointment or who are due to have an operation who have not been contacted by their trust should attend as normal.\n\nClearly the unions are not for budging. They remain steadfast in their determination to highlight what they see as the injustice for both patients and staff across the health and social care system.\n\nWhile the health chiefs are speaking out at the eleventh hour, it is vital to remember that this just didn't sneak up on them.\n\nThe system has been stretched and understaffed for years - long before this strike action took place.\n\nAccording to the unions, the public have their backs. The support has not waned.\n\nBut what is different in this new year is that the hope of the assembly being up and running by now has almost diminished.\n\nThis week's strike action will go ahead on both Wednesday and Friday.\n\nThe problem is what happens if next week, there is no agreement between the political parties and the unthinkable happens - an election is called.\n\nHave the unions then backed themselves into a cul-de-sac?\n\nThat is the worry for everyone.\n\nThose patients whose service or appointment is cancelled will be notified by the trust. Appointments will be rescheduled.\n\nAll emergency departments (EDs) are expected to remain open.\n\nHowever, with fewer staff, there is likely to be an impact on how quickly patients are seen and discharged.\n\nMinor injury units in South Tyrone, Mid-Ulster and Bangor will be closed.\n\nA further strike involving members of both the RCN and health union Unison is due to take place on Friday.\n\nThe Department of Health has said it does not have the budget or the authority to meet union demands.\n\nThe first strike by Royal College of Nursing members took place in December. It was their first in the union's 103-year history.\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday evening, the RCN called for \"urgent measures to address unsafe staffing levels and deliver pay parity with colleagues from across the UK\".\n\nThe statement said there were almost 2,800 vacant nursing posts in Northern Ireland and pay had fallen by 15% in real terms in recent years.\n\nMs Cullen said employers and the Department of Health had known about the planned strikes since November 2019.\n\nShe said nurses had been left with \"no choice\".\n\n\"We all wish to see a rapid solution to this crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"However, this will not be secured by trying to blame nurses for the consequences of the decisions made by those in power.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Health and Social Care (HSC) organisation said: \"Our clear message is if you are seriously ill or injured, then the emergency department is the place to go.\"\n\nRCN nurses who are on strike are to receive a £45 support payment from the union.\n\nValerie Thompson, a deputy ward sister at Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital, said concerns over safe staffing levels and pay parity had brought her to the picket line.\n\n\"We need to have the proper amount of staff to care for our patients, give them the respects, dignity, care they deserve,\" she said.\n\n\"We are a loyal workforce; we get on with it, and rally around.\n\n\"But it is difficult. We miss breaks, go home late, staff are just exhausted.\"\n\nThe deputy ward sister said nurses \"have to stand up for what is right\".", "Air France said an investigation was under way\n\nThe body of a child aged about 10 has been found in the undercarriage of a plane that had arrived in Paris from Abidjan, sources close to the investigation have told French media.\n\nAir France confirmed that \"the lifeless body of a stowaway\" was discovered at Charles de Gaulle Airport early in the morning.\n\nThe body was found in the well of the landing gear of the aircraft that flew in from Ivory Coast, it said.\n\nAn investigation is under way.\n\n\"The airline expresses their condolences and deplores this human tragedy,\" Air France said in a tweet, without specifying the age of person found.\n\nThe National Gendarmerie confirmed to the BBC that the body discovered at 06:40 local time (05:40 GMT) was of \"African origin\".\n\nThe Air France Boeing 777 had taken off from Abidjan, Ivory Coast's main city, on Tuesday evening.\n\nAn Ivorian security source told the AFP news agency: \"Aside from the human drama, this shows a major failing of security at Abidjan airport.\"\n• None What is Ivory Coast like?", "Thousands of camels in South Australia will be shot dead from helicopters as a result of extreme heat and drought.\n\nA five-day cull started on Wednesday, as Aboriginal communities in the region have reported large groups of camels damaging towns and buildings.\n\n\"They are roaming the streets looking for water. We are worried about the safety of the young children\", says Marita Baker, who lives in the community of Kanypi.\n\nSome feral horses will also be killed.\n\nCamels were brought to Australia in the 19th century and have since become feral\n\nThe marksmen who will shoot the animals come from Australia's department for environment and water.\n\nHot and dry conditions have led to huge bush fires across Australia in the last few months, but the country's drought has lasted for years. The camel cull is not directly linked to the fires crisis.\n\nThe slaughter will take place in the area of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) - a sparsely-populated part of South Australia which is home to a number of indigenous groups.\n\n\"There is extreme pressure on remote Aboirignal communities in the APY lands and their pastoral [livestock] operations as the camels search for water,\" says APY's general manager Richard King in a statement.\n\n\"Given ongoing dry conditions and the large camel congregations threatening all of the main APY communities and infrastructure, immediate camel control is needed,\" he adds.\n\n\"We have been stuck in stinking hot and uncomfortable conditions, feeling unwell, because all the camels are coming in and knocking down fences, getting in around the houses and trying to get water through air-conditioners,\" says APY Executive Board Member Marita Baker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australia fires: \"Nothing left\" for animals that survive\n\nCamels aren't native to Australia - they were brought over by British settlers from India, Afghanistan and the Middle East in the 19th century.\n\nEstimates of numbers of camels vary but there are thought to be hundreds of thousands of them across the central parts of the country.\n\nThey can damage fences, farm equipment and settlements, and also drink water which is needed by people who live there.\n\nThey also emit methane, a greenhouse gas which contributes to climate change.\n\nAustralian bushfires have left at least 25 people dead since September.\n\nAbout 2,000 homes have been destroyed. The eastern and southern sides of the country have been the worst-affected - and many animals have also been killed in the fires.\n\nAustralia always has fires at this time of year, but they are a lot worse than normal this season.\n\nThe country has been getting hotter over recent decades and is expected to continue doing so.\n\nScientists have long warned that this hotter, drier climate will contribute to fires becoming more frequent and more intense.\n\nThe daughter of Rural Fire Service volunteer Andrew O'Dwyer in front of her fathers casket. The firefighter died on 19 December when a burning tree fell on his fire truck.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nThe government has called on the Football Association to immediately reconsider its decision to sell FA Cup broadcast rights via a third party to a gambling website.\n\nThe Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport says \"things have moved on\" since the contract was signed.\n\n\"I hope they will reconsider,\" Nicky Morgan said on Twitter.\n\nSince the start of last season, bookmaker Bet365 has had rights to show FA Cup ties on its website and app.\n\nThe matches are available to anyone who had placed a bet or put a deposit in their account in the 24 hours before kick-off.\n\nSports minister Nigel Adams added: \"The gambling landscape has changed since this deal was signed in early 2017. All sports bodies need to be mindful of the impact that problem gambling can have on the most vulnerable.\"\n\nThe FA has said it will \"review this element of the media rights sales process ahead of tendering rights from the 2024-25 season\".\n\nTwenty-three third-round matches were available to watch on Bet365 last weekend - all those that did not kick off at 15:01 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe FA announced it was cutting its ties with gambling firms in July 2017, but this deal was done in January 2017.\n\n\"The FA agreed a media rights deal with IMG in early 2017, part of which permits them to sell the right to show live footage or clips of FA Cup matches to bookmakers,\" it said. \"Bet365 acquired these rights from IMG to use from the start of the 2018-19 season.\n\n\"This deal was agreed before we made a clear decision on the FA's relationship with gambling companies in June 2017 when we ended our partnership with Ladbrokes.\"\n\nFormer sports minister Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, said she was \"deeply uncomfortable and disappointed by the sale\".\n\nCrouch, who resigned from her cabinet post in 2018 over delays to a crackdown on the regulation of fixed-odds betting terminals, said the FA had \"always given the impression that they are conscious of the problems associated with gambling\".\n\n\"Given the current challenges of regulating online gambling it will inevitably expose vulnerable people, including children, to gambling - something that can lead to long-term problems for society.\"\n\nAll matches in the FA Cup third round started a minute late as part of the FA's Heads Up mental health campaign.\n\nBet365 said in a statement: \"Bet365 does not sponsor the FA or the FA Cup and does not have any direct commercial agreement with the FA.\n\n\"Bet365, along with multiple other operators, has the right to live stream certain FA Cup matches through a long standing media rights deal with IMG.\n\n\"There is no obligation on Bet365's customers to place a bet on any FA Cup match to enjoy the live streams at Bet365.\n\n\"To do so, customers are simply required to either have a funded Bet365 account or to have placed a bet on any event with Bet365 in the previous 24 hours.\n\n\"This requirement importantly ensures that all such customers are fully verified to prevent under-18s from accessing the service.\n\n\"Bet365 believes that these streaming services provide added value to its customers and enable them to watch FA Cup matches that they might not otherwise have been able to see.\"\n\nThe company's website says that gamblers are able to watch tennis, basketball, snooker, darts, cricket and squash through its streaming service.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figen Murray says she is \"over the moon\" Manchester will be the first to adopt tougher security checks\n\nClubs and venues in Manchester will be asked to adopt new anti-terror measures following a campaign by the mother of arena bomb victim Martyn Hett.\n\nThe 29-year-old was one of 22 people killed in the suicide bombing in 2017.\n\nHis mother Figen Murray has been lobbying the government to bring in Martyn's Law, which would see venues make tougher security checks.\n\nManchester City Council is aiming to be the first to bring in the changes by adopting new licensing rules.\n\nMs Murray said: \"I am absolutely over the moon with [the council] because obviously it is not a legal requirement yet - they have said voluntarily they are going to kick-start it.\n\n\"To me it's massive because I have been working so hard with a lot of other wonderful people on this.\"\n\nMartyn Hett was one of 22 people killed in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nMs Murray said she hoped other cities would follow suit.\n\nShe said: \"Across the road from my house I have a tree planted in Martyn's memory.\n\n\"I went there on 1 January at 8am while everybody was asleep and I said to Martyn, 'this is the year I am going to try and implement Martyn's Law. I will do my best for you Martyn'.\n\n\"As a mother what else can I do?\"\n\nCouncillors will be asked on Wednesday to approve a review of the way the council licenses premises, although initially its implementation would be voluntary.\n\nThe existing range of licensing conditions would be revised to incorporate specific counter-terrorism measures such as ensuring venues have a plan in place and staff training.\n\nWithout legislation, licensed venues cannot be compelled to implement Martyn's Law but the council said it may impose counter-terrorism conditions on new licences or where a licence is being varied.\n\nIt said any revised conditions could be introduced this year following a short public consultation.\n\nHowever, to include anti-terrorism measures into the formal Licensing Policy could not happen until January 2021.\n\nCouncil deputy leader Nigel Murphy said: \"We are proud to work with Figen to lead the way on bringing in an improved culture of safety in this country, but we need the government to take action.\n\n\"Only they have the power to get Martyn's Law onto the statute books and we hope it treats her campaign as a priority.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Following the horrendous attacks in 2017 the government is working to make venues and public spaces safer.\n\n\"This includes reviewing the law around protective security and preparedness arrangements and whether owners should be legally required to put in place counter-terror measures.\n\n\"We welcome the contribution made by Figen Murray and the Martyn's Law campaign to this work.\"\n\nMr Hett was killed along with 21 others when a bomb exploded at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017, which also left hundreds injured.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Customers of Travelex say they feel let down after being left with no travel money from the company which is in the midst of a cyber-attack.\n\nOne customer, Natalie Whiting from Stevenage, ordered £1,000 worth of euros online through Tesco.\n\n\"I haven't been able to get a refund of my money, it just seems to be in limbo,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOn Tuesday, the foreign currency trader confirmed that it is the victim of a ransomware attack.\n\nThe criminals behind the hack told the BBC they are demanding $6m (£4.6m) or company computer systems will be deleted and customer data sold online.\n\nTravelex says that there is no evidence customer data has been compromised.\n\nIn response to the cyber-attack, which was first discovered on New Year's Eve, Travelex took all computer systems offline, affecting thousands of sites in dozens of countries.\n\nCashiers have been resorting to using pen and paper to keep money moving at cash desks in airports and on high streets but orders online have been affected.\n\nBusiness partners which rely on Travelex for currency services, like Sainsbury's, Tesco and Virgin Money have also been affected.\n\n\"I ordered over £1,000 of euros from Tesco bank online for collection in my local Tesco store on 31 December, ready to be collected on 3 January,\" Ms Whiting told the BBC\n\n\"The money was taken from my account and an order confirmation was sent to me, but I went to Tesco to collect my euros last Friday to be told of the Travelex issue.\n\n\"I am now £1,000 out of pocket after saving up for so long and there's no information or help.\"\n\nTravelex confirmed to the BBC that no direct communication had been sent to customers about the attack, partly because all the computer systems are offline.\n\nVisitors to the Travelex UK website are told that the site is down for \"planned maintenance\" and partner sites, including Sainsbury's travel money, have similar messages.\n\nStephen Wright had to buy currency elsewhere\n\nStephen Wright, from Banff in north-east Scotland, is also furious with the way the company is handling the incident.\n\nHe said: \"I ordered euros on 23 December from Tesco bank. Delivery was due on 3 January but obviously, due to the problem with Travelex, nothing has yet arrived.\n\n\"There has been no communication from Tesco bank, so I called them. They simply say there is nothing they can do, that I must just wait until the problem is rectified, whenever that will be.\n\n\"I have been forced to purchase more euros elsewhere, leaving me considerably out of pocket.\"\n\nThe gang, also known as REvil, claims it first gained access to the company's computer network six months ago and has since downloaded 5 gigabytes of sensitive customer data.\n\nDates of birth, credit card information and national insurance numbers are all in their possession, they claim.\n\nHowever, a Travelex spokeswoman said on Tuesday night in a statement: \"Whilst the investigation is still ongoing, Travelex has confirmed that the software virus is ransomware known as Sodinokibi, also commonly referred to as REvil.\"\n\n\"Travelex has proactively taken steps to contain the spread of the ransomware, which has been successful. To date, the company can confirm that whilst there has been some data encryption, there is no evidence that structured personal customer data has been encrypted.\n\n\"Whist Travelex does not yet have a complete picture of all the data that has been encrypted, there is still no evidence to date that any data has been exfiltrated.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it had not received a data breach report from Travelex.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Organisations must notify the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of a personal data breach unless it does not pose a risk to people's rights and freedoms.\n\n\"If an organisation decides that a breach doesn't need to be reported, they should keep their own record of it and be able to explain why it wasn't reported if necessary.\"\n\nUnder General Data Protection Regulation, a company which fails to comply can face a maximum fine of 4% of its global turnover.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says its Cyber Crime team is leading the investigation into the attack.\n\nTravelex has not said whether or not they are negotiating with the hackers and have not given any timeframe for when normal service will resume.\n\nHave you been affected by the cyber-attack on Travelex? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n• None Travelex being held to ransom by hackers", "The London Pride parade was among the potential targets, the court heard\n\nA man who was cleared over a sword attack on police outside Buckingham Palace went on to plan a series of terror attacks, a court has heard.\n\nMohiussunnath Chowdhury, 28, was found not guilty of a terror charge over an incident outside the palace in 2017, Woolwich Crown Court heard.\n\nHe is accused of later planning attacks on places including London's Madame Tussauds and London Pride parade.\n\nHe appeared in court alongside his sister, Sneha Chowdhury, 25, who is accused of doing nothing to stop his plans.\n\nMs Chowdhury, of the same address, denies two charges of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism.\n\nWoolwich Crown Court heard that, in the attack outside Buckingham Palace in August 2017, two unarmed officers suffered cuts to their hands when they fought to disarm Mr Chowdhury as he shouted repeatedly \"Allahu Akbar\" (God is the greatest).\n\nMr Chowdhury had claimed the incident outside Buckingham Palace had been an attempt at suicide.\n\nBut the prosecution told the court that after he was cleared at the Old Bailey, Mr Chowdhury bragged to undercover officers who had him under surveillance that he had deceived the jury.\n\nHe also unwittingly confided in the officers, who were working to earn his trust from January 2019, plans to target busy London tourist attractions, with Madame Tussauds and an open-top tourist bus among the potential targets discussed, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said.\n\nSneha Chowdhury is accused of doing nothing to stop her brother's plans\n\n\"Believing them to be as sincerely committed as he was, he told them of his devotion to the cause of violent Islamic extremism, the basis for this devotion and the skewed religious beliefs that underpinned it,\" Mr Atkinson said.\n\nHe said Mr Chowdhury was \"motivated by dreams of martyrdom for the cause of Islam, and inspired by preachers of hate\".\n\n\"The object was to unleash death and suffering on non-Muslim members of the public who happened to be present, using a firearm, sword and even a van as part of an attack,\" he said.\n\nThe prosecutor told jurors they could consider Mr Chowdhury's \"assertions\" to the undercover officers that he was \"indeed trying to carry out a terrorist attack in 2017 and that he had deceived the earlier jury that acquitted him of it\".\n\nMr Atkinson added: \"Whatever the position in 2017, he was unquestionably preparing for terrorism in 2019.\"\n\nMadame Tussauds is a top tourist attraction famed for its waxworks of celebrities and historical figures\n\nMr Atkinson said Mr Chowdhury's sister had \"better reason than anyone\" to understand what her brother was thinking and wanting to achieve, but she did nothing to stop him.\n\nThe prosecution said Mr Chowdhury used his sister's bank account on 10 March 2019 to buy two Red Oak Bokken wooden training swords, which were delivered to their home address.\n\nMr Chowdhury was also able to buy a replica Glock gun and looked into firearms training, Mr Atkinson said.\n\nHe also sought to involve the undercover officers in his firearms-related training and carrying out terrorist attacks, Mr Atkinson added.\n\nIn the lead up to the Buckingham Palace incident he had made references on WhatsApp to the \"Westminster jihad attacker\"' Khalid Masood, who had killed five people in March 2017, and wrote it was \"a good way to go\".\n\nMr Chowdhury is charged with one count of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, collecting information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism and of disseminating terrorist publications.", "And following on the heels of that news, Lisa Nandy's team has also confirmed she's received the necessary nominations as well.\n\n\"I am so proud to have been nominated by a group of MPs representing different parts of the country and different traditions in our movement,\" the Wigan MP says.\n\nAccording to the Labour website , shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey has also passed the threshold of 22 MP and MEP nominations as well.\n\nAmong the declared runners, that just leaves Clive Lewis and Emily Thornberry looking to secure enough support from colleagues to stand.", "Zara Tindall was caught speeding in her Land Rover\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall has been banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding at 91mph near her Cotswolds home.\n\nShe was banned under the totting up procedure, having already accumulated nine penalty points on her licence.\n\nMrs Tindall, 38, was given four more points for driving at 91mph on the A417 in Gloucestershire, taking her over the 12 points that usually means a ban.\n\nThe speed limit where she was clocked is 70mph.\n\nThe wife of former Gloucester and England rugby player Mike Tindall did not attend Cheltenham Magistrates' Court because she is in Australia.\n\nShe admitted the speeding offence, which she committed in her Land Rover at Daglingworth, near Cirencester, in November.\n\nGloucestershire Police operate a frequent road safety patrol from a lay-by at Dartley Bottom - a long, straight stretch of the road between Gloucester and Cirencester, where they catch hundreds of drivers a year.\n\nProsecutor Farley Turner said: \"Because Mrs Tindall already has nine points on her licence she was unable to accept a fixed penalty for this offence.\"\n\nRoger Utley, chairman of the bench, announced that as well as the six-month ban, the court was fining Mrs Tindall £666 plus costs and a victim surcharge of £151.\n\nHer mother Princess Anne was caught speeding on the same stretch of road in 2001.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ofsted is urging a new judgement-free approach for schools which have been stuck for many years on poor ratings.\n\nIt said the 410 \"stuck\" schools in isolated areas of England needed extra support, not to be inundated with unsuccessful improvement schemes.\n\nChief inspector of schools Amanda Spielman said a new non-judgemental approach was needed, offering the schools tailored support.\n\nHeads said being stigmatised by blunt judgements made their jobs harder.\n\nMarking quite a shift in its approach, Ofsted wants to offer such schools targeted assistance following more thorough and detailed inspections that are not tied to any judgement.\n\nIt is the kind of approach that head teachers have called for for decades, with the impact on schools of negative Ofsted judgements a big part of educational folklore.\n\nOfsted says so-called stuck schools, that is those that have not been labelled good since 2006, are grappling with numerous challenges.\n\n\"We need to increase the depth of diagnoses we give these schools.\n\n\"We are recommending that the government funds Ofsted to trial a longer, deeper inspection approach with some of these schools, with the aim of not passing judgement but of enabling support to improve.\n\n\"We have made good progress with the Department for Education,\" it added.\n\nMs Spielman added: \"What the remaining stuck schools need is tailored, specific and pragmatic advice that suits their circumstances - not a carousel of consultants. They are asking Ofsted to do more to help and we agree.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Education said it was working with Ofsted to look at how best to support these schools.\n\n\"We have also created a specialist academy trust to work with these schools and make improvements,\" it added.\n\nDeputy general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers Nick Brook said stigmatising schools was not an effective way to improve them.\n\nStephen Rollet, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the idea of a \"non-judgemental approach\" was helpful, but added the unintended consequences of school performance tables needed to be addressed.\n\n\"Instead of stigmatising these schools we need to make them places where teachers and leaders want to work.\"\n\nAn Ofsted report, In Fight or Flight? How stuck schools are overcoming isolation, says 415 schools serving 210,000 pupils have potentially left the equivalent of two whole school cohorts of children without a good education.\n\nSuch schools are often struggling with a combination of difficult issues which make it hard for them to get out of a rut.\n\nThese include issues like disengaged parents, so children are not encouraged to learn or even attend school, difficulties recruiting good teachers, often due to being overshadowed by larger towns nearby.\n\nIn recent years, such schools have been threatened with closure or conversion to an academy.\n\nOfsted said: \"Some schools had a deep embedded school culture, resistant to change, with staff not believing that it was possible to overcome the factors that stood in the way of children receiving a good education.\n\n\"Other schools were chaotic and continually changing. For example, one school had been under the leadership of 14 different head teachers in 10 years.\"\n\nIt also highlighted how many of these schools had been \"inundated with improvement initiatives from central and local government over the years, few of which have proved successful\".", "An advert for People Per Hour was banned for \"reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes\"\n\nAn advert saying \"You do the girl boss thing\" has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).\n\nPeople Per Hour, an online platform that connects businesses and freelancers, ran the advert on the London Underground last year.\n\nThe ASA upheld 19 complaints it received about the advert and ruled that it reinforced \"harmful gender stereotypes\".\n\nThe firm removed the word \"girl\" from the advert and issued an apology.\n\nThe offending advert received complaints for taking a patronising approach to a woman running a business.\n\nThe ASA said the phrase \"We'll do the SEO thing\", referring to internet search engine optimisation, also implied that women were not skilled at using technology.\n\nPeople Per Hour admitted that the advert might \"come across as sexist and demeaning to women\", but said it had taken steps to rectify this by removing the word \"girl\" from the advert and issuing an apology on its website.\n\nThe launch of the poster advertising campaign in November also saw some backlash on social media.\n\nEmma Sexton, chief executive officer of a creative agency, called it \"patronising\" at the time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Sexton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother Twitter user said that the advert \"diminishes women\" and added: \"With attitudes like this, it is no wonder the already low number of women in top boardroom positions fell even further last year.\"\n\nIn 2018, only six of the FTSE 100 companies had a female boss, down from seven in 2017.\n\nPeople Per Hour also said the phrase \"girl boss\" was a reference to a book and a professional network.\n\nUS businesswoman Sophia Amoruso is widely credited with popularising the term \"girl boss\", after she used it as the title of her book about transforming her eBay store into fashion brand Nasty Gal.\n\nThe book reached the best-seller list of the New York Times.\n\nAuthor and founder of the brand Nasty Gal, Sophia Amoruso\n\nIn 2017, Nasty Gal's assets were bought for $20m (£15m) by one of the UK's biggest fast-fashion retailers, Boohoo.\n\nMs Amoruso later launched a \"girl boss\" website, podcast and series of events.\n\nOn Wednesday, the ASA also upheld complaints about a television advert for computer firm PC Specialist.\n\nThe advert featured three men performing different tech-related tasks such as coding or producing music.\n\nEight viewers complained that it implied only men were interested in technology and computers.\n\nThe ban on adverts featuring \"harmful gender stereotypes\" came into force in June 2019.\n\nTelevision adverts from US food giant Mondelez and German carmaker Volkswagen were the first to be banned under the new rules.\n\nThe VW ad showed a woman sitting with a pram as the eGolf car drives by\n\nThe first banned ad, for Philadelphia cheese, showed two fathers leaving a baby on a restaurant conveyor belt.\n\nThe other showed men being adventurous as a woman sat by a pram.\n\nThe UK's advertising watchdog introduced the ban because it found some portrayals could play a part in \"limiting people's potential\".\n\nIt followed a review of gender stereotyping in adverts by the ASA.\n\nIt found evidence suggesting that harmful stereotypes could \"restrict the choices, aspirations and opportunities of children, young people and adults\", while those stereotypes could be \"reinforced by some advertising, which plays a part in unequal gender outcomes\".", "A French start-up hopes to radically reduce the amount of time people take to brush their teeth.\n\nY-Brush claims that its product only requires 10 seconds to complete a deep-clean.\n\nZoe Kleinman put the device to the test at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.\n\nCatch up with all the BBC's CES 2020 coverage", "When 13-year-old Sir Darius Brown (yes, his real name) heard about displaced dogs being euthanised after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, he had an idea.\n\nHis sister had taught him how to make bow ties and he decided to donate some to local animal shelters. It helped the dogs to get adopted faster.\n\nNow his handmade bow ties have helped around 200 dogs across the US, leading him to receive a letter of recognition from former President Barack Obama.", "Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not be endorsing a candidate to replace him as Labour leader.\n\nWhen asked whether he had made up his mind, he said: \"I won't be saying who I'll be voting for.\"\n\nIt comes as six leadership hopefuls set out their stall at a meeting of Labour MPs at Westminster.\n\nAll emphasised the need for change after its recent election defeat, Lisa Nandy saying the party would \"deserve to die\" if it didn't change course.\n\nThe MPs need to get the backing of at least 20 of their colleagues to get on to the ballot paper. The winner will be announced on 4 April.\n\nSheffield City region mayor and MP Dan Jarvis has, meanwhile, ruled out a leadership bid.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey, the latest candidate to enter the race, has vowed to build on Mr Corbyn's socialist policy agenda if she is elected leader.\n\nSpeaking earlier to ITV News, she said Mr Corbyn deserved full marks for his leadership of the party, describing him as the \"most honest, kind, principled politician\" she has ever met.\n\n\"What we can't ignore was that Jeremy was savaged from day one by the press.\n\n\"We have a role as a party to develop the image of our leader and to put them forward in the most positive way, but we also have a duty to rebut criticism and attacks.\"\n\nMr Corbyn told BBC News that Mrs Long Bailey was a \"wonderful colleague\", who had given him \"ten out of ten\", but added: \"I never mark my own homework.\"\n\nThe Labour MPs' leadership hustings was closed to the media, but some of the contenders released the text of the speeches they planned to make.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer planned to tell MPs: \"I think we can restore trust in our Labour Party. We have got the talent in this room to do that, if we use it and if we pull together. I do believe we can force a way to victory.\"\n\nBackbencher Jess Phillips's team said she planned to make \"a passionate case for the party to elect a different sort of leader\".\n\n\"I don't want to be the leader of the opposition - I want to be prime minister,\" she was expected to tell her Labour colleagues.\n\nBBC Political Correspondent Iain Watson was among the reporters listening to the speeches in the corridor outside the meeting room.\n\nHe said Lisa Nandy told MPs ''never again can we let factions and friends of the leader determine where resources go\" during elections.\n\nThe Wigan MP said in her opening speech: \"This leadership debate is possibly the most important in our history. Now is not the time to steady the ship. If we do not change course we will die and we will deserve to.\"\n\nAll the candidates, including Emily Thornberry and Clive Lewis, were asked by Halifax MP Holly Lynch what they had done personally to help root out anti-Semitism in the party and what more they would do.\n\nMrs Long Bailey said voters didn't trust the party to deal with the issue and rectifying that was part of the process of \"rebuilding trust\".\n\nAccording to Labour peer Lord Hain, who was in the room, Ms Nandy said she would accept all the findings of a review into the party's procedures by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and implement all its recommendations.\n\nMr Lewis told BBC's Newsnight he would be \"brutally honest\" about the state that Labour was in, saying policy making had become too centralised and the right and left were incapable of working together \"without putting a heel on the throat of the other\".\n\nHe also suggested that some people who had voted for Brexit were racist. \"The Brexit project had a number of components to it and one of them was racist. Some of it was about taking back control.\"", "Christopher Beeny, known for roles in Upstairs, Downstairs and BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, has died at the age of 78, his son has confirmed.\n\nBeeny played the cheeky footman, chauffeur and butler Edward Barnes in Upstairs, Downstairs in the 1970s.\n\nBeeny (left) and Tom Owen in Last of the Summer Wine\n\nHe also appeared as incompetent debt collector Herman, who changed his name to Morton, in Last of the Summer Wine.\n\nBeeny began his career as a child actor in the UK's first TV soap opera, The Grove Family, in the mid-1950s.\n\nBeeny (left) with the cast of The Grove Family\n\nHe also starred as a hapless undertaker opposite Dame Thora Hird in the sitcom In Loving Memory, which ran on ITV from 1979-86.\n\nThe actor's son Rick Blackman wrote on Twitter: \"I have some sad news to impart. On Friday 3rd of January my old dad Christopher Beeny died at his home in Kent. He was 78. Comforted to know he was not alone at the end and was in his armchair\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A Ukrainian Boeing-737 with more than 170 people on board has crashed in Iran, officials say.\n\nIran's Red Crescent said there was no chance of finding survivors.\n\nThe Ukraine International Airlines plane crashed just after take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, said the Fars state news agency.\n\nThe plane was flying to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Ukraine's government said a crisis group was being set up to investigate the crash.\n\nRead more on this story.", "The creator of the hit US TV sitcom Ugly Betty, Silvio Horta, has died aged 45, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe show's star America Ferrera said she was \"stunned and heartbroken\" after the TV writer and executive producer was found dead on Tuesday in Miami.\n\nUgly Betty ran for four seasons from 2006 to 2010 and was adapted from the Colombian show Yo soy Betty, la fea.\n\nFerrera posted a picture of the two of them together on Instagram, describing the news as \"devastating\".\n\n\"His talent and creativity brought me and so many others such joy and light,\" wrote Ferrera, who starred as Betty Suarez - an untrendy and naive Mexican-American journalist who takes a job at a high-end New York fashion magazine.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe role won the 35-year-old a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award.\n\n\"I'm thinking of his family and loved ones who must be in so much pain right now - and of the whole Ugly Betty family who feel this loss so deeply.\"\n\nHorta's representative confirmed he had died but refused to comment on the nature of his death.\n\nCuban-American Horta was born in Miami and studied film at New York University, before getting his big break in 1998, writing the screenplay for the horror-thriller Urban Legend.\n\nHe came up with two sci-fi TV shows, Jake 2.0 and The Chronicle, before Ugly Betty - which won him the Golden Globe for best comedy series in 2007.\n\nAt the time he stated: \"Like most of us up here, Betty is an immigrant and The American Dream is alive and well and in reach of anybody who wants it.\"\n\nVanessa Williams, who played model-turned-modelling company boss Wilhelmina Slater added she was \"still in shock after hearing the tragic news\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by vanessawilliamsofficial This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMichael Urie played Slater's assistant Marc St. James on the programme and he recalled how Horta \"gave me a huge break\".\n\n\"I hear from LGBTQ people all the time that the show helped them,\" he added. \"Me too. He and that show will always be with me.\"\n\nFellow actor Chris Gorham, who appeared in several of Horta's productions, said he would be \"forever grateful for his creativity, his enormous heart, and his friendship\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Christopher Gorham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The American who turned Ugly Betty into a Russian", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives in Downing Street for talks on the US-Iran crisis\n\nThere is an old joke in diplomatic circles that Iran is the last country in the world that still thinks the United Kingdom is a great power.\n\nSo it was no surprise when on Tuesday Rob Macaire, the UK ambassador to Iran, was summoned to the foreign ministry in Tehran to be hauled over the coals after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.\n\nNo matter that the killing was ordered by Donald Trump and carried out by United States' forces without UK knowledge or cooperation.\n\nNo matter, too, that the UK government went out of its way not to give much rhetorical support for the US action. In fact, British ministers stuck pointedly with their European allies in calling on all sides, including the US, to refrain from further escalatory behaviour.\n\nNone of that swayed the Iranian official who told Mr Macaire of his government's displeasure at what he called the \"unacceptable\" remarks made about Soleimani by Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, and Ben Wallace, the defence secretary.\n\nAccording to Iranian news agencies, the official stressed that from the viewpoint of the Islamic republic, the British position was tantamount to collaboration with the US \"terrorist\" actions and that the UK could be considered as an accomplice in this crime by adopting such stances. Ouch.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM said the government would work to prevent an escalation of violence\n\nSo the latest confrontation with Iran has done nothing to improve relations with the UK, not that they were good before.\n\nIn Iranian eyes, the joke exaggerating UK influence reflects a lingering resentment, viewing the country as a post-imperial nation still bent on meddling in the Middle East.\n\nIranians well remember Britain's long interference in Persia during the 19th century and beyond; they blame London for its involvement in the coup overthrowing an elected Iranian prime minister in the 1950s; and they place \"little Satan\" Britain firmly in the same underworld as the \"Great American Satan\".\n\nIn more recent times, relations have rollercoastered from crisis to crisis. In 1979, the UK broke off relations after the Islamic revolution. The UK largely backed Iraq in its long war with Iran in the 1980s.\n\nIn the early 2000s, there were incidents when Iranian forces seized Royal Navy personnel in the Gulf.\n\nIn 2011, the British embassy in Tehran was stormed and burned. Last year Royal Marines boarded and seized an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar for allegedly breaching EU sanctions. In response, Iran seized a British-flagged tanker for a couple of months.\n\nThis history of confrontation is one reason why Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe remains incarcerated in Tehran.\n\nThe British Iranian dual national has been detained for more than three years over spying allegations that she denies.\n\nAnd her husband, Richard, believes the latest crisis will only make her situation worse.\n\nIf Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a diplomatic pawn, as the UK believes, then her value to the Iranians can only have risen as a result of this latest confrontation.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily reunited with her daughter Gabriella during a three-day release from prison in August 2018\n\nThe one area of genuine cooperation between the UK and Iran is over the deal agreed by Tehran in 2015 to restrict its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of some international sanctions.\n\nEver since Mr Trump pulled the US out of the agreement in 2018, Britain and other European signatories have struggled to keep Iran committed to the deal by promising further economic support.\n\nThat has largely failed as Iran gradually withdrew from more and more provisions in the agreement, culminating in this week's announcement that it will no longer accept any limit on its ability to enrich uranium.\n\nThe nuclear deal is not quite dead but it is heading for the terminal ward.\n\nFor years Britain has tried to balance the divide between Europe and the US in their approach to Iran.\n\nAs Boris Johnson told MPs on Wednesday: \"I think we are having a great deal of success in bringing together a European response and in bridging the European response with that, of course, of our American friends, and working both with the Iranians and with the Iraqis to dial this thing down.\"\n\nBut many analysts believe that Britain's influence over Iran is limited.\n\nThe prime minister's calls for de-escalation are unlikely to be a major factor in decision-making in Tehran.\n\nAnd in truth, the UK could even provide Iran with potential targets if further retaliation is to come.\n\nBritain has a number of Navy ships in the Gulf, 400 troops and even more civilians in Iraq, and a naval base in Bahrain.\n\nThey have all been placed in \"a state of readiness\" in case of a further attack.\n\nSo the killing of Soleimani may have brought fresh instability to the Middle East. But it has also caused even further disruption to Britain's relations with Iran.", "Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn is making his first appearance since skipping bail in Japan and fleeing to Lebanon.\n\nMr Ghosn was arrested in Japan on charges of financial misconduct, including improperly reporting his compensation, in November 2018.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released a statement saying they intend to step back as senior members of the Royal Family. Here's that statement in full:\n\nA personal message from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex:\n\n\"After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution.\n\n\"We intend to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.\n\n\"It is with your encouragement, particularly over the last few years, that we feel prepared to make this adjustment.\n\n\"We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth and our patronages.\n\n\"This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.\n\n\"We look forward to sharing the full details of this exciting next step in due course, as we continue to collaborate with Her Majesty The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and all relevant parties.\n\n\"Until then, please accept our deepest thanks for your continued support.\"\n\n\"Discussions with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are at an early stage.\n\n\"We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through.\"", "Neon designs avatars to be new, virtual \"friends\"\n\n\"Artificial humans\" - virtual characters - have been shown off by Samsung-backed start-up Neon at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.\n\nNeon says it intends its virtual characters to act like digital \"friends\".\n\nHowever, one tech industry analyst told the BBC the demonstration failed to impress him.\n\nBen Wood of CCS Insight said: \"It was not the revolution that I was expecting.\"\n\nThere had been great interest in Neon after the California-based outfit ran a viral teaser campaign across social media in the lead-up to the expo.\n\nVisitors to Neon's CES booth can pose with the digital avatars\n\nReddit users subsequently found links to videos of the characters hidden on the firm's website.\n\nThose have since been removed, but Neon has been showcasing some of its life-size \"artificial humans\" to CES attendees.\n\nIts show exhibit features a row of large screens, on which the animated characters are displayed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"There are millions of species on our planet and we hope to add one more,\" Mr Mistry told the press.\n\nOne of the animations plays music to passersby while another does magic\n\nHe added that they have the ability to show emotions and intelligence, and can speak a wide range of languages.\n\nBut Mr Wood said the virtual beings had the appearance of being little more than short video clips of real people.\n\n\"They could get people to shake their head or do a selfie pose or whatever but that's the sort of thing you could pre-program in a video of an actor,\" said Mr Wood.\n\n\"Expectations were exceedingly high. On visiting, it was hard to get excited at this stage.\"\n\nNeon had run a series of teaser images in advance of CES\n\nLarry Dignan at news site ZDNet also had reservations.\n\nHe wrote that Neon's creations might be useful if deployed in public to greet shoppers or tourists.\n\nBut he added that giving them a \"brain\" would be a bigger challenge than making them \"picture-perfect\".\n\nNeon has not yet revealed where the virtual characters will first appear in public.", "Kim says it's always been difficult to visit Iran, but the current situation makes things more unsafe\n\n\"I will probably never see my grandparents again.\"\n\nKim, 27, is a British Iranian living in the UK. Her parents came to the UK in their 20s, but she still has a lot of family still living there.\n\nThe escalating tensions between Iran and the US have been causing Kim a lot of concern for her family.\n\nWith the American assassination of top Iranian military commander General Qasem Soleimani and Iran's retaliation missile strike on a US military base - relations between the two countries are on a knife edge.\n\nOutside the region, British Iranians are concerned by what is happening in a country they consider to be a homeland. Radio 1 Newsbeat has been finding out what they feel about the situation.\n\n\"It's close to my heart and I'm worried about the family. We're all worried about them, their safety, their future,\" Kim tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"I don't think it's safe for any British dual national to go to Iran at the moment. I wouldn't feel comfortable if my parents went.\"\n\nMillions of people have turned out to mourn General Qasem Soleimani in Iran\n\nParsa Shahab is a British-Iranian finance student raised in Tehran, studying in the UK.\n\nHe agrees with Kim that the current situation is scary for Iranians outside Iran. Parsa says his sister was in Iran when General Soleimani was assassinated, and he told her to return to the UK for her safety.\n\n\"Many of my friends at university had plans to go back to Iran after exams finish. But they've cancelled because they're too frightened about what's going to happen, and fears over airstrikes and attacks in Iran.\"\n\nHe also says there's been an impact on Iranian students who are relying on money from back home.\n\n\"Iranian currency has been hit. So students who are receiving funds from their parents are facing financial difficulties because the money has lower value.\"\n\n\"So there's a lot of uncertainty for those of us outside the country too.\"\n\nParsa thinks any type of major conflict could lead to serious security problems in Iran\n\nParsa, 21, stayed in Iran until he was 16, returning regularly to visit his family. He says General Soleimani and Iranian forces have been fighting IS and protecting Iran from terrorist attacks.\n\n\"So if there's going to be attacks and we have weak borders, I'm frightened.\"\n\nKim blames the decision by President Trump to kill General Soleimani for sparking more dangerous times in the region.\n\n\"I'm not a Soleimani sympathiser or supporter at all. But that act has made the world a much more dangerous place. So you have to also think about the innocent people that are going to suffer the consequences of his careless actions.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said today that the General had \"the blood of British troops on his hands\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage, reportedly of the missile attack, was shown on Iranian state TV\n\nAfter Iran's response, some such as 23-year-old Ali Reza Shahrestani are worried about the effect on the country's economy.\n\nAli is an entrepreneur working with businesses in the UK and Iran.\n\n\"Nobody wants to invest in areas where there's war. It's too risky. So you need to have a backup option. And as someone in business, people are looking elsewhere.\"\n\nAli says the heightened military tensions will have a major effect on investment and jobs.\n\nHe says the internet blackouts in Iran create uncertainty.\n\n\"It happens a lot ... sometimes 12 days in a row. So there are threats to businesses because they work with tech and there's such a reliance on the internet now.\"\n\n\"If people stop investing in the country, jobs are at risk.\"\n\nParsa agrees: \"What will happen to the many young Iranians who are educated, have startups, and want a better relationship with the West? With everything that's happening, they cannot have that. They can't progress.\"\n\nKim says being Iranian in the West, particularly in a time of tension, means people sometimes look at her differently.\n\n\"It's because of the perception of the Middle East. People have joked before 'oh you must be a bomber' when they've found out I'm Iranian.\"\n\nAnd Ali has faced something similar in business.\n\n\"I have problems in meetings with investors simply because I am Iranian by blood. Even though I have a British passport, I am criticised because of my origin.\"\n\nAli says that the current tensions between Iran and the US have created unity amongst Iranians.\n\n\"Even if people are against the regime and didn't like the general, when someone attacks us, everyone in Iran tries to unite and come together. And you can see that on the streets.\"\n\nHe's not surprised by Iran's response because \"they'll always protect\" Iranians.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome commentators think Iran's retaliatory strike could actually lead to a de-escalation in tensions.\n\nAnd Parsa, Kim and Ali all want the same thing.\n\n\"We were taking steps forward before Trump was elected, I hope we can return to that. But it's just so hard to know what's going to happen,\" says Kim.\n\nParsa adds: \"Iran and the US haven't had peace for a long time. So assuming there's not going to be any tension is unrealistic.\n\n\"But I'm hoping we can see stability in the relationship with the US and Europe. That would be good for everyone.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Two senior McDonald's executives have filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of discriminating against African-American customers and staff.\n\nThey say the climate grew especially hostile after UK-born Steve Easterbrook became chief executive in 2015.\n\nUnder his leadership, they say the firm \"conducted a ruthless purge\" of high-ranked African-Americans and shifted advertising away from black customers.\n\nMcDonald's said: \"We disagree with characterisations in the complaint\".\n\nThe firm said it has reduced the number of \"officer level\" positions over the last five years but that people of colour account for 45% of the firm's corporate officers - an increase since 2013 - and all of its 10 field vice-presidents in the US.\n\nLast year, it launched a marketing campaign aimed at African Americans that was its largest in 16 years, it added.\n\n\"At McDonald's our actions are rooted in our belief that a diverse, vibrant, inclusive and respectful company makes us stronger,\" the company said.\n\nMr Easterbrook, who is named in the complaint, was fired last year for a mutual romantic relationship with a colleague in violation of company rules. He could not be reached for comment.\n\nMr Easterbrook was replaced by Chris Kempczinski, who previously headed McDonald's US division and is also named in the complaint.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in federal court in Illinois by Vicki Guster-Hines and Domineca Neal. The two women have worked at McDonald's since 1987 and 2012 respectively and are both vice presidents for franchising and operations.\n\nThey say McDonald's practised \"systematic but covert\" racial discrimination \"over the years\" but it became \"overt, unmistakable, non-coincidental and highly damaging\" after the 2015 leadership change.\n\nIn the complaint, they cite the shelving of training programmes for African Americans, the exclusion of African Americans from the ranks of senior advisors, and descriptions of colleagues as \"Angry Black Women\".\n\nThey say that the number of black-owned franchises also declined disproportionately - departures they argue were either \"intentional\" or due to the company's \"reckless disregard\" for the cost of some of the investments it demanded of franchise owners.\n\nThey also accuse the firm, which has been pursuing a broader campaign to refurbish stores and upgrade its image, of shifting advertising away from black customers, historically some of the company's strongest patrons.\n\n\"As a consumer block, African Americans were singled out as less desired by McDonald's,\" they say.\n\nThe two women are seeking damages from the firm, which they say retaliated against them for voicing their concerns about the treatment of African Americans.", "US President Donald Trump is making a statement in response to Iranian missile attacks that targeted air bases housing US forces in Iraq.\n\nMore than a dozen missiles launched from Iran struck two air bases in Irbil and Al Asad, west of Baghdad.\n\nThe missile attacks were ordered by Tehran in retaliation for the assassination of prominent Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.\n\nThe head of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force was killed last week, in a strike ordered by Washington.", "Legal action is being launched against the NHS over the prescribing of drugs to delay puberty.\n\nPapers have been lodged at the High Court by a mother and a nurse against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK's only gender-identity development service (Gids).\n\nLawyers will argue it is illegal to prescribe the drugs, as children cannot give informed consent to the treatment.\n\nThe Tavistock said it had a \"cautious and considered\" approach to treatment.\n\nPapers were formally lodged on Wednesday by the lawyers for the complainants.\n\nThe Tavistock will have three weeks to submit its response, after which a judge will consider the case and decide on the timings of any hearings.\n\nThe nurse, Sue Evans, left the Gids more than a decade ago after becoming increasingly concerned teenagers who wanted to transition to a different gender were being given the puberty blockers without adequate assessments and psychological work.\n\nSince then, she says, even younger children are being given the drugs, which block the hormones that lead to puberty-related changes including periods and facial hair.\n\nThe number of young people referred to the Gids rose from 678 in 2014-15 to 2,590 in the past year.\n\nMs Evans said: \"I used to feel concerned it was being given to 16-year-olds.\n\n\"But now, the age limit has been lowered - and children as young as perhaps nine or 10 are being asked to give informed consent to a completely experimental treatment for which the long-term consequences are not known.\"\n\nThe mother, known only as Mrs A, has a 15-year-old with autism who is on the waiting list for treatment at the Gids.\n\nShe told BBC News her child presents to the outside world as a boy but, while she is happy to allow that, she is extremely concerned about the possibility of drugs that are not fully understood being prescribed.\n\n\"I'm worried that they will look at her age and say, 'Well, she still says this is what she wants and therefore we will put her on to a medical pathway,'\" Mrs A told BBC News.\n\n\"And given her communication of what she feels internally is slightly different because of her autism spectrum, I worry that what she says and what she means are often two different things.\"\n\nThey are drugs which can pause the development of things like breasts, periods, facial hair and voice breaking\n\nThey can be prescribed to children with gender dysphoria who feel their sex at birth doesn't match up with their gender.\n\nThis is meant to give them more time to weigh up their options before they go through the physical changes of puberty.\n\nAlthough puberty blockers are described by the NHS as reversible, Gids acknowledges that their impact on brain development and psychological health is not fully known.\n\nRead more: What are puberty blockers?\n\nMrs A said her child was too young to really assess the potential impact of puberty blockers on the rest of their life, including such things as fertility.\n\n\"As an adolescent, what we think will make us happy is not necessarily what will make us happy,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"It might help us in the short term - but it might not help us in the long term.\"\n\nA Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust official said: \"It is not appropriate for us to comment in detail in advance of any proposed legal proceedings.\n\n\"The Gids is one of the longest-established services of its type in the world with an international reputation for being cautious and considered.\n\n\"Our clinical interventions are laid out in nationally set service specifications.\n\n\"The service has a high level of reported satisfaction and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hackers are holding foreign exchange company Travelex to ransom after a cyber-attack forced the firm to turn off all computer systems and resort to using pen and paper.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, hackers launched their attack on the Travelex network.\n\nAs a result, the company took down its websites across 30 countries to contain \"the virus and protect data\".\n\nA ransomware gang called Sodinokibi has told the BBC it is behind the hack and wants Travelex to pay $6m (£4.6m).\n\nThe gang, also known as REvil, claims to have gained access to the company's computer network six months ago and to have downloaded 5GB of sensitive customer data.\n\nDates of birth, credit card information and national insurance numbers are all in their possession, they say.\n\nThe hackers said: \"In the case of payment, we will delete and will not use that [data]base and restore them the entire network.\n\n\"The deadline for doubling the payment is two days. Then another seven days and the sale of the entire base.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it had not received a data breach report from Travelex.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Organisations must notify the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of a personal data breach unless it does not pose a risk to people's rights and freedoms.\n\n\"If an organisation decides that a breach doesn't need to be reported, they should keep their own record of it and be able to explain why it wasn't reported if necessary.\"\n\nUnder General Data Protection Regulation, a company that fails to comply can face a maximum fine of 4% of its global turnover.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is leading the investigation into the attack.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"On Thursday, 2 January, the Met's Cyber Crime Team were contacted with regards to a reported ransomware attack involving a foreign currency exchange. Inquiries into the circumstances are ongoing.\"\n\nTravelex says it is working with police and has deployed teams of IT specialists and external cyber-security experts who have been working continuously.\n\nAccording to Fabian Wosar, a ransomware expert at cyber security company Emsisoft, the attack has all the hallmarks of the REvil gang.\n\n\"With what we know about the incident and the hackers' mode of operation in the past paints a consistent picture, which leads me to believe that REvil indeed hit Travelex,\" he said.\n\n\"The REvil/Sodinokibi group has been a quite sophisticated group for a long time now. The quoted ransom demands are consistent for the gang's victims of Travelex's size.\n\n\"Stealing data essentially gives threat actors additional bargaining chips when it comes to dealing with companies unwilling to pay the ransom. The idea is to weaponise the hefty fines associated with GDPR violations to pressure the company into paying.\"\n\nThe recovery operation is being co-ordinated from a Travelex office in the UK and the company insists that no customer data has been leaked.\n\nBut it would not say what data could potentially be at risk.\n\nTravelex websites across Europe, Asia and the US have been offline since 31 December, with a message to visitors that they are down for \"planned maintenance\".\n\nVisitors to the Travelex website are told that the site is down for \"planned maintenance\".\n\nCustomers have not been sent any email communication about the cyber-attack, but queries are being replied to on social media by the company.\n\n\"The public response from Travelex has been shockingly bad,\" said security researcher Kevin Beaumont.\n\n\"The Travelex UK website still only says 'planned maintenance', a week after the problems began - many customers will be completely unaware hackers gained access to their network, and allegedly their personal data,\" he said.\n\n\"Travelex have a responsibility to clearly communicate with customers and business partners the gravity of the situation.\"\n\nTravelex's decision to take down its site has meant the large network of other firms that use its services cannot sell currency online.\n\nThe company has said it is keeping its partners up to date on the response to the cyber-attack.\n\nVirgin Money's site showed an error message, which said: \"Our online, foreign currency purchasing service is temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance. The system will be back online shortly.\"\n\nSainsbury's Bank also said its online travel money services were unavailable, although it said customers could still buy travel money in its stores. In a statement to the BBC, the bank said: \"We're in close contact with Travelex so that we can resume our online service as soon as possible.\"\n\nSainsbury's Bank's website said it was not able to take money orders online.\n\nA spokesperson for First Direct, which is owned by HSBC, said: \"Unfortunately, our online travel money service is currently unavailable due to a service issue with third party service provider, Travelex.\"\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Travelex boss Tony D'Souza said: \"We regret having to suspend some of our services in order to contain the virus and protect data.\"\n\nThe company has resorted to carrying out transactions manually, providing foreign-exchange services over the counter in its branches.\n\n\"We apologise to all our customers for any inconvenience caused as a result,\" Mr D'Souza said in the statement.\n\nThe company has since told the BBC that its systems are currently down and it is unable to sell or reload its pre-paid travel cards. But, it said: \"Existing cards continue to function as normal and customers in the UK can continue to spend and withdraw money from ATMs.\n\n\"For customers who have ordered money online, please contact Travelex customer services by phone or via social media to discuss their individual situation and requirements.\"", "More than a third of all homicides in the UK in 2019 were as a result of a fatal stabbing\n\nThe number of people killed across the UK fell in 2019 for the first time in five years, BBC research suggests.\n\nIn total, 650 people were killed in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland last year - down from the 774 homicides in 2018, police figures show.\n\nDespite the drop, homicides in London rose for a third successive calendar year - to the highest level since 2008.\n\nIt comes a week after the home secretary gave 18 police forces £35m to combat violence.\n\nThroughout 2019, the BBC recorded details of murder and manslaughter investigations launched by the 46 UK police forces.\n\nHomicide figures fell for 26 of those forces while five recorded the same figure as in 2018.\n\nIn London - one of the areas to see a notable increase and where the number of killings was highest - the Metropolitan Police launched 149 homicide investigations.\n\nThe British Transport Police led three murder investigations on the London Underground network and Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones were both stabbed to death in the City of London on 29 November.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nCan't see the map? Tap or click here\n\nIt meant the overall figure for London for 2019 rose to its highest level since 2008, when there were 154 killings.\n\nThe Met Police said tackling violence remained a top priority, adding that it had anti-knife crime plans specific to boroughs and aimed to have more than 32,000 officers by summer 2020 - which would represent a 7% increase on the 29,924 officers the Met had in April 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arsenal fan Tashan Daniel was stabbed to death at Hillingdon Tube station\n\nCommander Jane Connors said: \"We know that drug dealing is inextricably linked with a high proportion of the violence seen on our streets.\n\n\"Therefore, we will continue to target those who, for the sole purpose of financial gain, exploit children and target the most vulnerable within our communities.\n\n\"However, the causes of violence are complex and police cannot solve it alone.\n\n\"Solutions will require a holistic and sustainable approach that will involve a range of action from government, education, health, social services, housing, youth services and the public.\"\n\nAccording to BBC research, the majority of UK police forces saw a fall in homicides compared with 2018.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the number fell from 51 in 2018 to 39 last year; while homicides in Greater Manchester were down from 64 to 39.\n\nIn Merseyside the homicide level halved, down from 21 to 10, while West Yorkshire Police launched 21 homicide investigations in 2019 compared with 39 in 2018.\n\nMerseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Ian Critchley said this was down to a \"relentless suppression\" of serious organised crime and also reducing the number of domestic violence killings.\n\n\"At the other end, it is about stopping young people getting into crime in the first place,\" he said.\n\n\"We will target relentlessly people who feel they can control what is taking place in order to obtain money and use bullying, cowardly tactics to groom young people to carry knives and firearms.\"\n\nElsewhere in England, Essex saw a notable increase from 13 homicides in 2018 to 54 homicides last year - but the figure does include the 39 Vietnamese nationals which were found in the back of a lorry in Grays in October.\n\nWest Mercia, Devon and Cornwall, Sussex and Cheshire police forces all saw drops in homicides recorded in 2019 compared to the previous 12 months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thirty nine bodies were found inside the trailer\n\nSouth Wales Police, the largest force in Wales, saw a rise in homicides from ten in 2018 to 14 in 2019.\n\nDet Ch Supt Jason Davies said it was the force's \"priority to ensure perpetrators are apprehended quickly\".\n\nHe added: \"In relation to all 14 homicide investigations conducted in 2019, a total of 22 individuals have either been arrested, charged or convicted.\"\n\nOn 29 December, the Home Office announced an additional £35m for various so-called violence reduction units (VRU) to 18 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nHome Secretary Pritti Patel said the VRUs \"played a vital role in diverting young people away from crime\".\n\nIn Wales in 2019 four police forces recorded 25 homicides - one higher than the previous year\n\nPolice Scotland, which provided figures for the year ending March 2019, said homicides were down 11% on the year before.\n\nNorthern Ireland saw 26 homicides - two more than 2018 - and PSNI's Det Supt Jason Murphy explained that many homicides in Northern Ireland were \"complex\" and had varied factors compared with other UK regions.\n\nDet Supt Murphy, who is leading the murder investigation into the fatal shooting of journalist Lyra McKee, said Northern Ireland had far more \"terrorist-related\" homicides than the rest of UK - but also fewer killings linked to county lines and organised crime.\n\nNinety-five people were stabbed to death in London in 2019\n\nIn March three teenagers were crushed to death at a St Patrick's Day party at a hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in December a man was charged with the murder of two people who were found dead in a flat in Belfast and in 2019 three cases were linked to paramilitaries.\n\nThe detection rate was above 80%, Det Supt Murphy added.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"We are establishing a Royal Commission to ensure a fair justice system that works for the law-abiding majority and will strengthen protections for domestic abuse victims.\n\n\"We are also giving the police more powers to take dangerous weapons off our streets and are investing in early intervention projects and Violence Reduction Units to tackle the root causes of crime.\"\n\nInformation was supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe list is comprised of manslaughter, murders and infanticides. These causes of death are categorised as homicides by the Office of National Statistics.\n\nFigures are correct as of 8 January 2020 but may change as investigations progress and charges are brought or dropped.\n\nMap and charts by Daniel Wainwright and Wesley Stephenson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "London MP Sir Keir Starmer is a former director of public prosecutions\n\nSir Keir Starmer has won the backing of the UK's largest trade union, Unison, to become the next Labour leader.\n\nUnison, which has 1.3 million members, said the shadow Brexit secretary was best placed of the candidates to unite the party and regain public trust.\n\nUnite, Labour's largest financial backer, will decide later this month who to back in the contest.\n\nSir Keir has also become the first to secure enough nominations from MPs and MEPs to get on the ballot paper.\n\nThe Holborn and St Pancras MP has, so far, secured the backing of 41 colleagues - well above the minimum of 22 required.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey is his closest competitor, followed by Jess Phillips.\n\nNominations close on 13 January and the winner will be announced on 4 April following a ballot of party members, trade union and other affiliates and registered supporters.\n\nAs the contest gathers pace, BBC Newsnight correspondent Lewis Goodall reported that Barry Gardiner, the party's international trade spokesman, could become a candidate. The Brent North MP has yet to confirm this.\n\nUnison's endorsement, which was agreed by a committee of \"working people from across the country\", is a major boost for Sir Keir's campaign.\n\nAnnouncing its decision, the union said it believed the former director of public prosecutions was capable of taking Labour back into government. General Secretary Dave Prentis said working people depended on Labour being in power to change their lives.\n\n\"We believe - if elected by the membership - Keir Starmer would be a leader to bring the party together and win back the trust of the thousands of voters who deserted Labour last month,\" he said.\n\n\"Keir has a clear vision to get Labour back to the winning ways of the past. He is best placed to take on Boris Johnson, hold his government to account and ensure Labour can return to power.\"\n\nThe union, which represents workers across the NHS, schools and other public services, backed Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and 2016.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said Sir Keir was the overwhelming choice of the union's Link Committee, having won more support than all of the other candidates combined.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nHe has also recruited Simon Fletcher to his campaign team - Jeremy Corbyn's former chief of staff who ran his successful leadership bid in 2015.\n\nMrs Long Bailey has Momentum founder Jon Lansman as her campaign director and former spokesman for Mr Corbyn, Matt Zarb-Cousin, as her director of communications.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC he was \"delighted\" by the endorsement but played down talk of him now being the frontrunner, telling the BBC \"there was a long way to go\" in the contest.\n\n\"What I want to do is lead a united Labour Party that works with trade unions to bring them together to face the future,\" he said.\n\nIt caps a good day for the shadow Brexit secretary, whose growing number of parliamentary backers include former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett, the new shadow culture secretary Tracy Brabin and Tottenham MP David Lammy.\n\nMrs Long Bailey's 17 backers include shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, while Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips has the support of 16 colleagues, including Wes Streeting and Margaret Hodge - outspoken critics of Mr Corbyn over his handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nWigan MP Lisa Nandy has 11 nominations, while shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has three. Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis has secured his first nomination from Rachael Maskell.\n\nEarlier, Mr Lewis rated Mr Corbyn \"six out of 10\" as leader of the Labour Party. Speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, he criticised the outgoing leader for making mistakes on Brexit and dealing with anti-Semitism.\n\n\"But some things he got right,\" Mr Lewis added, \"so in many ways he's renewed our party.\" The comments follow those of Mrs Long Bailey, who rated Mr Corbyn 10 out of 10 for his performance as leader, despite Labour's electoral defeat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clive Lewis, who wants to replace Jeremy Corbyn, said Labour must build alliances to win back power\n\nIn the race to become Labour's next deputy leader, shadow education secretary Ms Rayner way out in front so far in terms of nominations with 45 and has also won Unison's backing.\n\nBefore entering Parliament, Ms Rayner was a local Unison representative while employed as a care worker in Greater Manchester.\n\nIan Murray, Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, is second in the list of declared backers so far while shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon is third.\n\nAs of Wednesday evening, shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler and Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan both had seven nominations. The remaining candidate, Birmingham Perry Barr MP Khalid Mahmood, had two.", "It has taken nearly a decade to bring a commercial hydrofoil bicycle to market.\n\nBut New Zealand-based Manta5 has finally launched its product and has brought it to the CES tech show to exhibit.\n\nBBC Click's Spencer Kelly was one of the first to try out the water bike on Lake Las Vegas.\n\nCatch up with all the BBC's CES 2020 coverage", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Quentin Sommerville had exclusive access to Ain al-Asad airbase for this 2014 report\n\nThe Al Asad air base is so vast that, after the US invasion, it had cinemas, swimming pools, fast food restaurants, and - not one - but two internal bus routes.\n\nIt was built in the 1980s for the Iraqi military, in desert around 100 miles west of Baghdad.\n\nBut after the US invasion in 2003, it became one of the biggest bases for American troops - and was quickly transformed.\n\n\"It's right in the middle of the desert, and surrounded on all sides by scrublands and desert and rocks,\" Oliver Poole reported for the BBC in 2006.\n\n\"As you emerge into the American section, you come across much better roads... in many ways they've tried to recreate the set-up of a modern US suburban town.\"\n\nThe facilities were so impressive, some US troops even called it \"Camp Cupcake\".\n\nAs the US withdrew from the base in 2009 and 2010, it was handed back to the Iraqis. But, as the Islamic State group gained control of surrounding Anbar province, the base came under attack.\n\nIn 2014 - as IS encircled - the BBC's Quentin Somerville gained access via an Iraqi military plane.\n\n\"Reminders of American occupation are everywhere - spent artillery shells and dusty accommodation quarters, with uneaten ration packs strewn across the floor,\" he reported.\n\nAfter the US returned to Iraq to fight IS in the same year, the base was secured and rebuilt.\n\nHowever, with far fewer troops, one airman noted in 2017 that \"it only offers a fraction of the comforts it once did\".\n\nOn 26 December 2018, President Trump visited troops at the base.\n\n\"The men and women stationed at Al Asad have played a vital role in the military defeat of ISIS in Iraq and in Syria,\" he told them.\n\nBut afterwards, he said he feared for his wife's safety during the visit. \"If you would have seen what we had to go through,\" he told reporters.\n\nIn November last year, Vice-President Mike Pence also visited the base for Thanksgiving.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Trump said he was concerned for Melania during their Iraq visit\n\nIt's thought there are around 1,500 US and coalition troops at Al Asad, and around 5,000 US troops in the country in total. This week, in a non-binding vote, the Iraqi parliament voted to expel them.\n\nIn response, President Trump brought up the cost of the Al Asad air base.\n\n\"We have a very extraordinarily expensive airbase that's there,\" he said. \"It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We're not leaving unless they pay us back for it.\"\n\nThe other base that was attacked was in Irbil, the capital of Iraq's relatively stable Kurdistan region.\n\nIn September, the US Army said it was home to \"more than 3,600 military and civilian personnel from 13 different nations\".\n\nThe base is used to train local forces. Last month, US Central Command reported that the first female military instructors in the region had graduated from Irbil.\n\nHow long the US will stay in Iraq, though, is uncertain. Only this week, Defence Secretary Mark Esper was forced to deny the US was withdrawing troops from the country.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says the UK and the EU will remain \"best of friends and partners\"\n\nThe UK and the EU will remain the \"best of friends\" but they will \"not be as close as before\" after Brexit, the new European Commission president has said.\n\nSpeaking ahead of talks with the PM, Ursula von der Leyen warned it would be \"impossible\" to reach a comprehensive trade deal by the end of 2020.\n\nShe said if the deadline was not extended it was not a case of \"all or nothing\", but of priorities.\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted a deal is possible by December 2020.\n\nAfter their meeting in No 10, a Downing Street spokesman said talks had been \"positive\", but the PM had been \"clear\" the process of negotiation would not be extended.\n\nAfter its 31 January exit, the UK will enter into an 11-month transition period in which it will largely follow EU rules but will not have any representation in the bloc's institutions. This period will come to an end on 31 December.\n\nOnly when the UK leaves the EU can the two sides begin talks on their future economic relationship.\n\nMr Johnson told Mrs von der Leyen he \"wanted a positive new UK and EU partnership, based on friendly co-operation, our shared history, interests and values\", as well as a \"broad free trade agreement covering goods and services, and cooperation in other areas\".\n\nHe also said the UK was ready to start negotiations \"as soon as possible\" after 31 January.\n\nSpeaking at the London School of Economics earlier in the day, Mrs von der Leyen said the EU was \"ready to negotiate a truly ambitions partnership with UK\" but she warned of \"tough\" talks ahead.\n\n\"We will go as far as we can, but the truth is that our partnership cannot and will not be the same as before and it cannot and will not be as close as before because with every choice comes a consequences with every decision comes a trade off.\"\n\nMrs von der Leyen, a former German defence minister, took over from Jean-Claude Juncker at the start of December. She was a student at the LSE in the 1970s.\n\nShe also attended the same school as Mr Johnson in Belgium - something the prime minister highlighted as they posed for photos in Number 10.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said she hoped the new trading relationship would be based on \"zero tariffs, zero quotas, zero dumping\".\n\nBut she said: \"Without the free movement of people you cannot have the free movement of capital and services.\n\n\"The more divergence there is the more distant the partnership will be.\"\n\nMrs von der Leyen also warned that without an extension of the transition period beyond 2020 \"you cannot expect to agree every single aspect of our new partnership\".\n\nShe called the deadline \"very tight\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOpposition MPs have warned that trade deals typically take years to conclude and the UK risks defaulting to World Trade Organisation rules at the start of 2021, potentially leading to damaging tariffs for some industries.\n\nBut Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told BBC Breakfast the UK and EU had agreed in the political declaration to do a trade deal by the end of this year and he was \"confident\" they would do that.\n\nThe meeting between Boris Johnson and new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is significant in that it's their first face-to-face in their new roles - but today does not mark the start of post-Brexit trade talks.\n\nEU law dictates that trade talks can't start until the UK legally leaves the bloc. Then EU countries must agree a mandate for the EU Commission to negotiate a comprehensive trade agreement on their behalf.\n\nThis mandate then has to be formally signed off at minister level by representatives of all EU countries.\n\nAll this means, the EU says, is trade talks will start at the beginning of March.\n\nWhen UK ministers complain that's too long to wait, the EU response is that the UK always pushed for bigger role for national governments in EU decision-making to make it more democratic.\n\nExpect red-line drawing with smiles today between the prime minister and Mrs von der Leyen - presented as \"friends telling each other truths\".\n\nThe EU position is that the prime minister's timetable to get an \"ambitious, comprehensive\" trade deal agreed and ratified by December is unrealistic.\n\nHowever, the prime minister will counter this with \"truths\" of his own, including that negotiations have to be done by December because he won't extend the transition period.\n\nLegislation implementing the terms of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal continues to move through the Commons, with the government easily winning all three votes on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill on Tuesday.\n\nThe bill will enshrine in law the terms of the transition period, first negotiated by Mr Johnson's predecessor Theresa May, as well as agreements on citizens' rights, customs arrangements in Northern Ireland and the UK's financial settlement.\n\nAttempts by Northern Ireland parties to amend the bill to ensure \"unfettered access\" for businesses there to the rest of the UK market failed to pass on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nMPs also rejected an attempt by Labour to reinstate child refugee protection rights in the Brexit bill.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Huge crowds took to the streets in Soleimani's hometown on Tuesday\n\nSome of the biggest crowds ever seen for a funeral in Iran turned out for that of Qasem Soleimani, the top commander killed in a US air strike last week. In scale, it was second only to the funeral in 1989 of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic revolution.\n\nThese scenes are perhaps surprising to outsiders, and even to some of the country's most senior leaders.\n\nOnly seven weeks ago, Iran witnessed the most violent anti-government demonstrations in decades. Security forces killed anywhere between 330 and 1,500 protesters in more than 100 cities across the country. Thousands more were injured and arrested.\n\nSo why have so many people come out to pay homage to Soleimani?\n\nThere is no doubt that feelings are running high. Arguably the most important man in the country's armed forces has been assassinated by the US, which for many is the arch-enemy of Iran.\n\nIran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif took to Twitter with a message to President Donald Trump: \"Have you seen such a sea of humanity in your life?... Do you still think you can break the will of a great nation and its people?\"\n\nBut it is also clear that the government launched a massive effort to mobilise as many people as possible. The huge turnout sent a strong signal to President Trump that the government enjoys widespread support.\n\nIt also sent the message that any foreign aggression would rally Iranians behind their leaders and any war could well be long and costly.\n\nFor years, whenever they were short of answers to big problems facing the country, Iranian leaders have relied on mass shows of popular support. Historically, rallies have been to intimidate and silence opposition.\n\nThe organisers are now expert in their work. From declaring national holidays to rallying university students or demanding that military personnel and government employees come out with their families, every method of gathering crowds has been used.\n\nBuses, trains and trucks are provided to transport people from villages and towns across Iran to rallies that are relentless advertised by state TV.\n\nSoleimani's killing has raised fears of a conflict between the US and Iran\n\nPeople turn up in large numbers because they feel required to do so.\n\nHardline organisers have powerful supporters, including in the Basij paramilitary force and in the Revolutionary Guards, who can always be relied on to do their duty.\n\nOther factors help explain why so many ordinary Iranians closed ranks behind the country's leaders.\n\nSome see Soleimani as a hero who devoted his life to defending the country. They feel he was uncorrupted and dedicated to his work, unlike many senior soldiers and officials.\n\nHe was also a commander of the Revolutionary Guards for much of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, when Iranians - in spite of Western support for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein - managed to stop Iraqi forces from overrunning their country.\n\nIn recent years, Qasem Soleimani also helped check Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Iraq, who had advanced almost to the Iranian border.\n\nFor nationalist mourners, Soleimani had projected Iranian power in the Arab world. He was seen as the architect of Iran's presence and reach from Lebanon to Syria, Iraq and Yemen.\n\nThere are reports that mourners came out of sheer anger at the assassination of an Iranian general abroad. They felt by killing him, the US was starting a war and that it was time to close ranks in defence of the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Bowen in Baghdad: \"There will be consequences\" over death of Qasem Soleimani\n\nFormer Tehran university professor Sadegh Zibakalam tweeted from the capital that in spite of efforts by the hardliners to own Soleimani, he was a national figure.\n\nAnother factor behind the high turnout was loose talk from President Trump. He tweeted that the US had selected 52 targets in Iran for a possible attack if Iran acted to avenge Soleimani's death.\n\nHe said these included a number of sites of cultural importance to Iran. Attacking cultural centres is a war crime.\n\nIt was immediately clear that this was not the way for the US to win hearts and minds in a country proud of a history that goes back thousands of years.\n\nBut many millions did not join the crowds - including those who did not see Soleimani as a force for good.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey saw him as a key cog in an oppressive machine. The reformists in Iran have not forgotten that he was one of 12 commanders who wrote to then-President Mohammad Khatami in 1999 threatening a coup unless he put an end to university unrest.\n\nMany saw him as the architect of Iran's misguided involvement in the regional wars. He directed Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon in the fighting against Israel in 2006.\n\nHe involved Iran in the civil war in Syria, where pro-Iranian forces he organised were responsible for thousands of civilian deaths.\n\nHe established and financed dozens of Shia militias in Iraq that operated outside government control, brought instability to that country, and helped create the condition for IS to rise.\n\nIn Yemen, he involved Iran in support of Shia Houthis who had overthrown the elected government.\n\nBillions of dollars of Iranian money that could have been spent at home to help the millions living in poverty were instead spent on faraway adventures.\n\nMost importantly, as it is now clear, in life his activities across the region brought Iran close to a war with the US and the world's most powerful military.\n\nPerhaps he has brought Iran even closer to that reality in death.", "Rapper Headie One has been sentenced to six months in jail for possession of a blade.\n\nThe drill artist, who's had two top 10 UK singles, was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court in north London on 3 January.\n\nThe 25-year-old, real name Irving Adjei, was arrested last June but played at both Glastonbury and Wireless festivals after being bailed.\n\nHeadie One's record label has no comment on his sentence.\n\nThe rapper is best-known for his track 18Hunna, which features Mercury Prize winner Dave and peaked at number six on the UK charts.\n\nThat and the chart position of his most recent track Audacity, which features on Stormzy's new album, makes him the most successful artist from the UK drill scene.\n\nThe genre has received plenty of negative attention in the press, though, due to its often violent lyrics about drugs and gangs.\n\nThe rapper features on Stormzy's new album Heavy is the Head\n\nThis isn't Headie One's first conviction.\n\nThe rapper was reportedly locked up for 30 months in 2014 after being caught with heroin and cocaine worth £30,000 in Aberdeen.\n\nHis lawyer at the time said he'd been acting as a drug courier to pay off debts.\n\nAsked by the NME last year what his other convictions were for, he said \"everything, really\".\n\n\"Drugs charges, violent charges. I'm lucky to be here today.\"\n\nHeadie One is the latest UK musician to face jail time for carrying a knife, following on from Brit and Mercury Prize-nominated rapper J Hus, who received an eight month sentence in 2018.\n\nDrill artist Unknown T, meanwhile, has been remanded in custody since being charged with murder in July and is awaiting the start of his trial.\n\nYouTube has previously banned drill videos at the Metropolitan Police's request, and last year two drill artists were found guilty of breaching a gang injunction when they performed one of their songs.\n\nHeadie One completed a UK tour at the end of last year and had no upcoming shows planned.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has admitted it was a \"struggle\" becoming a new mother amid intense media scrutiny.\n\nMeghan Markle married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and gave birth to their son Archie this year.\n\nSpeaking in an ITV documentary, the duchess referred to her life under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed\".\n\nShe added: \"Not many people have asked if I'm OK. But it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were both interviewed by Tom Bradby during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\nAsked how she was coping, Meghan said: \"Look, any woman - especially when they are pregnant - you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a new born - you know?\n\n\"And especially as a woman, it's a lot...\"\n\nThe duchess added: \"And also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I'm OK...\"\n\nWhen asked if it would be fair to say it had \"really been a struggle\", Meghan said: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last month with their son Archie\n\nThe documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey airs on ITV on Sunday at 21:00 BST.\n\nPrince Harry described the memories surrounding the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 as \"a wound that festers\".\n\nOn the tour, the prince visited an anti-landmine project championed by his mother in Angola and told ITV it had been \"emotional\" to trace her footsteps.\n\n\"I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back, so in that respect it's the worst reminder of her life, as opposed to the best.\"\n\nPrince Harry visited a landmine project championed by his late mother during the trip\n\nAs the tour ended, the duke and duchess both brought legal actions against the press.\n\nMeghan sued the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nHarry filed his own proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.", "Jay Sewell was fatally stabbed through a car window, the Old Bailey heard\n\nA man who recruited his parents and a group of his friends to kill a love rival has been jailed for life.\n\nDaniel Grogan, 20, was \"consumed with hatred and jealousy\" of Jay Sewell, 18, after finding out he was seeing his ex-girlfriend, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMr Sewell was attacked by a group of people in Lee, south-east London, on 11 December 2018.\n\nGrogan was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 21 years having previously been found guilty of murder.\n\nThe court was told Grogan deliberately engineered a stand-off with Mr Sewell and his ex-girlfriend Gemma Hodder near to his family home.\n\nMs Hodder, 18, had driven her partner and some of their friends from Kent to see Grogan when they were set upon by a group armed with knives, hammers, a 4ft (1.2m) fireman's axe and wooden sticks.\n\nMr Sewell was fatally attacked through the car window while his friend Charlie Pamphlett was stabbed in the back but survived, jurors were told.\n\nJudge Wendy Joseph QC said Grogan \"desired only revenge on Gemma and Jay\" and had been driven by \"self serving anger beyond logic\".\n\nThe 20-year-old was also jailed for five years for wounding with intent and three-and-a-half years for violent disorder, with the sentences to be served concurrently.\n\nOther members of Grogan's family and friends also received jail sentences for their parts in the killing:\n\nIn an impact statement read in court, Mr Sewell's mother Sharon Louch said there was \"no sentence this court or any other can pass which can come close to healing the pain or make up for not being able to look at my Jay's face or hear him laugh\".\n\n\"Jay you were a blessing and made us proud from the day you came to us until the moment you were taken,\" she said.\n\nOthers were previously sentenced over the attack:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oil prices have receded, after rising following an Iranian attack on two bases hosting US troops in Iraq.\n\nFinancial markets were also relatively calm despite the conflict, amid investor hopes that the two sides would avoid further escalation.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said he would seek additional economic sanctions, but he stopped short of calling for military action.\n\nThe three main share indexes in the US closed the day up about 0.5% or more.\n\nWhile oil prices had jumped to an almost four-month high overnight, they fell back during trade on Wednesday. Brent Crude was down more than 3% to about $65.78 per barrel by mid-day in New York and West Texas International fell more than 4%.\n\nDespite that pullback, oil prices remain nearly 25% higher over the last 12 months, due in part to rising tensions in the Middle East.\n\nIranian state television said the attack was a retaliation for the killing of the country's top commander Qasem Soleimani.\n\nThe attack happened just hours after the funeral service for Soleimani, who was killed by a US drone strike on Friday.\n\nHis death had raised concerns that the conflict between the US and Iran could escalate further.\n\nThat could disrupt shipping in the world's busiest sea route for oil, the Strait of Hormuz. Around a fifth of global oil supply passes through the strait which connects the Gulf with the Arabian Sea.\n\nThe Strait of Hormuz is vital for the main oil exporters in the Gulf region - Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, and Kuwait - whose economies are built around oil and gas production. Iran also relies heavily on this route for its oil exports.\n\nQatar, the world's biggest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), exports nearly all its gas through the strait.\n\nAfter the latest attacks, the US aviation regulator banned American airlines from flying over Iraq, Iran and neighbouring countries. The ban includes the Gulf of Oman and the waters between Iran and Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the decision was in response to heightened military activity, and increased political tension in the region.\n\nBefore the latest guidance, the FAA had already prohibited US airlines from flying below 26,000 feet (7,925 metres) over Iraq and from flying over an area of Iranian airspace above the Gulf of Oman since Iran shot down an American drone in June 2019.\n\nAt the same time Singapore Airlines has said that all of its flights would now be diverted from Iranian airspace.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM said the government would work to prevent an escalation of violence\n\nBoris Johnson has said General Qasem Soleimani, killed by a US drone strike last week, had \"the blood of British troops on his hands\".\n\nHe told the Commons the Iranian general was also responsible for a string of attacks on innocent civilians but called for \"urgent de-escalation\".\n\nHe warned Iran not to repeat \"reckless\" attacks after ballistic missiles were fired at Iraqi air bases earlier.\n\nIran's Revolutionary Guard said they were in response to Soleimani's death.\n\nIt came as President Trump on Wednesday urged countries including the UK - to send a \"clear and united message\" to Iran that its \"campaign of terror\" will no longer be tolerated.\n\nMr Trump also called on the UK and its other European allies to abandon the nuclear deal it signed with Iran nuclear deal with in 2015.\n\nBut, at Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Mr Johnson defended the deal, saying it remains the \"best way of preventing nuclear proliferation in Iran\".\n\nIn his first PMQs since Parliament returned from its Christmas break, Mr Johnson said there were no UK casualties in the attacks on Iraqi air bases \"as far as we can tell\".\n\n\"We, of course, condemn the attack on Iraqi military bases hosting coalition forces,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn questioned the legality of the drone strike ordered by US President Donald Trump that killed Soleimani outside Baghdad airport on Friday.\n\nThe PM said it was not up the UK to determine whether the strike was legal \"since it was not our operation\", but added: \"I think most reasonable people would accept that the United States has the right to protect its bases and its personnel.\"\n\nHis comments come after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab rejected the idea that the killing was an act of war.\n\nMr Johnson and President Trump have discussed the air strike on Iraqi bases over the phone.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister stressed the need for \"urgent de-escalation to avoid further conflict\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn asks Boris Johnson if the killing of General Qasem Soleimani was illegal\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that Soleimani had supplied \"improvised explosive devices to terrorists\" which \"killed and maimed British troops\", adding: \"That man had the blood of British troops on his hands.\"\n\nMr Corbyn's spokesman later said it was \"hard to see\" how Soleimani's assassination could be justified as a legal action.\n\n\"Since the assassination of senior officials, generals, or ministers of internationally recognised governments is, on the face of it, entirely illegal in international law, that defence - the defence of an imminent threat - has to be made public for there to be any question of there being legality around it,\" the spokesman told a Westminster briefing.\n\nHe added: \"No such evidence has been forthcoming and, on the face of it, it's hard to see how that would be the case.\"\n\nIt has taken a while to hear from Boris Johnson directly and I suspect that will surprise a lot of people. It's been five days since this crisis erupted and this is the first we've heard from him.\n\nHe's only talking about it today, frankly, because he has to at PMQs.\n\nThis is because of a new approach from No 10. They want to delegate more responsibility to other cabinet ministers and not have the PM responding to every event and crisis.\n\nBut it also reflects the fact that in this post-Brexit world, Mr Johnson is having to perform a very delicate balancing act.\n\nOn the one hand, he wants to stay close to the Europeans, who we want good relations and a speedy trade deal with. On the other, he doesn't want to antagonise the US, with whom we want similar things.\n\nThat's why you heard him talking about working solidly with the EU to dial down the conflict but at the same time defending President Trump's right to act as he did.\n\nThe bottom line is that as Brexit unfolds, Mr Johnson is going to have to get pretty good at this diplomatic high-wire act.\n\nMr Corbyn said US-Iran tensions were in \"real risk\" of developing into \"full-scale war\" and asked the prime minister whether British personnel in the area were safe.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"As far as we can tell there were no casualties last night sustained by the US and no British personnel were injured in the attacks.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to protect UK interests in the region, with HMS Defender and HMS Montrose operating in an enhanced state of readiness to protect shipping in the Gulf.\"\n\nMr Johnson will later discuss the situation at a meeting with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This footage, reportedly of the missile attack, was shown on Iranian state TV\n\nIran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei described the missile attack as \"a slap in the face\" for the US.\n\nThe strike showed just a \"small part\" of the capabilities of the Iranian armed forces, the chief of staff for the military said.\n\nBut Iran's ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, said the attack was an act of self-defence and the country \"does not seek escalation or war\".\n\nMore than a dozen missiles were fired from Iranian territories into Iraq at about 02:00 local time on Wednesday (22:30 GMT on Tuesday).\n\nThe al Asad airbase - located in the Anbar province of western Iraq - was hit by at least six missiles.\n\nLydia Wilson of the University of Oxford's Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, called it a \"symbolic\" attack that was not designed to \"really damage\" US or Iraqi military capabilities.\n\nNoting that Iran used ballistic missiles rather than more sophisticated cruise missiles, she said: \"Iran was not going to risk a major escalation in this climate. They're very overstretched in the region... they're not going to easily take on the biggest military in the world.\"\n\nThere are about 400 UK troops stationed in Iraq, primarily to assist Iraqi troops in defeating the Islamic State group.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"We are urgently working to establish the facts on the ground. Our first priority continues to be the security of British personnel.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace added that further \"volatility\" would only benefit terrorist groups \"who will seek to capitalise on instability\".\n\nIn the UK, police were \"extremely alert\" to any impact the crisis in Iran may have in Britain, the Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has said.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Royal Navy and military helicopters were put on standby in the Gulf amid the rising tensions in the Middle East.\n\nThe government said non-essential UK personnel had also been moved out of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.\n\nIran had vowed \"severe revenge\" following the assassination of Soleimani.\n\nThe general - who controlled Iran's proxy forces across the Middle East - was regarded as a terrorist by the US government.", "Drivers in Culloden, near Inverness, faced an unusual sight after a trampoline was blown down the road.\n\nStephen Davies filmed it as he was on his way to work.\n\nWind gusts of 74mph were recorded in Scotland on Tuesday.", "Social media influencer Molly Mae Hague has become the latest in a string of reality stars to have a complaint upheld against her by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).\n\nA complaint claimed that a post on her Instagram about an outfit from online retailer Pretty Little Thing was not identifiable as an advert.\n\nPLT claimed the post had been \"organically\" shared by Ms Hague.\n\nThe ASA has ruled the post should not appear in its current form again.\n\nMs Mae was made famous by the ITV show Love Island.\n\nThe offending post, which was shared on the TV personality's Instagram page on 26 September 2019, featured an image of her wearing a coat alongside the caption: \"A/W, I'm ready [brown leaf emoji]\".\n\nThe official Instagram account for Pretty Little Thing was also tagged in the photograph.\n\nThe reality star is a brand ambassador for the popular clothing brand and, in accordance with her contract, any advertising for the company has to be clearly identifiable to her 3.6 million followers.\n\nBoth PLT and Ms Hague argued that the post wasn't included in her contractual agreement.\n\nThey claimed the post fell outside the realms of their partnership, and instead simply demonstrated her genuine interest in the brand's clothing.\n\nHowever, the ASA upheld the complaint and ruled that future posts made by Ms Mae must include phrases such as \"#ad\" to make her partnership with the brand clear.\n\nIt comes after rival clothing company Boohoo had an advert banned last year when the ASA ruled it \"made light of a potentially harmful social trend\".\n\nThe company put the phrase \"send nudes\" in a message sent to promote a range of clothes coloured to resemble skin.\n\nBoohoo was told to make sure its advertising was \"socially responsible\" in future.", "Ms Trump was interviewed on stage in a packed auditorium\n\nIvanka Trump's appearance at the CES tech show went smoothly, despite controversy surrounding her invitation.\n\nSome had criticised a decision to give her a \"keynote\" slot, saying other women had more expertise in the field.\n\nOn stage, the US president's daughter suggested Americans' CV data should be stored and updated on their phones as a matter of course, to make it easier for them to apply for jobs.\n\nShe seemed not to want to \"ruffle feathers\", one attendee told the BBC.\n\nMs Trump was interviewed in front of an audience of trade show delegates in Las Vegas by Gary Shapiro, chief of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which organises CES.\n\n\"Why can't you have your high school degree verified and in your phone, so an employer doesn't need to call your high school?\" she asked him rhetorically.\n\nSkills obtained on health and safety courses, or in manufacturing roles, she suggested, could be logged.\n\n\"All of that should be catalogued and tracked and available and accessible,\" Ms Trump added.\n\nLast year, a white paper published by the US government described the concept - known as interoperable learning records - in detail.\n\nMs Trump also said that more could be done to help those without college degrees enter the workforce.\n\nAnd she gained a round of applause for praising the introduction of paid parental leave for US government workers.\n\nCritics had called for the event to be boycotted. But a large audience packed into a hotel conference centre to see and hear Ms Trump.\n\n\"It seemed clear as a member of the administration that she didn't want to ruffle any feathers,\" said Adam Smith, contributing UK editor for PCMag.\n\nHe added that the atmosphere had been \"accommodating\" to Ms Trump.\n\n\"A debate may be worthwhile on whether her presence took the place of a more experienced woman in the tech sector or the merits of her political views, but it would be difficult to fault her on the delivery of her message,\" he added.\n\nMs Trump and her husband Jared Kushner will next attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as part of the White House delegation later this month.\n\nAttendees of Ms Trump's keynote had to abide by certain rules\n\nI wasn't sure what to expect from Ivanka Trump's much-hyped CES keynote. Would the grand Venetian Ballroom auditorium be full, or would the threatened boycott keep the crowds away? Would she be booed or cheered?\n\nIt was no doubt a lucrative day to be a security guard here in Las Vegas. Men in black wearing silver \"cop security\" badges were everywhere, and long queues of CES delegates snaked across the floors.\n\n\"No selfie sticks, no signs, no oversized bags,\" we were instructed.\n\nThe hall was soon packed out. Ivanka Trump and Gary Shapiro emerged, a few minutes late, to enthusiastic applause.\n\nThis audience was clearly not going to heckle, and it was also apparent that Mr Shapiro had no intention of giving Ms Trump what we journalists would call a grilling.\n\nMs Trump was articulate and on-message about her father's government's strategies in tackling unemployment in the US. She spoke passionately about the high price of childcare, her diamond rings sparkling under the stage lights.\n\nCritics had questioned whether Ms Trump was \"qualified\" to speak at the tech show\n\nIt was a very smooth performance - but it lacked any drama.\n\nOur camerawoman Cody was at the back of the hall. She told me that a small but steady trickle of people walked out discreetly before the end.\n\nAbout 12 minutes in, I noticed the head of the gentleman on my left in the press seats slowly sink towards his chest. He closed his eyes, appearing to snooze.\n\nI wondered briefly whether to give him a collegiate nudge, but decided ultimately he probably wasn't going to miss any excitement. And he didn't.", "Greggs said its vegan sausage roll had helped boost sales\n\nThousands of Greggs staff are set to get a £300 one-off payment after a \"phenomenal year\", the firm said.\n\nSales growth had been helped by strong demand for its traditional snacks and Greggs' \"now iconic\" vegan sausage rolls, the bakery chain said.\n\nGreggs staff will share a £7m payment after shareholders received a £35m special dividend in October.\n\nThe firm expects underlying annual pre-tax profit to be ahead of its expectations when it reports in March.\n\nThe 19,000 Greggs staff who have been with the chain since before 31 March will get a £300 windfall at the end of January, while the remaining 6,000 will get £75 for each quarter they have worked for Greggs.\n\nThe one-off payment to staff will be on top of the profit-sharing scheme that Greggs already has, a spokeswoman said. The bakery chain already shares 10% of profits with employees, she said.\n\n\"Our record financial performance in 2019 has enabled us to enhance returns to shareholders,\" said chief executive Roger Whiteside.\n\n\"I am delighted to announce that we will also be making a special additional payment to all of our colleagues across the business who have worked so hard to deliver this success in what has been a phenomenal year.\"\n\nThe bonus comes a year after Greggs launched its vegan sausage roll snack, which is made from meat substitute Quorn.\n\nIts launch has been followed by other initiatives such as a vegan steak bake and a vegan doughnut.\n\nJames Compton, Victor Connor, and Stephen Green (left to right) all qualify for the full £300 bonus\n\nWhen store manager Victor Connor and workers James Compton and Stephen Green heard about the bonus they started screaming and shouting.\n\n\"It genuinely feels like a thank you,\" Victor said. \"Quite a few customers have said: 'To be fair you guys deserve it'.\"\n\nStephen said it was particularly welcome just after Christmas: \"They don't need to give it us, something for all our hard work.\"\n\n\"But it makes the staff feel more appreciated- everyone here is made up,\" he added.\n\nIt isn't uncommon for workers to benefit from a share in the profits. Other UK retailers that have staff bonus schemes include John Lewis and Waitrose, Sainsbury's, and Sports Direct for shop floor workers.\n\nMaureen Hinton, global retail research director at GlobalData, said offering a staff bonus reflected a growing trend amongst firms to want to appear ethical.\n\n\"This is a great way for Greggs to maintain the loyalty of the workforce and creates a very inclusive culture, as the benefits of its success is being shared with everyone.\n\nIt was also good \"PR\" she added \"something Greggs is excellent at.\"\n\nGreggs, like other retailers, will face higher costs in 2020 from a boost to the National Living Wage and higher pork prices, the firm added.\n\nGreggs opened 138 new shops over the last year and closed 41, bringing the total to 2,050 across the UK. It said it planned to open about 100 new shops in 2020.\n\nLike-for-like sales grew 9.2% in 2019, compared with 2.9% growth in 2018.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Using a walking frame, Harvey Weinstein arrives for his trial on sexual assault charges\n\nA judge has angrily threatened to lock up Harvey Weinstein for using his phone in a New York City court where a jury is being picked for his rape trial.\n\n\"Is this really the way you want to end up in jail for the rest of your life, by texting and violating a court order?\" asked Judge James Burke.\n\nThe Manhattan judge instructed the former Hollywood producer, who is out on bail, not to answer the question.\n\nMr Weinstein faces five charges and possibly life in jail if convicted.\n\nThe allegations include rape and predatory sexual assault relating to two unnamed accusers. He is charged with raping one woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, and performing a forcible sex act on the second woman in 2006.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Weinstein accusers take questions outside court in New York\n\nOn Monday, Mr Weinstein was charged with an additional two counts in Los Angeles: rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe 67-year-old has denied all charges and insists any sexual encounters were consensual.\n\nMr Weinstein was caught using two mobile phones on Tuesday, according to local media. He had already been admonished by Judge Burke at previous court appearances for using a handset.\n\n\"What did I say would happen if he so much has a cellphone or electronic device since there have been repeated violations of this, including some on the record?\" Judge Burke said.\n\n\"I believe you said remand,\" Mr Weinstein's lawyer replied after a heated exchange, meaning to put his client in jail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Why I broke my silence over Weinstein\" - an accuser talks about the criminal trial\n\nLead prosecutor Joan Illuzzi urged Judge Burke to jail Mr Weinstein, who is out on $5m (£3.8m) bail. He is required to wear an electronic tracking device.\n\n\"There is a grave risk that this defendant at some point will realise that the evidence against him is imposing and overwhelming\" and he will try to escape, Ms Illuzzi said.\n\nJudge Burke ultimately declined to revoke Mr Weinstein's bail, but told the former movie mogul he would not get any further warning.\n\n\"I'm not looking for apologies,\" Judge Burke said, \"I'm looking for compliance.\"\n\nIn court, Mr Weinstein's lawyer, Arthur Aidala, asked Judge Burke to delay jury selection, arguing that the jury pool had been tarnished by the extensive press coverage of the Los Angeles charges filed on Monday.\n\n\"For a prosecutor, this is Christmas morning,\" Mr Aidala said, holding a stack of Monday's newspapers. \"What better present than the morning of jury selection to have him smeared everywhere?\"\n\nAfter jury selection, Mr Weinstein's New York trial is expected to begin in around two weeks.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nPolice are investigating after a performer was left in a life-threatening condition by a fall during rehearsals for the Winter Youth Olympic Games opening ceremony in Switzerland.\n\nThe unnamed Russian skater, who lives in Germany, fell from a height of five metres as she was being lifted by a metal ring attached to a cable in the Vaudoise Arena ice rink.\n\nThe 35-year-old was seriously injured after \"suddenly losing her balance\" and falling on to the ice, according to police in Lausanne.\n\nLausanne 2020 organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said they were \"saddened to hear of an accident\".\n\n\"Lausanne 2020 and the IOC wish the performer a fast and full recovery,\" they added in a statement.\n\nThe opening ceremony for the Winter Youth Olympic Games takes place on 9 January.", "Kelechi Iheanacho's equaliser gave Leicester City a deserved draw to leave the Carabao Cup semi-final against Aston Villa delicately poised after an entertaining encounter at the King Power Stadium.\n\nSubstitute Iheanacho finished emphatically from Jamie Vardy's pass with 16 minutes left to give The Foxes the reward their incessant second-half pressure merited to set up a tense second leg at Villa Park.\n\nVilla, struggling with injuries after goalkeeper Tom Heaton and striker Wesley were ruled out for the season, defended with organisation and resilience to protect the lead given to them after 28 minutes when Frederic Guilbert stole in at the far post to meet Anwar El Ghazi's cross.\n\nEzri Konsa's header also struck the bar for Villa but Leicester applied most of the pressure with keeper Orjan Nyland saving twice from James Maddison and Vardy, who also shot just wide late on, before he was beaten by Iheanacho's powerful strike from 12 yards.\n\nThe second leg at Villa Park takes place on Tuesday, 28 January.\n• None Reaction to action from the King Power Stadium\n• None Quiz: Name all EFL Cup semi-finalists of the 2010s\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate was in the stands at The King Power Stadium to cast his eye over several players as he finalises his Euro 2020 plans.\n\nVilla defender Tyrone Mings and Leicester pair James Maddison and Ben Chilwell have already won full caps - so Southgate will have been paying particular attention to Jack Grealish, who has been a key figure for Dean Smith's side this season.\n\nGrealish is yet to make the breakthrough to full England status and his midfield battle with Maddison, who is yet to fully convince Southgate, was an intriguing sub-plot to this semi-final.\n\nAnd the Villa captain did not disappoint, surely pressing his claims for inclusion in England's squad and the opportunity to put himself in contention for this summer's Euros.\n\nVilla spent much of the game on the back foot but Grealish was composed and strong on the ball when he got the chance, always looking for the chance to play the decisive pass on the rare occasions they were able to build pressure.\n\nMaddison is currently ahead of Grealish in Southgate's pecking order, but this classy display from the 24-year-old will have given Southgate food for thought as Villa set up a platform to give themselves a real chance of reaching the EFL Cup Final against either Manchester City or Manchester United.\n\nLeicester City were not quite at their fluent best that has taken them into second place in the Premier League, forcing their way between runaway leaders Liverpool and reigning champions Manchester City.\n\nAnd yet, despite this, the Foxes showed real determination and patience to maintain the pressure until marksman Vardy turned creator with an astute pass that released Iheanacho for his late leveller.\n\nThere were occasions when the home crowd, largely supportive, became impatient as Leicester probed but they stayed true to the principles of manager Brendan Rodgers and no-one apart from Villa could complain about their equaliser.\n\nRodgers would have wanted victory from this home leg but he looked satisfied at the final whistle, clearly believing this is a result Leicester City can work with at Villa Park, where their pace and power on the break - spearheaded by Vardy - may be an even bigger weapon than it was here, as it was in their recent 4-1 league victory.\n\n'He has really come to the fore' - reaction\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Kelechi is a big talent. He didn't play a lot of football at Manchester City and it takes a bit of time to adapt.\n\n\"But since I've come in his confidence has grown and grown and we believe in him and believe in his talent and this season he has really come to the fore.\n\n\"He works so hard every day. He's either making a goal or scoring a goal now and he works so hard in his pressing game. He was a threat when he came on against Villa and I'm delighted for him.\"\n\nAston Villa manager Dean Smith: \"It should be a good second leg, all square and a boisterous crowd, a full house.\n\n\"It wasn't the performance I wanted, Leicester were the better team but we defended well at times. We have to be honest, they created chances as well. We were loose on the ball tonight, we've got to do better.\n\n\"I'm certainly content with a draw, just not the performance. We gave away a farcical goal. Ezri Konsa has got brain dazzled. A disappointing goal but it sums up some of our performance on the night. We did get in a lot of tackles and blocks.\"\n• None Villa have scored 17 League Cup goals this season - their most since 2012-13, with Villa last scoring more in the 1999-00 campaign (18).\n• None Villa have not kept a clean sheet on the road in all competitions in their last 17 games, last doing so against Bolton Wanderers in April 2019.\n• None Iheanacho has been directly involved in seven goals in his five competitive appearances against Aston Villa (five goals, two assists) - more than any other opponent in his professional club career.\n• None Vardy has provided five assists in his 22 appearances in all competitions this season; as many as he got for Leicester City in the previous two campaigns (five assists in 78 apps).\n• None El Ghazi has been directly involved in 11 goals in all competitions for Aston Villa this season (five goals, six assists); only Grealish has more for the Villans (14).\n• None Guilbert's goal in the 28th minute was Aston Villa's only shot on target in the match. In fact, they only recorded three shots in the entire game - the lowest total they have registered in all competitions since May 2016 against Newcastle United (two shots).\n• None No player had more shots (eight), shots on target (two) or created more chances (four) than Leicester's Maddison in this match, with Grealish having zero shots and recording just one key pass by comparison.\n\nLeicester are home to Southampton in the league on Saturday (15:00 GMT) and Villa host Manchester City on Sunday (16:30 GMT)\n• None Attempt saved. Çaglar Söyüncü (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.\n• None Attempt missed. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jamie Vardy.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ricardo Pereira following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jamie Vardy. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe couple said last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals, and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn 2016, Kensington Palace released a statement confirming Harry had been dating US actress Meghan Markle \"for a few months\". They were pictured in public for the first time in Toronto, attending a wheelchair tennis match during the 2017 Invictus Games.\n\nThey announced their engagement a few weeks after being first pictured together. Meghan told BBC News that Harry's proposal was \"just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic\".\n\nIn February 2018, the couple took part in their first joint engagement with Prince Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As Meghan joined their Royal Foundation charity, Harry joked the foursome were now \"stuck together\".\n\nThe couple were married at Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018, with 1,200 public invitations to the grounds of the castle. They travelled through the town in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nUp to 100,000 well-wishers lined the route as the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThe couple kissed on the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family attended the wedding.\n\nThe newlyweds held hands after the ceremony.\n\nIn June 2018, the Queen and the duchess were seen at their first royal engagement together, as they officially opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre.\n\nThat autumn, Kensington Palace revealed the duchess was pregnant and the couple's baby was due in the spring. Shortly after the announcement, they embarked on their first official overseas tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nOn one of their engagements, the couple posed with OneWave, a surfing community group that raises awareness of mental health and wellbeing, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia\n\nOn 6 May, 2019, Meghan gave birth to a boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who became seventh in line to the throne. Harry told reporters: \"It's been the most amazing experience I could ever possibly imagine\".\n\nIn June 2019, the couple announced they were splitting from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own foundation.\n\nLast autumn, Archie travelled with the couple to southern Africa on their first royal tour as a family, and was a big hit with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAn image of a beaming Prince Harry holding his son while on an extended stay in Canada was released by the couple as part of an Instagram compilation summing up their year.\n\nFollowing their trip, the couple were pictured in January on a visit to Canada House.\n\nIn February, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child.", "The woman who inspired Jennifer Lopez's character in Hustlers is suing the film's makers for $40m (£30m).\n\nIn the lawsuit, Samantha Barbash accuses film companies including STX Films and Lopez's Nuyorican Productions of using her likeness and defaming her.\n\nIn response, STX said it would \"defend our right to tell factually based stories based on the public record\".\n\nHustlers is the fictionalised story of Barbash and other women who drugged and swindled rich men at strip clubs.\n\nBarbash was the alleged mastermind of the ring and was sentenced to five years' probation for conspiracy, assault and grand larceny after it came to light.\n\nThe movie was based on a 2015 New York Magazine article about the gang, but Barbash has said she declined to sell her rights to the movie's producers, saying they offered her \"peanuts\".\n\nLopez with director Lorene Scafaria and the Spotlight Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival\n\nLopez was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing the role of Ramona in Hustlers, which has made $157m (£120m) at global box offices since its release in September.\n\nThe actress has described her character as \"unapologetically savage\". Last April, Barbash told the New York Post that Lopez was misrepresenting her and she was never a stripper.\n\nAccording to the New York Post, the court papers said: \"Anyone who views the film will believe Plaintiff to be an individual of little to no moral or ethical values, devoid of any loyalty to her colleagues, under the influence of hard drugs, and with misandrist tendencies.\"\n\nBarbash's lawyer Bruno V Gioffre Jr told Rolling Stone: \"My client is offended that the defendants used her likeness to make over $150m, defamed her character and tried to trick her into selling her rights to the production company for a mere $6,000.\"\n\nBarbash posted a screenshot on Twitter of TMZ's story about the lawsuit, followed by a post confirming \"it's true\".\n\nA spokesman for STX Films told US media: \"While we have not yet seen the complaint, we will continue to defend our right to tell factually based stories based on the public record.\" A representative for Nuyorican Productions declined to comment.\n\nReal people who have been portrayed on screen do not have a good track record of success when suing movie and TV companies.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Royal correspondent Jonny Dymond: \"It is very clear the palace is very upset about what has happened\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced they will step back as \"senior\" royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn a statement, Prince Harry and Meghan also said they plan to split their time between the UK and North America.\n\nThe BBC understands no other royal - including the Queen or Prince William - was consulted before the statement and Buckingham Palace is \"disappointed\".\n\nSenior royals are understood to be \"hurt\" by the announcement.\n\nLast October, Prince Harry and Meghan publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight.\n\nIn their unexpected statement on Wednesday, also posted on their Instagram page, the couple said they made the decision \"after many months of reflection and internal discussions\".\n\n\"We intend to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.\"\n\nThey said they plan to balance their time between the UK and North America while \"continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages\".\n\n\"This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.\"\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the fact palace officials said they were \"disappointed\" is \"pretty strong\".\n\n\"I think it indicates a real strength of feeling in the palace tonight - maybe not so much about what has been done but about how it has been done - and the lack of consultation I think will sting.\n\n\"This is clearly a major rift between Harry and Meghan on one part, and the rest of the Royal Family on the other.\"\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said discussions with the duke and duchess on their decision to step back were \"at an early stage\", adding: \"We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through.\"\n\nOver Christmas, the couple took a six-week break from royal duties to spend some time in Canada with their son, Archie, who was born in May.\n\nAfter returning to the UK on Tuesday, Harry, 35, and Meghan, 38, visited Canada's High Commission in London to thank the country for hosting them and said the warmth and hospitality they received was \"unbelievable\".\n\nThe couple, together with their son Archie, recently spent time in Canada\n\nDuring the visit, Meghan said it was an \"incredible time\" to enjoy the \"beauty of Canada\".\n\n\"To see Archie go 'ah' when you walk by, and just see how stunning it is - so it meant a lot to us.\"\n\nFormer actress Meghan lived and worked in Toronto during her time starring in the popular US drama Suits, and she has several Canadian friends.\n\nClose up, it was painfully clear that there were great chunks of the job they simply could not stand.\n\nBoth of them appeared to come alive with the crowds. But Harry hated the cameras and was visibly bored by the ceremonial.\n\nAnd though Meghan was often the consummate professional, at times her impatience with the everyday slog of the role sometimes broke through.\n\nShe said she didn't want to become a voiceless figurehead; but when she raised her voice, she found criticism waiting for her.\n\nThey both made their feelings known in the 2019 interview with ITV's Tom Bradby.\n\nBut beyond the detail, what was so shocking was how unhappy they both seemed. The sun-drenched wedding of the year before seemed like a dream; here were two people visibly struggling with their lives and positions.\n\nThere are far more questions than answers; what will their new role be? Where will they live, and who will pay for it? What relationship will they have with the rest of the Royal Family?\n\nAnd there's the institutional question. What does this mean for the Royal Family?\n\nIt comes just a few months after Prince Andrew stepped back from his duties. Some might see this as the slimmed-down monarchy that the 21st century needs.\n\nBut Harry and Meghan reached people that other royals didn't.\n\nThey were part of the reinvention and refreshing of the institution. This was not the way anyone would have planned its future.\n\nFormer Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter suggested the decision showed Prince Harry's \"heart ruling his head\".\n\nHe told the BBC the \"massive press onslaught\" when their son Archie was born may have played a part in the decision.\n\nAnd he compared the move to Edward VIII's abdication in 1936 in order to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.\n\n\"That is the only other precedent, but there's been nothing like this in modern times,\" Mr Arbiter said.\n\nMeghan and Prince Harry married in May 2018\n\nAsked how being a \"part-time\" member of the Royal Family might work, Mr Arbiter said he did not know.\n\n\"If they're going to be based in the UK, it means they are going to be doing a lot of flying [with] a big carbon footprint,\" he said, adding that this may \"raise eyebrows\".\n\nHe also questioned how the couple would become financially independent.\n\n\"I mean, Harry is not a poor man, but to settle yourself in two different continents, to raise a family, to continue to do your work - how's the work going to be funded?\n\n\"How is their security going to be funded?\n\n\"Because they're still going to have to have security - who's going to have to pay for this? Where's the security coming from? Is the Metropolitan Police going to be providing it and if so whether there's going to be any contribution in covering the security cost?\"\n\nMr Arbiter also suggested questions would be raised over why £2.4m of taxpayer's money was spent on renovating the couple's home, Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, if they will now be living elsewhere for some of the year.\n\nHarry and Meghan met senior Canadian diplomats in London earlier this week\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the couple have \"considerable savings\", including Harry's inheritance from Princess Diana's estate and the money Meghan earned as an actress.\n\nBut, asked about whether they might get jobs, he added: \"There is a problem for members of the Royal Family - relatively senior ones, even if they say they're no longer senior - getting jobs, because they are seen to monetise their brand and you run into a whole host of questions about conflict of interest\".\n\nHe added that we are now in \"wait and see mode\" as to whether this new model of being a royal can work - \"or if this is really a staging post for them to leave the Royal Family\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales pays for the public duties of Harry, Meghan, William and Kate and some of their private costs, out of his Duchy of Cornwall income, which was £21.6m last year.\n\nAccounts from Clarence House show this funding - in the year Meghan officially joined the Royal Family - stood at just over £5m, up 1.8% on 2017-18.\n\nRoyal author Penny Junor said she \"can't quite see how it's going to work\", adding: \"I don't think it's been properly thought through.\"\n\n\"I think it's extraordinary but also I think it's rather sad,\" she said. \"They may not feel they are particularly loved but actually they are very much loved.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nHarry is sixth in line to the throne - behind Prince Charles, Prince William and his three children.\n\nIn an ITV documentary last year, Meghan admitted motherhood was a \"struggle\" due to intense interest from newspapers.\n\nPrince Harry also responded to reports of a rift between him and his brother William, the Duke of Cambridge, by saying they were on \"different paths\".\n\nIn October, the duchess began legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nAnd the duke also began legal action against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry on his brother, William in 2019: \"We are certainly on different paths at the moment\"\n\nPrince Harry also released a statement, saying: \"I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess moved out of Kensington Palace, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge live, in 2018 to set up their family home in Windsor.\n\nThen last summer, they split from the charity they shared with Prince William and Kate to set up their own charitable projects.\n\nThe couple's announcement on Wednesday comes two months after the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.", "The boss of Sainsbury's has said sales were lower during the Christmas period because fewer people bought toys.\n\nMike Coupe told the BBC that toy sales had fallen by 20% across the market in the last two years.\n\n\"The challenge was in a couple of categories, particularly gaming and toys,\" he said, adding that there were no major releases to boost sales in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nThe supermarket's like-for-like sales fell 0.7% in the 15 weeks to 4 January.\n\nWhile grocery sales actually increased by 0.4%, poor sales in the division that includes Argos, which is owned by Sainsbury's, weighed on the company's overall performance.\n\nNevertheless, Mr Coupe said the company had delivered a \"real sense of momentum\".\n\nClothing sales grew by 5%, which Mr Coupe said was helped by colder weather in the weeks before Christmas.\n\n\"Womenswear was particularly popular, including a sell-out range of novelty Christmas jumpers,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\n\"These results show a mixed picture for the retailer,\" said Richard Lim, who runs analyst firm Retail Economics.\n\n\"On the one hand, the food business held up relatively well in an extremely tough market,\" he said.\n\n\"On the other, Argos appears to have had a much tougher time delivering an uncomfortable decline in sales over the festive period.\"\n\nData released by two research firms, Nielsen and Kantar, on Tuesday suggested that Sainsbury's was the least worst performer among the so-called \"big four\" supermarkets over the all-important Christmas period.\n\nMorrisons reported a 1.7% drop in like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, for the 22 weeks to 5 January.\n\nThe company said: \"Throughout the period, trading conditions remained challenging and the customer uncertainty of the last year was sustained.\"", "Television medium and psychic Derek Acorah has died aged 69, his wife has announced.\n\nGwen Acorah Johnson said her \"beloved\" husband had passed away \"after a very brief illness\".\n\nShe announced his death on his official Facebook page, adding: \"Farewell my love! I will miss you forever!\"\n\nAcorah was best known for Living TV's Most Haunted, a reality TV series that followed a team of paranormal experts as they investigated haunted locations.\n\nMost Haunted ran from 2002 to 2010 although it returned in an online edition and on Really TV at various times until 2019.\n\nAcorah departed as the show's guest medium after six series in 2005 over claims of fakery.\n\nHis former co-host Yvette Fielding, who had previously said Acorah \"had to go\" following the allegations, said on Twitter: \"Our condolences go out to Derek's family at this time.\"\n\nAcorah, who was born Derek Johnson in Bootle, Merseyside, made a cameo appearance in the 2006 Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts and entered the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2017, finishing in fourth place.\n\nHe was banned from driving for more than two years in 2014 when he admitted to careless driving and failing to provide a further breath test following a car crash.\n\nIn addition to a 28-month ban, Acorah received a £1000 fine and had to pay a £100 victim surcharge.\n\nHe had performed regular live shows across the UK, with further tour dates planned for February and May, according to his website. He lived in Scarisbrick, near Southport, with his wife.\n\nMrs Acorah Johnson said she was \"devastated\", and thanked everybody who had supported her.", "The tree (far right) is planted at Heacham Manor Hotel in Norfolk\n\nTests aiming to establish the truth of a legend claiming that Pocahontas planted a mulberry tree in Norfolk have proved inconclusive.\n\nThe Native American travelled to England in 1616 with husband John Rolfe after helping save a colonialist's life.\n\nLegend has it she planted a mulberry tree at a manor house in Heacham, where Rolfe was from.\n\nBut DNA analysis of the tree and others have proved inconclusive.\n\nRolfe and Pocahontas spent 10 months in England - before her death in Gravesend, Kent, in 1617 - when it is said that while visiting her husband's family home in Heacham, she planted a tree in the area,\n\nThe tree - in the same spot, but now in the grounds of Heacham Manor Hotel - still produces fruit.\n\nA life-size bronze effigy of the Native American stands in Gravesend, Kent\n\nResearchers at the Forestry Commission carried out DNA research following claims by a retired Heacham resident who has extensively researched the Pocahontas legend.\n\nIt was hoped this might establish a DNA connection between the hotel's tree and other very old mulberry trees at Buckingham Palace, Syon House in west London and Narford Hall, Norfolk.\n\nIt was thought Pocahontas might have visited one of these trees and collected seeds, and research could establish whether they were forebears of the Heacham tree.\n\nJoan Cottrell, from the Forestry Commission, said scientists had \"attempted to fingerprint\" eight trees \"but failed to get clear results\".\n\nShe said tests showed the eight trees \"probably\" belonged to the same clone, but that the work was \"not conclusive\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet explains the significance of the attack\n\nThe killing of Gen Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, represents a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran and one whose consequences could be considerable.\n\nRetaliation is to be expected. A chain of action and reprisal could ensue bringing the two countries closer to a direct confrontation. Washington's future in Iraq could well be called into question. And President Trump's strategy for the region - if there is one - will be tested like never before.\n\nPhilip Gordon, who was White House co-ordinator for the Middle East and the Persian Gulf in the Obama administration, described the killing as little short of a \"declaration of war\" by the Americans against Iran.\n\nThe Quds Force is the branch of Iran's security forces responsible for operations abroad. For years, whether it be in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria or elsewhere, Soleimani has been a key instigator in expanding and extending Iran's influence through planning attacks or bolstering Tehran's local allies.\n\nFor Washington, he was a man with US blood on his hands. But he was popular in Iran itself. And in practical terms, he led Tehran's fightback against the broad campaign of pressure and US-imposed sanctions.\n\nWhat is most surprising is not that Soleimani was in President Trump's sights but quite why the US should strike him now.\n\nA series of low-level rocket attacks against US bases in Iraq were blamed on Tehran. One US civilian contractor was killed. But earlier Iranian operations - against tankers in the Gulf; the shooting down of a US unmanned aerial vehicle; even the major attack against a Saudi oil facility - all went without a direct US response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs for the rocket attacks against the US bases in Iraq, the Pentagon has already hit back against the pro-Iranian militia believed to be behind them. That prompted a potential assault on the US embassy compound in Baghdad.\n\nIn explaining the decision to kill Soleimani, the Pentagon focused not just on his past actions, but also insisted that the strike was meant as a deterrent. The general, the Pentagon statement reads, was \"actively developing plans to attack US diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\nQuite what happens next is the big question. President Trump will hope that in one dramatic action he has both cowed Iran and proven to his increasingly uneasy allies in the region like Israel and Saudi Arabia that US deterrence still has teeth. However it is almost unthinkable that there will not be a robust Iranian response, even if it is not immediate.\n\nCould Iran target US soldiers stationed in Iraq in response?\n\nThe 5,000 US troops in Iraq are an obvious potential target. So too are the sorts of targets hit by Iran or its proxies in the past. Tensions will be higher in the Gulf. No wonder the initial impact was to see a surge in oil prices.\n\nThe US and its allies will be looking to their defences. Washington has already despatched a small number of reinforcements to its embassy in Baghdad. It will have plans to increase its military footprint in the region quickly if needed.\n\nBut it is equally possible that Iran's response will be in some sense asymmetric - in other words not just a strike for a strike. It may seek to play on the widespread support it has in the region - through the very proxies that Soleimani built up and funded.\n\nIt could for example renew the siege on the US embassy in Baghdad, putting the Iraqi government in a difficult position, and call into question the US deployment there. It could prompt demonstrations elsewhere as cover for other attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could Iran instigate more attacks on the US embassy in Baghdad such as this one earlier this week?\n\nThe strike against the Quds force commander was a clear demonstration of US military intelligence and capabilities. Many in the region will not mourn his passing. But was this the wisest thing for President Trump to do?\n\nHow well is the Pentagon prepared for the inevitable aftermath? And just what does this strike tell us about Mr Trump's overall strategy in the region? Has this changed in any way? Is there a new zero-tolerance towards Iranian operations?\n\nOr was this just the president taking out an Iranian commander he would no doubt regard as \"a very bad man\".", "John Paul Smyth was last seen on New Year's Eve\n\nA body has been found in the search for a 15-year-old boy who went missing on New Year's Eve.\n\nJohn Paul Smyth, known as JP, was last seen in Warrenpoint town centre on 31 December.\n\nAfter extensive searches by the community, police confirmed on Saturday the search for the missing Newry teenager had been called off.\n\nJP was said to have an \"infectious personality\" and his death is being described as a tragic accident.\n\nSt Paul's High School in Bessbrook, where JP was a pupil, said the \"tragic and accidental\" death of their \"esteemed\" pupil had \"shocked and saddened\" them all.\n\n\"JP's infectious personality and his friendly smile endeared him to so many pupils and staff at St Paul's,\" the school said.\n\nA remembrance event is being held at the County Armagh school on Sunday.\n\nNewry and Armagh MP Mickey Brady said the death had deeply affected the community, and extended his sympathies to his family.\n\nCouncillor Jarlath Tinnelly said on social media: \"Initial indications are this was nothing more than a tragic accident.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with John Paul's family at this tragic time.\"", "Sir Rod Stewart has been charged by police after allegedly punching a security guard at a hotel in Florida.\n\nA police report says the altercation occurred after the singer and his companions, including his son Sean, failed to gain access to a private event on New Year's Eve.\n\nSean allegedly pushed the security guard and Sir Rod struck his chest \"with a closed fist\", the report says.\n\nSir Rod and his son were both charged with \"simple battery\".\n\nThe security guard at the Breakers Palm Beach Hotel, named as Jessie Dixon, told officers that he saw a group of people near the check-in table of the private event in the children's area, trying to enter without permission.\n\nMr Dixon told police that the group \"began to get loud and cause a scene\", refusing to leave.\n\nSean Stewart got \"nose to nose\" with the security guard, according to the affidavit, who told him to back away.\n\nThe report then alleges that Sean Stewart, 39, shoved Mr Dixon backwards, before Sir Rod stepped towards the security guard and threw a punch, hitting him in the left ribcage.\n\nThe arresting officer says in the report that he made contact with Sir Rod, who said he and his family approached the check-in table to try to gain access to the event for their children.\n\nAccording to the affidavit, Sir Rod told police that after the family were denied access, Mr Dixon became argumentative with them, causing his family to become \"agitated\".\n\nSir Rod, 74, apologised for his role in the incident, the officer's report says.\n\nThe officer says the altercation was witnessed by two other hotel employees, who signed witness statements confirming they saw the push by Sean Stewart and the punch by Sir Rod.\n\nVideo footage also revealed Sean Stewart and Sir Rod as the \"primary aggressors\" in the confrontation, according to the report.\n\nBoth father and son were charged and are due to appear at the Palm Beach County Criminal Justice Complex on 5 February.", "Eli Hewson (second right) with bandmates Josh Jenkinson, Robert Keating and Ryan McMahon\n\nInhaler want to make it on their own terms, just like any band.\n\nThe way they tell their story, the fact their frontman is the son of one of the world's biggest rock stars is almost irrelevant.\n\nYes, Elijah Hewson does have something of his dad's on-stage magnetism. Yes, he has a familiar yearning voice. Yes, there is a certain resemblance in the unkempt 80s mullet.\n\nYes, his dad is U2 singer Bono.\n\nBut the 20-year-old singer-guitarist-songwriter and his bandmates have spent 2019 showing signs - not least to the 170 music critics, DJs and musicians who have voted them to fifth place on the BBC Music Sound of 2020 list - that they have what it takes to be more than U2.0.\n\nInhaler's sound combines a recognisable widescreen sweep with a baggy Madchester vibe and modern, synth-swathed indie melodies. The anthemic My Honest Face is their stand-out track so far.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Scotland This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAt the same time, they have been relentlessly gigging to build up a fanbase of their own. They supported Noel Gallagher at two big summer shows and recently finished their first US tour, supporting Blossoms.\n\nTheir sound has more muscle than many of their indie contemporaries, and they say their forthcoming debut album will be about the effects of their generation's dependence on smartphones and social media.\n\nSo if Inhaler can build on their 80s and 90s influences (both parental and otherwise) while feeding their own generation's tastes and concerns, they will excite a young audience for whom Bono's band are, yes, almost irrelevant.\n\nHewson and his bandmates Robert Keating (bass), Josh Jenkinson (guitar) and Ryan McMahon (drums) sat down to talk about where Inhaler have come from and where they are going in 2020.\n\nInhaler were chosen for the BBC Sound of 2020 list by a panel of 170 music critics, broadcasters, festival bookers and previous nominees - including Lewis Capaldi, Chvrches and Billie Eilish. The top five were:\n\nHow has 2019 treated you?\n\nRyan: Better than any other year as a band.\n\nEli: We started two or three years ago just as kids in a school band doing covers and that sort of thing. I don't think any of us knew what we wanted to do after school. The band was something we always enjoyed, so we decided to go for it this year and it's really worked out well.\n\nYou bonded over your musical tastes at school, right?\n\nRobert: We were the only kids listening to a certain kind of music and that really brought us together in a special way. [It was] the love of rock music.\n\nEli: It was really anything with guitars. We all wanted to play guitar in the band.\n\nJosh: I was in a different school but I met Eli at a party and he played me I Wanna Be Adored by The Stone Roses.\n\nWhat else did you bond over?\n\nEli: There was a lot of music from Manchester in the 90s, and the whole Britpop and Oasis thing. Every kid who's 16 and sees that goes, 'I want to be in a band'.\n\nTell me about the band name - are you all asthmatic?\n\nEli: No, just me. We were struggling to find a band name that we could all agree on for a long time. I'm asthmatic so my sister as a joke used to call us The Inhalers and it kind of caught on.\n\nWe liked it because it's something you have to rely on and it's a pick-me-up, and it relates to the stuff we're talking about on the new material on the album.\n\nWhat are you tackling in your lyrics?\n\nEli: As teenagers growing up these days, it's interesting seeing how addictive things are, and that's down to people's phones and social media.\n\nI'm even noticing I just always want to be looking at my phone. I can't just walk outside and stand there and walk to a place without checking something. Inhaler is - you take it when you can't breathe and you've got a medical issue, but it relates to self-medication and it's a stimulus. There's a plethora of stimuli that we have today.\n\nI can see it in my friends. We'll be sitting there having dinner together and everyone will be zombied out on their phone. Or, 'Where are we going next?'\n\nAre you yearning for a simpler time?\n\nEli: Kind of. We're not trying to slam it. I just think it's interesting to see the effect it has on people.\n\nJosh: It's more of an observation…\n\nRobert: …than saying it's a bad thing, because it could be a good thing, all this stuff that's going on.\n\nRyan: It's more just us trying to understand how you go about dealing with something like this, through music as well, because everything we do is under the eye of everyone. You play a song at a gig and it could go horribly wrong, but it's there forever. Everything is so accessible. It's mad and it's never been like that before.\n\nWhen you're writing, where and when do you get in the zone?\n\nEli: With lyrics I definitely have to be on my own. Usually in my room with an acoustic guitar late at night.\n\nDo you have your own place?\n\nEli: No, I live at home with my parents, like all of us.\n\nDo they ever complain about the noise?\n\nEli: Not as much as they should.\n\nDid you grow up around venues and get taken on tours?\n\nEli: I did, but it's funny, I don't really have that much memory of it really. I was a lot younger and my parents wouldn't take me out of school or anything.\n\nDid that make you want to be in that world?\n\nEli: It's funny, I really wasn't into music as a kid, and I only really started getting into music when I was 13 and I discovered it my own way rather than growing up in it. With anything, you have to have your own angle on it for you to be attached to it. I just wasn't that interested in it as a kid. At all.\n\nBono and wife Ali with baby Eli in 2000\n\nDo you think you've learned anything from your dad, consciously or subconsciously?\n\nEli: Definitely subconsciously, yeah. Just from hearing him play a song in the house and listening to it and he critiques it, and that sort of stuff. But I'd never ask him for advice - only advice about where am I going to live next year and that sort of thing. I try not to ask him about music.\n\nBecause you want to do it your way?\n\nDo you think that family connection is a pro or a con?\n\nRobert: I don't really see it as anything. It doesn't really affect us, apart from having to talk about it in interviews, which is fine. It is what it is. We love our band, we meet young people all the time who like our music.\n\nEli: A lot of U2 fans do come to our gigs, who are all really lovely. They've all been really supportive, so obviously that's a benefit. But I'd say it can also be an obstacle as well if you're trying to do stuff your own way. But we're not complaining at all.\n\nYou've just been on tour of the States with Blossoms.\n\nEli: Best two weeks of our lives.\n\nJosh: It was my and Ryan's first time in the States so we were just blown away by everything.\n\nRobert: We saw the White House, we saw the house from Home Alone in Chicago. That was pretty cool.\n\nDid you recreate any scenes?\n\nJosh: No, but Ryan looked like the sticky bandits for the whole trip because he had a hat on.\n\nEli: When we started a band, when I pictured success it was us driving across America in the back of a van. We've done it.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said his team's performance was \"sensationally good\" as Curtis Jones' stunning winner earned the Reds a fully deserved FA Cup third-round victory and extended Everton's miserable record of Anfield failure.\n\nThe German made nine changes from the side that increased their Premier League lead to 13 points with victory over Sheffield United on Thursday - including three debutants in Takumi Minamino, Nathaniel Phillips and substitute Yasser Larouci.\n\nAnd it was 18-year-old Jones who grabbed the Merseyside derby glory with a magnificent curling 25-yard drive that eluded the outstretched arms of Everton keeper Jordan Pickford as it arced into the top corner after 71 minutes. The Toffees remain without a win at their rivals since September 1999.\n\nKlopp said: \"I saw a sensationally good performance of a not very experienced team with a lot of players playing for the first time on this kind of stage, in front of this crowd, against the opponent. It was outstanding. I loved it - I loved each second of this game.\n\n\"If you want to be a Liverpool player, you have to respect the principles of this club. We cannot always play the best football in the world but we can fight like nobody else. And as long as we use our principles, we will be a difficult opponent to play against.\"\n\nThe Reds boss had the luxury of resting superstars such as Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Virgil van Dijk, survived the early loss through injury of James Milner, and yet still saw his side fully merit their place in the fourth round.\n\nEverton manager Carlo Ancelotti played virtually his strongest available side but the visitors paid for a lacklustre display and a succession of missed opportunities in the first half, when Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Mason Holgate and Richarlison saw efforts saved by Liverpool keeper Adrian.\n\nThe Italian blamed a drop in his side's performance level during the match.\n\n\"The line-up of Liverpool didn't affect our idea of how to play,\" he said. \"We knew that Liverpool put in fresh players and that the intensity could be a high intensity, so I think the defeat arrived because we were not able to keep the intensity in the second half.\n\n\"We lost energy, we lost confidence, we were not able to build up quick from the back.\n\n\"We are going to speak and work together to find a solution to help improve the team. I know we have to work.\"\n\nThe fourth-round draw takes place on Monday at 19:35 GMT on BBC One and the iPlayer, before Arsenal's game against Leeds.\n• None Curtis Jones: Has Liverpool teen had his 'Rooney moment'?\n• None Watch all of the latest FA Cup highlights\n• None Where will the third-round shocks be? Ladhood star Liam Williams takes on Lawro\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nLiverpool are the team who have forgotten how to lose - and they were playing an Everton side who have long forgotten how to win at Anfield.\n\nKlopp took no chances with his big players but the Reds still had too much energy for this laboured Everton team.\n\nDivock Origi added physicality up front but it was the likes of Jones and 16-year-old Harvey Elliott who epitomised the host club's victory - along with 22-year-old central defender Nathaniel Phillips, effectively brought back from a loan spell at Stuttgart to play in this game.\n\nIt was a moment of genius from Jones, born two years after Everton last won at Anfield, that made the difference before Liverpool closed out the victory with maturity and without problems from a bitterly disappointing Everton.\n\nThey even survived the blow of losing Milner in the opening minutes, depriving Klopp of one of his most experienced players. In the event, it just gave another teenager, Yasser Larouci, his chance to shine.\n\nKlopp and his players took the acclaim in front of the Kop after the final whistle as Liverpool's dream season continues.\n\nEverton manager Carlo Ancelotti now knows the full extent of the job he must undertake at Goodison Park.\n\nThis was as embarrassing as it gets for Everton, outmanoeuvred and beaten by what was more or less a Liverpool reserve team.\n\nAnd for many players whose names are on this loss, it will surely prove to be a watershed moment and the beginning of the end of their careers at the club.\n\nGylfi Sigurdsson, at £45m, was a lightweight passenger in midfield, too easily shrugged off the ball, outpaced and deservedly substituted - he looked heavy-legged and unfit for purpose.\n\nMorgan Schneiderlin has been out injured but he was also miles off the pace, while Theo Walcott produced an absolute horror show of a performance, riddled with dreadful decisions and cheap concession of possession.\n\nTrue, it took a magnificent strike for Liverpool to clinch their place in the fourth round and Everton squandered so many first-half chances but this was what the visitors' effort, or lack of it, deserved.\n\nOn this day, when presented with a below-strength Liverpool, Everton were exposed as faint-hearted and lacking in stomach for the fight.\n\nThis was a grim chapter - the only forward-looking note being that Ancelotti has been given a rapid reminder of exactly why Everton paid so much to bring him to Goodison Park.\n\nToffees toppled again in the third round - stats\n• None Liverpool remain unbeaten in their past 23 home games against Everton in all competitions (W13 D10); they have beaten the Toffees twice at Anfield in the same season for the first time since the 1986-87 campaign.\n• None Everton have never won away to Liverpool in the FA Cup in six attempts (D4 L2).\n• None Liverpool have progressed from the FA Cup third round in eight of their past nine seasons, failing only in 2018-19 thanks to a 2-1 defeat at Wolves.\n• None Everton have been eliminated in the FA Cup third round in four of the past six campaigns, as many as in the preceding 20 seasons.\n• None Liverpool have won 23 of their past 25 home games in all competitions (D2), keeping a clean sheet in each of their past five matches at Anfield.\n• None Origi has been directly involved in six goals in his five home Merseyside derby appearances against Everton, scoring five and assisting Jones' winner.\n• None Liverpool named three teenagers in their starting XI for a Merseyside derby (Harvey Elliott, Neco Williams and Jones) for the first time since October 2012 (Raheem Sterling, Suso and Andre Wisdom), a 2-2 draw in the Premier League at Goodison Park under Brendan Rodgers. Indeed, the Reds had not started a single teenager in any of their previous 10 meetings with Everton in all competitions before today.\n\nThe Reds are at Tottenham on Saturday 11 January (17:30 GMT) and the Toffees host Brighton (15:00 GMT) on the same day.\n• None Attempt missed. Moise Kean (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Djibril Sidibé with a cross.\n• None Offside, Everton. Yerry Mina tries a through ball, but Richarlison is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Curtis Jones.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Divock Origi.\n• None Attempt missed. Morgan Schneiderlin (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Curtis Jones.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 1, Everton 0. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Divock Origi.\n• None Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Yasser Larouci. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "New rules are to be introduced to ensure all new homes built in Scotland use renewable or low-carbon heating.\n\nThe regulations, being introduced by the Scottish government from 2024, are part of plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nRenewable and low-carbon systems will also be phased in for new non-domestic buildings from 2024.\n\nLow-carbon heating is often used to refer to systems that use heat pumps or other alternatives to gas boilers.\n\nThe project will run alongside a £30m investment in renewable heat projects.\n\nEnergy Minister Paul Wheelhouse said the change was part of Scotland's plans to tackle climate change and reach a \"net zero\" emissions target by 2045.\n\nTo achieve net zero, emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 will have to be avoided completely or offset by initiatives such as tree planting which can soak up CO2 from the atmosphere.\n\nLow carbon heating is often used to refer to heat pump systems or alternatives to gas boilers\n\nMr Wheelhouse added: \"It's becoming increasingly clear that the pace of decarbonising Scotland's domestic and non-domestic buildings has to increase significantly to achieve those aims, and emissions from our buildings will have to fall close to zero.\n\n\"We will ensure that new homes and buildings across Scotland meet the challenge of the climate emergency, combining the action we need to take on climate change with our ambition to provide affordable, warm homes.\"\n\nBBC Briefing is a mini-series of downloadable guides to the big issues in the news, with input from academics, researchers and journalists. It is the BBC's response to audiences demanding better explanation of the facts behind the headlines.", "Soleimani - seen here in Iraq in 2015 - directed militia in Iraq who attacked US troops and later fought the Islamic State group\n\nNext to Iran's Supreme Leader, Qasem Soleimani was arguably the most powerful figure in the Islamic republic.\n\nAs head of its military abroad known as the Quds Force, Soleimani was the mastermind behind the country's activities across in the Middle East, and its real foreign minister when it came to matters of war and peace.\n\nHe was widely considered an architect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against rebels in Syria, the rise of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State group, and many battles beyond.\n\nCharismatic and often elusive, the silver-haired commander was revered by some, loathed by others, and a source of myths and social media memes.\n\nHe had emerged in recent years from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations to achieve fame and popularity in Iran, becoming the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.\n\nAs far back as 2013, former CIA officer John Maguire told The New Yorker that Soleimani was \"the single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".\n\nWhen his end came, it was violent and sudden. On 3 January the Pentagon announced that it had carried out a successful operation to kill him, at the direction of US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe assassination followed a sharp escalation between the US, Iran and Iran-backed groups in Iraq following the death of a US military contractor in a missile attack on a US base in Iraq - for which the US held Iran responsible.\n\nThe US responded with an air strike on the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah. Militia supporters then attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran had been rising since the US pulled out of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to curb Iran's nuclear programme and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. The US has also reimposed sanctions on Iran, sending its economy into freefall.\n\nSoleimani is believed to have come from a poor background and to have had very little formal education. But he had risen through the Revolutionary Guards - Iran's elite and most powerful force - and was reportedly close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.\n\nAfter becoming commander of the Quds Force in 1998, Soleimani attempted to extend Iran's influence in the Middle East by carrying out covert operations, providing arms to allies and developing networks of militias loyal to Iran.\n\nOver the course of his career he is believed to have aided Shia Muslim and Kurdish groups in Iraq fighting against former dictator Saddam Hussein as well as other groups in the region including the Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamist organisation Hamas in the Palestinian territories.\n\nAfter the US invaded Iraq in 2003 he began directing militant groups to carry out attacks against US troops and bases, killing hundreds.\n\nHe is also widely credited with finding a strategy for Bashar al-Assad to respond to the armed uprising against him that began in 2011. Iranian assistance along with Russian air support helped turn the tide against rebel forces and in the Syrian government's favour, allowing it to recapture key cities and towns.\n\nSoleimani himself was sometimes pictured at funerals of Iranians killed in Syria and Iraq, where Iran had deployed thousands of combatants and military advisers.\n\nHe also travelled frequently across the region, regularly shuttling between Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where Iranian influence has steadily grown. When he was killed he was travelling in a two-car convoy away from Baghdad airport with others including Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed.\n\nSoleimani was killed in an air strike near Baghdad's airport\n\nIn April 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Quds Force as foreign terrorist organisations.\n\nThe Trump administration has said the Quds Force provided funding, training, weapons and equipment to US-designated terrorist groups in the Middle East - including Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group based in Gaza.\n\nIn a statement, the Pentagon said Soleimani had been \"actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\n\"General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,\" it added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab says he found out about the Soleimani killing \"as it happened\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has urged Iran to \"take a diplomatic route\" to reduce tensions following the US killing of Iran's top military leader.\n\nMr Raab said the UK understood why the US killed Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq last week, and the US \"had a right to exercise self-defence\".\n\nBut he told the BBC the UK now wanted to \"de-escalate tensions\" and avoid \"a major war\".\n\nIraqi MPs have since called for foreign troops to leave the country.\n\nAnd the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group said it will not be training local allies.\n\nInstead, it said it would focus for now on protecting Iraqi bases that host US, UK and other coalition troops.\n\nA UK government spokesman said it was urging the Iraqi government to ensure the coalition would be able to continue its \"vital work\" against a \"shared threat\".\n\n\"The coalition is in Iraq to help protect Iraqis and others from the threat from Daesh (Islamic State), at the request of the Iraqi government,\" the spokesman said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is due to return to the UK later and will talk to foreign leaders in the coming days.\n\nSoleimani, who had been head of the elite Iranian Quds Force, died in the drone strike in Baghdad on Friday.\n\nTehran has vowed to avenge the general's killing. The US has pledged to send 3,000 extra troops to the region while the UK has 400 troops in the Middle East.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr programme on Sunday, Mr Raab rejected the idea the killing was an act of war, adding: \"Iran has for a long period been engaged in menacing, de-stabilising activities.\"\n\nPressed on whether the killing was legal, Mr Raab said: \"My view is - and the operational assessment has been done by the Americans - is that there is a right of self-defence.\n\n\"It was General Soleimani's job description to engage proxies, militias across not just Iraq but the whole region, not just to destabilize those countries but to attack Western countries... In those circumstances the right of self-defence clearly applies.\"\n\nUnder enormous pressure from the Trump Administration, Britain has edged very slightly closer to the Americans over the killing of Soleimani, but has still stopped well short of the sort of full-throated support Washington has demanded from its allies.\n\nIn the absence of Boris Johnson on holiday in the Caribbean, it's been the foreign secretary who has articulated Britain's response.\n\nDominic Raab is now stressing a little more the threat posed by Soleimani in life, without retreating from British warnings of the possible consequences of his death.\n\nSo when Mr Raab told the BBC: \"We understand the action they took but we need to be clearly focused on what happens next,\" it's important to note that \"understanding\" falls a long way short of endorsement or support. And in that single sentence, Mr Raab is determined to keep the focus on fears for the future.\n\nThe foreign secretary made little effort to conceal widely-held British fears that Washington has no coherent step-by-step strategy to help get Iran to a better place on the world stage.\n\nIndeed, President Trump's tweets threatening 52 targets in Iran - one for each of the American hostages taken back in 1979 - seem to many observers to play right into the Iranian fundamentalist mindset by clinging to a history of grievance that seeks to avenge every wrong done by one side to the other.\n\nTaken at face value, the approach offers the bleak possibility of unending violence as long as neither side offers a different path.\n\nMr Raab said he first became aware of the killing of Soleimani \"as it happened\" and spoke to US counterpart Mike Pompeo - who he will meet for pre-arranged talks in Washington this week - on Friday.\n\nMr Raab is also expected to meet his French and German counterparts before travelling to the US.\n\nDominic Raab will travel to the US to speak with Mike Pompeo this week\n\nMr Raab said the \"important thing now is to de-escalate the tensions and try and restore some stability\" - while trying to contain Iran's \"nefarious actions\".\n\n\"We also need to see that there's a route, a door left ajar for a diplomatic solution so that when the leadership in Tehran wake up to their options, they understand there is a positive route through for them.\"\n\nAsked about the criticism over Mr Johnson being on holiday, Mr Raab said he had been \"in constant contact with the prime minister over the Christmas break on a whole range of foreign policy issues\".\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Sophy Ridge programme, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry accused Mr Johnson of \"sunning himself\" while there had been three Cobra meetings where Mark Sedwill, the chief civil servant, had to chair.\n\nMr Johnson has yet to speak publicly about the US airstrike or threats from Iran.\n\nMs Thornberry accused the government of doing \"too little, too late\"\n\nHMS Montrose and HMS Defender will accompany UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nOn Sunday, a crowd of more than 100 people waving Iranian and Iraqi flags protested against the killing of Soleimani outside the US embassy in London, with chants aimed at Mr Johnson and Mr Raab.\n\nMr Pompeo had criticised America's European allies for not being \"helpful\" in the wake of the killing but later tweeted he was \"thankful that our allies recognise the continuing aggressive threats posed by the Iranian Quds Force\".\n\nSoleimani, 62, spearheaded Iran's Middle East operations as head of the elite Quds Force\n\nFollowing the airstrike, the Foreign Office has hardened its travel advice for Britons in Iraq and Iran.\n\nIt said there is a risk British or British-Iranian dual nationals \"could be arbitrarily detained or arrested in Iran\".\n\nThe Foreign Office also said alerts for other parts of the Middle East were being increased, with calls for citizens to \"remain vigilant\" in nations including Afghanistan, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Phil Mercer says Kangaroo Valley has \"a horrible, ghostly feel\"\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned that the devastating bushfires raging in the country might go on for months.\n\nAt least 24 people have died since the fires began in September. Air quality in the capital Canberra was this weekend rated the worst in the world.\n\nMr Morrison announced the creation of a recovery agency to help those who have lost homes and businesses in the fires.\n\nHe has faced fierce criticism over the speed of his response to the crisis.\n\nThe weekend saw some of the worst days of the crisis so far, with hundreds more properties destroyed. Rural towns and major cities saw red skies, falling ash and smoke that clogged the air.\n\nConditions eased in Victoria and New South Wales on Sunday after temperatures and wind speeds dropped and some light rain fell. But authorities warned that the danger was far from over.\n\n\"We're in uncharted territory,\" said the New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian. \"We can't pretend that this is something that we have experienced before. It's not.\"\n\nJohn Steele, 73, who was evacuated with his wife from their rural property north of Eden late on Saturday, told the AFP news agency: \"Visibility was down to about 50 metres, if that, and we had lots of debris falling out of the sky and a lot of white ash.\n\n\"The sky is still red. We're not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Phil Mercer witnessed a dust storm \"coming towards us like a monster\"\n\nPrime Minister Morrison on Saturday announced the largest military call-up in the country's recent history, mobilising up to 3,000 reservists to assist exhausted volunteer firefighters.\n\nMr Morrison, who cancelled a planned visit to India because of the crisis, faced further condemnation on Sunday, after the head of the NSW Rural Fire Service revealed the service had only learned of the plan to call up reserve troops through the media.\n\nIn an indication of the long road ahead, Mr Morrison warned that the fires might burn for many months, and said that the newly-created recovery agency would run for at least two years. The body will help bushfire-hit communities recover, media reports said, through work ranging from rebuilding infrastructure to providing mental health support.\n\nQueen Elizabeth on Sunday said she was \"deeply saddened\" by the fires, and thanked the emergency services \"who put their own lives in danger\" to help communities.\n\nA fundraiser for fire services launched by the Australian comedian Celeste Barber on Friday raised more than A$20 million (£10.6m; $13m) in just 48 hours\n\n\"Please help any way you can. This is terrifying,\" Ms Celeste wrote in a Facebook appeal.\n\nShe called the rush of donations \"incredible\", and said the proceeds would go to NSW Rural Fire Service - a government-funded agency staffed by volunteers - and the Brigades Donations Fund, which channels charitable donations directly to fire brigades.\n\nMembers of the comedian's family were evacuated from the town of Eden in New South Wales, where officials told residents to leave immediately and head north if they did not have a bushfire response plan.\n\nMany New South Wales residents have turned to evacuation centres after fleeing their homes\n\nA number of celebrities have also donated money to support the firefighting effort in recent days - among them the US singer Pink and Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, who pledged $500,000. \"Our family's support, thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the fires all over Australia,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nNews of the donations was praised by Australians on social media, but some lamented that private citizens were raising funds they said should have been put in place by the government.\n\nNearly 200 fires are still burning across the country, with every state and territory affected. More than 1,200 homes have been destroyed and millions of hectares of land scorched.\n\nTens of thousands of homes in NSW were left without power and thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal towns over the past week. The town of Cooma suffered a further blow on Saturday night when a large tower carrying millions of litres of water exploded, flooding homes and sweeping away vehicles.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Phil Mercer says Kangaroo Valley has \"a horrible, ghostly feel\"\n\nA fundraiser for fire services in New South Wales, Australia has raised more than A$20 million (£10.6m; $13m) in just 48 hours, as the state battles a bushfire crisis.\n\nAustralian comedian Celeste Barber launched the Facebook appeal on Friday, writing: \"Please help any way you can. This is terrifying.\"\n\nAt least 24 people have died since the fires began in September.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has called up 3,000 reserve troops to help.\n\nIn Canberra, the air quality has been ranked as the worst in the world, and residents have been told to avoid leaving their homes.\n\nAustralian airline Qantas has cancelled flights to and from the city for the remainder of Sunday.\n\nComedian Ms Barber has family who were evacuated from the town of Eden in New South Wales, where officials told residents to leave immediately and head north if they did not have a bushfire response plan.\n\nShe called the rush of donations \"incredible\", and said the proceeds would go to NSW Rural Fire Service - a government-funded agency staffed by volunteers - and the Brigades Donations Fund, which channels charitable donations directly to fire brigades.\n\nA number of celebrities have also donated money to support the fire-fighting effort in recent days - among them US singer Pink, and Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, who pledged $500,000.\n\nNews of the donations was praised by Australians on social media, but some lamented that private citizens were raising funds they said should have been put in place by the government.\n\nAlmost 200 fires are still burning across the country. Although much attention has centred on worst-hit NSW, every state and territory has been affected. More than 1,200 homes have been destroyed and millions of hectares of land scorched.\n\nTens of thousands of homes in NSW and Victoria states are currently without power. Thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal towns over the past week.\n\nThe NSW town of Cooma suffered a further blow on Saturday night when a large tower carrying millions of litres of water exploded, flooding homes and sweeping away vehicles.\n\nNSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro told ABC News the incident was a \"massive disaster....on the back of a crisis and the threat of fires\".\n\nIn some areas, helicopters have been brought in to help evacuate people\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison, who has cancelled a planned visit to India scheduled for 13 January due to the crisis, said on Sunday that he had established a National Bushfire Recovery Agency to co-ordinate recovery efforts.\n\nThe body will help bushfire-hit communities recover, media reports said, through work ranging from rebuilding infrastructure to providing mental health support.\n\nMr Morrison, who has faced stinging criticism for his handling of the fires, promised the organisation \"will be stood up for at least two years\".\n\nBut he could not escape further condemnation on Sunday, as the head of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service revealed he had only learned of the plan to call up reserve troops through the media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Phil Mercer witnessed a dust storm \"coming towards us like a monster\"\n\nSingapore and Papua New Guinea have offered military support to Australia, while New Zealand is sending an additional three Air Force helicopters.\n\nSunday is expected to be cooler across the country's south-east, with some rain predicted. Fire officials have warned that the next major risks will come next week.\n\nHave you been affected by the fires? If it is safe for you to do so you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A 13-year-old boy has died following a collision on the Springfield Road in west Belfast on Friday.\n\nEoin Hamill, who was from the area, was a student at Coláiste Feirste and a talented amateur boxer.\n\nGleann Amateur Boxing Club, where Eoin was a member, said: \"He was loved by us all outside the ring. He was admired for his skill in the ring.\"\n\nSeveral hundred people attended a vigil in Turf Lodge in memory of the teenager on Sunday night.\n\nPolice urged any eyewitnesses who were in the area between 16:15 GMT and 16:45 to get in touch.\n\nSeveral hundred people attended a vigil in Turf Lodge in west Belfast in memory of the teenager on Sunday night\n\nA man was arrested but was released on bail on Sunday pending further enquiries.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Micheal Donnelly said Eoin was \"well-regarded\" in the community and was known for his boxing, having represented his county in competition.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family, it's absolutely heartbreaking,\" he said.\n\n\"We as a community will come together to support the family.\n\n\"At the start of a new year it makes it raw, it's just devastating.\"\n\nColáiste Feirste said the school community was \"heartbroken\" by the news.\n\nIn a statement on social media Gleann Amateur Boxing Club, where Eoin was a member, said he was a \"talented boxer\" and \"lovely young kid\".\n\n\"He was loved by us all outside the ring. He was admired for his skill in the ring,\" the post added.\n\n\"Instead of wishing him all the best for his next fight or shouting at him to keep them hands up or cheering him on to a victory, we will be saying a very sad and truly heartbroken goodbye to one of our own.\"", "Police have been to the scene of a \"sudden death\" in Carrickfergus, County Antrim.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it happened in the Woodburn area of the town on Saturday night and involved a man in his 40s.\n\nA post-mortem examination was needed to determine the cause of death, police said.\n\nUlster Unionist MLA John Stewart tweeted police were dealing with a \"serious incident\" at Ashleigh Park.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice maintained a cordon around a block of six flats in the Woodburn estate on Sunday.\n\nOne neighbour told the BBC that the man lived alone and had only recently moved into the area.\n\nA neighbour and friend of the man who died said he last saw him on Thursday evening when he called to his flat.\n\nHe added he let the police into the communal part of the building on Saturday afternoon after they received a call from someone expressing concern for the man.", "Cooler temperatures in south-eastern Australia have provided some reprieve but are not enough to put out the ongoing bushfires.\n\nThe BBC's Phil Mercer reports from Kangaroo Valley in New South Wales.", "Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed he is standing in the contest to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary, seen as a frontrunner in the contest, has written in the Sunday Mirror that Labour needs to \"rebuild fast\" to restore trust.\n\nIt comes hours after MPs Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips said they were entering the race.\n\nThe contest was called after Mr Corbyn announced he would stand down as leader after Labour's heavy election defeat.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis have also confirmed they are standing.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, seen as another potential frontrunner, is also expected to officially join the contest.\n\nDeclaring his candidacy in the Sunday Mirror while releasing a video on Twitter, Sir Keir said Labour needed to listen to voters if it was to \"restore trust\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir Keir, who backed Remain in the EU referendum and was one of the leading figures in the party advocating for a new referendum, will kick off his leadership bid by visiting Brexit-backing Stevenage on Sunday.\n\nSome of Mr Corbyn's allies have blamed Sir Keir's Brexit stance for the party's disastrous election performance last month, where much of its traditional, Leave-backing Northern strongholds fell to the Conservatives.\n\n\"We cannot bury our head in the sand: Labour must rebuild and fast. We have to restore trust in our party as a force for change and a force for good,\" Sir Keir wrote in the paper.\n\n\"The millions of people who needed change at the last election still need change. The moral fight against poverty, inequality and injustice must continue.\"\n\nBefore Sir Keir, Lisa Nandy and Jess Philips were the latest MPs to enter the contest\n\nHowever, Sir Keir said Labour could not \"lose sight of our values or retreat from the radicalism of the past few years\".\n\nAmong other things, he said the party should push for a \"Green New Deal\" to fight climate change and make the case for a \"radically transformed economy that empowers trade unions and communities that have been left behind\".\n\nAnd he also called for a \"human rights approach\" to foreign policy and international relations, accusing ministers of \"failing to hold an irresponsible US president to account\" over the situation in Iran.\n\nThe human rights lawyer, who was made Queen's Counsel in 2002, served as head of the Crown Prosecution Service and accepted a knighthood in 2014, and has struggled to shake-off perceptions of privilege.\n\nThe 57-year-old was named after Labour Party founder Keir Hardie and has emphasised his upbringing by a toolmaker father and nurse mother in London's Southwark when dismissing allegations he is too middle-class to speak to the party's historic heartlands.\n\nHis CV includes co-founding the renowned Doughty Street Chambers and advising the Policing Board to ensure the Police Service of Northern Ireland complied with human rights laws.\n\nHe entered Parliament as the MP for Holborn and St Pancras in 2015.\n\nA timetable for the leadership election - and any rule changes - is set to be decided by the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) on Monday.\n\nUnder current rules, would-be candidates for both the leader and deputy leader roles must first be nominated by more than 20 MPs.\n\nThey must also secure nominations from at least 5% of Labour's constituency parties or three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.", "Some trains would be 400m (1,300ft) long with as many as 1,100 seats\n\nThere is \"overwhelming evidence\" that the costs of HS2 are \"out of control\" and its benefits overstated, the deputy chair of its review panel has said.\n\nLord Berkeley said the high-speed rail line, linking London and northern England, is likely to cost over £108bn.\n\nA vocal critic of HS2, the Labour peer said he believed MPs had been \"misled\" about the price - set at £55bn in 2015.\n\nHe has published a \"dissenting report\" on the project, but the government said it represented his personal view.\n\nAnd a coalition of northern political leaders and businesses has also rejected Lord Berkeley's criticism of the project.\n\n\"We need HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail delivered together, in full,\" said the leader of Manchester City Council Sir Richard Leese, part of the Connecting Britain campaign.\n\nTrains are due to start running on HS2 between London and Birmingham in 2029.\n\nHowever, Lord Berkeley says there is little prospect of that before 2031, and warns high-speed trains will not reach Manchester and Leeds until 2040.\n\nHe told the BBC that spending money on improving rail services in the north of England was far more important.\n\n\"That's where the really bad quality railways are,\" Lord Berkeley said, adding that a complete upgrade \"could probably be done at half the cost of HS2\".\n\nLord Berkeley was the deputy chairman of the independent Oakervee Review in to HS2, set up by the government.\n\nHowever, he has withdrawn his backing from the review, which is expected to be published in the coming months.\n\nHe says he disagrees with a draft version of its official report and as a result has published his own version.\n\nHe said he and other members of the panel were prevented from contributing to the final draft of the government-commissioned report because the review was \"effectively terminated\" on 31 October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HS2: How much work has already been done?\n\nHe also said the official report has been \"unduly influenced\" by HS2 promoters, and said both HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport failed to co-operate with the review properly to substantiate their claims about the cost and benefits.\n\nHS2 Ltd denies this claim, saying it provided \"full co-operation\" with the review.\n\nHis report concludes that ministers will either have to accept the higher cost of the line or only build part of the proposed high-speed rail network.\n\nThis option, which would save the government £50bn, would also involve upgrading existing Network Rail lines in the Midlands and the north of England, he said.\n\n\"The aim must be to give these areas the same standard of commuting service as the south east, whilst, at the same time, improving the existing lines from London northwards,\" Lord Berkeley said in the report.\n\nHe rejected suggestions that the increased costs were due to delays in the project, telling the BBC on Sunday: \"The real cause is [HS2] has been over-designed. You do not need to go 400kph in a country as small as ours... The higher the speed makes a big difference to the cost.\"\n\nHe added: \"People want a reliable, frequent service on which they can get a seat.\"\n\nAnti-HS2 campaigners welcomed the report. \"The case for HS2 has always been poor, and is simply getting worse,\" said Penny Gaines, chair of Stop HS2. \"It is time for this white elephant of a project to be cancelled as quickly as possible.\"\n\nAnd Greenpeace said that if the government was serious about climate change then it must listen to HS2's critics. \"The protection of ancient woodlands must be a priority for rail development,\" said John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK.\n\nHowever, HS2 Ltd, the company responsible for building the new line, says the economic case is strong and it is determined to deliver a railway that is good value for money.\n\nA spokesman said the high-speed line was \"critical\" for the UK's future low-carbon transport network, would increase rail capacity and was \"integral\" to improving the rail network in the Midlands and North of England.\n\nThat view was backed by Sir Richard, who helps lead the Connecting Britain campaign. \"After decades of underinvestment in strategic rail infrastructure, this is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform capacity and connectivity and level-up communities across the North, and beyond.\"\n\nAnd he added: \"We don't much appreciate being told by a peer, who divides his time between London and Cornwall, what the North wants.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"The government commissioned the Oakervee review to provide advice on how and whether to proceed with HS2, with an independent panel representing a range of viewpoints... Lord Berkeley's report represents his personal view.\"\n\nConstruction on the HS2 high-speed rail link has begun at Euston, in London\n\nAsked whether the government was still committed to building HS2, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Sky's Ridge On Sunday programme: \"Yes, the prime minister's made it clear and we've got a review under way.\n\n\"We want to look at the best way to get value for money in relation to that substantial investment.\n\n\"We also want to make sure that we've got the best benefit from it in terms of the connectivity - not just in the South but in relation to the east, west in the northern region.\"\n\nMembers of the review panel told the BBC in November that a draft version of the report recommends that HS2 should be built with only minor alterations.\n\nThey include reducing the planned number of trains per hour from 18 to 14, in line with other high-speed networks around the world.\n\nAccording to the Times, the draft report also says that \"large ticket price rises\" would be needed if HS2 does not go ahead, to prevent excessive demand for travel at peak times.", "Forensic officers worked inside the police cordon off Charteris Road in Finsbury Park\n\nA moped rider thought to be working for food delivery companies Uber Eats and Deliveroo has been stabbed to death in north London.\n\nThe 30-year-old man was attacked in Charteris Road, near the junction with Lennox Road, Finsbury Park, shortly before 19:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nNo arrests have been made, but police believe there was a row with another driver.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil John said the stabbing appeared to be \"spontaneous\".\n\nDeliveroo confirmed the victim worked for the company, while Uber Eats said it was \"looking into it\".\n\nOn Saturday delivery riders gathered in nearby Stroud Green Road said the stabbed man had been the victim of a road rage attack.\n\nPolice said the stabbing appeared to be \"spontaneous\"\n\nOne delivery driver said the victim was a 30-year-old Algerian known as \"Taki\", although he was unsure of the English spelling.\n\nA man who said he was a friend of the victim said: \"He was a good man.\n\n\"He doesn't make any trouble - he works and he goes home and he ends up being killed while he's working.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's not safe to work by yourself any more - what can you do?\n\n\"If someone comes at you with a knife you give them what you have or they are going to stab you.\"\n\nA police forensic tent was put up at the scene of the stabbing\n\nAnother 23-year-old rider, who gave his name as Paul, said: \"Taki was a nice guy. He was a gentleman.\n\n\"I would talk to him every day. He always said hello.\"\n\nLast year, 95 people were stabbed to death in London, according to police statistics.\n\nIslington Council leader Richard Watts tweeted: \"I'm horrified to hear about this appalling crime\".\n\nHe added: \"What an awful start to the new year.\"\n\nDeliveroo rider Zakaria Gherabi, 37, showed Jeremy Corbyn a photo of injuries he has suffered in the past\n\nReacting to the stabbing, Labour leader and Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn called for better protection for delivery drivers.\n\nHe said: \"I am totally shocked. This is a very close-knit community, and this is yet another stabbing on the streets of London.\n\n\"People should not be carrying knives. A human life has been taken.\n\n\"There are a lot of people working as delivery drivers, they must have better conditions of employment and employers must take more responsibility for their safety too.\n\n\"Delivery drivers do a great job in London all of the time. Yet they are vulnerable. They are often on zero hours contracts, yet the food they are carrying is insured.\n\n\"So the delivery driver is less valuable than the food they are carrying - we need to end the whole culture of gig employment.\"\n\nThe Met Police said the victim's next of kin had been informed and a post-mortem examination would be held in due course.\n\nForensic officers spent most of Saturday searching the area where the victim was killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Takieddine Boudhane worked as a delivery driver for companies Deliveroo and Uber Eats\n\nA Deliveroo and Uber Eats delivery rider stabbed to death in a possible road rage attack has been identified.\n\nTakieddine Boudhane, 30, was attacked while on his moped near Charteris Road, in Finsbury Park, north London, at about 18:50 GMT on Friday.\n\nA white van linked to the stabbing was found in Islington and seized. Met detectives said they were looking for the driver.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil John said the wanted driver was the \"subject of a manhunt\".\n\nMr Boudhane, an Algerian national, had been living in the UK for about three years, police said.\n\nOn Sunday morning police found a \"white VW Caddy panel-type van\" in the borough where Mr Boudhane was killed.\n\nForensic officers worked inside the police cordon, off Charteris Road in Finsbury Park\n\n\"It has been removed to a police compound where a full forensic examination will be undertaken,\" Det Ch Insp John said.\n\n\"The driver and person believed responsible for this tragic matter is now the subject of a police manhunt.\n\n\"At this time I am unable to release any further information concerning the identity of the driver as this may hinder the ongoing police investigation.\"\n\nOn Saturday delivery riders gathered in Stroud Green Road - near the scene of the attack in Lennox Road - said Mr Boudhane had been the victim of a road rage attack.\n\nPolice said the stabbing appeared to be \"spontaneous\"\n\nOne man who said he was a friend of Mr Boudhane described him as a \"good man\".\n\nHe added: \"He doesn't make any trouble - he works and he goes home and he ends up being killed while he's working.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's not safe to work by yourself any more - what can you do?\n\n\"If someone comes at you with a knife you give them what you have or they are going to stab you.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "She was convicted following a trial after recanting a claim that she was raped in a hotel room in July.\n\nThe foreign secretary has urged Cyprus to \"do the right thing\" in the case of a British teenager convicted of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa.\n\nDominic Raab said Cyprus was \"sensitive\" about interference, but added the woman's sentencing on 7 January was \"firmly on my radar\".\n\nHe also told the BBC he had spoken to the woman's mother and offered support.\n\nThe 19-year-old was convicted after she recanted a claim that she was raped by 12 Israelis in a hotel on 17 July.\n\nThe UK previously said it was \"seriously concerned about the fair trial guarantees\" for the woman.\n\nAnd speaking to the Andrew Marr programme on Sunday, Mr Raab revealed he had conveyed his \"very serious concerns\" about her treatment by the Cypriot authorities to his opposite number on the island.\n\nHe said the teenager had gone through a \"terrible ordeal\" and that he had spoken to her mother on Friday \"to see what further support we could provide\".\n\nHe added it was his priority to get the woman back to the UK to start her recovery.\n\nThe Cypriot government previously responded to criticism by saying it had \"full confidence in the justice system and the courts\".\n\nAsked whether the Foreign Office would advise tourists against visiting Cyprus, Mr Raab said it always keeps its travel advice \"under review\".\n\nEarlier, he told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that the teenager's case must be handled \"sensitively to make sure we don't do anything counter-productive\".\n\nAsked what he would do if he felt there has been a miscarriage of justice, Mr Raab added: \"We don't control the Cypriot justice system...but there are clear questions around the due process, the fair trial, safeguards that have applied in this case.\"\n\nThe teenager could face up to a year in jail and a £1,500 fine on Tuesday, but her lawyers have asked for a suspended sentence.\n\nDominic Raab was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show\n\nThe teenager first contacted Cypriot police in July, hours after she claims she was raped by 12 Israeli youths in a room at the Pambos Napa Rocks hotel in Ayia Napa.\n\nThe 12 were arrested but later freed and returned home after she retracted her claims 10 days later.\n\nShe was then arrested and later appeared in court facing charges of public mischief, to which she pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe woman has since said Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about the incident - something police have denied.\n\nShe was found guilty on a charge of causing public mischief on 30 December.\n\nThe conviction has attracted criticism from women's groups and human rights campaigners.\n\nProtesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women protested outside the court on the day of the teenager's conviction.\n\nProtesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women were outside the court\n\nThe woman's lawyers have also criticised the conviction and the way the case was handled by the Cypriot police and Judge Michalis Papathanasiou.\n\nThey pledged to appeal against it and plan to take her case to the Cyprus Supreme Court.\n\nSenior legal figures in Cyprus later signed a letter written to the Attorney General Costas Clerides asking him to intervene in the case, including former justice minister Kypros Chrysostomides.\n\nMr Chrysostomides said the teenager had \"already suffered a lot\" and he expects her sentence will be \"very lenient\".\n\nHe added: \"She has already been in detention for four and a half weeks and she has already been prevented from travelling for about five months already.\"\n\nThe woman's mother said her daughter was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, hallucinations, and was sleeping for 18 or 20 hours a day because of a condition called hypersomnia.\n\nShe said the teenager urgently needs to return to the UK to get treatment.\n\nThe woman's mother said she believed her daughter's experience in Ayia Napa was not an isolated incident, and backed an online campaign for tourists to boycott the island.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The place isn't safe - it is absolutely not safe. And if you go and report something that's happened to you, you're either laughed at, as far as I can tell, or, in the worst case, something like what's happened to my daughter may happen.\"\n\nMeanwhile, one of the men accused of taking part in the gang-rape, Yona Golub, told the Mail On Sunday that the group were \"preparing to sue\" the teenager.\n\nHe said the group \"deserve compensation for what we went through\".", "The body of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general killed in a US drone strike, has been brought back to Iran.\n\nFootage filmed by Iran Press shows huge crowds taking to the streets of the Iranian city of Ahvaz, marking the beginning of ceremonies in his honour.\n\nGeneral Soleimani's burial will take place in his home town of Kerman on 7 January.", "The southbound side of the M1 was closed for more than 15 hours\n\nTwo lorry drivers have died in a crash on the M1 that led to part of the road being shut for nearly 16 hours.\n\nThe crash at about 06:45 GMT happened on the southbound side between junction 12 at Flitwick and 13 near Bedford.\n\nAn air ambulance was sent but both lorry drivers died at the scene, Bedfordshire Police said.\n\nThe northbound carriageway of the motorway reopened at about 13:00, the southbound lanes remained closed until 22:20.\n\nMotorists have been urged to avoid the area\n\nThe lorry drivers' next-of-kin have been informed, police said.\n\nSgt Aaron Murphy said: \"This was a serious collision which has taken the lives of two people so we are keen to hear from anyone who may have witnessed the incident or who has dashcam footage from around that time, so we can piece together the circumstances which led to this tragic incident.\n\n\"I'd also like to thank the public for their co-operation and patience during the recovery operation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Libya has been torn apart by violence since Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in 2011\n\nAt least 30 people have been killed and 33 others wounded in an air strike at a military school in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, officials have said.\n\nThe UN-backed government blamed rebel forces loyal to Gen Khalifa Haftar for the attack. The rebels denied involvement.\n\nFootage from the scene showed bodies scattered across the ground.\n\nGen Haftar's troops launched an offensive in April to try and take control of Tripoli.\n\nThe foreign ministry called for an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss the air strike, and said Gen Haftar should be investigated by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.\n\nLibya has been torn by violence since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011 by Nato-backed forces.\n\nIt has two rival administrations, based in Tripoli and the eastern city of Tobruk.\n\nThe conflict has increasingly drawn in foreign states, with Turkey's parliament voting last week to deploy troops to support the UN-backed government in Tripoli.\n\nGen Haftar is allied with the Tobruk administration, and is the main military commander fighting the Un-backed government.\n\nHe has the support of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan and Russia.\n\nLibya is a major oil producer, and is used as a transit point by migrants trying to reach Europe.", "The chairman of the Tata group has said the company \"can't have a situation where India keeps funding losses\" at its Port Talbot steelworks.\n\nNatarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of the Tata Sons group which owns the steelworks in Port Talbot, said the plant needed to be \"self-sustaining\" in an interview with the Sunday Times.\n\nTata Steel's pre-tax losses were £371m last year, up from £222m in 2017-18.\n\nThe Unite union said the claims added \"more pressure\" on workers.\n\n\"Everyone will tell you that the Tatas have gone way beyond to keep this going,\" said Mr Chandrasekaran. \"Anybody else would have walked away.\n\n\"I don't want to make those tall statements [about commitment]. We are taking some hard calls. So, hopefully, we should see some results.\"\n\nIn November, Tata announced plans to cut 3,000 jobs across Europe.\n\nWelsh Economy Minister Ken Skates said it \"appears to be the case\" that about 1,000 of those could be in Wales.\n\nTata has two large steelworks in Europe - Port Talbot, and one near Ijmuiden in the Netherlands, about 18 miles (30km) north-west of Amsterdam.\n\nJust under half of Tata's 8,385-strong UK workforce are based in Port Talbot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the future for the UK steel industry?\n\nA new £50m blast furnace was opened in Port Talbot in January 2019, after which Hans Fischer, chief executive of Tata Steel's European operations, said: \"We are committed to build on our future for the UK.\"\n\nSteel industry analyst Dr Kathryn Ringwald Wildman said she was \"surprised\" at the way Mr Chandrasekaran made his comments, but not the nature of them.\n\n\"The problem is there are no market implications to suggest that things are going to get any better in the short term.\n\n\"The price of steel is still relatively low, demand is still very low, the industry is over capacity and the costs to the industry are still relatively high.\n\n\"The growth there is in the market is going to be in China rather than in Europe.\n\n\"I think it's now becoming clear that Tata can't afford these losses the way they are now. It can't go on, no company can sustain those losses - it's £1m per day.\"\n\nIn June, a planned merger between Tata and German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp was blocked by the European Commission over competition concerns.\n\nPaul Evans, the Unite union's regional officer for Wales, said: \"This interview just adds more pressure on the Tata workers at Port Talbot. The site is obviously key to the future of the other Tata plants in Wales.\n\n\"The workforce at Port Talbot have for many years proved they are the producers of world class quality steel and Wales and the UK can't afford to lose the expertise and commitment they have shown over the years.\"\n\nA spokesman for Tata Steel's European operations said: \"What our chairman said in the interview has already been communicated to colleagues through our transformation programme.\n\n\"That programme is about building a stronger and more sustainable European steel business by improving profitability so we can pay for investments necessary to secure our long-term future.\n\n\"The plans include productivity improvements, reduced bureaucracy and increased sales of higher-value steels, as well as employment cost savings.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had \"shown its strong commitment over the last few years to working with Tata and steel unions to secure a long-term future for steel making in Port Talbot and across Wales and we will go on doing that in the future\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"We lost the public's trust in the Labour Party as a force for good\"\n\nCandidates hoping to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader have questioned the party's manifesto choices while opening up dividing lines on Brexit.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said its election offer was \"over-loaded\" while both Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips said voters did not trust its free broadband pledge.\n\nMs Phillips also said she would not rule out rejoining the EU if Brexit turned out not to be a success.\n\nShe said she would not change her view that the UK was \"better off\" in the EU.\n\nSir Keir and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry - both strong supporters of another referendum before the election - said Labour's focus as an opposition should now be on ensuring Boris Johnson negotiated the best economic and trade partnership with the EU.\n\nFive candidates, also including Clive Lewis, have so far entered the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour's ruling body is due to meet on Monday to decide the timetable for the election. Would-be candidates have to be nominated by more than 20 MPs and must also get the backing of at least 5% of constituency parties or three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey is also expected to officially declare her candidacy in the coming days.\n\nThe contest was called after Mr Corbyn announced he would stand down as leader after Labour's heavy election defeat.\n\nBoth Sir Keir and Ms Phillips told the BBC's Andrew Marr the party must learn the lessons of the defeat and why some many previously rock-solid Labour seats in the Midlands and the North of England turned to the Conservatives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jess Phillips: \"The country didn't trust us to govern\"\n\nSir Keir said the manifesto was one of a number of \"cumulative\" factors that eroded trust, on top of concerns over the party's Brexit policy, its leadership and its record on tackling anti-Semitism.\n\n\"There was a general feeling the manifesto was over-loaded. We lost the public's trust in the Labour Party as a force for good and a force for change,\" he said. \"After four general election losses we have to address that straight away.\"\n\nBut he warned Labour against \"unpicking\" the last manifesto when it should be focused on its offer to voters in five years time. He also said it would be wrong to \"retreat\" from Mr Corbyn's focus on reducing inequality and protecting the public services.\n\nWhile not the sole reason for its defeat, Ms Phillips also identified the manifesto - which pledged to bring rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership and extend the role of the state into new areas - as one of Labour's weak points.\n\n\"The fundamental thing is that the country did not trust us to govern,\" she said. \"They did not trust to deliver on the things we were saying.\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey is expected to join the race\n\nWhile there was a strong case for nationalising the railways and ending private involvement in the prison and probation services, she suggested tackling deep-seated social problems, such as homelessness and social care, were more important than public control of key utilities.\n\n\"We lost them on some of the basics. My son does not go to school five days a week. Lots of people in the country can give you their own example. While that was the case, offering free broadband was just not believable.\"\n\nThe Birmingham Yardley MP said the party must stop obsessing with factionalism and internal positioning and speak honestly to people.\n\n\"People have to feel a connection with us again. People have to feel we are on their side.\"\n\nMs Nandy also distanced herself from the broadband pledge, telling BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics: \"People said to us, 'It's all very well promising free broadband but can you sort out the buses?' and that was the more pressing issue in their lives. It's not about whether you're radical or not it's about whether you're relevant.\"\n\nMs Thornberry said Labour had been wrong to allow the Conservatives to fight the election on the \"single issue\" of Brexit.\n\nShe told Sky News that the opposition's focus should now be on ensuring the UK had a relationship with Europe in the coming years that's \"going to work for jobs and the economy\".\n\nSir Keir, who like Ms Thornberry was a supporter of another referendum, suggested the issue of EU membership was now closed and the party needed to move on from an argument between Remain and Leave.\n\nAsked whether she would support, as leader, the UK going back into the EU, Ms Phillips said it was sensible to \"wait and see\".\n\n\"If we are living in an absolute paradise of trade and totally safe in the world...then maybe I will be proven wrong. But if the reality is if if our country is safer and more economically viable to be in the EU, I will fight for that regardless of how difficult that argument is to make.\"\n\nThe candidates have also been pressed on the UK's relationship with the US following the killing of Iran's top military leader, Qasem Soleimani, in Iraq.\n\nMs Phillips said people were \"not shedding any tears\" over the Iranian general's death and, while she opposed the Iraq War, she would always support the deployment of British forces abroad if there was a \"moral case\" for it.\n\n\"What we have to make sure is that when we take action, it is lawful, proportionate and there is a moral case for it. If those questions can be answered, then I would absolutely take action to protect British lives.\"\n\nHowever, Sir Keir said the UK should never find itself in the position of \"blindly following the Americans\".\n\nIf he became prime minister, he said he would pass legislation to circumscribe the ability of governments to take military action. He suggested it would have to pass three tests - if it was lawful, had been supported by Parliament and was part of a viable plan.", "Annie Wells said a \"full, evidence-based approach\" should be taken to the drugs death crisis\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' public health spokeswoman has said she is willing to consider the decriminalisation of drugs.\n\nAnnie Wells MSP also said she was open to the idea of drug consumption rooms - facilities where drugs can be taken safely.\n\nCurrent drug laws, which are reserved to Westminster, prevent possession of Class A drugs within such a facility.\n\nThe UK government has consistently said it is opposed to any change in the law.\n\nMs Wells said she had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to make Scotland's drugs death crisis a top priority.\n\nScotland currently has the highest drug death rate in the European Union.\n\nIn 2017, most drug-related deaths involved heroin but a large percentage had also taken pills\n\nThe Scottish government wants drug policy powers handed to Holyrood so it can alter policy to treat the issue as a public health, and not judicial, matter.\n\nAsked whether she backed measures including decriminalisation and fix rooms, Ms Wells said a \"full, evidence-based approach\" should be taken. \"I am open to listening to what these issues and concerns can be\", she added.\n\nMs Wells continued: \"We do need to look radically at this and I will be open to whatever comes my way and I will look at it all as an evidence-based approach.\n\n\"If that seems to be the right way then that is something we will have to look at in greater detail and urge the Scottish government and UK government to do the same.\"\n\nShe called on Boris Johnson to hold a summit on the issue \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK government announced in October it would bring experts together in Glasgow before Christmas to discuss the issue.\n\nHowever, it was postponed due to December's snap general election.\n\nMs Wells called on both the UK and Scottish governments to place the issue at the top of their agendas and to put their political differences aside.\n\nShe said: \"I lost a neighbour. Across Scotland we lost 1,187 people in 2018, and I heard from so many families who lost loved ones in 2019.\n\n\"So I've asked the prime minister to make the drug deaths crisis his top priority in Scotland.\n\n\"This year we should be focused on saving lives instead of getting caught up in politics and the usual constitutional blame game.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annie Wells MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Scottish government said it planned to hold a summit on drug deaths at the start of 2020.\n\nThey said they had repeatedly invited the UK government to attend but that, to date, they had refused.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"We firmly believe the outdated Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 should be amended to allow us to implement a range of public health focused responses\", a Scottish government spokesman said.\n\n\"We have called on the UK government to amend the act or to devolve those powers to Scotland, and this must be part of any discussion we have.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Home Office said the number of drug deaths across the UK was \"extremely concerning\", in particular the figures for Scotland.\n\nShe said improving access to treatments such as Naloxone - used to treat overdoses of methadone, morphine and fentanyl - was key.\n\nShe added: \"We will continue to work with the Scottish government to tackle drug-misuse and harm and sustain our support for programmes which reduce the health-related harms of drugs, such widening the availability of Naloxone to prevent overdose deaths.\"", "A mysterious viral pneumonia that has infected dozens in central China is not Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), health chiefs have said.\n\nThey also discounted bird flu and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and said investigations were continuing.\n\nA total of 59 cases have been reported in the city of Wuhan, seven of which are considered critical.\n\nThe outbreak prompted Singapore and Hong Kong to bring in screening processes for travellers from the city.\n\nAn epidemic of the potentially deadly, flu-like Sars virus killed more than 700 people around the world in 2002-03, after originating in China.\n\nIn a statement posted on its website late on Sunday, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said 163 people who had had contact with those infected had been placed under medical observation. It said efforts were continuing to identify the virus and its source.\n\nThe commission said previously that there had been no human-to-human transmission of the illness. It added that a number of those infected worked at a seafood market in the city, leading authorities to sanitise the area.\n\nThe outbreak occurred in the city of Wuhan\n\nSingapore and Hong Kong have both set up systems to check travellers arriving from Wuhan for possible fever.\n\nHong Kong has admitted 16 travellers with pneumonia-like symptoms to hospital, the South China Morning Post reported, but none have so far been found to have the unidentified strain. Singapore has had one suspicious case, it added.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is aware of the outbreak and is in contact with the Chinese government.\n\n\"There are many potential causes of viral pneumonia, many of which are more common than severe acute respiratory syndrome coronovirus,\" a spokesman said last week. \"WHO is closely monitoring this event and will share more details as we have them.\"\n• None They risked their lives to stop Sars", "Kerry Van Der Merwe hopes to raise awareness of her condition\n\nKerry Van Der Merwe has sunken chest syndrome, a rare medical condition that leaves her struggling to breathe. In many cases the syndrome - a malformation of the chest wall caused by the breastbone sinking inwards - is seen as a cosmetic problem that doesn't warrant publicly funded surgery.\n\nMs Van Der Merwe has been speaking about her fight to get treatment for a condition that causes her pain and anguish.\n\nThe mother of one says she has been on antidepressants since her deformities started\n\nThe hairdresser, 44, says she has seen at least 10 GPs to talk about her breathlessness and accelerated heartbeat, but \"not one of them\" was able to tell her these symptoms were caused by sunken chest syndrome, also known as pectus excavatum.\n\n\"I couldn't even open a jar but they've never said 'let's investigate it'\", said the mother of one, who lives in Devon. \"It's actually me who has educated them about pectus.\"\n\nSince February, the NHS in England has not offered routine surgery for those with the condition as it says there is insufficient evidence the benefits of surgical treatment warrant funding.\n\n\"There is absolutely no way I could live the way I am now because I'm being strangled inside. For them to say no is just absolutely disgusting,\" Ms Van Der Merwe said. \"I have been on antidepressants all my life since my deformities started.\n\n\"I can't do something as simple as running up the hill or stairs because with your heart pumping blood so fast it's really dangerous.\"\n\nMs Van Der Merwe, who has a nine-year-old daughter, said she should have had the surgery 10 years ago, but GPs did not heed her requests for a specialist referral. \"I've been trying to speak about my pectus to my GPs but I always feel like I get fobbed off, because no-one really has the knowledge about it.\"\n\nPectus excavatum often develops during puberty and more commonly affects men\n\nShe therefore sought out thoracic surgeon Joel Dunning, from the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, for a specialist's insight.\n\n\"She has never known what's it's like to be normal,\" said Mr Dunning, who added there was \"no doubt\" his patient's heart is being \"squashed\" by her sternum. He said it was \"crazy\" to deny \"life-extending\" surgery in cases like hers.\n\n\"The man on the street could tell you that if you have a squashed heart because of your chest, if you take the squashing away it makes the breathing better.\"\n\nThanks to the intervention of the surgeon, Hull-born Ms Van Der Merwe, who also has Poland syndrome, is due to have a procedure to insert up to three titanium bars to raise her chest to a normal position.\n\nMr Dunning successfully argued she needed treatment after having poor surgery in South Africa, where she moved as a child. He said the \"massive\" psychological benefits of surgery, especially for young people, should be enough for the NHS to offer surgical treatment.\n\n\"These are poor little teenagers trying to find their way in the world and they feel very introverted, they won't take their top off, they won't interact with people of the other gender.\"\n\nKatie Bruce said her mental health had taken a \"severe hit\" and she has been on antidepressants for 18 months\n\nKatie Bruce was 21 when she fainted due to her sunken chest syndrome and was hit by a car. She lost four of her front teeth and suffered multiple facial fractures. One side of her jaw snapped off her skull and \"never repaired\".\n\nThe Wolverhampton-based biochemistry graduate managed to get Nuss surgery in March, a year after first applying and being rejected. Because her chest dip was so deep, surgeons were only able to insert one metal bar. It ended up flipping on its side, and the 26-year-old was left bedridden while waiting for corrective surgery.\n\n\"It just feels like I'm being repeatedly stabbed between my ribs. No painkillers can help that,\" she said. \"I am 26, I have a degree and I can't do anything. I can't get a job, I can't think of starting a mortgage for a house or starting a family. My life feels like it's on hold.\"\n\nMs Bruce says her heart is being crushed by her bones\n\nShe is soon to undergo surgery to fix the flipped bar and have a second one inserted to distribute the pressure, in the hope this will reduce the pain.\n\nMs Bruce said she would not be in the position she is in now had the operation happened 15 years ago, when her bone structure was still forming and the chances of flipping were lower.\n\n\"If they were more aware of it in the first place and I'd been treated a long time ago I would never have been hit by the car and it would have cost the NHS a hell of a lot less in the long run.\"\n\nShe said she too reported breathlessness and an accelerated heart rate but was not correctly diagnosed for years. \"I am shocked at the amount of GPs I've seen and none of them have known anything about it.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement that it no longer provides routine surgery for sunken chest syndrome as a \"careful review of evidence suggests limited effectiveness\".\n\nIt said it \"leads the world on innovation\" and would \"continue to test the most advanced procedures available, collecting real-world evidence to ensure NHS patients receive world-class care while delivering value for the taxpayers' pound\".\n\nMs Van Der Merwe's surgery will correct the operation she had in South Africa\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Van Der Merwe waits for the operation she hopes will make all the difference. She says she's nervous but knows she needs to have the surgery.\n\n\"I am fearful, but I know deep down it's going to save my life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowds have gathered in Iraq for the funeral procession of Iran's top military commander Qasem Soleimani.\n\nThe leader of Iran's Quds Force was killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad airport on Friday.\n\nHis death marked a major escalation in tensions between Iran and the US with Iran vowing \"forceful revenge\".", "Austria's foreign ministry has been targeted by a cyber-attack that is suspected to have been conducted by another country.\n\nThe ministry said the seriousness of the attack suggested it might have been carried out by a \"state actor\".\n\nThe hack started on Saturday night and experts warn it could continue for several days.\n\nThe breach occurred on the same day Austria's Green party backed forming a coalition with conservatives .\n\nIt was recognised very quickly and countermeasures taken immediately, the foreign ministry said in a statement.\n\n\"Despite all intensive security measures, there is never 100% protection against cyber-attacks,\" the ministry said.\n\nOther European countries have fallen victim to similar attacks in the past.\n\nThe German government's IT network experienced a \"very serious\" cyber-attack in March 2018.\n\nA Russian group called Fancy Bear was suspected to have been involved and was blamed for a similar attack on the German parliament in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The factory brought to its knees by ransomware hackers", "The government's Troubled Families project is getting £165m in funding to ensure it continues for another year.\n\nLaunched by David Cameron in 2012, the scheme targets families with multiple and complex social and health issues.\n\nExisting support for the project was due to run out later this year, prompting speculation about its future.\n\nBut Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said it had proved a success in transforming lives and relieving the burden on public services.\n\nThe programme was set up by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government in response to the 2011 riots in English cities, at a cost of £448m.\n\nIt was revamped in 2015, with the aim of helping 400,000 families by 2020.\n\nAbout £920m has been spent since then, averaging about £157.6m, a year, with councils being paid on the basis of their results in helping the most vulnerable families.\n\nAnne Longfield, the Children's Commissioner for England, said the government announcement was \"welcome\" but needed to be followed by \"long term and extended funding commitments\" in this year's spending review.\n\nWriting on Twitter, she highlighted the \"vital\" role children's centres and so-called family hubs played in the initiative.\n\nUnder the project, local authorities identify and support families in England with multiple problems, including domestic abuse, unemployment, mental health problems and truancy.\n\nCentral government funds local authorities to work with these families on a payment-by-performance basis.\n\nIn 2016, a report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research concluded that the initiative had had no measurable effect on school attendance, employment or behaviour.\n\nAnd former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith suggested last year that the scheme had become a high-profile \"distraction\" and some of its targets were \"slightly nebulous\".\n\nBut ministers said an evaluation published last April demonstrated that the programme had reduced the proportion of children going into care by a third, reduced the proportion of adults going to prison by a quarter and had cut the number of adults claiming Jobseeker's Allowance.\n\nTheir latest analysis suggests 297,733 families have \"made improvements\" with the problems that led to them joining the programme since 2015. In 26,848 of these families, one or more adults has moved off benefits and into work.\n\nThe scheme was set up in the wake of the 2011 riots in England\n\nThe Treasury indicated in September's Spending Review that the programme would be extended, although ministers have yet to commit to its long-term future.\n\nMr Jenrick said the new funding would be used to help families with inter-connected problems, including unemployment, poor school attendance, mental health issues, anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse.\n\n\"The programme will help more people in need get access to the early, practical and coordinated support to transform their lives for the better,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the right thing to do for families and for society as a whole, and these reforms will reduce the demand and dependency on costly, reactive key public services.\"\n\nIn their election manifesto, the Conservatives promised to develop \"family hubs\" to give vulnerable families intensive, integrated support to help care for their children, both in the early years and through to adulthood.\n\nMr Jenrick's predecessor, James Brokenshire, suggested last year that the Troubled Families project could potentially be renamed to ensure it is not \"getting in the way of the positive objectives\".\n\nThe Department for Communities said any future changes would be considered and announced in due course.", "Prince Harry and Meghan meet Ruby the koala at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in 2018\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have said their \"thoughts and prayers\" are with Australians affected by the massive bushfires.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh sent a message of condolence expressing thanks to emergency services.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said they were \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the loss of life.\n\nAnd the Duke and Duchess of Sussex urged support for fundraisers for those affected by the environmental crisis.\n\nThe Queen said she was \"deeply saddened\" to hear about the fires which have ravaged Australia since September, killing at least 23 people, destroying at least 1,200 homes and scorching millions of hectares of land.\n\nHer message addressed to the Governor General of Australia, Governor of New South Wales, Governor of Queensland, the Governor of Victoria and to all Australians was also posted on the Royal Family's Twitter account.\n\nThe Queen said: \"My thanks go out to the emergency services, and those who put their own lives in danger to help communities in need.\n\n\"Prince Philip and I send our thoughts and prayers to all Australians at this difficult time.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sussexroyal This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex posted messages on their Instagram accounts.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by kensingtonroyal This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince William and Catherine said: \"We send our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who have tragically lost their lives, and the brave firemen who continue to risk their own lives to save the lives of others.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan said they were \"struck by the increasingly overlapping presence\" of \"environmental disasters\" across the world.", "Boris Johnson has said \"we will not lament\" the death of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, describing him as \"a threat to all our interests\".\n\nBut the prime minister called for \"de-escalation from all sides\" following the killing in a US airstrike in Iraq on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson's intervention came as Iraqi MPs called for foreign troops to leave.\n\nAnd in a separate joint statement, Mr Johnson and his French and German counterparts urged restraint.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined the PM in calling on Iran to refrain from further violent action and proliferation.\n\n\"The current cycle of violence in Iraq must be stopped,\" the joint statement, released late on Sunday night, said.\n\nWith tensions rising in the region following the drone strike ordered by US President Donald Trump, Iran has responded by vowing revenge and announcing it will no longer abide by the restrictions in its 2015 nuclear deal.\n\nIn the statement, the three leaders urged the country to \"reverse all measures inconsistent with\" the deal.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson is preparing to assemble key ministers to discuss the spiralling crisis in the Middle East.\n\nThe prime minister said he spoke with Mr Trump on Sunday about the assassination of the Iranian general, who spearheaded the country's military operations in the Middle East as head of the elite Quds Force.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, in his first public statement since Soleimani's death, Mr Johnson said the 62-year-old had been \"responsible for a pattern of disruptive, destabilising behaviour in the region\".\n\n\"Given the leading role he has played in actions that have led to the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and western personnel, we will not lament his death,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"It is clear, however, that all calls for retaliation or reprisals will simply lead to more violence in the region and they are in no one's interest.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was in \"close contact\" with all sides to encourage de-escalation and said Parliament will be updated when it returns on Tuesday.\n\nIraqi MPs have responded to the drone strike by passing a non-binding resolution calling for an end to the foreign military presence.\n\nCaretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi spoke in favour of US and other foreign forces leaving, although most Sunni and Kurdish MPs boycotted the vote.\n\nAbout 400 British troops are stationed in Iraq, while the US has 5,200.\n\nA UK government spokesman said that coalition forces were in Iraq to protect its people and others from the Islamic State group.\n\n\"We urge the Iraqi government to ensure the coalition is able to continue our vital work countering this shared threat,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, HMS Montrose and HMS Defender are to start accompanying UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, where a tanker was seized by Iran last July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab says he found out about the Soleimani killing \"as it happened\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that he learned of the US attack on Soleimani \"as it happened\", spoke to the Iraqi prime minister on Sunday morning.\n\nMr Raab defended the killing because of the US's \"right to self-defence\" against Soleimani's use of militia's to destabilise the region and attack Western forces.\n\nHe also defended Mr Johnson for being on holiday as the crisis unfolded, saying that he had been \"in constant contact with the prime minister over the Christmas break on a whole range of foreign policy issues\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary and Labour leadership candidate Emily Thornberry accused the prime minister of \"sunning himself\" while the chief civil servant chaired three meetings of Cobra, the government's emergency response committee.\n\nShadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, who is standing to be Labour deputy leader, said Mr Johnson's response was \"pathetic\", adding that he should stand up to a US president \"recklessly threatening to launch a war\".", "Police said they had secured the campus and deployed officers to deter further violence\n\nPolice in India have entered the campus of one of the country's most prestigious universities after reports of masked men attacking students.\n\nAbout 20 students are said to have been injured at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the capital Delhi.\n\nImages on Indian TV show masked people wielding sticks and the student union president bleeding from a head wound.\n\nThe cause of the trouble is unclear. The university recently saw protests over a controversial citizenship law.\n\nThere were also violent clashes at JNU last year over a rise in hostel fees.\n\nThe student union blamed the latest violence on the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a right-wing student body linked to India's governing BJP political party. However, the ABVP said that its members had been attacked by left-wing groups, and some had been injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ANI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne member of staff said masked men armed with stones and sticks had attacked students and teachers on Sunday evening.\n\n\"These were not small stones, these were big stones that could have broken our skulls,\" Professor Atul Sood told NDTV.\n\n\"I fell on the side and when I came out, I saw cars completely vandalised, including my car.\"\n\nProfessor Sood said about 50 teachers and 200 students had been holding a meeting on the campus when the masked attackers walked in.\n\nAngry students staged a protest outside police headquarters in Delhi after the university attack\n\nHe said the violence was unlike anything the campus had witnessed before.\n\nEducation Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank condemned the violence calling it \"extremely worrying and unfortunate\".\n\n\"I appeal to all students to maintain the dignity of the university and peace on campus,\" he added.\n\nGovernment Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the scenes of violence were \"horrifying\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called the attack a \"heinous act\" and a shame on democracy.\n\nThe Students Federation of India said it would stage rallies in Delhi on Monday in protest at the \"barbaric attack\" at the JNU.\n\nA police spokesman said university authorities had asked for their assistance.\n\n\"We were informed that there was a clash between two groups of students,\" a statement said.\n\n\"After we received written request from the JNU administration, we entered the campus and restored peace.\"", "A field hospital was set up on the roadside to provide first aid\n\nSix German tourists were killed and 11 injured in the Italian Alps when a car crashed into them, police say.\n\nA suspected drunk driver collided with a group of people in the town of Luttach, also known as Lutago, in South Tyrol - a popular skiing destination.\n\nReports suggest the group had left a nightclub and were waiting to get in a bus when the car hit them.\n\nThe driver of the car - a man in his late 20s - was arrested and is currently in hospital.\n\nSome people were propelled dozens of metres by the impact of the car, AFP reports.\n\nThe news agency said two people, who were in a very serious condition, were flown by helicopter to hospital in Innsbruck, Austria.\n\nThe others were transported to hospitals in the region.\n\nLast weekend, three skiers - a woman and two girls - were killed by an avalanche in South Tyrol. They were also believed to be German.", "Georges Duboeuf applied traditional methods of winemaking to his craft\n\nGeorges Duboeuf, one of the great wine merchants of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 86.\n\nHe was best known for turning the release of a little-known French product - a red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau - into a global phenomenon.\n\nBy the 1980s, Mr Duboeuf's enthusiastic promotion of the wine had led to its annual release date being known across the world as Beaujolais Nouveau Day.\n\nIt also earned him the nickname \"the Pope of Beaujolais\".\n\nMr Duboeuf died of a stroke at about 18:00 (17:00 GMT) on Saturday at his home in the eastern village of Romanèche-Thorins, his daughter-in-law Anne told AFP news agency.\n\nIn the 1950s Mr Duboeuf set up L'Écrin Mâconnais-Beaujolais, an association of wine producers, to help promote local wines. Through the association, he developed strong relationships with traders and restaurateurs across the region.\n\nHe then opened his own winery, Georges Duboeuf Wines, in 1964. He applied traditional methods of winemaking to his craft, including rigorous monitoring of the wine and an apparently almost clinical dedication to hygiene.\n\nThe winery later grew to other regions, and in 1993 Mr Duboeuf set up a shop and museum of winemaking in Romanèche-Thorins.\n\nBut it was his tireless promotion of Beaujolais Nouveau in particular that set Mr Duboeuf apart.\n\nDuboeuf, pictured in Romanèche-Thorins in 2010, was a tireless ambassador for Beaujolais Nouveau\n\nThroughout the 1980s he held Beaujolais Nouveau festivals which were attended by celebrities of all kinds, including Michelin-starred restaurateurs.\n\nBy the time he passed the company on to his son Franck in 2018, the company was producing about 30 million bottles a year that were sold internationally.\n\nDominique Piron, president of the Inter Beaujolais company, said Mr Duboeuf was responsible for \"raising the Beaujolais flag all over the world\".\n\n\"He had a nose, an intuition, [he was] a step ahead of everyone,\" he said.", "Images on social media show officers wearing hazardous material suits near the property\n\nOfficers in hazardous material suits have been deployed in Manchester after a man reportedly consumed a poisonous substance.\n\nThe man was found at a property in Moor Lane, Northern Moor, before 09:00 GMT. It is thought he had consumed poisonous seeds.\n\n\"A man, aged in his 20s, is being treated at the scene and remains in a stable condition,\" police said.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"There is no wider threat to the community.\"\n\nImages on social media show officers wearing hazardous material suits near the property.\n\nMotorists have been advised to avoid the area as Moor Lane is closed for investigations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kobe Bryant and LeBron James have both played for the LA Lakers\n\nThe BBC has apologised after footage of LeBron James was mistakenly included in its coverage of the death of his fellow basketball star Kobe Bryant.\n\nFootage of James beating Bryant's career points tally appeared in the BBC's News At Ten programme on Sunday.\n\nBut the voiceover did not explain why viewers were seeing James on screen at that stage, rather than Bryant.\n\nViewers pointed out the error online, criticising the BBC for confusing the two prominent black basketball stars.\n\nBryant, a five-time NBA champion, spent his entire 20 year career playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, before he retired in 2016.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe footage included in the programme featured James, who also plays for the LA Lakers, surpassing Bryant to become the NBA's third-highest scorer of all time.\n\nJames scored 29 points against the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday to reach 33,655 career points, 12 more than Bryant.\n\nBryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were killed alongside seven others, when his private helicopter crashed in southern California on Sunday morning.\n\nAt the end of the bulletin, newsreader Reeta Chakrabarti apologised for the earlier on-screen error saying: \"In our coverage of the death of Kobe Bryant, in one section of the report, we mistakenly showed pictures of another basketball player, LeBron James.\n\n\"We do apologise for the error,\" she added.\n\nWithin 15 minutes, Paul Royall, editor of BBC News at Six and Ten, posted an apology on Twitter, saying the programme \"mistakenly used pictures of LeBron James in one section of the report\".\n\nHe added: \"We apologise for this human error which fell below our usual standards on the programme.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paul Royall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany viewers took to Twitter to condemn the error. Nadine White, a Huffington Post journalist who previously worked with the Voice newspaper, said that \"this only adds to our collective grief at this time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Sky News newsreader Mark Austin also pointed out the error.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Mark Austin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not the first time a BBC programme has apologised for confusing two sports stars.\n\nIn July 2018, BBC Newsnight apologised for showing footage of Pakistan bowler Wasim Akram instead of his former teammate-turned-politician Imran Khan.", "The UK leaves the EU on Friday\n\nThe government is aiming to secure a \"zero tariff, zero quota\" free trade deal with the EU, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr the UK would not diverge from current EU trade regulations \"for the sake of it\".\n\nMr Barclay added the government's objectives for the trade talks would be published after Brexit on 31 January.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson will make a speech next month setting out more details, he said.\n\nMr Barclay's comments come after the US treasury secretary said his country wants to agree to a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK this year.\n\nAfter Brexit happens at 23:00 GMT on Friday, the UK will be free to negotiate and sign new trade deals with countries with no existing EU deals - like the US.\n\nThe UK then enters into an agreed transition period with the EU, which lasts until 31 December 2020. During this time the UK will aim to negotiate a free trade deal with the EU to ensure that UK goods are not subject to tariffs and other trade barriers.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Barclay said: \"We are going to publish our objectives for the negotiation and we will set that out in due course after the 31st.\n\n\"The key issue is that we will have control of our rules, we will not be a rule-taker, we will not diverge for the sake of diverging.\n\n\"We start from a position of alignment but the key opportunity is that we will be able to set our standards, high standards, on worker's rights, on the environment, on state aid as part of that trade policy.\"\n\nHe said \"both sides are committed\" to securing a trade deal by the end of December, adding: \"It's in both side's interests to keep the flow of goods going.\"\n\nIrish minister for European affairs, Helen McEntee, told Sophy Ridge on Sky News that \"Brexit is really only at half-time, we have a huge amount of work still to do\".\n\n\"However, the idea that we can negotiate a trade deal with one that is comprehensive, one that provides very little change for our citizens, not just in the UK and Ireland, but the EU as well, within about a 12-month space, it's very difficult.\"\n\nThe new European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has previously shared concerns about the timeframe, saying it would be \"impossible\" to reach a comprehensive trade deal by the end of 2020.\n\nPriti Patel said that the government will be able to control levels of low-skilled migration after Brexit\n\nMeanwhile, the home secretary told Sophy Ridge UK businesses have been \"too reliant on low-skilled cheap labour from the EU\".\n\nPriti Patel said the government will be able to control levels of low-skilled migration after Brexit.\n\nShe also confirmed that the Migration Advisory Committee will report this week on the UK's future immigration system.\n\nThe government was \"absolutely determined to change the immigration system, end the complexity of the immigration system, have simpler rules, have a points-based system where we can absolutely have people that bring the right kind of skills for our labour market\", she said.\n\nOn the UK's post-Brexit relationship with EU rules, Ms Patel appeared to adopt a harder approach than Mr Barclay, saying: \"In terms of divergence, we are not having alignment. We will be diverging. We want to take control of our laws, money and our borders.\"\n\nLast week, Chancellor Sajid Javid said the UK would use the power to diverge from EU rules on trade only when it was in the interests of business.", "Lineker has been the main presenter of Match of the Day for more than 20 years\n\nGary Lineker, one of the BBC's highest paid presenters, has called for the TV licence fee to be voluntary.\n\nIn an interview with The Guardian, the former footballer and Match of the Day presenter said the annual charge was the BBC's \"fundamental problem\".\n\n\"You're forced to pay it if you want a TV, and therefore it's a tax,\" he is quoted as saying. \"The public pay our salaries, so everyone is a target.\"\n\nHis comments come amid mounting debate on the future of the licence fee.\n\nLast week culture secretary Baroness Morgan told the BBC the subject was \"coming up more and more on the doorstep\".\n\nLineker said he had \"always said for a long time\" the £154.50 annual charge should be voluntary while admitting he did not know \"the logistics of how it would work\".\n\n\"You would lose some people, but at the same time you'd up the price a bit\", said the presenter, whose BBC salary was between £1,750,000 and £1,754,999 in 2018-19.\n\n\"[The licence fee] is the price of a cup of coffee a week at the moment,\" he continued. \"If you put it up you could help older people, or those that can't afford it.\"\n\nFormer BBC chief political correspondent John Sergeant has added his voice to the debate saying the licence fee was \"increasingly out of date\".\n\n\"The average age of the audience is increasing, the number of viewers is falling. Young people are more likely to be hooked on their tablets and smartphones,\" Sergeant told the Radio Times.\n\n\"It is time to think of different ways of paying for BBC programmes, whether it be some form of payment by subscription, as well as programme sponsorship, if not a move towards advertising in general.\"\n\nLast year the BBC said it was scrapping free TV licences for all over-75s and would limit the provision to low-income households where one person receives the pension credit benefit.\n\nThe online publication of The Guardian's interview saw Lineker receive praise from ITV presenter Piers Morgan, usually Lineker's sparring partner, for making \"a sensible point\".\n\nIt's September 2020. The new director-general is in No 10 for her or his first meeting with Boris Johnson since getting the job.\n\n\"Look, prime minister,\" the BBC's new DG says. \"I know this seems radical. I believe there is a case not only for keeping the compulsory licence fee - but raising it\".\n\n\"What?!\" says Mr Cummings. \"But how can you argue that, when even your highest-paid star - your most famous face - agrees with us it should be voluntary?!\"\n\nGary Lineker may or may not be right. The fact is, his intervention has weakened the negotiating position of the next DG, even if just marginally.\n\nBig social and political changes never happen suddenly. They follow the drip, drip, drip of smaller events that made the final change inevitable.\n\nRight now, the idea that the BBC should become a subscription service is mainstream Conservative thinking. A prominent Remainer at the BBC has just reinforced it.\n\nMany of the BBC's most loyal audiences are about to lose a benefit - in free TV licences for the over-75s - that they want.\n\nDecriminalisation of the licence fee looks likely, which could cost the BBC a couple of hundred million pounds.\n\nA huge re-organisation of BBC News will cost many jobs, demoralising some staff, and leading to sharp cuts in some programme budgets.\n\nEvery day, streaming giants pour more dollars into high-value productions that lure eyeballs away from the BBC.\n\nEvery day, the bond between the BBC and young audiences weakens - to the point that it is becoming close to non-existent for many.\n\nThen Gary Lineker says the licence fee should go.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "China has widened a lockdown in Hubei province - the centre of the coronavirus outbreak - as the death toll climbed to 25.", "Gianna Bryant died alongside her father Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California\n\nAs the daughter of Kobe Bryant - a five-time NBA champion - Gianna Bryant had big shoes to fill.\n\nLike her father, the 13-year-old was a prodigiously talented basketball player. With his help as her personal coach, Gianna hoped to become a professional.\n\nBryant was confident Gianna would do so, often speaking of his wish for her to continue his legacy, albeit in the women's game.\n\nTragically, neither would live to see that aspiration come to fruition.\n\nBryant and Gianna were reported to be heading to a basketball game on Sunday when their helicopter crashed in the city of Calabasas, west of Los Angeles. There were no survivors.\n\nThe pair was expected to take part in a basketball tournament for young players at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, US media report.\n\nAttending basketball games together was typical of their relationship, which was said to be close.\n\nThe second of Bryant's four daughters, Gianna dreamed of following in her father's footsteps. In an interview, Bryant had said his daughter was determined to play for the University of Connecticut women's basketball team.\n\nThe team shared an image of the two on its Twitter page.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UConn Women's Hoops This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBryant said that, following his retirement from basketball in 2016, he switched off from the sport.\n\nHis daughter, however, rekindled his passion for the game.\n\nGianna Bryant, 13, had aspirations to make a mark as a pro, like her father\n\n\"It wasn't me sitting there, you know as an athlete or a player or something like that, and you know it's like about me, and I don't like that. It was her - she was having such a good time,\" Bryant told the BET network in a recent interview.\n\nIn retirement, Bryant spent most of his time with his family - his wife, Vanessa, and four daughters - Gianna, Natalia, Bianka and Capri.\n\nBut Gianna was said to have shared a particularly special bond with her father.\n\nBryant's affection for his daughter, also known as Gigi, is obvious from his social media profiles. One video posted to his Instagram shows him playing \"one-on-one with my baby Gigi\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by kobebryant This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe former LA Lakers star, 41, had been coaching Gianna's middle school team since his retirement.\n\nA clip which appears to show Bryant imparting advice about basketball went viral a few weeks ago.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Robert Mays This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPictures show Bryant coaching Gianna's basketball team on Saturday at the Mamba Sports Academy - a day before the crash.\n\n\"He had a clipboard, he was drawing up plays and talking to [the players],\" a person who was there told the New York Post.\n\nNBA commissioner Adam Silver said Bryant took \"special delight in passing down his love of the game to Gianna\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by kobebryant This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBryant clearly had faith in his daughter's ability. Last year, he told LA Times columnist Arash Markazi that his family name was in good hands with Gianna.\n\nPointing to Gianna, Bryant described his daughter as \"something else\".\n\nSpeaking to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel in 2018, Bryant said fans would often urge him to have a son to continue his legacy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\n\"The best thing that happens is when we go out and fans would come up to me and she'll be standing next to me, and they'll be like, 'You've gotta have a boy, you and V gotta have a boy. You gotta have somebody to carry on your tradition, the legacy.\n\n\"She's like, 'I got this',\" Bryant said. \"I'm like, 'that's right'. Yes, you do, you got this.\"\n\nNot only did Bryant support his daughter, he championed the development of women's basketball more broadly.\n\nHe tried to draw attention to the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) league which, since its founding in 1996, has steadily increased in popularity.\n\n\"The WNBA is a beautiful game to watch,\" Bryant told the LA Times last year.\n\nBryant was said to have had a special bond with Gianna\n\nAt present, 12 teams compete in the league, which runs from May to September. But like in many other professional sports, women are paid significantly less than their male counterparts.\n\nThe average pay for male NBA players this season is around $7.5m (£5.7m), according to data from Basketball Reference. In contrast, the average pay for female WNBA players is around $116,000, reports say.\n\nThe WNBA has attempted to address the pay disparity, recently agreeing major pay rises with the union that represents players.", "Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Camila Cabello, Calvin Harris, AJ Tracey and Biffy Clyro have been announced for this year's Radio 1 Big Weekend.\n\nThey're the first names confirmed for the 2020 event, which will take place in Dundee.\n\nIt's happening in Camperdown Park on Friday 22 to Sunday 24 May 2020 - with 70,000 people expected to attend.\n\nThis will be Big Weekend's 17th year, having taken place in Stewart Park, Middlesbrough in 2019.\n\nDua Lipa has promised fans they'll hear new music from her second album when she performs at Big Weekend.\n\n\"Can't wait to perform some tracks from the new album for you guys - hope you're all ready,\" she said in a statement.\n\nBiffy Clyro, Calvin Harris and AJ Tracey will perform - with more big name stars to be announced\n\nAnd Camila Cabello is looking forward to her trip to Scotland too.\n\n\"I am beyond excited to be coming back to Big Weekend! It's going to super fun to perform for you guys in Scotland,\" the singer says.\n\nHarry Styles said he's \"absolutely thrilled\" to be back at Big Weekend.\n\n\"It's the start of the summer and the crowds in Scotland are always insane. See you soon Dundee,\" he added.\n\nThis won't be the first time Big Weekend has taken place in Dundee - it was previously held at Camperdown Park in 2006.\n\nPink, Sugababes, The Streets, Snow Patrol, Paolo Nutini and Muse were among the big names who performed that year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Holocaust survivors lit candles at the ceremony\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have joined genocide survivors to light candles at an International Holocaust Memorial Day event in London.\n\nThe royals, PM Boris Johnson and faith leaders attended the service in London, to mark 75 years since the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz was liberated.\n\nThe duke gave a reading and the couple spoke to survivors of the Holocaust and more recent genocides.\n\nEarlier, dozens of world leaders joined survivors at Auschwitz in Poland.\n\nAt Central Hall in Westminster, survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides, and their relatives, spoke of their experiences during an hour-long event hosted by BBC newsreader Huw Edwards.\n\nAnd there were dramatic readings of first-hand accounts of the horrors experienced during the genocide by actors Nina Wadia, Rebecca Front, Martin Shaw and Sir Simon Russell Beale.\n\nIn a speech, Prince William paid tribute to his great-grandmother Princess Alice, who he said risked her own life to save a Jewish family - the Cohens - in Athens in 1943.\n\nAlice's bravery was recognised by Israel which in 1993 posthumously bestowed the title of Righteous Among the Nations on her.\n\nThe service also commemorated genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur\n\nReading from a letter written by a friend of the princess, Prince William said: \"The members of the Cohen family left the residence three weeks after liberation, aware that... the princess's generosity and bravery had spared them from the Nazis.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge later praised survivors and their relatives for sharing their \"heartbreaking\" stories at the event and she said she and William found the ceremony \"very poignant\".\n\nMr Johnson told those listening he felt a \"deep sense of shame\" that anti-Semitism continued in the UK today.\n\nThe chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said she was pleased the royal couple could attend\n\nThe duchess met Holocaust survivors, including Yvonne Bernstein, who she photographed\n\nThe PM said Britain seemed \"to be dealing with a resurgence of the virus of anti-Semitism\", saying: \"I know that I carry a responsibility as prime minister to do everything possible to stamp it out.\"\n\nHe vowed to ensure the horrors of the Holocaust were not forgotten and lent his support to the proposed National Holocaust Memorial and Education Centre near Parliament.\n\n\"As prime minister I promise that we will preserve this truth forever,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will \"never allow\" Britain to forget the Holocaust\n\nAmong those at the ceremony were the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis.\n\nThe UK commemoration in Westminster honoured survivors of the Holocaust - also known as the Shoah, in which millions of Jewish people were killed - Nazi persecution, and the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, according to organisers.\n\nAround one million people - the vast majority of them Jewish - were killed at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied southern Poland before it was liberated by the Soviet army on 27 January 1945.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holocaust survivor Steven Frank takes his teenage granddaughter Maggie on a journey to learn about his experiences\n\nSome 200 Holocaust survivors - including some who are now living in the UK - returned to the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz for a commemoration.\n\nBatsheva Dagan, who was given the number 45054 on arrival at Auschwitz, told those gathered in Poland that \"human dignity did not belong\" at the camp.\n\n\"Quite the opposite,\" she said. \"Human dignity was trampled.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, two portraits of Holocaust survivors taken by the Duchess of Cambridge for a forthcoming exhibition were released to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.\n\nThe UK Holocaust Memorial Day commemorative event aired on BBC Two at 1900 GMT and will be available on the BBC iPlayer. soon.", "Kim Kyong Hui is seen here on the right, two seats away from Kim Jong-un\n\nThe aunt of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has been seen in public for the first time since the execution of her husband in 2013.\n\nKim Kyong-hui is the daughter of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, and sister to former leader Kim Jong-il.\n\nShe had not been seen since her husband, Chang Song-thaek, was executed by her nephew for \"acts of treachery\".\n\nBut on Sunday, state media released a photo of her enjoying new year celebrations.\n\nThe photo, released by North Korea's state news agency KCNA, showed Kim Kyong-hui seated next to Kim Jong-un and his wife in a crowded theatre in Pyongyang. She was also included in the list of top-ranking officials in attendance.\n\nOliver Hotham, editor at NK News, which covers events in the reclusive nation, said the reappearance was a surprise.\n\n\"Many North Korea watchers had assumed that Kim Kyong-hui had gone into exile or even been killed in the wake of her husband's death,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Concern is growing internationally for the stability of North Korea, as Lucy Williamson reports\n\nHer appearance seated next to the leader suggested she had retained - or regained - significant influence, he added - possibly as an advisor.\n\n\"It's also a reminder of how weird and brutal North Korea is, after all she's sitting next to the man who ordered her husband's execution.\"\n\nKim Kyong-hui and her husband Chang Song-thaek were major players within the North Korean state at the time of their nephew's ascension to power nearly a decade ago.\n\nMr Kim succeeded his father as leader in 2011, and it was widely believed that Mr Chang was one of his mentors during the transition.\n\nBut two years into the new leader's rule, Mr Chang was removed from a meeting by armed guards in dramatic fashion. Official statements claimed he had confessed to plotting to overthrow the state, and that he had been immediately executed.\n\nMany observers of the North Korean state believe he may have been considered a threat to the young leader, and killed as part of a purge.", "The nominees for the 62nd Grammy Awards have been announced in Los Angeles. Here's a summary of the key categories.\n\nBest new artist nominees Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Lil Nas X, with Finneas O'Connell\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The swordfish was spotted in aerial footage\n\nA rare sighting of a swordfish has been made in Scottish waters.\n\nThe distinctive member of the billfish family was spotted when analysts were examining aerial footage shot during survey work about 27km (17 miles) off Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire.\n\nSwordfish are normally found in the warmer waters of the Caribbean or Mediterranean.\n\nIt is claimed to be only the second time the species has been seen in Scottish waters.\n\nSwordfish are normally found in warmer waters\n\nIt was identified swimming through SSE Renewables' Seagreen offshore wind farm site by HiDef Aerial Surveying, which had been commissioned to undertake aerial wildlife surveys of the site.\n\nThe fish was estimated to be 197cm (6.4ft).\n\nThe shots were taken in August last year.\n\nWalter Golet, from the University of Maine School of Marine Science, said: \"Swordfish have a huge latitudinal range, by the picture it appears to have a flat bill, and marlins (the only other confusion species) are all round.\"\n\nLis Royle, Seagreen's consent manager, said: \"We're pleased we've been able to help record the second ever spotting of a swordfish in Scottish waters.\n\n\"Whilst we don't expect the Seagreen swordfish to make an appearance again it was great to be able to capture this incredibly rare sighting during our survey work.\"\n\nIn 2009, a swordfish was landed by a surprised fisherman in the River Forth.\n• None BBC - Earth - The one thing everyone knows about swordfish is wrong\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simon Pengelly starred in the advert which prompted jokes about Prince Harry stepping back from royal duties\n\nA man who starred as a handyman in an advert that went viral after Twitter users saw a resemblance to Prince Harry says the comparison has surprised him.\n\nThe Rated People advert displayed on the Tube in London prompted jokes the Duke of Sussex had already found a job after stepping back from royal duties.\n\nBut apparent lookalike Simon Pengelly from Brecon, Powys, said he was usually compared to actor Jason Statham.\n\n\"That photo was taken back in 2016... I normally have a shaved head,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Prisk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Maybe one or two of the boys [have said I look like Prince Harry] because I have a ginger beard but not much really.\n\n\"He's not a bad looking chap but I prefer Jason Statham because he's got a bit more of a rep - but any comparisons to anyone is a compliment I suppose.\"\n\nMr Pengelly from Brecon, Powys, said he was usually compared to actor Jason Statham, pictured here\n\nResponding to an image of the advert, former Conservative MP Mark Prisk tweeted: \"Good to see the Duke of Sussex has already found work.\"\n\nJournalist Emma Lindsay tweeted: \"Fair play to Harry, he didn't hang about on his mission for financial independence #Megxit.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother Twitter user BraillecatRacing tweeted: \"Well Harry wanted the common life.\"\n\nMr Pengelly, 36, said he had been \"inundated\" with messages and \"banter\" from friends - \"probably stuff you couldn't say\" - since the image was shared on social media.\n\nThe self-employed builder and actor, who has made appearances in Being Human and Merlin, said he hoped the attention would provide a boost to his burgeoning acting career.\n\n\"At the moment I'm trying to do both the building and the acting, the dream is to step away [from the building],\" he said.\n\nSimon Pengelly and his grandfather at the premiere film The Antwerp Dolls in which he starred\n\nAs for his thoughts on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex no longer being working members of the royal family, Mr Pengelly said he was \"not really bothered\".\n\n\"I've seen this thing about him going off to Canada but everyone's entitled to their own opinion and to live their own life,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this month, after the Duke and Duchess said they wanted to \"step back\" as senior royals and divide their time between the UK and Canada, Buckingham Palace announced they would no longer use their HRH titles, receive public funds for royal duties or formally represent the Queen.", "The Government has announced that a fast-track visa will open next month to attract the world's leading scientists.\n\nThe visas will have no cap on the numbers of suitably qualified people able to come to the UK.\n\nThe announcement follows a pledge last year by the PM to turn the UK into a \"supercharged magnet to attract scientists like iron filings\".\n\nResearchers remain concerned about the uncertainty of the UK's role in EU research programmes following Brexit.\n\nThe Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said: \"The UK has a proud history of scientific discovery, but to lead the field and face the challenges of the future we need to continue to invest in talent and cutting-edge research.\n\n\"That is why as we leave the EU I want to send a message that the UK is open to the most talented minds in the world, and stand ready to support them to turn their ideas into reality.\"\n\nThe new visa system will begin on February 20 and managed by the UK Research and Innovation Agency (UKRI), which funds government research, rather than the Home Office. This is to ensure that suitable applicants are quickly assessed and fast-tracked by those qualified to asses their scientific credentials, rather than immigration officials.\n\nTacitly addressing concerns about the impact of Brexit on the UK's participation in international programmes, the government claims the scheme has been introduced in order to enable UK-based research projects to recruit the best scientists and mathematicians.\n\nThe announcement is a big win for research organisations who had been lobbying the government very hard for a fast-track visa system for leading researchers to mitigate what they feared would be a brain drain after Brexit.\n\nThey are especially pleased that UKRI, with the support of other so-called endorsed research organisations, can vouch for an applicant - instead of Home Office officials attempting to determine their scientific attainment.\n\nProf Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the UK's Royal Society, was among those lobbying hardest for the system to be run by research organisations. He welcomed the announcement, saying the new visa would be \"attractive\" to talented researchers and specialists from all over the world - and at all stages of their careers.\n\n\"It sends out a positive message that the UK is committed to remaining open to overseas science talent who would collaborate with our outstanding home-grown minds,\" he said.\n\n\"What is good for science is good for everybody, and can help tackle important challenges such as climate change or disease.\"\n\nSir Venki added: \"The government has listened to the research community, and this is an important first step in creating the visa system that we need for attracting global scientific talent - one that is welcoming, faster and more flexible, and takes into account the long-term aspirations of scientists and their families.\"\n\nBut Dr Robert Massey, deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society tweeted that he was concerned the system would still restrict the entry of young, up-and-coming researchers.\n\nHe gave it \"a cautious welcome\", adding: \"The issues will still though be about calling for the 'most talented', which isn't a label many early career researchers identify with.\"\n\nBBC News reported last year that, after Brexit, science is one of the top priorities for the PM's chief aide, Dominic Cummings.\n\nSenior research leaders have confirmed that they have been in talks with Mr Cummings and the Science Minister Chris Skidmore in Downing Street.\n\nThe talks focused on how best to spend a possible multi-billion pound increase in research funding. The outcome may be announced in the March budget.\n\nEU researchers account for about half of the total UK scientific workforce of 211,000.\n\nCurrently, they do not need visas to work in British labs. But freedom of movement between the UK and EU is expected to end after the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020.\n\nThe government says it will introduce an Australian-style points-based system by January 2021.\n\nBoris Johnson previously said he wants to draw scientists to the supercharged magnet of Britain \"like iron filings\"\n\nSir Jim McDonald, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said he was \"delighted\" to see that the new visa system would be run by researchers rather than civil servants.\n\nHe commented: \"The new arrangements will allow awardees of a much larger range of UK and international fellowships to receive fast-track visas through the academies, while UKRI will administer a route that awards fast-track visas to principals and named team members of research and innovation grants from a range of endorsed funders.\"\n\nThe head of UKRI, Prof Sir Mark Walport, said: \"Today's announcements further underline the importance of research and innovation to the future success of the UK and the government's continued commitment and investment.\"\n\nLabour's spokesperson for industrial strategy, Chi Onwurah, said additional support and recognition for science should be welcomed.\n\nBut she added that the new measures \"suggest a lack of understanding of innovation, which depends on scientists, researchers, engineers and technicians at all levels and not just a few 'top talent'\".\n\nChi Onwurah said the new visa rules \"suggest a lack of understanding\" by solely focusing on \"top talent\"\n\n\"Ending the Erasmus scheme, denying visas to scientists from Africa and Asia, imposing a minimum salary of £30,000, these all adversely affect the richness and quality of our scientific base,\" she said.\n\nChristine Jardine, from the Liberal Democrats, said the announcement suggests Mr Johnson \"doesn't understand\" what makes the UK science sector successful.\n\n\"Science relies on thousands of researchers, and this announcement does nothing for the vast majority of them. If the government is serious about championing UK science, it must prioritise continued mobility as part of our future relationship with the EU,\" she said.", "The Scottish Events Campus includes the Armadillo and the SSE Hydro\n\nIf the Glasgow climate conference fails to deliver, it could mark the end of the global approach to tackling the problem.\n\nCOP26 in November will see around 200 world leaders meet to agree a new, long term deal on rising temperatures.\n\nBut according to Claire O'Neill, the president of COP26, the UK has \"one shot\" at making it a success.\n\nShe told a BBC documentary that if Glasgow fails, people will question the whole UN approach.\n\nCOP26 marks a critical moment for the UN in the long running effort to find a global solution to climate change.\n\nAs part of the Paris climate deal, agreed in 2015, countries are meant to update their carbon cutting plans by the end of this year.\n\nSo far, 114 say they have done this, or are in the process of doing so this year.\n\nAnother 120 countries have now told the UN that they have either agreed on plans to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 or are working towards that goal.\n\nWhile this represents some progress, a key part of the Glasgow meeting will be trying to push countries to go even further.\n\nIn December, there was widespread dismay after countries failed to agree on more ambitious steps at the Madrid conference of the parties known as COP25.\n\nThe messy compromise in the Spanish capital has also left a raft of complex issues unresolved, including the use of carbon markets, plus the question of compensation for loss and damage suffered by poorer nations from storms and rising sea levels.\n\nUnderpinning the lack of progress in Madrid was the huge gap between big emitters such as Brazil, Australia, India, China and US and an alliance of countries wanting to go much faster including the European Union, small island states and vulnerable nations.\n\nFormer UK minister Claire O'Neill has been tasked with presiding over COP26 and delivering an agreement acceptable to all.\n\nUN talks in Madrid ended in disappointment with many decisions kicked down the road\n\nWidely seen as knowledgeable and authoritative, Ms O'Neill says that Glasgow is the best, and perhaps last chance to make progress under the long drawn out UN process.\n\n\"I think we have one shot,\" she said, speaking to the BBC at the end of the Madrid conference in December.\n\n\"I think if we don't have a successful outcome next year people will legitimately look at us and say 'what are you doing, is there a better way?'\n\n\"I think we have this amazing opportunity to get the world together to talk about ambition but crucially to deliver it, and I guess I am really determined to do that.\"\n\nScientists say that to keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century, a major upgrade is needed on the plans that countries are already applying to the problem.\n\nDelivering anything close to that type of deal in Glasgow will depend on a number of key meetings in the run up to COP26.\n\nOne of the most important is the summit between the President of China, Xi Jinping and EU leaders in Leipzig in September.\n\nIf the EU can persuade China to put an ambitious new climate plan on the table, it will significantly improve the chances of success in Glasgow.\n\n\"For China to enhance it's climate targets or not will be primarily a political and diplomatic decision, and that is precisely why the European engagement at the diplomatic level will be critical for us to unlock further climate ambition from Beijing,\" said Li Shuo from Greenpeace China.\n\n\"But the EU will have to have its own climate plan enhanced before the EU-China summit, and I think that's the only way to make that summit meaningful.\n\n\"The good news is that the Chinese president is coming and that provides a high level opportunity.\"\n\nThe influence of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has grown rapidly\n\nHowever, many experts are concerned that China won't show its hand until they know who will be the next president of the United States - that election will take place just six days before the meeting in Glasgow opens.\n\nTo achieve a deal, the UK will need to persuade some of the more reluctant countries like India, Brazil and Australia that it is in their interest to agree to increase their ambitions.\n\nRachel Kyte is now Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University, but was previously the World Bank's special envoy on climate change.\n\nShe believes that agreement in Glasgow will need the UK to help shift the narrative - that a new climate deal offers more opportunities for countries than challenges.\n\n\"This is completely within our means. Most of the technology we need, we have. Most of the finance we have, it's just sloshing around in the economy just really inefficiently purposed at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Governments and leaders need to understand they will be rewarded for being on the right side of history and for taking the risk, and it is one worth taking.\n\n\"It's an exciting future, it's cleaner, the air will be better - we'll have better jobs, it is not a sacrifice, it is something we owe ourselves.\"", "For a long time, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has sidestepped talking at length about his role in the fraught political journey of Brexit in the last few years.\n\nBut with just a few days until the UK's departure, he opened up a little, in an interview with me, about what happened, and what might unfold next.\n\nThe Taoiseach suggested that the EU will have the upper hand in the upcoming trade negotiations, saying: \"We have a population and a market of 450 million people, the UK it's about 60, so if these were two teams up against each other playing football, who do you think has the stronger team?\"\n\nHe also warned against any UK attempt to get a \"piecemeal\" deal with the EU, saying: \"When I hear people talk about piecemeal, it sounds a bit like cake and eat it,\" and added \"That isn't something that will fly in Europe.\"\n\nBut when I asked him if Ireland had been too stubborn in the last couple of years, he suggested that it was the UK had misread the first phase of Brexit, suggesting that many people in Westminster and Britain \"don't understand Ireland\".\n\nHe said there was an imagined scenario that France, Germany and Britain would get together at a big summit and tell the small countries what's what. But he said: \"That's not the way the 21st Century works. That's certainly not the way the EU works\".\n\nEchoing other leaders, Mr Varadkar also questioned the the timetable set by Boris Johnson to get a trade deal with the rest of the EU by the end of the year.\n\nHe disagreed with the Prime Minister's claim that there is \"bags of time\", saying: \"It will be difficult to do this,\" and suggesting that there might have to be an extension to the next part of the Brexit process, beyond the end of this year, to finalise a trade deal.\n\nHe did however pledge to work \"night and day\" to try and get it done and said: \"We won't be dragging our feet\".\n\nThe Taoiseach said to get a deal there would have to be legal assurances that the UK would not undercut the EU, agreeing a \"common set of minimum standards\", that would have to be \"high standards\".\n\nThere is no question it's going to be a key area of contention in the coming months, saying that he did trust Boris Johnson, but that it was in \"black and white\" that were would have to be some checks on goods going from Great Britain into Northern Ireland, despite Boris Johnson's repeated insistence that there will not have to be.\n\nMr Varadkar and Mr Johnson held private talks in a bid to break the Brexit deadlock at Thornton Manor Hotel, on The Wirral, Cheshire.\n\nLooking back, Mr Varadkar said he had been genuinely afraid that the UK might have left the EU without a deal, but that a meeting between the two men on the Wirral in the autumn had provided the \"crucial moment\".\n\nHe said the progress at the summit was the \"simple story\" of \"two guys in a room… talking turkey\" without their staff present, where they found a way that they could move forward.\n\n\"I knew when I was leaving Liverpool Airport that things were looking promising again,\" he said.\n\nMichel Barnier will visit the Irish leader again today, another statement of intent about how Ireland's position will be taken into consideration by the EU at large, a situation that the government here in Dublin has no wish to leave behind.", "At least 22 private clinics offer hymen-repair surgery in the UK\n\nCampaigners are urging the government to outlaw \"virginity repair\" surgery.\n\nMany Muslim women risk being outcast, or in extreme cases killed, if their spouses or families discover they have had sex before marriage.\n\nAnd some are opting for a medical procedure in which doctors restore a layer of membrane at the entrance to the vagina.\n\nBut there are concerns a ban would increase the dangers to Muslim women by driving the procedure underground.\n\nGuidelines from the General Medical Council (GMC) state a patient's consent to undergo a procedure should come into question if it is suspected of being \"given under pressure or duress exerted by another person\".\n\nHalaleh Taheri, founder of Middle Eastern Women and Society Organisation told BBC News of a Moroccan student in hiding in London after being told her father had hired someone to murder her.\n\nAfter coming to the UK in 2014 to study, the woman, now 26, had met a man and they had moved in together.\n\nBut when her father had found out about their relationship, he had demanded she return to Morocco, where he had taken her to a clinic for a \"virginity test\" and discovered her hymen was no longer intact.\n\nMuslim women are being shamed into the procedure, campaigners say\n\nShe fled back to London but now lives in constant fear her father will find out where she lived.\n\nA Moroccan-born assistant teacher, 40, told the BBC that after being forced to go through with the procedure in her 20s, she could not imagine pressuring her children into doing the same.\n\n\"I would never, ever do such a thing to them. I try to teach them to be free.\"\n\nThere are currently at least 22 private clinics across the UK offering hymen-repair surgery, according to a recent investigation for The Sunday Times.\n\nThey charge up to £3,000 for the surgery, which takes about an hour.\n\nWomen's rights campaigners say that such clinics are profiting from Muslims afraid of what could happen to them if they are not \"pure\" for their wedding night.\n\nAnd many detail the procedure on their websites, with London's Gynae Centre telling women who visit its site \"some marriages are even annulled\" when a husband discovers his wife's hymen has been broken.\n\nBBC News contacted the clinic for comment but has not received a response.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he would be investigating ways to end this \"dreadful practice,\" but the Department of Health declined to comment on how a potential ban would be enforced.\n\nBut Miss Taheri said: \"Girls could end up dying if banning this procedure isn't done with proper care.\"\n\nDr Khalid Khan, professor of Women's Health at Barts and the London School of Medicine, who has witnessed the procedure first hand, said a ban \"isn't an appropriate response\".\n\nAnd as long as \"good quality information\" was made available to patients, the decision should be left up to individual women.\n\n\"I believe doctors' motives are genuinely for protection against abuse,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Dr Naomi Crouch, who chairs the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology, worries about women and girls being coerced into a procedure with \"zero medical benefit\".\n\n\"The duties of a doctor are made clear in standards set out by the GMC,\" she said.\n\n\"We as healthcare professions are bound by an oath to do no harm to patients and any reputable service engaging in these procedures is open to audit and scrutiny.\"\n\nColin Melville, medical director and director of education and standards at the GMC said that it's vital that doctors consider the \"vulnerabilities and psychological needs of their patients\" first.\n\nThere has been a rise in the number of women having cosmetic surgery on their genitals\n\n\"If a patient is under undue pressure from others to take a particular course, their consent may not be voluntary. If a doctor judges that a child or young person does not want a cosmetic intervention, it should not be performed,\" he said.\n\nOther cosmetic genital procedures, such as labiaplasty, which involves the lips of the vagina being shortened or reshaped, have become increasingly popular, especially among younger women, from all types of background in the UK.\n\nAnd campaigners say there is little known about the long-term effects of these procedures and are concerned women are not receiving enough psychological support before opting for surgery.\n\nMiss Taheri said: \"These women on some level don't see themselves as anything more than an object to be desired, rather a human being.\n\n\"For Muslim women, the drive is feelings of shame and the fear of punishment.\n\n\"For others, it is down to a lack of satisfaction with their own bodies, being fuelled by what society is telling them is normal.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Panorama has obtained a 999 call, made by a family who broke down on a smart motorway\n\nThirty-eight people have been killed on smart motorways in the last five years, the government has told BBC Panorama.\n\nIt is the first time that the total number of deaths has been reported.\n\nSmart motorways have been criticised because they do not have a hard shoulder and drivers who break down can be trapped in the speeding traffic.\n\nThe network is facing an overhaul with the results of a government review due to be announced shortly.\n\nA Freedom of Information (FoI) request sent by Panorama to Highways England revealed that on one section of the M25, outside London, the number of near misses had risen 20-fold since the hard shoulder was removed in April 2014.\n\nIn the five years before the road was converted into a smart motorway there were just 72 near misses. In the five years after, there were 1,485.\n\nA \"near miss\" is counted every time there is an incident with \"the potential to cause injury or ill health\".\n\nThe FoI request also revealed that one warning sign on the same stretch of the M25 had been out of action for 336 days.\n\nThe idea behind smart motorways was to improve the flow of traffic through the most congested parts of the network by using the hard shoulder as an extra lane.\n\nThe figure of 38 deaths over five years on the smart motorway network is significant because it only makes up a small proportion of the total miles of road.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Panorama he wants to fix smart motorways because they are too confusing for drivers.\n\nTransport Secretary, Grant Shapps told BBC Panorama that smart motorways have to be as safe or safer than normal motorways.\n\nHe said: \"We absolutely have to have these as safe or safer than regular motorways or we shouldn't have them at all.\"\n\nA government review, the results of which are due to be announced shortly, is expected to recommend reforms to improve safety.\n\nPanorama understands that radar will be fitted across the whole smart motorway network over the next three years.\n\nThe car detection system - which is currently only fitted on two sections of the M25 - can spot stranded vehicles as soon as drivers break down.\n\nNationally, motorists currently have to wait an average of 17 minutes to be spotted, and a further 17 minutes before they are rescued.\n\nThe government is also planning to scrap so-called dynamic hard shoulders, which are sometimes used as a hard shoulder and sometimes used as a live lane for traffic.\n\nThe BBC understands there will also be more emergency lay-bys.\n\nIt is unlikely to satisfy road safety campaigners.\n\nThe former government minister who approved the roll-out of smart motorways told Panorama he was misled about the risks of taking away the hard shoulder.\n\nSir Mike Penning agreed to the expansion in 2010 after a successful pilot on the M42 near Birmingham.\n\nThe pilot worked well because there were safe stopping points for motorists, called emergency safety refuges, on average every 600 metres.\n\nBut when the scheme was expanded across the country, the safety refuges were placed further apart. On some sections, they are 2.5 miles apart.\n\n\"They are endangering people's lives,\" said the Conservative MP. \"There are people that are being killed and seriously injured on these roads, and it should never have happened.\"\n\nAn all-party group of MPs, led by Sir Mike, will publish a report on Monday that accuses Highways England of \"a shocking degree of carelessness\".\n\nThe MPs say there should be no further roll-out of smart motorways until further research is conducted into their safety.\n\nEight-year-old Dev Naran (right) was killed on a smart motorway when he was on his way home from visiting his critically ill brother.\n\nHighways England said the plans to expand smart motorways were approved by ministers and that it was working to gather the facts about safety.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Any death on our roads is one too many, and our deepest sympathies remain with the family and friends of those who lost their lives.\"\n\nEight-year-old Dev Naran was killed on a smart motorway when he was on his way home from visiting his critically ill brother in Birmingham Children's Hospital.\n\nHis grandfather stopped the car on the inside lane of the M6 and the vehicle was hit by a lorry 45 seconds later.\n\nMum Meera Naran told the programme that after the accident Dev's body was then taken back to the hospital where his brother was being treated.\n\n\"I had both my boys, one fighting for his life still and Dev just there. It wasn't right, my two sons, one really sick, and the healthy one left me.\"\n\nAA president Edmund King said that taking away the hard shoulder had made breakdowns on the motorway more dangerous.\n\n\"It's just the most awful situation when you've broken down and your kids are in the back of the car, and there's nothing you can do to protect your kids.\n\n\"I certainly believe smart motorways are a scandal because, as we've been saying from the outset, they are dangerous, they're not fit for purpose.\"\n\nPanorama, Britain's Killer Motorways? is on BBC One at 20:30 GMT on Monday 27 January, or watch later on iPlayer", "It's been two years since the Presidents Club charity closed down amid anger over its men-only dinners at which waitresses were allegedly groped.\n\nBut now a range of branded clothing has revived memories of the scandal - and stockists include Mike Ashley's House of Fraser chain.\n\nAmong the clothes are figure-hugging black dresses emblazoned with a logo bearing the name The Presidents Club.\n\nFemale entrepreneurs described the range as \"disgraceful\" and \"insulting\".\n\nIn January 2018, the Presidents Club hit the headlines after it emerged that waitresses at its annual fund-raising event were told to wear revealing clothing and put up with sexual harassment from guests.\n\nAlthough the charity no longer exists, the brand has been registered as a trademark by Manchester-based businessman Martyn Warden, as first reported by the Mail on Sunday.\n\nIts website says that the company believes \"fashion is more than a choice, it's an experience\".\n\nHouse of Fraser also offers the range for both men and women from its own website.\n\nWomen entrepreneurs contacted by the BBC reacted angrily to the range of clothing and to Mr Ashley's involvement.\n\n\"As a business owner and mother of two daughters, I am surprised and disappointed that in this day and age, someone like Mike Ashley should seek to exploit misogynistic practices for commercial gain,\" said Sonal Keay, founder of fashion firm This Is Silk.\n\n\"In an era where businesses are supposed to contribute positively towards all stakeholders, which includes wider society, it is an insulting move and I hope that his actions are condemned and ignored.\"\n\nKathryn Colas, founder and chief executive of women's advice and support service Simply Hormones, said: \"The clothing is disgraceful, insulting the image of professional working women today.\"\n\nGiovanna Forte, chief executive of medical equipment firm Forte Medical, said: \"The concept is clearly an opportunistic attempt at exploiting a scandal.\n\n\"Whilst I cannot see anything too controversial about the designs - I've seen far more revealing in High Street retailers - it's up to women to vote with their wallets as to whether or not they wish to support the brand and its implications.\n\n\"The greater fuss that's made, the greater publicity will be generated and the more successful the exploitation.\n\n\"Much like the trousers on Presidents Club members, publicity around the clothing range just needs to be zipped up.\"\n\nBy contrast, Lu Li, founder of female entrepreneurs' support service Blooming Founders, objected to both the brand and the clothing.\n\n\"You can only wear this type of dress if you go bra-less,\" she told the BBC. \"There are very few people who can wear that type of dress naturally.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's reinforcing the message to young women that you're not pretty enough, you're not thin enough.\n\n\"It's taking a brand with a bad reputation and actually doubling down on what made it bad in the first place.\"\n\nFrasers Group, which owns House of Fraser, and the Presidents Club have both been approached for comment by the BBC.", "Outbound trains in Wuhan have been stopped\n\nThere have been widely-shared reports on social media and some state-run services that healthcare services in Wuhan - one of China's largest cities - are under strain following the outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nHu Xijin, the editor of state-run newspaper Global Times, said there had been a \"failure\" to contain the virus, and videos of patients queuing to get seen in hospitals.\n\nHowever, other Communist-party outlets have praised the response to the outbreak.\n\nWuhan is a major transit hub with a population of about 11 million people, and has effectively been put on lockdown, along with other major cities in the region, in an unprecedented move to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe city serves as the main economic hub for the wider province, Hubei, and has the most advanced healthcare facilities in the region.\n\nThe metropolitan area has seven major hospitals - considered some of the best in China, with Tong Ji Hospital ranked third nationally - treating patients.\n\nIt has seven more hospitals supporting the efforts, and 61 clinics around the city which are testing patients for symptoms of the virus. A local government report from 2014 included Wuhan among the top six cities for medical treatment in the country - although it ranks behind Beijing and Shanghai.\n\nIn terms of capacity, the report said Wuhan had 6.51 hospital beds and 3.08 doctors per 1,000 people - this isn't a straightforward indication of healthcare capacity (more doctors doesn't always mean better healthcare), but it does rank Wuhan among the more developed places in the world. The UK and US have 2.8 and 2.6 doctors per 1,000 heads, respectively.\n\nSo - is is this enough for a such a large city undergoing a mass shutdown?\n\nThe lockdown in Wuhan has caused panic in the city - the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that containing a large city like this is \"new to science\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Xinyan Yu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHubei as a province has a lower number of doctors per 1,000 people, at 2.55 according to the latest government statistics.\n\n\"It's yet to be seen whether the costs associated with this kind of mass quarantine measure (not just financially, but with respect to personal liberty too) will translate into effective infection control,\" said Dr. Maia Majumder, an expert at Harvard Medical School in the US, who is tracking the virus.\n\nHubei has declared a \"Grade 1 public health emergency\", the most severe level - that means the response is led centrally from Beijing by the State Council, the government's cabinet.\n\nBeijing has tried to allay concerns by sending more healthcare professionals, and constructing two hospitals from scratch providing more than 2,000 extra beds.\n\nReports from state-run media say there are 405 medical staff from Shanghai and 205 staff from Guangdong travelling to the region.\n\nThey're also expanding existing capacity in other facilities.\n\nThe government has also assigned 21 centres in Hubei province to help co-ordinate treatment, and train local health officials.\n\nProfessor Shenglan Tang, an expert in global health at Duke University in the US, says there are concerns that rural areas will struggle to cope.\n\n\"I'm confident that the health centres in Wuhan will be able to handle the outbreak, but I am a bit worried about Hubei province - rural workers have gone back home from Wuhan to celebrate Chinese New Year, and in these areas the hospital capacity is weak,\" said Professor Tang.\n\nDespite resilient rhetoric from the government, people are expressing concern about the city's ability to cope with the outbreak.\n\nThe BBC spoke to a number of people in the region who said that getting test results was taking longer than officials are claiming.\n\nWe were told that in some cases medical staff lack equipment and doctors are overstretched. There are also claims that local government, which was apparently made aware of the outbreak in mid-December, ignored initial warning signs.\n\nWe haven't been able to independently verify these claims.\n\nThe government has called for people to report poor medical responses to an online \"inspection\" platform.\n\nThe regional government has issued a statement appealing for donations to help with the response, including asking for facemasks.", "The virus originated in Wuhan City, Hubei province, and has infected 2,000 people since its discovery.\n\nAn airlift for Britons stuck in China's Hubei province by the coronavirus outbreak is being kept \"under review\", the government has said.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told Andrew Marr it was a \"fast-moving situation\" and the Foreign Office was working with Chinese authorities.\n\nUpdated Foreign Office guidance has warned against all travel to Hubei province - where the virus began - and urged Britons to leave if they can.\n\nThe virus has so far killed 56 people.\n\nA total of 52 tests have come back negative for the new strain in the UK, the Department of Health said on Sunday - indicating that the results of 21 tests have been concluded since its last update on Saturday.\n\nHubei province has been on lockdown for days as the authorities try to contain the virus which originated in the city of Wuhan and has infected almost 2,000 people since its discovery.\n\nSome British people in Hubei province say they are stuck and are unhappy with the government response.\n\nTony, from the UK, told BBC News he was en route to Wuhan when travel restrictions were first published by the British government. He is now in the city with his Chinese wife and her family.\n\nHe said: \"The feeling of many here is that the government are sacrificing the Wuhan people for the greater good of the country.\n\n\"The transport situation has made it difficult for people to go to those jobs that should still be done.\"\n\nTony said he tried to contact the British Consulate in Wuhan and the UK embassy in Beijing \"but the answer phone message has not been updated\".\n\nBritons Sophie and Jason, young graduates in Wuhan to teach English, said they had \"been stuck in the house for four days\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britons in Wuhan: 'It's manic, everyone is trying to stockpile food'\n\n\"We're frustrated by the fact we don't know what's going on,\" Sophie said. \"It's scary.\"\n\nYvonne Griffiths, a university lecturer from Cardiff, was due to fly home on Monday, but her family have told BBC Wales the journey has been cancelled.\n\nShe said: \"I am disappointed at the absolute silence on the issue of how stranded people are going to get home.\"\n\nDr Yvonne Griffiths is in a hotel room in Wuhan\n\nDr Griffths' daughter Bethan Webber said a government airlift would now be her mother's only option.\n\n\"Short of the government getting her out there's no getting out,\" she said.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping has warned the spread of the virus is accelerating, telling senior officials the country is facing a \"grave situation\".\n\nCheckpoints in Hubei province are preventing people from leaving, the airport has been closed, and many of the roads are blocked to all vehicles except those carrying patients or medical supplies.\n\nChina's health minister Ma Xiaowei told reporters the ability of the virus to spread appeared to be strengthening.\n\nBritish scientists have said that it may not be possible for China to contain the virus.\n\nResearchers at the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Diseases have calculated that each person is passing the virus on to two or three others.\n\nThe scientists, based at Imperial College, London, say the transmission rate needs to be cut by 60% in order to get on top of the outbreak.\n\nIn the UK, tests on 31 people suspected of contracting the virus have come back negative, the government said on Saturday.\n\nIn its most recent update, the Department of Health said there are currently \"no confirmed cases in the UK or of UK citizens abroad, and the risk to the public is low\".\n\nOfficials are trying to trace around 2,000 people who have flown to the UK from Wuhan in the past fortnight.\n\nMore people have been spotted wearing masks in London in recent days where many are celebrating the Lunar New Year.\n\nOn Saturday, Australia confirmed its first four cases - first in Melbourne, and then three more in Sydney.\n\nIt has also spread to Europe, with three cases confirmed in France.\n\nChina has flown specialist military medical teams into Hubei province and state newspaper the People's Daily reported that a second emergency hospital was under construction, as the virus continues to spread.\n\nAcross mainland China, travellers are having their temperatures checked for signs of fever, and train stations have been shut in several cities. Many Lunar New Year celebrations have been cancelled.\n\nFrom Monday, China is suspending all foreign trips by Chinese holiday tour groups, state media reported.\n\nA nationwide ban on wildlife trade has been welcomed by animal protection groups.\n\nKate Nustedt of World Animal Protection said she the move would \"put a stop to the horrific conditions that serve as such a lethal hotbed of disease\".\n\nMeanwhile the US has announced that staff at the Wuhan consulate will be evacuated on a special flight on Tuesday.", "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and his first-team players will not be involved in the FA Cup fourth-round replay against Shrewsbury Town, the Reds manager has said.\n\nThe Premier League leaders surrendered a two-goal advantage against the League One side on Sunday after Klopp had made nine changes to the starting line-up.\n\nAt least four Premier League teams will need replays, which are scheduled for Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 February, meaning they will cut into the new mid-season break which runs between 2 and 16 February.\n\n\"I said to the boys already two weeks ago that we will have a winter break, which means we will not be there,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"You cannot deal with us like nobody cares about it. I know that it's not very popular but that's the way I see it.\n\n\"The Premier League asked us to respect the winter break. That's what we do. If the FA doesn't respect that, then we cannot change it. We will not be there.\"\n\nKlopp said it \"will be the kids who play\" and also confirmed that reserve coach Neil Critchley, who took charge of the Carabao Cup quarter-final loss to Aston Villa in December while the first team were playing the World Club Cup, will again be in the dugout.\n\n\"We have to respect the players' welfare. They need a rest. They need a mental rest, a physical rest, and that's what the winter break is all about,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"We had to make these decisions beforehand because these boys have families.\"\n\nAs well as Shrewsbury's visit to Anfield, Newcastle will travel to Oxford after a 0-0 draw at St James' Park.\n\nTottenham and Southampton will have to meet again after drawing 1-1 on the south coast, with the date currently set for Wednesday, 5 February.\n\nAll replays could be moved for TV coverage.\n\nWhat and when is the winter break?\n\nThis is the first season the Premier League has scheduled a winter break, albeit with a different format to leagues on the continent who take a few weeks off over Christmas.\n\nIn a letter sent to clubs from the Premier League in March, teams were told they were \"expected to honour and respect the underlining rationale for the mid-season player break, namely to provide their players with a break from the physical and mental rigours of playing matches during the season\".\n\n\"Clubs should not arrange competitive or friendly matches with other clubs during the mid-season player break,\" the letter continued.\n\nIn the winter break, four Premier League matches will take place on the weekend of 8 February, with the other six the following weekend - with all the games on at different times and televised.\n\nThis means that every team should have 13-16 days between games.\n\nBut it may not pan out like that...\n\nWhose winter break is most affected by FA Cup replays?\n\nSouthampton are the worst affected and will only have 10 days between their replay against Spurs, if it is played on 5 February, and a home game against Burnley in the league.\n\n\"Because the rules are not the best, we have another game, in a break in the season,\" said Saints manager Ralph Hasenhuttl, who has managed in the German Bundesliga. \"I don't understand this but, OK, we have to do it. It's for us not perfect but we must accept it.\"\n\nSpurs and Liverpool will have 11 days off instead of two weeks.\n\nIf Newcastle have to play their replay at Oxford on 4 February, three days after a Premier League game against Norwich, they will only have 12 days off before their trip to Arsenal.\n\nHad any of those sides been scheduled to play in the first weekend of the winter break, they would have had two full weeks off.\n\n\"It's a ridiculous situation,\" said Bruce. \"You're supposed to have a week off then all of a sudden they've shoved replays in there. What's the point?\"\n\nWhen else could the replays be?\n\nIt is understood the FA is committed to working with clubs to maintain a winter break for Premier League teams. But it is unclear where any rearranged games could be moved to.\n\nThe fifth-round games are on the week starting Monday, 2 March - scheduled for midweek for the first time to help free up Premier League teams for the winter break - so replays would clearly need to be played before then.\n\nOxford play nine games in February - on every Saturday and Tuesday (subject to the final date of the Newcastle game) so there are no free dates for their replay.\n\nThe midweek after the replays are scheduled would fall in between the two rounds of winter-break Premier League games so make even less sense, and the week after that (starting 17 February) sees Spurs and Liverpool play in the Champions League.\n\nSpurs and Southampton are free on the Tuesday and Wednesday before the fifth-round ties, although the game would have to be played on the same night as Champions League ties.", "The genre awards are being handed out ahead of the main ceremony\n\nDolly Parton has won her 10th competitive Grammy Award, as \"music's biggest night\" kicks off in LA.\n\nThe country star picked up best contemporary Christian song for God Only Knows, a duet with King & Country.\n\nRap star Lil Nas X also won two awards for his viral hit Old Town Road: Best video and best pop group performance.\n\nMany recipients have paid tribute to basketball star Kobe Bryant, who played for 20 years at the Staples Arena, where the Grammys are taking place.\n\nRecording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr opened the pre-show, where the bulk of the night's 84 awards are distributed, by recognising the star's contribution.\n\n\"As most of you may know, we lost Kobe Bryant in a tragic helicopter accident today,\" Mason said,\n\n\"Since we are in his house, I would ask you to join me in a moment of silence.\"\n\nIt is thought Alicia Keys will commence the main ceremony with a further tribute to Bryant and his family.\n\nHundreds of fans have gathered outside the venue after the star died in a helicopter accident earlier in the day; while his image is being projected on screens around the arena.\n\nInside, musician John Legend said he was \"sad and stunned\" by the news.\n\n\"It's a very solemn day,\" added Motown legend Smokey Robinson. \"It's horrible.\"\n\nDJ Khaled added that a planned tribute to rapper Nipsey Hussle would be expanded to recognise Bryant.\n\n\"To be honest with you, it's real tough,\" he said. \"It's a real tough day. It's devastating.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Legend This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rachel Nichols This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tribute to Hussle, who was shot dead in Los Angeles last year, will come hours after he won a posthumous Grammy, best rap performance, for his song Racks In The Middle.\n\nThe trophy was collected by his family, including his grandmother, who told the audience: \"I want to thank all of you for sharing the love I felt for him for all of his life\".\n\nParton wasn't present to accept her award, but King and Country told the story of how she had ended up singing on a remix of their hit single.\n\n\"She said, 'I love this song because it's reaching to the marginalised, to the depressed, the suicidal, which is all of us at some point,'\" said the duo. \"And then she said, in her Dolly accent, 'I'm going to take this song from Dollywood to Bollywood to Hollywood.'\"\n\nNipsey Hussle's family attended the ceremony to collect his award\n\nOther early winners included British dance act The Chemical Brothers, whose single Got To Keep On was named best dance recording; and Michelle Obama, who won best spoken word recording for the audiobook of her memoir, Becoming.\n\nBeyoncé's Homecoming, which captured her historic headline performance at the Coachella music festival, won best music film,\n\nSpanish singer Rosalía also picked up best Latin recording for her album El Mal Querer - and said she was looking forward to her \"flamenco-inspired\" performance during the main ceremony, which starts at 01:00 GMT on Monday, 27 January.\n\nOther performers on the line-up include Ariana Grande, Aerosmith and Billie Eilish.\n\nLizzo leads the nominations, with eight nominations in total, while Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish have six apiece.\n\nAll three have picked up awards in their respective genre categories during the pre-show, leaving the race for the night's \"big four\" marquee categories (album, song and record of the year; and best new artist) wide open.\n\nScottish singer Lewis Capaldi is also in the running for song of the year, for his heart-rending ballad Someone You Loved.\n\nSpeaking on the red carpet, he said he intended to make the most of the night.\n\n\"Let's face it, it's never gonna happen again,\" he joked. \"It's all downhill from here.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Lamingtons are a sponge cake covered in chocolate and desiccated coconut\n\nA woman has died in Australia while taking part in a contest to eat as many lamingtons as possible.\n\nThe woman, aged 60, is reported to have had a seizure during the event at a hotel in Hervey Bay, Queensland, to mark Australia Day on Sunday.\n\nContestants had earlier been filmed speed-eating the lamingtons, a traditional sponge cake covered in chocolate and desiccated coconut.\n\nShe was given CPR at the scene and taken to hospital but later died.\n\nWitnesses said the woman had crammed one of the cakes into her mouth when she appeared to get into difficulties.\n\nFootage has emerged showing other patrons of the pub cheering on the eaters, who have glasses of water next to them, before the accident.\n\nThe Beach House Hotel in Hervey Bay posted a message on Facebook expressing condolences to the family and friends of the woman, who has not been named.\n\nThey thanked the ambulance service for their \"prompt and professional response while this tragic incident was unfolding\".\n\nEating competitions are a popular game during Australia Day, a national holiday marking the arrival of the first Europeans to Australia.\n\nContestants usually win prizes for eating as many cakes, pies, hot dogs or other food in a limited time.", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nKobe Bryant was \"one of the most extraordinary players\" in the history of basketball who \"inspired people around the world\" to play the game.\n\nThe 41-year-old died in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna.\n\nBryant, who retired in 2016 after a 20-year career with the LA Lakers, was a five-time NBA champion and was named an NBA All-Star 18 times.\n\nHe and his wife, Vanessa, have three other daughters - Natalia, Bianca and Capri.\n\n\"The NBA family is devastated by the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna,\" said NBA commissioner Adam Silver.\n\n\"For 20 seasons, Kobe showed us what is possible when remarkable talent blends with an absolute devotion to winning. He was one of the most extraordinary players in the history of our game with accomplishments that are legendary.\n\n\"But he will be remembered most for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball and compete to the very best of their ability.\n\n\"He was generous with the wisdom he acquired and saw it as his mission to share it with future generations of players, taking special delight in passing down his love of the game to Gianna.\"\n\nShaquille O'Neal, who won three NBA titles alongside Bryant for the LA Lakers, said: \"There's no words to express the pain I'm going through with this tragedy of losing my niece Gigi & my brother, my partner in winning championships, my dude and my homie.\n\n\"I love you and you will be missed. My condolences goes out to the Bryant family and the families of the other passengers on board. I'm sick right now.\"\n\nThe NBA's all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who played for the Lakers from 1975-1989, said: \"It's very difficult for me to put in words how I feel. Kobe was an incredible family man, he loved his wife and daughters, he was an incredible athlete, he inspired a whole generation. This loss is hard to comprehend.\"\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama wrote on Twitter: \"Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day.\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump said: \"Kobe Bryant, despite being one of the truly great basketball players of all time, was just getting started in life. He loved his family so much, and had such strong passion for the future. The loss of his beautiful daughter, Gianna, makes this moment even more devastating.\"\n\nFormer LA Lakers president Magic Johnson, a five-time NBA champion in the 1980s, tweeted: \"Kobe was a leader of our game, a mentor to both male and female players. Words can't express the impact that he had on the game of basketball.\"\n\nSix-time NBA champion Michael Jordan added: \"I loved Kobe - he was like a little brother to me. We used to talk often, and I will miss those conversations very much.\n\n\"He was a fierce competitor, one of the greats of the game and a creative force. Kobe was also an amazing dad who loved his family deeply - and took great pride in his daughter's love for the game of basketball.\"\n\nLeBron James surpassed Bryant to become the NBA's third-highest scorer of all time on Saturday.\n\nSpeaking after the game, which was the day before Bryant's death, he said: \"I'm happy just to be in any conversation with Kobe Bryant.\n\n\"One of the all-time greatest basketball players to ever play, one of the all-time greatest Lakers.\"\n\nBryant finished his playing career as the Lakers' all-time leading points scorer, and is fourth on the NBA's all-time list with 33,643 points.\n\nIn his 1,566th and final game for the Lakers in April 2016 he scored 60 points for the sixth time.\n\nSome in the 18,000 sell-out crowd had paid upwards of $25,000 (£17,580) to be in the crowd to see the two-time Olympic gold medallist.\n\nThe Lakers retired both Bryant's number eight and 24 jerseys in September 2017.\n\nIn 2018 he won an Oscar for his five-minute film Dear Basketball, based on a love letter to the sport he had written in 2015.\n\nIconic golfer Tiger Woods, a 15-time major winner, said he heard the news after completing his final round at the Farmers Insurance Open in California.\n\n\"[Caddie] Joey La Cava told me coming off the 18th green. I didn't understand why the crowd was saying 'beautiful Mamba', now I know,\" he said.\n\n\"It's unbelievably sad and the reality is sinking in because I was told about five minutes ago.\n\n\"He brought a desire to win every night on both ends of the floor, not too many guys can say that. Any time he was in the game, he'd take on their best player.\"\n\nFormer England captain David Beckham, who also played for LA Galaxy, posted on Instagram: \"This was one special athlete, husband, father and friend. Having to write these words is hard enough but also knowing we have lost an amazing human being and his beautiful and talented daughter Gianna is heartbreaking.\n\n\"The commitment Kobe showed to his sport was inspiring, to go through the pain and to finish a game off like only he could inspired me to try to be better.\n\n\"Kobe always talked about Vanessa and his beautiful girls and how proud he was of them. Kobe's passion was his family and basketball. He was determined to inspire the next generation of boys and girls to embrace the sport that he loved. His legacy will live on.\"\n\nFormer world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson wrote on Twitter: \"I mourn with the world. Lost a legend. No words. I'm messed up. RIP Kobe Bryant, Gianna and the rest of the passengers.\"\n\nBarcelona forward Lionel Messi wrote on Instagram: \"I have no words... All my love for Kobe's family and friends. It was a pleasure to meet you and share good times together. You were a genius like few others.\"\n\nJuventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo said the news was \"heartbreaking\", adding Bryant was \"a true legend and inspiration to so many\", while Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba added: \"Heroes come and go, legends are for ever.\"\n\nBritain's six-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton said: \"I'm so sad to hear that we lost one of our greats. Bryant was one of the greatest athletes and was such an inspiration to so many, including myself.\"\n\nBrazil and Paris St-Germain forward Neymar paid tribute with a goal celebration in Sunday evening's win at Lille.\n\nAfter scoring a second-half penalty, he held up two fingers on one hand and four on the other, marking Bryant's Lakers shirt number of 24.\n\nThe Brazil striker, a basketball fan who had met Bryant, also bowed and pointed to the sky.\n\nWorld number one tennis player Rafael Nadal tweeted: \"I woke up this morning with the horrible news of the tragic death of one of the greatest sportsmen in the world. Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and other passengers. My condolences to his wife and families. I am in shock.\"\n\nManchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford tweeted: \"A true inspiration in the sporting industry. RIP legend.\" And Manchester City's Raheem Sterling added: \"Rest easy Legend.\"\n\nTwo-time Grand Slam tennis champion Naomi Osaka posted this letter to Bryant on Twitter.\n\nNick Kyrgios wore an La Lakers shirt with Bryant's name and number on it as he warmed up before his fourth-round match against Nadal at the Australian Open.\n\nA moment of silence was held before the Toronto Raptors' game against the San Antonio Spurs in Texas.\n\nThe two teams also let the 24-second shot clock run out at the start of their game to honour Bryant.\n\nThe New Orleans Pelicans and the Boston Celtics also started their game by each taking 24-second shot-clock violations.\n\nAt the Grammy Awards held at the Staples Arena, where Bryant played, many recipients paid tribute to the former Lakers superstar.\n\nHundreds of fans gathered outside the venue after his death; while his image was projected on screens around the arena.\n\nKim Kardashian and husband and rapper Kanye West, US singers Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift and Oscar-winning Leonardo DiCaprio were among those to tweet their tributes.", "Seamus Mallon was a peacemaker who \"made a real difference to the world\", mourners at his funeral have been told.\n\nThe former deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, who was one of the key architects of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, died on Friday aged 83.\n\nPast and present government ministers were among the mourners in St James' Church in Mullaghbrack, County Armagh.\n\nArchbishop Eamon Martin said he was a \"shining example of someone who gives their life in a vocation of service\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's First and Deputy First Ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill, Taoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar and Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith were part of the congregation.\n\nOther mourners included former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and former Northern Ireland First Minister Lord Trimble.\n\nIrish PM Leo Varadkar was one of many politicians to pay their respects\n\nTributes were later paid to Mr Mallon by MLAs at a special sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nSDLP deputy leader Nichola Mallon described the former deputy first minister as \"a man of peace\" and \"a man of non-violence\".\n\n\"I am forever grateful that I got to stand on the shoulder of an Irish political giant,\" she said.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster offered her condolences to Mr Mallon's family and the SDLP, describing him as \"a fierce critic of violence\" and \"a commanding orator\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said: \"Seamus has left a legacy of hard work and commitment to creating a better society and a better Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He was dedicated to a culture of life and peace'\n\nThe sitting was followed by procession at Stormont to open a book of condolence.\n\nArchbishop Martin, leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, told those gathered in the tiny County Armagh church that the politician was determined to \"make a real difference, and to leave the world a better place than it was when he entered it\".\n\nHe said having lived through \"the worst of the Troubles\" in Northern Ireland, Mr Mallon \"personally played a central role in the landmark events of our peace process\".\n\nThe archbishop described him as a peacemaker, a bridge builder, a leader and a statesman.\n\nBut he added \"whether he was with presidents, prime ministers, party colleagues, or his own good neighbours and friends here in Markethill, he was the same Seamus\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt James' Church only seats 55 people, so the church hall and an additional marquee housed the overspill.\n\nHis coffin was carried into the church by his SDLP colleagues, including party leader Colum Eastwood and former leader Mark Durkan.\n\nDuring the ceremony, gifts representing Mr Mallon's life and career were brought to the altar.\n\nThey included a copy of the former MP's maiden speech to the House of Commons and a photo of him with Pope John Paul II.\n\nThe former Newry and Armagh MP's first Commons speech was among the life gifts\n\nOther personal items included fishing reel, a pot of roses and a set of golf balls.\n\nTim O'Connor, a former secretary general to the President of Ireland, told mourners the veteran politician would be remembered as one of the \"key leaders in a seminal time in the history of Ireland\".\n\nMr O'Connor spoke of his steadfast opposition to violence, and read an extract from Mr Mallon's memoirs in which he recalled the words of his father when he was a young boy.\n\n\"The only weapons that should ever be used again in this country are words,\" he read.\n\n\"Guns never solve problems, only make them - always remember that, son.\"\n\nMr Mallon's coffin was carried by SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and other party colleagues\n\nMr Mallon was buried in a family plot in the grounds of St James'\n\n\"We are deeply conscious that for you, Orla, and the entire family this is an occasion of great personal sadness as you say farewell not so much to a man of high stature in public life on the island, but rather your own dear father,\" he said.\n\nA separate book of condolence opened at Belfast City Hall on Saturday, while another was opened at the Guildhall in Londonderry on Sunday.\n\nHollywood star Sharon Stone is among those who have signed the Belfast City Hall book.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Mallon was the first person in Northern Ireland to hold the post of deputy first minister, when the role was created in 1998.\n\nAt that time, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was first minister and although they were dubbed a political \"odd couple\", the pair were united against violence.\n\nSeamus Mallon was integral to the signing of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement\n\nDavid Kerr, a former adviser to Mr Trimble, said the two men had done some of the \"heaviest lifting\" of the peace process and had not received enough recognition for that.\n\n\"Certainly with the Nobel Peace Prize, [former SDLP leader] John Hume was recognised, but at the end of the day I think Seamus Mallon did the majority of the work,\" he said.\n\n\"He was plain speaking, very direct, very honest - he told you what he thought.\n\n\"I think when you have people like that in politics it's refreshing and when you are straight and you have integrity in politics, people - whether they agree with you or disagree with you - they respect you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Mallon served as the deputy leader of the SDLP when Mr Hume was leader of the party.\n\nBoth men are widely regarded as playing a key role in the forging of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement, which established power-sharing government in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn his long career in politics, Mr Mallon also served as a member of Seanad Éireann (the Irish Senate)\n\nHis wife Gertrude passed away in October 2016 after a long illness.\n\nMr Mallon will be buried in the cemetery in the grounds of St James' Church, where he was baptised.", "At least three rockets struck the US embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Sunday.\n\nOne rocket hit the embassy cafeteria while two others landed a short distance away, a source told AFP.\n\nAt least three people were injured, security sources told Reuters. This would be the first time in years that staff have been hurt in such attacks.\n\nNo group has claimed responsibility but the US has blamed Iran-backed military factions in Iraq in the past.\n\nIraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi condemned the attack, stating that the continuation of such acts could \"drag Iraq into becoming a battlefield\".\n\nThe US State Department said: \"We call on the Government of Iraq to fulfil its obligations to protect our diplomatic facilities.\"\n\nRecent attacks have targeted the embassy or Iraqi military bases where American troops are deployed.\n\nIraq has been dragged into a rapid deterioration in relations between Iran and the US in recent months.\n\nThis included the US killing of the top Iranian military commander, Gen Qasem Soleimani, by a drone strike on 3 January at Baghdad airport.\n\nAlso assassinated in the US strike was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi who had commanded the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group.\n\nPowerful Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has organised anti-American demonstrations aimed at pressuring US troops to leave Iraq.\n\nSadr's supporters were involved in widespread anti-government protests before the cleric called for the focus to shift to the US after the killing of Soleimani.\n\nThey began withdrawing from anti-government sit-in camps on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Events are being held to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.", "Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England, overtaking breast cancer for the first time, latest figures show.\n\nIn 2018 there were nearly 50,000 registered cases - around 8,000 more than in 2017.\n\nPublic Health England says it is because more men are getting tested.\n\nAnd that is thanks to celebrities, like Stephen Fry and Bill Turnbull, raising awareness by speaking out about their own experiences.\n\nIn 2018, there were 316,680 cancers of any kind diagnosed, the equivalent of 868 cases a day.\n\nProstate was the most common type - 49,029 cases - followed by breast - 47,476 cases.\n\nLung and bowel cancers were the next most commonly diagnosed.\n\nFormer BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull went public with his prostate cancer diagnosis in March 2018, encouraging others to get tested, saying: \"Maybe if I'd got it earlier and stopped it at the prostate, I'd be in a much better state.\"\n\nHe said his cancer had spread to his bones, including the pelvis and ribs.\n\nTV comedian and presenter Stephen Fry revealed in February 2018 that he was recovering after having prostate cancer surgery, saying it was \"thankfully caught in the nick of time\".\n\nAccording to the head of the NHS, the coverage of Fry and Turnbull's treatments led to an increase in men getting checked.\n\nCancer tsar Prof Peter Johnson said: \"As people live longer, we're likely to see prostate cancer diagnosed more often, and with well-known figures like Rod Stewart, Stephen Fry and Bill Turnbull all talking openly about their diagnosis, more people will be aware of the risk.\"\n\nHe said more people coming forward for checks and care meant the disease increasingly is detected at an early stage, when treatment is most successful and survival chances are highest.\n\nLucy Elliss-Brookes, Head of Cancer Analysis at Public Health England, said: \"Although we are seeing a continued rise in cancer diagnoses, it's encouraging that we are also seeing increases in survival, as well as an overall decrease in emergency diagnoses of cancer.\"\n\nLynda Thomas, Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, said it was good news that more people are seeing their doctor to check for cancer.\n\nBut she said the increasing numbers came at a time when the NHS and social care services were under pressure, with long waiting times for cancer diagnosis and treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We explain what warning signs to look out for\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crews were called to the fire at a property in Wensley Avenue\n\nTests are being carried out on the body of a 47-year-old man who died along with his 10-year-old daughter in a fire at a terraced house in Hull.\n\nCrews battled to rescue the pair from the building in Wensley Avenue, Cottingham, on Saturday morning.\n\nA post-mortem examination is taking place to establish the cause of his death, tests on his daughter's body will take place in the coming days.\n\nThe cause of the blaze is under investigation, Humberside Police said.\n\nThe man was pronounced dead at the scene, the girl died in hospital a short time later.\n\nThe father and daughter were the only people in the property at the time, the fire service said.\n\nNeighbour Carl Goodfellow said he saw smoke coming from the building and tried to rescue those inside.\n\n\"I was banging on the window to try and get some attention, but there was nothing.\n\n\"We did try to alert him, but there was no response.\"\n\nNeighbour Carl Goodfellow tried to break the door down to help the people in the house\n\nCh Supt Darren Downs said: \"We are continuing to support the families of those involved at this very difficult time and our thoughts are with them.\n\n\"Investigations into this kind of incident are very complex and take time to complete.\n\n\"In the meantime I would ask that people avoid speculating about the circumstances and if you have any information you believe would assist our investigation, please get in touch.\"\n\nMr Downs said there was support available from local agencies and charities for anyone who has been affected by the incident and wanted someone to talk to.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire has begun with specialist officers working in the house\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The court heard the drug was packed into every available storage space, including the fridge\n\nTwo men have been jailed for conspiracy to import cocaine after one of the largest hauls of the drug in UK history was found on board a boat.\n\nAbout 750kg of cocaine was recovered from the boat in Pembrokeshire in August, Swansea Crown Court heard.\n\nGary Swift, 53, from Liverpool, was sentenced to 19-and-a-half years in prison. Scott Kilgour, 41, also from Liverpool, was jailed for 13-and-a-half years.\n\nBoth will serve half these sentences.\n\nThey will then be released on licence. Both men pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.\n\nThe court heard the two men were caught \"red handed\" with 751kg of cocaine on board the vessel, which they sailed across the Atlantic.\n\nSwift and Kilgour sailed from the Canary Islands in June 2019 to collect the Class A drug from Suriname, on the north-east coast of South America.\n\nPaul Mitchell, prosecuting, said Swift conducted a \"dummy run\" across the Atlantic in another vessel called the Mistral in December 2017.\n\nScott Kilgour (L) and Gary Swift (R) were arrested on board the yacht\n\nThat vessel got into difficulties off the Welsh coast and was towed into Fishguard harbour for repairs and this incident alerted authorities to Swift's activities.\n\nOver a year later, in another boat, the SY Atrevido, Swift, along with Kilgour, sailed again from the European mainland to Suriname to collect the cocaine.\n\nThe boat was under surveillance and arrived in St Brides Bay on 25 August.\n\nBorder Force Officers intercepted the vessel on 27 August near Fishguard. They arrested the pair and towed the boat to the nearby harbour for inspection.\n\nThe men were arrested on board the yacht about a mile off the Fishguard coast.\n\nSwift told officers: \"I'm the bad one here. I had to come clean. I'm glad it's over.\"\n\nThe court heard the drug was packed into every available storage space on board, including the fridge.\n\nJudge Paul Thomas QC said the men \"were both engaged in very high level criminal activity... you knew how high the stakes were and what the consequences would be\".\n\n\"You took a gamble and lost. Now, you must pay the price,\" he added.\n\nHe said Swift was \"the organiser\" and \"the driving force behind a complex operation\" who had bought two boats.\n\nJudge Thomas told Kilgour: \"This enterprise wouldn't have worked without your assistance... the second boat was bought in your name.\"\n\nAnthony Barraclough, defending, said Swift - who had been declared bankrupt - was \"talked into\" the drugs run across the Atlantic by a customer at the hotel he owned.\n\nHe added that Swift was \"a bankrupt builder\" at the time of the offence.\n\nMr Barraclough said Kilgour \"didn't know the size of the enterprise\".\n\nThe vessel was purchased by Kilgour in Majorca in December 2018.\n\nJayne Lloyd, National Crime Agency regional head of investigations, said that it was thanks to the work of the agency, Border Force officers and the Spanish national police that \"two highly organised criminals are behind bars and that these drugs haven't made their way onto the streets\".\n\nShe added: \"Our investigation does not stop here; we are now going after their assets to strip them of their illicit wealth and make sure they don't profit from their crimes.\"\n\nFollowing the hearing, the agency said three men aged 23, 31, 47, and a woman aged 30 who were arrested in Liverpool and Loughborough in connection with the seizure remain on bail.\n• None Men guilty after 750kg of cocaine seized from boat", "Alicia Keys, the host of the Grammy awards, paid tribute to the basketball star who died on Sunday in a helicopter crash.\n\nLizzo opened the ceremony, declaring \"tonight is for Kobe,\" before launching into her song \"Cuz I love you.\"\n\nThe awards ceremony was held at the Staples Center, the same arena where Kobe Bryant played for the Los Angeles Lakers.\n\nNine people died in the crash in the Californian city of Calabasas, including Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna.\n\nRead more: Grammys ceremony opens with tribute to Kobe Bryant", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManager Sam Ricketts says Shrewsbury should have won their FA Cup tie with Liverpool after the League One club staged a magnificent fightback to earn a fourth-round replay at Anfield.\n\nRunaway Premier League leaders Liverpool looked to be heading into the fifth round for the first time since 2015 after a fine first-half finish by 18-year-old Curtis Jones was followed by Donald Love's own goal in the opening minute of the second half.\n\nYet Shrewsbury were excellent throughout and were rewarded with two goals in the space of 10 minutes by substitute Jason Cummings.\n\nLiverpool keeper Adrian was forced to make some excellent saves during a thrilling tie, and Ricketts said: \"We carried out the gameplan superbly well.\n\n\"After 32 seconds in the second half most teams would have crumbled. In the end my players got at least what they deserved.\n\n\"I think it was there to win. We've had the better chances. It wasn't until Jason scored his first we were clinical.\"\n• None 'We will respect the winter break' - Klopp says he and first team will miss replay\n• None Reaction as Shrewsbury fightback to earn FA Cup replay at Anfield\n\nSome Shrews fans booed when Callum Lang was replaced by Cummings after 60 minutes with Liverpool leading 2-0.\n\nBut former Hibernian forward Cummings launched the comeback from the penalty spot after Josh Laurent was fouled by Yasser Larouci before the same player tucked home the equaliser.\n\nLiverpool sent on Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino in search of a winner but, on a memorable day for the Shropshire club, Shrewsbury hung on to earn a deserved replay.\n\nDelighted home fans in the sell-out crowd at Shrewsbury's Montgomery Waters Meadow staged a good-natured pitch invasion at full-time after a glorious comeback.\n\nShrews players were mobbed as supporters celebrated the achievement of Ricketts' side - who sit 16th in the League One table - in holding the European champions.\n\n\"It's what football is about, it's what the FA Cup is about, a club like ours holding them to a 2-2 draw,\" added former Wolves player Ricketts.\n\n\"Everyone has to enjoy that.\"\n\nEven after falling behind to Jones' lovely finish, Shrewsbury had looked more than capable of scoring.\n\nThey were presented with three one-on-one chances - Adrian producing great saves to deny Shaun Whalley, who also screwed another chance wide, and Callum Lang either side of Love's own goal.\n\nIt looked all over when Love, a former Manchester United player, inadvertently steered the ball past Max O'Leary and inside the post while trying to deal with a cross from Neco Williams.\n\nBut Liverpool had ridden their luck and Shrewsbury were rewarded for their hard work when Cummings stroked home from the spot.\n\nAnd it was Cummings who earned his side a replay at Anfield next month when he went past two Liverpool defenders before tucking beyond Adrian to spark wild celebrations on and off the pitch.\n\nLiverpool were hoping for a two-week break between fixtures in February during the inaugural Premier League winter break.\n\nInstead, they will have to fit in this replay between hosting Southampton in the league on 1 February and travelling to Norwich a fortnight later - although manager Jurgen Klopp hinted afterwards that senior players would not be involved against the Shrews.\n\nHaving played 37 games this season, including two in Qatar for the Fifa Club World Cup and another in Isatanbul for the European Super Cup back in August, Liverpool could have done without an additional fixture.\n\nYet Liverpool only have themselves to blame for failing to finish the job in Shropshire.\n\nKlopp made 11 changes to the side that started the 2-1 win at Wolves on Thursday that sent them 16 points clear at the top of the Premier League.\n\nJones, whose sublime goal knocked out Everton in the third round, underlined his potential with a tidy finish from Pedro Chirivella's cleverly disguised pass.\n\nLove's own goal ought to have sealed it but Shrewsbury were gutsy throughout with Adrian forced to produce some smart saves as the hosts came roaring back.\n• None Jason Cummings is the first lower league player to score two goals from the bench in the FA Cup against Premier League opposition since Hull's Nick Barmby in 2011\n• None At 18 years and 361 days, Curtis Jones is the first teenager to score in consecutive appearances for Liverpool since Raheem Sterling in April 2014.\n• None Shrewsbury are unbeaten in their past three FA Cup home against Premier League opponents.\n• None Liverpool have failed to win a match after being two goals ahead for the first time since April 2018 when they drew 2-2 with West Brom in the Premier League.\n• None Shrewsbury have lost just one of their past 18 home FA Cup matches.\n• None Liverpool have failed to win away at third-tier opposition in the FA Cup in 12 of their past 14 matches - with their last such victory coming against Shrewsbury in February 1996.\n• None The Reds have conceded 11 goals in their past five domestic cup away games.\n• None Liverpool have benefited from four own goals across all competitions this season - the joint-most of any Premier League team.\n\nLiverpool will go 19 points clear at the top of the Premier League if win at West Ham on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) while Shrewsbury are at Gillingham in League One on the same night.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Attempt missed. Jason Cummings (Shrewsbury Town) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Roberto Firmino with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) left footed shot from very close range is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fabinho.\n• None Offside, Shrewsbury Town. Daniel Udoh tries a through ball, but David Edwards is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Shrewsbury Town. David Edwards tries a through ball, but Shaun Whalley is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Pedro Chirivella tries a through ball, but Divock Origi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Takumi Minamino. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Speaking at a press conference, LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said that eight other people, including the pilot, were on board the helicopter with US basketball legend Kobe Bryant.\n\nBryant, 41, was travelling in a private helicopter when it came down and burst into flames.\n\nThe identities of the other people have yet to be confirmed by officials.", "Live coverage from Washington DC, as President Donald Trump's impeachment trial continues in the Senate.\n\nThe impeachment is in its final stages as senators prepare to cast their final vote on Wednesday, with acquittal almost certain.", "PC Nick Dumphreys was \"extremely popular and respected\", Cumbria Police said\n\nA police officer has died in a motorway crash as he responded to an emergency call.\n\nPC Nick Dumphreys, from Cumbria Police's road policing unit, died on the M6 near Carlisle at about 14:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA force spokesman said PC Dumphreys, 47, was alone in a marked car and no other vehicles were involved.\n\nIn a statement, the father of two's family said his death \"will leave an enormous hole in all our hearts\".\n\nThey added: \"He was a kind and loving husband and father. He was a larger than life character who loved his job and adored his children.\"\n\nPC Dumphreys joined Cumbria Police in 2003 and Chief Constable Michelle Skeer described him as a \"consummate professional\".\n\nShe said his death had left everyone in the force \"shocked and saddened\".\n\n\"Nick was an extremely popular and respected officer, not least because of his professionalism, integrity and dedication to policing in Cumbria,\" she added.\n\nThe section of motorway was closed from 14:00 GMT on Sunday\n\nPC Dumphreys was killed when his vehicle left the southbound carriageway between junctions 44 and 43.\n\nPeter McCall, Cumbria's police and crime commissioner, said there was \"profound sadness at the appalling and tragic loss\".\n\n\"Nick died in the line of duty doing the job at which he excelled,\" he added.\n\nThe Central Motorway Police Group also tweeted: \"I'm sure I speak on behalf of all our followers in sending our thoughts and prayers to the officer's colleagues, family and friends at this tragic time.\"\n\nPaul Williams, chairman of Cumbria Police Federation, said: \"We will work closely with the specialist officers investigating this incident and we will ensure that we do all that we can to support the officer's family and close colleagues during this tragic time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The teenager was stabbed at East Croydon railway station\n\nA teenager has been stabbed to death at a busy railway station in south London.\n\nLouis Johnson, 16, was found wounded at East Croydon station, just after 16:45 GMT on Monday, police said.\n\nEmergency crews, including the air ambulance, were called but he died at the scene. Formal identification is yet to take place.\n\nDet Insp Sam Blackburn, of British Transport Police, said the \"senseless killing\" happened \"at an extremely busy time of the day\".\n\n\"For such a young man to lose his life in these circumstances is truly devastating,\" he added.\n\n\"The incident was over within a matter of 40 seconds, but I know many other passengers or members of the public would have seen what happened.\n\n\"If you have not already spoken with police, please get in touch.\"\n\nThe attack happened just before 16:30 GMT\n\nThe force said the teenager entered the station via a ticket barrier and met the suspect who immediately pulled out a knife and stabbed him.\n\nDet Insp Blackburn said: \"Alongside the Met, we'll be increasing our patrols in the East Croydon area and we have authorised additional Section 60 stop and search powers.\"\n\nThe teenager entered the station via a ticket barrier\n\nFlowers have been left in tribute\n\nA Section 60 gives police officers the right to search people within a certain area if they think a person may be carrying a weapon or, in this case, a murder weapon.\n\nMonday night's killing hasn't necessarily come as a shock to local residents, but the scale of the violence involved seems to have had an impact.\n\nOne woman who lives close to the scene of the attack told me she saw a young man brandishing a machete, though this has not been confirmed, shortly before the attack.\n\n\"Croydon ain't safe\", as one resident put it.\n\nKnife crime has become a normal part of life, they say.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by what happened.\n\nParts of the station were cordoned off\n\nCroydon Central MP Sarah Jones said she was \"heartbroken\".\n\n\"Our first thoughts are with the family and friends who are facing what nobody ever should,\" she said.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the work of the emergency services and station staff for their efforts.\n\n\"This brutal loss of a young life is another reminder that tackling violence must be our highest priority at every level of government and across our communities.\n\n\"I will not stop campaigning on this until our children are safe on our streets.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Steven Frank is seen alongside his granddaughters Maggie and Trixie\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has taken photographs of Holocaust survivors in a contribution to an exhibition marking 75 years since the end of the genocide.\n\nThe duchess said her subjects were \"two of the most life-affirming people that I have had the privilege to meet\".\n\nIt comes as the world marks International Holocaust Memorial Day, 75 years after Auschwitz was liberated.\n\nLater, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend the UK commemorations in Westminster.\n\nIn the images taken by Catherine for the exhibition, which opens later this year, two survivors are pictured with their grandchildren.\n\nOne of her portraits was of 84-year-old Steven Frank, originally from Amsterdam, who survived multiple concentration camps as a child.\n\nHe is pictured alongside his granddaughters Maggie and Trixie Fleet, aged 15 and 13.\n\nHer other portrait is of 82-year-old Yvonne Bernstein, originally from Germany, who was a hidden child in France throughout most of the Holocaust.\n\nShe is pictured with her granddaughter Chloe Wright, aged 11.\n\nYvonne Bernstein is pictured with her granddaughter Chloe Wright\n\nSpeaking about the project, the duchess, who is the patron of the Royal Photographic Society, said: \"The harrowing atrocities of the Holocaust, which were caused by the most unthinkable evil, will forever lay heavy in our hearts.\n\n\"Despite unbelievable trauma at the start of their lives, Yvonne Bernstein and Steven Frank are two of the most life-affirming people that I have had the privilege to meet.\n\n\"Their stories will stay with me forever.\"\n\nThe exhibition will bring together 75 images of survivors and their family members; one for every year since the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, was liberated on 27 January 1945.\n\nJudith Rosenberg, Scotland's last Holocaust survivor, recalled being separated from her family and transported to the camp, where she came face to face with the murderous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.\n\n\"There was no life. We were starving,\" the 97-year-old told the BBC in an interview to mark the anniversary of the camp's liberation.\n\nCommemorations are being held around the world on Monday to mark the end of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews and millions of others were murdered, and to honour survivors of subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.\n\nThe duchess said her aim was to make the portraits \"deeply personal to Yvonne and Steven - a celebration of family and the life that they have built since they both arrived in Britain in the 1940s\".\n\n\"It was a true honour to have been asked to participate in this project and I hope in some way Yvonne and Steven's memories will be kept alive as they pass the baton to the next generation,\" she said.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was seen with her camera on a visit to Pakistan last year\n\nTwo more survivors were photographed by other contributors. In a photograph by Frederic Aranda, Joan Salter, 79 - who fled the Nazis as a young child - appears with her husband Martin and her daughter Shelley.\n\nJohn Hajdu, 82, who survived the Budapest Ghetto, is in a portrait with his four-year-old grandson Zac, photographed by Jillian Edelstein.\n\nThe photographic project aims to inspire people across the UK to consider their own responsibility to remember and share the stories of those who endured persecution at the hands of the Nazis.\n\nIt is a collaboration between the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Jewish News and the Royal Photographic Society.\n\nCatherine has been honoured for her photography and has previously shared pictures she has taken of her family.", "None of the companies involved in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower has accepted responsibility for the deadly fire, an inquiry has heard.\n\nRichard Millett QC, the inquiry's chief lawyer, said each claimed what happened was \"someone else's fault\".\n\nExperts have previously said the work failed to meet building regulations.\n\nThe second phase of the investigation into the 2017 disaster at the London high-rise block, which claimed 72 lives, started on Monday.\n\nIt is going to look at how the building came to be covered in flammable cladding during its refurbishment.\n\nMr Millett said that, with the \"sole exception\" of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - which accepted that the refurbishment work should not have been signed off - all organisations had denied responsibility in \"carefully crafted statements\".\n\n\"Any member of the public reading those statements and taking them all at face value would be forced to conclude that... nobody made any serious or causative mistakes,\" he said.\n\n\"In every case, what happened was, as each of them would have it, someone else's fault.\"\n\nThe tower, built in 1974, was extensively refurbished between 2012 and 2016.\n\nMr Millett stressed that the first part of the inquiry found the work \"did not comply with certain key aspects of the building regulations\".\n\nThe inquiry also heard that employees at the US metals manufacturer Arconic, which supplied the cladding for the west London tower block, knew before the fire that its panels were \"dangerous\" and should only be used on \"small buildings\".\n\nA barrister for building contractor Rydon said safety concerns were raised in internal Arconic emails in 2011 and again in 2016.\n\nThat's when Arconic manager Claude Wehrle said the Grenfell cladding was \"dangerous on [the] facades\" and should be replaced.\n\nThe cladding subcontractor Harley Facades said it did not choose the materials but had confidence in them, as the cladding had not ignited during a fire in 2012 in Camden, at a building it had refurbished five years before.\n\nThe inquiry's first phase found the cladding was the \"principal\" reason for the rapid and \"profoundly shocking\" spread of the fire at the 25-storey building in June 2017.\n\nFamilies and friends of victims were present in the hearing room in Paddington as inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick opened the second phase.\n\nThe first part of the Grenfell Inquiry had the task of examining the events of just one night.\n\nPart two could go back years in its search to explain the tragedy.\n\nIt will look and feel different. A new hearing centre, closer to the community, replaces the previous unpopular conference room in the heart of London's legal district.\n\nInstead of the harrowing accounts of firefighters and residents, the evidence will emerge from emails, technical specifications and planning documents.\n\nIt will be slow going, but it should get to the heart of what went wrong.\n\nBecause although the training and management of the firefighters was criticised in part one, they were not the cause of the fire.\n\nThe questions which will be answered are these:\n\nHowever dry the evidence could become, all those involved know this is about getting justice for those who died, because, at the end of this process, the public inquiry could be followed by a criminal trial.\n\nOpening submissions for the first three parts of the second phase of the inquiry are expected this week.\n\nThese include an overview of the primary refurbishment of Grenfell Tower - including the cladding, the testing and certification of the cladding, and the fire safety measures including complaints and communications with the residents.\n\nThe inquiry's first phase also concluded that \"many more lives\" could have been saved if the advice to residents to \"stay put\" had been abandoned earlier.\n\nIt was highly critical of the London Fire Brigade and fire commissioner Dany Cotton, saying preparations for such a fire were \"gravely inadequate\".\n\nMs Cotton retired early after facing calls from victims' families to resign.\n\nShe had told the inquiry she would not have changed anything about the way her crews responded to the blaze, provoking anger from survivors and victims' families.\n\nThe start of the second phase of the inquiry comes days after newly-appointed panel member Benita Mehra resigned over her links to Arconic's charitable arm.", "Stand-up comic Brand is a regular guest on TV and radio panel shows\n\nOfcom is to take no further action over Jo Brand's controversial joke on BBC Radio 4 about throwing battery acid.\n\nThe media regulator said the comic's remarks on satirical show Heresy \"had clear potential to offend listeners\".\n\nBut it concluded her comments - made last June - were \"unlikely to encourage or incite the commission of a crime\".\n\nOfcom said it also \"took into account that Ms Brand immediately qualified her comments, making it clear they should not be taken seriously\".\n\nThe broadcasting watchdog said it had considered \"the audience's likely expectations of Jo Brand's style - and of this established show, which sets out to challenge accepted views in society through provocative comedy.\"\n\nNigel Farage was hit by a milkshake while campaigning in Newcastle last May\n\nBrand's remarks came after Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and a number of right-wing European election candidates were hit by milkshakes during campaign walkabouts.\n\n\"Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?\" she said, quickly adding that \"I'm not going to do it, it's pure fantasy\".\n\nOfcom said in doing so, \"we considered Ms Brand made explicitly clear that she was making a joke and was not suggesting that her remarks should be taken seriously or as a call to action by listeners\".\n\nThe BBC initially defended Brand against claims she incited violence, saying her comments were \"not intended to be taken seriously\".\n\nBut it issued another statement the following day saying it had removed the remark from its catch-up service and that it regretted any offence caused.\n\nThe corporation's Executive Complaints Unit [ECU] later ruled Brand's comments \"went beyond what was appropriate\" for a Radio 4 comedy show.\n\nThe BBC partially upheld complaints on the basis that the programme \"was capable of causing offence beyond what was editorially justified\" and the content therefore \"should have been edited out before transmission\".\n\nIn its ruling, however, Ofcom said \"issues of offence... involve finely balanced judgments\" and that \"the potential offence was justified by the editorial context\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two 21-year-old men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a non-league footballer who was attacked during a night out.\n\nJordan Sinnott, who played for Matlock Town, was found unconscious in Market Place, Retford, Nottinghamshire, at about 02:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe 25-year-old suffered a fractured skull and died on Saturday evening.\n\nAnother man, 27, who was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, remains in police custody.\n\nPolice said they were investigating two \"large-scale fights\" that took place in the town.\n\nDet Insp Justine Wilson said officers were still keen to speak to people who witnessed both fights.\n\n\"We are making progress in the investigation, but we have unanswered questions. I know there are people out there who saw what happened and can answer those questions for us,\" she said.\n\n\"Jordan's family deserves answers, so please come and talk to us.\"\n\nMatlock Town, who play in the Northern Premier League, postponed their match against Mickleover Sports on Saturday after players learned of Mr Sinnott's condition.\n\nThe club issued a statement after Mr Sinnott died in hospital, which said: \"His family and friends were with him at his bedside and we send our sincere condolences to them all at this very sad time.\"\n\nThey tweeted: \"You weren't just a footballer, you were our friend and brother. You gave us incredible memories and scored your first career hat-trick in your final game for the club. Rest easy Jordan, we love, miss and will never forget you.\"\n\nTributes have been paid to the footballer after his death\n\nMatlock Town have also cancelled Tuesday's fixture against Grantham Town.\n\nSinnott had joined the club from National League North side Alfreton Town, who also issued a statement in which they described the player as a \"model footballer and an exceptional talent\".\n\nOthers have paid tribute on social media:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huddersfield Town This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said officers had attended a fight involving eight men and women at the Dominie Cross pub car park in Grove Street at about 23:25 GMT on Friday.\n\nSinnott was found a couple of hours later following another \"large-scale disturbance\" in the town centre.\n\nPolice said a 27-year old man suffered a suspected broken nose and a 44-year old man suffered a suspected broken jaw in the fights.\n\nMr Sinnott was found unconscious by emergency services in Market Place, Retford\n\nSinnott, from Bradford, is the son of former footballer Lee Sinnott.\n\nHe started his career as a youth player at Huddersfield Town, for whom he made five appearances between 2013 and 2014, before joining non-league Altrincham.\n\nAfter a spell at Halifax, he went on to play again in the Football League, joining League Two Chesterfield for the 2017-18 season.\n\nEarlier this month he scored the first hat-trick of his career during a game against Basford United.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHolocaust survivors and international leaders are honouring victims of the Nazis at the former Auschwitz death camp, amid calls to fight resurgent anti-Semitism.\n\nThe presidents of Israel and Poland - Reuven Rivlin and Andrzej Duda - laid wreaths together, 75 years after Soviet troops liberated the camp.\n\nAbout 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.\n\nMr Rivlin warned of \"voices which spread hate\" and threaten democracy.\n\n\"Our duty is to fight anti-Semitism, racism and fascist nostalgia - those sick evils,\" he said.\n\nHe and President Duda laid wreaths at the Death Wall, where the Nazis shot thousands of prisoners.\n\nThe vast Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex, in Nazi-occupied southern Poland, was the regime's most notorious killing centre.\n\nThousands of Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies (Roma) and other persecuted groups also died there.\n\nNazi Germany murdered about six million Jews in its campaign to dominate other races and nations.\n\nThe presidents of Israel and Poland - Reuven Rivlin (L) and Andrzej Duda - laid wreaths\n\nPresident Macron honoured 77,000 Jewish victims of the Nazis deported from France\n\nThis may be the last major anniversary where so many survivors are able to attend.\n\nThere is widespread concern about high levels of anti-Semitic intimidation and violence in several countries and the proliferation of hate speech on the internet.\n\nIn Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke at a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary, including additions to a wall of remembrance for 77,000 Jews deported to concentration camps from France.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three women who were part of a quiet resistance against the Nazis in Berlin\n\nThe Shoah Memorial was renovated, with 175 extra names and 1,498 more birth dates added after research in Holocaust archives.\n\n\"The return of this anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews. It is a problem for all of us. It is the Republic's problem,\" President Macron said.\n\nSurvivors at the official commemoration in Auschwitz\n\nMore than 200 survivors travelled to Auschwitz from across the globe to mark the 75th anniversary. Many wore blue-and-white scarves - a reminder of the striped prison uniforms that victims wore in the concentration camps.\n\nA woman who was born in the camp a few months before liberation, 75-year-old Jadwiga Wakulska, said \"my mother was holding me in her arms as a four-month-old child, as she was standing in line to the gas chamber...\n\n\"We were coming closer and closer to the gas block and one of the Germans saw me. He looked at me and since I was a blonde baby with blue eyes he took me aside and told me I will survive. Thanks to that we survived. My mum says that thanks to the fact that I had a Nordic appearance, I saved her and myself.\"", "Watch Kobe Bryant's poem entitled 'Dear Basketball', written when the five-time NBA champion retired in 2016.\n\nThe US basketball legend, 41, died in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday.\n\nREAD MORE: Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash - US media", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alicia Keys and Lizzo lead tributes to Kobe Bryant at the Grammys\n\nThe 2020 Grammys ceremony has opened with a heartfelt tribute to basketball player Kobe Bryant, who died on Sunday.\n\n\"Tonight is for you Kobe,\" declared pop star Lizzo, opening the show with her stirring ballad Cuz I Love You.\n\nHost Alicia Keys then dedicated the show to Bryant's memory, with an a-capella version of It's So Hard To Say Goodbye, accompanied by Boyz II Men.\n\nThe show is taking place at the Staples Center, where Bryant played his entire career with the LA Lakers.\n\nNews of the star's death at the age of 41 stunned artists and performers backstage at the arena when it broke earlier in the day.\n\n\"I genuinely thought it wasn't real,\" said pop star Billie Eilish. \"I was in the green room... and I was like, 'Oh that has to be fake'\".\n\nThe star, who grew up in Los Angeles, added: \"Everybody knew Kobe. Everybody. It's genuinely unbelievable.\n\n\"I feel like anything I say is not enough for what's going on.\"\n\nAlicia Keys is hosting the ceremony for the second time\n\nThe mood was sombre as the ceremony started, and Keys acknowledged the atmosphere in her opening speech.\n\n\"Here we are together on music's biggest night, celebrating our artists that do it best,\" she began \"but, to be honest with you were all feeling crazy sadness right now, because earlier today Los Angeles, America and the whole wide world lost a hero.\n\n\"And we're literally standing here, heartbroken, in the house that Kobe Bryant built.\n\n\"Right now, Kobe and his family and all of those that have been tragically lost today are in our spirits, in our hearts, in our prayers, they're in this building.\n\n\"I would like everybody to take a moment and hold them inside of you and share our strength and our support with their families.\"\n\n\"I know how much Kobe loved music,\" she added later, \"so we got to make this a celebration in his honour.\"\n\nLater in the show, Run-DMC held up one of Bryant's number 24 vests.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Authorities in China are intensifying travel restrictions in an attempt to limit the spread of the deadly new coronavirus.\n\nThe BBC's Stephen McDonell and his team travelled into Hubei province, where the outbreak originated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"The government hasn't really got a clue\"\n\nBritain needs a radical redistribution of wealth and opportunity and an end to the \"monopoly of power\" in Westminster, Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nAhead of a speech, the Labour leadership candidate argued that goal could be reached with a system \"built on the principle of federalism\".\n\nReturning to campaigning after a week's break, he also promised to address the \"underlying causes\" of Brexit.\n\nSo far, Sir Keir and Lisa Nandy have places on the final members' ballot.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry are vying to secure enough nominations to reach the last stage of the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey has also called for parliaments in Scotland and Wales to be as \"autonomous and independent\" as possible, but not going as far as mentioning federalism.\n\nSpeaking at an earlier hustings, she said: \"When we devolved power to Scotland and Wales they were never meant to be a satellite government with Westminster being the king and them being servile under the bottom. They were meant to be on an equal footing. That's what we need to push forward for.\"\n\nWhile the devolved parliaments in the UK are still ultimately controlled by central government in Westminster - meaning the Commons could repeal the law that allows for their existence in the first place - federalism would give the governments equal power with SW1.\n\nSir Keir gained a further nomination on Monday from the union Community, which also announced it was backing Angela Rayner for deputy leader.\n\nGeneral secretary Roy Rickhuss said Sir Keir's \"experience and vision are what the Labour Party needs to rebuild, win back the trust of voters, and lead a transformative Labour government\".\n\nSir Keir - the shadow Brexit secretary - is setting out his vision for a \"new political consensus\".\n\nAt a speech in East London later, he will argue for the need to \"empower people to have a real say in their workplace, in the communities they're part of and over the public services they use\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme this would \"address underlying causes and reasons\" behind the Brexit vote, arguing one of the main drivers was people wanting \"power and influence and decision making closer to them\".\n\nSir Keir - who was a prominent advocate for Remain - said he was \"making the case for the future of the United Kingdom with a different political consensus, where we devolve that power and opportunity and wealth away from Whitehall and Westminster\".\n\nHe also warned not addressing these issues would mean \"we are at risk of watching the break-up of the United Kingdom\" and \"we leave a vacuum\" for nationalism to take hold.\n\nBut Sir Keir said it was not about whether he supported Brexit or not, adding that when the UK leaves the bloc on Friday, \"that debate is over\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nThe Holborn and St Pancras MP suspended his campaign last week after his mother-in-law was involved in a serious accident last week.\n\nThis week he will travel to constituencies in England, Wales and Scotland to hear people's views.\n\nHe will also unveil his ideas for how Labour can reflect the experience and skills of all parts of the party.\n\nThe new Labour leader and deputy leader will be announced on 4 April.\n\nOn Friday, the Unite trade union confirmed it would endorse Mrs Long-Bailey for leader.\n\nUnite's general secretary Len McCluskey said the Salford and Eccles MP had \"the brains and the brilliance\" to take on Boris Johnson.\n\nAsked on Today whether he thought Sir Keir's proposals would appeal to Brexit-backing Labour supporters, Mr McCluskey said: \"Clearly Leave voters wanted something different from what they have had for the past couple of decades [but] I am not sure constitutional change was upmost in their mind.\"\n\nHe said there will be a need to ensure \"power is rested away from Westminster\", but the answer now was to \"invest in our communities\" to improve wages, job security and public services.\n\nMr McCluskey added: \"They have been starved for a decade now, hurt by austerity.\"\n\nTo make the final ballot, hopefuls need the support of three unions and affiliate groups representing 5% of the membership, or 33 local branches.\n\nHaving already been nominated by bakers' union BFAWU, Unite's support for Mrs Long-Bailey means she needs just one more union or affiliate by the 14 February deadline.\n\nMr McCluskey said \"all of the candidates are capable of uniting the party\", but Mrs Long-Bailey was \"the best placed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nKobe Bryant was called the \"greatest\" Los Angeles Lakers player of all time by Magic Johnson as his number eight and 24 shirts were retired.\n\nFive-time NBA champion Bryant, 39, ended his 20-year career in April 2016 as an 18-time All-Star.\n\nThe ceremony to retire his jerseys took place at half-time of the match against NBA champions Golden State Warriors.\n\n\"We're here to celebrate the greatest to ever wear the purple and gold,\" said ex-Lakers player Johnson.\n\nJohnson, who is now Lakers president of basketball operations, added: \"He made us rub our eyes and wonder what did we just see.\n\n\"There will never, ever be another Kobe Bryant.\"\n\nBryant won three NBA titles wearing the number eight and two in the 24, having played 10 seasons wearing each number.\n\nHe is the 10th player to receive the honour of having his jerseys retired with the list also including Johnson. The others are; Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, James Worthy, Jerry West and Jamaal Wilkes.\n\nThe crowd chanted Bryant's name and gave him a standing ovation during his ceremony.\n\n\"Thank you so much for tonight,\" said Bryant.\n\n\"It's not about my jerseys that are hanging up there for me. It's about the jerseys that were hanging up there before.\"\n\n'We asked for your hustle and you gave us your heart'\n\nSome of Bryant's achievements include being the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player and two-time NBA Finals MVP. He was also two-time NBA scoring champion and a two-time Olympic champion.\n\nHe finished as the Lakers' all-time point scorer and third on the NBA's all-time list with 33,643 points.\n\nIn his final game, he also became the oldest player in NBA history to score 60 points.\n\n\"What we're celebrating is the journey you took us on for those 20 years,\" said Lakers owner Jeanie Buss.\n\n\"If you separate the accomplishments of each of those jerseys, both of those players would be in the Hall of Fame.\n\n\"We asked for your hustle and you gave us your heart which was so much more. You have forever made your mark on this franchise.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay was questioned about HS2 by the BBC's Andrew Marr\n\nA cabinet minister has told the BBC it is his gut feeling that the HS2 high-speed rail line will get the go-ahead.\n\nStephen Barclay told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the project was vital for \"levelling up\" the UK's transport network and improving capacity.\n\nThe Brexit secretary's comments come amid a row over the rising cost of the project, which could reach £106bn.\n\nThe first phase of the project is due to link London and Birmingham, followed by extensions to Leeds and Manchester.\n\nMr Barclay was asked by Andrew Marr for his \"gut feeling\" about whether the HS2 would be approved. \"Yes\", he replied firmly.\n\nHe said the government had given a \"clear commitment to level up all parts of the United Kingdom... HS2 plays an important part in that\".\n\nThat levelling up was not just about improving the speed of transport, but also improving capacity in the UK.\n\nMr Barclay stressed, though, that it was \"important that we also get value for money\".\n\nEarlier this month, a leaked government-commissioned review suggested the total cost of HS2 could reach £106bn.\n\nThe findings of the independent review, conducted by former HS2 Ltd chair Doug Oakervee, have not yet been officially published. The Department for Transport has indicated it will be published soon.\n\nLord Berkeley, a vocal critic of HS2 who was deputy chairman of the Oakervee review before withdrawing his backing, published an independent assessment of the project.\n\nHe put the cost at at least £108bn, adding that the government should scrap the project to concentrate on improving the rail network in the north of England.\n\nThat drew criticism from northern political leaders and businesses, who said HS2 should be built in its entirety.\n\nWhitehall's spending watchdog said last week that HS2 is over budget and behind schedule because its complexity and risks were under-estimated.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) warned that it is impossible to \"estimate with certainty what the final cost could be\".\n\nHS2 was allocated £56bn in 2015. Phase One between London and Birmingham was due to open in 2026, but full services are now forecast to start between 2031 and 2036.\n\nConstruction firms have warned that scrapping HS2 would cause major damage to the industry, while several environmental groups say going ahead with the project will have a huge impact on natural habitats and ancient woodland.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported that former senior figures involved in HS2 have given signed statements to the prime minister's advisers, alleging the government-owned firm behind HS2 covered up spiralling costs on multiple occasions.\n\nIn a statement, HS2 responded: \"Following the collapse of Carillion, HS2 Ltd recognised the need to engage a healthy industry while continuing to protect value for money for the taxpayer.\n\n\"Instead of artificially passing risk back and forth, as has happened on other publicly-funded projects, contractors who do not meet the required performance will lose a proportion of their fee.\n\n\"This incentivises good performance and also prevents windfall profits from public money.\"\n\nThe statement said that by revising the terms and conditions, \"contractors have been able to reduce their prices and HS2 Ltd estimates £1bn of savings as a result\".\n\nHS2 is the talk of Westminster at the moment. Will it get the go ahead or come off the rails? Or somewhere in between? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the government is at pains to avoid saying what might happen next.\n\nMinisters don't want to pre-empt the findings of the Oakervee review, which despite a series of leaks, is yet to be officially published.\n\nSteve Barclay has gone further than any of his Cabinet colleagues by revealing he has a hunch that the project will get the green light. But it's unclear how much insight he has.\n\nWhile the Brexit secretary has a seat at the Cabinet table for now, he might not be there for too much longer. The Department for Exiting the EU will be wound up following the UK's departure this week.\n\nUltimately the decision on HS2 lies with Boris Johnson, in consultation with his chancellor and transport secretary.", "The Irish leader Leo Varadkar compared the UK and the EU to football teams with vastly different populations and said the EU will have the upper hand in upcoming trade negotiations.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, the Taoiseach warned against any UK attempt to get a \"piecemeal\" deal with the EU.\n\nMr Varadkar said he had been genuinely afraid that the UK might have left the EU without a deal, but that a meeting between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Varadkar on the Wirral in the autumn had provided the \"crucial moment\" in securing a deal.\n\nRead more: Varadkar: EU will have upper hand in trade talks", "For most sporting superstars, the first act - chewing up opponents, training obsessively, playing harder, winning, always winning - is the easy part.\n\nIt's instinct and it's obvious. It's the natural part of being a natural.\n\nIt's the second act that brings the doubts and the breakdowns. The loss of the old physical certainties, the end of the dominance. Someone born with an ability to see patterns and plays before others is suddenly unable to answer the biggest question of all: what happens next?\n\nThe tragedy of Kobe Bryant's early death, and that of his daughter Gianna, is primarily a family one. Sport's shock and grief is second to that of wife, daughters, parents, friends.\n• None 'One of the most extraordinary players in history' - world pays tribute to Bryant\n• None Watch: When Bryant scored 60 points in his final LA Lakers game\n\nWhat links them all is that Bryant, a genius on the basketball court, sometimes a flawed character off it - appeared to be solving his life after sport in a way that many of his contemporaries and antecedents could not.\n\nIt was always about a lineage with Kobe. Michael Jordan the inspiration before, the overlapping and feuding and sometime chemistry with Shaquille O'Neal, the battles and then abdication to LeBron James.\n\nThat's not to deny the basketball-playing greatness of Bill Russell or Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. The difference with the four that followed them was how they leapt out of the sport as well.\n\nEach had their competing brands - Nike for Jordan, Reebok for Shaq, Adidas in the early years for Kobe - but in every one the NBA recognised a talent and narrative that could take its league to places and popularity that the old guard could not.\n\nJordan described Bryant as his little brother and the shared traits were unambiguous. Jordan sometimes seemed to play with a rage, determined to prove himself right and everyone else wrong, not caring who or what got chewed up along the way. His obsession fuelled his greatness but magnified his shortcomings too.\n\nSo it was with Kobe the player. After watching the film Kill Bill he began calling himself Black Mamba, seeing in himself an assassin's ruthlessness on court, an ability to strike repeatedly when others could not.\n\nNone of that is normal, but neither is much that goes into becoming the best in a world of elites. In creating a sporting machine you can misplace the softer, more human stuff along the way.\n\nJust as Jordan lost himself in gambling, in the mess around his father's murder and the short-lived sojourn in baseball that was mixed up in all of that, so Bryant's weaknesses were inescapable too.\n\nThe 2003 scandal following accusations of rape from a 19-year-old woman may have ended with criminal charges being dropped, but the subsequent civil lawsuit and aftermath clouded what had been an unblemished public image. There was the homophobic abuse of an umpire and a subsequent $100,000 fine, as well as an apology.\n\nOn court Bryant could be selfish, missing more shots in his career than any other player in NBA history, proudly admitting that he would rather miss 30 shots in a game than nine because it showed that he would never give up.\n\nHe had serious disputes with O'Neal, with Lakers management, even with Phil Jackson, the Zen-practising coaching virtuoso who also drew the very best from Jordan in their time together at the Chicago Bulls.\n\nHe also won two league scoring titles as well as the five championship rings. He missed but he made far more. Reconciliation and a second era of dominance followed the initial estrangement with the Lakers.\n\nAll of it, good and bad, like Jordan, sprang from the traits that his great friend and on-court rival Vince Carter says defined him: \"His drive. His mentality. His will to win.\"\n\nThose were the bonds and the ties. It was in navigating the second act that Bryant was starting to cut himself free.\n\nJordan has not yet learned to replace that first infatuation. For him it's more about admitting to himself that he won't, of living with a beautiful past that will probably always overshadow his present and future.\n\n\"I would give up everything now to go back and play the game of basketball,\" he admitted, as he turned 50.\n\nJordan is rich beyond the comprehension of the earlier generation of NBA legends but is still struggling to find anything that satisfies him as much as the first act.\n\nHe will always be the most important person in the room, but he now does so as someone who must deal with failure, and fading eyesight, and a body that no longer allows him the daily miracles it used to.\n\nBryant was moving towards a better place. As his own father Joe had been to his development, instilling the lifelong love of their shared sport, taking him with him to Italy for seven years as a child when his own playing career moved on from the NBA, so Bryant was with his four daughters and the wider generation beyond.\n\nHis dedication to Gianna was total, coaching her middle-school basketball team, watching Lakers and college games with her courtside. From that came a wider commitment to women's basketball, advising the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks, holding coaching camps for younger players.\n\nThere was generosity at home and a munificence elsewhere. The first time he met a young LeBron, at an All-Star weekend, he gave him his boots. As LeBron overtook his scoring record a few days ago, he wrote \"Mamba for life, 8, 24 KB\" on his current shoes, an inadvertent valediction to his hero's shirt numbers and driving force.\n\nMuch of what Bryant did in his 41 years seemed preordained, from the moment he jumped straight from Lower Merion High in suburban Philadelphia to the NBA draft and on to Los Angeles via a famous trade with the Charlotte Hornets.\n\nHe fulfilled all that crazy potential, came past the wild predictions and hopes that made been made when he was still a skinny teenager in Jordan's shoes. He was also starting to do something else entirely.\n\n\"Dear Basketball,\" he wrote, in the poem that became an Oscar-winning short film. \"We both know, no matter what I do next/ I'll always be that kid/ With the rolled-up socks/ Garbage can in the corner/ Five seconds on the clock/ Ball in my hands.\"\n\nHe will be. But Kobe Bryant was escaping too, navigating the second act, becoming something that all around hoped would last.", "Ann Francke said sports chat can leave women feeling left out\n\nChat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.\n\nChartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.\n\n\"A lot of women, in particular, feel left out,\" she told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"They don't follow those sports and they don't like either being forced to talk about them or not being included.\"\n\n\"I have nothing against sports enthusiasts or cricket fans - that's great,\" she said.\n\n\"But the issue is many people aren't cricket fans,\" she added, arguing bosses should crack down on sports banter.\n\nMs Francke is concerned that discussing football and, for example, the merits of video assistant refereeing (VAR) can disproportionately exclude women and divide offices.\n\n\"It's a gateway to more laddish behaviour and - if it just goes unchecked - it's a signal of a more laddish culture,\" she said\n\n\"It's very easy for it to escalate from VAR talk and chat to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend.\"\n\nNevertheless, Ms Francke does not think sports chatter should be banned, just moderated.\n\nShe said that good managers should be inclusive and ensure that everyone in their team feels comfortable.\n\nBut sports journalist Jacqui Oatley thinks cracking down on sports chatter would be a \"terrible idea\".\n\n\"If you ban football chat or banter of any description, then all you're going to do is alienate the people who actually want to communicate with each other,\" she told the Today programme.\n\n\"It would be so, so negative to tell people not to talk about sport because girls don't like it or women don't like it, that's far more divisive.\"\n\nShe said the secret was to discuss sport in an inclusive way and to notice if people were blankly \"staring into space\" during the conversation.\n\nA majority of people responding to a LinkedIn post from the BBC and on Twitter appear to agree with Ms Oatley.\n\nFormer sports, gambling, charities and loneliness minister Tracey Crouch called the Chartered Management Institute's advice \"a load of nonsense\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tracey Crouch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd others agreed with her on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Allyson Graham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOffice manager Debra Smyth worries that other topics such as Love Island, EastEnders and Game of Thrones could also be censored if sport chatter is banned.\n\n\"I personally think companies should not dictate what people talk about, as not talking about it will alienate those with similar interests,\" she said.\n\n\"Where would it end? Banning people with children talking about them so as not to alienate people without children. Certainly not!\"\n\nRecruiter Peter Ferguson said: \"I have seen managers and staff build a more direct bond over a shared love of sport which has excluded those who don't share that interest.\n\n\"The answer is not to ban the conversation, it is to ensure managers and staff are trained to understand that those shared interests should not get in the way of management decisions or working collaboratively.\"", "Girls are more than twice as likely as boys to pass a GCSE in a modern foreign language, a report suggests.\n\nJust 38% of boys in England took a foreign language at GCSE in 2018, compared with about 50% of girls, a report for the British Council says.\n\nUsing statistical modelling, the Education Policy Institute study found when factors like background and ability were accounted for, boys were 2.17 times less likely to succeed.\n\nBut some schools are bucking the trend.\n\nResearchers used a set of characteristics to model the likelihood of different types of pupils achieving a pass in a language GCSE, finding different results for different groups.\n\nIn most areas of education, the biggest achievement gap is between disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers.\n\nIn languages, however, a pupil's gender has the biggest effect on the likelihood of whether they will succeed.\n\nBoys, overall, had an odds ratio of 0.46, where one means success, while disadvantaged pupils had a ratio of 0.57.\n\nThe report found that a girl from a poorer background was more likely to outperform a boy from a more affluent background in modern languages.\n\nThe report notes that many schools enter large numbers of boys for modern language GCSEs for accountability reasons, but only a small percentage of them pass.\n\nResearchers highlighted a more inclusive, all-abilities approach as the reason behind the increase in boys studying and succeeding at languages in some successful schools.\n\nOverall entries in languages have seen a significant decline in recent years.\n\nThe English Baccalaureate, a wrap-around qualification which requires pupils to sit GCSEs in English, maths, two sciences, a humanities subject and a modern foreign language, aimed to address this decline.\n\nReport author Bobbie Mills said: \"The government has set an ambitious target of 75% of pupils studying the EBacc by 2022.\n\n\"If it intends to make any progress towards this goal, it must urgently clarify how it intends to address the huge gender gap in languages.\n\n\"There is no evidence that current initiatives to improve foreign language entries will narrow this divide\".\n\nThe report urged the exams watchdog, Ofqual, to address the difficulty of languages at GCSE.\n\nIt has already said that French and German will be marked more favourably from 2020, after a review of grading.\n\nIt should look at whether changes are required in other modern foreign languages, the report said.\n\nThe Department for Education said the introduction of the EBacc had helped halt the decline in take-up of GCSE languages, with 47% of pupils taking a language in 2019, up from 40% in 2010, and the proportion of boys remaining \"broadly stable\".\n\n\"We are committed to ensuring more pupils are studying languages, which is why it is now compulsory in the national curriculum for all children between Years 3 and 9,\" an official said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MoTs: 'We had no option but to suspend tests'\n\nAll MoT tests for cars and light vehicles in Northern Ireland have been suspended with immediate effect.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) said inspections of lift faults in test centres did not provide \"sufficient assurance\" on the effectiveness of ongoing repairs.\n\nAn inspection of all vehicle lifts in NI's MoT centres previously detected \"signs of cracking\" in 48 of 55 lifts.\n\nMoT exemption certificates are being issued so motorists are able to drive.\n\nThe DVA said anyone scheduled for a car or light vehicle MoT on Tuesday \"should not attend\".\n\nTest on heavy goods vehicles and buses will continue.\n\nThe BBC obtained a picture of a crack in a lift at one of the vehicle test centres in Northern Ireland\n\nPaul Duffy, chief executive of the DVA told BBC News NI: \"This is hugely embarrassing for the DVA.\n\n\"I think we have a fairly good reputation and this is something that has tarnished that reputation.\n\nMr Duffy said he had sought assurances from the contractor responsible for supplying, maintaining and servicing the lifts that they were safe to use.\n\nHe said: \"We were given that assurance when the initial repairs were taking place, but that assurance then was not forthcoming from the contractor this evening on further inspections of lifts today.\n\n\"On that basis we had no option but to suspend the tests.\"\n\nHe said Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon had asked for a second opinion \"on the quality of the inspections that have taken place\" and that the DVA was exploring all options, including how quickly new lifts could be purchased.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Duffy added: \"The DVA recognises the considerable inconvenience and disruption this will cause for many people and sincerely apologises that it has been unable to rectify this situation more quickly.\n\n\"Given the urgency of this situation, we are asking the public to follow media, social media channels and nidirect for updates.\n\n\"Staff will also be kept fully informed by their centre managers.\"\n\nAbout 5,000 MoT tests had already been cancelled after the cracks in lifts were detected.\n\nDrivers affected by disruption at vehicle test centres were told on Saturday they would be granted temporary MoT exemptions from Monday.\n\nHowever these cannot be issued for four-year-old cars or taxis.\n\nThis is because four-year-old cars have never been through an MoT test before, meaning they do not have a certificate to extend, while taxis are covered by different legislation.\n\nSigns of cracking were first discovered in Larne MoT centre in November 2019\n\nThe DVA previously said these vehicles would be prioritised and Mr Duffy said on Monday that their tests would be carried out in the lanes normally only used to for lorries and buses - which remain open.\n\nMalcolm Tarling, of the Association of British Insurers, said insurance companies would be pragmatic.\n\n\"I think the key thing here is to talk to your insurer, let them know these quite unusual circumstances and get hold of one of those exemption certificates as well,\" he said.\n\n\"Insurers are going to keep a very close eye on the situation and they are going to be guided by the advice the authorities in Northern Ireland are giving out.\"\n\nUnlike in the rest of the UK, MoT tests in Northern Ireland must be carried out at 15 government-run centres.\n\nIn an internal letter sent to its staff last week the DVA revealed the lift inspection results.\n\nIt said signs of cracking were first discovered during an inspection of Larne MoT centre in November 2019.\n\nThe letter added the safety of staff and customers \"is of the utmost importance\" and lift repairs have already begun.", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nKobe Byrant, who has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 41, is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.\n\nThe number of Most Valuable Player awards Bryant won. The accolade is given to the best-performing player in the regular season - Bryant won it in 2007-08.\n\nAlso his number of Oscar wins. Bryant won the award for best short animated film in 2016 for Dear Basketball, a five-minute film based on a love letter to the sport he wrote in 2015.\n\nThe number of NBA Finals MVP awards won by Bryant, in 2008-09 and the following year. It is also the number of Olympic gold medals he won, helping the United States top the podium in 2008 and 2012.\n\nAlso the number of shirts the Lakers retired in his honour - eight and 24.\n\nAll-Star MVP Awards won - in 2001-02, 2006-07, 2008-09 and 2010-11. He is tied with Bob Pettit for the most in NBA history.\n\nJust four players in NBA history - Bryant, Michael Jordan, Kevin Garnett and Gary Payton - have been selected for the NBA All-defensive first team nine times.\n\nHe made the All-NBA First Team selection 11 times, second-equal with Karl Malone. LeBron James is the only player to have made it in 12 times.\n\nThat is how many starts Bryant has made in the NBA's annual All-Star Game - the second most in history, one behind James, who was selected to make his 16th just two days ago.\n\nAnd 16 is the number of times Bryant has played on Christmas day - again, the most in NBA history.\n\nAs well as making 15 starts, Bryant was picked for the All-Star Game 18 times in a row. That is the longest streak in NBA history and only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with 19, made the All-Star Game more times.\n\nBryant spent 20 seasons with the Lakers. Only Dirk Nowitzki, who had 21 seasons with the Dallas Mavericks, has had a longer one-club career in the NBA.\n\nThe number of games in which he scored 50 points - only Wilt Chamberlain (118) and Michael Jordan (31) have scored 50-plus points more times.\n\nThe number of points scored against the Utah Jazz in his final game. It was the seventh time he had scored 60-plus points and the first time he had achieved the feat since 2009.\n\nWhen the Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 122-104 on 22 January 2006, Bryant scored 81 of his side's points. Only Wilt Chamberlain, with a 100-point game in 1962, has scored more.\n\nBryant's 5,640 points scored in the NBA playoffs is the fourth highest total in NBA history behind James (6,911), Jordan (5,987) and Abdul-Jabbar (5,762).\n\nBryant, who made his debut in the 1996-97 season, scored 33,643 regular season points, putting him fourth on the all-time scoring list behind Abdul-Jabbar (38,387), Karl Malone (36,928) and LeBron James (33,655), who overtook Bryant while playing for the Lakers on Sunday.\n\nHis 48,637 minutes played is the eighth-highest total in the NBA.", "The great and the good of the music world arrived for the 62nd Grammys at the Staples Center in Los Angeles earlier on Sunday evening.\n\nThe main nominees include Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Lil Nas X, with performances due from Camila Cabello, Aerosmith and Ariana Grande.\n\nHere's how music's biggest artists looked as they graced the red carpet.\n\nTonight could be the biggest night of Lizzo's life, which perhaps explains why she looks like she's going to her own wedding.\n\nHer fur-lined Versace dress sees her pay tribute to the likes of Diana Ross and Cher.\n\nLizzo is up for four of the big awards - record of the year, song of the year, album of the year and best new artist. She'll face stiff competition from Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X in the latter category, but they'll do well to top this look.\n\nScottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi is up for song of the year with Someone You Loved.\n\n\"Let's face it, it's never gonna happen again,\" he joked on the red carpet. \"It's all downhill from here\".\n\nWhich is why he's probably steadying himself in this picture.\n\nAriana Grande is one of the front-runners this year, with her deeply personal Thank U, Next being up for best album.\n\nShe wore a custom-made Giambattista Valli gown, which is 20 feet across. So if an impromptu game of musical chairs breaks out, she should win easily.\n\nLana Del Rey is a contender for album of the year with NFR, as we're diplomatically calling it (the official broadcaster, CBS, has re-christened the album 'Norman Freaking Rockwell').\n\nShe looked every bit the winner as she stepped out in this shiny silver number.\n\nRap star Lil Nas X picked up one of the early awards for best video, in honour of his country-rap crossover Old Town Road (which is also up for song and record of the year) before going and slipping into something a little more... dazzling.\n\nYou'd certainly see him coming on the ranch in that pink spiky leather suit.\n\nLike Lizzo, Billie Eilish is also shortlisted for the \"big four\" awards and she's gone green for Grammys night.\n\nHer Gucci nails were apparently a late addition and hopefully won't cause any trophy-lifting issues for the 18-year-old, who told journalists she feels \"like a fan\" who has been let in for the night.\n\nBTS were all suited and booted as they walked the red carpet.\n\nThe seven-strong Korean band are set to perform their remix \"Seoul Town Road\" (see what they did there?) alongside Lil Nas X.\n\nIt's a case of YOLO, so wear a bright pink cowgirl number, for Bristol artist Yola, who also has four, despite being relatively unknown in her home country (so far).\n\nThe Bristolian artist has performed with Phantom Limb, Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers and Iggy Azalea - and she goes up against Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X and more in the best new artist category.\n\nIf they take a team picture with the nominees for that award you'll need your sunglasses to see it.\n\nContinuing the pink theme, Tyler, The Creator arrived at the venue dressed as a bellhop.\n\n\"I travel a lot and I appreciate them, so I decided to honour that,\" he told reporters.\n\nTyler is up for best rap album for Igor, which he doesn't actually consider to be a rap record himself.\n\nEither way the award trophy would fit nicely into that suitcase.\n\nBilly Porter won the Grammy Award for best Best Musical Theatre album back in 2014, and while he's only in town to present an award tonight you will not find a better hat anywhere.\n\nFinally, David Crosby got the dickie bow memo before he trod the red carpet with his wife Jan Dance.\n\nOne of the original hippy rock 'n' rollers, he was nominated in the best music film category, for his documentary Remember My Name.\n\nThe award was eventually won by Beyoncé for her Netflix documentary Homecoming, which captures her 2018 Coachella performance (her win meant films about or by Crosby, Miles Davis, Rick Rubin and Thom Yorke all missed out).\n\nBut we're giving the unofficial award for best moustache to the former Byrds guitarist, and we're sure you'll agree.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A petition to save the BBC red button will be handed in to the BBC and Downing Street on Monday, signed by more than 100 organisations.\n\nThe text part of the service will close over the next few weeks, with the first changes happening in the coming days.\n\nThe petition has been organised by the National Federation of the Blind of the UK (NFBUK).\n\nThey say the red button is vital for the elderly who have limited sight and hearing and are not on the internet.\n\nRed button text launched in 1999, taking over as Ceefax was phased out.\n\nThe decision spells the end of reading headlines, football scores, weather, travel news and more on TV sets, 45 years after the launch of Ceefax.\n\nBut the video elements - such as allowing you to watch extra courts at Wimbledon, or stages from Glastonbury - will continue.\n\nA BBC spokesman said that \"changes\" to the service will begin happening from Thursday but the complete shutdown of the red button will take \"a few weeks\".\n\nTen years ago, 12 million people a week used to press the red button. It was also reaching around five million people who did not have access to BBC online.\n\nSince then, smartphone use has mushroomed - nearly 80% of adults now own one. The red button was, even in 2010, looking a bit old-fashioned and it wasn't cheap, the text and video services cost £39 million a year to run.\n\nMaintaining and updating a service that is used by a rapidly declining audience is hard to justify at a time when the BBC is looking to make big savings.\n\nHowever, for people who have no access to online services it is for some households (after the demise of other teletext services) the only way to check headlines or weather reports at the touch of a button. It is also easy to read and simple to navigate.\n\nAnd while it is only the text services that are being closed down, for some it will be the loss of a service they have relied on ever since the days of Ceefax.\n\nThe BBC says independent research, conducted before the changes were announced, concluded that the vast majority of people could access red button information in alternative ways, such as TV, radio and online services.\n\n\"From early 2020, viewers will no longer be able to access text-based BBC News and BBC Sport content by pressing red,\" a BBC spokesperson said at the time of the announcement.\n\n\"It's always a difficult decision to reduce services, and we don't take decisions like this lightly, but we have taken it because we have to balance the resources needed to maintain and develop this service with the need to update our systems to give people even better internet-based services.\n\n\"Viewers can still access this information on the BBC website, BBC News and Sport mobile apps - as well as 24-hour news on the BBC News Channel.\"\n\nThe petition demands an immediate pause on the withdrawal of the BBC Red Button Teletext service which is due to be phased out from 30 January and immediate clarification and public scrutiny on how the BBC came to the decision to switch it off.\n\nSeveral protesters were seen outside the BBC's New Broadcasting House in London on Monday morning ahead of the petition hand in.\n\nThe NFBUK said the service was \"vital\" for people who are not online \"who want to find out information independently in an easy, convenient and accessible format\".\n\nIt said it feared its withdrawal \"will leave many people, who are already vulnerable, further isolated and marginalised from society\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Sunday People may have targeted the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, court papers suggest.\n\nThe tabloid newspaper is alleged to have hired private detectives to target the Dowler family in 2002.\n\nThis has emerged in a civil case at the High Court brought by 71 claimants, including Prince Harry and the author and actor David Walliams, against Mirror Group Newspapers.\n\nThe current publishers of the People, Reach Plc, have declined to comment.\n\nA defence to the allegations has not yet been submitted and the case continues.\n\nIn 2011, another tabloid, the News of World, was closed after revelations it hacked Milly's phone.\n\nIn court papers presented last November and seen by the website Byline Investigates and now the BBC, it is alleged the Sunday People hired the private investigation firm Starbase to target the Dowler family 18 years ago.\n\nAt that time Milly, 13, was missing and her disappearance was a major national news story.\n\nIn 2011 serial killer Levi Bellfield was convicted of her murder.\n\nThe claimants allege the Dowlers were also put under surveillance and that Starbase was involved in phone hacking and other unlawful information gathering.\n\nThey point to an unusually large invoice from Starbase for work at that time and an article that appeared in the People 10 days after Milly's disappearance as evidence of unlawful information gathering.\n\nPress standards campaigner Prof Brian Cathcart said of the latest allegations against the People: \"This extremely serious allegation raises the shocking possibility that a second newspaper was illegally hacking Milly's phone.\n\n\"If it is true, we need to know who authorised it and how many people knew. The Metropolitan Police refused to take the matter in hand, and the civil courts are not the place to get to the bottom of it.\"\n\nThe revelation Milly's phone was hacked by the News of the World caused a wave of public revulsion and transformed phone hacking from a story about celebrities' privacy into a full blown national scandal.\n\nAt the height of the phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch shut the 168-year-old paper and then Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned the Leveson Inquiry into the ethics and culture of the press.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Justice Mann ruled phone hacking had been widespread and frequent for a decade at Trinity Mirror, the then owners of the Daily and Sunday Mirror and the People.\n\nNeil Wallis was the editor of the People in 2002. There is no suggestion he commissioned the work allegedly carried out by Starbase.\n\nHe went on to become the deputy editor of the News of the World and was tried at the Old Bailey and acquitted in 2015 of conspiracy to hack voicemails during his time as deputy editor of the defunct tabloid.\n\nHe denied any knowledge of the illegal practice and described the prosecution as \"politically motivated\".\n\nIn 2014, his boss at the News of the World, Andy Coulson, who went on to become David Cameron's director of communications, was convicted of the same offence and jailed for 18 months.\n\nMr Wallis left journalism and took up PR work in 2009, including a contract with the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe then Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigned in 2011 after facing questions from MPs about links between the force and the News of the World.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Caspian Airlines jet slid off the runway onto a highway while landing in Mahshahr\n\nAn Iranian passenger plane ended up belly-down in the middle of a highway after reportedly skidding off the runway during a botched landing.\n\nTwo of the 136 passengers on board suffered leg injuries in the incident in the city of Mahshahr, medics said.\n\nThe Caspian Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was flying there from Tehran.\n\nState TV quoted a provincial aviation official as saying that the pilot \"landed the aircraft too late and this caused him to miss the runway\".\n\nThis \"caused the aircraft to overshoot the runway and stop in a boulevard\" next to the airport, Mohammad Reza Rezaei added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by خبرگزاری ایسنا This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA reporter who was on board the aircraft said that the back wheel of the plane had broken off and that the plane had skidded on its fuselage.\n\nIran's Civil Aviation Organisation said an investigation was under way.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bahman Kalbasi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSixty-six people were killed in a plane crash in February 2019, while dozens were killed when an IranAir plane broke into pieces upon landing in 2011.\n\nThe EU has either banned or restricted two Iranian airlines from using its airspace over safety concerns.\n\nIran had planned to upgrade its ageing fleet after years of sanctions were lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal signed with world powers. However, the US Treasury revoked licences for companies to sell passenger aircraft to Iran after President Donald Trump left the agreement in 2018.\n\nMonday's incident in Mahshahr comes two weeks after a Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was mistakenly shot down by Iran's armed forces near Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.\n• None How sanctions affect Iran... in five objects", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Billie Eilish says \"anything is possible\" after making history at the Grammys\n\nPop star Billie Eilish swept the board at the 2020 Grammys, winning five awards, including best new artist and song of the year.\n\nThe 18-year-old also won album of the year for her debut, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go, which was recorded in her childhood home in LA.\n\nShe replaces Taylor Swift as the youngest person ever to win the award.\n\n\"I joke around a lot at these things, but I genuinely want to say I'm so grateful,\" said the singer.\n\nEilish triumphed in all of the Grammys \"big four\" marquee categories - song of the year, record of the year, album of the year and best new artist.\n\nShe is the first person to achieve the feat since Christopher Cross in 1981.\n\nHer elder brother, Finneas O'Connell, also picked up producer of the year for his work on Eilish's album.\n\nHe said the record had been made at home because \"I'm the most creative where I'm most comfortable,\" adding: \"It's a huge honour to be given a Grammy for making home-made cookies.\"\n\nEilish appeared to be overwhelmed by the extent of her domination of the awards. Accepting the album of the year prize, she turned to fellow nominee Ariana Grande and said: \"Can I just say that I think Ariana deserves this?\" (Grande waved off the comments, ceding the prize back to the winner).\n\nBillie Eilish was honoured for her album and the hit single Bad Guy\n\nEarlier, on the red carpet, the singer said she felt like an impostor.\n\n\"I feel like I'm not supposed to be here,\" she joked. \"I feel like they accidentally let in a fan.\"\n\nBut the teenager has re-written the rules of pop over the last 12 months, creating ominous, unsettling songs that disrupt typical song structures and lure listeners down dark sonic avenues.\n\n\"We didn't make this album to win a Grammy,\" said Finneas, joining his sister on stage.\n\n\"We wrote an album about depression and suicidal thoughts and climate change and being a bad guy, whatever that means.\n\n\"And we stand up here confused and grateful.\"\n\nOther big winners on the night included Lil Nas X, who won video of the year for Old Town Road, and Lizzo, who scooped three prizes including best pop solo performance for her breakout hit, Truth Hurts.\n\nThe singer also opened the ceremony and, along with host Alicia Keys, paid tribute to basketball star Kobe Bryant, who died earlier in the day.\n\n\"Tonight is for Kobe,\" Lizzo announced as the show began, before singing the lines, \"I'm crying 'cos I love you\".\n\nAfter her performance, Keys, who was hosting the show, walked solemnly to the stage and asked the audience to remember Bryant's family.\n\n\"I would like everybody to take a moment and hold them inside of you and share our strength and our support,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alicia Keys and Lizzo lead tributes to Kobe Bryant at the Grammys\n\nSeveral other performers, including Lil Nas X, DJ Khaled and Run-DMC, paid tribute to the star during the ceremony by holding his jersey aloft.\n\nStand-out moments came from hip-hop auteur Tyler, The Creator, who performed in the middle of a burning house; and pop singer Demi Lovato, who sang live for the first time since a suspected overdose two years ago.\n\nAriana Grande, who refused to attend last year's Grammys after a public clash with the show's producer, Ken Ehrlich, made amends with a lavish, risqué and heavily bleeped-out medley of her songs Imagine, Seven Rings, and Thank You, Next, backed by an orchestra.\n\nBritish artists were thin on the ground, but the Chemical Brothers won two awards, including best dance album for No Geography.\n\nDua Lipa, who won best new artist last year, was also on hand to pass the baton to Billie Eilish.\n\nShe used her speech to champion gender diversity in the music industry, which is still overwhelmingly dominated by men.\n\n\"There are so many stellar female producers, artists, songwriters [and] engineers,\" she said.\n\n\"If you're in the business and you're hiring, raise your sights to the amazing, talented women out there because we deserve a seat at every table.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mark Rutte, left, lay a wreath at the Holocaust remembrance event in Amsterdam\n\nDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologised on behalf of his country's government for its failure to protect Jews during World War Two.\n\nMr Rutte said that while some Dutch officials resisted during the Nazi occupation, too many simply did as they were told.\n\nIt was the first such apology to be offered by a Dutch prime minister.\n\nAbout 102,000 of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust came from the Netherlands.\n\nMr Rutte made the remarks at a Holocaust remembrance event in Amsterdam, ahead of the 75th anniversary on Monday of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.\n\n\"With the last remaining survivors among us, I apologise on behalf of the government for the actions of the government at the time,\" he said.\n\n\"I do so, realising that no word can describe something as enormous and awful as the Holocaust.\"\n\nIt was an admission long sought by the Netherlands' Jewish community.\n\nSome 75% of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the Netherlands before the Holocaust were murdered by German Nazis and their local collaborators.\n\nDutch governments in the past had apologised for the way Jews who survived the Holocaust were treated upon returning from concentration camps.\n\nBut Mr Rutte is the first to acknowledge the country's role in persecuting Jews and other minorities during the Nazi occupation.\n\n\"We ask ourselves: how could this have happened?\" he said.\n\n\"In all, we did too little. Not enough protection, not enough help, not enough recognition.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holocaust survivors: The families who weren’t meant to live", "Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck died after being stabbed five times\n\nViolence broke out at the Old Bailey as five gang members were jailed for murdering a man in a knife attack.\n\nKamali Gabbidon-Lynck, 19, was stabbed to death at a Wood Green hair salon last year.\n\nHe was killed as a result of \"a longstanding and mutual hatred\" between two rival gangs, the court heard.\n\nPolice officers and prison staff were attacked after the judge gave the killers - two men and three teenagers - life sentences.\n\nTyrell Graham, 18, Sheareem Cookhorn, 21, and 17-year-olds Jayden O'Neil-Crichlow, Shane Lyons, and Ojay Hamilton began fighting in the dock as they were led out of court.\n\nOne officer suffered a head injury when he and nine colleagues attempted to restrain the defendants.\n\nPolice also had to stop people in the public gallery from jumping into the courtroom.\n\nMembers of the public saw the stabbing in Wood Green, the jury heard\n\nThe court heard Mr Gabbidon-Lynck's friend Jason Fraser, 20, was chased, stabbed, and shot by a rival gang on 22 February 2019. He survived the attack.\n\nWhile his friend was being attacked, Mr Gabbidon-Lynck drove towards the attackers to try to scare them off, prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC told jurors.\n\nSheareem Cookhorn (left) and Tyrell Graham (right) were jailed for murder and attempted murder\n\nThe court heard he became trapped after reversing into parked cars, forcing him to run to a hair salon.\n\nHe was stabbed five times and died after an artery was severed.\n\nJudge Foster told the gang the attack had \"terrified members of the public\".\n\nThe judge lifted reporting restrictions to allow the naming of three juvenile defendants: Jayden O'Neil-Crichlow (left), Shane Lyons (middle) and Ojay Hamilton (right)\n\nMr Glasgow said it was \"more reminiscent of a Hollywood film than a winter's night in north London\".\n\nMr Gabbidon-Lynck was linked to a north London gang called the WGM, the court heard.\n\nHis killers were said to be linked to Tottenham gang the NPK.\n\nKamali Gabbidon-Lynck became trapped after reversing into parked cars, forcing him to escape his attackers on foot\n\nCookhorn was jailed for a minimum of 28 years for murder, attempted murder and possession of a firearm.\n\nGraham will serve at least 25 years for murder and attempted murder.\n\nLyons, O'Neil-Crichlow and Hamilton were each jailed for 21 years for murder and wounding with intent.\n\nThe defendants had denied all the charges against them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Afghan National Army forces have travelled to the site of the crash in Deh Yak district\n\nThe US military has confirmed one of its planes crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday.\n\nCol Sonny Leggett said: \"While the cause of crash is under investigation, there are no indications the crash was caused by enemy fire.\"\n\nThe aircraft crashed in Deh Yak district, Ghazni province, an area with a strong Taliban presence.\n\nIt is unclear how many people were on board.\n\nTaliban social media accounts have posted unverified footage showing a burnt-out plane with US Air Force markings.\n\nThe video shows a Bombardier E-11A - the type of jet used by the US Air Force for electronic surveillance over Afghanistan.\n\nAfghan authorities had initially said the crash plane belonged to state-owned airline Ariana, but the company quickly said all its planes were accounted for.\n\nWhile helicopters have proven vulnerable and accident-prone in Afghanistan, the loss of a US fixed-wing aircraft is relatively rare.\n\nBut the Taliban are not believed to have the sorts of anti-aircraft missiles needed to bring down a high-flying aircraft.\n\nThe plane involved is an E-11A, one of only four in the whole US Air Force.\n\nEssentially it is an adapted Bombardier executive jet, chosen for its ability to fly at high altitude and with extended range. It is packed with electronics: its job is to enable better communications between air and ground forces, and between different types of aircraft operating in difficult terrain or using incompatible data links.\n\nIt is a bit like the wi-fi range extender that you install in a room with a poor signal. The aircraft - along with similar electronics mounted on unmanned systems - have played an important role in the Afghan conflict, where the mountainous landscape is a major problem for modern military communications.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nA couple whose baby died after errors at a scandal-hit maternity service say they want a police investigation.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board maternity services were placed in special measures in 2019.\n\nMistakes in Sarah Handy's care contributed to her baby's death in 2017, an inquest found.\n\nThe health board apologised and said it had addressed issues raised by parents after a report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nMrs Handy's case is one of 140 being reviewed to establish whether mothers and babies were harmed by the care they received at maternity units run by Cwm Taf Morgannwg - in Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, and the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant.\n\nShe and her husband Jonathan now want to know if wider, systemic failings may have played a part too.\n\nThe leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, Andrew Morgan, has echoed the family's call for a criminal investigation.\n\nBBC Wales Investigates discovered mistakes made by maternity services in Cwm Taf Morgannwg have cost tens of millions of pounds in compensation payments in the last 10 years.\n\nMrs Handy, a high-risk patient because of medical issues, ended up giving birth at home because of an error at Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nWhen she went to hospital suffering from what she thought were labour pains, a registrar sent her home with laxatives and paracetamol.\n\nBut Mrs Handy was in labour, and no longer close to the medical help she needed.\n\nSarah and Jonathan Handy want to know if wider failings played a part in their daughter's death\n\nJennifer was born so premature she needed specialist care - but instead her father, a police officer, had to deliver his daughter.\n\nShe was breathing but in a serious condition, and Mr Handy performed CPR until the paramedics came.\n\nBut by the time Mrs Handy and her daughter reached the hospital, Jennifer had died and her mother needed emergency surgery, spending weeks in hospital.\n\n\"I have flashbacks… nightmares because of having to live in the place where such a horrific thing happened to you,\" she said.\n\nBut because of failings in record keeping at the hospital, what happened was not reported as a \"serious\" incident.\n\n\"Our baby daughter died,\" Mr Handy, from Merthyr, said.\n\n\"My wife nearly died at home and I can't for the life of me understand how that's not a serious incident. What does qualify as a serious incident? There's a death. What is above that?\"\n\nAt the inquest into Jennifer's death in April 2019 the coroner concluded that the registrar's mistake in sending Mrs Handy home had contributed to the baby's death.\n\nThat same month, a report from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) was published.\n\nIt outlined how despite repeated warnings from staff and regulators, the health board had failed to address issues such as under-staffing and a malfunctioning complaints system.\n\nThe Handys want to know if the wider failings uncovered by the inspection may have played a part in Jennifer's death too.\n\nMr Handy said: \"Surely somewhere there has to be an investigation into whether there's any criminal element to it.\n\n\"I won't be able to rest I don't think, till we know that it has been thoroughly looked at - all angles.\"\n\nFor six years Cwm Taf Morgannwg midwives had been trying to raise the alarm. The head of their Royal College in Wales (RCM), Helen Rogers, saw the problems first hand.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We were finding the staff in tears, really distressed they couldn't give the care and they genuinely felt that if they raised concerns, that if they put their head above the parapet, in their words, or if they spoke up they would be punished in some way. And that was the very clear perception.\"\n\nThe RCM's concerns were raised with managers including then chief executive Allison Williams. Paid up to £175,000 a year, it was her job to make sure the service was run properly.\n\nMs Rogers says concerns were passed on to Ms Williams. Managers tried to reconfigure the service but problems remained.\n\nIn 2017 maternity staff were asked to complete an anonymous survey. Of those that did, 91% said there weren't enough staff to complete work properly. They also warned it felt \"unsafe\" and women were receiving an unacceptable standard of care.\n\nMistakes made in Lisa Broom's care at Prince Charles Hospital in 2012 led to her son Kayden being born with severe brain damage which caused physical and learning disabilities.\n\nKayden has undergone more than 50 operations and needs 24-hour care and support at his Merthyr Tydfil home.\n\nMs Broom went into labour three months early and staff at Prince Charles Hospital said she would need to be transferred to a specialist unit.\n\nThe only bed available was at the John Radcliff Hospital in Oxford - 120 miles away.\n\n\"Even in the ambulance I kept saying please don't take me, I'm not going to make it,\" she said.\n\n\"But they had no choice, they had to follow whatever somebody above them said.\"\n\nKayden Broom's mother was sent to Oxford by ambulance when she went into labour\n\nBut there were communication errors - the registrar who sent Ms Broom to Oxford wrongly assumed she would be sent by air ambulance.\n\nShe was not checked by a consultant or given the correct medication before leaving Merthyr.\n\nAs her ambulance pulled into the hospital car park in Oxford, Kayden was born but not breathing. He was starved of oxygen which caused the brain damage.\n\nThe health board has apologised and said that lessons would be learned.\n\nKayden's lawyer Stephen Webber has helped a number of families get compensation for mistakes made by Cwm Taf Morgannwg's maternity service.\n\nHe said the total payments and cost of ongoing care for children could run into \"tens of millions\" and the health board needs to learn from its mistakes.\n\n\"It's incredibly frustrating these sorts of errors are made because it is not some great technical piece of medical treatment. It is a breakdown in communication,\" Mr Webber said.\n\n\"They [Cwm Taf] make these compensation payments and think it's enough. Well it simply isn't. They need to confront these problems.\"\n\nLawyer Stephen Webber has sued Cwm Taf Morgannwg on behalf of several families\n\nWales' health minister Vaughan Gething said he feels he was \"not told the truth\" about the state of staffing before the full picture emerged.\n\nHe said: \"I don't think the messaging we had was as full and honest as it should have been.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was plain that actually, understaffing wasn't just an issue between recruitment rounds, but there was a real issue for a period of time about the staffing levels, and some staff complained and raised concerns about that and had direct assurances that it would be tackled and it wasn't. \"\n\nIn 2018 a consultant midwife report said there were ongoing, systematic failures and recommended changes had not been implemented.\n\nBut the report was not shared by the then chief executive and three senior managers at the health board.\n\nMr Gething said that was something he was \"incredibly unhappy\" about.\n\n\"It's exactly what should not happen in the health service, in any part of the health service,\" he said.\n\nProblems were still being highlighted at Prince Charles Hospital as recently as two months ago\n\nAllison Williams apologised publicly at the Senedd for the maternity failings.\n\nShe said: \"A community like ours deserves the very best for all the reasons that you say, and we have failed them….there's no disputing that.\"\n\nMs Williams took sick leave before quitting in the summer of 2019, and declined to comment when approached by BBC Wales Investigates.\n\nDespite maternity services being in special measures, a leaked report seen by the BBC from the Health Inspectorate for Wales shows mothers and babies were still being put at risk at Prince Charles Hospital as recently as two months ago, with emergency resuscitation equipment not properly checked and patient records not stored correctly.\n\nSimilar problems were uncovered at Cwm Taf Morgannwg's other maternity unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.\n\nAsked about the current concerns identified by HIW, Dr Sharon Hopkins, interim chief executive at Cwm Taf Morgannwg, told the programme all the concerns highlighted have now been addressed.\n\n\"We're very clear that we're not where we need to be yet. There are still lots of improvements to make,\" she said.\n\n\"I think things are safe, things are clinically safe, but are they as good as they could be? Is the quality where we would like it to get to? No it's not.\"\n\nAndrew Morgan said he felt misled over the maternity failings\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council leader Andrew Morgan said it was \"an absolute scandal\" nobody on the health board had been held to account for the previous maternity service failings.\n\nHe echoed the Handys' calls for criminal investigations.\n\n\"If it's established that harm did come to individuals through neglect or because people knew of the risks and didn't act, then potentially they should face further action through the courts,\" he said.\n\nBBC Wales Investigates Uncovered: The Baby Scandal is on Monday, 27 January at 19:30 GMT on BBC One Wales\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Varadkar: \"There will be checks required\" between NI and GB\n\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has suggested the EU will be the \"stronger team\" in post-Brexit trade talks with the UK.\n\nComparing negotiations to a football match, he suggested to the BBC that the EU would be at an advantage due to its larger population and market.\n\nThe taoiseach said he did not think the UK had \"yet come to terms with the fact it's now a small country\".\n\nBoris Johnson said he would be able to \"wrap this all up\" by the end of 2020.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Mr Barnier told reporters the two sides faced \"the risk of a cliff edge\" if trade terms were not agreed by the end of the post-Brexit transition period in December.\n\nHe cautioned that a \"very short time\" remained to \"rebuild\" the UK-EU relationship.\n\nIn an interview earlier with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Varadkar also said striking a deal in this timeframe was possible but would be \"difficult\".\n\nHe pledged the EU would not be \"dragging its feet,\" but added: \"My assessment is that it is more likely that we will need an extension in order to finalise a free trade agreement and future economic partnership than not need it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says UK can \"wrap up\" Brexit this year\n\nMr Johnson, however, said he had to \"respectfully disagree\" with his Irish counterpart's doubts, insisting a deal can be reached \"in the time we've got\".\n\nThe UK PM added: \"We've got until the end of the year, but we will be doing things very fast, and in a very friendly, respectful way.\"\n\nMr Johnson has insisted he is not open to any extension.\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that from the UK side, trade talks will be led by a 40-person \"task force\" headed by the PM's Europe adviser David Frost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Varadkar, the leader of the Fine Gael party, is fighting his first election campaign as taoiseach. Ireland heads to the polls on 8 February.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The European Union is a union of 27 member states. The UK is only one country. And we have a population and a market of 450 million people.\n\n\"The UK, it's about 60[m]. So if these were two teams up against each other playing football, who do you think has the stronger team?\"\n\nHe also cautioned the UK against trying to negotiate individual deals covering different sectors of the economy.\n\n\"The final deal, the new relationship will have to be comprehensive,\" he said.\n\n\"When I hear people talk about piecemeal, it sounds a bit like cake and eat,\" he said, adding: \"That isn't something that will fly in Europe.\"\n\n\"You may have to make concessions in areas like fishing in order to get concessions from us in areas like financial services.\"\n\nMr Varadkar said there was \"genuine concern\" across Europe that the UK would seek to \"undercut\" EU standards after Brexit.\n\n\"When I meet Prime Minister Johnson he says, no, absolutely not - that's not the kind of United Kingdom that I want to lead as prime minister.\"\n\nBut he added: \"We want that written down in law, we want that in a treaty.\"\n\nMr Varadkar said both sides would have to agree a \"common set of minimum standards\" for an agreement to be possible.\n\nBut this is likely to be a contentious area of talks, with British ministers having insisted the UK should have the right to move away from EU regulations.\n\nAnother potential flashpoint is likely to be access to fishing waters, which both sides have pledged to sort out before the end of June.\n\nLeaked slides from an EU presentation last Friday said the bloc would be aiming for the same level of access to British fishing stocks it has now, and would not sign a wider trade deal until fishing access has been agreed.\n\nBut the UK government insists it will \"take back control\" of its waters.\n\nA leaked slide presentation from a meeting last Friday has revealed more of the EU's objectives in the upcoming trade talks.\n\nDiplomats from national governments agreed that commitments by the UK to maintaining a level playing field - i.e. not undercutting other EU nations for competitive advantage - are a \"precondition\" for a deal. There should also be a role for the European Court of Justice in any deal to protect EU law.\n\nThe EU will pursue what it calls a \"comprehensive approach\" to the negotiations and there will be \"trade-offs between chapters\" i.e. give-and-take across different areas of the deal.\n\nThe EU will expect to be treated as a single bloc, so the UK will not, for example, be able to offer something to Germany that it doesn't offer to everyone else. In case of future disputes with the UK, there would be the possibility for \"cross-retaliation\" where a disagreement in one sector sees the EU retaliating in another.\n\nEU sources say they want to build a relationship with the UK that is balanced and sustainable, where neither side \"feels taken for a ride\".", "Thousands of passengers could save money on rail fares as \"split tickets\" become more common, experts predict.\n\nBuying multiple tickets to split one journey into sections can work out to be cheaper than having a single ticket.\n\nUsers do not have to change trains, as long as their train stops at the final destination printed on each ticket - but the practice has been \"niche\".\n\nBooking site Trainline has now released a SplitSave tool to help find cheaper journeys by splitting trips into legs.\n\n\"Split tickets\" are legal provided that trains stop at ticket destinations.\n\nTravel journalist Simon Calder told BBC News \"split ticketing\" was not a new concept, but had previously only been carried out by a well-informed group of passengers.\n\n\"What we're seeing now is the whole thing moving from the niche to a company through which millions buy tickets,\" he said.\n\nPreviously, passengers could use split ticketing websites such as RailEurope's Pricehack and Split My Fare to check ticket prices.\n\nThe ticket companies' apps are able to find combinations of tickets to save passengers money on most routes across the UK, by automatically splitting the trip into multiple legs.\n\nPassengers buy more than one ticket, rather than a single ticket covering the entire journey.\n\nAs long as the train makes a stop at a passenger's split ticket station along the way, they can be on the same train throughout the whole journey.\n\nTo buy a ticket from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads without splitting the fare could cost up to £112 on Monday morning.\n\nHowever, buying one ticket from Paddington to Didcot - which is on the same route - and another from Didcot to Bristol would save around a third of the cost of the trip. The practice is legal so long as the train stops as Didcot.\n\nTrainline said other examples of potential savings included one of £80.10 between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston, and £79.85 between Edinburgh Waverley and London King's Cross.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, called for a reform to the whole rail fares structure, describing the split-ticket feature as a \"sticking plaster\" solution to a \"system in need of major surgery\".\n\nExperts say the rules governing how tickets are sold - which date back to 1995 - have not kept pace with technology or how people work and travel.\n\nThe rail industry has previously admitted that passengers are not always offered the cheapest fare available due to \"long-standing anomalies\".\n\nThe RDG published a wish list of reforms last year, including allowing ticket prices to be set more flexibly.\n\nMr Calder said ticket-splitting by large numbers of passengers may speed up rail fare reforms as train companies begin to lose revenue.\n\n\"The railway industry says it has been calling for reform for years and I think [ticket splitting] could accelerate that process,\" he said.\n\n\"We're going to see train companies saying to the government: 'We're losing all this money, you've got to help us sort this out.'\n\nJacqueline Starr, chief operating officer at RDG, said: \"We support any effort to improve how people buy tickets within the current fares structure, but ultimately these are only sticking plaster solutions on a system in need of major surgery.\n\n\"Reforms proposed by train operators and backed by consumer groups would deliver a better range of fares for everyone, encouraging people to use the network and generating revenue for government to re-invest back in to improvements in services.\"\n\nThe tool was welcomed by independent watchdog Transport Focus for enabling passengers \"to take advantage of cheaper journeys where they are available\".\n\nHowever, the group's chief executive, Anthony Smith, added: \"Of course, people shouldn't need tips and tricks to know they are getting the best deal and so we want to see major fares and ticketing reforms coming out of the forthcoming Williams review.\"", "Britain has condemned the arrest of the UK ambassador to Iran as a \"flagrant violation of international law\".\n\nRob Macaire was detained for a short time on Saturday night after attending a vigil for those who died when Iran's military shot down a passenger plane.\n\nHe left the vigil when it turned into a protest but was later accused of helping to organise the demonstrations.\n\nIran said he was \"an unknown foreigner in an illegal gathering\" and summoned him to the foreign ministry on Sunday.\n\nIn a statement, Iran's foreign ministry said Mr Macaire was \"reminded\" that his presence at \"illegal gatherings contravened\" the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said Mr Macaire was understood to have protested strongly that his detention was unjustified.\n\nOur correspondent says Mr Macaire made clear any suggestion that he was involved in demonstrations was completely untrue, and he was attending an event advertised as a vigil for the victims of Wednesday's crash - which killed 176 people, including four Britons.\n\nEarlier, Iran's deputy foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who denied Mr Macaire was detained, said in a tweet that he thought it \"impossible\" when police first told him that the UK ambassador had been arrested.\n\nA phone conversation confirmed Mr Macaire's identity and he was released 15 minutes later, Mr Araghchi added.\n\nMr Macaire has denied taking part in protests and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemned his arrest.\n\nHe was arrested and held for three hours when he stopped at a barber shop for a haircut on his way back to the UK embassy.\n\nIn a tweet the ambassador said he was attending the vigil because it was \"normal to want to pay respects\", adding that some of the victims were British.\n\nThe ambassador added: \"Arresting diplomats is of course illegal, in all countries.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Macaire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned Mr Macaire's arrest in a joint statement following a phone call on Sunday, in which they discussed their \"shared interests in ensuring Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon\".\n\nAnd Security Minister Brandon Lewis said on Sunday that the UK ambassador's arrest was \"totally unacceptable\" and a breach of the 1961 Vienna Convention.\n\n\"Iran does need to step back from that kind of activity and play a proper part in working with partners to de-escalate,\" Mr Lewis told Sky's Sophy Ridge.\n\nUnder the convention, diplomats cannot be detained. The Foreign Office is to demand a full explanation.\n\nIn a statement issued on Saturday night Mr Raab added: \"The arrest of our ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law.\n\n\"The Iranian government is at a cross-roads moment. It can continue its march towards pariah status with all the political and economic isolation that entails, or take steps to deescalate tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forwards.\"\n\nThe Iranian Etemad newspaper shared a picture of the ambassador on Twitter after the Tasnim news agency reported his arrest.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 🌐 اعتمادآنلاين This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProtesters had taken to the streets in Iran's capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials, calling them liars for having denied, then admitting, shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane.\n\nIran had initially denied responsibility for the plane crash, but on Saturday, President Hassan Rouhani admitted Iranian military had \"unintentionally\" shot down the passenger plane after mistaking it for a cruise missile when it turned towards a sensitive military site.\n\nPresident Rouhani said the missile strike was an \"unforgivable mistake\".\n\nThe crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.\n\nMr Johnson said Iran's admission was an \"important first step\" and called for an investigation into the \"tragic accident\".\n\nAnd writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Raab said it was time for Tehran \"to come to the negotiating table to resolve all of Iran's issues of international concern.\"\n\nHe said Iran \"must stop pursuing a nuclear weapon, end its support for terrorism, and release the foreign nationals and dual nationals it cruelly holds\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to show missile strike on Ukrainian plane in Iran\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the shooting down of the passenger plane by Iran was \"an appalling act, and part of a whole pattern of appalling acts all across the region\".\n\nThe Queen has also sent a message of condolence to the Governor-General of Canada - where the majority of the passengers on the flight were headed.\n\nOut of the 176 victims on board the Kyiv-bound flight, 138 had listed Canada as their eventual destination.\n\nThe Queen said she and the Duke of Edinburgh were \"deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall added their condolences, saying they were \"utterly horrified\" by the disaster.\n\nBritons Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, Sam Zokaei and Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board\n\nFour Britons were on board the Ukrainian passenger plane.\n\nThree have been named as Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, who owned a dry cleaners in West Sussex, BP engineer Sam Zokaei from Twickenham, and PhD student and engineer Saeed Tahmasebi, who lived in Dartford.\n\nMr Tahmasebi's Iranian wife, Niloufar Ebrahim, was also listed as a passenger on the plane.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said parts of the deal were \"compromise outcomes\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said the governments' draft deal is not \"perfect\", but \"there is a basis upon which the assembly and executive can be re-established\".\n\nThe text was published on Thursday night.\n\nArlene Foster said: \"There are elements within it which we recognise are the product of long negotiations and represent compromise outcomes.\"\n\nShe was speaking before Sinn Féin backed the deal on Friday.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith said he hoped the the deal could see the assembly reconvene on Friday but the speaker Robin Newton made clear that could only happen when the parties approached him.\n\nThe DUP leader Mrs Foster said the party had weighed the governments' paper against its 10 commitments for negotiations.\n\n\"There will always need to be give and take,\" she said.\n\n\"The key to making devolution work will be having the resources to do so.\n\n\"This element of the paper will require further scrutiny.\"\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary-Lou McDonald said her party would \"assess\" the text\n\nThe draft deal was welcomed as an \"historic advancement\" by the Irish language group Conradh na Gaeilge.\n\nHowever, it said the proposed legislation \"falls very much short\" of promises for an Irish language act.\n\n\"The role and remit of the commissioner being left to the sign-off of OFMDFM [Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister - now the Executive Office] leaves us at the whim of a veto being used against core components of the legislation and drafting and delivery of services, said Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin from the group.\n\n\"The use of any veto to limit, obstruct or frustrate delivery of services and rights would undoubtedly erode trust and could be potentially catastrophic for any incoming Executive.\"\n\nQuestioned earlier on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan show about whether a unionist veto around the Irish language was included in the small print of the draft document, DUP chief whip Sir Jeffrey Donaldson confirmed: \"Unionist consent will be required\".\n\nHe said: \"That is the way Stormont operates. It operates on the basis that there has to be cross-community consent.\n\n\"We will not agree to standards that impose Irish on people who don't speak it.\n\n\"There will be no compulsory Irish in schools and there will be no Irish road signs.\"\n\nThe Orange Order released a statement saying it has \"very serious concerns\" about the draft deal and could not support the proposal to appoint an Irish language commissioner.\n\n\"The document, which has been released with a purposely narrow window for meaningful consideration, is clearly far reaching in its provision for the Irish language and its subsequent future role in the political and civic life of Northern Ireland,\" the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland's statement said.\n\nIt added that in contrast to measures to promote the Irish language, \"references to Ulster-Scots/Ulster British culture are ambiguous -lacking meaningful detail\".\n\nThe Orange Order said it would comment further on the draft deal in the coming days after consulting more widely with its members\n\nUUP leader Steve Aiken said the party is \"committed to a return to devolution that is fair and sustainable\".\n\nUUP leader Steve Aiken said his party will attend if the Assembly is recalled\n\nHe said: \"We will consider this complex and far-reaching document carefully and consult widely within our party before making any further comments.\n\n\"If the assembly is recalled on Friday, the Ulster Unionist Party MLAs will attend and consider the business put before them.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong questioned whether the reforms of the petition of concern detailed in the draft deal go far enough.\n\nAlliance MLA Kellie Armstrong has concerns about the petition of concern\n\n\"That is what we are trying to consider at the moment. This is a new approach,\" she said.\n\nShe said detailed work was also needed on Friday to define the financial aspect of the deal and \"the amount of money that has been talked about\" for public services in Northern Ireland.\n\nGreen Party NI leader Clare Bailey echoed Alliance's concerns that proposed reform of the petition of concern was insufficient and expressed some disappointment that environmental protections in the deal do not go far enough.\n\nHowever, Ms Bailey added she was \"hopeful that this is a deal that will see the restoration of the devolved institutions\".\n\nShe said it \"provides a chance to build towards delivery and accountability\" at Stormont.\n\nA key focus of the deal is the implementation of health and social care reform, including an end to the healthcare strikes which demand pay parity and safe staffing levels.\n\nSpeaking at a picket line in Antrim, the Royal College of Nursing President Anne Marie Rafferty said nurses \"want to see the ink on the paper and the deal delivered\".\n\n\"Words are not enough, deeds are what actually counts.\"\n\n\"It has been a cliff edge moment.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing said \"words are not enough\"\n\nEducation is another area which has come under financial pressure, with the deal promising that schools will have a sustainable core budget.\n\nGeri Cameron, President of the National Association of Head Teachers in Northern Ireland, said while \"detail is scant\", its representatives are willing to work with MLAs going forward.\n\nIndustry leaders have also been reacting to the proposals. Trade NI, which is an alliance of Retail NI, Manufacturing NI and Hospitality NI, released a statement urging \"all the main parties in Northern Ireland to sign the deal today and get the assembly back up and running.\"\n\n\"The clear prioritisation of the Northern Ireland economy highlights the many challenges that businesses have faced over the past three years.\"\n\nThe Institute of Directors Northern Ireland (IoDNI) said commitments for infrastructure projects such as the York Street Interchange, upgrades to the A5 and A6 and Northern Ireland's sewage network were \"particularly pleasing\".\n\n\"Plans for multi-year budgets and increased civic engagement will also improve overall governance,\" said the IoD's National Director Kirsty McManus.\n\n\"From a business perspective however, we would have liked to have seen more around a new skills agenda, which urgently require focus alongside a renewed look at the Apprenticeship Levy which is not included in this deal.", "Counter-terrorism police in south-east England have admitted an \"error of judgement\" after listing Extinction Rebellion as an \"extreme ideology\".\n\nFirst reported in the Guardian, the police guide - aimed at stopping young people being radicalised - suggested referring those at risk of extremism to the government's Prevent programme.\n\n\"How dare they,\" said climate change group Extinction Rebellion.\n\nPolice are now reviewing and recalling the document.\n\nThe climate change group was listed alongside banned groups like National Action in the 12-page guide.\n\nThe document was produced by Counter Terrorism Policing South East - part of the national counter-terrorism policing network - and given to police forces and government organisations.\n\nCalled \"safeguarding young people and adults from ideological extremism\", the guide itself also says it was produced for those who work with young people or the public, as well as local authorities.\n\nIt was designed to help \"recognise when young people or adults may be vulnerable to extreme or violent ideologies\", it reads.\n\nIt says spotting one of the signs in isolation may not mean someone has been radicalised, but \"in combination or in circumstances where they do not 'fit', they may indicate an individual at risk\".\n\n\"In such cases, consider whether the individual is vulnerable to extremism and should be referred to the UK government's Prevent programme.\"\n\nThe Prevent programme is part of the government's counter-terrorism strategy and urges local communities to flag up anyone at risk of joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.\n\nThe guide lists several groups, such as the neo-Nazi group National Action and Islamist extremist group Al Muhajiroun - both of which are banned in the UK.\n\nIt also has pages on far-right youth network Generation Identity, extreme Satanism and animal rights extremism.\n\nOn the page about Extinction Rebellion, the guide describes the group as: \"A campaign encouraging protest and civil disobedience to pressure governments to take action on climate change and species extinction.\"\n\nUnder the heading \"why are they a threat?\", the guide reads: \"An anti-establishment philosophy that seeks system change underlies its activism; the group attracts to its events school-age children and adults unlikely to be aware of this.\n\n\"While non-violent against persons, the campaign encourages other law-breaking activities.\"\n\nThe guide says signs someone is involved in Extinction Rebellion might be the use of phrases like \"rise up\" or \"rebel\".\n\nOr \"you may see or hear of young people taking part in 'NVDA' (non-violent direct action) such as sit-down protests, 'die-ins',\" the guide suggests.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Extinction Rebellion group said: \"Teachers, grandparents, nurses have been trying their best with loving non-violence to get politicians and big business to do something about the dire state of our planet.\n\n\"And this is how the establishment responds.\"\n\nIn a statement, Det Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, said: \"I would like to make it quite clear that we do not classify Extinction Rebellion as an extremist organisation.\n\n\"The inclusion of Extinction Rebellion in this document was an error of judgement and we will now be reviewing all of the contents as a result.\n\n\"It was produced by CTPSE to assist our statutory partners - including police forces and government organisations - in identifying people who may [be] vulnerable as a result of their links to some organisations.\"\n\nLast year saw multiple protests organised by Extinction Rebellion across the UK\n\nDet Ch Supt Barnes added that the document was \"designed for a very specific audience who understand the complexities of the safeguarding environment we work within and who have statutory duties under Prevent\".\n\nShe said they are in the process of confirming who the guide has been shared with and recalling it.\n\n\"We as Counter Terrorism Policing, along with our partners, have a responsibility to protect vulnerable people. Officers are trained to spot those who may be vulnerable, and the membership of an organisation that supports environmental or animal welfare issues alone would not be a trigger.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has admitted it was a \"struggle\" becoming a new mother amid intense media scrutiny.\n\nMeghan Markle married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and gave birth to their son Archie this year.\n\nSpeaking in an ITV documentary, the duchess referred to her life under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed\".\n\nShe added: \"Not many people have asked if I'm OK. But it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were both interviewed by Tom Bradby during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\nAsked how she was coping, Meghan said: \"Look, any woman - especially when they are pregnant - you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a new born - you know?\n\n\"And especially as a woman, it's a lot...\"\n\nThe duchess added: \"And also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I'm OK...\"\n\nWhen asked if it would be fair to say it had \"really been a struggle\", Meghan said: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last month with their son Archie\n\nThe documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey airs on ITV on Sunday at 21:00 BST.\n\nPrince Harry described the memories surrounding the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 as \"a wound that festers\".\n\nOn the tour, the prince visited an anti-landmine project championed by his mother in Angola and told ITV it had been \"emotional\" to trace her footsteps.\n\n\"I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back, so in that respect it's the worst reminder of her life, as opposed to the best.\"\n\nPrince Harry visited a landmine project championed by his late mother during the trip\n\nAs the tour ended, the duke and duchess both brought legal actions against the press.\n\nMeghan sued the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nHarry filed his own proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.", "Canada's PM Justin Trudeau says Iran's admission it downed a Ukrainian passenger plane is a first step, but there need to be \"many more\".\n\nHe said there must be \"full clarity on how such a horrific tragedy could have occurred\".", "Amber Carter-Thompson says she was in Wellingborough Road in Northampton when she was struck\n\nThe victim of a hit-and-run whose mother turned detective to find CCTV of the crash said the sentencing of the driver meant she could \"move on\".\n\nAmber Carter-Thompson was crossing a road in Northampton on Good Friday when she was struck, breaking her leg.\n\nArthur Desborough, 87, pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and failing to stop.\n\nDesborough of Ashley Way, Northampton, was fined £633 and given eight points on his licence by town magistrates.\n\nMs Carter-Thompson said she wanted to \"fully focus on my recovery post-op and the future\".\n\nThe 29-year-old said she was crossing Wellingborough Road at about 23:00 BST on 19 April with a friend when her leg was hit by the vehicle.\n\nAfter waiting a week for police to contact them, her mother, Gail Thompson, took matters into her own hands.\n\nShe said: \"Within the space of six hours we got CCTV of it happening.\"\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said the CCTV footage allowed them to identify the driver.\n\nMs Carter-Thompson, from Sevenoaks, Kent, said: \"I am glad the court case is over so that I can move on from the ordeal.\n\n\"I am grateful that I continue to have fantastic support from friends and family.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry and Meghan have revealed they intend to \"step back\" as senior royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nThey plan to split their time between the UK and North America, while \"continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages\".\n\nWhat do the public think? We asked people outside Buckingham Palace in London.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe United States has criticised the UK's request to extradite an American accused of killing motorcyclist Harry Dunn, calling it \"highly inappropriate\".\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after being hit by a car allegedly driven by suspect Anne Sacoolas, who left the country for the US claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe Home Office submitted a request on Friday to extradite her to the UK.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said she will \"100% be coming back\".\n\n\"I have no doubt in my mind, the only thing I can't tell you is when,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"This campaign won't stop until Anne Sacoolas is back in the UK facing the justice system. There is no celebration and until she is back, we won't rest.\n\n\"This lady is accused of taking Harry's life, then fleeing the country. No-one is above the law in modern society. You don't get to move to a country, break a law in that country and then leave.\"\n\nMr Seiger said that under the circumstances, the family was \"really pleased\" the UK authorities had taken the \"huge step towards justice\", but if the Trump administration was to ignore or reject the request, it would be re-presented should another administration come into power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radd Seiger: Anne Sacoolas will \"100% be coming back...the only thing I can't tell you is when''\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton, where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer. Mr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe 42-year-old left the UK shortly after the crash on 27 August and returned to the US, prompting a justice campaign by the teenager's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn.\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in December by the Crown Prosecution Service with causing death by dangerous driving and the Home Office submitted its extradition request to the US Department of Justice.\n\nA spokeswoman for the US State Department said: \"It is the position of the United States government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an abuse.\n\n\"The use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomat by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jamie Wallis took the Bridgend seat in December for the Tories after 32 years of Labour dominance\n\nA candidate in the Labour leadership contest wants Boris Johnson to kick one of his new Welsh MPs out of the Conservative party in Parliament.\n\nJess Phillips has started a petition calling on the prime minister to withdraw the whip from the Tory MP for Bridgend, Jamie Wallis.\n\nHe was the director of several firms which have been the subject of hundreds of complaints to Bridgend trading standards.\n\nMr Wallis has been asked to comment.\n\nOn Saturday the Conservative Party said it could not make a comment at this time.\n\nHe won Bridgend for the Tories from Labour in last month's election.\n\nIt has emerged that one of the companies, Quickie Divorce Ltd, which trades under the title clean-break.co.uk, advertised on its website a separate business called Sugar-Daddy.net.\n\nThis business offered people introductions to wealthy individuals, saying: \"We can introduce you to your very own sugar daddy and solve your money worries.\n\n\"Whether you're a boy, girl, straight or gay, there's a sugar daddy for you.\"\n\nJess Phillips, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, has now launched a petition calling on the prime minister to withdraw the whip from Mr Wallis.\n\nHer petition says: \"Let's be clear: sugar daddy is a euphemism for something deeply ugly: exploitation of women by powerful men.\n\n\"The Tories should feel ashamed sitting alongside Jamie Wallis. The only way to show they don't condone this kind of behaviour is to remove the whip.\"\n\nJess Phillips: \"Let's be clear: sugar daddy is a euphemism for something deeply ugly\n\nLabour's Gower MP Tonia Antoniazzi backed Ms Phillips' call to remove the whip from Mr Wallis\n\nMs Phillips, a well known women's rights campaigner, is one of the Labour MPs hoping to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party.\n\nLabour's Gower MP Tonia Antoniazzi backed Ms Phillips' call to remove the whip from Mr Wallis.\n\nShe said she was \"really concerned\" about Mr Wallis and added that \"his track record is very dubious\".\n\n\"I'm concerned the Conservatives are not doing a simple Google search to have a look to see what their candidates are like,\" she said.\n\n\"Jamie Wallis has been known to the Tory party, he has stood as a candidate in Ogmore previously and I think people like him should not be members of parliament.\"\n\nMr Wallis resigned his directorships of a number of companies including Quickie Divorce Ltd, a short time after December's general election.\n\nAccording to Companies House, he remains a person with significant control of the company, owning voting rights of 75% or more.\n\nMr Wallis and the Conservative Party have been approached for a response.\n\nMr Wallis told BuzzFeed: \"Online queries indicate the sugar-daddy.net website was registered in 2004 and ceased to be operational in 2010.\n\n\"The site appears to have been owned and operated by a company named SD Billing Services Limited. For the avoidance of any doubt, I have never had a financial interest, nor been a director of SD Billing services Limited and cannot comment on its operational activities.\"\n\nMr Wallis has also rejected the information provided about complaints to Bridgend trading standards relating to the companies where he was director.\n\nHe has rejected them as \"nonsense\" and says his former businesses are considering legal action against the local authority.", "Online food ordering company Takeaway.com has won the battle for the UK-listed Just Eat with a £5.9bn all-share offer.\n\nThe deal will create one of the world's largest meal delivery companies.\n\nThe merged company, which will be led by Takeaway chief executive Jitse Groen, will have its headquarters in Amsterdam and a listing in London.\n\nThe joint group will bring together businesses that process 360 million annual orders worth €7.3bn (£6.6bn).\n\n\"I am thrilled,\" said Mr Groen. \"Just Eat Takeaway.com is a dream combination and I am very much looking forward to leading the company for many years to come.\"\n\nTakeaway said that 80.4% of Just Eat shareholders had agreed to its latest all-share offer, passing a 50% threshold needed to make the offer unconditional.\n\nThe bid was worth 889 pence per share at the latest close, trumping a rival bid of 800 pence per share in cash from Prosus.\n\nThe fight to buy Just Eat began in August, when Takeaway struck a management-backed deal to buy Just Eat that would see Takeaway holding a 48% stake in the combined firm.\n\nThat plan was upended when Prosus laid down the first of three unsolicited rival bids in October. All were rejected as inadequate by Just Eat managers.\n\nProsus argued Takeaway was underestimating the investment needed to fend off rivals such as Uber Eats and Amazon.com.\n\nMr Groen responded that food delivery was a low-margin business, and investments should focus on becoming the dominant ordering platform.\n\nThe combined firm will have 23 subsidiaries, mostly in Europe but also in Canada, Australia and Latin America.\n\nJust Eat was founded by a group of five Danish entrepreneurs in 2000 and launched a year later. It employs 3,600 staff globally.\n\nAs well as the Just Eat brand in Europe, it trades as Skip The Dishes in Canada, iFood in Mexico and Brazil, and Menulog in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nJust Eat is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100 share index.", "Lewis Capaldi and Dave have the most nominations for this year's ceremony\n\nIt'll be a battle between ballads and bangers at this year's Brit Awards, with Lewis Capaldi and Dave pitched against each other in four categories.\n\nThe Scottish torch singer and the Streatham-born rapper are both up for best male, best newcomer, best single and album of the year at the ceremony, which takes place in London next month.\n\nStormzy and Mabel are the second most-nominated artists, with three apiece.\n\nBut Ed Sheeran is largely frozen out, receiving just a single nomination.\n\nThe six-time Brit Award winner had one of last year's most successful albums - the star-studded No. 6 Collaborations Project, which spent five weeks at number one, and selling 568,000 copies.\n\nHowever, he is locked out of the best male and best album categories, while his Justin Bieber duet I Don't Care is up for best single.\n\nNotably, that's the only category where nominees are not selected by the 1,200 industry figures who vote for the Brits - with the 10 shortlisted songs representing the biggest-selling singles of 2019.\n\nMabel was previously nominated for the Brits' Critics Choice award in 2018\n\nMabel, who is the daughter of Neneh Cherry and Massive Attack producer Cameron McVey, is the most-nominated female artist, reflecting the popularity of her single Don't Call Me Up, which charted in the top 10 across Europe and attracted viral attention in the US.\n\n\"It's crazy how a song can grow wings and fly you everywhere,\" said the 23-year-old. \"I'm really grateful for that tune.\"\n\nThe singer, who is nominated for best female, best new artist and best single, joked that if she won a trophy in February, she would change her Uber profile name to \"Brit Award-winner Mabel\".\n\nHer nominations come exactly 30 years after her mother, who was born in Sweden, won two Brits - for best international artist and best international breakthrough.\n\nThis year, Dave is a front-runner for best album, having already won the Mercury Prize for his debut Psychodrama.\n\nA serious, reflective record that addresses life as a young black Briton today, it's framed as a therapy session, with Dave discussing his absentee father, his brother's incarceration, domestic violence and the pressure to succeed as a musician.\n\nCapaldi is also a strong contender: His debut, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, was the best-selling record of 2019; propelled by the success of his tear-jerking ballad Someone You Loved.\n\nFellow grime artist Stormzy is also nominated for his charismatic and powerful second album Heavy Is The Head; and the shortlist is completed by Michael Kiwanuka's soul-searching Kiwanuka and Harry Styles's nostalgic pop opus Fine Line.\n\nFor the first time since 2017, no female artists made the shortlist. According to The Guardian, of the 193 albums submitted for consideration to Brits' voters, only 35 were by women.\n\n\"It's clear there's a wider issue here,\" wrote the paper's chief music critic Alexis Petridis.\n\n\"One that involves the British music industry's ability or otherwise to sign and develop female artists [and] to turn them into lasting success stories.\"\n\nThe last female artist to win best album was Adele, whose third record, 25, scooped the top prize in 2016.\n\nTyler, The Creator, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande are all up for the international prizes\n\nIn the international categories, Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish led the nominees for best female - although Taylor Swift misses out.\n\nA diverse shortlist for best international male features Burna Boy, Post Malone and Bruce Springsteen, who last won an Brit award 34 years ago.\n\nThis year's ceremony will be held at London's O2 Arena on Tuesday, 18 February, hosted for a third time by Jack Whitehall.\n\nLast year, organisers announced sweeping changes to the show, dropping several categories and handing more creative control to performers.\n\nThe ceremony will be broadcast live on ITV.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Meghan and Harry have a global appeal, but how could they make money?\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have agreed to stop using their HRH titles as part of their plans to withdraw from royal duties and \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said royals were usually excluded from doing paid work, but by setting aside their titles the couple had gained more freedom.\n\n\"Of course once you lose the title then you are no longer royal and special, and it may be that your brand is much less attractive to potential partners,\" he said.\n\nPublic relations consultant Mark Borkowski said even without their titles, the couple are \"powerful A-listers in their own right, so they're going to attract a lot of attention\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan plan to split their time between the UK and North America - and their global reach could open up a wealth of opportunities.\n\nBut how might they earn their financial independence and fund their charitable causes?\n\nAn application to trademark the Sussex Royal brand was lodged by the couple in June last year, covering items such as books, calendars, clothing, charitable fundraising and campaigning.\n\nIt raised the possibility of Prince Harry and Meghan launching their own lines of products, from beauty to clothing.\n\nBut the agreement with the Queen has cast doubt on that idea. A brand incorporating the word \"royal\" may not be compatible with their agreement to step back from royal duties, while upholding \"the values of Her Majesty\".\n\nJournalist and royal style commentator Elizabeth Holmes says criticism for exploiting the royal connection is a risk in any commercial venture, adding: \"That's why I think they'll be careful about it.\"\n\nMeghan is a royal patron of Smart Works and helped style women during a visit to the charity last year\n\nEven if they have to go back to the drawing board with the Sussex Royal name, Ms Holmes says: \"Any brand on the planet would want to work with them.\"\n\nWhether it's a designer handbag or Archie's hand-knitted bobble hat, whenever the Sussexes are pictured with a product, sales go through the roof.\n\nWe probably shouldn't expect the couple's 10.5 million Instagram followers to be suddenly bombarded with sponsored content and product placement though, Ms Holmes says.\n\nWhile the royal couple have a huge platform, it pales in comparison to the likes of Kylie Jenner, who has more than 150 million Instagram followers.\n\nThe reality TV star, who topped last year's Instagram rich list, is estimated to earn around $1.2m (£960,000) for a single sponsored post.\n\nCould Meghan and Harry follow that trend? Ms Holmes says: \"I don't think that's necessarily an appropriate thing for a member of the Royal Family.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess have said they plan to launch a charitable organisation to achieve \"progressive change\" through \"local and global community action\".\n\nMs Holmes suggests any commercial partnerships would be tied to the couple's charitable causes, perhaps with a secondary opportunity to raise personal income.\n\nFor example, Meghan is the patron of a charity that provides free clothing and interview training to unemployed women and has launched her own clothing line for the organisation.\n\nWhile the couple may be legally allowed to draw a salary from their charity, that is not the approach taken by some of their likely inspirations.\n\nHarry and Meghan said they \"researched the incredible work of many well-known and lesser-known foundations\" in drawing up their plans.\n\nOrganisations such as the Clinton Foundation, the Obama Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been suggested as potential models.\n\nBut the Clintons say they draw no income or expenses from their charity, the Obamas are not listed among their foundation's highest-paid officers, and Mr and Mrs Gates famously use their organisation to give away wealth rather than to receive it.\n\nWith Meghan first finding fame as an actress in the US television drama Suits, it is perhaps no surprise that some of the couple's first opportunities have come from the entertainment world.\n\nHarry has already teamed up with US media mogul Oprah Winfrey on a series addressing mental health for Apple TV, which is due for broadcast in 2020.\n\nAnd when the duke and duchess announced their intention to \"step back\", it was revealed that Meghan has already signed a voiceover deal with Disney in return for a donation to an elephant conservation charity.\n\nOprah Winfrey was a guest at the duke and duchess' wedding\n\nNetflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos has already expressed an interest in working with the couple. \"Who wouldn't be interested? Yes, sure,\" he said.\n\nThat could represent a chance to follow in the steps of the Obamas, who signed a deal with the streaming video company to produce documentaries and drama series about social and political issues.\n\nA similar deal could give the duke and duchess an opportunity to highlight causes close to their hearts.\n\nFor Meghan, these include equality and women's rights, while Harry has been vocal in campaigning on mental health and military veterans' welfare.\n\nWhile the couple have spoken about their struggles with the intense media interest in their lives, the idea of revealing more about themselves in their own words might be more appealing - and lucrative.\n\nThe 2017 book deal signed by Barack and Michelle Obama was believed to be worth more than $60m (£48m).\n\nIt's also an area Meghan has previously shown an interest in. In her introduction to last year's September issue of Vogue, which she guest edited, Meghan wrote of her \"love of writing\".\n\nBefore she married Harry, she also ran a lifestyle blog, The Tig, where she shared beauty, fashion and travel tips.\n\nMichelle Obama's memoir sold more than 10 million copies in its first five months\n\nNatalie Jerome, a literary agent at Aevitas, says the couple have \"enormous power and reach\" and any book deal would be extremely lucrative.\n\n\"People have compared them to the Obamas and I think there's potentially some merit in that,\" she says.\n\nMeghan is an aspirational figure for many women of colour and young people, she adds.\n\n\"We're in a period now where we're talking increasingly about diversity within publishing and there's a real push to reach wider audiences,\" she says.\n\n\"If she were to publish a book in her own right and reach out to young people on the ground by doing talks and going to schools like Michelle Obama did, I think the book would be hugely successful.\"\n\nAnother potential avenue for the pair to explore could be after-dinner speeches and events.\n\nJeremy Lee, director at speaking agency JLA, says if they maintained a positive profile the couple could earn six-figure sums for each appearance.\n\nHe predicts demand would be higher in US, where Mr Lee says the pair could earn up to $500,000 (£380,000) per engagement.\n\nHowever, he says companies in the UK would be more sensitive to reputational risk if public opinion turned against the couple.\n\nMr Lee predicts UK companies would only be willing to take the royals as speakers at an event linked to one of their campaigning interests, in return for a donation to their charitable foundation - rather than a fee - in the region of £100,000.\n\nBut in the US, there would be interest from \"anybody that wants to show off and has got the budget\", he says.", "Sinn Féin and the DUP have re-entered devolved government in Northern Ireland after three years of deadlock.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster was appointed as Northern Ireland's first minister, while Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill is deputy first minister on Saturday.\n\nThe two parties supported a deal to restore Stormont's political institutions.\n\nStormont's power-sharing coalition, led by the DUP and Sinn Féin, collapsed in January 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arlene Foster says parties must work for everyone\n\nThe first minister comes from the largest party in the assembly and deputy first minister is from the second-largest party.\n\nThe positions are known as a \"diarchy\" which means they are equal and govern together.\n\nThe deputy first minister is not subordinate to the first minister, despite the title.\n\nAddressing the assembly, Mrs Foster said the politicians have \"many differences\".\n\n\"Michelle's narrative of the past 40 years could not be more different to mine,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm not sure we will ever agree on much about the past, but we can agree there was too much suffering, and that we cannot allow society to drift backwards and allow division to grow.\"\n\nShe added that it was \"time for Stormont to move forward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was her \"sincere wish that 2020 brings real change\".\n\nShe also pledged to immediately resolve the pay parity row that has led to industrial strike action among health workers.\n\nShe said: \"I see no contradiction in declaring and delivering on our firm commitment to power sharing with unionism in the Stormont Assembly while also initiating a mature and inclusive debate about new political arrangements which examine Ireland's future beyond Brexit.\n\n\"Similarly, there is no contradiction in unionism working the existing constitutional arrangements while taking its rightful place in the conversation about what a new Ireland would look like.\n\n\"We can do this while maintaining our independent distinct political identities and working in the best interests of all of the people.\"\n\nBoth prime ministers have welcomed the restoration of devolved government at Stormont\n\n\"The parties of Northern Ireland have shown great leadership in coming together to accept this fair and balanced deal in the interests of everyone in Northern Ireland,\" Boris Johnson said.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar commended Northern Ireland's political parties \"for their decision to put the people they represent first and make measured compromises to reach a deal\".\n\n\"I look forward to working with representatives in Northern Ireland as they begin working together again on behalf of all people in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nThe first day back was always going to bring its challenges - but despite some malfunctioning microphones, events in the chamber moved at pace.\n\nThe surprising move by the DUP to support a Sinn Féin speaker instead of the SDLP, already has some sceptics suspecting not much has changed when it comes to how the two biggest parties operated in the last mandate.\n\nBut there's no denying Parliament Buildings has a buzz about it again.\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill now have to prove that they can share power and deliver on the commitments in the new Stormont deal.\n\nThe SDLP, Alliance and Ulster Unionists are back in the executive too - a sign they would rather be helping take decisions, than stuck outside looking in.\n\nAfter the session ended, the new ministers were immediately met by their departmental officials: the task of getting down to business starts now.\n\nReacting to the return of Stormont, former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said the assembly provided a place to \"moderate differences, and to define common ground\".\n\n\"It doesn't have to be back on the streets, it doesn't have to be these mad radio talk programmes, it doesn't have to be who shouts and yells the loudest,\" Mr Adams told RTÉ's Week in Politics programme.\n\nAll five main parties in Northern Ireland - the DUP, Sinn Féin, Alliance, SDLP and UUP - have joined the new executive.\n\nMLAs - members of the legislative assembly - met at Stormont on Saturday.\n\nTheir first item of business at Stormont on Saturday was the election of Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey as the assembly's new speaker.\n\nThe DUP's Christopher Stalford; UUP's Roy Beggs and SDLP's Patsy McGlone are his three deputies.\n\nGordon Lyons (DUP) and Declan Kearney (Sinn Féin) will serve as junior ministers.\n\nShe said it followed conversations with Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill on Friday night.\n\nMrs Long said she was \"honoured to have the support of all sides of the house\".\n\nWith the exception of the role of justice minister, the posts are shared out using a system called D'Hondt, in which ministerial posts are allocated according to parties' representation in the assembly.\n\nThe other members of the executive are:\n\nThe d'Hondt mechanism is used to appoint almost all the ministerial departments in the executive - meaning the departments are shared round the parties based on how many MLAs they have.\n\nJustice is different though - it is elected by a cross-community vote.\n\nThis is because when the Northern Ireland Executive was first created in 1999 it was considered that it was not yet appropriate to devolve policing and justice powers. There was still a tense security situation and so those powers remained at Westminster.\n\nIn 2010 a deal was struck to devolve justice, but the DUP did not want a Sinn Féin minister to be able to hold the post.\n\nInstead it was agreed any justice minister required a cross-community vote.\n\nRobin Swann stood down as UUP leader in October due to family commitments\n\nA big surprise was the appointment of Robin Swann as health minister.\n\nIt comes just three months after the UUP North Antrim MLA stepped down as party leader due to the impact the role was having on his \"role as a husband and a father\".\n\nHe told the BBC that the party considered health a major priority and \"when we had the chance to take it, we did\".\n\nMr Swann said he was going to hold the first and deputy first ministers to account and would not let them \"play party politics with health\".\n\nRelations between the DUP and Sinn Féin had deteriorated in recent years as the two parties were diametrically opposed not only on Northern Ireland's position within the UK, but also issues such as the Irish language; same-sex marriage; abortion and how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nBut unexpectedly it was a row over a green energy scheme which pushed their relationship past breaking point.\n\nThe Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was set up by DUP leader Arlene Foster when she was enterprise minister, but it ran over budget and at one point threatened to cost taxpayers £490m.\n\nSinn Féin demanded that Mrs Foster step aside as first minister during an inquiry into the RHI scheme and when she refused, they pulled out of government on 9 January 2017.\n\nTwo key sticking points in the Stormont talks were around an Irish language act and the petition of concern.\n\nThe purpose of petition of concern is to protect one community from legislation that would favour another and a valid petition requires the signatures of 30 MLAs.\n\nThe new deal says there is to be \"meaningful reform\" of the petition, which would be \"reduced and returned to its intended purpose\" and would \"only be used in the most exceptional circumstances and as a last resort, having used every other mechanism\".\n\nThe deal would see legislation created for the appointment of both an Irish language commissioner and an Ulster-Scots commissioner.\n\nEarlier, Irish language group Conradh na Gaeilge welcomed the deal as an \"historic advancement\" but added it \"falls very much short\" of promises for an Irish Language act.\n\nOther key points in the deal include the Northern Ireland Executive settling an ongoing pay dispute with nurses and increasing policing numbers.", "Soleimani - seen here in Iraq in 2015 - directed militia in Iraq who attacked US troops and later fought the Islamic State group\n\nNext to Iran's Supreme Leader, Qasem Soleimani was arguably the most powerful figure in the Islamic republic.\n\nAs head of its military abroad known as the Quds Force, Soleimani was the mastermind behind the country's activities across in the Middle East, and its real foreign minister when it came to matters of war and peace.\n\nHe was widely considered an architect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against rebels in Syria, the rise of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State group, and many battles beyond.\n\nCharismatic and often elusive, the silver-haired commander was revered by some, loathed by others, and a source of myths and social media memes.\n\nHe had emerged in recent years from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations to achieve fame and popularity in Iran, becoming the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.\n\nAs far back as 2013, former CIA officer John Maguire told The New Yorker that Soleimani was \"the single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".\n\nWhen his end came, it was violent and sudden. On 3 January the Pentagon announced that it had carried out a successful operation to kill him, at the direction of US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe assassination followed a sharp escalation between the US, Iran and Iran-backed groups in Iraq following the death of a US military contractor in a missile attack on a US base in Iraq - for which the US held Iran responsible.\n\nThe US responded with an air strike on the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah. Militia supporters then attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran had been rising since the US pulled out of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to curb Iran's nuclear programme and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. The US has also reimposed sanctions on Iran, sending its economy into freefall.\n\nSoleimani is believed to have come from a poor background and to have had very little formal education. But he had risen through the Revolutionary Guards - Iran's elite and most powerful force - and was reportedly close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.\n\nAfter becoming commander of the Quds Force in 1998, Soleimani attempted to extend Iran's influence in the Middle East by carrying out covert operations, providing arms to allies and developing networks of militias loyal to Iran.\n\nOver the course of his career he is believed to have aided Shia Muslim and Kurdish groups in Iraq fighting against former dictator Saddam Hussein as well as other groups in the region including the Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamist organisation Hamas in the Palestinian territories.\n\nAfter the US invaded Iraq in 2003 he began directing militant groups to carry out attacks against US troops and bases, killing hundreds.\n\nHe is also widely credited with finding a strategy for Bashar al-Assad to respond to the armed uprising against him that began in 2011. Iranian assistance along with Russian air support helped turn the tide against rebel forces and in the Syrian government's favour, allowing it to recapture key cities and towns.\n\nSoleimani himself was sometimes pictured at funerals of Iranians killed in Syria and Iraq, where Iran had deployed thousands of combatants and military advisers.\n\nHe also travelled frequently across the region, regularly shuttling between Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where Iranian influence has steadily grown. When he was killed he was travelling in a two-car convoy away from Baghdad airport with others including Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed.\n\nSoleimani was killed in an air strike near Baghdad's airport\n\nIn April 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Quds Force as foreign terrorist organisations.\n\nThe Trump administration has said the Quds Force provided funding, training, weapons and equipment to US-designated terrorist groups in the Middle East - including Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group based in Gaza.\n\nIn a statement, the Pentagon said Soleimani had been \"actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\n\"General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,\" it added.", "Liverpool setting records in the best-ever start to a season by a club in Europe's top-five leagues \"doesn't feel special somehow\", says Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\nRoberto Firmino's first-half goal ensured the European champions opened up a 16-point lead over Leicester City at the top of the table with a game in hand.\n\nBut while Liverpool's peerless start of 20 wins from 21 games has put them on course for a first top-flight title for 30 years, Klopp played down its significance.\n\n\"We know about it and it is special but I can't feel it,\" said the German boss.\n\n\"When someone gives you a trophy it is done but until then you need to fight. It is only the start. We need to continue because our contenders are so strong.\n\n\"Pep (Guardiola, Manchester City boss) will not give up. I will do the same. So far, so really good.\"\n\nKlopp's men have now amassed 104 points across their last 38 Premier League matches, scoring in all 21 of their matches this term.\n\nThat record was maintained in London by Brazil forward Firmino, who turned Spurs' young debutant Japhet Tanganga and beat Paulo Gazzaniga with a sweet left-foot strike to give the visitors a deserved lead.\n\nHowever Liverpool were then grateful for poor finishing from Jose Mourinho's side - who were without the injured Harry Kane - in order to record another victory on their seemingly relentless march to a first title in three decades.\n\nSon Heung-Min and substitute Giovani lo Celso missed excellent second-half chances to give Spurs some reward for a performance that improved as the game went on.\n• None 'Liverpool now operate on a different level to Spurs'\n• None Why Liverpool's run from start of season tops Bayern, Barca and Juve\n• None What happened in the Premier League on Saturday?\n• None The various ways Minamino will help Liverpool\n\nBut Liverpool, their position at the top strengthened further by Leicester City's shock home loss to Southampton, held on to increase the sense of formality about the destination of this season's Premier League trophy.\n\nLiverpool not at most fluent - but win again\n\nLiverpool may not have been at their best - there were even spells in the second half when they looked jaded - but this is a team on a seemingly unstoppable run to the Premier League title.\n\nThis was their 12th successive league win and it is a remarkable feat to have dropped only two league points from their first 21 games.\n\nIt is true they were let off by Spurs' missed chances but there is perhaps a sense that Liverpool's dominance is having a psychological impact on their opponents so that when rare opportunities come along, they are being snatched at.\n\nAnd even when not in prime form, Liverpool's forward line is so potent that there is always a goal in them - as Firmino proved with his neat 37th-minute sidestep and thumping finish.\n\nSpurs will claim, with justification, they should have had a throw-in before the goal but Liverpool are now being propelled with growing momentum to end that long wait to reclaim their perch at the summit of the English game.\n\nThe root of Spurs' downfall came in two distinct aspects of their performance - albeit one did get better as the game wore on.\n\nIn the first half, Spurs were far too passive and negative as they sat back, presumably waiting for an opportunity to strike on the counter attack.\n\nThe tactic was undone by Firmino's goal, leaving Spurs with no option but to be more positive in the second period.\n\nIt was then, without the marksmanship of long-term injury victim Kane, that they were so wasteful in front of goal - with both Son and Lo Celso missing when it seemed easier to score.\n\nLo Celso's miss, in particular, left Mourinho openly lamenting his side's absence of a clinical edge as he collapsed dramatically to his knees after the Argentina midfielder failed to hit the target from close range.\n\nSpurs' wasteful moments against Liverpool may well further convince their manager he has to strengthen his attacking options in this transfer window as the fight for a top-four place intensifies.\n\n'This is the best team in the world' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"This is football. Sometimes you get more than you deserve. Sometimes you get less. This was an occasion when we got nothing when we deserved something. This is the best team in the world against a team in a difficult moment, with injuries, in a difficult part of the season. The boys were fantastic when we tried to change and create problems.\"\n\nOn a potential handball in the build-up to the goal: \"I didn't watch it. What I watch is 200% that the throw in for the start of the goal was our throw. I am confused with VAR because of that.\"\n\nOn finishing in the top four: \"It is possible to talk about top four when you start the season on zero points. But it is hard to talk about it when you start at minus 12 (the number of points off the top four Spurs were when he took over).\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was very hard-fought because we didn't close the game down early. We should have been one or 2-0 up already when we scored. If you have a quality opponent like Tottenham and you don't close the game they will come back. Allison makes things look easy. It is not what we would have wanted. It is intense, you lose the ball and you are facing one of the best counter-attacking sides. We had Robbo (Andy Robertson) free two or three times and he didn't find a team-mate, so we didn't help ourselves.\"\n\nOn his side's defensive record: \"We needed Allison for that today. We had a few dips defensively. Some games he has not had a lot to do with us winning the ball high early. It is good but there is no other chance to win games than to defend well.\"\n• None Liverpool have 61 points in the Premier League in 2019-20 - the most any side has ever registered after 21 games in a single season across Europe's big five leagues (assuming three points for a win).\n• None Liverpool have collected 104 points across their last 38 Premier League matches (W33 D5 L0) - a record total by any team across a 38-match spell in the competition's history, overtaking 102-point stretches by Man City (ending in 2018) and Chelsea (2005).\n• None Tottenham Hotspur have conceded 20 goals in 13 matches in all competitions under Jose Mourinho; it took Mourinho's Chelsea side 44 games before letting in their 20th goal during his first spell in England as a manager in the 2004-05 season.\n• None This is Liverpool's joint-best scoring run from the start of a season in English top-flight history, with the Reds also scoring in their opening 21 games in 1933-34.\n• None Liverpool have now gone 38 Premier League games without defeat; since their last league loss at Man City in January 2019, Tottenham have lost 16 Premier League matches by comparison, including three to the Reds.\n• None Tottenham have lost back-to-back Premier League matches for the first time this season, having last done so in May 2019, while this is the first time their manager Jose Mourinho has lost consecutive games in the competition since August 2018 as Manchester United boss.\n• None Liverpool have kept six consecutive clean sheets in the Premier League for the first time since December 2006 (seven).\n• None Roberto Firmino has scored five goals in his last six games for Liverpool in all competitions, as many as he had in his previous 30 appearances for the Reds before this run.\n\nTottenham host Middlesbrough in their FA Cup third-round replay on Tuesday, 14 January (20:05 GMT). They then travel to Watford in the Premier League on Saturday, 18 January (12:30 GMT).\n\nLiverpool welcome Manchester United to Anfield in their next Premier League fixture on Sunday, 19 January (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Moura.\n• None Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Attempt saved. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Serge Aurier with a cross.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Toby Alderweireld tries a through ball, but Serge Aurier is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Lucas Moura. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said her party was up for a return to \"genuine power sharing\".\n\nThe party has said they will re-enter devolved government in Northern Ireland after three years of deadlock.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had earlier also given tentative its support to a draft deal to restore Stormont's political institutions.\n\nThe British and Irish governments published the draft proposals on Thursday, after nine months of talks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinn Féin and the DUP have re-entered devolved government in Northern Ireland after three years of deadlock on Saturday.\n\nThe two parties have supported a deal to restore Stormont's political institutions.\n\nThe British and Irish governments published the draft proposals on Thursday, after nine months of talks.\n\nStormont's power-sharing coalition, led by the DUP and Sinn Féin, collapsed in January 2017 over a green energy row.\n\nBefore the proceedings began, both the Ulster Unionist Party and the Alliance Party confirmed that they would be entering the new executive.\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long also revealed that she would be accepting the position of justice minister.\n\nThat means all five main parties in Northern Ireland will join the executive.\n\nIn the first item of business, Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey was elected as the assembly's new speaker after a vote. Out of the 83 MLAs - members of the legislative assembly - who voted, 51 backed the former lord mayor of Belfast.\n\nThe DUP's Christopher Stalford; UUP's Roy Beggs and SDLP's Patsy McGlone are his three deputies.\n\nThe MLAs are now set to appoint the 10 ministerial roles.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster and Sinn Féin Vice-President Michelle O'Neill are expected to be named first and deputy first ministers respectively.\n\nThe proceedings are being streamed live on the BBC News NI website from 13:00 GMT, and there will also be coverage on BBC Parliament and BBC Two NI from 15:30 GMT.\n\nRelations between the DUP and Sinn Féin had deteriorated in recent years as the two parties were diametrically opposed not only on Northern Ireland's position within the UK, but also issues such as the Irish language; same-sex marriage; abortion and how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nBut unexpectedly it was a row over a green energy scheme which pushed their relationship past breaking point.\n\nThe Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was set up by DUP leader Arlene Foster when she was enterprise minister, but it ran over budget and at one point threatened to cost taxpayers £490m.\n\nSinn Féin demanded that Mrs Foster step aside as first minister during an inquiry into the RHI scheme and when she refused, they pulled out of government on 9 January 2017.\n\nTwo key sticking points in the Stormont talks were around an Irish language act and the petition of concern.\n\nThe purpose of petition of concern is to protect one community from legislation that would favour another and a valid petition requires the signatures of 30 MLAs.\n\nThe call for an Irish language act has been a key sticking point\n\nThe draft deal says there is to be \"meaningful reform\" of the petition, which would be \"reduced and returned to its intended purpose\" and would \"only be used in the most exceptional circumstances and as a last resort, having used every other mechanism\".\n\nThe proposed deal would see legislation created for the appointment of both an Irish language commissioner and an Ulster-Scots commissioner.\n\nEarlier, Irish language group Conradh na Gaeilge welcomed the draft deal as \"historic advancement but added it \"falls very much short\" of promises for an Irish Language act.\n\nOther key points in the deal include the Northern Ireland Executive settling an ongoing pay dispute with nurses and increasing policing numbers.", "That's all from us on a historic day at Stormont, which saw the return of power-sharing government after three years of paralysis.\n\nThere will be more news and reaction on the BBC News NI website over the weekend.\n\nThanks for joining us, and goodbye.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US ordered the killing of Qasem Soleinmani because it had \"specific information\" that Iranian threats targeting US facilities, including embassies and military bases.", "Apparently, the great British romantic painter JMW Turner (1775-1851) once said if he could have his life again he would have been an architect: a statement that is as good an argument as any I've heard against reincarnation.\n\nThat's not to say London's finest landscape artist couldn't have become a decent architect from a technical point of view. He knew his way around a set of plans having been apprenticed to an architect in his early teens, and would regularly include grand buildings in his paintings.\n\nBut design is only a small part of the art of architecture.\n\nThe real work is done in wooing and cajoling clients, compromising to accommodate their wishes, and working within a budget that is typically about as fit for purpose as an honest thief.\n\nThe famously irascible, opinionated, singular genius that was the barber's son from Covent Garden would have fallen out with more customers than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have with family members. The chances of him running a successful architectural practice would have been zero, added to which we wouldn't have his extraordinary art to enjoy.\n\nThere is one place, though, where, for the first time since 1826, we can have a glimpse into a world where Turner the would-be architect and Turner the supreme painter of light and atmosphere, coexist.\n\nIt involves a trip to suburban Twickenham in south-west London to visit a small but perfectly formed Georgian house that Turner himself designed between 1807-13 (with a little help from his friend, the renowned architect, Sir John Soane).\n\nThe great landscape artist designed this small villa, Sandycombe Lodge, near the Thames at Twickenham between 1807-13\n\nWilliam Daniell's etching of JMW Turner when he was 25 years old, is at the artist's house\n\nSandycombe Lodge is his one and only realised building - or three-dimensional artwork as those wishing to elevate its status might say - and as such gives us two insights. Firstly, Turner's architectural tastes were as conservative as his paintings were radical. And secondly, he was, at heart, a modest man.\n\nIt is a bijou property on what was a sizeable plot, which the 32-year-old Turner bought to build his bolthole from the hurly burly of central London life.\n\nHe was already a very successful artist with a pad in Harley Street to which he had attached his own commercial art gallery. He liked the idea of owning a des-res in what the poet James Thomson described as \"the matchless vale of the Thames\" - the riverside area seen from Richmond Hill taking in Kew, Twickenham, Isleworth and Richmond.\n\nIt was the Cotswolds of the day, the trendy place where the rich and famous would \"weekend\" and fill their palatial houses with glamorous guests. Turner being Turner and a contrary sort of fellow, went tiny where others - such as his old Royal Academy president Sir Joshua Reynolds - went very large.\n\nTurner wasn't interested in impressing anybody, he was interested in the light of the Thames, a river to which he had spent his life living in close proximity.\n\nHe'd invite a few mates to stay (including, somewhat surprisingly, the Duc d'Orléans, later Louis Philippe, King of France), take them fishing, ask them to join his \"Pic-nic-Academical Club\", and discuss poetry.\n\nTurner designed the villa so he could see the river from this bedroom window\n\nThere is no evidence he painted with oils there, but he certainly sketched and probably went out on his specially made boat-cum-studio to paint in watercolours.\n\nWhat is without doubt is his lifelong artistic relationship with the River Thames, an important motif most famously evident in his magnificent masterpiece Rain, Steam and Speed (1844).\n\nIt is, along with The Fighting Temeraire (1839), a painting that cements Turner as one of the most popular artists in the UK and beyond. They are both late works but you can see their origins in some earlier oil sketches he produced while living in Isleworth, which have been borrowed from the Tate Gallery and are now presented in a pocket-sized exhibition at Sandycombe Lodge.\n\nTurner's Rain, Steam, and Speed, 1844, isn't in the show (along with The Fighting Temeraire), but you can see how they were influenced by the early sketches\n\nThe Fighting Temeraire, 1839 (not in the show), shows the final journey of this important warship, as it's towed along the Thames to Rotherhithe, where it was to be scrapped\n\nIt is the first time since the artist sold his Twickenham home nearly 200 years ago that any of his original paintings have hung on its walls. They are displayed in an upstairs guest bedroom, which is not very big, but then nor are the sketches.\n\nThere are five paintings in total, all on mahogany, one more warped than a 12 inch vinyl left out in the sun.\n\nThey are described as \"experimental, private works\", which is code for not first-rate. No matter, they are fascinating to see.\n\nThe largest, Walton Reach (1805), hangs over the fireplace. It is the least good of those on show, with a vertical clump of black/grey cloud hovering like a spaceship in the middle of the sky.\n\nWalton Reach, 1805, is one of the five rarely shown oil sketches that the Tate has loaned to Turner's House for this exhibition\n\nConstable would have laughed himself silly at his great rival's ham-fisted attempt to paint a meteorological effect. But then his eyes would have glanced to the left of the painting and seen Turner bang in form as river morphs into trees that lead to a heavenly pink sky obscuring a sun behind.\n\nThere's a lovely, quickly painted, sketch The Thames near Windsor (1807), which Cézanne would have admired for its palette and abstracted simplicity.\n\nAnother, On the Thames (1807), also has a proto-Impressionist feel as Turner captures light effects in real time.\n\nOn the Thames c.1807, like the other four works, was selected by Turner's House for depicting scenes close to the artist's house near the river\n\nThe two stand-out sketches are Sunset on the River (1805), which is beautiful, and Windsor Castle from the River (1807), which benefits from having been primed with white paint giving it a lustre and luminosity the others don't share. Both are clearly a foretaste of what is to come in Turner's later years.\n\nSunset on the River is an obvious precursor to Turner's Fighting Temeraire with the sun going down behind thin orange clouds, evoking the romantic nostalgia that makes his later masterpiece such a mesmerising artwork.\n\nWindsor Castle from the River points towards Rain, Steam and Speed: a ghostly structure barely visible in the background, partially hidden behind the atmospheric effects of Thames water merging into hazy cloud.\n\nBathed in light, Turner's Sunset on the River, 1805, is a forerunner of his Fighting Temeraire\n\nThe sketches are not masterpieces, nobody is going to pay millions of pounds to own them or view them (£8 entry to the house and exhibition), but they are well worth seeing: on their own terms and also as a way of understanding how Turner worked and developed as an artist. That they are in the house he designed for himself is an added bonus: there's a lot to be said for quiet modesty in this overwrought, over-excited century.\n\nIt was an escape for Turner then. It can be an escape for you now.\n• None Nonsense? What Turner would've made of the Turner Prize ★★★★☆", "Ukraine's top security official, Oleksiy Danilov, has told the BBC that his country's investigators had already gathered evidence that a missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger jet, before Iran changed its position.\n\nAfter initially denying responsibility, Tehran has admitted that Ukraine International Airlines flight PS-752 crashed as a result of \"human error\" when it was misidentified as a cruise missile.", "Thousands of people attended in very poor weather conditions\n\nTens of thousands of Scottish independence supporters have marched through Glasgow in the first of a series of protests planned for the coming year.\n\nThe All Under One Banner (AUOB) march from the west end to Glasgow Green took place in very poor weather conditions.\n\nA mass rally that was due to be held afterwards was cancelled after rain and high winds were forecast.\n\nThe UK government has said it does not support a further vote on independence.\n\nThe \"emergency\" march was organised in the wake of last month's general election, which saw the pro-independence SNP win 48 of the 59 seats in Scotland while the Conservatives won a majority across the UK as a whole.\n\nIt is the first of eight marches that the grassroots AUOB group plans to hold across Scotland over the coming year as activists aim to increase the pressure for independence.\n\nThe march took a route through the city centre to Glasgow Green\n\nThe organisation has staged several similar marches and rallies in town and cities across Scotland over the past five years.\n\nAUOB decided that the march would definitely go ahead despite the cancellation of the rally, with the group tweeting: \"If we let some Scottish rain stop us marching then we've no chance. The march is on.\"\n\nGary Kelly of AUOB said: \"It's another mandate at the end of the day and it shows there's still an appetite and a desire in Scotland for Scottish independence.\n\n\"We don't get a lot of media publicity and the fact is that we do get it now. The world's media is here today watching us.\"\n\nOrganisers estimated that about 80,000 people attended the march.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by All Under One Banner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by All Under One Banner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿\n\nScottish voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% in a referendum in 2014 - but Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader and Scotland's first minister, says she wants to hold another vote on independence later this year.\n\nThat currently looks unlikely to happen because the UK government has made clear it will not transfer the powers that Ms Sturgeon says would be needed to ensure any referendum is legal.\n\nThe first minister has ruled out holding an unofficial referendum, similar to the disputed one in Catalonia in 2017, as she does not believe it would lead to independence regardless of the result.\n\nMs Sturgeon has never attended an AUOB march, although she did speak at a rally organised by the pro-independence National newspaper in Glasgow's George Square in November. It was the first time she had spoken at a major independence rally since 2014.\n\nThe first minister has written to Prime Minister Johnson requesting agreement on a further referendum.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We do not support a second referendum on leaving the UK.\n\n\"Scots voted decisively to remain part of the UK in a once in a generation referendum in 2014.\n\n\"The Prime Minister will respond in full to the First Minister's letter shortly.\"\n\nAnother AUOB march will be held in Glasgow in May, with similar events scheduled for Arbroath, Peebles, Elgin, Kirkcaldy, Stirling and Edinburgh.", "Caroline Jackson was downstairs and unaware of son Aidan's seizure\n\nThe parents of a teenager who suffered a seizure while chatting online have thanked his friend who called emergency services from 5,000 miles away.\n\nAidan Jackson, 17, was talking to an American gamer from his bedroom in Widnes on 2 January when he had a fit.\n\nHis friend, 20-year-old Dia Lathora, from Texas, alerted police in the UK.\n\nThe first Aidan's parents knew of the emergency was when police and an ambulance appeared at their front door, the Liverpool Echo reported.\n\nCaroline and Steve Jackson then rushed upstairs to find their son \"extremely disorientated\".\n\nMs Jackson, 48, said: \"We were at home watching TV and Aidan was upstairs in his room. The next thing we noticed was two police cars outside with flashing lights.\n\n\"I assumed they were in the area for another reason and then they ran up to the front door.\n\n\"They said there was an unresponsive male at the address. We said we hadn't called anyone and they said a call had come from America. I immediately went to check on Aidan and found him extremely disorientated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAidan had a seizure in May 2019 and is waiting for a new appointment following the latest incident.\n\n\"We are extremely thankful for what Dia did and shocked that we could be downstairs and not know anything was happening,\" Ms Jackson added.\n\n\"Dia had our address but didn't have any contact numbers, so it was amazing she managed to get help from so far away.\n\n\"I've spoken to her and expressed our thanks - she's just glad she could help.\n\n\"Aidan is a lot better and hopefully everything is OK when he has his appointment at the hospital but he's doing well.\"\n\nMs Lathora told the Liverpool Echo: \"I just put my headset back on and I heard what I could only describe as a seizure, so obviously I started to get worried and immediately started asking what was going on and if he was OK.\n\n\"When he didn't respond I instantly started to look up the emergency number for the EU. When that didn't work I just had to hope the non-emergency would work, it had an option for talking to a real person...and I can't tell you how quickly I clicked that button.\"", "Greg Abbott said Texas had done \"more than its share\" for the refugee resettlement programme\n\nThe Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has said the state will not accept new refugees under the US government's resettlement programme.\n\nThe decision means Texas will become the first state known to do so.\n\nLast year US President Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing states to opt out of the programme.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Abbott said Texas had done \"more than its share in assisting the refugee resettlement process\".\n\nRefugee agencies have criticised the move, with one calling it \"deeply disappointing\".\n\nTexas has large refugee populations in several of its major cities. In the 2018 fiscal year, Texas took in 1,697 refugees - more than any other state, but a large drop from 4,768 in the previous fiscal year.\n\nJustifying his decision in a letter to the US State Department, Mr Abbott argued that the state should be focused on \"those who are already here, including refugees, migrants, and the homeless - indeed, all Texans\".\n\nOn that basis, Mr Abbott said he \"cannot consent to initial refugee resettlement\" in 2020, but added that the decision \"does not deny any refugee access\" to the US.\n\nRefugees who are already settled in other states, Mr Abbott said, will be allowed to move to Texas if they choose. However, resettlement agencies say they would not have access to federal resettlement benefits, such as housing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Africans risking death in the jungle trying to reach the US\n\nIn September last year, President Trump announced that states must actively consent to any resettlement of refugees after June 2020.\n\nSo far, the governors of more than 40 other states have said they will opt in to the government programme.\n\nMr Trump has made reducing immigration a key aim of his administration.\n\nThe president has slashed the number of refugees allowed into the country for the 2020 fiscal year to 18,000 - a record low.\n\nThe Trump administration has taken a touch stance against immigration and refugees\n\nAbout 30,000 refugees were resettled in the US during the previous fiscal year.\n\nThe previous lowest admissions figure was in 2002, after the 9/11 attacks, when about 27,000 refugees were allowed into the US.\n\nSince taking office in 2017, Mr Trump has sought to reduce the number of immigrants and refugees coming to the country. A controversial travel ban on mostly Muslim countries is one policy he has pursued to do so.\n\nThe travel ban affects nationals from seven countries, five of which are majority Muslim: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. The other two are North Korea and Venezuela.\n\nThe Associated Press reports that the Trump administration will seek to expand the travel ban to additional countries, despite being repeatedly thwarted by legal challenges.", "It is a truth universally acknowledged that for a modern monarchy to retain the support of the public it cannot be too interesting.\n\nPrince Harry is very interesting. He says and does interesting things. This means he gets in the news rather a lot.\n\nIf you look back over the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the House of Windsor has faced greatest jeopardy when it has been most newsworthy.\n\nThe Queen mostly stays out of the news; her opinions are largely unknown.\n\nThe same is broadly true of Prince William, who only adopts issues - such as mental health - which are not politically partisan.\n\nThere is not much interest in their views, frankly, because the Queen and Prince William do not set out to say interesting things. Other royals do.\n\nBefore her death, Princess Diana was probably the most famous person in the world. Her opinions on a range of matters, and talent for playing the media, were widely known.\n\nPrince Charles' opinions on a range of issues, from homeopathy to architecture, are familiar.\n\nIn recent times, as his ascension presumably nears, he has dialled down his public pronouncements on many issues.\n\nFrom a media management point of view, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who might currently be the most famous couple on the planet, are just far too interesting for the House of Windsor right now.\n\nMix their fame and strained relations with other royals, together with the fact they belong to the Instagram generation, and - in Prince Harry's case - have instinctively despised much of the media for decades, as a result of his mother's death, and you have a toxic brew.\n\nAnd that's before you add in the disastrous recent Prince Andrew interview, which gave every indication of a Firm in which nobody, from a public relations point of view at least, has a grip, or even a clue.\n\nIn their detailed and clearly long-planned announcement of a new media strategy, the duke and duchess issued several soothing words about their support for a free and fair press, but their enmity was impossible to conceal.\n\nThey made an interesting distinction between royal correspondents and their editors, suggesting the former often report stories accurately only for their editors in London to put an opinionated or inaccurate spin, or headline, on their work.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last year with their son Archie\n\nIn his furious statement last October, Prince Harry singled out Britain's tabloid newspapers, saying that they had ruined his mother's life and he wouldn't let them ruin his wife's.\n\nIt is impossible for any of us to imagine what life must be like with the degree of intrusion, and lack of privacy, that relentless tabloid pressure can put on a family.\n\nHere it has driven a young couple to say they will relocate for half the year.\n\nAnd a lot of people don't like tabloid culture full stop.\n\nBut it is worth saying that the tabloids have got some of their coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan right.\n\nThe fact that the couple flew on Elton John's private jet, having made many pronouncements about the environment, is a legitimate story.\n\nFor several months, tabloid reporters in Britain have been writing that there were tensions between Prince Harry and his brother, that a formal split in operations within the family could be imminent, and that the Queen was not being kept fully aware of their plans.\n\nThis story has proved correct: Prince Harry admitted some of it on camera to ITV's Tom Bradby.\n\nAnd this week, Dan Wootton of the Sun was the first to report that the couple were thinking of moving overseas. He got the scoop and deserves credit for that.\n\nFor many years, royal coverage has operated through the royal rota system.\n\nA bit like the lobby in Westminster, this gives privileged, approved journalists access to the royals in exchange for deeper reporting and - the Windsors hope - more positive coverage.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess say they will pull out of the system.\n\nTabloid journalists are furious at this perceived declaration of war. But Prince Harry and Meghan went further still in saying they will still give access to journalists - it's just they'll favour younger reporters or those who support causes close to their heart.\n\nThis couldn't be better calculated to enrage Britain's tabloid press.\n\nPrince Harry has previously has said that tabloid newspapers ruined his mother's life\n\nThe key point here is generational. Princess Diana spent years cultivating journalists, with long lunches and phone calls.\n\nIn the 1990s, if you wanted to build relations with the public, journalists were the filter you had to go through.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle belong to the Instagram generation.\n\nThey believe they can use social media and their own website to appeal directly to the public, and shape their own public narrative.\n\nThey have much less emotional attachment to, and (as they see it) less need for, newsprint, or even broadcast news bulletins.\n\nA chasm is likely to open up, between what they say about themselves online - and what others in traditional media have to say about them.\n\nThe huge challenge they face stems from the fact that traditional media, while much weaker, are far from dead: tabloid newspapers and TV and radio bulletins reach millions of people in Britain every day. They're going nowhere fast. They still have influence.\n\nIt therefore does matter - albeit less than it once did - if your relations with, for instance, royal correspondents at the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail deteriorate.\n\nThere is something desperately sad for the couple in the fact that, even in North America, you cannot get away from scrutiny - given that every passer-by has a smartphone.\n\nRight now, there are journalists in Britain having conversations at home and at work in which they make clear they expect to be travelling to Canada quite a bit in coming months. Some of them will have already booked tickets.\n\nIf you want to stay out of the media, it's not about where you are, it's about who you are and what you do.\n\nDon't be too interesting. Ironically, this week has radically increased interest in this curiously modern young family.\n\nIn other words - even if he changed his name back to Henry David - for the young prince and his family, who desperately want to be left alone, it's too late.", "The conflicts in Iraq and Syria turned Qasem Soleimani into something of a celebrity in Iran\n\nIranians have filled the centre of Tehran for the funeral procession of General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq last week.\n\nSoleimani was the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' clandestine overseas operations arm, the Quds Force, and was one of the most powerful figures in Iran.\n\nIranians have been sharing their thoughts on the killing with BBC Persian.\n\nI believe Soleimani did not deserve such a fate. He did a lot for Iran, protecting this country. He fought Daesh [the jihadist group Islamic State], the Taliban, etc.\n\nOur enemies have been attacking our country for the past four decades and he tried to save the country.\n\nSadly, I can say many people in Iran are suffering from a paradox.\n\nThey blame this regime and the supreme leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] for what is happening inside Iran, and they say the leader is a tyrant. But today they are mourning for Qasem Soleimani, who was the right hand of the same tyrant leader.\n\nHow can they call him a hero? The partner and right hand of a dictator cannot be a hero.\n\nI agree that we have some issues in this country. We have economic difficulties, human rights issues, a lack of freedom of speech, etc. But these issues are internal and should be dealt with, within the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new situation we are facing is external. One of us Iranians was killed by foreigners. Our sense of patriotism would not allow us to side with the foreigners in this matter. We should be uniting against this [US] action.\n\nI do not buy this argument that Qasem Soleimani had only been dealing with foreign affairs [as the commander of the Quds Force], or that he had nothing to do with the repression that ordinary Iranians are suffering from.\n\nSoleimani was one of them [Iran's leadership]. If we are against this repressive regime, we are against every single person who is part of it.\n\nI do not understand those who thank President Trump for this attack and question what Soleimani had been doing in Syria and Iraq.\n\nIf Iran should not be allowed to interfere in neighbouring countries, why should Americans be allowed to come to our region all the way from the other side of the Earth?\n\nQasem Soleimani was not a hero, in my opinion. He was a basic soldier, overrated by the establishments in Iran and the US.\n\nPeople are being too emotional about his death.", "The legal challenge was brought by the father of day care centre user Craig McHattie\n\nA Scottish council has been ordered by a court to reopen an adult care centre after its unlawful closure.\n\nSouth Ayrshire shut down the Kyle Day Centre in Ayr, which looks after more than 20 adults with complex support needs, in December.\n\nHowever, the area's integrated joint board (IJB), which administers social care, failed to consult families and staff before making the decision.\n\nThe council has now lost a legal challenge at the Court of Session.\n\nThe centre must be reopened on Monday - despite nine of 12 staff already accepting voluntary redundancy.\n\nThe council said the centre would reopen.\n\nRoy McHattie (right) said Craig had been staying at home since the closure\n\nThe legal challenge was brought by Roy McHattie, whose son Craig has serious learning difficulties and mobility issues.\n\nMr McHattie told BBC Scotland's The Nine that South Ayrshire Council had been \"arrogant\" in its approach.\n\n\"They've just decided to steamroller through their proposal,\" he said. \"We felt that there was no consultation whatsoever, no involvement of all the people who attended Kyle, the carers, guardians or the people themselves.\n\n\"It felt we were being rushed into a situation without the option of Kyle Centre still being there. That was not part of the options on the table. On that basis, we decided to take legal action.\"\n\nThe Kyle Day Centre must be reopened on Monday\n\nIn his court opinion last month, Lord Boyd of Duncansby stated that the failure to consult \"went to the heart of the decision-making process\".\n\nHe wrote: \"That process was fundamentally flawed by the failure to consult persons who had a legitimate expectation of such consultation.\n\n\"It resulted in a feeling of grievance and injustice in the making of a decision which had profound implications for a group of vulnerable people.\"\n\nLord Boyd also stated that families were \"kept in the dark until two months after the decision to close\".\n\nFamilies, he said, agreed to new care arrangements after the council had presented the closure as a \"done deal\".\n\nA second consultation after the decision was made was also described by Lord Boyd as a \"tick-box exercise\".\n\nCraig, 32, attended the centre five days a week and worked with a one-to-one carer.\n\nHis family said that alternatives offered by the council were unsuitable for him.\n\nHis father Roy said: \"He's been staying at home. There's no place for him to go.\n\n\"He doesn't have the company of his peers at a care centre. Social contact for him is important as well. He doesn't verbally communicate but he is aware of others.\n\n\"That has been taken away from him.\"\n\nJohn Glynn has received care from day services since he was a teenager\n\nJohn Glynn also attended the centre for eight years. He has severe learning disabilities and has received care from day services since he was a teenager.\n\nThe 47-year-old now has a community care package, which his family says is unsuitable. He will return to the Kyle Day Centre on Monday.\n\n\"When he's at home, he's just like a caged animal,\" his sister Maureen said.\n\n\"He's cracking up now and if it wasn't for the day care carers coming in for him to break the day up, it would be a lot worse just now.\"\n\nSouth Ayrshire's IJB must find savings of up to £4m in the next year across social care and children services.\n\nSome Kyle users are currently attending the Hansel support village\n\nTwelve of the Kyle Day Centre's attendees are currently attending the Hansel support village, near Symington.\n\nCouncillor Brian McGinley is deputy leader of the council and chairman of the South Ayrshire IJB.\n\nAddressing the failure to consult over the closure of the centre, the councillor said: \"That was a flaw and we apologise for that unreservedly.\n\n\"That is absolutely the lesson we have learned from this, that we need to do that consultation before the decision was made at the IJB. That consultation did not take place and we will rectify that.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our understanding was that there would be consultation. We were looking to improve the service.\n\n\"But the fact is, because we have increasing demand and increasing costs, we need to ways of improving the service within the budget that is presented. So there are challenges.\"", "Waller-Bridge wore the outfit to the 77th Golden Globe Awards in Beverley Hills, California\n\nFleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has put her Golden Globes outfit up for auction on eBay to raise money for the Australian bushfire crisis.\n\nThe 34-year-old wore the gold tuxedo from Australian designers Ralph & Russo at the awards ceremony, where she won two accolades for her TV comedy-drama.\n\nWith a starting bid of 77,000 Australian dollars (£41,000), the auction is set to end on 20 January.\n\nWaller-Bridge is one of a number of celebrities to support the aid effort.\n\nFormula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton said he will donate more than £380,000, while cricket legend Shane Warne has raised A$1m (£528,514) for the bushfire appeal after his \"baggy green\" Australia cap was sold at auction.\n\nLeonardo DiCaprio's environmental group has donated 3 million US dollars (£2.3m) towards the relief effort, while Sir Elton John, actor Chris Hemsworth and Pink have also donated.\n\nWaller-Bridge's custom made tuxedo is closest to a UK size 12, according to the listing.\n\nShe has also signed the label of the lace and silk trouser suit.\n\nFleabag cast members Brett Gelman, Sian Clifford, Waller-Bridge and Andrew Scott pose with their Golden Globe for Best Television Series\n\nIn a video shared on the official Fleabag Twitter account, the writer and actress showed fans where celebrities had touched the outfit, including Tom Hanks when he shook her hand, Sir Elton John giving her a hug and the shoulder where Olivia Colman \"rested her cheek\".\n\n\"Most significantly perhaps, if you are a Fleabag fan, this suit is completely covered head to toe in Andrew Scott hugs,\" she added.\n\nMoney raised will be donated to the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund, WIRES Wildlife Rescue Emergency Fund and Wildlife Victoria.\n\nWaller Bridge said: \"I'm very excited that this stunning, one-of-a-kind, couture tuxedo created by Australian geniuses Ralph & Russo will continue its journey by contributing to this urgent cause.\n\n\"If money raised by its auction can help raise funds to fight the disaster in Australia, the future impact of this suit will be far greater than the luck it brought me and the Fleabag team at the Golden Globes last weekend.\"\n\nRecord-breaking temperatures and months of drought have fuelled massive bushfires across Australia", "The Queen attended a church service at Sandringham on Sunday morning\n\nThe Queen has summoned senior royals to Sandringham on Monday for face-to-face talks to discuss the future roles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPalace officials told the BBC that Prince Harry, the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Wales would all attend, while Meghan is expected join the discussion over the phone from Canada.\n\nThe Sussexes say they plan to step back as senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThere is no suggestion a conclusion will be reached at the meeting.\n\nBut BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said it is hoped that the talks will produce a \"next step\" on the way to defining the couple's new relationship with the Royal Family - in line with the Queen's wish to find a solution within days.\n\nHe added that there were still \"formidable obstacles\" to overcome in the talks.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke of Cambridge has spoken of his \"sadness\" at the broken bond with his brother, the Sunday Times reports.\n\nAccording to the paper, Prince William told a friend: \"I've put my arm around my brother all our lives and I can't do that any more; we're separate entities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Views from the public at Sandringham Estate: 'You can't just be a royal then decide not to be'\n\n\"All we can do, and all I can do, is try and support them and hope that the time comes when we're all singing from the same page.\"\n\nPrince Charles is currently in Oman, after travelling overnight to attend the first of three days of official condolences alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. He will return to the UK in time to attend Monday's talks.\n\nOn Sunday morning the Queen was seen smiling and waving to crowds as she was driven to church in Sandringham.\n\nPrince Charles is in Oman, where he met the country's new sultan\n\nMonday's gathering at the Queen's estate in Norfolk - being described as the \"Sandringham summit\" - will be the first time the monarch has come face-to-face with Harry since the Sussexes' announcement, which was posted on their official Instagram account.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the trickiest area will be to agree the financial position of the Sussexes, who said in their statement on Wednesday they intend to \"step back\" as senior royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nThe couple also said they plan to split their time between the UK and North America, while \"continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages\".\n\nThere are likely to be tax implications to any decision to base themselves outside the UK for any length of time and Buckingham Palace will want \"tight protocols to prevent them cashing in on their royal status\", our correspondent added.\n\nMonday's royal summit may not be the last such gathering needed to sort things out; but enough progress has been made by palace staff and civil servants for the most senior members of the family to meet to discuss some pretty concrete proposals on the way ahead for Prince Harry and Meghan.\n\nThere are still formidable obstacles - it's not at all clear how much in the way of royal duties the prince and Meghan see themselves doing.\n\nOn that will hang issues such as funding and liaison between the palace and Prince Harry and Meghan's new organisation. Unpicking the current relationship is complicated - creating a new one, that lasts, will be even tougher.\n\nThere's a strong desire to get this done. But equally the deal must be robust and workable.\n\nPrecedent is being established here - a way of doing things that may extend in years to come to other members of the royal family.\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles, William and Harry are expected to review a range of possibilities for the Sussexes, taking into account plans outlined by the couple.\n\nIf a deal is agreed in the coming days, there is a general understanding that it will take some time to implement.\n\nMeanwhile, Meghan is in Canada with her eight-month-old son Archie after flying there amid the ongoing discussions, which have involved the UK and Canadian governments.\n\nShe and Prince Harry had been in Canada over Christmas, before they returned to the UK on Tuesday after a six-week break from royal duties.\n\nOn Friday, the couple's official Instagram account returned to publicising their appearances.\n\nPictures were posted showing the couple during a private visit on Tuesday to a community kitchen in north Kensington, west London, where meals were cooked for families displaced by the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nLast October, Prince Harry and Meghan publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight.\n\nThe couple were already preparing to launch their own Sussex Royal charity, which they set up after splitting from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's foundation in June last year.\n\nAnd in December it was revealed that the couple had made an application to trademark their Sussex Royal brand across a string of items including books, calendars, clothing, charitable fundraising, education and social care services.\n\nDo you have any questions about Harry and Meghan's decision to step back as senior royals?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresenter Samira Ahmed has won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay.\n\nAhmed claimed she was underpaid by £700,000 for hosting audience feedback show Newswatch compared with Jeremy Vine's salary for Points of View.\n\nThe unanimous judgement said her work was like that done by Vine, and the BBC had failed to prove the pay gap wasn't because of sex discrimination.\n\nAhmed said she was \"glad it's been resolved\".\n\n\"No woman wants to have to take action against their own employer,\" she said, adding: \"I love working for the BBC.\"\n\nIn response, the BBC insisted the pay for Ahmed and Vine \"was not determined by their gender\".\n\nDescribing Ahmed as \"an excellent journalist and presenter\", the corporation added: \"We regret that this case ever had to go to tribunal.\"\n\nThe BBC said it would \"work together with Samira to move on in a positive way\".\n\nAhmed (right) was accompanied by BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty on the tribunal's first day\n\nAhmed thanked the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), her legal team and \"everyone - all the men and women who've supported me and the issue of equal pay\". She added: \"I'm now looking forward to continuing to do my job, to report on stories and not being one\".\n\nAhmed had told the tribunal, which ended in November, that she \"could not understand how pay for me, a woman, could be so much lower than Jeremy Vine, a man, for presenting very similar programmes and doing very similar work\".\n\nVine got £3,000 per episode for BBC One's Points of View between 2008 and 2018. Ahmed was paid £440 for Newswatch, which is shown on the BBC News Channel and BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe tribunal judgement said: \"The difference in pay in this case is striking. Jeremy Vine was paid more than six times what the claimant was paid for doing the same work as her.\"\n\nThe BBC had argued that Ahmed and Vine performed \"very different roles\". But the judgement said the corporation did not produce evidence to prove the different levels of pay were based on differences in the presenters' roles, programmes and profiles.\n\nThe judgement did not say whether Ahmed will receive the compensation she said she was owed.\n\nThe judgement stated: \"We do not accept that the lighter tone of Points of View meant that the claimant's work and that of Mr Vine were not broadly similar.\"\n\nJeremy Vine hosted Points of View for a decade until 2018\n\nIt added that despite the BBC saying the presenter of Points of View \"needed to have 'a glint in the eye' and to be cheeky, we had difficulty in understanding what the respondent meant and how that translated into a 'skill' or 'experience' to do a job.\n\n\"The attempts at humour came from the script. Jeremy Vine read the script from the autocue. He read it in the tone in which it was written. If it told him to roll his eyes he did. It did not require any particular skill or experience to do that.\"\n\nThe BBC's legal team said Ahmed was paid the same as her Newswatch predecessor Ray Snoddy, who they said was her pay comparator, rather than Vine.\n\nBut Ahmed's closing submissions criticised the corporation's witnesses and evidence.\n\nShe also said BBC witnesses were prepared to give evidence \"about matters that they had little knowledge of\" and that the corporation had \"repeatedly sought to make other unfair comments\" about her credibility.\n\nThis is a complex judgement with potentially huge implications.\n\nThe position of the Tribunal is that all the arguments brought by the BBC to justify the difference in pay between Samira Ahmed and Jeremy Vine were insufficient.\n\nIn other words, the claim that Vine had greater profile, that Entertainment requires different skills to News, and that Points of View reaches more people didn't persuade the Tribunal that the difference is pay was justified.\n\nThe burden of proof fell on the BBC to show that that difference did not amount to sex discrimination. It failed.\n\nThe BBC and broadcasters across the globe have long thought it a common sense assertion that profile, fame, or stardust - call it what you will - justifies different pay rates for presenters who do similar work.\n\nThis case has exploded that proposition. It will encourage many other women to bring similar cases.\n\nThe BBC has made significant progress in recent years on both the gender pay gap across the organisation and some cases of equal pay.\n\nBut its journey on this issue, where it has sought to set a national example, is only just beginning.\n\nNational Union of Journalists (NUJ) general secretary Michelle Stanistreet said the union would seek the full back pay for Ahmed.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the BBC next week and hopefully common sense will prevail, this will be resolved, Samira gets her settlement and she can move on,\" she said.\n\nIt was \"an incredibly brave decision on Samira's part\" to bring the case to tribunal, Stanistreet told reporters. \"You couldn't get a more emphatic win, a resounding victory,\" she said.\n\nAround 20 similar cases are \"in the pipeline of the actual tribunal system\", with \"as many as 70\" unresolved at the time of the hearing, she added.\n\nThe BBC said it has been working hard to resolve these, adding the number of cases is significantly lower now.\n\n\"Some of them have already been satisfactorily resolved. But there are still more to sort out,\" she said.\n\nFigures from broadcasting and beyond tweeted their support after the judgement was released.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carrie Gracie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStressing its commitment to equality and equal pay, the BBC said presenters - both female and male - had always been paid more for Points of View than Newswatch.\n\nThe corporation said: \"We're sorry the tribunal didn't think the BBC provided enough evidence about specific decisions - we weren't able to call people who made decisions as far back as 2008 and have long since left the BBC.\"\n\nIt added that in the past its pay framework \"was not transparent and fair enough\" and that \"we have made significant changes to address that\".\n\n\"We're glad this satisfied the tribunal that there was sufficient evidence to explain her pay now.\"\n\nIn addition to Newswatch, Ahmed also co-hosts BBC Radio 4 arts show Front Row.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Protesters in Tehran have chanted calls for the resignation of officials, after Iran admitted it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane on 8 January.\n\nRelatives and friends of those who died held a vigil near the Amirkabir University of Technology on Saturday.\n\nVideos uploaded to social media show a crowd gathered, with some chanting for their country's leaders to resign and calling officials \"liars\".\n\nIran had initially denied reports its missiles had brought down the plane, but said on Saturday that it had \"unintentionally\" shot it down.", "The attack happened at HMP Bristol on Friday afternoon\n\nFive prison officers have been injured in an attack by an inmate.\n\nThe attack happened at HMP Bristol on Friday at 14:00 GMT and all five officers \"received hospital treatment\", a Prison Service spokeswoman said.\n\nSarah Rigby, from the Prison Officers Association (POA), said the prisoner had been transferred from a high-security jail.\n\nThe Prison Service said it was investing in staff safety by issuing bodycams and pepper spray.\n\nMs Rigby said the inmate \"should never have been moved out of the high-security establishment\".\n\nShe said those injured had left hospital and were recovering at home and added: \"Staff at HMP Bristol have not yet been issued with PAVA [pepper spray] and rigid bar handcuffs and it is possible that the PAVA particularly could have protected staff better during this incident.\n\n\"The POA again wishes to reiterate that the employer must issue this protective equipment at the earliest opportunity to offer better protections for the staff carrying out their duties in a dangerous, hostile environment.\"\n\nAn Avon and Somerset Police spokeswoman said they were investigating an assault.\n\nShe said the prison officers were \"taken to hospital for treatment to injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening\" and added: \"A suspect was detained by prison staff and is due to be questioned by police officers.\"\n\nHMP Bristol has about 520 adult male prisoners and a limited number of young offenders, both convicted and on remand from local courts.\n\nIt is a category B prison where the majority of prisoners stay for fewer than 12 months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lost dog \"vanished off the face of the earth\"\n\nValuable working breed dogs are being targeted by thieves, according to campaigners.\n\nCountryside Alliance Cymru said it was part of a rising trend in the number reported missing or stolen in Wales.\n\nIt added that current legislation does not go far enough. The Welsh Government has said it will \"consider amendments\".\n\nCurrently over half of dogs in Wales reported missing/stolen on dog-finding website Dog Lost are working breeds like labradors, spaniels and vizlas.\n\nWorking dogs are classified breeds which are bred and trained to assist humans in activities such as farming and field sports.\n\nRhian Nowell-Phillips, from Countryside Alliance Cymru, said while it is often hard to clarify the circumstances around a dog's disappearance, current laws in place to ensure all dogs are microchipped with their owner's details need to go further.\n\n\"We know that the most likely breeds to be stolen are working breeds,\" she said.\n\nMs Nowell-Phillips said they were being targeted because the breeds are so popular and because they are \"very well trained, gorgeous-looking dogs and they command such high fees\".\n\n\"A fully trained gundog, for example, can be worth £5,000 upwards,\" she added.\n\nRhian Nowell-Phillips says current microchipping laws do not go far enough\n\nMicrochipping of dogs was made compulsory in Wales in 2016 along with the need for dogs to wear a collar with their owners name.\n\nMs Nowell-Philips said this was a \"welcome first step\".\n\nBut she added: \"There is a real need for legislation which gives teeth to that which would enable vets to scan dogs as they come in to ensure they are registered to the person who is actually bringing them in.\"\n\nThis would also make it harder to change the names on microchips \"without any checks and balances\", she said.\n\nThe administration of microchipping details is passed on to a range of private companies with varying policies on how they are recorded and changed.\n\nHeather Buckingham, from Crosskeys in Caerphilly county, lost her dog Archie, a duck toller, in March while walking in nearby woodland.\n\nThere have been several sightings but no firm evidence of his whereabouts.\n\nShe suspects he may have been picked up and moved on, despite being both microchipped and having a tattoo of his ID number.\n\nArchie went missing in March during a woodland walk\n\n\"It was as though he just vanished off the face of the earth,\" Ms Buckingham said.\n\n\"They do hold a lot of value and I think that's why a lot of gundogs go missing.\"\n\n\"We all have to be very very careful.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"We believe that compulsory microchipping has had a positive impact because the traceability of dogs back to their owners - and ultimately back to the breeders - has encouraged more responsible ownership.\n\n\"The effectiveness of this legislation is being assessed and we will consider any amendments that may be necessary.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"She was full of dreams and now they're gone\": Vigil held for Iran plane crash victims in Toronto\n\nIn the aftermath of the deadly Ukraine Flight PS752 crash, Canadians are left to mourn not just the loss of life but the bright futures snatched away, write Jessica Murphy and Robin Levinson-King.\n\nIn a small room inside a student housing complex at the University of Toronto, more than a hundred people gathered to mourn, pray and share stories of the loved ones they lost in Ukraine Flight PS752.\n\nThe space, which is typically used as a student common area, had been transformed into a kind of funeral parlour, decorated with candles, white bouquets and photos of the victims. Most of the service was in Persian, and tea and sweets were served.\n\nLike many being held across the country, the vigil on Wednesday evening was an impromptu event, quickly put together in the hours after the plane went down earlier that morning.\n\nMany were still in shock from the news, less than 24 hours old.\n\n\"She was full of dreams, and now they're gone,\" Elnaz Morshedi told the BBC between sobs. Her friend, University of Toronto student Zeynab Asadi Lari, was killed in the crash.\n\nMs Morshedi says Ms Lari, who was studying health sciences, had wanted to volunteer with Doctors Without Borders next semester.\n\n\"She was studying all the time, but she wanted to live, she wanted to have fun, to fall in love. And she doesn't have time for this anymore.\"\n\nMs Lari's brother, Mohammad Asadi Lari, also died in the crash. He was the co-founder of STEM fellowship, a youth-run charity that helps students in the maths and sciences.\n\n\"They were the best of us,\" Ms Morshedi says.\n\nAll 176 people on board the flight were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Iran.\n\nSixty-three of them were Canadian nationals, but many more called Canada their home, at least temporarily.\n\nThey lived in cities like Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. Many were students or professors, working on important research in their fields.\n\nUS sanctions have made it increasingly difficult to travel between Iran and Canada, and the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev and then to Toronto is popular because it is one of the most affordable options for the journey, said Younes Zangiabadi with the Iranian Canadian Congress.\n\nSome 63 Canadians were on the Tehran to Kiev flight, en route to Toronto\n\nThe deaths have cast a pall over university campuses across the country.\n\n\"You look at the odds of such a thing happening to you,\" said Seyed Hossein Mortazavi with disbelief, \"but I suppose that's fate.\"\n\n\"They definitely didn't expect this. None of us did. But I think it's just a burden the whole community has to carry.\"\n\nCanada is home to a large Iranian diaspora, with some 210,000 citizens of Iranian descent, according to the federal census. But Mr Mortazavi said that on campuses the community feels small.\n\n\"Nearly anybody in our community knows someone on that plane, through friends, through family,\" he said.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to ensure the cause of the crash was found.\n\n\"Canadians have questions and they deserve answers,\" he told media in Ottawa on Wednesday evening.\n\nMr Trudeau said Canada would work closely with its partners to ensure the crash is thoroughly investigated - and would be requesting the presence of Canadian officials in Tehran to assist families seeking consular assistance, as well as to participate in any investigation into the cause of the incident.\n\nTo those who lost family members and loved ones, he said \"your loss is indescribable\".\n\n\"This is a heartbreaking tragedy. While no words will erase your pain, we want you to know that an entire country is with you, we share your grief.\"\n\nIt was truly a national tragedy, leaving families and loved ones in mourning across the country.\n\nAnd each story was a tragedy in itself.\n\nIn Vancouver, Ardalan Ebnoddin Hamidi, Niloofar Razzaghi, and their teenage son Kamyar were on the flight, confirmed family friend Kei Esmaeilpour, with the Civic Association of Iranian-Canadians.\n\nMr Esmaeilpour said the family were in Iran for a short vacation, and that his friend Ardalan had expressed concerns to him before leaving about the security situation there, but eventually decided to go on the trip.\n\nHe said people who knew the family were asking how something like this could have happened.\n\nTwo separate couples were killed on the way back from their weddings in Iran.\n\nEngineer Siavash Ghafouri-Azar was returning home with his new wife, Sara Mamani, when the plane crashed.\n\nThe couple had just bought their first home near the Canadian city of Montreal, and were looking forward to throwing a house-warming party, said his former thesis supervisor Ali Dolatabadi, an engineering professor at Concordia University.\n\n\"It is a great loss,\" Mr Dolatabadi told the BBC. \"He was very intelligent, a gentleman. He had a kind and a gentle soul.\"\n\nThe couple had met a few years earlier at Concordia and both went on to work at top engineering firms in Montreal. They had decided to get married in Iran because they wanted to celebrate with family, Mr Dolatabadi said.\n\nPedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand with their two daughters\n\nNewlyweds Arash Pourzarabi, 26, and Pouneh Gourji, 25, were graduate students in computer science at the University of Alberta and were also returning to Canada from their wedding.\n\nThe crash also claimed the lives of two young girls, Daria and Dorina Mousavi, aged 14 and 9, along with their parents, Pedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand, who taught at the University of Alberta.\n\nPayman Parseyman, an Iranian-Canadian from Edmonton, said the community was devastated as they learned that many from the city's Iranian diaspora, as well as foreign Iranian students who had been studying there, had been on flight PS752.\n\n\"It's mostly been shock, disbelief,\" he told the BBC.\n\nCanadians across the country mourned lost family members and loved ones\n\nHe said many Iranian-Canadians were already glued to their televisions or the internet watching for news about the ballistic missile strikes launched by Iran on air bases housing US forces in Iraq late on Tuesday evening, and ended up watching early reports on the plane crash in real time.\n\nPeople were quick to begin connecting via the Telegram messaging app, seeking information and finding ways to support the families and loved ones of those killed.\n\nCanada has not had diplomatic representation in Iran since 2012, when it closed its embassy in Tehran and expelled Iranian diplomats from Ottawa.\n\nOfficials said a number of allies, including France, Italy, and Australia, have offered Canada assistance on the ground in Iran.\n\n\"We've been having such a split as a community these past few months,\" says Mr Mortazavi, who attended the vigil at the University of Toronto.\n\n\"I hope this acts as a turning point for all of us, so that people start reflecting about each other, about the friendships.\"", "Neil Peart had been battling brain cancer for three-and-a-half years, his band mates said\n\nNeil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Canadian rock band Rush, has died from brain cancer aged 67.\n\nThe musician, considered one of rock's greatest ever drummers, died on Tuesday in Santa Monica, California.\n\nRush, the band he played with for 45 years, confirmed his death in a statement posted to Twitter.\n\nThe statement said Peart, their \"soul brother\", had been suffering from glioblastoma - a type of brain cancer - for three-and-a-half years.\n\n\"It is with broken hearts and the deepest sadness that we must share the terrible news that on Tuesday our friend, soul brother and band mate of over 45 years, Neil, has lost his incredibly brave three-and-a-half-year battle with brain cancer,\" the statement says.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesperson for the Peart family also confirmed the drummer's death to US music magazine, Rolling Stone.\n\nPlaced at number four in Rolling Stone's list of all-time greatest drummers, Peart was well-known for his technical proficiency and animated live performances.\n\nHe joined Rush in 1974, drawing influences from hard rock, jazz and heavy metal in a career that spanned four decades.\n\nPeart retired from Rush in 2015 after the band's final tour, saying the time had come to take himself \"out of the game\".\n\nThe group, which also featured singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson, recorded hits including The Spirit Of Radio and Tom Sawyer. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.\n\nPeart is ranked at number four in Rolling Stone's list of all-time greatest drummers\n\nPeart is reportedly survived by his wife, photographer Carrie Nuttall, and daughter Olivia.\n\nMusicians have paid tribute to Peart on Twitter. Among them was Kiss frontman Gene Simmons, who described Peart as a \"kind soul\".\n\nHe added: \"My prayers and condolences to the Peart family, fans and friends.\"\n\nActor and Tenacious D musician Jack Black tweeted: \"The master will be missed - Neil Peart RIP.\"", "Labour leadership hopeful Sir Keir Starmer has called for unity and said \"factionalism has to go\" if the party is to recover from its election defeat.\n\nSpeaking at his campaign launch in Manchester, he said: \"We are not going to trash the last Labour government… nor are we going to trash the last four years [under Jeremy Corbyn]\".\n\nHe has also vowed to end anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\nSir Keir is one of six candidates running to replace Mr Corbyn as leader.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary has won the backing of the UK's largest trade union, Unison.\n\nHowever, on Saturday the grassroots group Momentum said it will ballot its members on backing Rebecca Long Bailey in the contest.\n\nDuring his speech on Saturday, the MP for Holborn and St Pancras said: \"We can't fight the Tories if we are fighting each other. Factionalism has to go.\"\n\nHe criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson, describing him as a \"man of no principles and no moral compass, who will go anywhere to stay in power\".\n\nHowever, Sir Keir said he would not \"trash\" the Labour governments of Tony Blair or Gordon Brown, or the previous leadership of Mr Corbyn. He said there had been \"many important moves\" made.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn was right to make us the party to fight austerity,\" Sir Keir said. \"We build on that, we don't trash it going forward.\"\n\nHe said Labour should treat the 2017 manifesto as its foundation going forward, saying the next manifesto must \"give hope to people that the next 20 years can be better with a Labour government\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the speech, he said: \"I think what we need to do is make a radical and relevant case to [voters] for change. They need to know it's going to work and trust us to implement it.\n\n\"I'm absolutely committed to the fundamental change needed to deal with the rank inequality in this country.\"\n\nThere are currently six MPs in the Labour leadership contest\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley called Sir Keir \"the man to beat\" in the contest and said the leadership hopeful was \"not shying away from being radical\".\n\nHe added: \"But it's interesting that he said 2017's manifesto should be a foundation - that was a lot less radical than the 2019 manifesto, which many in the party believed offered far too much far too quickly.\"\n\nEarlier, Sir Keir told BBC Breakfast he would personally take charge of the fight against anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\n\"If you're anti-Semitic you should not be in the Labour Party. It is not complicated,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir insisted that anyone who is anti-Semitic should be \"chucked out\" and said he would take \"personal responsibility\" for the issue.\n\nSir Keir was the first of the six Labour leadership contenders to secure the 22 nominations required to progress to the next stage of the contest.\n\nShadow business secretary Mrs Long Bailey and backbenchers Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips have also received the required support.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who currently has 10 nominations, and Clive Lewis, with four, are seeking more support.\n\nMomentum is to ballot its members on backing Rebecca Long Bailey as the next leader\n\nMrs Long Bailey also addressed anti-Semitism at a Labour event in Staffordshire on Saturday, saying \"we've got to make sure this never happens again\".\n\nShe added: \"Voters didn't trust that we were united within our party. Our voters expect us to be united and professional - and yes, we are passionate about what we believe in because it matters so much.\n\n\"But that passion must never spill over into abuse, wherever it is coming from.\"\n\nA new leader and deputy leader will be announced on 4 April.\n\nMomentum has said it will ballot its members early next week on its recommendation to back Mrs Long Bailey and Angela Rayner for leader and deputy leader respectively.\n\nFollowing a meeting of the organisation's steering group, it issued a statement saying Mrs Long Bailey was the \"only viable candidate\" able to build on the party's \"socialist agenda\".\n\n\"We need a new generation of left-wing MPs to lead our party and build on Labour's popular policy agenda,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBut Laura Parker, Momentum's national co-ordinator, said the organisation's leadership should not have \"decided in advance\" of the ballot which candidates to support.\n\n\"Members should be able to choose from all Leader & Deputy candidates,\" she said on Twitter.\n\nMomentum also said it was recommending support for Ms Rayner as deputy, saying the pair could \"work well together\" and \"unite the party against the Conservatives\".", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe Home Office has requested the extradition of a US woman to be charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of motorcyclist Harry Dunn.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in August which led to the suspect, Anne Sacoolas, leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe Home Office said the matter was \"now a decision for the US authorities\".\n\nThe US State Department said an extradition request would be \"highly inappropriate\" and insisted that Ms Sacoolas' status at the time of the crash meant she had diplomatic immunity.\n\nA spokeswoman said they expressed their deepest sympathies and offered condolences to the Dunn family for their loss, and would continue to \"look at options for moving forward\".\n\n\"It is the position of the United States government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an abuse,\" she said.\n\n\"The use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomat by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nThe 42-year-old left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Following the Crown Prosecution Service's charging decision, the Home Office has sent an extradition request to the United States for Anne Sacoolas on charges of causing death by dangerous driving. This is now a decision for the US authorities.\"\n\nWhen the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced extradition proceedings, US officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK.\n\nLawyer Amy Jefress said: \"Anne will not return voluntarily to the UK to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.\"\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nReacting to the extradition request on behalf of Harry Dunn's family, spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"Anne Sacoolas will come back. She has to come back. There is no other way forward.\n\n\"So, whether they put up a fight and whether they actually refuse it, we will only know in time and the parents are determined to just take this a step at a time. It's being handled by the officials now, by the lawyers, and we're not going to get ahead of ourselves.\"\n\n\"No-one, whether diplomat or otherwise, is above the law,\" he added.\n\nHe said in the circumstances, considering all the family had been through, the family was pleased with the extradition request and felt it was a \"huge step towards achieving justice for Harry\".\n\nIn December, Mr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the family was \"relieved\" Mrs Sacoolas had \"finally\" been charged.\n\n\"We made that promise to him the night we lost him to seek justice thinking it was going to be really easy,\" she said.\n\n\"We had no idea it was going to be so hard and it would take so long.\"\n\nThe family's constituency MP, cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom, has since written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking him to meet Mr Dunn's parents to hear their concerns.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sweden has seen a 4% drop in the number of people flying via its airports, a rare decrease in recent years for a European country.\n\nMore than 40 million people travelled through the country's 10 airports, compared with 42 million during 2018.\n\nThe figure for domestic travel was down 9%, according to Sweden's airport operators, Swedavia.\n\nThe figures come as the Swedish-born movement of \"flight shaming\" is gaining prominence.\n\nSwedavia spokesman Robert Pletzin said there were a number of reasons for the decrease, citing Swedish aviation tax, softening economy worries, the weak Swedish crown and the climate debate.\n\nFlygskam or \"flight shame\" originated in Sweden in 2017, when Swedish singer Staffan Lingberg pledged to give up flying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the boat Greta Thunberg travelled on to cross the Atlantic\n\nSwedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg set an example by crossing the Atlantic in a zero-emissions yacht last year.\n\nIn September, Citigroup analysts said greater consumer awareness about global carbon emissions had already had a tangible effect in Sweden and could call into question the longer-term growth potential of the entire industry.\n\nA number of people have since decided to take on the challenge of travelling without flying. More than 22,500 people have signed a pledge to go flight-free in 2020.\n\nThe last occasions where air passenger numbers dropped had distinct reasons - the 9/11 terror attacks and the financial crash.\n\nAside from Sweden, Europe is still seeing an increase in the number of people flying. The EU overall saw figures rise to 1.1 billion passengers in 2018, up from 1 billion the year before.\n\nIn 2018, the UK saw more than 272 million passengers, up from 264 million in 2017.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) says current trends suggest passenger numbers could double to 8.2 billion by 2037. Cities in Asia are expected to overtake European cities in regards to air passenger markets.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex hope talks over their future roles in the Royal Family can be concluded \"sooner rather than later\", a source has told PA news agency.\n\nMeetings are said to be \"progressing well\", with the UK and Canadian governments consulted.\n\nThe couple have said they plan to step back as senior royals and split their time between the UK and North America.\n\nMeghan has returned to Canada to join her son Archie amid the ongoing talks.\n\nThe family spent Christmas there, before returning to the UK on Tuesday after a six-week break from royal duties.\n\nThe Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge have asked senior staff to work with the Sussex household and government to find a solution within days, according to BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell.\n\nSpeaking about the duke and duchess, a source told PA news agency: \"They, like everyone, are hopeful this can all be worked out, sooner rather than later.\n\n\"It is in everyone's interest for this to be figured out, and figured out quickly, but not at the expense of the outcome.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the couple's official Instagram account returned to publicising their appearances.\n\nPictures were posted showing the couple during a private visit on Tuesday to a community kitchen in north Kensington, west London, which cooked meals for families displaced by the Grenfell Tower fire and contributed to a recipe book backed by Meghan.\n\nIn their statement on Wednesday, the duke and duchess also said they would be adopting a \"revised media approach\", engaging with \"grassroots media organisations\" and using their Instagram account, which has more than 10 million followers, to \"personally share moments in their lives directly with members of the public\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sussexroyal This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Royal Family was said to be \"hurt\" at the couple's announcement about their plans to step back as senior royals.\n\nPalace sources have told BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond that Prince Harry and Meghan did not consult any other royal about making their personal statement.\n\nThere had been talks within the Royal Family about the Sussexes' future - but they were at an early stage, he said.\n\nIn their announcement on Wednesday evening, Prince Harry and Meghan revealed they intend \"to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family, and work to become financially independent\".\n\nThey plan to split their time between the UK and North America, while \"continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages\".\n\nThe decision came \"after many months of reflection and internal discussions\", they added.\n\nDespite the couple's decision, Harry will remain sixth in line to the throne.\n\nFormer royal press secretary Dickie Arbiter said attempting to be \"half in and half out\" of the Royal Family had been tried before 30 years ago by the Earl and Countess of Wessex and \"it didn't work\".\n\nThe pair both experienced difficulties pursuing careers in the private sector and are now full-time \"working royals\".\n\n\"You're either a royal or you're not a royal - you can't have one leg in one camp and another leg in another camp,\" Mr Arbiter said, adding that Prince Harry had a number of senior roles which could not be done in a \"half-hearted way\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"People should back off\": The public react to Prince Harry and Meghan stepping back\n\nUS President Donald Trump told Fox News he thought the announcement from Harry and Meghan was \"sad\".\n\nHe said: \"I don't want to get into the whole thing, I just have such respect for the Queen, it shouldn't be happening to her.\"\n\nLast October, Prince Harry and Meghan publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight.\n\nAfter returning to the UK after their six-week break in Canada on Tuesday, Harry, 35, and Meghan, 38, visited Canada's High Commission in London to thank the country for hosting them and said the warmth and hospitality they had received was \"unbelievable\".\n\nFormer actress Meghan, who is American, lived and worked in Toronto during her time starring in the popular US drama Suits, and she has several Canadian friends.\n\nThe pair were already preparing to launch their own Sussex Royal charity, which they set up after splitting from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's foundation in June last year.\n\nIt was revealed in December the couple had made an application to trademark their Sussex Royal brand across a string of items including books, calendars, clothing, charitable fundraising, education and social care services.\n\nDo you have any questions about Harry and Meghan's decision to step back as senior royals?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Bournemouth University's Talbot Campus was on lockdown for about 30 minutes and has since reopened\n\nA man wearing a fitness vest is believed to have sparked a terror alert on a university campus.\n\nPolice were called to the site in Poole, Dorset, at 14:33 GMT amid reports of a man wearing a suicide vest and \"covered in blood\".\n\nCCTV images suggested the man was using the vest for exercise and there was no threat to the public, police said.\n\nBournemouth University shut down its Talbot Campus for about 30 minutes while police searched the area.\n\nFitness vests are types of gilets, or sleeveless padded jackets, that have specially designed pockets or pouches enabling the wearer to carry extra weights to aid with resistance training.\n\nThey are intended to create more resistance for the wearer when they are exercising to give them a more difficult workout.\n\nStudents initially posted on social media that they were being kept inside their buildings because of a suspected terrorism incident involving a man described as having a suicide vest, a gun or a knife.\n\nIn a statement, Dorset Police said the man was seen in the area of the Boundary roundabout near the campus.\n\nPolice added: \"A review of CCTV footage... established that it was believed to be someone running in a fitness vest.\n\n\"The lockdown has now been lifted and we do not believe there is any further cause for concern or threat to the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The tortoise that has saved his species from extinction\n\nA giant tortoise whose legendary libido has been credited with saving his species from extinction is to return to the wild on the Galápagos Islands.\n\nDiego was among 14 male tortoises selected to take part in a breeding programme on Santa Cruz Island.\n\nThe programme has been a success, producing more than 2,000 giant tortoises since it began in the 1960s.\n\nDiego's sex drive was said to be one of the main reasons.\n\nThe 100-year-old tortoise has fathered hundreds of progeny, around 800 by some estimates.\n\nThe programme has now finished, and Diego will be returned to his native island of Española in March, the Galápagos National Parks service (PNG) said.\n\nHe will join a 1,800-strong tortoise population, at least 40% of which park rangers believe he has fathered.\n\n\"He's contributed a large percentage to the lineage that we are returning to Española,\" Jorge Carrion, the park's director, told AFP news agency.\n\n\"There's a feeling of happiness to have the possibility of returning that tortoise to his natural state.\"\n\nThe park service believes Diego was taken from the Galápagos 80 years ago by a scientific expedition.\n\nAround 50 years ago, there were only two males and 12 females of Diego's species alive on Espanola.\n\nTo save his species, Chelonoidis hoodensis, Diego was brought in from California's San Diego Zoo.\n\nDiego is currently in quarantine before his triumphant return to Española, considered one of the oldest parts of the Galápagos.\n\nThe island of Española is now home to round 1,800 tortoises\n\nThe Galápagos Islands, 906km (563 miles) west of continental Ecuador, are a Unesco World Heritage site renowned worldwide for their unique array of plants and wildlife.\n\nThe indigenous species found on the Galápagos, including iguanas and tortoises, played a key role in the development of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.\n\nTourists across the globe travel there to see its biodiversity.", "The 36-year-old student was jailed for life with a minimum of 30 years\n\nA man jailed for 136 rapes could have his sentence increased after his case was referred to the Attorney General.\n\nReynhard Sinaga, 36, was found guilty of luring 48 men to his Manchester flat, where he filmed himself sexually assaulting and raping them.\n\nThe student, described as Britain's \"most prolific rapist\", was ordered to serve a minimum of 30 years in prison.\n\nHis case has been referred under the unduly lenient sentence scheme, the Attorney General's office confirmed.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had written to the Attorney General regarding the case.\n\n\"The case of Reynhard Sinaga is unprecedented in CPS history and we took a range of factors into account when bringing each trial to court,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"A key consideration was the likely impact on sentence of bringing further prosecutions and we are confident we did everything we could to ensure the court had adequate sentencing powers to see justice done in this case.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Reynhard Sinaga? The BBC's Judith Moritz reports on the case\n\nSinaga targeted at least 190 victims and was \"the most prolific rapist in British legal history\", the CPS said when he was sentenced on 6 January.\n\nAttorney General Geoffrey Cox QC has until 3 February to decide whether to seek a longer sentence for the Indonesian national.\n\nSinaga, who was a post-graduate student living in Manchester, would wait for men leaving nightclubs and bars before leading them to his flat in Montana House, Princess Street.\n\nHe drugged his victims before assaulting them while they were unconscious.\n\nJudge Suzanne Goddard QC said he was \"an evil serial sexual predator\" who had shown \"not a jot of remorse\" during his trials, which took place across 18 months at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nMr Cox is due to make a decision about whether to send the case to the Court of Appeal by 3 February.", "Discussing pay at work can be a touchy subject.\n\nWhether it is the moment in a job interview when the topic of money is raised, or a request for an advance at the end of an expensive month, it is rarely a comfortable conversation.\n\nBut for almost one in five workers, having a conversation about their salary with a colleague could be more than uncomfortable, it could get them fired, according to a study.\n\nA survey by the Trades Union Congress suggests that 18% of workers had been told that they were not allowed to discuss pay with their colleagues\n\n\"Pay secrecy clauses are a get out of jail free card for bad bosses,\" said TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady.\n\n\"They stop workers from challenging unfair pay, allow top executives to hoard profits and encourage discrimination against women and disabled people.\"\n\nHalf of workers asked said they did not know what senior managers in their organisation earned. And 53% said they were not given information about other people's pay.\n\nFewer than one five said their workplace had a transparent pay policy.\n\n\"Talking about pay can feel a bit uncomfortable, but more openness about wages is essential to building fairer workplaces,\" Ms O'Grady said.\n\nTracy Jordan, an HR professional, told the BBC she would rather not know what her colleagues are earning.\n\nShe has worked in teams that all know or have access to information about how much each person is paid.\n\n\"I personally have found it's better not looking and not knowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Even if you feel you are paid a fair wage, there will always be someone that you perceive is doing a lesser job and is earning more.\"\n\n\"Rather than feeling perpetually dissatisfied, I think ignorance can be bliss.\"\n\nHowever, Joseph Bunkle, a data analyst, said that approach only benefits bosses.\n\n\"Wouldn't it feel bad knowing you're being paid less than a colleague for the same job because you felt like 'it's just not something I like to discuss'?\"\n\nRomey Watters, who works in digital marketing, thinks there is a generational divide between those who are willing to discuss their salary and those who are not.\n\n\"I think younger people tend to be more transparent with sharing details about their salaries, perhaps because things like buying a house seem more unobtainable and the retirement age is increasing,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I also think that companies sometimes encourage a culture of employees not disclosing what they earn as it could highlight a problem they want to avoid dealing with.\"", "Police stood guard at a climate change protest by Extinction Rebellion in Edinburgh last summer\n\nThe cost of a UN climate change conference in Glasgow could be \"several hundred million pounds\", police say.\n\nUp to 90,000 people - delegates, observers, heads of state and media - are expected to attend COP26, over 12 days in November.\n\nA Scottish Police Authority report says it will be the largest mobilisation of police officers in the UK.\n\nScottish ministers say they expect the UK government to cover the \"core costs\" including emergency services funding.\n\nBut a spokesperson added there was a \"lack of clarity\" from Westminster over the issue.\n\nThe UK government said discussions with the Scottish government on the conference costs were \"currently ongoing\".\n\nThe authority is meeting monthly with Scottish and UK government officials to plan security and minimise disruption for residents of Glasgow.\n\nCosts associated with a Nato summit in Wales in 2014 have been used to draw up the estimated cost of this year's conference.\n\nThe report says: \"Taking into consideration the planning assumptions and based on previous major summits/conferences (e.g. Nato Summit Wales 2014), the initial costings demonstrate that the event will cost potentially several hundred million pounds.\n\n\"Detailed financial planning is being developed and dialogue remains ongoing with the Cabinet Office relative to the cost recovery model that will be utilised.\"\n\nPolice said the safety and wellbeing of conference attendees, the wider public and any protesters would be their \"paramount\" concern.\n\nThe COP26 will be the largest summit the UK has held, with up to 200 world leaders expected for the final weekend of talks.\n\nIt will be held at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) but other venues across the city will also host functions and meetings for heads of state and other dignitaries.\n\nCosts of policing the climate change conference in Glasgow could run to \"hundreds of millions of pounds\"\n\nThe SPA report also reveals the SEC will be handed over to the UN for the duration of the conference.\n\nKnown as the \"blue zone\", it will become international territory, subject to international law.\n\n\"Discussions are ongoing with senior law officers and the UN to determine how Police Scotland will record and investigate any crimes which occur in the blue zone,\" the report says.\n\nIt adds that COP26 attendees will peak at 15,000 on the busiest day, but the overall figure could rise to 90,000 over the period of the conference, which runs from 9-20 November.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with the UK government, Glasgow City Council and other partners to ensure the conference was a success.\n\n\"While the UK government has committed to cover core costs, Scottish ministers expect that all costs associated with COP26 will be borne by the UK government,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This includes funding for police, fire and ambulance services to both prepare for and deliver a safe, secure and successful event. We continue to push the UK government on the lack of clarity on this key issue.\"", "Since 2017, thousands of Kazakh Muslims have been detained in China’s infamous re-education camps. Survivors who have returned to Kazakhstan, say during months of incarceration they were tortured, beaten and received unknown injections.\n\nEthnic Kazakhs, as well as Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, have lived and moved freely across the Chinese-Kazakh border for centuries. However, as China’s clampdown on Islam continues, Beijing is now accused of locking up its Kazakh neighbours.\n\nTo find out more, listen to the BBC World Service's Heart and Soul programme here.\n\nProduced by Claire Press. Filmed and edited by Elise Wicker.", "Fire services in England suffer from a \"toxic\" culture, with some firefighters not treating colleagues with \"enough humanity\", a watchdog chief has said.\n\nInspectors uncovered cases of bullying and harassment at some services, while some staff were said to find the poor treatment of others to be \"amusing\".\n\nIt is the first annual report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.\n\nIts chief inspector, Sir Thomas Winsor, called for a new code of ethics.\n\nHe also urged building owners to remove cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower, to help avoid another blaze.\n\nSir Thomas highlighted in his report a staff survey that found 24% reported feeling bullied or harassed at work in the past 12 months, with the number rising to 46% at one service.\n\nHe said inspectors had heard allegations of unlawful discrimination and that some services lacked defined values for people to follow and use to challenge unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"The fire sector refers to itself as humanitarian, yet firefighters in some services don't treat their colleagues with enough humanity,\" he wrote in his report.\n\nWhile the inspectorate said in a briefing with journalists that the problems were found within \"isolated pockets\" of services, it said it had spoken with female firefighters left \"in tears\" when discussing intimidating behaviour by colleagues and a \"lack of inclusivity\".\n\nAlso in his report, Sir Thomas said it was \"alarming\" that, more than two years after the Grenfell fire in which 72 people died, more than 300 buildings still had the same cladding as the tower.\n\n\"Remedial work to remove similar cladding systems, including rainscreens with polyethylene cores, should be done by the building owners as quickly as possible,\" Sir Thomas said.\n\n\"No other fire service should have to tackle a blaze of such severity because of these unsafe materials.\"\n\nThe Grenfell inquiry's phase one report, published in October, found Grenfell Tower's cladding did not comply with building regulations and was the \"principal\" reason for the fire's rapid spread.\n\nElsewhere, Sir Thomas accused the Fire Brigades Union of putting the public at risk.\n\nHe gave the example of staff in Greater Manchester refusing to serve in a team formed to respond to terrorist gun attacks because of a pay dispute.\n\nSir Thomas said the FBU had used its \"considerable industrial muscle\" to demand more money for firefighters required to provide medical assistance alongside ambulance crews.\n\n\"The union shouldn't be interfering in operational matters\", he said. \"They're there to protect their members' interests, to ensure that they're properly paid, their working terms and conditions.\"\n\nLast June, a watchdog warned lives could be put at risk because of the dispute.\n\nIn a statement, the FBU said: \" We utterly refute any suggestion that we have put the public at risk. Operational fire service matters are intrinsically linked to the health and safety of firefighters, and are therefore at the core of our work as a union.\"\n\nIt added: \"Firefighters know best about their service and should have a strong voice in how it is run.\"", "President Hassan Rouhani said European powers needed to abide by their own commitments\n\nIran's President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's call for a new \"Trump deal\" to replace the 2015 nuclear agreement.\n\nMr Johnson said he recognised that Mr Trump saw the accord as \"flawed\" and suggested he could renegotiate it.\n\nMr Rouhani warned that \"all Trump has done is break promises\".\n\nHe also criticised the UK, France and Germany for triggering the nuclear deal's dispute mechanism after Iran breached key commitments.\n\nPresident Trump abandoned the nuclear deal in 2018 and reinstated US sanctions on Iran to try to force it to negotiate a new agreement that would place indefinite curbs on its nuclear programme and also halt its development of ballistic missiles.\n\nThe five remaining parties to the deal - the European powers plus China and Russia - want to keep it alive. But the sanctions have caused Iran's oil exports to collapse, the value of its currency to plummet, and sent its inflation rate soaring.\n\nAfter the Trump administration increased the pressure on Iran in May 2019, the country responded by gradually lifting all limits on its production of enriched uranium, which can be used to make reactor fuel but also nuclear weapons.\n\nIran announced that the final limit had been lifted earlier this month, days after top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq. Iran's armed forces also fired ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing US forces in retaliation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Patience explains why recent events have sparked protests on Iran's streets\n\nThe 2015 deal saw Iran, which insists that its nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes, agree to limit its sensitive activities and allow in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors in return for the lifting of sanctions.\n\nWhen Iran began lifting restrictions on uranium enrichment, it argued that the accord allowed it to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by other parties.\n\nAnnouncing they had triggered the Dispute Recognition Mechanism on Tuesday, France, Germany and the UK warned that Iran's actions were \"inconsistent with the provisions of the nuclear agreement\" and had \"increasingly severe and non-reversible proliferation implications\".\n\nAmong the steps Iran has taken is to install more advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges\n\n\"We do this in good faith with the overarching objective of preserving the [deal] and in the sincere hope of finding a way forward to resolve the impasse through constructive diplomatic dialogue,\" they said.\n\nThe mechanism involves the dispute being referred to a Joint Commission that will have a minimum of 15 days to resolve the issue. If the complainants are still not satisfied, they can refer the issue to the UN Security Council, which could vote to reimpose any sanctions lifted under the deal.\n\nIn a televised speech on Wednesday, Iran's president criticised the European powers' decision and their failure to ensure his country enjoyed the economic benefits of the nuclear deal.\n\n\"The next step you need to take is to return to your commitments,\" he said.\n\n\"In recent days I... made it clear to two European leaders that what we have done is reversible for one, and that everything we do regarding the nuclear issue is under the supervision of the IAEA\".\n\nHe added: \"If you take the wrong step, it will be to your detriment. Choose the right path, which is to return to the [nuclear deal].\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM on US-Iran tensions: 'Let's dial this thing down'\n\nMr Rouhani also criticised the UK for talking about replacing the accord.\n\n\"I do not know what Mr Prime Minister in London is thinking,\" he said. \"All Trump has done is break promises and violate laws and international rules.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC on Tuesday that the \"crucial thing\" about the nuclear deal was that from the American perspective it was \"flawed\".\n\n\"If we're going to get rid of it, let's replace it and let's replace it with the Trump deal,\" he said. \"President Trump is a great dealmaker, by his own account and many others. Let's work together to replace the [agreement] and get the Trump deal.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has said it is ready to negotiate with \"no preconditions\", but Iran has said negotiations are possible only if all US sanctions are lifted.\n\nIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters in the Indian capital Delhi on Wednesday that European powers were allowing themselves to be \"bullied\" by the US. But he also asserted that the nuclear deal was \"not dead\".", "Tony Hall said the plan \"could be hugely disruptive\" but is \"an enormous creative opportunity\"\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall has outlined a plan that will see at least two thirds of the corporation's staff based outside London by 2027.\n\nLord Hall said a new tech hub will be opened in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, while 150 jobs will be moved to Bristol.\n\nSalford will be \"the heart\" of BBC Sounds and will be home to more digital posts and \"much more journalism\".\n\nHe said creating more jobs away from the capital would help to \"promote inclusion\" and \"diversity of thinking\".\n\nJust over half of the BBC's 19,000-strong workforce is currently based outside London. That figure was around a third a decade ago.\n\n\"Our centres have become magnets for ideas and talent, new jobs and investment,\" Lord Hall told BBC staff on Wednesday.\n\n\"That's really good news. But I know we can go further. We can do so much more for this country - and we're going to - starting this year.\"\n\nLord Hall said Newcastle's new tech hub would aim to deliver \"a new generation of software engineers, designers, product developers and data scientists in the north-east of England\".\n\nThe natural history unit in Bristol will expand, while the BBC Sounds curation team will move to MediaCityUK in Salford to join controller Jonathan Wall \"within weeks\", he added. They will add non-BBC podcasts to the audio app.\n\n\"For the first time, we're going to open up Sounds to new British creators wherever they are and bring the best podcasts to everyone,\" Lord Hall explained.\n\nHe also announced that children will soon get a \"radically different\" experience on iPlayer, while the BBC News app will also be overhauled.\n\nHe said: \"This is the beginning of what I think should be a renewed push - getting the BBC up to at least two thirds around the country, if not more, by the time our charter comes to an end in 2027.\n\n\"I know all the risks. It will take time. It would cost money. It could be hugely disruptive. But it is an enormous creative opportunity - for audiences, for talent, for the UK.\n\n\"It'll make us more relevant, more in touch with audiences, more alive to creative opportunities. That's a really exciting prospect.\"\n\nAt current staffing levels, the plan would see around 2,800 jobs move out of the capital. However, the BBC is currently in the middle of a drive to save £800m by 2022. It reached around half of that target last year.\n\nTony Hall was speaking at BBC Wales at Central Square, Cardiff\n\nLord Hall acknowledged that the BBC had \"been through a lot\" since he became director general in 2013, and the organisation has \"not always got it right\".\n\nHe vowed to keep \"learning, talking [and] changing\" to ensure the corporation is \"the most inclusive, innovative, inspiring place to work\".\n\nLast week, presenter Samira Ahmed won the employment tribunal she brought against the corporation in a dispute over equal pay.\n\nIn December, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was worth \"looking at\" whether to abolish the licence fee.\n\nThe government is considering whether failure to pay the TV licence fee should cease to be a criminal offence.\n\nBoth the BBC and the government came in for criticism from MPs last year after announcing free TV licences for all over-75s, would be scrapped.\n\n\"Don't be defensive about the BBC,\" Lord Hall urged staff on Wednesday, calling on them to \"demonstrate why we matter\".\n\nThe 68-year-old also announced the BBC's intention to become carbon neutral in this licence fee period, while taking on the \"financial and creative might of the streamers\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Apple chief executive Tim Cook and Donald Trump don't see eye to eye over access to data\n\nUS President Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Apple.\n\nHe tweeted that the company was refusing to unlock iPhones \"used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements\".\n\nOn Monday US Attorney General William Barr accused Apple of not being helpful in an inquiry into a shooting that is being treated as a terrorist act.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of clashes between the White House and technology giants over access to data.\n\nMr Trump accused Apple of refusing to co-operate with investigators despite his administration helping the company on trade and other issues.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe president's comments came a day after Mr Barr said Apple had failed to provide \"substantive assistance\" to unlock two iPhones in an investigation into a fatal shooting at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida.\n\nThree US sailors were killed when a Saudi trainee at the base opened fire on 6 December.\n\nApple said it rejected the claim that it had failed to help officials in their investigation.\n\n\"Our responses to their many requests since the attack have been timely, thorough and are ongoing,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThis is not the first time Apple has clashed with the US justice department. After a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California in 2015, in which 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured, Apple refused to help gain access to the gunman's iPhone.\n\nThe US government ended up paying another company a reported $1m (£770,000) to develop software to get around the device's encryption.\n\nThe disputes highlight the ongoing disagreement between the technology industry and law enforcement agencies around the world.\n\nOn one side encryption plays a crucial role in protecting people's privacy, on the other it can cause major issues for criminal investigators.", "Thanks for following our live coverage of the seventh debate of the Democratic primary season.\n\nThe debate in Iowa featured six of the remaining 12 candidates, and came just three weeks before Iowa voters go to the polls to select their Democratic candidate.\n\nProgressive senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders appeared to finally break what had been an informal truce, as they clashed over claims Sanders doubted the electablity of any female US presidential candidate.\n\nWarren argued that she and the only other woman on stage - Amy Klobuchar - had a better track record of winning office than the men on stage, who she said had lost 10 elections between them.\n\nRead the full time analysis from Anthony Zurcher in Iowa:", "Glyn Davis Wood in Warwickshire is threatened by HS2, says the Wildlife Trust\n\nHS2 risks dividing and destroying \"huge swathes\" of \"irreplaceable\" natural habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands, a report has warned.\n\nThe Wildlife Trust said the high-speed rail line linking London and northern England could wipe out rare species.\n\nThe organisation says if the project, which is currently on hold, goes ahead a \"greener\" approach will be needed.\n\nHS2 Ltd said the number of sites flagged as at risk in the report \"simply isn't accurate\".\n\nIt said its railway would respect the environment and plant millions of trees and shrubs to create a \"green corridor\" along the route.\n\nThe government commissioned a review into HS2 in August and is set to decide in the coming weeks whether to proceed.\n\nThe Wildlife Trust said its report - which uses data from 14 local trusts affected by the plans - is the \"most comprehensive\" assessment of the environmental damage the high-speed rail line could cause.\n\nIt claims HS2 could have a significant impact on hundreds of nature reserves, sites of Special Scientific Interest and ancient woodlands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe organisation fears rare species such as the Dingy Skipper Butterfly could become extinct in some local habitats.\n\nBarn Owls and the endangered White Clawed Crayfish could also be impacted by the project, it added.\n\nThe Wildlife Trust called on the government to \"stop and rethink\".\n\nNikki Williams, director of campaigns and policy, said: \"HS2 will destroy precious carbon-capturing habitats if it's allowed to continue in its current form.\n\n\"It will damage the very ecosystems that provide a natural solution to the climate emergency.\"\n\nThe Wildlife Trust fears the Dingy Skipper Butterfly could be wiped out by the project's development\n\nHilary McGrady, director general of the National Trust, said HS2 Ltd had \"a vital responsibility to lead by example\" and \"must not end up cutting corners at the expense of the environment\".\n\nBut HS2 said at-risk areas in the report had been identified through a simplistic list of all wildlife sites within 500m of the railway.\n\nIt added the report did not show evidence of significant impact at the sites.\n\nHowever, the Wildlife Trust said in response that the report was based on evidence provided by numerous organisations including the RSPB and the National Trust.\n\n\"If HS2 Ltd is saying the impacts are lower than presented in the report, we would welcome the evidence,\" the Trust said.\n\n\"Until we see it, we are raising our concerns about the risks both actual and potential and call on the prime minister to stop and review the project, while the full ecological impacts and approach are considered.\"\n\nHS2 said it had carried out extensive work to relocate animals, such as the Great Crested Newt, away from sites and into newly-created habitats.\n\nThe company said its \"green corridor\" will deliver a railway that \"respects\" the natural environment.\n\nA total of seven million new trees - a mix of oak, hazel, dogwood and holly - are being planted as part of the programme.\n\nHS2 claims it is planting more than double the amount of trees and shrubs affected by the project.\n\nBut Nikki Williams labelled HS2's proposed measures to temper the effects of the works \"amateurish\".\n\nStop HS2 campaigner Lindsey Batham said hedgerows and trees being cleared for the project were \"the roads and railways that wildlife uses\".\n\nShe said the project only called off uprooting vegetation during nesting season when she and her fellow campaigners intervened.\n\n\"It's just not acceptable. No other contractor in the country would be able to do that - HS2 seems to have carte blanche,\" she added.\n\nLindsey Batham says the Stop HS2 campaign had to stop rail workers from destroying habitats during nesting season", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thames Valley Police said no-one was believed to be injured\n\nA large section of a roof was blown off a block of flats in Slough as wind continued to hit the UK.\n\nThe roof is strewn across the high street and people have been warned to avoid the area.\n\nThe road is closed and emergency services are at the scene, though Thames Valley Police said no-one was believed to be injured.\n\nA taxi driver who narrowly missed being hit by the debris said it was \"a miracle no-one was killed\".\n\nThe UK has seen gusts of more than 80mph following Storm Brendan on Monday, with the Met Office issuing a number of weather warnings.\n\nThe roof is strewn across the high street in Slough\n\nTaxi driver Haris Baig, 30, from Slough, said his car was only metres away from being hit by the falling roof.\n\n\"At first I thought it was scaffolding, but then I realised the whole roof had come down,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a massive amount of noise.\n\n\"I was about 15 metres away and slammed on my brakes. I got out to see if everyone was alright.\n\n\"That was my first reaction, but at the same time I was thinking is this even safe?\"\n\n\"It was a disaster. It was a miracle no-one was killed,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SCAS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSebastian Rejnisz, 44, who lives in the building, said: \"I was moving my car out the back at the time when I heard a boom. I just thought it was the bins.\n\n\"I then went in and opened the front door and saw the roof was on the street.\n\n\"Everyone was just running around.\"\n\nA large police cordon is in place and part of the metal roof has been left pushed up against the side of the building.\n\nHousing provider Paradigm said it was \"aware of an incident\" affecting one of its properties, and that staff were \"working with the emergency services and supporting residents\".\n\nSlough MP Tan Dhesi called it a \"major incident\" and asked people to \"stay away\".\n\nSlough Borough Council said it had specialist officers on the scene and that there was heavy congestion in the area.\n\nA spokesman for Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service said three fire engines were at the scene and that it was not \"not aware of anyone trapped\" under the roof.\n\n\"The roof has come off in the wind. The current situation is trying to make the scene safe,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the fire service was not \"100% sure\" if anyone was still in the damaged building.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, Thames Valley Police said officers did not believe anyone had been seriously injured and thanked those affected for their patience.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Thames Valley Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Well, the second PMQs of the year was a fairly low-key affair.\n\nJeremy Corbyn avoided the Flybe rescue deal entirely - despite his people criticising it afterwards. Instead, he concentrated his questions on growing waiting times in the NHS and the social care crisis - both favourite topics of his.\n\nLater today, ministers will be presenting their bill which writes into law their proposed increases in NHS funding over the next five years.\n\nBut the Labour leader was keen to point out even those increases would be \"inadequate\" given the expected rise in demand.\n\nNotably, Boris Johnson did admit that hospital waiting lists were \"unacceptable\" and made a pledge to get waiting times down - a topic which is sure to run and run.\n\nHe also faced an attack from SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, who branded him a \"democracy denier\" for his rejection of another Scottish independence vote.\n\nIn return, the prime minister called on Mr Blackford to \"change the record,\" accusing him of being \"obsessed\" with independence to the detriment of his constituents.\n\nAgain, it won't be the last we hear from the pair on this subject.", "Girls aged between 11 and 13 are increasingly being tricked and coerced into performing sexually over their own webcams, data suggests.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation said 80% of the sexual selfies it found in its relentless trawl for images of child sexual abuse were of children this age.\n\nThe charity took action on 37,000 self-generated images of children last year. About 30,000 were of adolescents.\n\nIts chief executive said the number of cases was growing at an alarming rate.\n\nSusie Hargreaves described the distribution of such images and films, often self-made in domestic settings, as a \"national crisis\".\n\nOften children were seen looking into cameras, reading messages asking them to do something and complying.\n\nThe IWF said of all web pages featuring images of child sexual abuse, a third consisted of self-generated images, mostly by girls in a domestic setting.\n\nMs Hargreaves said: \"These are images and videos of girls that have been groomed, coerced and tricked into performing sexually over webcam in what is fast becoming a national crisis.\n\n\"There has never been a more poignant time to shine a light on the uncomfortable truth we are now faced with.\"\n\nVictims were getting younger, she said, as more younger children had access to webcams from their phones in their bedrooms.\n\n\"At this age, they are incredibly vulnerable,\" Ms Hargreaves said.\n\n\"They are still developing physically and they don't have the emotional maturity to understand what is going on.\n\n\"They are being flattered, told they are beautiful. They often think they are in relationship with someone.\"\n\nOne victim told the BBC she was talked into sending a topless photograph online to someone who claimed to be a woman recruiting models.\n\nThe victim, who was 13 at the time, said: \"After I'd sent that picture, her whole demeanour towards me changed.\"\n\nShe says she was forced to send more photos and to share her home address - with the threat that the first image would be printed out and posted on railings near her school if she did not comply.\n\nThe victim, who is now years older, said a man then came to her house, sexually assaulted her in her bedroom and took more photos.\n\n\"I didn't realise it at the time but the perpetrator that came to the house was the same person that I'd been speaking to online,\" the victim said.\n\n\"He told me from the very start that he'd printed off and put onto disk the images that had been sent online the night before, and that if I didn't do what he said, or if I told anybody, that he would distribute those.\"\n\nMs Hargreaves urged young men who might stumble across such images of under-age children as they viewed pornography online to report it and \"save many more victims of child sexual abuse\".\n\nReporting can be done quickly, anonymously and safely here.\n\nIt is the first time detail of the types of images discovered and age groups affected have been revealed.\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Police Chief's Council lead on child protection, said: \"Work like this, which seeks to educate people about the law and encourage them to be responsible, and especially to report any sexual images and videos of under-18s, supports the reduction of crime, the removal of indecent content and, importantly, lessens the harm to victims.\"\n\nTink Palmer, of the Marie Collins Foundation, which works with the IWF over the issue, said the amount of indecent content featuring children was growing.\n\n\"All internet users need to understand that they are breaking the law if they view this material, regardless of who has taken or uploaded it,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Delta Airlines flight reportedly had to return to the airport shortly after takeoff\n\nA passenger plane has dumped fuel over several schools as it made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport.\n\nAt least 60 people, many of them children, were treated for skin irritation and breathing problems.\n\nFuel may be dumped in emergency landings, but only over designated areas and at a high altitude, aviation rules stipulate.\n\nThe Delta Airlines flight returned to the airport due to an engine issue.\n\nDelta confirmed in a statement that the passenger plane had released fuel to reduce its landing weight.\n\nThe children and adults treated following the dumping incident were connected with at least six local schools. All the injuries are said to be minor.\n\nAt Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy, some 16 miles (26km) east of the airport, two classes of children were outside when the fuel was released.\n\nElizabeth Alcantar, mayor of Cudahy, told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: \"I'm very upset. This is an elementary school, these are small children.\"\n\nAllen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, told Reuters news agency: \"The FAA is thoroughly investigating the circumstances behind this incident. There are special fuel-dumping procedures for aircraft operating into and out of any major US airport.\n\n\"These procedures call for fuel to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, typically at higher altitudes so the fuel atomises and disperses before it reaches the ground.\"\n\nMany planes, especially those used for long-haul flights, take off weighing more than their maximum allowed landing weight due to the amount of fuel they carry.\n\nThis weight is normally reduced as fuel is consumed during the flight.\n\nBut when a flight is cut short the aircraft may still be too heavy to land safely. In such situations the pilot may take the rare decision to dump fuel and reduce the aircraft's weight quickly.\n\nOnly certain planes have this capability, and it is done through valves in the aircraft's wings which allow fuel to be pumped out by a specific amount.", "The study suggests there is a strong link between exposure to nature and behaving in a sustainable manner\n\nPeople who have access to nature or urban green spaces are much more likely to behave in environmentally friendly ways, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers used a representative sample of 24,000 people in England for their study of green behaviour.\n\nThe findings also showed that people who were not exposed to green spaces were less likely to adopt green behaviours, such as recycling.\n\nThe findings will appear in the journal Environment International.\n\nThe team of scientists from south-west England found that the link between access to green spaces and a greater level of green behaviour was true across the social board, whether it was older people, younger people, rich or poor, male or female.\n\n\"The message that we want to get out is that reconnecting with nature may promote sustainable behaviour,\" explained co-author Ian Alcock from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter.\n\nDr Alcock explained that previous studies had highlighted a link that if people had more connections to nature, they were more likely to make more green choices.\n\n\"But the evidence came from small-scale experiments and from small-scale surveys,\" he told BBC News.\n\nIn order to encourage environmentally friendly behaviour, policymakers should look to ensure access to green spaces in towns and cities\n\n\"What we wanted to do was to test that idea on a large scale, so we took a large nationally representative sample of the population of England.\n\nPeople who took part in the study were asked a range of questions, such as whether they recycled, bought eco-friendly brands, bought local or seasonal produce etc.\n\n\"People who made more nature visits were more likely to engage in recycling and more likely to engage in green travel and were more likely to engage in environmental volunteering.\n\n\"The take-home message for policymakers is that we should encourage these active exposures to nature in order to encourage greater environmentalism.\n\n\"What this suggests to us, from a policy viewpoint, is that there should be efforts to increase contact through improving both social participation also through the physical infrastructure, through promises to improve access to natural spaces in urban settings.", "Rescue crews found Tyson Steele 23 days after his cabin burned down, killing his dog and leaving him with no shelter.\n\nSteele survived on rationed canned food that had been charred by the fire. He plans to return Alaska to rebuild his home.", "The US and China have signed an agreement aimed at easing a trade war that has rattled markets and weighed on the global economy.\n\nSpeaking in Washington, US President Donald Trump said the pact would be \"transformative\" for the US economy.\n\nChinese leaders called it a \"win-win\" deal that would help foster better relations between the two countries.\n\nChina has pledged to boost US imports by $200bn above 2017 levels and strengthen intellectual property rules.\n\nIn exchange, the US has agreed to halve some of the new tariffs it has imposed on Chinese products.\n\nHowever the majority of the border taxes remain in place, which has prompted business groups to call for further talks.\n\n\"There's a lot of work to do ahead,\" said Jeremie Waterman, president of the China Center at the US Chamber of Commerce. \"Bottom line is, they should enjoy today but not wait too long to get back to the table for phase two.\"\n\nThe US and China have engaged in a tit-for-tat tariff war since 2018, which has led to extra import taxes being levied on more than $450bn (£350bn) worth of traded goods. The ongoing dispute has disrupted trade flows, dampened global economic growth and unnerved investors.\n\nAt a signing ceremony in Washington, Mr Trump said the deal sets the stage for a stronger relationship between the US and China. The event, which occurred as the Senate prepared to take up Mr Trump's impeachment, was attended by top Republican donors and business leaders.\n\n\"Together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security,\" he said.\n\n\"Far beyond even this deal, it's going to lead to an even stronger world peace,\" he added.\n\nChinese Vice Premier Liu He, who signed the deal on behalf of China, said the agreement was rooted in \"equality and mutual respect\" and defended his country's economic model in his remarks.\n\n\"China has developed a political system and a model of economic development that suits its national reality,\" he said.\n\n\"This doesn't mean that China and the US cannot work together. On the contrary, our two countries share enormous common commercial interests.\"\n\n\"We hope both sides will abide by and keep the agreement in earnest.\"\n\nIt has been hailed by the White House as a breakthrough in a war that President Trump triggered to protect American jobs and companies from what he viewed as unfair competition from China.\n\nThe weapon of choice: billions of dollars of tariffs, or extra charges, on imports. But that has hurt the very workers and businesses they were meant to protect, in both countries.\n\nFor all the fanfare - and the unusual appearance of a president at the signing of a bilateral trade deal - this is more armistice than victory - with only a small proportion of the tariffs being reversed and relatively minor concessions granted by both sides. Tariffs remain on around two-thirds of the goods Americans buy from China\n\nMoreover, Washington's fundamental complaints about Chinese practices - from its approach to subsidising businesses to cybertheft - remain unresolved. With President Trump's ambition to rewrite the rules of global trade yet to be achieved, some fear he may turn his firepower on Europe next - just as the UK is looking to broker an advantageous post-Brexit relationship\n\nMr Trump has said the accord signed on Wednesday is a \"phase one\" agreement and promised that the administration will take up other issues - such as China's state subsidies - in future negotiations.\n\nThe US accuses China of \"unfair\" business practices, such as providing subsidies for domestic businesses and administrative rules that have made it difficult for US firms to operate in the country.\n\nMr Trump has defended maintaining the bulk of the tariffs, saying they will provide leverage in future talks. But US business groups and analysts expressed concern.\n\n\"While Phase One makes incremental progress, it remains to be seen whether it will deliver any meaningful relief for farmers like me,\" said Michelle Erickson-Jones, a Montana wheat farmer, who is affiliated with the lobby group Farmers for Free Trade. \"The promises of lofty purchases are encouraging but farmers like me will believe it when we see it.\"\n\nCharles Kane, a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said Mr Trump sees China as a useful political scapegoat, making any serious negotiation unlikely until after the November presidential election.\n\n\"He's using [the trade war] as a political weapon,\" Mr Kane said.", "Jay-Z performing in Virginia in April last year\n\nRapper Jay-Z has instructed his lawyers to take legal action against US prison officials on behalf of 29 inmates whose lives he says are at risk.\n\nThe action claims the men's lives \"are in peril\" due to \"understaffing and neglect\" in Mississippi's prisons.\n\nJay-Z launched the action through Team Roc, the philanthropic division of his entertainment empire Roc Nation.\n\nIt comes after five prisoners were killed in attacks in the state's prisons in one week over the New Year.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges chronic underfunding and understaffing has resulted in \"prisons where violence reigns\" and an \"unthinkable\" spate of deaths.\n\n\"The underfunding also forces people held in Mississippi's prison to live in squalor, endangering their physical and mental health,\" the action continues.\n\nIt claims the prison at Parchman - where three of the five recent victims died - is subject to flooding, black mould and an infestation of mice and rats.\n\nThe lawsuit seeks damages for the inmates and an order forcing the Mississippi Department of Corrections to take action.\n\nThe case was filed on Tuesday against outgoing MDOC commissioner Pelicia Hall and Marshal Turner, superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.\n\nA spokesperson for the MDOC said it \"does not discuss pending litigation\".\n\nThe action, filed by Jay-Z's lawyer Alex Spiro in the US District Court in Greenville, Mississippi, follows a letter sent last week to the state's governor Phil Bryant and Commissioner Hall.\n\n\"Roc Nation and its philanthropic arm, Team Roc, demand that Mississippi take immediate steps to remedy this intolerable situation,\" the letter read.\n\nJay-Z was declared hip-hop's first billionaire last year thanks to such assets as a $75m (£57.5m) music catalogue and a $70m (£53.7m) stake in ride-sharing app Uber.\n\nBorn Shawn Carter in 1969, he hit fame in 1996 with his debut album Reasonable Doubt and married fellow superstar Beyonce Knowles in 2008.\n\nOn its official website, Team Roc says it seeks to \"raise awareness around issues of injustice\" and \"work to effect positive change\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Read through the 44-page defence provided by the Mail on Sunday to the High Court and you quickly realise why the Royal Family rarely resort to the courts in their endless struggles with the media.\n\nBack in February last year the Mail on Sunday published excerpts from a letter that the Duchess of Sussex had written to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018. That letter referred to the period around her wedding to the Duke of Sussex in May the same year.\n\nThe publication of the letter by the Mail on Sunday followed hard on the heels of an article in the US-based People magazine where five people, who remain unnamed but are reported to be part of the duchess' inner circle, put her side of the story.\n\nIn that article it was suggested by a \"long-time friend\" that Thomas Markle refused to take Meghan or Prince Harry's calls and that he refused to get into a car sent to take him to the airport and then to the UK for the wedding.\n\n\"He knows how to get in touch,\" one friend is reported as saying. \"Her telephone number hasn't changed. He's never called; he's never texted.\"\n\nThe article also referred to a letter that Meghan wrote to her father, asking him to stop criticising her.\n\nIt's the publication of that letter that the duchess is suing the Mail on Sunday over. She alleges breach of copyright, breach of data regulation laws and a breach of her right to privacy. She also alleges that the letter was selectively edited.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday pushes back on all three charges - it says that copyright applies to work that is the author's own intellectual creation; the letter was \"pre-existing fact and admonishment\" and as such is not protected under copyright law.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex visited a women's centre in Vancouver on Tuesday\n\nThe newspaper says that, as the personal data considered topics that Meghan had herself put into the public domain, its processing and publication was not unlawful.\n\nAnd it says that by becoming part of the British Royal Family - who \"generate and rely on publicity about themselves… to maintain the privileged positions they hold\" - there is rightly enormous public interest in her story.\n\nBut the Mail on Sunday's defence goes further - much further.\n\nIt notes that Meghan did not ask her father to keep the letter private.\n\nIt says the letter appears to have been \"immaculately copied out\" without \"crossings-out or amendments\" as if Meghan anticipated it being published.\n\nIt says the way the letter reads - \"to put [Meghan] and her conduct in the best possible light\" strongly suggests that that the duchess wanted or expected it to be read by others.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday accuses those friends of Meghan's who spoke to People magazine of lying. And it does so by citing Meghan's father, Thomas.\n\nHe says he did call and text his daughter in the weeks before the wedding, that he did tell her he couldn't make it to the wedding and that when after the wedding he tried to call her again, he was cut off by the couple.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday presents the publication of Meghan's letter to her father as his response to the lies that, he says, were put around by her friends in the People magazine article.\n\nQuite how much of the above is relevant to the actual case is up for debate. But the tone and content of the defence offered by the Mail on Sunday is a shot across the bows of Team Meghan.\n\nIt is a taster of what the Mail on Sunday will try to make the court case about - not centred on copyright law and data regulations, but about Meghan's character, her credibility, and the way she treats her family.\n\nAnd standing in court, supporting the Mail on Sunday, could be her father Thomas - who is prepared to go to court, his daughter Samantha told the BBC.\n\nIt is an astonishing prospect - and a reminder of why the royals so rarely reach for their lawyers like this.", "There is no application form for the Royal Family. No interview, no appeal, few in the way of entrances or exits. It is that strange lottery, an accident of birth.\n\nBut to stay royal you have to do two things. Serve, and survive.\n\nYou have to do some service. Some of it ceremonial, and often dull. Some of it - if it involves celebrities or travel - less dull. A lot of it is woven into the civic life of the UK - openings, namings, lunches and dinners.\n\nYou have to survive. You have to aid - and certainly not threaten - the survival of the House of Windsor and the British monarchy.\n\nIt's not a bad life. It is a constrained life, often unchosen. In exchange for a pretty comfortable standard of living in perpetuity, you lose a lot of choice.\n\nBut you must do these two things if you want to remain a royal.\n\nAnd it's not clear that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex really want to do either.\n\nIn Sandringham later the players will receive a series of options, a range of possibilities.\n\nThese will be based on the stated aim of Prince Harry and Meghan that they want financial independence, to take paid employment, to spend a lot more time outside the UK, to exclude the media from their lives at their discretion and to continue at least in part, a royal life, service to the Queen.\n\nLeaving aside the heady brew of contradictions detailed elsewhere, the balancing of these different aims and demands is hard enough. Money is a big issue.\n\nBut so will be the status of the court of Prince Harry and Meghan that emerges. Will it be entirely independent of the palace, of the monarchy? Will the palace retain any veto on direction or projects for the couple?\n\nMuch, says one official, depends on how much royal work the prince and Meghan intend to do, and where.\n\nMeghan will be in Canada with her eight-month-old son Archie during Monday's meeting\n\nTo watch Prince Harry for not very long, as I have, is to observe a man who comes alive with crowds, with love, with those who need him.\n\nBut also to see a man entirely unhappy with his lot. A man who desperately wants to get away from cameras, observers, outsiders, looking and filming and exploiting him.\n\nNow the prince, who has worn the nation's uniform in combat and amongst death and injury, is openly sneered at across pages and feeds and memes. It is hardly a great national moment.\n\nPrince Harry has had a hard time, from when his mother was taken from him, a boy aged 12. It is important to remember also because it demolishes the Meghan Myth - that somehow she is the root of all today's turmoil.\n\nThe Meghan Myth is nonsense, with a generous sprinkling of spite, misogyny and some racism. The prince always wanted out. And together, with her brains and understanding and love, they think they have a way.\n\nMaybe a deal comes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. But what are not up for negotiation are service and survival. Both must be observed by Prince Harry and Meghan if they are to remain royals.\n\nPerhaps Prince Harry's allergy to media coverage can be managed at those royal events and duties he attends. Perhaps the couple will make themselves available to a significant and visible degree of service.\n\nBut the style of their departure from familial obligation, their declaration of independence last week, was so abrupt and so disrespectful.\n\nThe duke has gone beyond rebellious prince. Meghan, the enabler, is in Canada, with child and dogs. That degree of going rogue looks quite a lot like a direct threat to the survival of the monarchy.\n\nThat is why today's meeting is hard.\n\nMaybe the two sides can strike a deal over the next day, two days, invent a new structure that officials say might be emulated for a new royal generation.\n\nBut will the couple really agree to the restrictions that service and survival demand?\n\nA deal will probably be crafted - however the direction of travel is one way. Prince Harry and Meghan are looking for the exit.", "Warring between two surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital could put patients at risk, a review suggests.\n\nA board paper released by the leading children's hospital said a \"fractured\" relationship between two consultants in the paediatric surgical urology team was affecting the service last year.\n\nIt said the problems had an impact on the whole team, creating the potential for longer waits for sick children.\n\nThe London hospital said steps were being taken to resolve the problems.\n\nThis has included mediation, mentoring and away days.\n\nGreat Ormond Street said it took the issue \"extremely seriously\" and good progress was being made.\n\nThe surgical urology team treats more than 3,000 children a year from all over the country, operating on everything from kidney to bladder problems.\n\nThe board paper from a meeting in November set out the findings of a two-day inspection by the Royal College of Surgeons last May.\n\nThe college was invited in by the trust itself after reports of problems.\n\nThe summary of the report said there were \"significant difficulties\" between two surgeons in the team.\n\nIt described a \"lack of trust and respect\" which meant they did not work collaboratively and led to significant competition for work.\n\nIf this continued it would have the \"potential to affect patient care and safety\" as well as longer waits for surgery, it said.\n\nThe \"dysfunction\" between the two senior doctors caused problems for the wider team with evidence support staff had also been treated inappropriately.\n\nThe problems also led to one consultant not always attending important team meetings.\n\nIt meant management had to focus on these two colleagues to the \"detriment\" of the rest of the team, at times.\n\nThe report also questioned the effectiveness of how the trust had handled the dispute.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"There has been really good progress against the issues in the report.\n\n\"Successful mediation and the first away days have taken place and very constructive conversations have happened between all consultants.\n\n\"The report recognises they are a group of excellent dedicated surgeons who look after patients well and they are now working together to shape their services to better serve the needs of their patients.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch footage of the moment of the blast captured by CCTV\n\nA large metal plate launched by an explosion at a chemical plant in Spain's autonomous Catalonia region killed a man 3km (two miles) away.\n\nThe man, named only as Sergio, was in his apartment when the one tonne object struck, causing part of the building to collapse, officials have confirmed.\n\nA factory employee was also killed in Tuesday's blast. Another worker died from injuries on Wednesday.\n\nThe explosion occurred at about 18:40 local time (17:40 GMT) in La Canonja.\n\nAuthorities said it was probably caused by a chemical accident, but that no toxic substances were released.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople were, however, initially urged to stay indoors when the explosion at the site just south of Tarragona set off a huge fire.\n\nResidents of the Plaça García Lorca housing estate in nearby Torreforta, where the man was killed, described seeing \"a ball of fire\" stream across the sky at the time of the incident.\n\nFirefighters later confirmed that this was a metal plate from the factory site, which they said weighed about a tonne.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe factory produces chemicals such as ethylene oxide - which can be used to make antifreeze, pesticides and to sterilise hospital equipment - and propylene oxide, which is used to make plastics. Both are extremely flammable.\n\nAnother piece of machinery projected by the explosion was found in a field nearby\n\nRescue teams with search dogs found the body of the second victim, a senior staff member at the factory, in the early hours of Wednesday. The search had been called off overnight due to poor visibility and dangerous conditions.\n\nEight people were injured in the explosion, and one of them died on Wednesday.\n\nImages of the fire in Tarragona were posted on social media\n\nLate on Tuesday Catalan leader Quim Torra told reporters: \"Now we can send a message of calm and confidence to people. There is no toxicity and therefore people can carry on with their lives as normal.\"\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez later offered support to Catalan authorities in dealing with the accident.\n\nRoads and public transport systems in the area that were closed as a precaution were reopened on Wednesday.", "Epstein owned two islands in the US Virgin archipelago, including Little St James (pictured)\n\nFinancier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused girls as young as 12 on his private islands, the US Virgin Islands prosecutor has claimed.\n\nEpstein, who died in prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial for abuse dating back to 2005, is alleged to have trafficked girls as recently as 2018.\n\nThe lawsuit against his estate says the girls were \"lured and recruited\" to his Caribbean home and forced into sex.\n\nThis is the first lawsuit filed against Epstein in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe suit seeks to seize part of his $577m (£442m) fortune and his two private islands, Little Saint James and Great Saint James.\n\nThe two islands are estimated to be worth $86m.\n\n\"Epstein clearly used the Virgin Islands and his residence in the US Virgin Islands at Little Saint James as a way to be able to conceal and to be able to expand his activity here,\" US Virgin Islands prosecutor Denise N George says in the suit.\n\n\"Epstein and his associated trafficked underage girls to the Virgin Islands, held them captive, and sexually abused them, causing them grave physical, mental and emotional injury.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein was charged with sexually abusing dozens of girls\n\nAs recently as July 2017, Epstein refused to allow an official to enter his Little Saint James island for routine monitoring of the registered sex offender, the lawsuit claims.\n\nHe is also accused of using fake visas to traffic women and girls, several of them aspiring models, in and out of the island territory and using a computerised database in order to track his victims' movements on his island.\n\nIn one incident, the suit claims that a 15-year-old girl attempted to swim away from Epstein's island after she was forced to engage in sex acts with Epstein and others.\n\nIn that case, she was captured and had her passport confiscated by Epstein, the suit claims.\n\nEpstein's legal permanent residence was registered to the Virgin Islands. In the days before his suicide in jail, he filed an updated version of his will to the US island territory.\n• None The case of Jeffrey Epstein - in 300 words", "Billie Eilish was four years old when Daniel Craig first played James Bond in Casino Royale\n\nPop star Billie Eilish has recorded the title track for the new James Bond film, No Time To Die.\n\nThe US singer, who turned 18 last month, is the youngest artist in history to write and record a theme for the franchise.\n\n\"It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way,\" said the star, who called the assignment \"a huge honour\".\n\n\"James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I'm still in shock.\"\n\nThe last two Bond themes, Adele's Skyfall and Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall (from Spectre), have both won an Oscar.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Bond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEilish's take on the oeuvre was composed with her brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom she created her Grammy-nominated debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? last year.\n\n\"Writing the theme song for a Bond film is something we've been dreaming about doing our entire lives,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no more iconic pairing of music and cinema than the likes of Goldfinger and Live And Let Die. We feel so so lucky to play a small role in such a legendary franchise. Long live 007.\"\n\nThe Bond song is usually released in the month leading up to the film's premiere - No Time to Die will make its debut in cinemas on 3 April.\n\nBond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli described Eilish's song as \"incredibly powerful and moving\", adding it had been \"impeccably crafted to work within the emotional story of the film\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe film's director, Cary Joji Fukunaga, said: \"There are a chosen few who record a Bond theme. I am a huge fan of Billie and Finneas. Their creative integrity and talent are second to none and I cannot wait for audiences to hear what they've brought - a fresh new perspective whose vocals will echo for generations to come.\"\n\nNo Time To Die will mark Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond; and opens with the spy retired and enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. Needless to say, his reverie doesn't last for long.\n\nSeveral artists were thought to be in the frame for recording the title song, including Dua Lipa and Beyoncé - who sparked rumours after posing with a glass of vodka martini (shaken not stirred) on social media last week.\n\nEilish also dropped hints on her Instagram, sharing a series of images from Bond movies over the last 24 hours. Fans also noticed that Fukunaga had subscribed to her feed - making her one of just 81 people he follows on the platform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sophia Aguila This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Film Updates This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe US singer, who is known for her gothic aesthetic and whispery vocals, became one of last year's biggest break-out stars thanks to songs like Bad Guy and Bury A Friend.\n\nHer star rose so rapidly that she had to be upgraded to Glastonbury's second-biggest stage in June, after initially being booked to play in the smaller John Peel tent.\n\nEilish now joins the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Shirley Bassey, Duran Duran and Madonna in being asked to record the Bond theme.\n\nPreviously, Sheena Easton was the youngest artist to sing over the opening titles. The Scottish singer was 22 years old when she recorded For Your Eyes Only in 1981.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None What we learned from the first James Bond trailer", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has hinted the government could scrap the four-hour waiting time target in A&E.\n\nHospitals must aim to ensure 95% of patients are seen within the time limit, but in November, every major A&E unit in England missed the target.\n\nThe government has been accused of allowing treatment standards to slip.\n\nBut Mr Hancock told BBC Radio 5 Live ministers should be judged by \"the right target\" and a \"clinically appropriate\" one was needed.\n\nWaiting time targets were put under review by Theresa May in 2018.\n\nBut Labour's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said changing them \"won't magic away the problems in our overcrowded hospitals, with patients left on trolleys in corridors for hours and hours\".\n\nQuestioned by Nicky Campbell over the missed targets, Mr Hancock admitted there were \"big challenges\" in the NHS when it came to waiting times, arguing it was due to a rise in the number of people being treated in accident and emergency units.\n\nHe said the government was putting an additional £33.9bn into the service to help - read BBC Reality Check on this pledge here.\n\nAsked whether the four-hour target would stay, he replied: \"We will be judged by the right targets. Targets have to be clinically appropriate.\"\n\nMr Hancock said there was a \"problem\" with the four-hour target as \"the top way of measuring what's going on in hospitals\".\n\n\"[For example], increasingly people can be treated on the day and able to go home [without staying overnight].\n\n\"That is much better for the patient, it's also better for the NHS and yet the way that that's counted... doesn't work.\"\n\nThe health secretary said it was \"far better to have targets that are clinically appropriate, supported by clinicians so we've got clinicians looking at that\", adding: \"It's best if that is led by the doctors.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock says the targets he is judged on must be \"right\"\n\nThe review launched by Mrs May is yet to be completed, but an interim report was produced by NHS England's national medical director, Prof Steve Powis, in March 2019.\n\nHe proposed three new targets: using the average waiting time as the main measure (instead of the 95% threshold); recording how long patients wait before being clinically assessed after they arrive; and checking how long the most critically ill patients wait before their treatment is completed.\n\nBoris Johnson's government has not committed to the recommendations.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions, Jeremy Corbyn raised the issue of growing waiting times, calling for \"urgent action\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the Labour leader was \"right to signal delays people are facing\" and they were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHowever, he did not refer to any changes in the targets, saying instead: \"We will get those waiting lists down.\"\n\nLabour's Mr Ashworth said: \"Any review of targets must be transparent and based on watertight clinical evidence, otherwise patients will think Matt Hancock is trying to move the goalposts to avoid scrutiny of the government's record.\n\n\"After years of austerity under the Tories, the government's first priority must be to give the NHS the funding and staff it needs to end the waiting time crisis.\"", "PC Sharon Beshenivsky had been a police officer for just nine months when she was killed\n\nA man wanted in connection with the murder of a PC shot dead during a robbery has been arrested in Pakistan.\n\nWest Yorkshire officer Sharon Beshenivsky was killed outside a travel agency in Bradford in 2005 while responding to an armed robbery call.\n\nPolice said Piran Dhitta Khan, 71, had been wanted by officers investigating the fatal raid.\n\nMr Khan appeared in court in Islamabad where extradition was discussed. He was remanded in custody until 29 January.\n\nPC Beshenivsky, 38, had only been an officer for nine months when she was shot in the chest on what was her youngest daughter Lydia's fourth birthday.\n\nShe was a mother of three and stepmother of two children. Three men were jailed for life for her murder, two for manslaughter.\n\nHer shift partner, PC Teresa Milburn, was also shot but survived.\n\nPC Beshenivsky's husband Paul said he was \"glad\" at the news of the arrest.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming. It's just a matter of getting closure within what happened in 2005,\" he said.\n\nPC Teresa Milburn was also injured in the robbery\n\nWest Yorkshire Police had previously said Mr Khan was believed to be on the run in Pakistan and was being sought.\n\nA £20,000 reward had been offered for information leading to his capture.\n\nDet Supt Mark Swift, said: \"I would like to thank the National Crime Agency in Pakistan and partners who have made this arrest possible.\n\n\"This is a major development in this long-running investigation and their assistance in this matter cannot be understated.\n\n\"We are continuing to liaise with partners in Pakistan to process Mr Khan's extradition with the intention of returning him to the UK to face court proceedings.\"\n\nMrs Beshenivsky died attending reports of a robbery at the travel agent in Bradford\n\nBrian Booth, chairman of West Yorkshire Police Federation, said: \"I know my colleagues within West Yorkshire are delighted to hear about the arrest of Piran Dhitta Khan and will now be watching closely the wheels of justice turning in this case and how this plays out.\n\n\"The murder of Sharon and the attempted murder of her colleague PC Teresa Milburn sent a shockwave not only through West Yorkshire but throughout the world.\n\n\"We still mourn the loss of Sharon and I wish to pass on my thanks, on behalf of my West Yorkshire colleagues, to the National Crime Agency in Pakistan for making this arrest possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nFormer Chelsea and Juventus striker Eniola Aluko, who won more than 100 England caps, has retired.\n\nAluko, 32, left Juventus in December after nearly 18 months with the Serie A champions and had been tipped to return to the Women's Super League.\n\nShe was also part of the Great Britain team at the London 2012 Olympics.\n\n\"I made the decision about six months ago,\" she said. \"I've taken time out to see if I missed football and training - but that hasn't been the case.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live Drive, Aluko added: \"If it was a physical issue that would have made it easier. It was more mental.\n\n\"I was abroad with Juventus, I won three trophies and started to feel like I didn't have any more motivation, so it was like 'OK, what next? What am I doing here, missing family and friends?'\"\n\nShe is now planning to do more media work and move into the executive side of the game, saying an announcement will be made on Friday.\n\nAluko is England's joint-10th most capped international, scoring 33 goals in 102 senior appearances.\n\nBut her last international appearance came in 2016 and, also that year, she made allegations of misconduct against then England boss Mark Sampson.\n\nThe Football Association apologised to Aluko in October 2017 for racially discriminatory remarks made by Sampson in 2014.\n\nWriting in The Players' Tribune, Aluko penned a \"thank you letter\" to football for the experiences it had given her during a playing career which began with Birmingham City in 2001.\n\n\"You have given me the dream of playing in the US, the pride of representing England, the thrill of winning titles with Chelsea, the adventure of playing for Juventus in Italy,\" she said.\n\n\"Whenever I have faced obstacles, you have shattered them. Whenever I have had great expectations, you have exceeded them.\"\n\nAluko, whose younger brother Sone plays for Reading, also added she was \"content with her career\" and hinted that she would remain involved in the game.\n\n\"There are a few things I did not achieve, but I know I can't have it all,\" said Aluko, who has also worked as a television pundit in the latter years of her playing career. \"I took the hardest option every time, and I think I have been rewarded for it.\n\n\"I honestly believe women's football will continue to hit an even higher level in the next few years. I want to do my part to make sure that happens.\"\n\nAluko joined Juventus in June 2018 after a six-year second stint at Chelsea. She helped Juve retain their league title and Italian Supercoppa last term, having also won the Coppa Italia earlier in 2019.\n\nHer career at Chelsea included winning two Women's Super League titles and two FA Cup victories - a competition she also won with Birmingham City in 2012.\n\nDuring her time in the USA, she played for Women's Professional Soccer clubs St Louis Athletica, Atlanta Beat and Sky Blue FC between 2009 and 2011.\n\nShe also played for Charlton between her first spells with Birmingham City and Chelsea.", "A cosmetic surgeon who botched operations and had inadequate medical insurance showed a lack of professional integrity, and dishonesty, a medical tribunal has said.\n\nDr Arnaldo Paganelli was found to have breached his patients' trust - and some are still waiting for compensation.\n\nHe worked privately for The Hospital Group in Birmingham and the small print of the contract given to patients told them to check their doctor's insurance.\n\nBut his policy did not cover UK work.\n\nIn 2011 Dr Paganelli's had taken out insurance with an Italian company he knew did not apply to his role in Britain.\n\nThe tribunal chair Sarah Fenoughty said: \"He has deliberately frustrated the purpose of the professional insurance he is bound to hold. This would demonstrate a lack of professional integrity. Further it would be regarded as dishonest.\"\n\nThe tribunal heard complaints from four women.\n\nNatasha Stewart had a breast augmentation with Dr Paganelli in 2008 at The Hospital Group's Dolan Park hospital in Birmingham. It left her with lopsided breasts and excessive scarring.\n\nShe was awarded damages of £27,000 and costs of £39,000 at Bristol Crown Court in May 2012, but has not received the money.\n\nDr Paganelli had UK insurance for her but failed to submit a proper claim.\n\nAnother patient, Dawn Knight, had an eye lift with Dr Paganelli and The Hospital Group in 2012. She says too much skin was removed and she now cannot close her eyes properly.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours after the operation: \"My eyes are constantly sore, gritty and tight. I set an alarm on my phone every two hours to remind me to put in eye drops. And then at night when I go to bed I wear special contact lenses to stop the eyes drying out.\"\n\nDr Paganelli has always denied any problems with Ms Knight's operation.\n\nThe tribunal did not hear evidence on this. But it concluded she could not pursue a claim because his insurance was not valid and he was declared bankrupt in February 2013.\n\nJoanne McKay was awarded £143,000 for a botched nose job operation done by Dr Paganelli\n\nJoanne McKay is also waiting for a pay out to be made. She was awarded £121,000 costs and £22,000 damages in 2015 after a rhinoplasty [nose job] operation with Dr Paganelli.\n\nShe says: \"As soon as the plasters came off I said I wasn't happy. It was bigger than I expected. My nostrils are a different shape. I then had steroid injections to try to reduce the size of the tip but it didn't really achieve anything.\"\n\nThe tribunal heard that some of Dr Paganelli's patients were compensated for botched operations by The Hospital Group itself, without accepting liability.\n\nThe money was deducted from Dr Paganelli's fees. Meanwhile, he continued operating, earning around £338,000 from The Hospital Group.\n\nThe tribunal meets in March to consider if Dr Paganelli is fit to practice.\n\nDr Paganelli denies any wrong doings or dishonesty and says he will be appealing the findings.\n\nHe says he is suing his insurance broker for not making him aware he was not covered in the UK. He also says he can't comment further because of patient confidentiality.\n\nThe Hospital Group now has new owners who stopped employing Dr Paganelli in 2016. It says it now takes full responsibility for all surgeons that work there, which includes ensuring they have a UK-based insurance policy in place. And it offers a multi-year aftercare package.", "One in six women who lose a baby in early pregnancy experiences long-term symptoms of post-traumatic stress, a UK study suggests.\n\nWomen need more sensitive and specific care after a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, researchers say.\n\nToni Edwards-Beighton, 36, says she felt she was losing her mind after a miscarriage in 2016.\n\n\"I felt my grief was wrong because it wasn't a real baby - but I was in complete shock,\" she says.\n\nWarning: Some readers may find part of this article distressing\n\nToni and husband Matt, from Leicester, had been told their baby had no heartbeat at 12 weeks, before she miscarried naturally at home in the bathroom.\n\nBut she didn't expect to bleed heavily for eight days and then have to go through painful contractions.\n\n\"I thought I was going mad,\" she says.\n\n\"I had no information about what what would happen to me or what I could expect to see.\"\n\nIn the end, something \"recognisable and the size of a palm\" fell between her legs in the middle of the night.\n\nWhen she called the hospital the following day, they told her to \"bring the pregnancy tissue in and we'll get rid of it\".\n\n\"It wasn't 'tissue' to me, it was our baby,\" Toni says.\n\nIn the weeks that followed, she started to panic about everything, especially their daughter who was four at the time.\n\n\"I worried she was going to die - I could see her falling to the ground.\"\n\nMonths later, Toni's GP diagnosed her with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and offered her counselling - but she didn't go because by that time she was pregnant again.\n\n\"The following nine months were awful - I was convinced I'd lose my baby again,\" she says.\n\nToni and Matt now have two daughters, Phoebe who is eight and Willow who is two.\n\nIn the study of 650 women, by Imperial College London and KU Leuven in Belgium, 29% showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress one month after pregnancy loss, declining to 18% after nine months.\n\nMost had been through an early miscarriage before 12 weeks - while the rest had had an ectopic pregnancy.\n\nThe women, who attended three London hospitals - Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea, St Mary's, and Chelsea and Westminster, completed questionnaires about their feelings over the course of a year.\n\nOne month following their loss, 24% had symptoms of anxiety and 11% of depression.\n\nThis reduced to 17% and 6% after nine months, the study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found.\n\nDr Jessica Farren, specialist registrar and clinical fellow at Imperial College London, said miscarriage could be a very traumatic experience.\n\n\"For some women, it's the first time they have experienced anything beyond their control.\n\n\"These can be profound events which stay with you.\"\n\nEven though these losses are at a very early stage, \"women are looking for validation for them\", Dr Farren says.\n\nBeing told it's \"only a bag of cells\" is not always helpful.\n\nAmong a control group of women who had healthy pregnancies, 13% had symptoms of anxiety and 2% of depression one month after giving birth.\n\nThe study recommends that women who have miscarried are screened to find out who is most at risk of psychological problems.\n\nCounselling and support will help many women, but those with symptoms of PTS need specific treatment if they are going to recover, the research says.\n\nThis can range from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to medication, and should be given by a qualified professional.\n\nAn earlier, smaller study from 2016 found that early pregnancy loss could trigger symptoms of post-traumatic stress.\n\n\"For too long, women have not received the care they need following a miscarriage and this research shows the scale of the problem,\" says Jane Brewin, chief executive of miscarriage and stillbirth charity Tommy's.\n\n\"Miscarriage services need to be changed to ensure they are available to everyone and women are followed up to assess their mental wellbeing with support being offered to those who need it, and advice is routinely given to prepare for a subsequent pregnancy.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTaiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has told the BBC that China needs to \"face reality\" and show the island \"respect\".\n\nShe was re-elected for a second term on Saturday, winning by a landslide after a campaign in which she focused heavily on the rising threat from Beijing.\n\nThe Chinese Communist Party has long claimed sovereignty over Taiwan and the right to take it by force if necessary.\n\nMs Tsai insisted that the sovereignty of the self-governing island was not in doubt or up for negotiation.\n\n\"We don't have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,\" the 63-year-old president told the BBC in an exclusive interview, her first since the election.\n\n\"We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic of China (Taiwan).\"\n\nSuch statements infuriate Beijing, which wants a return to the \"One China\" principle favoured by the main rival she saw off in the race for president, Han Kuo-yu from the Kuomintang party.\n\nHis party traces its roots to the defeated nationalists in the Chinese civil war, who fled to Taiwan and continued to see the island as part of a greater China from which they had been usurped.\n\nIn recent years, that concept of One China has proved a useful compromise, Taiwanese supporters of it argue.\n\nChina insists on its acceptance as a prerequisite for building economic ties with Taiwan, precisely because doing so is an explicit denial of its existence as a de facto island state.\n\nBut it is clear that Ms Tsai believes her victory is proof of how little appetite there now is for the One China concept and the ambiguity it allowed over Taiwan's real status.\n\n\"The situation has changed,\" she says. \"The ambiguity can no longer serve the purposes it was intended to serve.\"\n\nAnd what has really changed, she suggests, is China.\n\n\"Because [for more than] three years we're seeing China has been intensifying its threat... they have their military vessels and aircraft cruising around the island,\" she says.\n\n\"And also, the things happening in Hong Kong, people get a real sense that this threat is real and it's getting more and more serious.\"\n\nTaiwan's interests, she believes, are not best served by semantics but by facing up to the reality, in particular the aspirations of the Taiwanese youth who flocked to her cause.\n\n\"We have a separate identity and we're a country of our own. So, if there's anything that runs counter to this idea, they will stand up and say that's not acceptable to us.\n\n\"We're a successful democracy, we have a pretty decent economy, we deserve respect from China.\"\n\nFor President Tsai's critics, her stance is needlessly provocative, one that only risks increasing the very danger she warns about - open hostility.\n\nBut she says she has shown restraint. She has, for example, stopped short of the formal declaration of independence - amending the constitution and changing the flag - that some in her Democratic Progressive Party would like.\n\nChina has said it would regard such a move as a pretext for military action.\n\n\"There are so many pressures, so much pressure here that we should go further,\" she says.\n\n\"But [for] more than three years, we have been telling China that maintaining a status quo remains our policy... I think that is a very friendly gesture to China.\"\n\nWhile Ms Tsai says she is open to dialogue, she is also well aware that as a result of her victory, Beijing may well increase its pressure on Taiwan.\n\nIn response, she is trying to diversify Taiwan's trading relationships and boost the domestic economy, in particular by encouraging Taiwanese investors who have built factories in China to consider relocating back home.\n\nAnd she is planning for all eventualities.\n\n\"You cannot exclude the possibility of war at any time,\" she says.\n\n\"But the thing is you have to get yourself prepared and develop the ability to defend yourself.\"\n\n\"We have been trying very hard and making a lot of efforts to strengthen our capability,\" she replies.\n\n\"Invading Taiwan is something that is going to be very costly for China.\"", "Roseanna Clarkin is now registered as disabled, after complications following her hernia mesh repair\n\n\"Too many\" types of hernia mesh implants are being used on NHS patients with little or no clinical evidence, the BBC has been told.\n\nNew data shows more than 100 different types of mesh were purchased by NHS Trusts from 2012 to 2018 in England and Scotland, leading to fears over safety.\n\nThe meshes can cut into tissue and nerves, leaving some people unable to walk, work or care for children.\n\nThe regulator MHRA said there was a clinical need for the devices.\n\nThe new figures were taken from the responses of 56 of the 159 NHS Trusts that replied to a Freedom of Information request by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nCurrently, hernia mesh devices can be approved if they are similar to older products, which themselves may not have been required to undergo any rigorous testing or clinical trials in order to assess their safety or efficacy.\n\nHernia repair is one of the world's most common surgical procedure.\n\nIn England, around 100,000 such operations are performed each year, the majority using mesh. Many go well.\n\nBut the Victoria Derbyshire programme has heard from nearly 300 people who have experienced complications - including chronic pain, infections and organ perforations.\n\nInternational guidelines estimate one in 10 patients will experience \"significant chronic pain\" following a mesh repair.\n\nRoseanna says her children want their \"fun mum back\"\n\nRoseanna Clarkin, from Glasgow, is now disabled. She had to give up her job due to complications after her repair.\n\nShe says she was initially told by doctors the pain was \"in her head\", and wanted to end her life because \"nobody was listening\".\n\nIt was only after seeing the programme's coverage of the mesh scandal that she discovered it had been used on her.\n\nAged 36, she said she was no longer able to look after her children as she had before.\n\n\"My kids wrote a letter saying they want their fun mum back,\" she said, breaking down in tears.\n\n\"My husband said he married a wife and became a carer. I shouldn't be living the life I'm living.\"\n\nThere is a lot of secrecy surrounding the approval of hernia mesh, with even doctors unable to access the clinical data.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, a medical device expert at the University of Oxford, explained that in some cases devices have only been required to be tested on animals - such as rabbits - for a short period of time, with the mesh being implanted and left in for several days.\n\n\"If there's no remaining immune reaction, you pass the test,\" he added.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan is calling for the NHS to \"immediately\" stop using types of device that have \"no evidence attached to them whatsoever\"\n\nProf Heneghan described these tests as \"completely inadequate\" as they can't test for pain.\n\nAnd he said there was \"no chance\" that the more than 100 types of device used on the NHS were all individually supported by medical evidence because there had not been 100 randomised trials in this area of medicine.\n\nHe has called for the NHS to \"immediately\" stop using those that have \"no clinical evidence attached to them whatsoever\" and said ideally trusts should only use two or three devices where the benefits are clear.\n\nAn example of the mesh devices used\n\nHernia mesh implants are meant to be permanent but, when necessary, can be removed in some patients.\n\nBut of the patients the Victoria Derbyshire programme spoke to, most said they had been told there were no trained removal surgeons - or that they had been told removing the mesh could lead to further serious issues.\n\nThe programme has learned that one man died years after he developed an infection following his hernia mesh repair.\n\nThe hospital said in a letter to his wife that the mesh \"could have been a cause of the infection\".\n\nOne of the many causes of death given was chronic abdominal-wall infection.\n\nThe BBC has also seen a leaked promotional video, probably for the medical community, funded by Ethicon - one of the biggest mesh manufacturers in the world.\n\nIn the footage, made over a decade ago, a surgeon is shown discussing how some older varieties of mesh can become \"hard as stone\" after only one year inside a patient and can cause damage to the body and chronic pain.\n\nBut the product featured is still being sold by Ethicon, and used by the NHS in England and Scotland.\n\nIn a statement, Ethicon did not comment on the video, but said it stood by the safety and performance of all its mesh products.\n\nIt also stressed the importance of looking at all clinical and scientific data before drawing conclusions about a device.\n\nCurrently the use of mesh for vaginal repairs is suspended for most women in England, pending the outcome of a government review.\n\nIts head, Lady Cumberlege, has said any recommendations made when it is published in March will also be relevant for hernia mesh.\n\nNo vaginal mesh implants have been carried out in Scotland since the chief medical officer announced a halt in 2018.\n\nThe director of devices at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Graeme Tunbridge, told the BBC: \"The benefits and risks of using mesh for hernia repair have been considered in detail by clinicians and the professional bodies who represent them.\n\n\"We continue to monitor and review evidence as it becomes available and will take any appropriate action on that basis.\"\n\nMr Tunbridge said he recognised the system \"does need strengthening\" and said new legislation on medical devices would take effect from May 2020.\n\nThis will include strengthening the requirements on manufacturers to ensure that sufficient clinical evidence is in place for their products.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons of England said: \"Our duty is to explain the options and risks to patients, so they can decide what the best course of action is for them.\"\n\nIt is campaigning to improve regulation and monitoring of new devices and implants.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"On the rare occasion where a patient has suffered as a result of a mesh procedure, we are taking steps to improve patient safety - including improving how we listen to patients and how the system learns when concerns are raised.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe family of Harry Dunn are \"absolutely distraught\" over comments made by the prime minister, said family spokesman Radd Seiger.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after being hit by a car allegedly driven by Anne Sacoolas, who left the country for the US claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC that he believed the chances of Mrs Sacoolas being extradited were \"very low\".\n\nThe comments came on Harry's mother's birthday and left her \"bitterly upset\".\n\nMr Seiger told the BBC: \"The Dunn family are absolutely on their knees and I am still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor.\n\n\"It's an outrageous set of comments to make from the leader of this country, whose job it is to represent the people.\"\n\nCharlotte Charles, Harry's mother, was \"bitterly upset and confused\" and \"absolutely beside herself, on her birthday,\" said Mr Seiger.\n\nHe said the family had agreed with government officials not to comment on the extradition process while proceedings were ongoing.\n\n\"I'm hoping Mr Johnson will reflect on the comments he made, they were unhelpful to say the least, \" he said.\n\nThe family are also taking legal action against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).\n\nThe claim against the FCO issued on behalf of Mr Dunn's parents - Ms Charles and Tim Dunn - alleged the granting of diplomatic immunity to Mrs Sacoolas was \"wrong in law\".\n\nNew documents, seen by the PA news agency, suggest the FCO will say they did not claim Mrs Sacoolas had immunity.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police have now said the force will take part in the family's claim and they will not seek to retrieve any costs.\n\nThe US State Department has previously said the extradition request for Mrs Sacoolas is highly inappropriate and would be an abuse.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton, where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer. Mr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe 42-year-old left the UK shortly after the crash on 27 August and returned to the US, prompting a justice campaign by the teenager's parents.\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in December by the Crown Prosecution Service with causing death by dangerous driving and the Home Office submitted its extradition request to the US Department of Justice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One night last November, Courtney Partridge-McLennan said goodnight to her family in Australia and went to sleep in her room.\n\nAt some point in following hours, the 19-year-old woman suffered a suspected asthma attack. When her parents checked on her the next morning, Courtney had died.\n\nHer family believes that Courtney's death in Glen Innes, New South Wales, was triggered by smoke from nearby bushfires. Like many populated areas across Australia's east, the town has been shrouded by smoke in recent months.\n\n\"She was found with her phone torch on, as though she was looking for something,\" her sister, Cherylleigh, told the BBC's Outside Source programme. \"Her Ventolin [inhaler] was on the bed with her.\"\n\nCourtney was diagnosed with asthma as a child. It was not usually severe but tended to flare up around dust and air pollutants, according to her sister.\n\n\"She had no symptoms before she went to bed,\" Cherylleigh said.\n\n\"She was healthy and that's what made it the biggest shock for us. It was so out of nowhere.\"\n\nCherylleigh said preliminary autopsy reports had listed the cause of death as \"unconfirmed\". But she added her parents had been told that Courtney had a \"hyper-extension of the lungs\" - one indicator of an asthma attack.\n\n\"Initially when they found her, the comments were, 'oh it definitely looks like an asthma attack, it looked like it happened really quickly,'\" Cherylleigh said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy smoke haze over Sydney first appeared in November\n\nAccording to health officials, asthmatics are particularly vulnerable in Australia's ongoing bushfire crisis. The condition narrows a person's airways when triggered by irritants in the air.\n\nIn recent months, cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide have recorded some the worst air quality readings globally.\n\nIn rural communities closer to the fire-zones, the impact has been even greater.\n\nA fortnight before Courtney's death on 28 November, bushfires ripped through Glen Innes, causing the deaths of two people.\n\nBut fires had burned in the region since September, and smoke continued to affect the town afterwards. Her family believes this was the trigger for her asthma attack.\n\nHealth officials have consistently warned of the dangers of bushfire smoke, urging those with asthma - about one in nine Australians - to carry their treatments with them.\n\n\"It can be a really frightening experience when [one is] exposed to triggers like bushfire smoke,\" said Michele Goldman from advocacy group Asthma Australia.\n\n\"They can experience breathlessness and wheezing, and symptoms can quickly deteriorate into a very serious asthma attack which can be fatal.\"\n\nShe fears that because the condition is common, and often mild, there is a sense of complacency - even amid the unprecedented smoke.\n\nCherylleigh said Courtney had been studying to be a youth worker, and had been passionate about helping others.\n\n\"For us, it's about getting people aware that asthma is this serious,\" Cherylleigh said.\n\n\"Courtney's death was not an isolated incident.\"", "Greggs has signed a delivery deal with Just Eat as the market for food takeaways continues to grow.\n\nThe tie-up comes after trials with other delivery firms such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo in Newcastle, London and Glasgow last year.\n\nThe service will now also be launched in Birmingham and Bristol, with other UK cities to follow.\n\nThe growth in the takeaway sector led to Just Eat being bought in a £5.9bn deal last week after a takeover battle.\n\nGreggs chief Roger Whiteside said the firm aimed to be able to deliver across the UK by the end of the year.\n\nJust Eat - which was originally founded by a group of five Danish entrepreneurs in 2000 - said the partnership with Greggs showed that firm was expanding \"beyond traditional takeaways\".\n\nIt added that its customers could also order from High Street chains such as KFC, Subway and Wagamama, as well as receive pizza deliveries from selected Asda supermarkets.\n\nThere is some debate around what benefits the partnership brings Just Eat, according to equities analyst Giles Thorne, given that there is no minimum order value for Greggs' low-cost goods.\n\n\"Whether it's profitable or not, we don't know. But Just Eat could justify working with a major brand on a loss-making basis in other ways,\" he said.\n\n\"This is ultimately about driving the utility of the Just Eat marketplace in the eyes of both consumers and restaurants.\"\n\nHe cites Uber Eats landing McDonald's for its delivery platform as a similar scenario.\n\n\"Bagging a major national brand means more people join the platform. If more people join the platform, that's a good thing for other restaurants using it too, creating an all-important 'virtuous circle'.\"\n\nThe size and popularity of the takeaway delivery market was demonstrated by the recent takeover battle for Just Eat between Dutch company Takeaway.com and investment firm Prosus.\n\nAfter several months of courting Just Eat's shareholders, Takeaway.com finally triumphed. The deal will create one of the world's largest meal delivery companies.\n\nTakeaways maybe used to be reserved for a Friday night, but recent research shows people are ordering them more often.\n\nA recent survey by KPMG suggests that two-thirds of adults in the UK enjoy them at least once a week.\n\nTypically, people in the UK order 34 takeaways a year, spending between £10 and £15 a time.\n\nWill Hawkley, global head of leisure and hospitality at KPMG, said the increased spending was down to a \"lifestyle change\".\n\nHe said: \"People are just looking for more and more convenience, they're busier, working harder.\"\n\nIt seems the growth in food delivery apps also means customers are offered more choice.\n\nMr Hawkley added this was a positive for those with \"specific dietary requirements that may have previously prevented them from ordering in.\"", "Cheaper hotel costs helped to push the inflation rate down\n\nThe UK's inflation rate fell to its lowest for more than three years in December, increasing speculation that interest rates could be cut.\n\nThe rate dropped to 1.3% last month, down from 1.5% in November, partly due to a fall in the price of women's clothes and hotel room costs.\n\nDecember's inflation rate was the lowest since November 2016.\n\nAnalysts said it raised the chances of a rate cut, with inflation below the Bank of England's target of 2%.\n\n\"Very soft UK inflation data for December leaves the door wide open for a Bank of England rate cut on 30 January,\" said Melissa Davies, an economist at stock broker Redburn.\n\nThe Bank's main interest rate is used by banks and other lenders who set borrowing costs.\n\nIt affects everything from mortgages to business loans and has a big effect on the finances of individuals and companies.\n\nCity traders who spend their working lives trying to anticipate moves in interest rates are convinced of it today: the Bank of England is likely to cut the official interest rate when it meets later this month. Market indicators suggest a 60% chance of it happening.\n\nHere's the thinking: at 1.3%, the official measure of consumer price inflation in the year to December was lower than expected and well below the 2% target. With the economy barely growing (even shrinking if you are prepared to rely on the official November estimate of a 0.3% contraction) there's little sign of inflationary pressure in the near future.\n\nGranted, there was a sharp rise in the price of crude oil - a barrel was up 4.9% in the month and 17.4% on the year. But in spite of that, producers were still paying slightly less for their raw materials and supplies than they were last year.\n\nThe assumption has been that the November contraction was a temporary period of weakness induced by pre-election political uncertainty - and that there will be a recovery as businesses and consumers regain a new-found confidence to spend and invest.\n\nThe risk the MPC will have to contend with is that that hoped-for post-election recovery does not materialise.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Michael Saunders, one of the rate setters on the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), reiterated his view that borrowing costs should be lowered.\n\n\"It probably will be appropriate to maintain an expansionary monetary policy stance and possibly to cut rates further, in order to reduce risks of a sustained undershoot of the 2% inflation target,\" he said.\n\nLast week, two other rate setters and Bank governor Mark Carney also suggested that rates could be cut, depending on how the economy performs.\n\nOn Sunday, MPC member Gertjan Vlieghe told the Financial Times he would consider voting for a rate cut depending on how the economy has performed since the December election.\n\nHowever, members of the MPC could take the latest inflation figure with a pinch of salt, said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\n\"Half of the decline in the headline rate was driven by a sharp fall in volatile airline fares inflation,\" he said.\n\nHe expects inflation to rise to 1.6% in the first three months of 2020, and this could mean enough MPC members will decide to wait rather than voting to cut rates.\n\nEmma-Lou Montgomery, associate director for personal investing at money manager Fidelity International, said the inflation data painted a bleaker picture for the UK economy than before.\n\n\"Today's UK CPI figures simply add to the growing sense of unease many feel when considering the outlook for the UK economy, with the rate of inflation continuing to lag well below the Bank of England's target of 2%.\"\n\nA cut would ease the finances of borrowers, but create a tougher environment for savers, she added.", "British Airways' owner IAG has filed a complaint to the EU arguing Flybe's rescue breaches state aid rules.\n\nThe move comes amid a growing backlash against the government's plan to defer some of Flybe's air passenger duty payments, thought to top £100m.\n\nEasyJet and Ryanair said taxpayer funds should not be used to save a rival.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's proposal to cut Air Passenger Duty (APD), was attacked by the rail industry's trade body and climate campaign groups.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said: \"Taxpayers should not be used to bail out individual companies, especially when they are backed by well-funded businesses.\"\n\nWhile Ryanair said it had called for \"more robust and frequent stress tests on financially weak airlines and tour operators so the taxpayer does not have to bail them out\".\n\nThe government has said the review of the tax will be consistent with its zero-carbon targets.\n\nHowever, in a tweet, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: \"Addressing Flybe problems by reducing APD on all domestic flights is utterly inconsistent with any serious commitment to tackle the Climate Crisis. Domestic flights need to be reduced, not made cheaper.\"\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, also said any review of APD \"that encourages more people to fly domestically would limit efforts to tackle the climate crisis\".\n\nWillie Walsh, the chief executive of the owner of British Airways, said government money should not have been used\n\nAhead of filing the state aid complaint, Willie Walsh, the outgoing chief executive of IAG, wrote to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, criticising the government's involvement in its rescue.\n\nIn a letter, Mr Walsh said: \"Prior to the acquisition of Flybe by the consortium which includes Virgin/Delta, Flybe argued for tax payers to fund its operations by subsidising regional routes.\n\n\"Virgin/Delta now want the taxpayer to pick up the tab for their mismanagement of the airline. This is a blatant misuse of public funds.\n\n\"Flybe's precarious situation makes a mockery of the promises the airline, its shareholders and Heathrow have made about the expansion of regional flights if a third runway is built.\"\n\nBut Downing Street has said the government is \"fully compliant\" with state aid rules. The Prime Minister's spokesman said \"there has been no state aid to Flybe,\" adding that \"any future funding will be made on strictly commercial terms.\"\n\nBritish Airways' owner IAG's decision to make a state-aid complaint to the European Commission underlines its determination to shine a light on - and if possible, overturn - the government's assistance to Flybe.\n\nMinisters have not published the details of the arrangement, but it is understood to include a \"time-to-pay\" arrangement for the company's airline passenger duty liabilities.\n\nThese arrangements are common for companies that are struggling to pay their tax, but unusual when it comes to duty payments.\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh's letter to Grant Shapps points out that Flybe has wealthy backers - Virgin Atlantic is a big shareholder, and one of Virgin's main shareholders in turn is Delta Air Lines, one of the biggest and most profitable airlines in the world. These are not the kind of companies, Mr Walsh argues, that should rely on taxpayer support to keep one of their investments trading.\n\nHis intervention should, of course, be seen in the light of the long and bitter commercial rivalry between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. The latter's position at Heathrow is bolstered by Flybe's feed of domestic traffic, and BA would not be unhappy if that stream of traffic was choked off.\n\nThree Cabinet ministers - Mr Shapps, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom and Chancellor Sajid Javid signed off on the deal that will keep Flybe operating.\n\nAlthough the terms of the direct assistance were not disclosed, they are understood to include forbearance on Flybe's Air Passenger Duty (APD) payments.\n\nMr Shapps said the move was necessary to protect key routes and any rule changes would apply to all carriers.\n\n\"The actions we have taken will support and enhance regional connectivity across the UK, so local communities have the domestic transport connections they rely on,\" he said.\n\n\"Any changes implemented as a result of our reviews of air passenger duty and regional connectivity will apply to all airlines in the competitive aviation market.\"\n\nState aid is assistance given by the government to companies or other organisations that has the potential to distort market competition.\n\nThe aid can be in the form of direct cash grants or indirect aid - such as preferential borrowing rates or tax credits.\n\nUnder EU rules, member-state governments are allowed to provide state aid only with approval from the European Commission.\n\nFor example, in 2015 the UK government submitted plans to provide a subsidy to Drax power station to convert one of its units from coal to biomass fuel. Following an investigation, the commission ruled in favour of the scheme.\n\nBut there are exceptions to the rules. For example, aid worth less than 200,000 euros (£175,000) over three years is exempt.\n\nEven though Brexit is due to happen on 31 January, the UK will continue to follow EU state aid rules during the 11-month transition period that follows.\n\nIAG believes the UK government's proposal would amount to unlawful state aid as it would impact other airlines operating the same routes as Flybe, but the government disagrees.\n\nAirlines collect the duty from passengers as part of their ticket price, and then hand it over to HMRC.\n\nIt is understood Flybe could be given up to three months' breathing space to pay about £100m worth of duty.\n\nThe ministers have also agreed to review air passenger duties on domestic flights in a move attacked by environmental campaigners.\n\nMs Leadsom defended the decision to intervene, saying that Flybe was a \"viable business\".\n\nShe also said Flybe's situation was different to that faced by travel firm Thomas Cook, which collapsed last year. \"The difference... between Flybe and Thomas Cook was that in the case of Thomas Cook it had huge amounts of debt, and any taxpayer's money would simply be throwing good money after bad.\"\n\nFlybe's owners - Virgin Atlantic, Cyrus Capital and Stobart Air - will inject about £30m of new money.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Walsh pointed out that Virgin is part-owned by US carrier Delta Air Lines, which is one of the world's largest and most profitable airlines.\n\nHe argues that Virgin and Delta together have the resources to rescue Flybe, and they should not be asking for taxpayer support. Mr Walsh says Flybe has been mismanaged.\n\nFlybe is already in receipt of some public money for its important Newquay-Heathrow route, which it operates under a \"public service obligation\" contract with the government.\n\nMr Walsh said that British Airways had indicated its willingness to operate that route without assistance - in the summer only - but was excluded because of the Flybe deal.\n\nHe warned the government that Flybe's Heathrow operations could, in time, be diverted to long-haul routes - which would not be in line with its policy of promoting regional connections to London.\n\nBut Rob Griggs, director of policy at Airlines UK, the industry trade body, defended the deal. He said giving extra time to Flybe to pay APD was not the same as a direct injection of public funds.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), a union, also welcomed the news.\n\n\"This is good news for 2,400 Flybe staff whose jobs are secured and regional communities who would have lost their air connectivity without Flybe,\" said Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton.\n\nLucien Farrell, the chairman of Connect Airways - which owns Flybe - said the group had agreed to \"keep Flybe flying with additional funding alongside government initiatives\".\n\n\"We are very encouraged with recent developments, especially the government's recognition of the importance of Flybe to communities and businesses across the UK and the desire to strengthen regional connectivity,\" he said.", "Black and Asian men are more likely to be jailed for drug dealing offences in England and Wales than white men, a study of 14,000 people suggests.\n\nThe Sentencing Council looked at the penalties received by defendants aged 26-50 for possession with intent to supply from April 2012 to March 2015.\n\nIts analysis also found men were more likely to be jailed than women.\n\nThe council said it was seeking views on whether its sentencing guidelines could lead to discrimination.\n\nIts study found that for possession with intent to supply a class B drug, 37% of white offenders would be expected to receive an immediate custodial sentence, compared with 46% of Asian, 44% of black and 46% of Chinese and other ethnicities.\n\nFor a class A substance, around 93% of white offenders, 95% of Asian offenders and 95% of black offenders would be expected to be jailed.\n\nThe length of sentence also differed, with Asian offenders being jailed for an average of 4% longer, equal to around one month extra, than white counterparts.\n\nBlack and other ethnicity offenders did not have statistically different sentence lengths to white offenders.\n\nThe researchers also compared men and women and found 37% of men would be expected to be jailed for possession with intent to supply a class B drug, compared with 20% of women.\n\nMen received sentences that were on average 14%, or around five months, longer than women\n\nFor class A substances, around 93% of male offenders and 85% of female offenders would be expected to be sentenced to immediate custody.\n\nMen received sentences that were on average 14% - or around five months - longer than women.\n\nResearchers said not all the factors considered by judges could be taken into account in their analysis, meaning the results should not be regarded as conclusive.\n\nBut the organisation said it would be seeking views on whether its guidelines could potentially be interpreted in ways that could be leading to discrimination.\n\nLord Justice Holroyde, chairman of the Sentencing Council, said: \"The sentencing guidelines are intended to apply equally to all offenders, irrespective of their sex or ethnicity.\n\n\"In drafting the guidelines, the council always takes great care to use language that is clear and unambiguous and will ensure the equal application of sentencing factors to all social groups.\n\n\"We do recognise, however, that there is potential for draft guidelines to be interpreted in different ways.\n\n\"The council is seeking views on whether any of the factors in the draft drug offences guidelines could be interpreted in ways that could lead to discrimination against particular groups, and we are asking whether there are any other equality or diversity issues the guidelines have not considered.\"\n\nAndrea Coomber, director of legal reform group Justice, said \"significant investigation\" was required to properly understand the research's findings.\n\nShe said: \"We need to look at who's in the system, who are the people who are on the bench, who's doing the representation.\n\n\"We know that we have a legal system that is overwhelmingly white, the judges are overwhelmingly white. You can sit at the Old Bailey for a day and not see any black barristers, and if you were a black boy in the dock... you do think that the system is skewed against you.\"\n\nThe council is also proposing changes to guidelines to reflect the growing exploitation of children and vulnerable people by county lines drug gangs.\n\nThe new draft guidelines would allow this exploitation and so-called cuckooing - where a home is taken over for drug dealing - to be taken into account as \"culpability factors\".\n\nA 12-week consultation on the proposals will close on 7 April.\n\nLord Justice Holroyde added: \"The nature of offending is changing and we are seeing more vulnerable people including children being exploited either through grooming or coercion.\n\n\"The proposed guidelines will provide guidance for courts and clear information for victims, witnesses and the public on how drug offenders are sentenced.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: \"We are working across government and with partners to tackle the over-representation of BAME individuals in the criminal justice system, which we know has deep-rooted causes.\n\n\"That work includes taking forward the recommendations in David Lammy MP's extensive independent review and developing a number of interventions aimed at reducing disproportionality.\"", "Councillors approved the application for a drive-thru on the outskirts of Oakham\n\nRutland will lose its status as the only county without a McDonald's after councillors rubber-stamped plans for a new restaurant.\n\nSome in the small rural East Midlands county have boasted of its unique independence from the American fast food giant.\n\nBut at a meeting on Tuesday councillors approved the application for a drive-thru on the outskirts of Oakham.\n\nMcDonald's said it was \"delighted\" at the decision.\n\nThe company said the plans had a \"great reception\" and would create \"at least 65 new jobs for local people\".\n\nBefore the meeting, Rutland County Council received 23 representations of support and 55 objections for the restaurant off Lands End Way.\n\nThe county is renowned for a number of traditions and landmarks, including Rutland Water\n\nCharlie Pallett, who runs a blog about Rutland, said: \"Our high streets are scattered with wonderful independents that offer something unique... I think we don't need a McDonald's.\n\n\"Our county is the last one in England without one. I think that is really special.\"\n\nBut many supported the plans, arguing the town \"needs\" more employment and entertainment for young people.\n\nChris Goodchild said he was \"all for\" a McDonald's in Rutland\n\nChris Goodchild told BBC East Midlands Today: \"I'm all for it. I think it's a load of nonsense we haven't got one already.\n\n\"The high street is full of charity shops and coffee bars, so what's the problem?\"\n\nRutland resident Ella Peters added: \"I think it is a positive thing in regards to bringing new jobs but I don't believe it is a good idea to bring fast food - it is not very good for children.\n\n\"I think it is better to support local compared to the big nationals.\"\n\nMcDonald's says the restaurant will create 35 full-time and 30 part-time jobs\n\nCouncil officers had recommended plans for the restaurant be approved with 27 conditions, including the walls and roof should not be built until the details of materials and colours have been agreed with the authority.\n\nOther conditions include trees should be protected and the restaurant should not open until a litter management plan has been approved by the council.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duchess of Sussex has begun legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nIn a statement, the Duke of Sussex said he and Meghan were forced to take action against \"relentless propaganda\".\n\nPrince Harry said: \"I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\"\n\nA Mail on Sunday spokesman said the paper stood by the story it published and would defend the case \"vigorously\".\n\nLaw firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, accused the paper of a campaign of false derogatory stories.\n\nThe firm has filed a High Court claim against the paper and its parent company over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nThe claim comes after the Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle, sent shortly after she and Prince Harry got married in 2018.\n\nIn a lengthy personal statement on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official website, Prince Harry said the \"painful\" impact of intrusive media coverage had driven the couple to take action.\n\nReferring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, the prince said his \"deepest fear is history repeating itself\".\n\n\"I've seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person,\" he said.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the statement was \"remarkably outspoken\" and \"nothing less than a stinging attack on the British tabloid media\".\n\nFormer Daily Mirror editor and Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade said the duchess could win the legal action, but added Prince Harry had taken a risk by attacking the press for the actions of one newspaper.\n\n\"The press - particularly the tabloid press - is far less powerful now than it was during his mother's era,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Is he taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut here? I think he may well find that this is counter-productive.\"\n\nThe language is clearly Harry's: an unrestrained expression of anger and pain aimed at the British tabloid media.\n\nDid any of his advisers urge restraint? We simply don't know. Judging by the length and intensity of the statement, Harry would have been in no mood to listen to any such cautionary advice.\n\nIs it fair to castigate the entire British tabloid media off the back of one dispute with one newspaper over one story, however painful? That is a matter of individual opinion and clearly Harry - supported one assumes by Meghan - believes that it is.\n\nThe timing certainly is curious. They are concluding a visit to Southern Africa which by wide consent (much of it expressed in the tabloid media) has been a considerable success. It has lifted their reputation after a series of mis-steps involving private jets and expensive property renovations.\n\nNow they have chosen to take one of the most powerful newspaper groups in Britain to court and launched this stinging assault on an entire section of the British media.\n\nBritish tabloids are not afraid of a fight. They may well feel provoked by the language in this statement. Was it wise? We shall see.\n\nIt is not the first time the royals have taken legal action against the press. In 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were awarded £92,000 (100,000 euros) in damages after French magazine Closer printed topless pictures of the duchess in 2012.\n\nA French court ruled the images had been an invasion of the couple's privacy.\n\nThe new legal proceedings are being funded privately by the couple and any proceeds will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.\n\nIn his statement, Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in \"media freedom and objective, truthful reporting\" as a \"cornerstone of democracy\".\n\nBut he said his wife had become \"one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences - a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy and while raising our newborn son\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier on in their tour of Africa, the couple introduced baby son Archie to Archbishop Desmond Tutu\n\nPrince Harry said: \"There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda, specifically when it is knowingly false and malicious, and though we have continued to put on a brave face - as so many of you can relate to - I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been.\"\n\nHe said \"positive\" coverage of the couple's current tour of Africa had exposed the \"double standards\" of \"this specific press pack that has vilified her almost daily for the past nine months\".\n\n\"They have been able to create lie after lie at her expense simply because she has not been visible while on maternity leave,\" he said.\n\n\"She is the same woman she was a year ago on our wedding day, just as she is the same woman you've seen on this Africa tour.\"\n\nThe duke said he had been a \"silent witness to her private suffering for too long\".\n\n\"To stand back and do nothing would be contrary to everything we believe in,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the paper of misleading readers when it published the private letter, by strategically omitting paragraphs, sentences and specific words \"to mask the lies they had perpetrated for over a year\".\n\n\"Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn't acceptable, at any level,\" he said.\n\n\"We won't and can't believe in a world where there is no accountability for this.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday spokesperson said: \"We categorically deny that the duchess's letter was edited in any way that changed its meaning.\"", "Boeing has reported its worst annual orders in at least two decades - as it remains in crisis over its 737 Max model.\n\nThe company also said deliveries of its planes slumped to an 11-year low last year.\n\nIt means the US firm has lost its title as the world's biggest plane maker to European rival Airbus.\n\nThe 737 Max has been grounded since March after two crashes in which 346 people were killed.\n\nBoeing said net orders after cancellations for 2019 totalled just 54 planes. That compares with 893 the previous year.\n\nAt the same time deliveries fell by 53% to 380 planes, the lowest number since 2007.\n\nThe company last month halted production of what had been its best-selling commercial airliner.\n\nThe grounding of the 737 Max means it is impossible for the firm to deliver the planes to customers.\n\nIn comparison, Boeing's main rival Airbus said earlier this month that it delivered a record 863 planes in 2019 and racked up a net 768 orders after cancellations.\n\nA bright spot for the Chicago-based plane maker was a record number of deliveries of 787 Dreamliners in the last three months of 2019.\n\nThe company delivered 45 of the wide-body passenger jets, which first went into service in 2011.\n\nBoeing's new chief executive David Calhoun took the helm of the manufacturer on Monday.\n\nMr Calhoun said he is \"confident in the future\" of the firm, telling staff his \"primary focus\" will be returning the 737 Max to the skies.\n\nHe replaced Dennis Muilenburg, who was fired last month, in a move the company's board said was necessary to \"restore confidence\" in Boeing.\n\nThe aviation industry is also feeling the pressure over fears of a global economic slowdown and the US-China trade war.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nTottenham gained a hard-fought victory over Championship side Middlesbrough in their FA Cup third-round replay.\n\nSpurs were gifted a second-minute lead when Boro goalkeeper Tomas Mejias passed the ball to Giovani lo Celso, who cut inside a challenge and scored.\n\nErik Lamela doubled the hosts' lead after 15 minutes when he flicked the ball past Mejias after a fine run.\n\nGeorge Saville pulled one back late on for Boro with a low strike from 20 yards out, but it was not enough.\n\nMiddlesbrough substitute Rudy Gestede had a chance to force extra-time but he could only head over the bar from eight yards as Spurs held on for the win.\n\nTottenham, who have won the FA Cup eight times, will play at Southampton in the fourth round on 25 January.\n• None Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast: Spurs go through but should they sell Kane?\n• None Tottenham v Middlesbrough as it happened and the rest of Tuesday's FA Cup action\n• None Quiz: Familiar faces in the Boro dugout but who played when Spurs won 2008 League Cup?\n\nThe FA Cup represents Tottenham's best chance of a trophy this season; they are eighth in the Premier League, out of the EFL Cup - after a shock third-round exit on penalties at League Two Colchester - and have a tricky tie against Bundesliga leaders RB Leipzig in the Champions League last 16.\n\nIf they were to win the FA Cup, it would be their first trophy since lifting the League Cup in 2008.\n\nBoro boss Jonathan Woodgate scored the winner for Spurs in that Wembley final against Chelsea 12 years ago, as part of a team that also included his assistant boss Robbie Keane.\n\nWoodgate and Keane's current side, cheered on by 3,700 fans who had travelled down from the north east in the first FA Cup tie at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, made an awful start after a horrible error from Mejias.\n\nThe Spanish goalkeeper, who played under Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid in 2011, tried to play a ball to Marvin Johnson, but Lo Celso intercepted the pass inside the penalty area, cut inside a challenge and curled a low effort into the net.\n\nBoro had a chance to equalise in the 13th minute but Lukas Nmecha, on loan from Manchester City, had his effort well saved by Paulo Gazzaniga and that proved costly as Lamela's goal three minutes later doubled the hosts' lead.\n\nWoodgate would be again unhappy with his side's defending as Jonny Howson was dispossessed 35 yards from goal, before Lamela was able to go on a jinking run and flick the ball with the outside of his foot past Mejias from 12 yards.\n\nSpurs then wasted numerous chances to kill the match off as Lamela shot over on the turn, Ryan Sessegnon had an effort pushed wide, Japhet Tanganga shot just off target and Lucas Moura wasted a chance from a counter-attack.\n\nBoro, 16th in the Championship, had opportunities to get themselves back into the tie, but Paddy McNair shot well over when unmarked eight yards out and Lewis Wing's direct free-kick was pushed around the post by Gazzaniga.\n\nSaville's 83rd-minute goal for the visitors gave them hope, but they could not find an equaliser.\n\nWith Harry Kane out until at least April after surgery on a hamstring injury, Spurs are light on attacking options and boss Mourinho took the chance to ease the workload on his other senior forwards, with Son Heung-min playing only the last 30 minutes, and Dele Alli making a brief appearance as a substitute, coming on after Saville's goal.\n\nThat meant another appearance in the starting 11 for Christian Eriksen, despite the midfielder, out of contract at the end of season, being linked with a January move to Inter Milan.\n\nEriksen, who has been with Spurs since 2013, had a chance to score after flicking the ball over the head of an opponent and being fouled - driving the resulting free-kick saved by Mejias.\n\nHe should have also been put through on goal, but team-mate Moura instead opted to shoot instead and could only drag an effort wide.\n\nEriksen nearly scored late in the second half when his low delivery in the penalty area was missed by everyone and Mejias had to get down well to push the ball away one-handed.\n\nThis was Tottenham's 31st match of the season and their 14th in a 53-day period since Mourinho's first game in charge on 23 November.\n\nHe will be pleased with the win and that extra-time was not needed but will be frustrated with the late goal conceded, meaning they have only kept one clean sheet in his 14 games in charge.\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in each of their past 41 FA Cup home matches against teams from a lower division (won 34, drew seven) since a 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest in January 1975.\n• None Middlesbrough have failed to keep a clean sheet in each of their past 13 meetings with Tottenham in all competitions since a 1-0 win at the Riverside Stadium in May 2005.\n• None For just the second time during his 923-game managerial career, Jose Mourinho has seen one of his clubs concede at least once in nine consecutive matches in all competitions, also suffering the same fate with Chelsea between May and September 2015.\n• None Timed at one minute 55 seconds, Lo Celso's strike was Spurs' earliest goal at the new stadium - and their earliest home goal since Eriksen scored against Manchester United at Wembley in the Premier League in January 2018.\n\n'We knew it was going to be difficult' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport, said: \"Three-nil was so close so many times. I told my players at half-time if we don't score [to make it] 3-0, then if it went 2-1 we would be in trouble and it happened.\n\n\"We knew the opponents were hard. They brought on Gestede and went direct and made problems and when it was 2-1 we knew it was going to be difficult.\n\n\"We tried our best. The boys are trying their best. They dealt well with many set-piece situations. We did lots of things well. We conceded the goal, a bit frustrating, but more frustrating was that we did not score three, four or five.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough manager Jonathan Woodgate, speaking to BBC Sport, said: \"I don't like losing games and when you gift Tottenham goals like that so early, you're fearing the worst. But my players showed character and we ran them close.\n\n\"If there's a way to lose then it's like that - putting a real show on and a real fight. The players gave everything for the shirt.\"\n\nOn the early error from keeper Tomas Mejias, Woodgate added: \"We all make mistakes and I won't hammer anyone for that - we want them to play out from the back.\"\n\nTottenham, who have only taken one point from their past three Premier League matches, return to league action on Saturday when they play at Watford (12:30 GMT). The fourth-round FA Cup tie at Southampton will be played on Saturday, 25 January (15:00).\n\nMiddlesbrough play again in three days time with an away match in the Championship at Fulham on Friday (19:45 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Fletcher (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marvin Johnson with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt missed. Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marvin Johnson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jonny Howson (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Tavernier.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Middlesbrough 1. George Saville (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rudy Gestede with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Marvin Johnson with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Winks. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The government has agreed a rescue plan for troubled regional airline Flybe.\n\nMinisters agreed to work with Flybe to figure out a repayment plan for a significant tax debt that is thought to top £100m.\n\nMeanwhile, the firm's owners have agreed to pump more money into the loss-making airline.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the deal would keep the company operating.\n\nThat will be a relief to many of the eight million passengers who fly with the airline each year.\n\nHowever, the chief executive of the owner of British Airways has attacked the move as a misuse of public funds.\n\nIn a letter to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, a copy of which has been seen by the BBC, Willie Walsh questioned why the taxpayer is picking up the tab for the airline's mismanagement.\n\nHe pointed out that one of Flybe's biggest shareholders Virgin Atlantic, is part owned by the US's Delta, one of the world's largest and most profitable airlines.\n\nFlybe services dozens of UK domestic routes that are not flown by other airlines, making it the largest carrier to fly out of some regional airports, like Newquay.\n\n\"Flybe plays a critical and unique role in the UK aviation system, supporting the development of the regions, providing essential connectivity to businesses and stimulating the growth in trade,\" the boss of the Airport Operators Association, Karen Dee, said in a statement welcoming the rescue deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs part of the agreement, Flybe's shareholders, which include Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group, have agreed to put more money into the business.\n\nThe government has promised to review the £26 air passenger duty that is levied on domestic UK return fights, which has added to the airline's losses.\n\n\"Delighted that we have reached agreement with Flybe's shareholders to keep the company operating, ensuring that UK regions remain connected,\" Ms Leadsom tweeted.\n\n\"This will be welcome news for Flybe's staff, customers and creditors and we will continue the hard work to ensure a sustainable future.\"\n\nLucien Farrell, the chairman of Connect Airways - which owns Flybe - said the group had agreed to \"keep Flybe flying with additional funding alongside government initiatives\".\n\n\"We are very encouraged with recent developments, especially the government's recognition of the importance of Flybe to communities and businesses across the UK and the desire to strengthen regional connectivity,\" he said.\n\nThe transport secretary said the government had worked closely with Flybe to ensure its planes were able to continue flying.\n\nMr Shapps said the Department for Transport would conduct an urgent review that will seek to assess how it can improve regional connectivity and ensure airports continue to function across the country.\n\nBut the prospect of cutting taxes on flying has angered climate activists who argue that it is the most carbon intensive mode of transport.\n\nGreen Party MP Caroline Lucas said reducing air passenger duty was \"utterly inconsistent with any serious commitment\" to tackle climate change.\n\n\"Domestic flights need to be reduced, not made cheaper,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nBut the government has said the review of the tax will be consistent with its zero carbon targets.\n\n\"This is good news for 2,400 Flybe staff whose jobs are secured and regional communities who would have lost their air connectivity without Flybe,\" general secretary, Brian Strutton said in a statement.\n\nFlybe, which flies to 170 different destinations, has been struggling under the weight of an estimated £106m bill for air passenger duty as well as a slowdown in demand that has hurt the airline's finances.\n\nThe carrier's boss, Mark Anderson, said: \"This is a positive outcome for the UK and will allow us to focus on delivering for our customers and planning for the future.\n\n\"Flybe is made up of an incredible team of people, serving millions of loyal customers who rely on the vital regional connectivity that we provide.\"\n• None 'I would be devastated if Flybe went under'", "Whitney Houston and British acts T. Rex and Depeche Mode are to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.\n\nThey will be joined by The Notorious B.I.G., Nine Inch Nails and The Doobie Brothers, it was revealed on Wednesday.\n\nThe six were selected from a 16-strong longlist to be honoured at the annual awards in Cleveland, Ohio, in May.\n\nThin Lizzy, Motorhead and Judas Priest were among the acts to miss out. Bruce Springsteen's producer Jon Landau will receive a special award.\n\nThe producer, journalist and artist manager will collect the Ahmet Ertegun award, as will former Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment boss Irving Azoff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Depeche Mode This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArtists are eligible for the famous hall 25 years after the release of their first album.\n\nLast year saw Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks inducted alongside UK acts Roxy Music, Radiohead, The Cure, The Zombies and Def Leppard.\n\nDuring her acceptance speech, Jackson pleaded with the US institution, which had been criticised for a lack of diversity, to \"please induct more women\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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Rex are judged to have made a similarly indelible mark on the music scene, with early 1970s hits like Get It On, 20th Century Boy and Ride a White Swan.\n\nSinger Marc Bolan, who died in a car crash in 1977 aged 29, was credited as an influence by artists including David Bowie, The Smiths and Oasis.\n\nEssex synth-pop rockers Depeche Mode broke through in the early 1980s and have enjoyed commercial success with hits like Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Depeche Mode This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThey said they were \"incredibly honoured\" to be named alongside the other \"incredible\" acts who have been recognised, both this year and in the past.\n\nBrooklyn hip-hop sensation The Notorious B.I.G. - aka Christopher Wallace - made a huge impact on the rap world during his short career.\n\nThe East Coast rapper was shot four times and killed in a drive-by shooting 1997, aged 24, and the case remains unsolved.\n\nIn a recent BBC poll, his track Juicy - from his acclaimed 1994 debut album Ready To Die - held off Public Enemy's Fight The Power and Mobb Deep's Shook Ones (Part II), to be crowned the greatest hip-hop song of all time.\n\nThe ever-changing Doobie Brothers have sold nearly 50 million records thanks to their self-styled \"yacht rock\" - a mix of West Coast Californian soft rock and country blues - on songs like Listen to the Music, Takin' It to the Streets and What a Fool Believes.\n\nFinally, Nine Inch Nails will become local and national heroes when they step into the Public Auditorium in their home town of Cleveland to be inducted.\n\nFrontman Trent Reznor told Rolling Stone he was \"pretty freaked out\" about receiving the accolade.\n\n\"I'm allowing myself, for a limited period of time, to feel good about this,\" he said.\n\nThe industrial rockers are perhaps best known for the track Hurt, which was covered to haunting effect by country legend Johnny Cash shortly before his death.\n\nReznor and bandmate Atticus Ross are racking up the awards, having picked up Oscars in 2011 for their work on the soundtrack to The Social Network.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The 10 years to the end of 2019 have been confirmed as the warmest decade on record by three global agencies.\n\nAccording to Nasa, Noaa and the UK Met Office, last year was the second warmest in a record dating back to 1850.\n\nThe past five years were the hottest in the 170-year series, with the average of each one more than 1C warmer than pre-industrial.\n\nThe Met Office says that 2020 is likely to continue this warming trend.\n\n2016 remains the warmest year on record, when temperatures were boosted by the El Niño weather phenomenon.\n\nToday's data doesn't come as a huge surprise, with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) signalling at the start of last December that 2019 likely marked the end of the warmest decade on record.\n\nThe Met Office, which is involved in producing the HadCRUT4 temperature data, says that 2019 was 1.05C above the average for the period from 1850-1900.\n\nLast year saw two major heat waves hit Europe in June and July, with a new national record of 46C set in France on 28 June. New records were also set in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and in the UK at 38.7C.\n\nIn Australia, the mean summer temperature was the highest on record by almost a degree.\n\nAs temperatures continue to rise, efforts to contain heating gases continue to falter as science collides with politics.\n\nThe UK, for instance, fought hard to host the annual UN climate conference at the end of the year where all nations will be urged towards deeper emissions cuts.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson says he wants the UK to lead the world on climate change.\n\nBut in the first test of his new administration he's already being accused of abandoning his principles.\n\nHe's promising to consider cutting the £13 tax on flights in the UK because jobs and connectivity are at stake.\n\nThis contradicts his official advice from the Climate Change Committee which says people need to fly less, so the cost of flying should go up, not down.\n\nThis sort of uncomfortable trade-off will cause ruffles around the world in coming decades as climate change presents an increasing challenge to politics-as-usual.\n\nWhile the three different research agencies all have slightly different figures for the past 12 months, the WMO has carried out an analysis that uses additional data from the Copernicus climate change service and the Japan Meteorological Agency.\n\nThey conclude that in 2019, the world was 1.1C warmer than in the pre-industrial period.\n\nA Nasa graphic showing the differences between 2019 global temperatures and the long-term average\n\n\"Our collective global temperature figures agree that 2019 joins the other years from 2015 as the five warmest years on record,\" said Dr Colin Morice, from the Met Office Hadley Centre.\n\n\"Each decade from the 1980s has been successively warmer than all the decades that came before. 2019 concludes the warmest 'cardinal' decade (those spanning years ending 0-9) in records that stretch back to the mid-19th century.\"\n\nResearchers say carbon emissions from human activities are the main cause of the sustained temperature rise seen in recent years.\n\n\"Carbon dioxide levels are at the highest that we've ever recorded in our atmosphere, and there is a definite connection between the amount of CO2 and the temperature,\" said Prof Liz Bentley from the Royal Meteorological Society.\n\n\"We are seeing the highest global temperatures in the last decade and we will see more of that. As the CO2 continues to grow, we'll see global temperatures increasing.\"\n\nHaving the long term data from three different agencies with different methodologies gives them confidence in the accuracy of their findings.\n\n\"While we know that human activities are causing the globe to warm, it is important to measure this warming as accurately as possible,\" said Prof Tim Osborn, from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, which is involved in gathering the data.\n\n\"We are confident that the world has warmed by about 1C since the late nineteenth century because different methods of working out the global temperature give very similar results.\"\n\nFirefighters in Spain battle blazes in 2019 during the European heatwave\n\nWhile the figures released by the Met Office, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) and Nasa show the temperature recorded on the land and sea surfaces, the amount of warming going into the deeper ocean is also at record levels.\n\nData published this week showed that a record amount of heat went into the oceans last year. This was the biggest increase in the last decade.\n\nWhile natural variability means that scientists don't expect new temperature records year-on-year, the Met Office is forecasting that 2020 will also be very hot, with the global average temperature estimated to be 1.1C above pre-industrial levels. This suggests it will be a warmer year than the one just passed.", "New data suggests that our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals may have been diving under the sea for clams.\n\nIt adds to mounting evidence that the old picture of these ancient people as brutish and unimaginative is wrong.\n\nUntil now, there had been little clear evidence that Neanderthals were swimmers.\n\nBut a team of researchers who analysed shells from a cave in Italy said that some must have been gathered from the seafloor by Neanderthals.\n\nThe findings have been published in the journal Plos One.\n\nThe Neanderthals living at Grotta dei Moscerini in the Latium region around 90,000 years ago were shaping the clam shells into sharp tools.\n\nPaolo Villa, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues, analysed 171 such tools, which all came from a local species of mollusc called the smooth clam (Callista chione). The tools were excavated by archaeologists at the end of the 1940s.\n\nClam shells that wash up on beaches can be distinguished from those that are still live when they're gathered.\n\nThe beached specimens were opaque, sanded down through being knocked against pebbles on the shore, perforated by other marine organisms and encrusted with barnacles.\n\nNeanderthals used shells from the smooth clam, Callista chione, to make tools\n\nMost of the specimens at Grotta dei Moscerini fit the criteria of shells that were collected on a beach.\n\nBut one quarter of them had a shiny smooth exterior, showing no signs of such wear and tear. This suggested they were collected from the seafloor while the clams were alive.\n\nToday, Callista chione is most often fished by dredging, using small boats, or gathered by scuba divers in waters off the Adriatic coast that are more than 10m in depth.\n\nIn the northern part of the Adriatic, however, there are some sand banks where Callista clams can be collected at depths of between half a metre to one metre. In this case, the clams could be caught just by wading.\n\nBut, said Paola Villa: \"It's quite possible that the Neanderthals were collecting shells as far down as two to four metres,\" adding, \"of course, they did not have scuba equipment.\"\n\nDr Matt Pope, from the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, who was not involved with the study, told BBC News: \"We can all come up with exceptional situations where, during a storm event clams get thrown up on a beach.\n\n\"But it's the fact they occur at more than one [archaeological] unit, it's the fact they occur as part of a system of material being brought further into this cave, that suggests there's more than just a single, odd event going on.\"\n\nThe clam shells can be used to make thin, sharp tools\n\nThe evidence is in stark contrast to our old view of the Neanderthals spending much of their time chasing or scavenging big game animals.\n\nIt's known that Neanderthals gathered mussels from estuaries and fished in shallow waters, but there has been little clear evidence for swimming, skin-diving - or in some cases, perhaps, wading.\n\n\"It's more evidence to place Neanderthals into these coastal environments and at points in time making use of coastal resources, not just for food, but also as a raw material for tools,\" said Dr Pope.\n\nHe said that decades ago, this type of resource-gathering had been used to distinguish early examples of our own species, Homo sapiens, from the Neanderthals. \"We can't find that distinction any more,\" he said.\n\n\"What's nice about this paper is that it covers a site which at particular points in time, when you've got high sea levels... is right on the coast. You can see that they're not living there in large numbers for long periods of time. it looks like they're making short trips and they're coming equipped - bringing materials that they might need, such as pre-existing tools.\"\n\n\"Maybe it's a place where they camp seasonally, at particular times of the year. Maybe one of the things that's drawing them there are these shellfish, which are wonderful things to be eating through the winter when there's not a lot of other dependable food around.\"\n\nLast year, a team led by Prof Erik Trinkaus from Washington University in St Louis, US, published evidence showing that many Neanderthals suffered from a medical condition called \"surfer's ear\".\n\nThis condition is characterised by abnormal bony growths that appear in the ear canal. It's often seen in people who take part in aquatic sports in cold climates, but it can occur simply because of repeated exposure to cold, wet weather.\n\nAt the time the paper was released, there were suggestions Neanderthals could have got it from sleeping on chilly, damp cave floors.\n\n\"The archaeological evidence from Moscerini supports the idea of frequent aquatic resource exploitation based on anatomical data,\" Paola Villa and colleagues write in the latest paper.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nJuan Mata's superb second-half goal sent Manchester United into the FA Cup fourth round as they beat Wolves.\n\nThe Spanish midfielder chipped over keeper John Ruddy to settle the third-round replay after being put through on goal by Anthony Martial.\n\nWolves had an early Pedro Neto strike ruled out by the video assistant referee for a handball in the build-up.\n\nBut it was a deserved win for the hosts, who had the better chances in a tight game at Old Trafford.\n\nManchester United will next travel to either Watford or Tranmere - whose third-round replay at Prenton Park on Tuesday was postponed because of heavy rain.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side did not manage a shot on target in the goalless first game between the two sides at Molineux on 4 January but were much more threatening in this match.\n\nAn excellent save by Ruddy prevented Mata from opening the scoring in the first half, while Daniel James was also denied by the Wolves keeper.\n\nAfter a high-tempo start, the game settled down - but Mata, 31, produced the one moment of quality to seal victory, rolling back the years with a clever finish.\n\nMan Utd get job done but at a potential cost\n\nIt is a tough period for many clubs in the Premier League with games in multiple competitions coming thick and fast. With his side facing a tough trip to league leaders Liverpool on Sunday, Solskjaer may have been forgiven for making numerous changes for this tie.\n\nBut the FA Cup and Europa League arguably represent Manchester United's most realistic routes to trophies this season and Solskjaer underlined how seriously he is taking this competition by naming a strong line-up on Wednesday.\n\nThere were just three changes from the side that beat Norwich 4-0 in the Premier League last Saturday, as Sergio Romero was named in goal, while James and Mason Greenwood also started.\n\nWolves, too, went strong with their line-up, with Ruddy their only change and the two sides, cancelled each other for large periods.\n\nEager to get the job done and wrap up the game inside 90 minutes, Solskjaer sent on top scorer Marcus Rashford in the 64th minute to add bite to his attack and, three minutes later, United were ahead.\n\nBut the gamble to involve Rashford may prove costly; the striker pulled up with an injury and had to be replaced by Jesse Lingard just 16 minutes after coming on.\n\nAfter the game, Solskjaer admitted the decision to play Rashford was one that backfired.\n\n'You can't celebrate' - Coady furious with disallowed goal\n\nVAR has certainly had its critics this season - but for the second time in five days, it was new regulations relating to handball that caused controversy as the video official stepped in to rule out a goal.\n\nThe law regarding handball, updated before the start of this season, states any goal scored or created with the use of the hand or arm will be disallowed \"even if it is accidental\".\n\nWest Ham and Declan Rice fell victim to it last Friday when the midfielder's injury-time equaliser against Sheffield United was ruled out because the ball had touched his arm in the build-up.\n\nThis time, the handball rule was applied early on at Old Trafford when VAR spotted that the ball had brushed Raul Jimenez's hand just before Neto fired home early on.\n\nIt was a let-off for Manchester United and spared Fred's blushes with the strike having come as a result of a wild pass by the midfielder that deflected off a team-mate and into Jimenez's path.\n\nIt also seemed to set the tone for the rest of the game as Manchester United grew in confidence after a strong start by Wolves, who struggled to get Adama Traore involved as much as they would have hoped.\n\nAfter the game, Wolves captain Conor Coady said: \"It's constant, all we are talking about is VAR. It's ridiculous, it's stupid.\n\n\"You can't celebrate. Raul Jimenez didn't even know he had handballed it. We have to get used to it.\n\n\"All of it is terrible for me. It's not for me, it's not for a lot of players. But people higher up in the game are happy with it.\"\n\nManchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: \"I think you can see it was two teams towards the end that were tired. It was end to end and an open game - sometimes that doesn't suit us.\n\n\"We're delighted to beat Wolves finally. Juan Mata is different class. He's got the skill, composure and even pace.\"\n\nWolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo: \"It was a good game of football, an even game. Both teams had chances.\n\n\"We didn't defend the goal well but we reacted well and were in the game. A proper game, I am disappointed to go out because it is frustrating when you perform well and go out.\"\n\nOn the disallowed goal: \"That's VAR, you cannot do anything about it. We are celebrating non-goals - it doesn't make sense.\"\n\nAnother early exit for Wolves - the stats\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past six home matches in the FA Cup without conceding a single goal in this run.\n• None Wolves have been eliminated at the third-round stage or earlier in seven of their past nine FA Cup campaigns, this after having made it to at least the fourth round in each of their nine seasons in a row before this.\n• None Manchester United have won nine of their past 10 home matches against Wolves in all competitions, keeping six clean sheets in those games.\n• None Juan Mata has been directly involved in three goals in his past two games for Manchester United (one goal, two assists), as many as he was in his first 20 appearances of the 2019-20 season in all competitions before this.\n• None Since his FA Cup debut in January 2016, Manchester United forward Anthony Martial has eight assists in the competition. Only Peterborough's Marcus Maddison (11) has more in this time.\n• None Marcus Rashford was the first Manchester United player to both come on as a substitute before then being substituted himself in the same FA Cup match since Alan Smith against Liverpool in February 2006\n\nManchester United travel to Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday, 19 January (16:30 GMT) while Wolves are at Southampton the day before (15:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. João Moutinho tries a through ball, but Oskar Buur is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Romain Saïss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross following a corner.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Raúl Jiménez tries a through ball, but Morgan Gibbs-White is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Oskar Buur replaces Adama Traoré because of an injury.\n• None Leander Dendoncker (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Rúben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by João Moutinho following a corner.\n• None Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard replaces Marcus Rashford because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The recruit was recovered from the sea at Tregantle beach in Cornwall\n\nA Royal Marine recruit is in a life-threatening condition following a training exercise on a beach in Cornwall.\n\nA group had been practising an assault from a landing craft on Tregantle beach near Plymouth when a man got into difficulty in the water.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said it was alerted at 22:00 GMT on Tuesday after \"a person had gone underwater\".\n\nThe recruit, who had been in full kit, was airlifted to Derriford Hospital.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the recruit had to be resuscitated after he was recovered unconscious by the landing craft crew.\n\nThe recruits, who had full kit, backpacks and rifles, exited a landing craft close to the shore and reportedly struggled in the water, which was said to be up to their necks and cold.\n\nThey were in the last phase of their 32-week training.\n\nThe Royal Marines' principal military training centre is situated near Lympstone in Devon.\n\nA Royal Navy spokesperson said: \"We are aware of an incident involving a member of the Royal Marines in Plymouth.\n\n\"The next of kin have been informed and we ask for privacy for the family. The incident is currently under investigation, therefore it would be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nUp to 147 members of the armed forces have died while training or on exercise in the past 20 years. And of the 25 deaths in the Navy, 16 have been Royal Marines.\n\nFormer Royal Marines serviceman Saul Cuttell told the BBC the exercise is a \"perfectly normal thing to do and it has a lot of validity to what a marine would have to do\".\n\nHe said the beach assault simulation is \"tough\" but \"one of the things we [Marines] need to be able to do is replicate war time scenarios and they're not easy scenarios, they're not meant to be.\"\n\nWhile stressing he did not know the circumstances surrounding Tuesday's incident, Mr Cuttell, who left the Marines in 2006, said the force has \"made a lot of changes in recent years to ensure the safety of young men and ensure the training is more efficient\".\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said it \"was called on Tuesday at 22:01 about an incident at Tregantle beach, Cornwall\".\n\n\"The caller reported to us that a person had gone underwater. We sent land, air and other specialist paramedics to attend the incident,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"They treated a male patient at the scene and he was conveyed by air ambulance for further care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United were jeered by their own supporters as Burnley registered their first ever Premier League win at Old Trafford.\n\nBurnley took the lead just before half-time when Chris Wood spun off Harry Maguire to meet Ben Mee's knockdown and smash into the top corner from the edge of the six-yard box.\n\nJay Rodriguez doubled the Clarets' advantage when he played a one-two with Wood before firing into the top corner of David de Gea's near post with a venomous strike from the left-hand corner of the penalty area.\n\nIt was the third season in a row Burnley had gone 2-0 up at Old Trafford, but for the first time they hung on for all three points.\n\nUnited, who were without the injured Marcus Rashford, were lacklustre for large periods and barely threatened Nick Pope in the Burnley goal.\n\nThey were booed off at half-time and full-time and large parts of the ground emptied with five minutes left.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side remain six points behind Chelsea and off the top four, while Burnley climb to 13th, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None 'Toxic, embarrassing, worst squad in 30 years' - pundits and fans on Man Utd defeat\n\nA lot of pre-match conversation was focused on how United would cope without Rashford, who is sidelined for at least six weeks with a stress fracture of the back.\n\nThat gave an opportunity to Anthony Martial to stake his claim to be United's long-term number nine, but the Frenchman looked off the pace throughout and wasted two good first-half opportunities from Aaron Wan-Bissaka's cross and Nemanja Matic's throughball.\n\nSolskjaer turned to 18-year-old Mason Greenwood at half-time, and the teenager at least showed glimpses of his potential with a brilliant turn past Charlie Taylor followed by a driving run and shot which went just wide.\n\nHowever, the fact Solskjaer is regularly turning to a teenager in a desperate attempt to turn around games is a damning indictment of the quality of his squad, and could prompt United to act in the final nine days of the transfer window.\n\nBurnley's second-half display in their 2-1 win over Champions League-chasing Leicester on Sunday signalled a return to the grit and character that has been the Clarets' blueprint since they returned to the top flight in 2016.\n\nThere was more of the same in Manchester on Wednesday as Wood and Rodriguez showed the ruthlessness up front the east Lancashire side have sorely missed at times this season.\n\nBehind the front two it was a disciplined and well-organised display, with Mee and James Tarkowski superb at the heart of defence, married with a tenacious midfield display from Jack Cork and Ashley Westwood.\n\nBack-to-back wins mean Burnley move level on points with 10th-placed Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Everton and Newcastle - all five teams locked on 30 points.\n\n'It is not good enough' - what the managers said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, talking to BBC Match of the Day: \"There are loads of thoughts going through my mind. At one point it felt like we were creating openings and didn't take them. Now, it's one of disappointment. We hold our hands up, it is not good enough.\n\n\"The players are giving everything, they have done absolutely fantastic so far this season but they know it wasn't good enough tonight.\n\n\"The boys they looked mentally tired towards the end, we didn't find that creativity. We can't feel sorry for ourselves. When you are at Man Utd you are privileged because you are playing for the best club in the world. Sometimes you go through periods like this and it is a test I am sure they are going to come through.\"\n\nBurnley manager Sean Dyche, talking to BBC Match of the Day: \"I am very pleased with that. We know it's a tough place to come and it was a good performance from us. We scored two very good goals.\n\n\"They didn't find any killer moments, which was very pleasing. Strong, fit and organised will never go out of fashion.\"\n• None Burnley ended a run of 15 away league matches without a win against Manchester United, tasting victory for the first time since a 5-2 win in September 1962.\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was made permanent manager in March, United have lost more Premier League games (12) than they have won (11).\n• None Manchester United suffered consecutive Premier League defeats for only the second time under Solskjaer, losing back-to-back games for the first time since April 2019.\n• None Burnley manager Sean Dyche has now beaten 27 of the 29 teams he has faced in the Premier League, failing only against Arsenal (9 games) and Sheffield United (1).\n• None Since the start of the 2017-18 season, Burnley striker Chris Wood is one of only 12 players to have scored 30+ Premier League goals (30 in total).\n• None Three of the last seven occasions Manchester United have trailed by at least two goals in a home Premier League game have been against Burnley (also December 2017 and January 2019).\n• None Chris Wood's goal in the 39th minute was Burnley's first goal in the first half of a Premier League game since November, when they scored twice against West Ham.\n\nManchester United will travel to the winner of Thursday's FA Cup third-round replay between Tranmere and Watford on Sunday, 26 January (15:00 GMT) while Burnley host Norwich on Saturday, 25 January (15:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.\n• None Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Mason Greenwood.\n• None Offside, Burnley. Jeff Hendrick tries a through ball, but Jay Rodriguez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Attempt blocked. Luke Shaw (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fred.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Attempt saved. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt saved. Phil Jones (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Juan Mata with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "For many people in China, this is the only time they will get to see their families this year. It's the only public holiday long enough for people to go all the way home if you live a long way away. It's like Christmas in the West.\n\nPeople will be concerned about their health and will know that enjoying yourself at a time of a health crisis is secondary.\n\nI can't remember a time of such disruption during China's biggest holiday. The government will be aware of this. But what they are more aware of is that with the Sars outbreak in 2003, it was criticised for not doing enough quickly enough.\n\nThey don't want to be seen saying \"carry on with the New Year celebrations\" when there is a crisis going on. They would rather cancel events and make sure this crisis is in control rather than face the criticism.", "Morrisons is axing 3,000 management roles as part of a huge restructuring to create more shop floor jobs.\n\nThe firm says it is also creating 7,000 new hourly-paid roles at its 500 stores, meaning a net 4,000 new posts.\n\nThe new jobs will be in customer-facing roles, such as more butchers, bakers, fishmongers, the supermarket said.\n\nMorrisons said the new roles will be a mixture of part and full time posts, but declined to reveal how the numbers will be split.\n\nManagers will be able to move to the new jobs, with the firm saying there will be roles \"for everybody who wants to continue to work at Morrisons\".\n\nDavid Lepley, Morrisons group retail director, said: \"Whilst there will be a short period of uncertainty for some managers affected by these proposals we will be supporting them through this process.\n\n\"There will also be more roles with greater flexibility that are very attractive to colleagues with families.\"\n\nThe company says those in managerial jobs who want to remain working at Morrisons can stay. However, their new offer will be at the shop floor level. Front-line store staff at Morrisons earn £9 an hour.\n\nNews of the restructuring was first reported by Retail Week.\n\nThe big four supermarkets are all making changes to try to stem the flow of shoppers switching allegiance to discount stores.\n\nThey are all hoping to save money on staffing costs in order to be able to offer bigger discounts to shoppers in store. Within the past year Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda have all announced significant job cuts at management level.\n\nHowever, unlike Tesco's job cuts at this point last year, Morrisons are putting more new shop floor workers behind specialist counters.\n\nRather than cutting deli counters, Morrisons are keen for their Market Street sections to help them stand out against the other big players in the supermarket wars.\n\nAll affected stores will have a 45-day consultation period, with the cuts beginning in March.\n\nThe manager jobs at risk include in-store posts, and not office roles, the company said.\n\nJobs such as in-store beer, wine and spirits managers will be combined with other jobs.\n\nMorrisons is not the only supermarket to be cutting management posts. All the big four UK supermarket chains are battling to retain market share amid fierce competition, particularly from discount chains Aldi and Lidl.\n\nEarlier this week, Sainsbury's said it was shedding hundreds of managers at its head office, but did not confirm the number.\n\nSainsbury's said the cuts were being made due to the integration of Argos, which it bought in 2016.\n\nAsda has reportedly begun consultations with more than 2,800 staff over cutbacks. Reports say those working in administrative, cash office and personnel roles have been told their jobs are at risk.", "Live coverage from Washington DC, as President Donald Trump's impeachment trial continues in the Senate.\n\nThe impeachment is in its final stages as senators prepare to cast their final vote on Wednesday, with acquittal almost certain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graphic footage from PC Stuart Outten's body worn camera showed Rodwan punching the officer before grabbing a sharpened machete\n\nA van driver who repeatedly struck a police officer with a machete during a routine traffic stop has been found guilty of wounding with intent.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan attacked PC Stuart Outten, 29, after he was pulled over in Leyton, east London, on 7 August.\n\nThe officer was badly injured and has yet to return to work.\n\nRodwan, 56, of Luton, had claimed he was acting in self defence. He was convicted of wounding with intent but found not guilty of attempted murder.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out to the Old Bailey PC Outten said: \"This incident has changed my life but I hope it has not changed the way I police.\"\n\nRodwan, who has previous convictions for rape and two other machete attacks, was also cleared by the jury of possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nPC Outten suffered several injuries including six wounds to the head\n\nPC Outten suffered six blows to the head from a 2ft-long blade after stopping Rodwan's white van for having no insurance.\n\nThe defendant said he was not aware at the time that the insurance on his van had expired 12 days earlier.\n\nFollowing the attack PC Outten said he counted himself \"very lucky\" to survive, saying \"thankfully\" his head was hard enough to withstand the onslaught.\n\nHe suffered six deep wounds to the head, exposing his skull, slash wounds to his arm, several broken fingers and three severed tendons in one hand.\n\nBleeding heavily from deep gashes to the head and arm the Met Police officer Tasered Rodwan twice before subduing him, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan was convicted of wounding with intent but found not guilty of attempted murder\n\nRodwan told jurors he did not recall punching PC Outten before he was arrested.\n\nIn the struggle, the officer pulled some of Rodwan's dreadlocks out, which was \"extremely painful\", and grabbed his throat, he said.\n\n\"I could not breathe at all,\" Rodwan told his trial.\n\n\"It felt like he cracked my throat, squeezed so hard it felt like it was popping.\"\n\nRodwan said he retrieved his machete from the van but could not remember how many times he hit PC Outten with it before getting out.\n\nHe said: \"I was just trying to hit him to get him away from me.\"\n\nPC Outten suffered six wounds to the head, including a fractured skull\n\nThe defendant said he did not know Pc Outten had a Taser and had raised the machete up to \"try to scare him away from me\".\n\nGraphic footage from the police officer's body worn camera showed Rodwan punching the officer before grabbing a sharpened machete as Pc Outten tried to arrest him.\n\nRodwan had claimed he had the machete in his van for his gardening work.\n\nThe jury was told the defendant had a conviction for rape in 1982.\n\nAnd in 1997 at Snaresbrook Crown Court he was convicted of two offences of wounding with intent for an unprovoked machete attack on a tenant and his friend for which he was sentenced to nine years in prison.\n\nSeveral of Rodwan's dreadlocks were pulled out during the struggle.\n\nAt the time of his arrest last year, Rodwan gave a relative's address in Luton, Bedfordshire, but went on to tell jurors he slept in his van around Waltham Forest.\n\nDuring his trial, Mrs Justice Carr ruled Rodwan's violent past was inadmissible despite jurors asking about previous convictions.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nathan Munson, who led the investigation, said: \"Rodwan was not acting in self-defence on that day - the number of blows, the force of the blows and targeted blows to PC Outten's head proved this.\n\n\"It is reassuring for Londoners to know this violent individual will be unable to cause harm to other members of the emergency services or the wider public.\"\n\nRodwan told jurors he slept in his van around Waltham Forest\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Det Ch Supt Richard Tucker paid tribute to PC Outten, saying: \"He did what I would hope the vast majority of police officers in the country would do.\n\n\"He had the training, he put that into action, notwithstanding he was very, very lucky that day and I'm very, very proud of Stuart.\n\n\"He did an amazing job to apprehend that individual.\"\n\nAccording to figures from the Metropolitan Police, 5,900 officers and staff were attacked between January and December last year, compared to 5,700 in the period between November 2018 and October 2019.\n\nA total of 45% involved some form of injury, and of those, 10% amounted to grievous bodily harm or grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Simpson has appeared in films including The Dukes Of Hazzard and Employee Of The Month\n\nUS singer Jessica Simpson has revealed how being sexually assaulted as a child led to a reliance on drugs and alcohol.\n\nThe 39-year-old had top 10 UK chart hits in the noughties with I Wanna Love You Forever, These Boots Are Made For Walkin' and With You.\n\nIn an excerpt of her new memoir Open Book, published in People magazine, she admitted to self-medicating for years to deal with the \"trauma\".\n\n\"I was killing myself with all the drinking and pills,\" she said.\n\nSimpson quit drinking alcohol in November 2017 when she realised it was \"making things worse\".\n\n\"Giving up the alcohol was easy,\" she went on. \"I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb.\"\n\nThe abuse she suffered began when she was six years old when she shared a bed with the daughter of a family friend.\n\n\"It would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I wanted to tell my parents. I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jessica Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSix years later she plucked up the courage to tell her parents during a car journey. Her mother reacted by slapping her father's arm and yelling: \"I told you something was happening.\"\n\n\"Dad kept his eye on the road and said nothing,\" wrote Simpson.\n\n\"We never stayed at my parents' friends' house again but we also didn't talk about what I had said\".\n\nSimpson found fame as a teenage pop star in the late 1990s before starring in MTV reality series Newlyweds: Nick And Jessica alongside her former husband Nick Lachey.\n\nShe's now married to former American football player Eric Johnson, with whom she has three children.\n\nThe star, who used therapy to allow herself to finally \"feel the traumas\" she'd been through said she'd been on \"a long hard deep emotional journey\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None One in five adults 'experienced abuse as children'", "Louise Lawford admitted animal welfare offences not linked to the missing dogs\n\nA dog walker who said she lost five pets in her care has been banned from keeping animals for five years.\n\nLouise Lawford admitted four animal welfare offences relating to her business Pawford Paws in Birmingham.\n\nProsecutors rejected her claim the dogs ran off - but said they could not prove what happened and had to drop charges relating to the pets' disappearance.\n\nShe was called a \"dog killer\" by someone in the public gallery, which the judge described as \"outrageous\".\n\nBirmingham Magistrates' Court heard Mrs Lawford, from Erdington, had been placed in a position of trust and left customers anguished.\n\nThe fate of the missing \"Tamworth Five\", Ralph, Charlie, Pablo, Maggie and Jack, which disappeared after a walk in Hopwas Woods near Tamworth on 23 June, remains a mystery.\n\nSome of the pets' owners were in court to witness Mrs Lawford being sentenced.\n\n\"The dogs were never found, despite being chipped and there being extensive searches,\" said Jonathan Barker, prosecuting, adding he did not accept Mrs Lawford's account that the dogs got lost in the woods, but could not prove otherwise.\n\nBecky Parsons believes her dogs Pablo and Maggie have died\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the dogs' owners - who say they \"know\" their pets are dead - said they would take civil action against Mrs Lawford.\n\n\"It's a positive outcome because the court just did not believe the dogs were lost,\" one owner Becky Parsons said. \"It just doesn't make sense.\"\n\nShe said the past six months had been \"an emotional rollercoaster\" and that she was so upset at losing her dogs, Pablo and Maggie, that she \"couldn't face going back\" to her house and has had to move.\n\nThe case, brought by Birmingham City Council, has attracted much attention on social media, and Mrs Lawford was called a \"dog killer\" when she left court briefly before sentencing.\n\nPugs Charlie and Ralph were among the dogs that went missing in Tamworth in June\n\nDistrict Judge Joanna Dickens was right to describe this as a \"very strange case\".\n\nThe investigation began when the five dogs vanished, but criminal proceedings ended today and we still don't have any answers. What happened last June remains a mystery.\n\nThe dogs' owners are convinced they're no longer alive, and have their own theories about the circumstances, but we must wait until they bring a civil case against Mrs Lawford before we find out what they think happened.\n\nThe decision not to pursue charges relating to their disappearance may at first seem baffling, but the owners of the \"Tamworth Five\" say it will help their civil case, as it means that the dog-sitter's explanation - that the dogs ran away - hasn't been accepted in a legal setting.\n\nMrs Lawford's legal representatives said she had also been sent anonymous death threats online.\n\nShe said she was suffering \"extreme emotional and physical stress\" when the dogs vanished in Tamworth in June 2019.\n\nShe had separated from her husband in March and suffered a nervous breakdown when she made the \"foolish decision\" to continue her dog-walking duties, the court heard.\n\nThe owners of the missing dogs were in court for sentencing\n\nDescribing it as \"a very strange case\", Judge Joanna Dickens expressed frustration she could not take the disappearance of the dogs into account when sentencing Mrs Lawford.\n\nThe former dog walker, who has already had her licence revoked, admitted breaching conditions including limits on the number of dogs she boarded at any one time, boarding dogs from different homes, as well as failing to seek treatment for the dog with a skin condition.\n\nMrs Lawford's defence said she expressed \"extreme and continuing remorse for what happened to the dogs\".\n\n\"This is well-intentioned but incompetent care,\" her legal representative Tom Walking said.\n\nMrs Lawford apologised for the pain owners of the missing dogs have suffered\n\nThe 49-year-old was fined £800 and banned from owning dogs for five years for breaching her licence conditions and failing to seek treatment for the dog that developed a skin condition while in her care. She must also pay costs of £2,616 and a victim surcharge of £80.\n\nHer sentence means she will have to give up her elderly pet labrador.\n\nBirmingham City Council welcomed the sentence, calling the case \"unusual and upsetting\".\n\n\"Only Mrs Lawford knows the truth of what happened to the five beloved pets placed in her care,\" said Vicky Allwood, the council's senior animal welfare officer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Bercow has \"categorically\" denied accusations of bullying during his time as the Speaker of the Commons.\n\nThe statement comes after his former Clerk of the House, Lord Lisvane, made a formal complaint about him to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.\n\nBut Mr Bercow said he had never \"bullied anyone, anywhere at any time\".\n\nThe former Speaker also criticised the government for failing to nominate him for a peerage.\n\nHe said that, since retiring, it had \"become increasingly obvious that the government has no intention of honouring the centuries-old convention that a departing Speaker is promptly elevated to the House of Lords\".\n\nMr Bercow added: \"Indeed, it has been suggested to me that the government actively seeks to block any other attempt to nominate me for membership of the upper House.\"\n\nThere have been reports that the former Speaker - who previously sat as a Conservative MP - has been nominated for a peerage by the outgoing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut Downing Street said appointments to the House of Lords are \"a matter for house authorities\" and they were \"not aware of a nomination being put forward\".\n\nA No 10 source suggested to the BBC that Mr Bercow's accusation showed a lack of understanding of the process of nominations for a peerage, adding: \"The speaker wasn't always a fan of convention.\"\n\nLord Lisvane, who served as Clerk of the House between 2011 and 2014, confirmed to the BBC he had submitted a formal complaint on Wednesday, which was understood to be centred around bullying.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Mr Bercow - who stood down in 2019 after 10 years in the chair - said his former colleague had \"ample opportunity\" to raise issues in their time working together, adding that the timing of the intervention was \"curious\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, he said: \"I have seen in the media that Lord Lisvane is formally complaining that I bullied staff.\n\n\"For the record, I categorically deny that I have ever bullied anyone, anywhere at any time.\"\n\nMr Bercow has faced other accusations of bullying during his time in office, but has denied all the claims.\n\nNo 10 said the allegations were \"very concerning\" and should be \"investigated thoroughly\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman added: \"There can be no place for bullying or abuse in Westminster or any workplace, and it is important that the parliamentary leadership responds fully and promptly to any concerns which are raised.\"\n\nLord Lisvane began working at the House of Commons in 1972 and has held a number of procedural roles, including clerk for Private Members' Bills and clerk for the European Scrutiny Committee.\n\nThe former Commons clerk, Sir Robert Rogers, adopted the title of Lord Lisvane\n\nHe became Clerk Assistant and Director General of the Chamber and Committee Services in 2009, before stepping up to the Clerk of the House of Commons in 2011.\n\nAfter standing down in 2014, he became a life peer and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.\n\nEarlier, former Leader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom said anyone found to have bullied or harassed colleagues in Parliament \"should not be offered a peerage\".\n\nThe now-business secretary, who clashed with Mr Bercow on a number of occasions in the Commons, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I worked cross-party to put in place a complaints procedure which would mean anybody, whoever they are, including the Speaker of the House of Commons, or indeed of the Lords, would be subject to those same complaints procedures.\n\n\"Specifically, we made sure if you were an MP and you were potentially going to be offered a peerage, that anything that was alleged against you would be taken into account.\n\n\"So, I think it is really important, whoever you are, that all of those complaints are taken seriously.\"", "When Ian Bainbridge's son Ellis was stillborn after 34 weeks, he thought he would at least have time to grieve.\n\nThe tragedy was compounded because negligent medical staff had failed to spot that his partner Lisa was pregnant in the first place. As a result, she nearly died in childbirth.\n\nBut he ended up having to take a day's annual leave just to attend his son's funeral. Otherwise, there was no respite at all from his job.\n\n\"I went to work a complete mess for the next four to six weeks,\" he told the BBC.\n\nNow he welcomes the fact that in future, parents who lose a child will receive two weeks' paid bereavement leave under new government rules.\n\n\"Two weeks isn't much, but looking back on my experience, it would have been a breathing space,\" he says.\n\nThe new law will come into force in April, with the UK being the only country to have that right to time off, MPs said.\n\nIt will be known as Jack's Law, in memory of Jack Herd, whose mother Lucy has been campaigning for reform since he drowned aged 23 months in 2010.\n\nAs the law currently stands, there is no automatic right to paid time off for such bereavement. However, parents of stillborn children are entitled to maternity and paternity leave.\n\nUnder the new law, parents who lose a child under the age of 18 will be able to take leave as either a single block of two weeks, or as two separate blocks of one week each across the first year after the death.\n\nIan, an ex-nurse who worked in social care in Lewisham in south-east London, was responsible for managing 40 carers. He remembers vividly what happened when he broke the news of his loss to his bosses.\n\n\"I rang my line manager and said, 'You won't believe what's happened.' He said, 'I'm sorry to hear that, but I've got no-one to cover for you tomorrow. You're going to have to come in.' Ellis was stillborn at 10pm and I was in work at eight o'clock the next day.\n\n\"I was back answering the telephone, being polite. Inside I was screaming.\"\n\nThe experience took its toll on Ian. He and Lisa split up three years later, he lost all interest in his job and he even contemplated suicide.\n\n\"The only thing that kept me going was I had two children from a previous marriage,\" he said.\n\nNow aged 57, Ian currently lives in Ilford. He has a new partner and they plan to move north to Carlisle.\n\nFive years have gone by since the tragedy. \"It's the old cliche, time is a healer,\" Ian says.\n\nBut he admits that he blamed himself for a long time for what happened: \"I felt very isolated and alone.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lucy Herd successfully campaigned for parents to get paid bereavement leave\n\nAfter talking to her relatives, Lucy Herd, from Cumbria, found that three days was sometimes the maximum leave workplaces offered parents to grieve, she told the BBC.\n\n\"Anything from 24 hours to three days and any extra time taken had to be sick leave or holiday,\" she said.\n\nWhen she spoke to other bereaved parents, she found a gap between what employers were saying and how working parents were treated.\n\n\"More and more people told me they had experienced the same thing. Employers were saying 'take as much time as you need', and they were taking six months off, and it was down on their record as being off sick. They'd come back to a P45 on their desk.\"\n\n\"I had to make a positive out of a negative\" in campaigning for change, she said.\n\nShe would like to see similar rights extended to those grieving any loved one.\n\n\"When I started this it was about everyone's bereavement,\" she said. \"Grief is grief.\"\n\nThe Parental Bereavement (Pay and Leave) Bill received royal assent in 2018, and will now come into force.\n\nThe Conservatives made a commitment in their 2017 general election manifesto to introduce \"a new entitlement to child bereavement leave\".\n\nUnder the new rules, people who have been employed for at least 26 weeks will be entitled to a minimum payment of up to £148 a week during their bereavement leave, depending on the level of their salary.\n\nClea Harmer, chief executive of Sands, a stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said parents also need support after such a traumatic event\n\nClea Harmer, chief executive of Sands, a stillbirth and neonatal death charity, told the BBC the new rules were a good start, but that the time off should be part of broader care for parents who have lost a child.\n\n\"A lot of parents, after the death of a baby or a child, suffer the sort of grief or reaction to grief that needs psychological intervention,\" she said. Time off and support early on can make a big difference, she said.\n\nThe new rules will take effect in April, but as the law stands, there is no automatic right to paid time off for bereavement.\n\nAnother area requiring improvement is breaking the stigma of talking about the death of children, Ms Harmer added.\n\nThe new measures are \"an indication we are doing well\", she said, but \"we could do better\".\n\n\"People don't talk about the death of a baby or a child leaving parents very isolated.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the measures were \"a minimum, and something to build on\".\n\n\"In many cases, businesses are incredibly sympathetic and very supportive of parents who have been bereaved, but what we are saying is, this is the statutory minimum and we would hope and encourage them to offer more than that,\" she said.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said Labour had long-supported the proposal and welcomed its announcement.\n\n\"As set out in our Workers' Rights Manifesto, Labour is calling for bereavement leave for those who have lost a close family member,\" she said.", "John Bercow stood down as Commons Speaker in 2019\n\nA complaint has been made against former Commons Speaker John Bercow by a previous senior adviser.\n\nLord Lisvane, who served as Clerk of the House between 2011 and 2014, said he submitted the formal complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards on Wednesday.\n\nIt is believed to centre on bullying.\n\nMr Bercow, who stood down from his role last year, said Lord Lisvane had \"ample opportunity\" to raise issues in their five years working together.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Bercow said: \"At no stage did he do so, even though he became Clerk of the House - the most senior official. The timing of this intervention is curious.\"\n\nThe former Speaker, who spent 10 years in the role, has faced other accusations of bullying during his time in office, but has denied all the claims.\n\nThere have been reports Mr Bercow - who previously sat as a Conservative MP - has been nominated for a peerage by the outgoing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nNo 10 said the allegations were \"very concerning\" and should be \"investigated thoroughly\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman added: \"There can be no place for bullying or abuse in Westminster or any workplace, and it is important that the parliamentary leadership responds fully and promptly to any concerns which are raised.\"\n\nLord Lisvane began working at the House of Commons in 1972 and has held a number of procedural roles, including clerk for Private Members' Bills and clerk for the European Scrutiny Committee.\n\nThe former Commons clerk, Sir Robert Rogers, adopted the title of Lord Lisvane\n\nHe became Clerk Assistant and Director General of the Chamber and Committee Services in 2009, before stepping up to the Clerk of the House of Commons in 2011.\n\nAfter standing down in 2014, he became a life peer and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.\n\nFormer Leader of the Commons, Andrea Leadsom, said anyone found to have bullied or harassed colleagues in Parliament \"should not be offered a peerage\".\n\nThe now-business secretary, who clashed with Mr Bercow on a number of occasions in the Commons, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I worked cross-party to put in place a complaints procedure which would mean anybody, whoever they are, including the Speaker of the House of Commons, or indeed of the Lords, would be subject to those same complaints procedures.\n\n\"Specifically, we made sure if you were an MP and you were potentially going to be offered a peerage, that anything that was alleged against you would be taken into account.\n\n\"So, I think it is really important, whoever you are, that all of those complaints are taken seriously.\"", "The woman was found with head injuries at a property in Waverley Avenue, Chingford\n\nA man has been arrested after a woman died in what police said was a disturbance at a north London property.\n\nOfficers found the woman with head injuries at a property in Waverley Avenue, Chingford, late on Wednesday.\n\nPolice had been called to the property shortly after 23:30 GMT following reports of a disturbance.\n\nThe victim, who was in her 60s, died at the scene. Officers believe the victim and the arrested man, who is in his 20s, were known to each other.\n\nThe man was arrested at the property.\n\nThe Met Police said detectives believed they knew the identity of the dead woman and were in the process of informing her next of kin.\n\nA post-mortem examination is expected to be held.\n\nWitnesses are being asked to contact police with information.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman believed to be the oldest surviving female World War Two veteran in the UK has died at the age of 108.\n\nAnne Robson, from Duns in the Scottish Borders, joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1942.\n\nThe Women's Royal Army Corps Association (WRACA) described her as a \"true pioneer\" who was \"fiercely independent\".\n\nIt confirmed that Ms Robson - who was living in a care home in Edinburgh - died on Monday evening.\n\nIt is hoped a memorial service will be held in her honour towards the end of February.\n\nBorn Gladys Anne Logan MacWatt on 14 September 1911, Ms Robson trained as a physiotherapist before becoming a teacher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Army This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe joined the ATS in 1942 and rose to the rank of senior commander (major) as an assistant inspector of physical training.\n\n\"I didn't join up right at the beginning of the war - I think it was a couple of years,\" she recalled in an interview in December 2018.\n\n\"They were starting a physical training wing for women.\n\n\"I went in as a private - I thought it was better if I was going to be an officer to know what went on underground.\"\n\nIt is hoped a memorial service can be held for Ms Robson next month\n\nHowever, she said she quickly became an officer.\n\n\"My first posting was London district - the bombing was still going on and I saw the first 'doodlebug' fall,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know what it was but I was looking out of the window and this thing came buzzing along and I had to suddenly dive down.\"\n\nMs Robson remained in service for two years after the war ended before working at the Avery Hill College of Education in London.\n\nShe got married in 1953 and moved to Newcastle where she took up the post of deputy head at the Longbenton Secondary Modern School.\n\nWhen her husband Jack died in 1972 she moved to St Andrews before moving into residential care in Edinburgh.\n\nMs Robson's niece - Katharine Trotter - said her aunt was always happy to talk about her wartime experience but \"never bragged\" about it.\n\n\"She was a very inspiring relative, \" she said.\n\n\"Over the years she had her hardships but never once did I hear her complain.\n\n\"She retained her sense of humour - and I think that is one of the reasons she had so many visitors.\"\n\nThe WRACA added that it was \"extremely proud\" of the charity's association with Ms Robson.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Workers disinfect the Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan, a day before the shutdown\n\nWith two days until the Chinese New Year, the railway station in Wuhan should be buzzing.\n\nAcross the country, millions of people are heading home to see loved ones. But in China's seventh biggest city - home of the coronavirus - most platforms are deserted.\n\nAs of 10:00 on Thursday (02:00 GMT), buses, trains, subways and ferries were stopped from leaving the city.\n\nFlights were also suspended. Roads are not officially closed, but roadblocks have been reported, and residents have been told not to leave.\n\nSo the question is - can you quarantine an entire city? And if you can - does it work?\n\nThermal scanners that detect temperatures of passengers inside the Hankou station in Tuesday\n\nWuhan is a huge place - the 42nd biggest city in the world, according to UN data - and cannot easily be turned into an isolation ward.\n\nMore than 20 major roads come into Wuhan, plus dozens of smaller ones. Even with public transport closed, sealing the city would require a massive military effort.\n\n\"The only way you could do it, realistically, would be to ring-fence the city with the PLA [Chinese military],\" says Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott, a health security expert from the University of Sydney.\n\nBut even if they do it, where - literally - would they draw the line? Like most modern cities, Wuhan sprawls into smaller towns and villages.\n\n\"Cities are shaped in unorthodox ways,\" says Professor Mikhail Prokopenko, a pandemics expert also from the University of Sydney,\n\n\"You can't really block every road and every connection. It may be possible to an extent... but it's not a foolproof measure.\"\n\nGauden Galea, the World Health Organization's representative in China, puts it more bluntly.\n\n\"To my knowledge, trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science,\" he told the Associated Press. \"We cannot at this stage say it will or it will not work.\"\n\nAnd - even if it proves possible to shut the stable door on Wuhan - the horse may already have bolted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Wuhan virus was reported to the WHO on 31 December. It wasn't until 20 January that officials in China confirmed it could be passed human-to-human.\n\nBy that time, tens of thousands of people had been and gone from the city. The virus has since been reported across China and Asia, and even in the US - all in people who had recently been in Wuhan.\n\nBut, even though the virus is spreading worldwide, Prof Kamradt-Scott says the domestic situation is more worrying.\n\n\"In each of the [other] countries where we've seen cases emerge, it's only been one or two, or four in Thailand,\" says Prof Kamradt-Scott.\n\n\"They're very small numbers of cases. It appears they have effectively been caught in time to prevent further transmission locally. So the bigger concern is within China.\"\n\nOf the 571 cases reported by Thursday, 375 were in Hubei province, where Wuhan is the capital. But there were another 26 in Guangdong, 10 in Beijing, plus 38 possible cases in Hong Kong.\n\n\"If the virus is already there, and there's already local community transmission, then the measures in Wuhan are too late,\" says Prof Kamradt-Scott.\n\nProf Prokopenko agrees that the international response has been good. Passengers on the last plane from Wuhan to Sydney, for example, were greeted by biosecurity officials.\n\nThe problem, the professor says, is many people could have the virus and not even know it.\n\n\"There is a difference between infected and infectious,\" he warns.\n\n\"Infected people have a virus in their organism, but they are not yet infectious. They don't show symptoms. They look totally normal until they have already been in contact with other people.\"\n\nThe normal incubation period for flu, he says, is two or three days. But for a coronavirus, it could be five to six days, a week, or even longer.\n\nThat is - someone could have caught the virus last week, taken it across the world, infected others, and still not know they are ill.\n\n\"And when they do start showing symptoms, it may be confused with common cold or flu,\" says Prof Prokopenko. \"That's the difficulty.\"\n\nNone of this means China is wrong to try to contain the virus. The WHO has praised their efforts, and there are some precedents for what experts call \"social distancing\".\n\nIn April 2009, Mexico City shut down bars, cinemas, theatres, football grounds, and even churches in an attempt to stop swine flu. Restaurants were only allowed to serve takeaway food.\n\n\"It did apparently slow the transmission of the virus in Mexico City, and helped authorities get a handle on the situation,\" says Prof Kamradt-Scott. \"Did it stop it completely? No.\"\n\nSo overall, is the Wuhan shutdown worthwhile?\n\n\"China has only been reporting confirmed cases,\" says Prof Kamradt-Scott.\n\n\"On the basis of those numbers [571 cases, with 17 dead], if it was me, I probably wouldn't do it. But if there are thousands of suspected cases, then that would considerably change the equation.\"", "Stormont's five main party leaders have asked that a £1,000 pay rise in MLAs' salaries is \"immediately deferred\".\n\nMLAs' pay is due to rise from £49,500 to £50,500 but the five leaders jointly asked the Assembly Commission to halt this until the decision is reviewed.\n\nStormont's Speaker Alex Maskey has now called commission members to a meeting on Thursday to discuss the issue.\n\nThe current rules on MLAs' salaries and expenses were set by the Independent Financial Review Panel (IFRP) in 2016.\n\nStormont's devolved government collapsed the following year and the panel's members terms later expired, but the IFRP's determination from 2016 still applies.\n\nThat determination provides MLAs with a £500 annual increase to their salaries, but pay rises were blocked while devolution was suspended after a request from the Assembly Commission to the then Secretary of State Karen Bradley.\n\nWith devolution restored, MLAs are due to automatically receive a £1,000 uplift - for the two years they did not get the additional money while Stormont was not running.\n\nHowever, many of the 90 MLAs have said they did not have any input into this decision and have offered to donate the money to charity.\n\nThe assembly sat for the first time in three years on 11 January\n\nIn a joint statement on Wednesday, the five main party leaders said: \"We share the broad public dismay at this development, only a matter of days after the Assembly and institutions have been fully restored.\n\n\"We have had a range of concerns over time around recommendations emerging from the Independent Financial Review Panel.\n\n\"We are jointly asking the Assembly Commission that any pay proposal is immediately deferred until the work of the Financial Review Panel has been comprehensively reviewed, and a new panel has the opportunity to consider this matter again and produce a fresh determination.\n\n\"We recognise that a number of MLAs and parties have indicated if the proposed pay increase cannot be halted, they will donate any additional sum to local causes and charities.\"\n\nOn Wednesday evening, a spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Assembly said: \"The Speaker is mindful of the concerns expressed by the five main political parties in relation to the Independent Financial Review Panel's inflationary increases to MLA salaries arising from its 2016 determination.\n\n\"He has therefore invited Assembly Commission members and those members who are due to be appointed to the commission, to attend a meeting tomorrow afternoon, to discuss how those concerns might be addressed.\"\n\nThe IFRP was established by the Assembly Commission in 2011 to make independent determinations in relation to MLAs' salaries, allowances and pensions.\n\nUnder its 2016 determination, MLAs are due to receive another £500 rise in April 2020, unless the assembly establishes another mechanism to deal with MLA pay.\n\nEarlier, the DUP and Sinn Féin both said they would look at ways to stop the £1,000 pay increase.\n\nSinn Féin vice president Michelle O'Neill said it was \"unjustifiable\".\n\nThe DUP said it was \"totally opposed\" to it, \"in light of the very recent restoration of the assembly\".\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin said they would explore ways to stop or return the pay rise\n\nThe DUP said it supported \"the concept that pay levels should be entirely independent of any MLA input\".\n\nHowever, the statement added: \"We are currently examining options to see whether this rise can be returned and if not then it is the view of our members that they will not keep any additional salary but instead support local causes.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster, Economy Minister Diane Dodds said: \"Whoever thought that this was a good thing to do, at this particular juncture, was way off the mark.\n\n\"It is incredibly unfortunate that this has jarred with the start of what has been quite a positive opening to the assembly.\"\n\nMs O'Neill tweeted on Tuesday that assembly members had \"no input into this decision, nor did they seek it\".\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the party said it was \"actively exploring options to stop it\".\n\n\"If that's not possible then we'll see if the money can be returned to public funds or donated to charity,\" it added.\n\nThis is quite the move by the party leaders.\n\nWhile it's clear they are doing this to try to curtail some of the public ire, how they are going about it might make some uncomfortable.\n\nMLAs stopped having an input into how their pay is set in 2011, when the independent body was established.\n\nUnder the law, it states that the panel should not be \"subject to the direction or control of\" the Northern Ireland Assembly, or the Assembly Commission.\n\nBut this statement is an indication that the politicians want to undo - or at least review - what the panel decided almost four years ago.\n\nThe situation is complicated by fact that the panel members' terms of office were allowed to expire and no action was taken to replace them.\n\nIt is now over to the Assembly Commission - made up of the Speaker and five members from the main parties - to respond.\n\nAll 12 SDLP MLAs said they would be donating their pay rises to charity.\n\nPeople Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll said it was \"a slap in the face to nurses who stood on freezing pickets for months for pay parity, and the civil service staff who are still taking industrial action to get what they deserve\".\n\nMr Butler, the UUP's Chief Whip, said in a Facebook post he would be donating the salary increase to a number of charities.\n\n\"Just for clarity, there is no way to refuse this pay increase. It is automatic. It was not voted on by MLAs,\" he added.\n\nThe Alliance Party said it was \"working with other party leaders to find a means to defer this\".\n\nThe former chair of the IFRP, Pat McCartan, said the determination in the 2016 report still applies.\n\n\"It did provide for a basic salary of an MLA of £49,000 with a less than 1% increase per annum of £500 provided inflation was running at more than 1%,\" he said.\n\n\"Now, when you roll that up, that is why you get the current level of salaries and it is entirely justified through the whole method that we use with job evaluation, pay comparison, and looking at all other legislatures in these islands.\n\n\"These are the lowest paid legislatures, whether they actually legislate or not is a matter for the electorate.\"", "Poland's President Andrzej Duda has snubbed an event at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.\n\nMr Duda complained that he has not been allowed to address the audience, whereas Mr Putin and other leaders will speak.\n\nPrime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told the BBC's Mishal Husain that the decision was a \"disrespect to Poland\".\n\nThe row is the latest escalation a bitter dispute between Russia and Poland over the history of World War Two.", "An emotional support peacock was turned away from Newark airport in 2018\n\nThe US is seeking to limit the kinds of animals that airlines must allow on board for free.\n\nThe Department of Transportation has proposed to restrict that right to dogs that are trained to help people with disabilities.\n\nIt said the plan is a response to concerns that increasing passengers are falsely claiming pets as \"service animals\".\n\nThe proposal is subject to public comment before it goes into effect.\n\nAmong other changes, the proposal would mean that so-called emotional support animals are no longer entitled to the same rights as \"service animals\".\n\nWhile passengers could have psychiatric service animals, that classification would require animals to have training.\n\nUS airlines welcomed the plans. They had called for action, saying a rising number of animals travelling in aeroplane cabins has led to growing complaints and incidents such as biting.\n\n\"Airlines want all passengers and crew to have a safe and comfortable flying experience, and we are confident the proposed rule will go a long way in ensuring a safer and healthier experience for everyone,\" said Nicholas Calio, president of industry lobby Airlines for America.\n\nThe changes, if they move forward, would bring the US closer to the UK, which does not recognise \"emotional support\" animals.\n\nOnly guide dogs, and dogs that help people with disabilities are allowed on British flights.\n\nIn the US, passengers attempting to bring turkeys, peacocks and squirrels inside plane cabins in recent years have drawn attention to the issue and prompted some airlines to tighten their rules on their own.\n\nAmerican Airlines, for example, prohibited flying with frogs, ferrets, hedgehogs and goats, even if they are therapy animals.\n\nDelta noted in 2018 that some passengers \"attempted to fly with comfort turkeys, gliding possums known as sugar gliders, snakes\" and spiders.\n\nThe Department of Transportation proposal would allow airlines to limit the number of animals passengers may bring with them, impose size rules and require paperwork certifying their service animals.\n\nHowever, airlines would not be allowed to refuse transport to service animals based on breed.", "Only about one in 14 crimes reported to police lead to a suspect being charged, official statistics have shown.\n\nCovering the year up to September 2019, the Home Office figures for England and Wales mark a new low, having fallen from about one in seven in 2015.\n\nIt comes as knife crime recorded by police rose by 7% to an all-time high and robberies increased by 12%.\n\nBut homicides - including murder and manslaughter - fell by 6% to 617 deaths, and fatal stabbings fell 20%.\n\nThe proportion of crimes leading to a prosecution in England and Wales has been in continuous decline since 2015, when the figures were first compiled this way.\n\nBetween September 2015 and September 2018, it had fallen from 14% to 8.4%, and it has now dropped again to 7.3% - about one in 14 cases.\n\nIn addition, 1.4% of crimes led to a caution, 2.3% led to an informal warning and 0.1% were \"taken into consideration\" - meaning an offender admitted them as part of another investigation.\n\nYvette Cooper, chair of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said the fall in prosecutions was \"extremely concerning\".\n\n\"The public need to have confidence that the criminal justice system is finding, prosecuting and convicting criminals - so it is a serious problem that fewer crimes are being solved or dealt with,\" she said.\n\nShe said MPs had previously warned that police forces were \"badly overstretched\" and that without additional funding, there would be \"serious consequences for public safety\".\n\nRape had the lowest rate of charges at just 1.4%, while for thefts it was 5.4% and for robberies it was 7.2%.\n\nThe slump in the charging rate is arguably the most worrying feature of these latest statistics.\n\nIt means 13 out of every 14 crimes are not being solved - offenders are still at large and able to commit further offences, fuelling the steady rise in crimes such as robbery.\n\nThere are some tentative signs that the rate of decline may be slowing - it was down only one-tenth of a percentage point in the last three months - and extra government investment in policing and the Crown Prosecution Service will undoubtedly help.\n\nBut low detection levels dent public confidence in police and the criminal justice system, creating a damaging vicious circle in which people are less likely to co-operate with investigations - because they don't believe anything will happen.\n\nCases where the victim does not support criminal proceedings have risen sharply over five years, from 8.7% to 22.9%.\n\nIn 43.4% of cases, no suspect could be identified.\n\nIt comes as separate crime figures show that police recorded 44,771 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in the year to September 2019 - an increase of 7% to a new record high.\n\nHelen Ross, from the Office for National Statistics' Centre for Crime and Justice, said there is a \"mixed picture\" across the country for knife crime and \"overall levels of violence remain steady\".\n\n\"We have also seen the number of homicides where a knife or sharp instrument was used decrease by a fifth, driven by falls in London,\" she said.\n\nThe ONS said that although improvements in the way crime was recorded may have contributed to the 12% rise in robberies, to a total of 82,542 offences, some of the increase is \"likely to reflect a real change\".\n\nThe crime figures exclude Greater Manchester, due to technical issues with recording the data.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales - which is considered better for judging long-term trends - suggests that overall crime rates are broadly stable.\n\nBut the survey shows that fraud rose by 9%, driven by a rise in bank and credit account fraud.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe said he pushed the PM to be \"brave\" in regards to Iran\n\nThe husband of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran said there has been \"no breakthrough\" in efforts to secure her release after talks with Boris Johnson.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe said his wife was being used as a \"chess piece\" in foreign policy and urged the government to be \"tougher\" with Tehran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained for almost four years over spying allegations she denies.\n\nHer five-year-old daughter was also at the meeting at No 10 on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson has previously said he would leave \"no stone unturned\" to help free her.\n\nMr Ratcliffe last met the prime minister when he was foreign secretary in 2017.\n\nThat meeting came shortly after Mr Johnson had to apologise after wrongly suggesting that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been training journalists at the time of her arrest.\n\nShe has always maintained she was in Iran visiting relatives.\n\nThursday's meeting followed the US killing of Iran's top military leader Qasem Soleimani.\n\nHolding the hand of his daughter, Gabriella, outside No 10, Mr Ratcliffe said he urged the prime minister to be \"brave\" in his dealings with Iran - and that relations between two countries must improve.\n\nGabriella was given a toy version of Larry the Downing Street cat during her visit to No 10\n\nMr Johnson is \"personally committed\" to her case, he said, and was \"touched\" when he gave him a wallet that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had made in prison.\n\nBut Mr Ratcliffe added that \"sympathy isn't enough\" and that the prime minister did not apologise for the mistake he made as foreign secretary.\n\n\"I don't stand here hopeful, if I'm honest. I stand here with my wife still in prison and things aren't moving,\" he said.\n\n\"I will think carefully about what I tell her on the phone on Saturday.\"\n\nHe has previously raised concerns that the recent escalation in tensions could make matters worse for his wife.\n\nBefore her arrest Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe lived in London with accountant Mr Ratcliffe\n\nAhead of the meeting, which the foreign secretary also attended, the prime minister's spokesman said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's continued detention was \"inhumane and unacceptable\" and the UK continued to \"take every opportunity\" to raise her case with the Iranian government.\n\nIt comes as the Court of Appeal in London prepares to hear a case that could resolve a decade-long financial dispute between the UK and Iran.\n\nThe dispute is over the interest due on a debt owed by Britain to Tehran for an arms deal in the 1970s that was never fulfilled.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he was told at the meeting that the government is trying to resolve \"other issues\" but that they are \"complicated\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, the couple's MP, Labour's Tulip Siddiq, urged the government to settle the debt with Iran, accusing it of \"unforgiveable\" behaviour.\n\nHowever, Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said the issue was \"extraordinarily difficult\" because the government could not be seen to be paying money to allow the release of people who had been illegally detained.\n\n\"The risk that would cause to other Britons travelling abroad would be very considerable,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\n\"The law must take its course in relation to the money that was deposited here but it would be absolutely wrong to connect the two issues.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 41, remains on medication for depression and on beta blockers - medicines which slow down the heart - for the panic attacks she's been suffering in jail, her husband said.\n\nThe dual national has been detained since 2016, when she took her British-born daughter Gabriella to Iran to visit her parents. She was sentenced to five years in prison for spying.\n\nHer family and the UK government has always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nWhile he was foreign secretary, Mr Johnson mistakenly said that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been in Iran training journalists when she was arrested.\n\nFour days later Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned to an unscheduled court hearing during which Mr Johnson's comments were cited as proof she was engaged in \"propaganda against the regime\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband describes how his daughter Gabriella is coping without her mother", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe US has turned down an extradition request for a woman who is to be charged with causing the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in August which led to the suspect Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence officer, leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said they had taken the news \"in our stride\".\n\nThe Home Office said the decision appeared \"to be a denial of justice\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Seiger said the latest move had been \"factored it into our planning and strategy\".\n\n\"The reality is that this administration, which we say is behaving lawlessly and taking a wrecking ball to one of the greatest alliances in the world, they won't be around forever whereas that extradition request will be,\" he added.\n\n\"We will simply plot and plan for a reasonable administration to come in one day and to reverse this decision.\"\n\nThe US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turned down the extradition request in an email to the UK Government on Thursday evening.\n\nWashington said granting the request would \"render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity\".\n\nThe family's constituency MP Andrea Leadsom is due to meet the US ambassador Woody Johnson in London later to discuss the case.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson previously said the chance of Ms Sacoolas, who is to be charged with causing the death by dangerous driving, ever returning to the UK was very low.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Seiger said \"no reason\" was given by Mr Pompeo in rejecting the extradition request.\n\n\"It's one of the darkest days in the history of this special relationship,\" he said.\n\n\"Boris Johnson wanted to be prime minister, he is now being tested severely.\n\n\"I expect him today to rise to that challenge and come and meet with me and the family and tell us what he's going to do about it.\"\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nThe 42-year-old left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nIn a statement released on behalf of the suspect after she was charged in December, Mrs Sacoolas's lawyers said: \"Anne will not return voluntarily to the United Kingdom to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.\"\n\nHarry Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles is expected to be react fully to the news on Friday\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed in this decision which appears to be a denial of justice\".\n\n\"We are urgently considering our options,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nA statement from the US State Department said: \"At the time the accident occurred, and for the duration of her stay in the UK, the US citizen driver in this case had immunity from criminal jurisdiction.\n\n\"If the United States were to grant the UK's extradition request, it would render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Richford. here with parents Sarah and Tom, died at just seven days old\n\nAt least seven preventable baby deaths may have occurred at one of the largest groups of hospitals in England since 2016, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nSignificant concerns have been raised about maternity services at the trust.\n\nThe heartbroken father of one baby who was stillborn said \"we have to live with it, for the rest of our lives... they've probably forgotten who we are\".\n\nEast Kent NHS Foundation Trust has apologised, saying it has \"not always provided the right standard of care\".\n\nThe trust consists of five hospitals and community clinics and almost 7,000 babies are born there each year.\n\nAn inquest into Harry's death concludes this week\n\nThe trust is likely to be criticised on Friday at the conclusion of an inquest into the death of baby Harry Richford. He was born in November 2017 at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate, but died seven days later after complications with his delivery and aftercare.\n\nAt the start of the inquest, the trust apologised for the care Harry received.\n\nThe BBC has uncovered a series of other preventable deaths and incidents of poor maternity care before and after Harry's case.\n\nArchie Powell died on 14 February 2019, aged four days. The twin brother of Evalene, he became ill shortly after birth. Medics initially treated him for a bowel problem but despite showing all the symptoms, failed to spot he was actually suffering from a common infection, group B streptococcus.\n\nThe delay in treating Archie's infection caused severe brain damage, and he died after being transferred to a neo-natal unit in London.\n\nAn internal investigation by the trust found his death \"potentially avoidable\".\n\n\"We've just got this void in our lives where he should be,\" says Archie's mother, Dawn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dawn and Kevin Powell say the death of their son has left them feeling angry and \"haunted\"\n\nIn the 36th week of pregnancy, her mother became anxious about the baby's slowed movement and went to hospital for monitoring.\n\nBut despite struggling to get a good heart-rate reading on the cardiotocography (CTG) machine, midwives sent her home, saying they were satisfied with what they recorded.\n\nTwo days later, the baby was found to have died when her mother returned to the hospital, insisting on further monitoring.\n\nAn internal investigation found: \"The CTG should have been continued for longer and an ultrasound arranged.\"\n\nTallulah-Rai's father, Nick, is heartbroken: \"We have to live with it, for the rest of our lives. They don't. They've probably forgotten who we are now.\"\n\nThe midwife struggled to find a heart-rate and by the time Hallie-Rae was born, she was in a poor condition. It took 22 minutes to resuscitate her, but irreparable damage had been done.\n\nThe trust accepted the death was preventable and apologised.\n\n\"If she'd been born earlier, she would be here today, she'd have survived. It makes me feel angry that there's so many cases of negligence, that babies are suffering and dying,\" says Hallie-Rae's mother Becca.\n\nWhen his mother called the hospital to say she was in labour, she was told the QEQM maternity unit was closed and she should drive herself to the trust's other hospital, the William Harvey in Ashford, about 38 miles away.\n\nThis was not feasible and midwives were sent to her home, but struggled to deliver the baby and she was transferred by ambulance to QEQM where her son died. Archie's inquest is scheduled for March.\n\nThere were also two stillbirths in 2016:\n\n\"The trust admitted in both of those cases, that had proper care been given in term of the obstetrics and midwifery care, then those children would have survived,\" says Emmalene Bushnell, from Leigh Day solicitors, who acted for both families.\n\nThis is not the first time concerns have been raised about maternity services at an NHS hospital in recent years.\n\nNews that mistakes have been made in Kent which may have led to babies dying comes after scandals at Morecambe Bay and Shrewsbury and Telford.\n\nBut how safe is NHS care? Research shows out of 700,000 births a year in England and Wales around 5,000 babies are stillborn or die before they are a month old.\n\nThis is about a fifth lower than it was a decade ago but remains higher than in a number of other Western countries.\n\nMany are expected because of unavoidable complications. But every year there are around 1,000 unexpected deaths and serious brain injuries.\n\nThe situation has prompted action. In 2015 the government set a target of halving the rate of stillbirths, baby deaths and brain injury by 2030. The target has since been brought forward to 2025.\n\nTo help, the Healthcare Safety Investigations Branch has been tasked with investigating all cases of potentially avoidable harm rather than leaving it to hospitals themselves.\n\nAll this has been welcomed. However, unions argue one of the biggest problems - a lack of staff - has still not been solved.\n\nThe trust has struggled to improve maternity care for years, despite repeatedly being made aware of the problems.\n\nIn 2015, the medical director asked experts from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to review maternity care, amid \"concerns over the working culture\".\n\nTheir review, seen by the BBC, found poor team working in the unit, a number of consultants operating as they saw fit, a lack of performance management of the consultant body and out of date clinical guidelines.\n\nThe trust was placed into special measures in 2014 following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission which rated its care, including maternity services, as inadequate.\n\nSubsequent CQC reports have rated it as Requires Improvement.\n\nEast Kent is one of England's largest hospital trusts\n\nThe trust's extended perinatal mortality rate, the total of stillbirths and those babies who die within 28 days of being born, has been consistently higher than the UK average for every year between 2014 and 2017.\n\nAnd in 2017, the last year for which figures are available, it was the highest in the country of trusts offering comparable maternity services.\n\nIn a lengthy statement to the BBC, the trust did not address any of the cases we highlighted.\n\nInstead it said: \"We have been making changes to improve our maternity service for a number of years.\n\n\"Every baby and every family is important to us. We recognise that we need to improve the speed of change.\n\n\"We express our heartfelt condolences to every family that has lost a loved one and we wholeheartedly apologise to families for whom we could have done things differently.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The risk of coronavirus to UK and Ireland is low\" - Dr Philip Veal, Public Health Agency\n\nA man is being treated at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital for symptoms associated with coronavirus, which has so far caused 18 deaths in China.\n\nThe BBC understands he travelled to Northern Ireland from the city of Wuhan where the infection outbreak began.\n\nIt is believed the man is being treated in an isolation ward as a precautionary measure and results of tests for the virus are due back in 24 hours.\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust has declined to comment.\n\nIt is understood that the patient arrived from Wuhan at the weekend.\n\nThe city is one of two in China which are currently in lockdown to halt the spread of the virus.\n\nThe man being treated in Belfast is believed to have been admitted with a high temperature.\n\nIt is thought clinicians took the immediate step of placing him in isolation following advice from health authorities.\n\nIt is believed the man being treated in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital travelled from Wuhan in China\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) in Northern Ireland said it is keeping abreast of the changing situation around the virus.\n\nDr Philip Veal, PHA consultant in health protection, said people who developed symptoms within two weeks of returning to Northern Ireland from Wuhan should \"not panic\", but contact their GP by telephone.\n\nDr Veal said special measures had been implemented to transfer those most at risk of coronavirus to hospital.\n\n\"We do not expect it to become widely established in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nDr Veal said he would \"strongly recommend\" anyone who has not taken up their offer of a flu jab to get vaccinated.\n\nWorkers disinfect the Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan, a day before the shutdown\n\nWuhan, a city of 11 million people, has gone into lockdown, with planes, trains and public transport in the city suspended.\n\nSimilar measures will take effect in nearby Huanggang, a city of more than seven million, as of midnight.\n\nAny suspected cases have to be isolated and staff dealing with them must wear protective clothes including gloves, masks and goggles.\n\nElderly people and those with underlying health conditions are particularly at risk.", "Eminem said his album was not for people who are \"easily offended or unnerved\"\n\nEminem has responded to the recent criticism of his lyrics, saying his new album was \"not made for the squeamish\".\n\nThe rapper was criticised for the track Unaccommodating, which references the Manchester bomb attack that killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nEminem said some lyrics on the album were \"designed to shock the conscience, which may cause positive action\".\n\nHe added the album is not intended for people who are \"easily offended or unnerved\".\n\nOn the opening song on the album, Eminem raps: \"I'm contemplating yelling 'bombs away' on the game/Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting,\" followed by the sound of an explosion.\n\nIn the statement posted on Twitter, the hip-hop star suggested the offending lyrics had been taken out of context, were not intended to be taken literally, and fitted a broader violent theme across the LP.\n\n\"In today's wonderful world, murder has become so commonplace that we are a society obsessed and fascinated by it. I thought why not make a sport of it, and murder over beats? So before you jump the gun, please allow me to explain.\n\n\"This album was not made for the squeamish. If you are easily offended or unnerved at the screams of bloody murder, this may not be the collection for you. Certain selections have been designed to shock the conscience, which may cause positive action. Unfortunately, darkness has truly fallen upon us.\n\n\"So you see, murder in this instance isn't always literal, nor pleasant. These bars are only meant for the sharpest knives in the drawer. For the victims of this album, may you rest peacefully. For the rest of you, please listen more closely next time. Goodnight!\n\nMusic To Be Murdered By, which is the rapper's 11th album, is battling Manchester band The Courteeners for the number one spot in the UK chart this week.\n\nCourteeners frontman Liam Fray suggested Eminem \"crossed a line\" with the offending song, while Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said the lyrics were \"unnecessarily hurtful\".\n\nEminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has a history of causing controversy with his lyrics.\n\nHis last album, 2018's Kamikaze, was criticised for its use of a homophobic slur on the lead single, Fall.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Since early December, India has witnessed widespread protests against a new citizenship law which many see as anti-Muslim and anti-constitutional.\n\nThe Muslim suburb of Shaheen Bagh in Delhi has become a protest hub, with thousands of women camping out day and night for over a month, making it the longest sit-in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).\n\nThe BBC's Shalu Yadav met three generations of one family who have been attending the protests regularly.", "Fire authorities said there were no survivors in the crash\n\nAn air tanker has crashed in a fireball while fighting bushfires in Australia, killing the three people on board.\n\nOfficials lost contact with the C-130 Hercules plane shortly before 13:30 local time (02:30 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nThe cause of the crash in the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales (NSW) state is not yet known. The victims were American residents.\n\nMore than 80 blazes are raging across the state after hot and windy conditions returned.\n\nThe plane crashed in an active fire zone south of Australia's capital, Canberra, said the NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS).\n\n\"The field reports are that the plane came down, it's crashed and there was a large fireball associated with that crash,\" said Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.\n\nLarge air tankers such as the Hercules C-130 model are crucial to firefighting operations\n\nThe last available flight data showed the aircraft - which is owned by a Canadian company - near Cooma.\n\nThe three crew members have not been identified.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian have expressed condolences for the firefighters' families.\n\n\"Today, again demonstrates the fire season is far from over,\" Ms Berejiklian told reporters on Thursday. Fires in southern Australia are expected to peak in February and continue into April.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gladys Berejiklian This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Scott Morrison This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Fitzsimmons said the experienced and \"well known\" crew had been contracted to Australia to help fight the unprecedented bushfires this season.\n\n\"Our hearts are with all those that are suffering what is the loss of three remarkable, well respected crew that have invested so many decades of their life into firefighting,\" he said.\n\nThe Hercules C-130 water-bombing aircraft had been leased from North American firm Coulson Aviation as part of a seasonal arrangement with state fire authorities.\n\nAll large air tanker aircraft operations had been suspended for the rest of the day pending investigation into the crash, Mr Fitzsimmons said.\n\n\"It was operating as it routinely does with water bombing activities...there is no indication at this stage of what's caused the accident.\"\n\nSince September, Australia has battled a bushfire crisis which has now killed at least 33 people.\n\nMore than 10 million hectares - an area almost the size of England - have been destroyed in blazes. The most affected states have been NSW and Victoria.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bushfires have crippled habitats, but there are also remarkable signs of life", "Spanish authorities are continuing to search for a British man who failed to return from a motorbike ride during bad weather in Ibiza.\n\nBen Garland, 25, originally from Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, was out riding as Storm Gloria swept across the holiday island.\n\nHis motorbike was found after a colleague raised the alarm on Tuesday.\n\nDivers from the Guardia Civil are searching the sea near where he disappeared.\n\nMembers of Mr Garland's family have reportedly travelled to Ibiza, while friends have set up an appeal to raise money for the search.\n\nPlaces such as Barcelona's Port Olímpic marina were hit by Storm Gloria\n\nLocal emergency helpline service 112 Emergency said he disappeared in the Portinatx area on Ibiza's north coast.\n\nA land search is being led by Civil Protection Volunteers employed by the Government of the Balearic Islands.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ✨🪐✨ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Foreign Office says it is supporting Mr Garland's family.\n\nStorm Gloria hit the Spanish Mediterranean coast and islands on Monday and Tuesday, wrecking beach facilities and even covering a town in Catalonia with ocean foam.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Paul Gaultier says goodbye to the runway.\n\nCelebrities have descended on the final fashion show of French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier in Paris, as he bows out after a 50-year career.\n\nBoy George took to a stage studded with models and other stars in a performance to close the Paris Fashion Week event.\n\nGaultier shocked fans when he announced it would be his last haute couture runway last week.\n\nHe said the event, at the city's Théâtre du Châtelet, would be a \"party\" to celebrate his decades in fashion.\n\nGaultier, 67, has dressed stars from Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett to Lady Gaga and Rihanna.\n\nHe designed Madonna's \"cone bra\" corset, which she wore for her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour.\n\nAmerican models Gigi and Bella Hadid appeared on the runway.\n\nThey were joined by fellow US models Dita Von Teese and Karlie Kloss.\n\nVon Teese later appeared with British model Karen Elson alongside Boy George on stage.\n\nCanadian model Winnie Harlow also took to the runway.\n\nOther stars at the Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2020 show included former French first lady Carla Bruni, French singer Chris and American actress and model Larsen Thompson.\n\nCarla Bruni, Chris and Larsen Thompson are among the guests\n\nFrench designer Christian Louboutin - known for his signature red-soled stiletto shoes - was pictured with Lebanese-born British pop singer Mika.\n\nFashion designers Pierre Cardin - Gaultier's former mentor - and Christian Lacroix were also present.\n\nAt the opening of the event in Paris, Gaultier called the outfits on the runway his \"first upcycling haute couture collection\" and urged the audience to recycle their clothes.\n\nLast year he criticised what he called \"ridiculous\" fashion waste, saying big fashion brands are harming the planet by producing \"far too many collections with far too many clothes\".\n\n\"In my first show and this, my last, there are creations made with the jeans I've worn,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the most beautiful of materials. Like a lot of humans, it becomes even more beautiful as it gets older.\"\n\nHe added: \"Goodbye to the spanking new, hello to the spanking old!\"\n\nThe event comes less than a week after Gaultier tweeted a video announcing that this runway would be his last.\n\n\"It's going to be quite a party with many of my friends, and we're going to have fun until very, very late,\" he said.\n\nAhead of the show, Von Teese posted on Instagram that some of his \"legendary muses\" would be taking part.\n\nShe predicted it would be an \"emotional night\" and, in an earlier post, wrote: \"I'm so grateful to have been part of the story.\"\n\nCanadian model Coco Rocha tweeted that it was \"surreal\" that this would be Gaultier's last show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAmerican actress and model Kat Graham described him as her \"fashion idol\".\n\n\"JPG was the first big design house to dress me, to believe in me,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Thank you JPG for showing me and the world that it's more than ok to be authentically yourself, and to go against the grain.\"", "The Yangtze (brown) and Han rivers (blue) merge in Wuhan\n\nWuhan may not be a well-known Chinese mega-city like Beijing or Shanghai.\n\nBut the place where the coronavirus outbreak emerged is, in fact, a crowded metropolis with connections to every part of the globe.\n\nEstimates vary on the exact size of the population, with local government officials putting the figure at 11 million, though UN data from 2018 says 8.9 million people live in the central Chinese city.\n\nEither way, the city is around the same size as London, but much bigger than Washington DC.\n\nOne estimate makes it the 42nd biggest city in the world, and the seventh biggest in China.\n\nAnd it's the size - and economic clout - of Wuhan that explains why the virus has travelled quickly across Asia, and even to the US.\n\nIn short, the virus has spread so widely because lots of people visit Wuhan and take the virus home with them.\n\nWuhan was a host city for the 2019 Basketball World Cup - including this match between Argentina and Nigeria\n\nWuhan international airport handled 20 million passengers in 2016, and offers direct flights to London, Paris, Dubai, and other cities around the world.\n\nThe city is built along the Yangtze river and, according to its website, it is a \"foundation of in both hi-tech manufacturing and traditional manufacturing\".\n\nIt has a series of industrial zones, 52 \"institutions of higher learning\", and claims more than 700,000 students - including, reportedly, the largest number of undergraduates in the country.\n\nSome 230 of the world's 500 biggest companies (as measured by the Fortune Global list) have invested there.\n\nThere is also notable investment from France - which had a foreign concession in Hankou, in today's Wuhan, between 1886 and 1943. More than 100 French firms have invested in the city and Peugeot-Citroen has a Chinese joint-venture plant there.\n\nWuhan can also serve as a gateway to the Three Gorges - a tourist region and home to a huge hydroelectric dam.\n\nSo, although the coronavirus originated in a local seafood market, the flow of people in and out of Wuhan has ensured its spread.\n\nThe US patient, for example, had recently visited Wuhan, as had both Japanese patients. The Korean patient lived there. The case in Thailand is a Chinese tourist from Wuhan.\n\nThe huge flow of people in and out of Wuhan will only increase as Chinese New Year approaches, and millions of people return home to celebrate.\n\nChina's National Health Commission said travellers should avoid Wuhan, and that Wuhan residents should not leave the city.\n\nBut Wuhan's status as one of the biggest - and most connected - places in the world means international cases will almost certainly continue to emerge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A small government agency is supporting fossil fuel projects abroad with estimated carbon emissions of a country the size of Portugal, it has emerged.\n\nUK Export Finance (UKEF), a government agency in the Department for International Trade, is spending billions of pounds on the projects, Newsnight researchers have found.\n\nThis is despite a government commitment to cut down on carbon emissions.\n\nThe organisation, which describes itself as a forum for conservatives who support conservation and decarbonisation, said funding the projects was \"a blemish on the UK government's record on climate change\".\n\nAn investigation by Newsnight, in conjunction with Unearthed - Greenpeace's investigations unit - found that UKEF has helped to finance oil and gas projects that, when complete, will emit 69 million tonnes of carbon a year, according to government estimates.\n\nThat's nearly a sixth of the total annual carbon emissions of the UK.\n\nThe government calculated the UK's total emissions to be 449 million tonnes of C02e (carbon dioxide equivalent) in 2018.\n\nIt said the 69 million tonne estimate was a \"worst case\" scenario - and the emissions of the projects may be lower when the projects are operational.\n\nThe UK is just one of a number of backers for these projects.\n\nUKEF was set up a century ago - and aims to support British businesses abroad.\n\nEarlier this week, Boris Johnson announced that the UK would no longer finance coal mining or coal-fired power plants abroad.\n\nNewsnight's investigation found all of UKEF's current fossil fuel financing was for oil and gas projects, and not coal.\n\nNewsnight research also found that - since 2010 - UKEF has financed £6bn of fossil fuel projects. Financing has been provided to some of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world.\n\nThe projects that UKEF helps to fund abroad include oil refineries, power plants and liquefied gas extraction.\n\nLast year, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) published a report criticising UKEF as an \"elephant in the room undermining the UK's international climate and development targets\".\n\nKerry McCarthy MP, a Labour member of the EAC said: \"It's ludicrous that we would be funding something overseas, that we are purporting to be moving away from in our own country.\n\n\"There's just a complete disconnect, there's complete hypocrisy, that we boast of cleaning up our own act, but actually we are enabling other countries to carry on polluting.\"\n\nUKEF told Newsnight: \"We are committed to working with countries across the world to unlock their renewable energy potential and support their transition away from fossil fuels to cleaner alternatives.\"\n\nAs well as investments in fossil fuels UKEF has also financed some renewable projects.\n\nThe CEN's Sam Hall said the government needed to solve the issue of what UKEF funds before COP26 - an international climate change conference due to be held in Glasgow in November this year.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The New England Journal of Medicine/Dr Pier Paolo The black, shiny fragments are believed to be the glassy remains of a man's brain\n\nExtreme heat from the Mount Vesuvius eruption in Italy was so immense it turned one victim's brain into glass, a study has suggested.\n\nThe volcano erupted in 79 AD, killing thousands and destroying Roman settlements near modern-day Naples.\n\nThe town of Herculaneum was buried by volcanic matter, entombing some of its residents.\n\nA team of researchers has been studying the remains of one victim, unearthed at the town in the 1960s.\n\nA study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, said fragments of a glassy, black material were extracted from the victim's skull.\n\nResearchers behind the study believe the black material is the vitrified remains of the man's brain.\n\nHerculaneum, pictured here, was buried by volcanic matter from the Vesuvius eruption\n\nVitrification, the study says, is the process by which material is burned at a high heat and cooled rapidly, turning it into glass or a glaze.\n\n\"The preservation of ancient brain remains is an extremely rare find,\" said Dr Pier Paola Petrone, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Naples Federico II and lead author of the study.\n\n\"This is the first ever discovery of ancient human brain remains vitrified by heat.\"\n\nVitrification is the process by which material turns to glass\n\nThe victim, believed to be a man in his mid-20s, was \"found lying on a wooden bed, buried by volcanic ash\" at Herculaneum. He was probably killed instantly by the eruption, Dr Petrone said.\n\nAnalysis of charred wood found near the body showed a maximum temperature of 520C was reached.\n\nThe New England Journal of Medicine/Dr Pier Paolo The victim was \"found lying on a wooden bed, buried by volcanic ash\" at Herculaneum\n\nThis suggests \"extreme radiant heat was able to ignite body fat and vaporise soft tissues\", before a \"rapid drop in temperature\", the report says.\n\n\"The detection of glassy material from the victim's head, of proteins expressed in human brain, and of fatty acids found in human hair indicates the thermally induced preservation of vitrified human brain tissue,\" the study says.\n\nThe glassy material was not found in other locations at the archaeological site.\n\nDuring the eruption of Vesuvius, Herculaneum was buried by pyroclastic flows, fast-moving currents of rock fragments, ash and hot gases.\n\nThat volcanic matter carbonised and preserved parts of the town, including the skeletons of residents who were unable to flee.\n\nArchaeologists have been investigating the remains of Herculaneum, and Pompeii - the other famous Roman settlement destroyed by Vesuvius - for centuries.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's march to the Premier League title continued as Roberto Firmino's late winner at Wolverhampton Wanderers gave them the victory that extends their lead at the top to 16 points with a game in hand.\n\nWolves can consider themselves unfortunate to be the victims of Liverpool's 22nd win in 23 league games after making life as uncomfortable as anyone has for Jurgen Klopp's side this season before Firmino ensured Liverpool took another significant step towards their first title in 30 years.\n\nReds captain Jordan Henderson headed them in front from Trent Alexander-Arnold's corner after eight minutes but Wolves drew level six minutes after the break when Raul Jimenez glanced in Adama Traore's cross.\n\nIt was the first goal Liverpool - who lost Sadio Mane to a muscle injury in the first half - had conceded in the league for more than 12 hours and it required important saves from goalkeeper Alisson to keep out Traore and Jimenez as Wolves pressed.\n\nLiverpool, as ever, carried a huge threat and Firmino drilled home the winner with six minutes left - although substitute Diogo Jota then wasted a glorious chance to give Wolves a point in stoppage time.\n\nThe Reds, who have won their past 14 league games, are the third team to go 40 games unbeaten in the Premier League.\n\nLiverpool were arguably put under more pressure here at a vibrant Molineux than at any time in the Premier League this season - but the champions-elect did what champions do and found a way to get the job done.\n\nAfter Wolves equalised, and with the dangerous Traore moving through the gears, there was the possibility that Liverpool could lose their first league game in more than a year.\n\nThis, however, is a team that has forgotten how to draw never mind lose and even though it came against the run of play, it was no great surprise when Firmino made the decisive late contribution.\n\nAnd at the heart of it all was captain Henderson, unsung for so long but now in the best form of his career.\n\nHenderson delivered a collector's item with that header from a corner but it was his more customary attributes that helped his team through periods of suffering in the second half, although he also delivered the crucial pass for Firmino's winner. He was constantly available and always urging his team-mates to greater efforts.\n\nHe has grown in stature, along with Liverpool, in these last two seasons and is now the heartbeat of this outstanding team.\n\nHis influence is increasingly recognised and he was the driving force as Liverpool ground out a win in such a difficult environment.\n\nWolves are here to stay\n\nWolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo and his players understandably cut dejected figures at the final whistle, denied so late on as they pushed to become only the second team after Manchester United to take points off Liverpool this season.\n\nWhen that disappointment subsides, they can look back with pride on a performance that produced further evidence of what has been rebuilt at this famous old club.\n\nWolves were organised, played without fear, and in Jimenez and Traore possess a huge threat to back up their many qualities elsewhere.\n\nTraore's power and pace gave Andrew Robertson a very uncomfortable night while Jimenez has developed into a striker of the highest class.\n\nIt is all played out in Molineux's atmospheric arena, where the Wolves fans are revelling in what is being produced - and so they should.\n\nWolves can now regard themselves rightfully as a force in the Premier League. They are entertaining and superbly coached. This is a team that is here to stay in the upper reaches.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to BBC Sport: \"We changed the system two or three times, we calmed it down. We had incredible chances in the first half and then at the end it was a magic moment from Bobby.\n\n\"The boys are human. It was a little bit up and down. We had discussion on the pitch, there was stuff to improve but set-pieces can bring us back in the game, a good bit of skill can bring us back in the game. Wolves were really strong but it's clear we could settle again.\n\n\"You just have to find a way to win and have someone who makes the perfect decision and that was Bobby again.\"\n\nWolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo to BBC Sport: \"It was a good game. We played well. There is nothing to be disappointed about. Getting the momentum was important.\n\n\"We defended well, we were well organised. This is what we want. We want to compete and keep on growing.\n\n\"We had in the last moment of the game [the chance to equalise]. It's about creating. Things will come naturally.\n\n\"I'm happy when we perform well. We faced a fantastic team. This is the standards we want.\"\n\nMost points after 23 games ever - match stats\n• None Liverpool have amassed 67 points from a possible 69 this season - five more than any side in English top-flight history have after 23 games.\n• None Raul Jimenez's goal for Wolves ended a run of 725 minutes without conceding a Premier League goal for Liverpool since Richarlison scored for Everton at Anfield exactly 50 days ago.\n• None Jimenez is the third Premier League player to net 20 or more goals in all competitions this season, after Sergio Aguero (21) and Raheem Sterling (20).\n• None Wolves duo Adama Traore and Jimenez have combined for eight Premier League goals this season, more than any other partnership in the competition.\n• None Wolves have lost four consecutive home league games against Liverpool for the very first time.\n• None Liverpool are the first club to win three top-flight games on a Thursday in the same season since Leicester City in 1933-34.\n• None Wolves have conceded the first goal in 17 of their 24 Premier League games this season, including each of their last eight in a row.\n• None Jordan Henderson has scored more than once in the same season for Liverpool for the first time since 2015-16. Five of his last six goals for the Reds have come away from home.\n• None Since the start of last season, Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold has assisted 22 Premier League goals, at least five more than any other player, with 10 of those coming from dead balls, also a league-high.\n• None Roberto Firmino has scored six goals in his last eight games for Liverpool, as many as he had in his previous 32. All 10 of his goals this season have come away from Anfield.\n\nLiverpool play three times before Wolves' next game. The Reds visit Shrewsbury in the FA Cup fourth round on Sunday (17:00 GMT), and go to West Ham next Wednesday (19:45) in their Premier League game in hand.\n\nKlopp's side then host Southampton on Saturday, 1 February (15:00), with Wolves visiting European rivals Manchester United at 17:30.\n• None Attempt missed. Diogo Jota (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from very close range is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Raúl Jiménez.\n• None Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Liverpool 2. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Diogo Jota (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Leander Dendoncker tries a through ball, but Jonny is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Tesla has displaced Volkswagen as the world's second most valuable carmaker, after a dramatic rise in share price pushed its market value to more than $100bn (£76.1bn).\n\nThe milestone sets the stage for chief Elon Musk to collect billions in pay tied to hitting that target.\n\nTesla's share price has more than doubled since October, when the firm reported a rare quarterly profit.\n\nShares rose 4% on Wednesday, making its valuation second only to Toyota.\n\nAlthough Mr Musk's company has some way to go to catch up with the Japanese car making giant. Toyota has a stock market valuation of more than $230bn.\n\nSome analysts say the rise in price reflects Tesla's performance in recent months, during which it has opened a factory in Shanghai and met its production goals.\n\nThis month, Tesla said it had delivered more than 367,500 cars last year - up 50% from 2018. Investors expect the new factory to act as a springboard that will allow it to capture more of the Chinese market.\n\nDespite the increase, Tesla's sales remain small compared to those of its competitors.\n\nTesla has also never made an annual profit and it is facing investigations after complaints about battery fires and unexpected acceleration.\n\nThe company is due to report its latest quarterly results to investors this month.\n\nIf Tesla sustains the $100bn valuation, it could unlock the first piece of a $2.6bn compensation package for Mr Musk.\n\nThe plans calls for Mr Musk to receive payouts in shares over 10 years, with the first award contingent on the firm reaching $100bn in market capitalisation and sustaining that value over both a month, and six-month average.\n\nTesla also had to reach $20bn in revenue and earn $1.5bn, after adjusting for items like taxes - thresholds the carmaker reached in 2018.\n\nTesla was valued at about $55bn when the pay deal was approved.", "Teesside has been struck by an earthquake of 3.0 magnitude which woke people up and caused homes to shake.\n\nThe tremor was felt across Stockton, Billingham, Hartlepool, Wolviston and Middlesbrough just before 06:00 GMT.\n\nPeople posted on social media to say they heard a rumbling or felt their houses shake. Emergency services said they received calls but there were no reports of damage.\n\nThe website Earthquake Track said it was six miles (10km) beneath Stockton.\n\nThe tremor was felt just before 06:00 GMT\n\nCleveland Police said it had received about 15 reports of the earthquake, with officers called out to several different areas.\n\nThe force said no-one was injured.\n\nThe magnitude of the earthquake was first estimated as 2.8 by the United States Geological Survey but raised to 3.0 by the British Geological Survey following local analysis.\n\nSeismologist Glen Ford described it as a \"typical British earthquake\" - strong enough to knock over ornaments, but of the kind you would expect to see three times a year.\n\n\"The UK is criss-crossed with many old tectonic plates, you get the stresses built up on them and these small earthquakes get released,\" he said.\n\n\"There are about 200 a year actually but only about 10% of them are felt by the general public so that's why when they happen they really startle people.\n\n\"This one occurred just under a heavily-populated area so many thousands of people felt it.\n\n\"In world terms it's absolutely tiny, but with its timing... people were just starting to come awake so it's rather alarming - gets them out of bed quite early.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Geological Survey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome people reported being woken up by it, and one person said: \"The whole house shook and the electricity flickered.\"\n\nOne Stockton resident called Jason told BBC Tees: \"There was a loud rumble, the door under the stairs popped open and then the house shook quite violently.\n\n\"It was quite an interesting way to wake up.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None How bad can earthquakes be in the UK?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People should cut the amount of beef, lamb and dairy produce they eat by a fifth to combat climate change, a report says.\n\nIt says public bodies should lead the way by offering plant-based options with all meals.\n\nBut it says if people don’t cut consumption willingly, taxes on meat and dairy might be needed.\n\nThe report comes from the government’s official advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).\n\nIts chief executive Chris Stark told BBC News: “We can't meet the government's 2050 Net Zero target without major changes in the way we use the land, the way we farm, and what we eat.”\n\nThe farming union NFU welcomed much of the report, although they oppose cuts in livestock - but some environmentalists believe it's too timid.\n\nThe document recommends a host of measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the countryside.\n\nOthers include increasing UK forestry cover from 13% to at least 17% by 2050, and restoring at least half of upland peat bogs.\n\nBut it’s the proposals for reducing consumption of dairy produce and red meat that are likely to draw attention.\n\nThe authors say reducing the amount of beef, lamb and dairy we eat by at least 20%, and reducing food waste by 20% would save the equivalent of seven million tonnes of CO2 from farms.\n\nThey say land that’s no longer needed for cattle and sheep could support trees crops to burn for energy.\n\nThe authors anticipate around a 10% drop in cattle and sheep numbers by 2050 against 2017 levels. They say there's already been a reduction of around 20% in the past two decades.\n\nSome upland farmers argue that on thin soils, the only productive use of the land is for livestock.\n\nMinette Batters, NFU President said: \"Plant-based products do not always necessarily have a lower impact on the environment.\n\n\"Of British land, 65% is only suitable for grazing livestock and we have the right climate to produce high quality red meat and dairy. Therefore it makes sense that, when talking about environmental impact, the public continues to support British livestock production.\"\n\nThe report says: “Grasslands can have a positive impact on soil quality (by storing carbon in the soil) but grassland cannot continuously increase its carbon store.\n\n“This means grassland cannot be used continually to offset methane emissions from livestock.”\n\nThe broad-ranging document also says farmers must use fertilisers more intelligently. They should deal with animal manure better, and reduce food waste.\n\nThe report urges a ban on regular burning on peatland, and a ban on peat extraction.\n\nControversially, the committee recommends expanding crops grown to be burned for energy to around 23,000 hectares each year.\n\nThis is resisted by food charities such as the Sustain Alliance. Its spokesperson Vicki Hird said: “The emphasis on energy crops to feed power plants is dangerous – it could damage biodiversity and ecosystems as well as our food security.”\n\nNew forests could be funded by aviation levies\n\nThe Committee says land use – that’s farms, forests and peatland – accounted for 12% of total UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2017.\n\nBut by 2050, it says, farmers and land-managers must reduce these emissions by almost two thirds for the UK to meet its targets.\n\nNew forests, it urges, should be funded by a levy on greenhouse gas-emitting industries such as aviation.\n\nIncreasing forestry, the report says, will provide woods for recreation, clean the air, filter water and capture flood waters on the land.\n\nThe re-wilding campaigner George Monbiot said the report contained “feeble half-measures”.\n\nHe said: \"The level of ambition is in no way matched to the scale of our climate and ecological emergencies.\n\n\"People in the UK are already reducing their red meat consumption.\n\n\"A 10% reduction in cattle and sheep numbers by 2050 is likely to be much smaller than the shift that's going to happen anyway, without the help of the measures the committee proposes.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour needs to sell a message of aspiration to voters, says Long-Bailey\n\nLabour had \"a great set of policies\" at the general election but got its \"messaging\" wrong, Rebecca Long-Bailey has told the BBC.\n\n\"We should have been talking about aspiration,\" the Labour leadership contender said, but too often talked about \"handouts\" instead.\n\nShe said she had the ability to sell \"a positive vision\" and \"hope for the future\" that wins elections.\n\nThe race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn is down to four after Jess Phillips quit.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy have made it on the final leadership ballot, after securing the necessary trade union and affiliated group support.\n\nEmily Thornberry and Mrs Long-Bailey have yet to reach the threshold.\n\nMs Phillips said she would be happy with either Ms Nandy or Sir Keir as leader, but argued that Mrs Long-Bailey would be the wrong choice for Labour at this moment.\n\nMr Corbyn announced he would be standing down after Labour suffered its worst defeat, in terms of seats, since 1935 in December's election.\n\nBut Mrs Long-Bailey - whose campaign is backed by grassroots organisation Momentum - refused to blame the party's manifesto, saying she was \"proud\" of the policies in it.\n\nLabour's \"compromise position\" on Brexit \"didn't satisfy our communities and meant that we weren't trusted,\" she told the BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nAnd, she added: \"We didn't tackle anti-Semitism and we weren't trusted to deal with that issue within our own party.\"\n\nThe manifesto policies - which included nationalising utilities and a big increase in tax-funded public spending - were not drawn together into an \"overarching narrative\" that chimed with the electorate, she said.\n\n\"Our messaging really didn't resonate with voters. We should have been talking about aspiration and how all of the things within our manifesto would improve your life, would improve the outcome for businesses in our areas, but we didn't say that.\n\n\"Quite often we talked about handouts and how we will help people, rather than providing that broad positive vision of the future.\"\n\nShe said Labour had a history of talking \"about how bad the Conservatives are\" without \"showing that real vision and hope for the future\".\n\n\"That's what wins general elections, showing that real vision and hope for the future. And I know that I can do that and that's why I'm standing to be the leader of the party.\"\n\nThe shadow business secretary said Labour did not do enough to \"sell\" her flagship policy, the Green Industrial Revolution, which she said \"would have transformed our economy and delivered investment in regions and nations\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Whoever becomes leader, we have to reunite the party to make sure that we're unified in the message that we're putting forward. But we had many of the right answers to the right questions.\"\n\nShe also hit back at claims she was not forceful enough to be prime minister.\n\n\"I'm not shy. I mean, I have spent last four years, you know, locked in a room developing many of the policies that we've been trying to push forward as a party, but I don't think you could ever describe me as shy.\"\n\nShe said she believed her \"forensic approach\" to politics would be a challenge to Boris Johnson, whom she described as having \"a bit of a struggling relationship with the truth and with detail\".\n\nOn the prospect of being PM herself one day, she said she could picture herself living in 10 Downing Street, \"chilling out\" in her pyjamas on a Friday night, with \"Netflix and a Chinese takeaway\".\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Mrs Long-Bailey was asked whether she had any Conservative friends in Parliament.\n\n\"Not really, no,\" she replied, but added: \"I'm friendly to everyone.\"\n\nShe said her non-political friends would not tell her if they supported the Tories \"because I'd be angry\".\n\nShe also reiterated her belief that women had a \"right to choose\" when it came to abortion and she was not in favour of changing the law, after a row over comments she made to Catholic priests during the general election.\n\nAnd she backed a change in the law to allow transgender people to self-identify without the need for medical evidence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nLabour's manifesto committed to reform of the Gender Recognition Act to allow self-identification, but critics warn it will make it easier for someone born as a man but now identifying as a woman to gain access to women-only spaces such as toilets, changing rooms, prisons and domestic violence refuges.\n\nAsked whether she had any concerns about the policy, Mrs Long-Bailey said she understood the arguments, but Labour must \"fully support our trans community\".\n\nLaura Kuenssberg interviewed Sir Keir last week and is aiming to interview Ms Thornberry and Ms Nandy in the coming weeks.", "About 1,500 people work at the Port Talbot plant\n\nPart of a steelworks factory had to be evacuated after an unexploded World War Two bomb was found.\n\nThe shell was unearthed during construction work at Tata Steel's Port Talbot plant at 15:30 GMT on Thursday.\n\nOrdnance bomb disposal officers have removed the device and a cordon put in place has now been removed, South Wales Police said.\n\nA Tata spokesman said construction workers were evacuated from the site, though production was not affected.\n\nHe added: \"Builders working on the site discovered what appeared to be unexploded ordnance from the Second World War.\n\n\"The emergency services were alerted, an area around the discovery evacuated and made safe, and the bomb disposal service informed.\"\n\nAbout 1,500 people are employed at the site, though it is not yet clear how many were working at the time or how many were evacuated.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the temporary evacuation was a precaution and the site has now reopened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Heads of the Valleys dualling \"has been hell'\n\nThe completion date for widening parts of a major road - which is already £54m over budget - is being reviewed.\n\nWork on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road from Brynmawr in Blaenau Gwent to Gilwern, Monmouthshire, was originally due to finish by the end of 2019.\n\nBut a row between contractor Costain and the Welsh Government over costs could push the date back again to 2021.\n\nResident Mark Cottle said villagers had suffered years of noise and dust but that had \"eased off\" now.\n\n\"What hasn't is traffic being diverted down country lanes, articulated trucks through spaces wide enough for cars.\n\n\"Walls knocked down, trees demolished,\" he said.\n\nHe described \"chaos on the roads\" and said he was not sure the project would bring long-term benefits.\n\nThe road is set to cost an extra £54m\n\nThe Welsh Government and contractor are at loggerheads over who is responsible for design information of the A465.\n\nThis relates to the allocation of risk - or what happens if things go wrong.\n\nInitially, a judge ruled in favour of Costain, but this went to arbitration where it was decided responsibility should be split.\n\nThe company said the decision would wipe out half of its annual underlying operating profits - from £38m-£42m to £17m-£19m - and would mean the completion date being delayed until the first half of 2021.\n\nLawyer Stuart Pearson, who specialises in large infrastructure projects, said the area contained a specific type of rock that creates \"difficult ground conditions\".\n\nHe said it was \"a very difficult balance\" working out who should take responsibility.\n\nGilwern residents say weekend A465 closures mean drivers cut through their village, causing damage to vehicles and walls\n\nCostain's chief executive Alex Vaughan said: \"Clearly the situation regarding the A465 contract is disappointing.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the cost of the project was still £324m.\n\nA spokesman said details of the arbitration and adjudication are \"commercial in confidence\" and would not be released.\n\n\"We are reviewing how the project can be concluded within the terms of the contract,\" he added.\n\n\"This review is nearing completion and the minister will make a further statement in due course.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's finance spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said there needed to be \"transparency\" on the issue.\n\n\"We need to have all the details, we need to know what has happened, we need to know the basis of decisions that have been made prior to and as a result of the arbitration.\n\n\"What I'm concerned about here is the use of public money and the need to make sure that public money is spent well.\"", "A medical examiner has ruled Juice WRLD died after an accidental overdose of powerful painkillers.\n\nThe rapper - whose real name is Jarad A. Higgins - died in December 2019 at the age of 21 after having a seizure.\n\nThe Cook County Medical Examiner's Office says: \"Higgins died as a result of oxycodone and codeine toxicity,\" and \"the manner of death is accident.\"\n\nThese drugs are used to treat severe pain and contain opioids - they've been linked to an opioid crisis in the US.\n\nJuice WRLD suffered a seizure during a police search of his private jet when it landed in at Chicago airport and later died in hospital.\n\nOfficers said at the time they found guns and drugs on his jet after receiving information that banned substances might be onboard.\n\nThe Cook County Medical Examiner's Office shared their findings on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cook County ME This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by Cook County ME\n\nJuice WRLD was best-known for his viral 2018 hit Lucid Dreams and often talked about mental health, dying and drugs in his music.\n\nDeaths of other music artists in the US have also been linked to opioids.\n\nIn 2017, Lil Peep suffered an accidental overdose of fentanyl and anti-anxiety drug Xanax.\n\nFentanyl is a powerful painkiller that tends to be cheaper and more potent than heroin.\n\nThe singer Prince had taken fentanyl before his death in 2016.\n\nA coroner ruled Mac Miller died as a result of an accidental overdose involving cocaine, fentanyl and alcohol in 2018.\n\nA lot of rappers have talked about popping pills like Xanax in their songs.\n\nJuice WRLD had just celebrated his 21st birthday before his death in December 2019.\n\nJuice Wrld was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1998 - he was raised by his single mother and she is described as a religious and conservative woman who didn't allow him to listen to hip hop.\n\nHe started rapping in school but rose to fame in 2018, when single Lucid Dreams peaked at No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No.10 on the official UK chart.\n\nOne of his songs, Legends, was dedicated to 20-year-old XXXTentacion and 21-year-old Lil Peep - who died in 2018 and 2017 - and contained the lyrics \"all the legends seem to die out\".\n\nIn 2018, Juice WRLD talked about using cannabis and Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication, in an interview with the New York Times.\n\nIn other interviews, he spoke about his use of lean, a liquid mix containing prescription-strength cough syrup and soft drinks.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"She is the bravest woman I know\"\n\nA woman who lost her legs after cancer treatment wants to \"come home\" - but faces being moved 35 miles away.\n\nBetty Pugh, 60, has been treated at Machynlleth Hospital, Powys, since before Christmas.\n\nShe wants to return to her home in Pantperthog, Gwynedd, but the council says it is \"not reasonable or practical\" to adapt it for her.\n\nIt wants her to move to sheltered accommodation in Harlech or Blaenau Ffestiniog instead.\n\nThe North Wales Community Health Council, which represents patients' needs, described it as \"an infringement of her human rights\".\n\nIn 2016, Mrs Pugh was diagnosed with cancer for the third time - just before her only son died in a car accident.\n\nAs part of her treatment, her legs were amputated at the end of last year.\n\nAmong changes needed to her home are a ramp to get in, a widened front door, shower room and possibly changing her living room into a bedroom.\n\n\"Life has been so cruel to her and she's not asking much. The only thing she wants is to come home,\" said her niece Carwen Sheen, who visits her daily.\n\n\"She's struggling every day and it's a struggle to get out of bed, to go in the wheelchair.\n\n\"I would hope that she might live - not a normal life, because it will never be normal - but a happier life.\"\n\nMrs Pugh with her son Guto, who died in a car crash in 2016\n\nThe family are trying to complete the work needed themselves and have so far raised £2,000.\n\n\"For me, I'm just thinking of that day, to see that smile on her face when I can tell her she's coming home,\" Ms Sheen told Post Cyntaf on BBC Radio Cymru.\n\n\"That will be such a happy day. I can't wait to bring her home.\"\n\nA Gwynedd council spokesman said in such cases a detailed assessment of the individual's needs was carried out, as well as a survey of their property.\n\n\"The findings are presented to a panel which decides if it is reasonable and practical to adapt the individual's home,\" he added.\n\n\"If adapting the person's current home would not be possible, Gwynedd council can help towards relocation costs, should they decide to move to another private property that could be adapted to meet their needs.\n\n\"The council can also help the individual to move to suitable sheltered accommodation, should this be the best option for the person in question.\"\n\nMrs Pugh owns the property, which has thick stone walls.\n\nMrs Pugh has been treated at Machynlleth Hospital since before Christmas\n\nThe community health council's Geoff Ryall-Harvey said these types of cases arose \"all too often\".\n\n\"I think this highlights the need for a joint NHS and social services budget,\" he added.\n\n\"The delayed transfer of care not only infringes these patients' human rights but also is an unnecessary cost to the NHS.\"\n\nHe said it cost between £700 and £800 a day to keep a patient in hospital, with it being more cost effective to alter their house.\n\nMr Ryall-Harvey said: \"For people stuck in hospital waiting to go home, we heard about the loneliness, isolation and depression they may feel.\n\n\"Some people told us they felt they were losing control of their lives.\"\n\nHe said while the term \"bed blocking\" was used, most people just wanted to go home.\n\n\"What it means is that people have difficulty in getting the right care and community care services when they are medically fit to leave the hospital,\" he added.\n\n\"And this is through no fault of their own.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince of Wales has warned \"hatred and intolerance still lurk in the human heart\", at an event in Israel marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.\n\nDuring his speech in Jerusalem, he said lessons of the Holocaust are still \"searingly relevant\" and called on world leaders to be \"fearless in confronting falsehoods\" and violence.\n\nThe Nazis murdered more than a million people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews.\n\nPrince Charles delivered his call for action at the World Holocaust Forum being staged at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and US Vice-President Mike Pence were among those attending.\n\nHowever, a decision by Poland's President Andrzej Duda not to join them threatened to overshadow the event.\n\nPrince Charles, on his first official trip to Israel and the occupied West Bank, told them that hatred and intolerance \"tell new lies, adopt new disguises, and still seek new victims\".\n\n\"All too often, language is used which turns disagreement into dehumanisation,\" he said.\n\n\"Words are used as badges of shame to mark others as enemies, to brand those who are different as somehow deviant.\n\n\"All too often, virtue seems to be sought through verbal violence. All too often, real violence ensues, and acts of unspeakable cruelty are still perpetrated around the world against people for reasons of their religion, their race or their beliefs.\n\n\"Knowing, as we do, the darkness to which such behaviour leads, we must be vigilant in discerning these ever-changing threats; we must be fearless in confronting falsehoods and resolute in resisting words and acts of violence.\n\n\"And we must never rest in seeking to create mutual understanding and respect.\"\n\nThe focus, say the organisers, will be on fighting anti-Semitism today.\n\nBut some speeches - particularly those outside of the event - look set to go further; as Jerusalem bristles with presidents and princes in what officials say amounts to the biggest political gathering since Israel's founding.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already used the lead up to say the number one lesson from Auschwitz is stopping a nuclear armed Iran.\n\nWhile the decision to give the podium to President Putin of Russia has sparked fury in Poland.\n\nIts nationalist president Andrzej Duda is staying away in protest at not being invited to speak; accusing Mr Putin of distorting the history of the Holocaust and the war to attack his country.\n\nAhead of the event, the prince met survivors of the Holocaust, saw the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, and visited Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.\n\nMr Rivlin told the prince that Israel \"deeply appreciates\" his attendance at the gathering, which he said would help to \"show that when we are united we can fight this phenomenon\".\n\nThe prince met Holocaust survivors George Shefi and Marta Wise at the Israel museum ahead of the forum\n\nHe also told the prince that \"we still expect your mother to come\" to Israel. The Queen has never visited the country during her 67-year reign.\n\nTo commemorate the visit, Charles was invited to plant an oak tree in the gardens of the president's official residence, Beit HaNassi.\n\nDuring his two-day trip, Prince Charles is also likely to visit the grave of his grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, in Jerusalem's Church of St Mary Magdalene.\n\nShe was honoured by the Jewish people for hiding and saving the lives of Jews in Nazi-occupied Athens, Greece, during World War Two.\n\nIn his address on Thursday, Prince Charles spoke of his \"immense pride\" at the honour, saying he has \"long drawn inspiration from the selfless actions of my dear grandmother\".", "Nick Ramsay has been suspended from his party and the Conservative assembly group\n\nA senior assembly member arrested on New Year's Day but released without charge remains suspended from the Conservatives as the party continues its investigations.\n\nNick Ramsay is thought to be taking legal advice over the arrest.\n\nParty sources claim there have been several occasions when his behaviour after drinking led to complaints.\n\nFriends reject claims he has been spoken to about allegations relating to alcohol.\n\nThey say the suspension process may be open to legal challenge.\n\nMr Ramsay's friends also defended him and suggested he was the victim of a campaign against him by some in his local party in Monmouth.\n\nThat claim is denied by the local party chairman, Nick Hackett-Pain.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives say an \"investigation is underway\". The party did not explain what the investigation is looking into.\n\nMr Ramsay, a frontbench Tory spokesman in the assembly and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, was suspended from his party and Conservative group in the Senedd following the arrest.\n\nThe AM was released without charge by Gwent Police, but his suspension from both the Conservatives and the Tory Welsh Assembly group was not lifted.\n\nHe has not been seen at the assembly since his release. His colleague, party whip Darren Millar, has deputised for him at every public accounts committee meeting this year.\n\nOne Conservative AM told BBC Wales discussions with Mr Ramsay were at a \"bit of a stalemate\" and they had \"no idea\" when he is due to return to the assembly.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg was at a dinner where Mr Ramsay is alleged to have made an inappropriate remark\n\nBBC Wales has also learned Mr Ramsay was the subject of complaints by some of his own local members about a speech he made at Monmouth Conservative Association's spring dinner in 2018.\n\nSeveral sources say complaints were made to the assembly's standards commissioner about an allegedly \"inappropriate\" remark during his speech at the end of the event at Chepstow Racecourse.\n\nOne person present claimed Mr Ramsay had had \"slightly more to drink than he should have\".\n\nBBC Wales has been told the commissioner decided Mr Ramsay had not broken the members' code of conduct. The commissioner's office declined to comment.\n\nFriends of Nick Ramsay have defended the Monmouth AM's conduct.\n\nA source told BBC Wales: \"A lot of the allegations being made aren't new.\n\n\"There are members of the local party who've been bullying and attempting to intimidate Nick and his family for some time now. The party has been aware of these issues.\n\n\"Hopefully they can be addressed and Nick and his family can get the support they need. They've been through a difficult time - Nick just wants things to get back to normal.\"\n\nOne friend of Mr Ramsay said: \"I have been in Nick's company and that of his wife many times and I've seen no evidence that he drinks to excess, or has any behaviour problems when he drinks.\"\n\nThe allegations of a smear campaign were rejected as \"entirely untrue\" by Monmouth Conservative Association chairman Nick Hackett-Pain.\n\n\"I have been an active member of this association for a quarter of a century,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\n\"There's no campaign within the association to discredit Nick, cause him problems or difficulties for his family.\"\n\nMr Hackett-Pain says he has written to Mr Ramsay and \"offered him what help we are able to give him at this time\".\n\nMr Ramsay has been involved in several controversies since being elected AM for Monmouth in 2007:\n\nOn the question of when Mr Ramsay might return to the assembly, one source close to him told BBC Wales: \"Nick was elected as a Conservative AM, he respects the party and its approach, and he's waiting for this to resolved by the party before returning.\"\n\nA Welsh Conservative spokesman said: \"Nick Ramsay remains suspended. An investigation is underway and we won't be commenting further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Sillito looks back at the Welsh comic actor, writer and director's life\n\nMonty Python stars have led the tributes to their co-star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77.\n\nThe Welsh actor and writer played a variety of characters in the iconic comedy group's Flying Circus TV series, and directed several of their films.\n\nHe died on Tuesday, four years after contracting a rare form of dementia known as FTD.\n\nDavid Walliams and Simon Pegg were among other comedians who remembered him.\n\nFellow Python star Sir Michael Palin described Jones as \"one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation\".\n\nIn a tweet, John Cleese said he was \"a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm\".\n\nEric Idle, another member of the highly influential comedy troupe, recalled the \"many laughs [and] moments of total hilarity\" they shared.\n\n\"It's too sad if you knew him, but if you didn't you will always smile at the many wonderfully funny moments he gave us,\" he went on.\n\nTerry Gilliam, with whom Jones directed the group's film The Holy Grail in 1975, described his fellow Python as a \"brilliant, constantly questioning, iconoclastic, righteously argumentative and angry but outrageously funny and generous and kind human being\".\n\n\"One could never hope for a better friend,\" he said.\n\nPalin added: \"Terry was one of my closest, most valued friends. He was kind, generous, supportive and passionate about living life to the full.\n\n\"He was far more than one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation, he was the complete Renaissance comedian - writer, director, presenter, historian, brilliant children's author, and the warmest, most wonderful company you could wish to have.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Fry This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Russell Brand This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Adrian Edmondson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScreenwriter Charlie Brooker posted: \"RIP the actual genius Terry Jones. Far too many brilliant moments to choose from.\"\n\nDavid Walliams thanked his comedy hero \"for a lifetime of laughter\".\n\nSimon Pegg - who acted in Jones' final film as director, 2015's Absolutely Anything - said: \"Terry was a sweet, gentle, funny man who was a joy to work with and impossible not to love.\"\n\nAnd comedian Eddie Izzard told BBC News: \"It's a tragedy - the good go too early. Monty Python changed the face of world comedy. It will live forever. It's a terrible loss.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Palin on Terry Jones: \"He was a wonderful companion\"\n\nShane Allen, BBC controller of comedy commissioning, wrote that it was a \"sad day to lose an absolute titan of British comedy\" and \"one of the founding fathers of the most influential and pioneering comedy ensembles of all time\".\n\nJones was born in Colwyn Bay and went on to study at Oxford University, where he met his future Python pal Palin in the Oxford Revue - a student comedy group.\n\nAlongside Palin, Idle and the likes of David Jason, he appeared in the BBC children's satirical sketch show Do Not Adjust Your Set, which would set the template for their work to come with Python.\n\nJones directed, starred in and co-wrote Monty Python's 1979 film Life of Brian\n\nHe wrote and starred in Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show and the comedy collective's films, as a range of much-loved characters. These included Arthur \"Two Sheds\" Jackson, Cardinal Biggles of the Spanish Inquisition and Mr Creosote.\n\nIn addition to directing The Holy Grail with Gilliam, Jones took sole directorial charge of 1979's Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life in 1983.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCleese said: \"Of his many achievements, for me the greatest gift he gave us all was his direction of Life of Brian. Perfection.\"\n\nBeyond Monty Python, he wrote the screenplay for the 1986 film Labyrinth, starring David Bowie.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by BBC Archive This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMonty Python's Flying Circus, the groundbreaking comedy series that made Jones and his fellow cast members international stars, first aired on BBC One in October 1969.\n\nSurreal, anarchic and bawdily irreverent, the show's blend of live-action sketches and animated interludes mocked both broadcasting conventions and societal norms.\n\nJones and Palin had met at Oxford, while Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle studied at Cambridge. After university, they took part in various comedy shows before forming Monty Python with US-born animator Terry Gilliam.\n\nAfter four series, the troupe moved to the big screen to make Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life of Brian, a controversial parody of Biblical epics.\n\nMonty Python's The Meaning of Life, their final film as a collective, returned to the original series' sketch-based format.\n\nThe surviving members reunited periodically after Chapman's death in 1989, most notably for a run of live shows at the O2 in London in 2014.\n\nJones (left) as the store manager and Eric Idle as Chris Quinn in Monty Python's sketch The Department Store-Buying an Ant\n\nThe statement from Jones' family noted his \"uncompromising individuality, relentless intellect and extraordinary humour [that] has given pleasure to countless millions across six decades\".\n\n\"Over the past few days his wife, children, extended family and many close friends have been constantly with Terry as he gently slipped away at his home in north London.\n\n\"His work with Monty Python, his books, films, television programmes, poems and other work will live on forever, a fitting legacy to a true polymath.\"\n\nTerry Jones as Mr Creosote, alongside John Cleese, in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life in 1983\n\nThe family thanked Jones' \"wonderful medical professionals and carers for making the past few years not only bearable but often joyful\".\n\nThey said: \"We hope that this disease will one day be eradicated entirely. We ask that our privacy be respected at this sensitive time and give thanks that we lived in the presence of an extraordinarily talented, playful and happy man living a truly authentic life, in his words 'Lovingly frosted with glucose.'\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A Tory assembly candidate who was accused by a crown court judge of deliberately sabotaging a rape trial has been deselected by his party.\n\nIn a statement, the party said Ross England was \"no longer a Welsh Conservative candidate\".\n\nIn April 2018 while giving evidence, Mr England made claims about the victim's sexual history, which she denied.\n\nAlun Cairns denied knowing about his aide's role in the trial's collapse but resigned as Welsh secretary.\n\nThe claims made by Mr England were not permissible in court but he denied knowing this when he gave evidence.\n\nRoss England was selected to stand for the Welsh Conservatives for the 2021 assembly election\n\nMr Cairns was re-elected as the MP for Vale of Glamorgan in the 2019 general election and later cleared of breaking the ministerial code.\n\nMr England had been suspended from the party and his candidacy after the events of the rape trial came to light.\n\nWelsh Tory sources told BBC Wales on Wednesday that Mr England had intended to quit the party regardless of the findings of a party investigation.\n\nA Welsh Conservatives spokesman said: \"The Welsh Conservative Candidates Committee convened on 22 January 2020 to consider the evidence in respect of an issue concerning Vale of Glamorgan Assembly candidate Ross England, and concluded that his candidacy should be withdrawn. Ross England is therefore no longer a Welsh Conservative candidate.\"", "Broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire has addressed the news that her show is coming off air by telling viewers \"we don't give up\" and \"we're still here\".\n\nThe award-winning Victoria Derbyshire Show is expected to end on BBC Two after five years, as part of BBC cuts.\n\nOpening Thursday's programme, the host said: \"We are still here telling your stories and covering the issues that are important to you in your life.\n\n\"And do you know what? We don't give up.\"\n\nShe went on to introduce an investigation. \"And that's why we've been back to a housing estate in London after we exposed the shocking living conditions there last year,\" she continued.\n\nHer comments came a day after BBC media editor Amol Rajan said the cost of running the news and current affairs programme on a linear channel \"when savings are needed\" had been \"deemed too high\".\n\nIn 2016 it was announced that BBC News would need to find £80m of cuts over four years.\n\nThe broadcaster is due to make an announcement about its news operation next week.\n\nIt comes after Tony Hall announced his resignation as the BBC's director general.\n\nNumerous media personalities responded with shock to the news of the programme coming off air, praising its award-winning journalism.\n\nLouisa Compton, who edited the Victoria Derbyshire Show when it was first launched, said the decision was \"madness\" - while ITV's Piers Morgan said it was a \"very strange\" call.\n\nShadow culture secretary Tracy Brabin tweeted that the programme's \"rigorous campaigning and commitment to the public having their say made it pretty unique in daytime TV\".\n\nShe said she would be looking into why the show was being taken off air.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative MP Damian Collins, who is seeking re-election as chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said reports of the planned cuts were \"disturbing\".\n\nHe said there needs to be \"a proper review of BBC finances\" and licence fee payers should be asking what they value and want to see more of.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips tweeted that it was \"sad to see\" the end of a programme that had \"reached a largely working class audience\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jess Phillips MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnna Collinson and Jim Reed, journalists for the programme, both called the decision \"gutting\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Anna Collinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmol Rajan said he understands BBC News is \"committed\" to the presenter and the journalism of the show.\n\nThe BBC has declined to comment.\n\nAired at 10:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel every weekday, the show focuses on original stories, audience debates and exclusive interviews as well as breaking news.\n\nIt was launched in April 2015.\n\nIn 2017 the show won a Bafta for its news coverage of the abuse of footballers , while Derbyshire herself has won and been nominated for several awards for presenting the show.\n\nOther exclusive stories the show has uncovered include the number of deaths linked to Xanax and the way how family courts treat victims of domestic violence.\n\nWhen Victoria Derbyshire proposed a TV version of her Radio 5 Live Show to former BBC News boss James Harding, he gave her the green light within days.\n\nBBC News has a big problem in connecting with some licence fee payers away from big cities and from poorer backgrounds - or, in the jargon, \"underserved audiences\".\n\nFor Harding and BBC News, Derbyshire - and the show's first editor, Louisa Compton (now at Channel 4) - were the solution to a big problem.\n\nDerbyshire's programme was highly effective in reaching those people, through original journalism, investigations and scoops of a kind that the BBC generally struggles to do. But on linear TV channels it failed to garner a sufficiently big audience to justify its cost.\n\nFirst it was chopped from two hours to one. Now it is gone.\n\nBBC News is looking to make big savings and re-organise its structure so that digital journalism is prioritised.\n• None Lord Hall to step down as BBC's director general", "Nai'm, nine, has been the subject of five incidents of racism in a year\n\n\"The person was my friend and I didn't expect any of my friends to call me a name,\" says nine-year-old Nai'm.\n\nHe has experienced racist abuse at primary school five times in a year. It has left his mother, Carla, in tears.\n\nOne of the perpetrators is now on a council register for racism, with another facing temporary exclusion.\n\nPrimary-school exclusions for racism in England are up more than 40% in just over a decade with the biggest rise in the North West, official figures show.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nai'm says the racism left him shocked and sad at the same time\n\nCarla, who moved to Manchester from Bermuda three years ago with Nai'm, says she was called by his school and told another pupil had called him \"a black midget\".\n\n\"I was in disbelief. But it did in fact happen, so I was taken aback,\" she says.\n\n\"Then, three weeks later, I got a call again and his teacher was upset.\"\n\nWhen she went into school to talk to the teacher, Carla broke down in tears.\n\n\"I couldn't believe that children would actually talk like that,\" she says.\n\n\"He was only eight at the time and shouldn't have had to endure this type of treatment.\"\n\nNai'm, who plays for his local professional football club's junior team, says much of the abuse happens on the school pitch.\n\nBut being called racist names by a friend left him \"a little shocked and sad at the same time\".\n\nAnother child told him their parents had told them they weren't allowed to talk to black or brown people.\n\nCarla says the family have a good relationship with the school, which has been working with them to try to halt the abuse.\n\nNai'm gave a talk to fellow pupils at a special assembly about Bermuda and the school tried to get the parents to meet but some of the perpetrators' parents refused.\n\nIt is up to each individual school to decide how to deal with and whether to document incidents of racism among pupils - the only national figures are those for exclusions and some campaigners say they are just the tip of the iceberg.\n\n\"This is about it being OK to be different,\" John Au tells a special assembly at Lawrence Community Primary School, in Liverpool.\n\nHe works for the Anthony Walker Foundation, set up after the Huyton teenager's racially motivated murder, in 2005, to campaign for diversity and inclusion.\n\nThe school contacted the charity after staff overheard worrying conversations between pupils.\n\n\"It was things like, 'Go back to your own country,' because a lot of the children come from different countries,\" deputy head Lisa Flanagan says.\n\n\"We also heard children talking about the colour of someone's skin.\n\n\"In some instances, pupils were refusing to learn about another religion because they thought they would be betraying their own beliefs.\"\n\nDr Zubaida Haque, deputy director of race-equality think tank the Runnymede Trust, says racism in schools reflects attitudes outside the classroom.\n\n\"We have to understand, schools are a microcosm of society,\" she says.\n\n\"So if we have an increase in hate crime in society, an increase of bigotry or there's bullying going on outside of school, racism in papers and in a politician's narrative, children will pick that up very quickly. And that's what is happening.\"\n\nJohn Au says his organisation has been receiving an increasing number of requests from schools for help.\n\n\"Racism and discrimination is a problem that affects the whole of society. It doesn't matter how old we are,\" Mr Au says.\n\n\"Schools should be praised for identifying problems. We have to give them credit for that. When teachers spot things early, it stops them from escalating into something else.\"\n\nIn a statement Nai'm's primary school said: \"The school prides itself in being an inclusive school and will continue to challenge all forms of racism.\n\n\"We strongly believe in educating our pupils by teaching them right from wrong, so that they are able to live in harmony with other people regardless of our differences.\n\n\"We want children to accept each other and celebrate our diverse school community.\n\n\"We are pleased that our families feel supported by staff and that they are positive about the way we deal with incidents when they arise.\"", "The chairman of India's space agency says the new mission could happen this year\n\nIndia has announced plans for a third lunar mission, months after its last one crash landed on the Moon's surface.\n\nThe chairman of India's space agency, K Sivan, said work was going \"smoothly\" on the Chandrayaan-3 unmanned mission.\n\nHe said the country was aiming to launch the mission in 2020 but that it \"may spill over\" to 2021.\n\nIf successful, it would make India the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, and boost its credentials as a low-cost space power.\n\nSo far, only Russia, the US and China have successfully put a mission on the Moon's surface.\n\nMr Sivan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), told reporters that Chandrayaan-3 would have a \"similar configuration\" to the previous mission.\n\nChandrayaan-2 was the most complex mission ever attempted by India's space agency. It had aimed to land on the south pole of the Moon - in a spot that no other landing craft had reached before - to carry out tasks including searching for water and minerals, and measuring moonquakes.\n\nBut the high-profile Moon mission failed in September, when the module crash landed.\n\nMr Sivan said the new mission would land in the same area, and would \"have a lander, rover and propulsion module like its predecessor\". The new equipment is set to cost some $35m (£26m), while the full cost of the mission is set to be significantly more.\n\nJitendra Singh, junior minister for the department of space, has said the new mission will be \"quite economical\".\n\n\"The orbiter is already there. So we are going to be cutting cost,\" he told the Times of India.\n\nPlans for an unmanned mission to the Moon are just part of India's wider ambitions of becoming a low-cost space power.\n\nMr Sivan said India planned to launch at least 25 space missions in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is India's prime minister right when he calls his country a space superpower?\n\nHe said Isro was also making \"good progress\" with plans for its first manned mission into orbit. Four astronauts have been picked for training, which is set to begin in Russia later this month.\n\nUp to three astronauts are expected to take part in the mission, which is slated to take place by 2022.", "Two dozen barrels of Scotch whisky are being put up for sale in what is being billed as the world's first dedicated online auction for casks.\n\nThe auction will feature a wide range of barrels, from a 2015 Glen Ord cask with a pre-sale estimate of £2,000-£3,000 to a Springbank 1995 sherry hogshead (£40,000-£50,000).\n\nThe event will run from 22 January for 12 days.\n\nIt is the first of four planned this year by specialist firm Cask Trade.\n\nThe barrels have been submitted to the auction by private owners and investors.\n\nCask Trade said it had validated all the sellers and confirmed proof of ownership as well as the history of each cask.\n\nThe London-based company, which specialises in buying and selling \"exceptional cask whiskies\", was set up in 2018 by serial entrepreneur and whisky collector Simon Aron.\n\nCask Trade was founded by entrepreneur and whisky collector Simon Aron\n\nHe founded the business after running out of space for his collection.\n\nHe explained: \"I built up a collection of 2,000 bottles over nearly 25 years, and it drove my wife mad that I had so many of them stored under the stairs and in cupboards around our home.\n\n\"I started to look more at casks and decided to build a new marketplace for buyers and sellers.\n\n\"With the launch of auctionyourcask.com, we offer a fresh approach to selling whisky by the cask, not just the bottle.\"\n\nEntries to the auction can be made until 10 January.", "Baby Archie is held by his beaming dad beside calm blue waters in a new photograph released by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to mark the new year.\n\nThe image of their seven-month-old son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, came at the end of an Instagram compilation summarising the couple's year.\n\nThe video flicks through photographs of their favourite moments of 2019 accompanied by Coldplay's hit Clocks.\n\nThe royals wish \"health and continued happiness\" in the video's caption.\n\nIt reads: \"Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and thanking you for your continued support!\n\n\"We've loved meeting so many of you from around the world and can't wait to meet many more of you next year.\n\n\"We hope 2020 brings each of you health and continued happiness.\"\n\nBaby Archie was introduced to the world in May this year - two days after his birth\n\nIt has been an eventful year for the royal couple who married in May 2018.\n\nTheir son was born on 6 May and was introduced to the world two days later at a photocall in Windsor Castle's St George's Hall, with Meghan declaring: \"It's magic, it's pretty amazing. I have the two best guys in the world, so I'm really happy.\"\n\nIt has also been a year in which the couple launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday for publishing a private letter sent by the Duchess of Sussex to her father.\n\nLater that month, the couple spoke about the challenges of royal life in an ITV documentary.", "A police cordon remained in place on New Year's Day\n\nFour people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed in Milton Keynes.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Carradine Crescent, Oxley Park, just after 15:30 GMT on New Year's Eve.\n\nThe man, who was in his 20s, was taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital where he died.\n\nPolice said they believed the victim and his attackers were known to each other. Anyone with information has been asked to contact Thames Valley Police.\n\nThose arrested are three men aged 68, 42 and 32 and a 38-year-old woman.\n\nPolice were called to Carradine Crescent on New Year's Eve\n\nDet Insp Dejan Avramovich said: \"I appreciate the concern that this incident will cause in the local community, but I would like to re-assure members of the public that we have made arrests and are investigating the circumstances of this incident thoroughly.\n\n\"We believe the victim and the offenders were known to one another, and do not believe there to be a wider threat to the local community.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The graffiti was found on a building near the North Brixton Islamic Cultural Centre\n\nAnti-Islamic slogans have been painted on a building near a mosque in south London.\n\nThe graffiti was found on a building near to the North Brixton Islamic Cultural Centre in Brixton Road at about 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was working with Lambeth Council to remove the \"offensive remarks\" from the building as soon as possible.\n\nThe force said it was investigating who was responsible.\n\nSadiq Khan said he was \"disgusted\" by the graffiti, which comes days after anti-Semitic symbols were daubed across several shops and a synagogue in north London.\n\nThe London mayor tweeted: \"Let me be clear: all prejudice is cowardly and criminals will face the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK is on the verge of a \"new chapter\" in its history, Boris Johnson has said, as he promised to \"finish the job\" by delivering Brexit within weeks.\n\nIn his new year message, the prime minister said he hoped the country would \"move forward united\" after it leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nHe vowed to govern \"for everyone\", not just those who backed him at the polls.\n\nAnd he said he wanted more prosperity and fairer opportunity to be the hallmarks of a \"remarkable\" new decade.\n\nBoosting resources for the NHS, improving the UK's infrastructure, tackling violent crime and protecting the environment were among his government's other main priorities for the year ahead, he said.\n\nMr Johnson, who is currently on holiday in the Caribbean, said the \"first item on his agenda\" when he returned was delivering on the mandate of the people and taking the UK out of the EU.\n\nHe said: \"We can start a new chapter in the history of our country, in which we come together and move forward united, unleashing the enormous potential of the British people.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' resounding election victory on 12 December had \"driven an electoral bulldozer\" through the deadlock in Parliament, he said, and offered a way out of the \"division, rancour and uncertainty\" surrounding the Brexit debate since the 2016 referendum vote.\n\nLegislation to ratify the withdrawal agreement with the EU easily cleared its first hurdle before Christmas, when MPs backed it by a majority of 124.\n\nWith an 80-seat Conservative majority in the Commons, the remaining stages of the bill are expected to be completed quickly in January in time, the PM said, to \"get Brexit done before the end of this month\".\n\n\"That oven-ready deal I talked about so much during the election campaign has already had its plastic covering pierced and been placed in the microwave,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said giving the NHS the resources it needed was his \"top priority\"\n\nWhile the UK is set to leave the EU's institutions at 23.00 GMT on 31 January, negotiations over its future economic relationship with the 27-member bloc have yet to begin, with experts saying they will be far tougher than those over the terms of the UK's exit.\n\nMr Johnson has set himself a deadline of completing an ambitious trade deal by the end of 2020, when the 11-month transition period agreed by the two sides ends. Many leading EU figures have cast doubt upon the tight timetable and questioned the PM's ruling out of any extension.\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to put public services at the heart of a One Nation agenda, promising billions of extra investment for the NHS in the next four years and levelling up schools funding across England.\n\nAhead of what is traditionally the most difficult time of the year for the health service, Mr Johnson insisted it was his \"top priority\" and his ambition was to provide \"state of the art\" healthcare which remained free at the point of use.\n\n\"The loudest message I heard during the election campaign is that people expect us - expect me - to protect and improve the NHS.\"\n\nHe said he aimed to deliver a \"people's government\".\n\n\"I am acutely aware that there are millions of people who did not vote for me and were disappointed by the result,\" he said.\n\n\"If you are one of them, I want to reassure you that I will be a prime minister for everyone, not just those who voted for me. I know that you love this country no less, simply because you voted for another party or wanted to Remain.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who a year ago was languishing on the backbenches after quitting Theresa May's government, is said to be planning a major cabinet reshuffle and departmental reorganisation after the UK leaves the EU.\n\nHe has also signalled that infrastructure and science will be at the heart of a Budget in March, with the aim of making the UK \"an engine for the ideas of the future\".\n\nHe said he wanted to \"make the 2020s a decade of prosperity and opportunity\" with a \"fantastically exciting agenda\".\n\nIn his new year message, Jeremy Corbyn has insisted Labour will remain the \"resistance\" to Boris Johnson's government despite their heavy defeat while the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon said leaving the EU was a source of \"deep regret\" for many Scots and her government would do all it could to \"mitigate the worst impacts\".\n\nElsewhere, Nigel Farage has said he is in no rush to make any decision about the Brexit Party's future. He told supporters that the party had \"changed politics for good\", despite failing to elect any MPs after it decided not to field candidates in more than 300 Conservative-held seats.\n\n\"Don't let anyone tell you that we have not succeeded in our main goals,\" he wrote in an email. \"We are now assessing thoughts and ideas as to what our next steps might be.\"", "Many thousands of protesters gathered to march on the first day of the year\n\nHong Kong's protesters have welcomed a new decade via a New Year's Day rally, with tens of thousands joining a pro-democracy march.\n\nThough the gathering was largely peaceful, violence broke out in some areas and police fired tear gas.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, demonstrators had formed human chains that stretched for miles down busy shopping streets.\n\nMore than six months after the protests began, they gathered for midnight countdowns by Victoria Harbour.\n\nTheir chants included, \"Ten! Nine! Liberate Hong Kong, revolution now!\"\n\nIn the lively Mong Kok market district, some set fire to barricades after dark and let off fireworks, disrupting traffic.\n\nPolice used water cannon to clear Nathan Road in Mong Kok and fired tear gas and rubber bullets, the South China Morning Post reports.\n\nSome 40 parliamentarians and dignitaries from 18 countries sent an open letter to Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam on New Year's Eve, urging her to \"seek genuine ways forward out of this crisis by addressing the grievances of Hong Kong people\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Head was in Hong Kong as crowds dispersed\n\nThe anti-government protests began in June over plans to allow extradition to mainland China, but have since morphed into a broader movement demanding full democracy.\n\nSome protesters have adopted the motto: \"Five demands, not one less!\"\n\nTheir goals are an amnesty for those arrested, an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality, universal suffrage, and for the protests not to be characterised as \"riots\". The fifth demand - the withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill - has already been met.\n\nHong Kong was a British colony until 1997, but was then returned to Chinese control under the principle of \"one country, two systems\". While it is technically part of China, the territory has its own legal system and borders, and rights including freedom of assembly and free speech are protected.\n\nThe anti-government rally on 1 January was planned by the Civil Human Rights Front\n\nMore than 6,500 people have been arrested as a result of the protests so far.\n\nIn the afternoon of New Year's Day, people of all ages gathered to march from the city's Victoria Park. Some wore masks, defying a ban on face coverings, and carried signs reading, \"Freedom is not free\".\n\n\"It's hard to utter 'Happy New Year' because Hong Kong people are not happy,\" said a man named Tung, according to Reuters news agency. \"Unless the five demands are achieved, and police are held accountable for their brutality, then we can't have a real happy new year.\"\n\nThe pro-democracy march was organised by the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), which has planned a number of million-strong rallies.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jonathan Head This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The government has already started the oppression before the New Year began... whoever is being oppressed, we will stand with them,\" said Jimmy Sham, a CHRF leader and long-time political activist.\n\nMr Sham was hospitalised in October after he was attacked by a group of men wielding hammers.\n\nIn a speech on New Year's Day, China's President Xi Jinping said Beijing would \"resolutely safeguard the prosperity and stability\" of Hong Kong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history behind Hong Kong's identity crisis and protests - first broadcast November 2019", "Emma Allan gave birth to Scotland's first baby of the decade\n\nScotland has welcomed its first babies of the decade in hospitals around the country.\n\nThe first arrival is believed to have been a boy born at 00:03, at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.\n\nWeighing 8lbs 5oz, he is the first child for Emma Allan and Cameron Cunningham, who are from Port Seton.\n\nNew mother Emma said: \"He was due 10 days ago so this isn't what we expected - he must have wanted to be the first baby of the decade.\"\n\nTen minutes after baby Cunningham was born in Edinburgh, a baby girl weighing 7lbs 11.5oz was born at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital.\n\nParents Kayleigh Clark and Darren Wood, from Inverurie, welcomed Emily Louise Wood into the world at 00:13.\n\nJust over an hour later at 01:18, a baby girl was born at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert to parents Sarah and Lizzie Middleton, from Stenhousemuir.\n\nThe child, named Lexie, arrived weighing 6lb 9oz and is Sarah's first baby.\n\nA boy called Russell was born at 02:09 in St John's Hospital in Livingston.\n\nMary Cruikshank was one of the first babies born at the Ayrshire Maternity Unit\n\nHis parents Laura and Kevin Galbraith are from Bathgate in West Lothian.\n\nThe first Glasgow baby was a girl, born at 04:36 at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital maternity unit.\n\nShe has been named as Catherine by her parents Marie and Peter Rankin, from Clarkston, East Renfrewshire.\n\nAt Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, local couple Alison and Allan Stewart had a boy at 04:11.\n\nAt the same hospital just 19 minutes later, Sophie Jansen van Rensburg and partner Warren, from Nairn, had a little boy.\n\nThey plan to name him Carter.\n\nThe first baby of the year at the Ayrshire Maternity Unit was 7lb 11oz Theodore - a son to Christina and Ryan Maguire from Troon - who was delivered at 05:23.\n\nThree minutes later, Robyn was born to mother Erica Borland and father Sam Love, from Ayr. Weighing 9lb 3oz, Robyn is a little sister for brothers Evan, 4, and two-year-old Luke.\n\nManilyn and Richard Cruikshank, from Maybole, welcomed their first child - a daughter named Mary - at 06:39. Mary weighed in at 4lb 15oz.", "A couple has brought home a healthy baby boy who was the \"very last embryo\" they implanted after deciding to call time on their attempts at IVF.\n\nLewis and Hannah Vaughan Jones spent £80,000 on 15 rounds of IVF after being told they would not conceive naturally.\n\nThey had decided that if the latest round of IVF did not work, they would give up on the treatment - but then Mrs Vaughan Jones became pregnant.\n\nThe couple, who are both TV presenters, said baby Sonny was \"beautiful\".\n\nAfter about six years of an \"all-consuming\" emotional and financial struggle - and following medical advice - the couple decided to make a final attempt at IVF.\n\n\"We had zero hope... emotionally, we had already moved on,\" Mr Vaughan Jones said.\n\n\"We'd tried so many times and statistically it was so unlikely to work. And that's why we absolutely couldn't believe it when the very last embryo was the one that worked.\"\n\nWhen Mrs Vaughan Jones, 38, became pregnant, her husband said he was \"terrified\" of another miscarriage.\n\nHe could not bring himself to buy baby clothes or redecorate their home in Twickenham, south-west London until more than six months into the pregnancy.\n\nBut Matheson \"Sonny\" Calon Tallett Vaughan Jones was born by Caesarean section on 10 December.\n\n\"It's been just as wonderful and crazy as you'd expect,\" Mr Vaughan Jones, who is also 38, said.\n\nHannah and Lewis attempted more rounds of IVF than many UK couples can afford.\n\nThe NHS limits how many cycles it offers to those who are eligible because of the price.\n\nCosts vary, but one cycle of treatment may cost up to £5,000 or more.\n\nGuidelines for the NHS recommend three cycles, but some NHS trusts offer less than this.\n\nThere is no set cut off if you go private and have enough viable eggs and time to keep trying, although doctors would and should advise you to stop at some point - when they think the odds of success are too low to merit continuing.\n\nIn general, the chances of IVF working decrease with age if the couple are using their own eggs and sperm rather than donor ones.\n\nIf you are having trouble getting pregnant, you should speak to your GP, who can refer you to a fertility specialist.\n\nMr Vaughan Jones, a presenter for the BBC News channel, said he and his wife \"knew how lucky we were that we've both got good jobs\" and could afford repeated rounds of IVF after one unsuccessful attempt paid for by the NHS.\n\nBut he added that the couple had felt \"cheated\" and \"emotionally vulnerable\" every time they handed over more money.\n\nMrs Vaughan Jones, a news anchor for CNN, first spoke openly about the \"hell\" of IVF in an article for the Times in 2017.\n\nShe described the article as being a \"sort of 'coming out'\" because \"there was so much shame or stigma attached to infertility\".\n\nMrs Vaughan Jones said friends told her writing the article was \"a brave thing to do\", but that to her it felt \"purely self-indulgent\" as it was like \"free therapy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mrs Vaughan Jones's article, the couple documented their IVF journey in various ways, including uploading video diaries to YouTube to show others what the treatment involved.\n\nMr Vaughan Jones said that while he was normally quite a private person and had felt \"nervous\" about his wife's article, he also recognised the importance of speaking out.\n\n\"We didn't see anyone talking about just how low, bad and difficult [IVF] is,\" he said.\n\nMrs Vaughan Jones said she hoped by opening up about her family's journey, she could persuade others to do the same.\n\n\"I encourage people, even if they're naturally quite shy, to talk to someone, even if it's a stranger or the wonderful online community… to just understand that you're not alone and there is support out there.\"\n\nIn IVF treatment, an egg is removed from the woman's ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory.\n\nThe fertilised egg is then returned to the woman's womb to develop.\n\nIVF worked for the first time on 10 November 1977. On 25 July 1978, the world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born.\n\nOn average, IVF fails 70% of the time. The highest success rates are for women under 35, where a third of treatment cycles are successful.\n\nOn average, it takes almost four-and-a-half years to conceive with IVF.\n\nFertilisation expert Dr Carol Lynn Curchoe said there had always been \"a general idea\" in her field of research that increasing rounds of IVF give infertile couples a greater chance of success - and that her own recent research found this was the case for some types of treatment.\n\nDr Curchoe added: \"Having success after 15 rounds of IVF is an extraordinary accomplishment and shines a bright light on the miracles that can and do happen when doctors and patients don't give up.\"", "The incident happened at the junction between Pye Green Road and St Aidan's Road\n\nA woman driving a mobility scooter has died in a hit-and-run crash in Staffordshire.\n\nThe 62-year-old was struck by a silver VW Golf in Cannock at about 18:30 GMT on New Year's Eve and died at the scene, police said.\n\nThe collision happened at the junction of Pye Green Road and St Aidan's Road. The driver of the Golf failed to stop.\n\nStaffordshire Police said inquiries were ongoing and witnesses should contact the force.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has seen in the start of the new decade.\n\nIn London, some 12,000 fireworks lit up the capital's skyline, with 100,000 tickets being bought for the event.\n\nBig Ben's chimes sounded the start of the display, despite them being silent this year while renovation work is completed.\n\nRead more: Revellers across the UK usher in 2020", "A 19-year-old British woman has been found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, by Israeli youths.\n\nThe woman had said Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about the incident - but the police denied this.\n\nLawyer Michael Polak described it as \"a very worrying conviction\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters in New South Wales sheltered in their truck as it was overrun by flames\n\nBushfires have killed at least eight people in south-eastern Australia since Monday, while two others remain unaccounted for.\n\nThe latest fires, which raced towards the coast this week, have also destroyed more than 200 homes.\n\nSeven people have been confirmed dead in New South Wales and one in Victoria.\n\nConditions have eased slightly, and a major road that was closed in Victoria was reopened for two hours on Wednesday to allow people to leave.\n\nBut many people remain in fire-hit areas. In one town, police dropped off 1.6 tonnes of drinking water by boat.\n\nThe seven deaths in New South Wales include:\n\nFamily members of Mick Roberts, a 67-year-old Victorian missing since Monday, confirmed that he had been found dead in his home in Buchan, East Gippsland.\n\n\"Very sad day for us to (start) the year but we're a bloody tight family and we will never forget our mate and my beautiful Uncle Mick,\" his niece Leah Parson said on Facebook.\n\nThe deaths bring the total fire-related fatalities across Australia this season to at least 18, with warnings this could rise further.\n\nOf the homes destroyed in this week's blazes, 43 were in East Gippsland, Victoria, while another 176 were in New South Wales.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service said 916 homes had been destroyed this season, with another 363 damaged, and 8,159 saved.\n\nPolice brought water, food and medical supplies into Mallacoota by boat\n\nIn Mallacoota, Victoria - where thousands fled to the beach on Tuesday - police boats arrived with 1.6 tonnes of water for residents.\n\nThey also brought food, a paramedic and medical supplies.\n\nAt the same time, police warned people in Sunbury, Victoria - about 40km (25 miles) north-west of Melbourne - to leave the area, as an emergency fire warning was in place.\n\nThe smoke from Wednesday's fires was visible more than 2,000km (1,200 miles) away from the South Island of New Zealand, where the haze tinted the sky orange.\n\nEarlier, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said workers would take advantage of the milder weather on Wednesday to clear roads and restore power.\n\nBut she said temperatures were expected to rise again on Saturday.\n\n\"At the very least, weather conditions will be at least as bad as what they were yesterday,\" she said.\n\nThe New South Wales fire service has warned of dangerous conditions for tourists on the south coast of NSW over the weekend, telling them to leave before Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTemperatures are expected to reach the 40Cs in the south-east into the weekend, exacerbating already dangerous conditions in fire-ravaged Victoria and New South Wales.\n\nMeteorologists say a climate system in the Indian Ocean, known as the dipole, is the main driver behind the extreme heat in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fire service warned they had been unable to reach some people in remote areas of NSW.\n\n\"We've got reports of injuries and burn injuries to members of the public,\" said New South Wales rural fire commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.\n\n\"We haven't been able to get access via roads or via aircraft - it's been socked in [runways have been closed] or too dangerous.\"\n\nA satellite image shows the extent of smoke and flames at Batemans Bay, NSW\n\nIn Mallacoota, many people spent the night sleeping in their cars or on deckchairs.\n\nVictoria Emergency Commissioner Andrew Crisp said - as well as the police vessels - \"a large barge\" was sailing from Melbourne to the town with food, water and 30,000 litres of fuel.\n\nIn Cann River, a town about 80km (50 miles) inland from Mallacoota, residents warned that food supplies were running low.\n\nFurther north in Ulladulla, New South Wales, people were queuing outside supermarkets - while cuts to mobile networks and landlines meant people also waited to use payphones.\n\nThe military said amphibious ships were setting off from Sydney and would arrive in fire-hit coastal areas of New South Wales and Victoria by Friday.\n\nA long queue formed at a Woolworths supermarket in Ulladulla, New South Wales\n\nMeanwhile, a woman from Mallacoota who took a photo that went viral has spoken about the image.\n\nAllison Marion took the picture of her 11-year-old son, Finn, moving their family to safety in a powerboat.\n\n\"Finn drove the boat and my other son looked after the dog in the boat and [I am] very proud of both of them,\" she told ABC News.\n\nWhen the family returned to land, as conditions eased, they went to check on their home.\n\n\"Our street somehow escaped the fire somehow,\" she said. \"However, I feel for many people in our community who have lost their homes. It's just truly saddening.\"\n\nThe picture of 11-year-old Finn piloting a powerboat went viral", "The Pacific nation of Palau has become the first country to ban sun cream that is harmful to corals and sea life.\n\nFrom Wednesday, sun cream that includes common ingredients, including oxybenzone, is not allowed to be worn or sold in the country.\n\nPalau's President Tommy Remengesau said: \"We have to live and respect the environment because the environment is the nest of life.\"\n\nThe island nation markets itself as a \"pristine paradise\" for divers.\n\nA lagoon in Palau's Rock Islands is a Unesco World Heritage site. The country has a population of around 20,000 dotted across hundreds of islands.\n\nThe ban - which was announced in 2018 - prohibits sun cream containing any of 10 ingredients. The list includes oxybenzone and octinoxate, which absorb ultraviolet light.\n\nThe International Coral Reef Foundation said the banned chemicals were \"known environmental pollutants - most of them are... incredibly toxic to juvenile stages of many wildlife species\".\n\nMr Remengesau told the AFP news agency: \"When science tells us that a practice is damaging to coral reefs, to fish populations, or to the ocean itself, our people take note and our visitors do too.\n\n\"Toxic sunscreen chemicals have been found throughout Palau's critical habitats, and in the tissues of our most famous creatures.\n\n\"We don't mind being the first nation to ban these chemicals, and we will do our part to spread the word.\"\n\nA diver among the corals in Palau\n\nThe number of sun creams containing the harmful chemicals is declining. In 2018, experts said it was found in about half of creams and lotions.\n\nWhen the US state of Hawaii announced a similar ban - which comes into effect in 2021 - major brands were quick to say their products were \"reef bill compliant\".\n\nOther places to announce bans include the US Virgin Islands - where the law takes effect in March - and the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire.", "A British man has been killed in an accident with a firework at a New Year's Eve party in Thailand, local police have said.\n\nGary McLaren, from Northamptonshire, died when a firework he was trying to light exploded in the seaside town of Pattaya.\n\nThe 50-year-old died at the scene, just after midnight.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said they were supporting the family of a British man who died in Thailand.\n\nLt Col Somboon Ua-samanmaitree of the Thai Tourist Police said: \"Around midnight, Mr McLaren attempted to light up a large firework but it failed to go off at first. After that, it suddenly exploded and killed him at the scene.\"\n\nPattaya is a coastal tourist resort about 60 miles southeast of Bangkok\n\nPolice said Mr McLaren, who was originally from Corby in Northamptonshire, had visited Thailand before and arrived a few days before New Year's Eve.\n\nAccording to his LinkedIn profile, Mr McLaren worked in a technical role for the International Road-Racing Teams Association.\n\nHe previously spent 11 years working for the Suzuki MotoGP team, who tweeted they were \"shocked and sad\" to learn of his death.\n\nThe post said that he had \"remained a good friend to us all while he continued working in the paddock for IRTA\", adding \"we'll really miss him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by MotoGP™ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther tributes on social media described him as \"one of the most popular\" members of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing community, a \"great guy\" and a \"real professional\".\n\nThe Bangkok Post reported that police and rescue workers arrived to find a crowd of people and Mr McLaren lying on the ground with serious facial injuries. A large firework was found at the scene.\n\nThe paper said a witness described seeing the British man celebrating New Year's Eve with friends. Mr McLaren tried and failed to light the firework before it suddenly exploded, the witness said.", "The mother of a British woman convicted of lying about being gang-raped said she needed treatment for PTSD\n\nThe mother of a British woman convicted in Cyprus of lying about being raped by 12 Israeli men has backed calls for tourists to boycott the country.\n\nThe 19-year-old was found guilty of causing public mischief, prompting the Foreign Office to express \"serious concern\" about the case in Ayia Napa.\n\nCritics of the verdict have called for people to avoid visiting Cyprus.\n\nThe woman's mother told the BBC that Ayia Napa - where her daughter had been on a working holiday - was unsafe.\n\nThe 19-year-old was convicted following a trial after recanting a claim that she was raped in a hotel room in July.\n\nThe teenager has said Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about the incident at a hotel - something police have denied.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the teenager's mother - who the BBC is not naming - said she believed her daughter's experience in Ayia Napa was not an isolated incident.\n\nShe said: \"The place isn't safe - it is absolutely not safe. And if you go and report something that's happened to you, you're either laughed at, as far as I can tell, or, in the worst case, something like what's happened to my daughter may happen.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lawyer Michael Polak described it as \"a very worrying conviction\"\n\nThe Independent's travel editor Simon Calder said about one in three visitors to Cyprus were British, with more than 1.3 million Brits visiting Cyprus in 2019.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme his two daughters and their friends have said they would not travel to Ayia Napa, adding: \"I imagine that there are similar conversations going on around the kitchen table in many homes with teenage children.\"\n\nHowever, he said he doubted the Foreign Office would implement a travel ban because Cyprus is \"generally a very safe country for British travellers\".\n\nLawyers representing the woman have criticised the conviction and the way the case was handled by the Cypriot police and Judge Michalis Papathanasiou.\n\nThey say her retraction statement was given when no lawyer or translator was present and point to the fact the judge refused to hear any evidence about whether the alleged rape took place.\n\nThe Foreign Office has described the conviction as \"deeply distressing\" and pledged to raise the issue with Cypriot authorities.\n\nSeveral senior legal figures in Cyprus have signed a letter written to the Attorney General Costas Clerides asking him to intervene in the case, including former Justice Minister Kypros Chrysostomides.\n\nMr Chrysostomides said the teenager had \"already suffered a lot\" and he expects her sentence will be \"very lenient\".\n\nHe added: \"She has already been in detention for four and a half weeks and she has already been prevented from travelling for about five months already.\"\n\nThe teenager faces up to a year in jail and a £1,500 fine when she is sentenced on 7 January, but he said such punishments would be \"excessive under the circumstances\".\n\nThe woman's mother said she had not personally heard from the Foreign Office, but added that she \"would love\" Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to get involved.\n\nShe said she understood that the judicial process had to be followed but \"when that starts becoming broken\" it was necessary for the authorities to step in, adding that her daughter had experienced human rights violations \"throughout\" the process.\n\nProtesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women were outside the court\n\nShe also questioned the authenticity of her daughter's retraction statement - local police said it had been written by her daughter but she cited an expert witness who said it was \"highly improbable\" that it had been produced by a native English speaker.\n\nWhen delivering the guilty verdict on Monday, the judge said his decision was backed up by video evidence showing the woman having consensual sex.\n\nBut her mother said the video showed her daughter having consensual sex with one man, and then it showed a group of people trying to enter the room.\n\n\"[The video] shows her and the guy telling them to get out of the room,\" she said. \"That gives you a very strong flavour of what happens next.\"\n\nThe 12 men arrested in connection with the alleged rape were later released and returned home. A lawyer representing some of them welcomed the guilty verdict, saying the woman had \"refused to this day to take responsibility for the horrible act she's done against the boys\".\n\nThe woman's mother said her daughter was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, hallucinations, and was sleeping for 18 or 20 hours a day because of a condition called hypersomnia.\n\n\"She needs to get back to the UK to get that treated - that's my absolute primary focus. She can't be treated here because hearing foreign men speaking loudly will trigger an episode...\n\n\"It needs resolving otherwise she's going to carry on having this for the rest of her life.\"\n\nThe woman's mother also revealed that her daughter had planned to start university this year after being accepted by all of the universities she applied for.\n\n\"She'd been offered a bursary at one of them - she'd got three unconditional offers.\n\n\"So, no question, she would have gone to university, but it was in a career that she wouldn't be able to do with this 'public mischief' verdict, so - again, life-changing for her - she needs to totally rethink her options.\"\n\nThe woman's legal representatives have already said they plan to appeal against the conviction.\n\nThe woman's mother said they plan to take the case to the Cyprus Supreme Court, but there is a long waiting list.\n\n\"Our lawyers are looking at what can be done to expedite that, and that's maybe something the Foreign Office could help us with, so to get that as soon as we can.\"\n\nAyia Napa is a popular holiday destination, known for its nightlife and beaches\n\nA GoFundMe page for legal costs has raised more than £80,000 towards a target of £100,000.\n\nThe woman's mother said she was \"astounded\" by the support, but believed legal costs would end up being even greater than that.\n\n\"Unfortunately we're going to have to increase the target in a little bit to appeal with the appeal process.\n\n\"I'm not totally sure what the figure needs to be to do that yet, but we will be doing that.\"\n\nHuman rights campaigner Joan Smith told the BBC that the Foreign Office's strong response to the verdict was a \"very unusual\" and \"welcome\" intervention.\n\nShe said: \"They wouldn't have done it if they hadn't felt that there were serious questions about the fairness of the trial that she's been through, but also the events leading up to that trial.\"\n\nThe Cypriot government responded to criticism by saying it had \"full confidence in the justice system and the courts\".", "Mallacoota is a tourist town in Victoria, Australia, some 500km (310 miles) east of Melbourne.\n\nAround 1,000 people live there, but the population swells at Christmas, as Australians head to the coast to enjoy their holidays,\n\nBut on Tuesday morning - as bushfires swept the region - thousands of people fled to the beach for a different reason: safety.\n\nPeople in the town woke up to thick smoke and pale, orange skies. But as the fires drew closer, the sky turned red.\n\nAt 8am a warning siren sounded, telling people to head to the water. By 9.30am, the sky was \"pitch black\".\n\n\"We were bracing for the worst because, it was black,\" David Jeffrey told the BBC. \"Like it should have been daylight and it was black like midnight. And we could hear the fire roaring.\"\n\nAs thousands of people fled to the beach, firefighters moved there with them.\n\n\"We've got three strike teams sitting in with the community, literally standing side-by-side with our community at the beachfront,\" said fire spokesman Steve Warrington.\n\nAround the same time, some people were fleeing the land on boats.\n\nPeople in the area had been urged to evacuate. But by Monday, authorities urged people to stay put because it was too late and dangerous to leave.\n\nBy 10.30am, this was the scene at Mallacoota wharf, as people sheltered by the water's edge.\n\nMany wore gas masks to protect themselves from the smoke.\n\nFleeing into the ocean was the \"last resort option\", Victoria's emergency management agency said on Tuesday.\n\nWith the smoke blocking out the sun, a summer's day looked like night time at the beachfront.\n\nSome emergency workers, meanwhile, were preparing to step into the heat.\n\nBy the middle of the day, the sky remained reddish-orange and thick with smoke.\n\nVictoria's state premier Daniel Andrews said navy ships may be called upon to provide food, water and power to the area. The main road in the region has been closed off.\n\n\"Some of these isolated communities can be accessed by sea,\" he said.\n\nAlthough no serious injuries have been reported in Mallacoota, houses were seen going up in flames.\n\nMr Jeffrey spoke to the BBC when the wind had changed and the sky had cleared slightly.\n\n\"We were all terrified for our lives,\" he said. \"We were praying like crazy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mallacoota resident David Jeffrey says people were \"terrified for their lives\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's Speech: Brexit, the NHS and what happened next\n\nBoris Johnson has claimed his programme for government is the \"most radical Queen's Speech in a generation\".\n\nThe prime minister said planned new laws to toughen up criminal justice and increase NHS spending would deliver on the \"people's priorities\".\n\nBut his main priority is the UK's exit from the EU on 31 January.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said many of the PM's promises mimicked the \"language of Labour policy but without the substance\".\n\n\"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, even when it's a very pale imitation, but I fear those swayed by the prime minister's promises will be sorely disappointed,\" added the Labour leader.\n\nAnd SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the PM of \"denying [Scotland] the right to choose our own future\" referring to the SNP's desire for another referendum on Scottish independence.\n\n\"Why did democracy stop in the prime minister's world with the independence referendum in 2014?\" he asked.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he felt a \"colossal sense of obligation\" to the voters.\n\nHe told MPs that \"a new golden age for this United Kingdom is now within reach\" adding that the government would \"work flat out to deliver it\".\n\nAddressing Parliament for the second time in less than three months, the Queen said the priority for her government was to deliver Brexit on 31 January, but ministers also had an \"ambitious programme of domestic reform that delivers on the people's priorities\".\n\nOf the more than 30 bills announced in the Queen's Speech, seven were on Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes as the government says it will close its Department for Exiting the European Union on 31 January.\n\nThe seven bills announced that were devoted to Brexit cover legislation on trade, agriculture, fisheries, immigration, financial services and private international law.\n\nThe first to be put to Parliament will be the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that enables the UK to leave the EU - on Friday before the Christmas recess.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn walked to the House of Lords together in silence\n\nFollowing last week's general election, the prime minister has a Commons majority of 80 - the largest enjoyed by a Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.\n\nThe prime minister's increased parliamentary authority and command of his party means it is likely to pass without major changes in the New Year in time to meet the 31 January deadline.\n\nIn another move welcomed by Tory MPs, the bill will also enable more British judges to depart from previous rulings of the EU's top court.\n\nOn the NHS, the government says it will enshrine in law a commitment on the health service's funding, with an extra £33.9bn per year provided by 2023/24.\n\nThe PM's commitment on the NHS amounts to a 3.4% year-on-year increase in expenditure, a significant increase on what the NHS received during the five year Tory-Lib Dem coalition government as well as under his predecessors David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nBut it is significantly lower than the 6% average annual increases seen under Labour leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. And when adjusted for inflation, and factoring in the increased cost of equipment, medicines and staff pay, it could actually be worth £20.5bn by 2023-4.\n\nLabour's health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth said: \"If the Conservatives' plans to put funding increases into law is to be anything other than an empty gimmick, we would urge them to pledge the extra £6bn a year which experts say is needed to start to make up the cuts they've imposed for a decade.\"\n\nThere was also a commitment announced for ministers to seek cross-party consensus for long-term reform of the social care system and the government will continue work to reform the Mental Health Act.\n\nThis government wants to try to give the appearance that they are completely new, completely different, even though the Conservatives have been in power for nearly a full decade.\n\nThat is quite a political stunt to try to pull off.\n\nBut it's clear also that Boris Johnson came to the Commons today to present a vision that he hopes can straddle left and right, or what has traditionally been seen as Labour's place in politics and the Conservatives' place in politics.\n\nThat is what the results of the general election gave him as an opportunity.\n\nAnd the challenge for Boris Johnson is not just to hold onto that for five years, but show to people who voted Tory for the first time that the party was worth the risk - that their vote was the right decision.\n\nThe test will be enormous - whether or not all that rhetoric actually matches up to the reality of the actions and decisions that this government will make.\n\nMr Johnson has had a reputation for years of being hungry with ambition to get to this place.\n\nWe're going to find out in the next months and years whether he's hungry to take the decisions that actually will cement his place in history.\n\nPlans for longer sentences for violent criminals, were also unveiled, as well as the establishment of a Royal Commission to improve the \"efficiency and effectiveness\" of the criminal justice process and there are bills that will ensure the most serious violent offenders serve longer prison terms.\n\nAnd those charged with knife possession will face \"swift justice\".\n\nOther announcements in the Queen's Speech included:\n\nThursday's State Opening of Parliament was the 66th time the Queen has opened Parliament - and has come only weeks after the last one on 14 October.\n\nThere was less pageantry than usual, as was the case the last time a snap election was held in 2017.\n\nThe Queen travelled by car from Buckingham Palace to Parliament, rather than by horse-drawn carriage, and she did not wear ceremonial dress.\n\nGentlemen at Arms prepare for the Queen's arrival in Parliament\n• None Why do prisoners serve only half their sentence?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMikel Arteta earned his first win as Arsenal boss as the Gunners produced a powerful first-half performance to beat a lacklustre Manchester United.\n\nThe visitors, who were without the injured Paul Pogba, actually began brightly, but the game took a different turn on eight minutes when Nicolas Pepe steered in his fifth goal of the season after Sead Kolasinac's cross was deflected to him.\n\nThat led to a first half in which the hosts were in control and Pepe hit the post before they doubled their lead when his corner was smashed in from close range by Sokratis Papastathopoulos.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskajer's side came into the game with one loss in their previous nine games, and although they improved after the break, they rarely tested Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno.\n\nIt was characteristic of a stop-start season in which they are yet to win three Premier League games in a row.\n\nThe defeat leaves them fifth in the table, five points behind Chelsea, who drew with Brighton earlier in the day.\n\nVictory for Arsenal ended a run of seven home games without a win in all competitions and lifted them to 10th place, four points behind United.\n\nBut they remain closer to the relegation zone than the top four.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Arteta and Moyes off the mark, but is Howe unsackable?\n\nThere has been evidence of a lift in Arsenal's three performances since Arteta was appointed, but without a win, questions remained as to whether he was the right man to take over from former boss Unai Emery, given his lack of experience as a manager.\n\nArteta was just an onlooker in the stands for the lifeless draw at Everton, but that was followed by a 1-1 draw with Bournemouth on Boxing Day and a crushing late defeat by Chelsea at home last Sunday.\n\nThis was a different game altogether, though, as Arsenal put the pieces together. With Granit Xhaka, who has been linked with a move to Hertha Berlin, restored to the midfield, the Swiss and Lucas Torreira were quicker to the tackle than their opponents.\n\nMesut Ozil covered 11.54km, more distance than any other Arsenal player.\n\nWhile record £72m signing Pepe was at the heart of Arsenal's attacking endeavour as they were roared on by their fans.\n\nAfter scoring early on, he sent United left-back Luke Shaw halfway down the Holloway Road with a sharp turn before setting up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who sliced a volley over.\n\nThe Ivorian then fed Alexandre Lacazette, who somehow hit his shot out for a throw-in from about six yards out, before Torreira went close from another Pepe pass.\n\nThe hosts had to withstand greater pressure from Solskjaer's side in the second period but in contrast to the Chelsea defeat, when they conceded twice in the last seven minutes, Arteta's side managed the game well.\n\nTheir only concerns were injuries to Kolasinac and Lacazette, who were both taken off in the second half.\n\nPogba-less United show further cause for concern\n\nManchester United improved after the break, but it would have been hard not to do so after a poor first half.\n\nMarcus Rashford had tested Bernd Leno in the first minute, but once they went behind to Pepe's opener, they struggled to match Arsenal's superior energy in midfield.\n\nJesse Lingard, who returned to the starting line-up, was hardly involved while Nemanja Matic could not get to grips with Ozil, Torreira or Xhaka, who were often one step ahead.\n\nIt was another game where Solskjaer's team missed the influence of Pogba, who has not started a game in three months. After the game, the United boss said the French midfielder had picked up an ankle injury which would need an operation, keeping him out for \"three or four weeks\".\n\nPrior to the game, it had been hinted that Pogba would be fit to play.\n\nUnited did lift their game once Lingard was substituted, with his replacement Andreas Pereira almost making an instant impact as he hit the side netting.\n\nThere were also chances for Fred and substitute Mason Greenwood, but without the injured Scott McTominay, and the ongoing problems with Pogba, United looked short on creativity in midfield and need to find solutions quickly should they want to maintain a top-four challenge.\n• None This was Arsenal's first Premier League win this season against a team currently in the top half of the Premier League (P10 W1 D4 L5).\n• None Nicolas Pepe has scored all his five goals for Arsenal in all competitions in London - four at the Emirates and one at London Stadium.\n• None Arsenal have scored eight goals via corners in the Premier League this season, two more than any other team.\n• None Manchester United have now lost four of their past five away Premier League visits to Arsenal (W1).\n\nArsenal host Leeds on Monday, 6 January in the FA Cup third round (kick-off 19:56 GMT), while Manchester United travel to Wolves on Saturday, 4 January (kick-off 17:31) in a repeat of their quarter-final defeat last season.\n• None Attempt missed. Fred (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Juan Mata with a through ball.\n• None Matteo Guendouzi (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Sokratis (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alexandre Lacazette.\n• None Attempt saved. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Martial. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThey voted 358 to 234 - a majority of 124 - in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament.\n\nThe bill would also ban an extension of the transition period - during which the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020.\n\nThe PM said the country was now \"one step closer to getting Brexit done\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn told his MPs to vote against the bill, saying there was \"a better and fairer way\" to leave the EU - but six of them backed the government.\n\nMr Johnson insists a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timescale is unrealistic.\n\nThe bill had been expected to pass easily after the Conservatives won an 80-seat majority at last week's general election.\n\nMPs also backed the timetable for further debate on the bill over three days when they return after the Christmas recess - on 7, 8 and 9 January.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe government says it will get the bill into law in time for the 31 January Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation, which would implement the Brexit agreement the prime minister reached with the EU in October, was introduced in Thursday's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year.\n\n\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nThere are changes to the previous bill, which was backed by the Commons in October, but withdrawn by the government after MPs rejected a three-day deadline for getting it through Parliament.\n\nThe bill also loses a previous clause on strengthening workers' rights.\n\nThe government now says it will deal with this issue in a separate piece of legislation, but the TUC has warned that the change will help \"drive down\" working conditions.\n\nBeginning the debate in the Commons, the prime minister said his bill \"learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament\" and \"rejects any further delay\".\n\n\"It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done. It will be over,\" he told MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We still believe this is a terrible deal\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said the government's \"mishandling of Brexit\" had \"paralysed the political system,\" divided communities and was a \"national embarrassment\".\n\nHe said MPs \"have to respect the decision\" of the EU referendum in 2016 \"and move on\".\n\n\"However, that doesn't mean that we as a party should abandon our basic principles,\" he said.\n\n\"Labour will not support this bill, as we remain certain there is a better and fairer way for this country to leave the EU.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"Scotland still totally and utterly rejects Brexit, yet the prime minister is blindly hurtling towards the cliff edge with these Brexit plans that will leave us poorer, leave us worse off.\"\n\nOn the change in the bill that would legally prohibit the government from extending the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, Mr Blackford said: \"By placing that deadline, that risk of a no-deal Brexit, that we all fear is very much, is on the table again.\"\n\nAnd the Democratic Unionist Party's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was a \"major contradiction\" in the prime minister's deal \"that causes us great concern\".\n\nHe said, while it mentioned \"unfettered access\" for Northern Ireland when it comes to trade in the UK, it also had customs arrangements \"that inhibit our ability to have that unfettered access\".\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. But the subsequent difficulties in getting Brexit through Parliament have caused gridlock at Westminster.\n\nAn earlier withdrawal agreement - reached between previous PM Mrs May and the EU - was rejected three times by MPs.", "Kai Evitt with the pair of goalkeeping gloves signed by David de Gea\n\nFootball-loving Kai Evitt's Christmas wishes were answered when he received a pair of custom-made gloves.\n\nThe gloves, supplied by former Scottish professional footballer Kenny Arthur, were a godsend to the nine-year-old, who was born with a condition called ectrodactyly - meaning he is missing some fingers and toes.\n\nKai, from Belfast, had wanted the gloves so he could follow in the footsteps of his hero, Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea.\n\nNow the Spanish shot-stopper has given the youngster a New Year boost by sending him a signed copy of his own gloves.\n\nKai's mother Deborah said her son was \"completely overwhelmed\" when the gloves arrived in the post on Tuesday.\n\n\"At first I think Kai just thought they were a new pair of gloves and he was really excited,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"The gloves are signed 'To Kai, Best Wishes David de Gea', when he saw that he was blown away.\n\n\"He was beyond excited, he was completely overwhelmed. He will never forget this.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by David de Gea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Evitt, who is an Arsenal supporter, said when she tweeted about the arrival of the gloves, de Gea responded with the simple message \"Enjoy\".\n\n\"Kai's dad who is a Manchester United fan thinks I am going to convert but that would be too much,\" she said.\n\nShe said the signed gloves would be boxed and take pride of place in Kai's football-themed bedroom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Evitt added Kai was already getting plenty of wear out of the specially-made gloves provided by Kenny Arthur, the Partick Thistle goalkeeping coach who established his own goalkeeping glove brand after a career spanning 20 years.\n\n\"The gloves are pure black now, they started out white,\" she said.\n\n\"He played his first football match for Shankill Juniors last Sunday, he loved it so much and he has another match this week.\"\n\nMs Evitt said Kai's story showed how one kind gesture could go a long way.\n\n\"This was all down to an act of generosity, a small act of kindness that can manifest and ripple into life-changing things for people,\" she added.", "The area has been cordoned off while police investigate\n\nTwo people have been found dead at a house in Derbyshire, prompting a double murder investigation.\n\nOfficers were called to the home in New Zealand Lane, Duffield, at about 04:00 GMT where a man and a woman were found fatally injured inside.\n\nA 39-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of two counts of murder.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nThey added no-one else was in the house at the time.\n\nThe victims have not yet been formally identified but officers were supporting their families, a police spokesperson said.\n\nNew Zealand Lane remains closed while officers continue investigations at the scene.\n\nPolice thanked residents for their \"patience and understanding\" over the road closure.\n\nPeople living nearby have said they were shocked by what has happened in what they said was usually a quiet area.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britons should make a \"heroic new year's resolution\" to contact someone they have drifted apart from, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.\n\nJustin Welby called for the UK to \"start healing some of the divisions that we've seen over recent years\", in his new year message.\n\n\"It could be someone you've always wanted to connect with... [or] someone you really disagree with,\" he said.\n\n\"Pick one person. Pick up the phone. Send them a text.\"\n\nThe archbishop's message focused on heroism and hope - themes inspired by a recent visit to Dover lifeboat station.\n\nIt was broadcast on BBC One earlier and will be repeated on BBC Two at 16:30 GMT, as well as being available to watch on iPlayer.\n\nMr Welby met RNLI volunteers and was shown around a rescue boat as part of the programme.\n\n\"We rightly think of lifeboat crews as heroic, although they may be embarrassed to hear that. Yet every time we reach out and connect with someone, it is an act of heroism. Don't underestimate it,\" he said.\n\n\"Let's go for a heroic new year's resolution. Let's resolve to reconnect,\" Mr Welby added.\n\n\"To reach out to just one person we don't know, or from whom we have drifted apart... Meet them for a cup of tea. Make that connection. Let's begin cementing our unity one brick at a time.\"\n\nThe archbishop's message is echoed in an open letter by leaders of prominent British organisations - including figures on both sides of the Brexit debate.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn and Emily Eavis are signatories on the open letter\n\nThey say the 2020s should be a \"decade of reconnection\" and that people should resolve to \"to start rebuilding connections between neighbours and fellow citizens\".\n\nThey write that the UK \"feels more fragmented than any of us would like\", but add: \"While our politics and media have become more polarised we, as people, have not. There is much that we share with each other.\"\n\nThe former heads of the Leave and Remain referendum campaigns, Matthew Elliott and Will Straw, are among the signatories, alongside Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis, Girlguiding chief Angela Salt, and CBI director Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how London celebrated the start of 2020\n\nRevellers across the UK have rung in the start of a new decade, with fireworks displays in London, Edinburgh and other major cities.\n\nIn London, some 12,000 fireworks lit up the capital's skyline.\n\nEdinburgh hosted what it promised would be the UK's \"biggest street party\" as part of the city's Hogmanay celebrations.\n\nFirework shows were also held in other cities including Manchester, Cardiff, Newcastle, Inverness and Nottingham.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, in his new year message, said the UK was on the verge of a \"new chapter\" in its history and promised to \"finish the job\" by delivering Brexit within weeks.\n\nHe said he hoped the country would \"move forward united\" after it leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nMeanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury used his message to suggest that Britons should make a \"heroic new year's resolution\" to contact someone they have drifted apart from.\n\nAn explosion of colour lit the sky by Westminster Abbey\n\nThe display - over the River Thames - was promised to be the best the capital had \"ever seen\" by London Mayor Sadiq Khan\n\nThe London Mayor said the fireworks celebrated the capital as a \"global city\" and a \"European city\"\n\nPartygoers lined the Thames and boarded boats for a view of the display\n\nSome 100,000 revellers packed into the areas around the Victoria Embankment\n\nIn London, Big Ben's chimes sounded the start of the display, despite them being silent this year while renovation work is completed.\n\nAround 100,000 revellers packed into the streets around Victoria Embankment as the roar of football anthems such as Three Lions kicked off the new decade, with the festivities providing a prelude to the Euro 2020 football tournament.\n\nMusic from artists including Stormzy, Wiley and Bastille also featured in a display London Mayor Sadiq Khan said would be the best the capital \"has ever seen\".\n\n\"We may be leaving the European Union, but we're not leaving Europe. So tonight's fireworks celebrate us as a global city, us as a European city,\" he added.\n\nHe stressed that London and the UK need to be brought \"together again\" in the 2020s.\n\n\"I'm not pretending that fireworks and one night can do that, but I think it's really important [that] we celebrate, tonight, some great things about our city and our country,\" he said.\n\nOn social media, some praised the spectacular display while others complained that a build-up of smoke obscured the view.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by sams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said there were 15 arrests at the celebrations in central London, including two arrests for offences involving fireworks and one for sexual assault.\n\nIn Edinburgh, more than 3,600 fireworks were let off from the castle as the Scottish capital celebrated Hogmanay.\n\nIn Edinburgh, street parties have been taking place to celebrate Hogmanay\n\nThe city's famous castle was the focal point for the fireworks display\n\nThe Scottish capital was packed with people seeing in the new year and new decade\n\nMusical artists including DJ Mark Ronson, Idlewild, Rudimental and Marc Almond performed on stages throughout the city centre.\n\nTens of thousands of people attended the party, which extended across more than a dozen streets in the city.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said it had an \"exceptionally busy\" Hogmanay across the nation, with more than 2,500 calls in the 12 hours from 19:00 GMT on 31 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first places to welcome 2020 included the tiny Pacific island of Kiribati, neighbouring parts of Samoa and the Chatham Islands.\n\nAuckland in New Zealand was the first major city to ring in the new decade, with thousands welcoming 2020 at a fireworks display at the city's Sky Tower.\n\nThe traditional fireworks display in Sydney Harbour also went ahead, despite calls for it to be cancelled due to Australia's bushfire crisis.\n\nEuropean cities, including Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Athens, have also seen in the new year with firework displays.\n\nThe uninhabited Baker Island and Howland Island, on the other side of the International Date Line, were the last to leave 2019 behind.", "David Stern, the former commissioner of the US National Basketball Association (NBA), has died at the age of 77.\n\nHe had been in a serious condition after suffering a brain haemorrhage in December.\n\nStern was the NBA's longest-serving commissioner, holding the job for 30 years until retiring in February 2014.\n\nHe is credited with massively increasing the sport's revenues and popularity at home and abroad during his tenure.\n\n\"Because of David, the NBA is a truly global brand - making him not only one of the greatest sports commissioners of all time but also one of the most influential business leaders of his generation,\" his successor, Adam Silver, said in a statement.\n\n\"Every member of the NBA family is the beneficiary of David's vision, generosity and inspiration.\"\n\nMillions of sports fans worldwide now follow the NBA and its stars, including LeBron James\n\nStern took over the NBA in February 1984. Basketball then drew in smaller television audiences and less money than other US sports like baseball and American football.\n\nBut during his time in charge he helped build the NBA's profile with a focus on its star players - making people like Michael Jordan household names around the world.\n\nSeven new teams joined the league during his three decades in charge, including two in Canada. One of these - the Toronto Raptors - won their first NBA title in June. He also oversaw the creation of the Women's NBA in 1997.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Celebrations erupted on the streets of Toronto after the Raptors' historic win\n\nBy the time Stern handed control of the NBA over to his deputy Adam Silver in February 2014 - thirty years to the day after taking the job - more than 200 countries were broadcasting US basketball games.\n\nLast season was the sixth in which more than 100 international stars played in the NBA.\n\nBorn in 1942 in New York, he attended Columbia Law School and first became affiliated with the NBA through work for a prominent law firm which represented the league in the 1960s.\n\nHe became the NBA's general counsel in 1978 and executive vice president in 1980, before taking the top role four years later.\n\nStern died in hospital in Manhattan surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife Dianne and two sons, Eric and Andrew.", "The co-director of Edinburgh's Hogmanay has said a balance has to be struck in the needs of local people and visitors.\n\nEd Bartlam of Underbelly was speaking after the event which ushered in 2020, which he said had been a success.\n\nThe days leading to the event saw some residents of the city centre voice concerns about access restrictions.\n\nMr Bartlam said he had seen many local people joining visitors in enjoying what is described as \"the UK's biggest street party\".\n\nHe said: \"Balance is the key word. You've got to find the balance of viewpoints.\n\n\"There's a view of some people in the city that there's too many events related to tourism.\n\n\"But there's a huge majority, I think, that just love these events, love Hogmanay.\"\n\nMr Bartlam added: \"It's our job to continue to improve the infrastructure, continue to make it easier for residents and citizens of the city, and that we'll continue to do without losing the vibrancy and the scale of the event.\"\n\nDJ Mark Ronson headlined the event during which he created a \"mega mix\" soundtrack to accompany the fireworks display over Edinburgh Castle.\n\nHogmanay events were also held in other parts of Scotland, including Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness and Stirling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Revellers gather for the fireballs procession in Stonehaven\n\nMembers of the PyroCeltics performed at a street party in Edinburgh\n\nMark Ronson was headlining the Princes Street Gardens event for the first time\n\nApproximately 100,000 visitors were expected to attend events across Edinburgh over the three days of the Hogmanay festival.\n\nTV stars Dick and Dom took to the stage in Princes Street Gardens early on Tuesday evening as crowds gathered, playing music and introducing the first firework display of the night.\n\nPerformances from Idlewild, Rudimental and Marc Almond also took place on stages throughout the city centre.\n\nOrganisers used 3.3 tonnes of fireworks for the midnight spectacle over Edinburgh Castle\n\nMore than 3.3 tonnes of fireworks were installed at Edinburgh Castle for the midnight display, with organisers saying the forecast clear skies meant the event would be seen in \"high definition\".\n\nStreet theatre, circus acts and musical performances were on show across more than a dozen streets in the Scottish capital, including the city's main thoroughfare Princes Street and its adjacent gardens.\n\nThere had been criticism of the event's organisation, amid uncertainty around how many passes residents were allowed, with Underbelly - which also runs events at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - accused of creating \"unnecessary confusion\" by the council leader.\n\nThey were also criticised for replacing a nativity sculpture with figurines for a whisky company.\n\nThe festivities began in the city on Monday as 40,000 people joined a torchlight procession which culminated in them forming the shape of two humans reaching out a \"hand of friendship\".\n\nThe festivities began on Monday with a torchlight procession\n\nLeading the parade down the Royal Mile and into Holyrood Park was a 40-strong cast from Celtic Fire Theatre company PyroCeltica.\n\nThe three-day festival in Edinburgh will continue into New Year's day with a Loony Dook in South Queensferry as well as a series of events in the city centre.\n\nStirling hosted two fireworks displays, one of which was for families as part of its winter festival, while Inverness hosted over 10,000 people in Northern Meeting Park for the city's free Hogmanay party.\n\nIn Aberdeen, a street party with live music was held at Schoolhill, while BBC Scotland broadcast live from Stonehaven for the traditional fireballs parade.\n\nA planned outdoor Hogmanay party in Dundee's City Square was transferred to a city centre nightclub, with acts including Eddi Reader and The View singer Kyle Falconer.\n\nOver 10,000 people are expected to gather in Northern Meeting Park later for Inverness's free Hogmanay party.\n\nThe Red Hot Highland Fling - which has a reputation for being a family friendly event - was first staged 10 years ago.\n\nIt will feature some of the top acts from contemporary Celtic music including Skippinnish and Torridon.\n\nFor the ninth year running tonight's event is being hosted by comedian Craig Hill.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Nine\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reggie and Simon still believe in package holidays\n\nNew research suggests most people still want to book package holidays despite what happened after the collapse of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe failure of the UK's oldest travel company highlighted the consumer protection provided for holidays booked through an agent.\n\nThat's what Simon Whitwood thinks. He and his partner, Reggie Grice-Whitwood, saved for three years for their luxury three-week honeymoon to the Dominican Republic.\n\nSimon and Reggie live in Birkenhead, Merseyside. They both work in residential nursing homes providing palliative end-of-life care.\n\nThe couple flew out the day Thomas Cook went into liquidation on Monday 23 September.\n\n\"We were getting excited about our holiday - we managed to get an extra week off work,\" says Simon.\n\n\"We had saved £3,500. But just as we went through passport control, I got a message from my mum saying that Thomas Cook was about to go under. If we didn't go, we would have lost everything.\"\n\nSimon says they weren't able to enjoy their holiday because they were worried about how they were going to get home.\n\n\"It wasn't like a holiday where you could relax and let your hair down, because there was constant nagging in the back of your head,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe couple's holiday was cut short by two days, but they were returned home to the UK on a flight organised by the Civil Aviation Authority as part of Operation Matterhorn, as the rescue of stranded holidaymakers was dubbed.\n\nDespite their experiences, Simon and Reggie want to relive the holiday without the stress. They've started saving up again and plan to return to the Dominican Republic in the next couple of years.\n\nThey say they'll book the holiday as a package because of the consumer protection offer by the ATOL scheme, administered by the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nThe ATOL scheme started in 1973 after a spate of travel businesses failed, leaving people stranded overseas. Everyone who books a package holiday pays £2.50 into it.\n\nIf a travel company goes bust, the money is used to bring travellers home. If they haven't been away yet, they will be refunded.\n\nSimon and Reggie are not alone in wanting to book a package deal. Research for Radio 4's You & Yours suggests there is still confidence in the package holiday market.\n\nConsumer analysts Savvy Marketing surveyed more than 1,000 holidaymakers. Nearly two-thirds say they're still happy to book a package holiday, despite what happened at Thomas Cook.\n\nThe package holiday market has had five consecutive years of growth, according to the Office for National Statistics. Many of these holidays are booked through High Street agents.\n\nPolka Dot Travel has 18 travel agents and plans to open at least two more shops in 2020.\n\nThe group's head of sales, Jenny Lyons, told You and Yours: \"Ten years ago, everyone booked their holidays online. People thought they were saving money by booking travel and accommodation separately.\n\n\"But people want reassurance now and you can't put a price on that. Nothing can take the place of the travel agent who you build a relationship with.\"\n\nOther companies are also expanding into the package holiday market.\n\nNo-frills airline EasyJet recently announced it is offering more package holiday deals, while Virgin Holidays is also cashing in on the gap left by the collapse of Thomas Cook.\n\nVirgin Holidays managing director Joe Thompson says demand for package holidays has remained resilient and demand for 2020 is high.\n\n\"People will always want to go on holiday,\" he says. \"This year, holidaymakers will be looking for bespoke package deals which might be multi-location.\"\n\nPaul Smith from the Civil Aviation Authority that administers the ATOL scheme said: \"We repatriated 140,000 people, most of them when they expected to come home. The ATOL scheme is still in place and people should book with confidence this year.\"\n\nYou and Yours' special on the package holiday industry airs at 12:15 on Wednesday 1 January on BBC Radio 4.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish singer beat even Ed Sheeran in the end-of-year album chart\n\nLewis Capaldi was the UK's best-selling artist of 2019, as music consumption grew for the fifth year in a row.\n\nThe Scottish star had both the top album and single of the year, with his ballad Someone You Loved racking up 228 million streams.\n\nThe industry is now dominated by streaming - with fans cueing up 114 billion songs last year, a new record.\n\nVinyl sales also rose again. Liam Gallagher's Why Me? Why Not was the most popular LP, selling 29,000 copies.\n\nAccording to trade body the BPI, streaming is now responsible for three-quarters of \"album equivalent sales\" - the metric used by the industry to convert consumption on services like Spotify and Amazon Music into album sales (generally speaking, 1,000 streams generate one \"sale\").\n\nJust three years ago, the technology was only responsible for 36% of album sales.\n\nThe explosion in popularity of on-demand music has turned the fortunes of the industry around, with album sales up 13% since 2010. Revenues, however, have not grown at a similar pace, as streaming pays less than real-world sales.\n\nThe year's biggest hit singles included Lil Nas X's country-rap crossover Old Town Road and Ava Max's pop smash Sweet But Psycho.\n\nSales of CDs continued to nosedive, with 26.5 million sold over the last 12 months - a drop of 26.8%.\n\nBy contrast, vinyl sales rose by 4.1%, with the format now accounting for one in every eight albums bought in the UK. In total, there were 4.3m vinyl sales, marking the 12th consecutive year of growth.\n\nBig-sellers included Billie Eilish's debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and perennial classics like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Queen's Greatest Hits.\n\nCassettes also proved surprisingly popular, with more than 80,000 tapes sold in 2019 - the highest figure since 2004.\n\nThe tally was boosted by Robbie Williams' number one album A Christmas Present, which sold more than 10,000 cassette copies in a single week in December.\n\nHowever, his success had more to do with marketing than a sudden surge in affection for the archaic format - the cassettes were sold as part of a merchandise bundle on his website, packaged with signed copies of the CD.\n\nBillie Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? was the year's second-biggest seller on vinyl and cassette\n\nThe popularity of cassettes and vinyl \"shows fans still love a physical, tangible music artefact in their hands\", said Vanessa Higgins, chief executive of music label Regent Street Records.\n\nOverall, 154 million albums were either streamed, bought or or downloaded - the largest amount since 2006, when the figure stood at 161.4 million.\n\nThat year, the best-selling single was Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, and the most popular album was Snow Patrol's Eyes Open.\n\nGeoff Taylor, head of the BPI, said the latest figures proved British music had a \"bright future\".\n\n\"Strong demand for streaming music and vinyl, fuelled by the investment and innovation of UK labels in discovering and promoting new talent, boosted music consumption to levels not seen for 15 years,\" he said.\n\n\"But the full benefits of this growth can only be unlocked if our new government takes action to make the UK more competitive and encourage further investment, to require digital platforms to pay fairly for music and filter out illegal content, and to give all our schoolchildren the opportunity to play an instrument and discover the joy of making music.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Mercedes HGV left the road after colliding with a white Toyota Yaris\n\nThree British Airways cabin crew members died in a crash involving a lorry and a car outside Heathrow Airport on New Year's Eve.\n\nA white Toyota Yaris collided with a Mercedes HGV on Bedfont Road, in Stanwell, at about 23:40 GMT.\n\nTwo men aged 25 and 23 and a 20-year-old woman, who were in the Yaris, died at the scene. A fourth passenger, a 25 year-old woman, was seriously injured.\n\nBritish Airways said it was \"deeply saddened\" by the news.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with their family and friends, who we are supporting at this distressing time.\"\n\nTheir next of kin have been informed.\n\nA Go Fund Me page set up in memory of the three called \"BA Angels Fund\" had raised almost £35,000 in its first seven hours.\n\nThe page, which appears to have been started by colleagues, says: \"I have set up this fund to raise money so that we as a fleet can send a nice flower arrangement to the three crew members' funerals and hopefully make a nice donation to a charity of the families' choosing….\n\n\"I know it is January and I know that money is tight but I know that as a fleet we will pull together and make this happen.\"\n\nThe driver of the lorry was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe road remained closed on Wednesday to allow the lorry to be recovered.\n\nThe lorry was operated by air services provider dnata, which offers ground handling, cargo, travel, and flight catering services to airlines.\n\nA dnata spokesman said: \"We can confirm that one of our trucks was involved in a road traffic accident on the evening of 31 December.\n\n\"We are fully assisting relevant authorities with their investigations. Our thoughts and condolences are with the families of those affected by this very sad incident.\"\n\nSgt Chris Schultze, of Surrey and Sussex Roads Policing Unit, said: \"We are continuing to appeal for witnesses to what happened and would urge anyone who may have any video footage, CCTV or dash cam or any other kind, to get in touch with us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Retired police officer Charles Nunn, pictured here as a young man, died in December\n\nThe community of Aberfan has paid tribute to a retired police officer for his work during the disaster more than 50 years ago.\n\nHe ran a make-shift mortuary in a chapel in the south Wales village after a slag heap engulfed Pantglas Junior School on 21 October 1966.\n\nMr Nunn, from Mumbles, Swansea, helped families identify the bodies of 116 children and 28 adults.\n\n\"I am still to this day struck by their sheer dignity as they queued in the rain waiting to identify their child,\" he told BBC Wales just weeks before his death.\n\nJeff Edwards MBE, the last surviving child to be rescued from the remains of the school, said: \"It was with great sadness that we heard of the passing of Charles Nunn who as a police officer at the time of the Aberfan disaster had the responsibility of identification of bodies and liaising with bereaved families.\n\n\"The impact on him like other rescuers was profound and had a lasting impact for the rest of his life.\"\n\nIn 1966 Mr Nunn, then an Acting Inspector in the Regional Crime Squad, had been specially trained by Scotland Yard to deal with major incidents.\n\n\"On the morning of Friday the 21st of October I had a wireless message to pick up what we called the 'murder bag' which was a case full of paperwork, labels and statements - all the things we needed to deal with a big murder inquiry - and get to Merthyr,\" he told the BBC before he died.\n\n\"I thought we were going to deal with a murder case. But, of course, it didn't turn out like that.\"\n\nSafety warnings over the slagheap had gone unheeded\n\nSeveral warnings over the safety of \"tip number seven\" - a gigantic slagheap or spoil tip consisting of waste from coal production at the nearby Merthyr Vale Colliery which loomed a quarter of a mile high on top of the mountain over Aberfan - had gone unheeded.\n\nJust minutes after the children of Pantglas Junior School, whose families depended so heavily on the mine, filed into the classrooms, survivors recalled the lights began to flicker and sway - and then a roar, like \"a jet plane screaming low over the school in the fog\".\n\nA torrent of some 300,000 cubic yards (229,300 cubic metres) of coal waste crashed down the mountain engulfing the school and 28 neighbouring houses.\n\n\"Merthyr Borough Police in whose area Aberfan fell only had a hundred officers; they couldn't cope. So they asked for outside assistance,\" said Mr Nunn.\n\n\"We were asked to handle the identification of the bodies which were being recovered from the school and nearby houses.\n\n\"Nobody had a clue how many there was going to be. We thought we might be dealing with half a dozen dead. We had no idea there was going to be 144 dead. At the time we didn't comprehend the number.\n\nMr Nunn said officers had not comprehended the number of bodies they would find\n\n\"And because in Aberfan there was no gymnasium, no big church hall, no proper facilities it was decided that Bethania Chapel in Aberfan Road would be the location.\n\n\"It was a typical Welsh Baptist chapel, very dingy, very dour downstairs, there was a small staircase on either side leading to an upstairs gallery and in the back the Sunday school room which had one toilet, one cold water sink and that was it.\n\n\"We set up the incident room in this funny little chapel and two of us were designated the senior identification officers and our job was to make sure that when a body was released it was the right body; very difficult when you've got lots of little boys and lots of little girls.\"\n\nMr Nunn described in detail his experience of the 15 days he spent in Bethania Chapel in an article to mark the 50th anniversary of the disaster in 2016.\n\nEach time the otherwise stoic crime detective recalled his experience in Aberfan, he was moved to tears.\n\nMr Nunn had a distinguished career in the police\n\nA few weeks before his death, he said: \"I always remember a chap called the Reverend Hayes, Kenneth Hayes. He lost his son, Dyfrig, in the school. And he used to come into the chapel helping his parishioners.\n\n\"I said to him one day 'Mr Hayes, I don't know how you can do it, you've lost your son'. And he said to me 'well, my faith is such and that of my wife that we know we're going to be reunited one day. The only thing we wonder is he going to be a young man or still six years old?' He was quite amazing, quite something. He and his wife are now buried beside their son in west Wales.\"\n\nFollowing a distinguished career across south Wales which had begun in the Military Police, Charles Nunn had also worked for Bechuanaland Mounted Police, Botswana, and the Royal Oman Police.\n\nHe is survived by his wife, Elaine, a retired police officer from Blackwood, four step-children, six step-grandchildren and three step-great grandchildren.", "Hogmanay celebrations have taken place across Scotland as crowds gathered to usher in the new year.\n\nTens of thousands in Edinburgh welcomed in 2020 for what was billed as the UK's biggest street party.\n\nDJ Mark Ronson headlined the event during which he created a \"mega mix\" soundtrack to accompany the fireworks display over Edinburgh Castle.\n\nHogmanay events were also held in other parts of Scotland, including Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness and Stirling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Revellers gather for the fireballs procession in Stonehaven\n\nMembers of the PyroCeltics performed at a street party in Edinbrugh\n\nMark Ronson was headlining the Princes Street Gardens event for the first time\n\nApproximately 100,000 visitors were expected to attend events across Edinburgh over the three days of the Hogmanay festival.\n\nTV stars Dick and Dom took to the stage in Princes Street Gardens early on Tuesday evening as crowds gathered, playing music and introducing the first firework display of the night.\n\nPerformances from Idlewild, Rudimental and Marc Almond also took place on stages throughout the city centre.\n\nOrganisers used 3.3 tonnes of fireworks for the midnight spectacle over Edinburgh Castle\n\nMore than 3.3 tonnes of fireworks were installed at Edinburgh Castle for the midnight display, with organisers saying the forecast clear skies meant the event would be seen in \"high definition\".\n\nStreet theatre, circus acts and musical performances were on show across more than a dozen streets in the Scottish capital, including the city's main thoroughfare Princes Street and its adjacent gardens.\n\nThere had been criticism of the event's organisation, amid uncertainty around how many passes residents were allowed, with Underbelly accused of creating \"unnecessary confusion\" by the council leader.\n\nThey were also criticised for replacing a nativity sculpture with figurines for a whisky company.\n\nThe festivities began in the city on Monday as 40,000 people joined a torchlight procession which culminated in them forming the shape of two humans reaching out a \"hand of friendship\".\n\nThe festivities began on Monday with a torchlight procession\n\nLeading the parade down the Royal Mile and into Holyrood Park was a 40-strong cast from Celtic Fire Theatre company PyroCeltica.\n\nThe three-day festival in Edinburgh will continue into New Year's day with a Loony Dook in South Queensferry as well as a series of events in the city centre.\n\nStirling hosted two fireworks displays, one of which was for families as part of its winter festival, while Inverness hosted over 10,000 people in Northern Meeting Park for the city's free Hogmanay party.\n\nIn Aberdeen, a street party with live music was held at Schoolhill, while BBC Scotland broadcast live from Stonehaven for the traditional fireballs parade.\n\nA planned outdoor Hogmanay party in Dundee's City Square was transferred to a city centre nightclub, with acts including Eddi Reader and The View singer Kyle Falconer.\n\nOver 10,000 people are expected to gather in Northern Meeting Park later for Inverness's free Hogmanay party.\n\nThe Red Hot Highland Fling - which has a reputation for being a family friendly event - was first staged 10 years ago.\n\nIt will feature some of the top acts from contemporary Celtic music including Skippinnish and Torridon.\n\nFor the ninth year running tonight's event is being hosted by comedian Craig Hill.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Nine\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The parade and plunge into the Firth of Forth has become an annual event\n\nHundreds of hardy New Year revellers have defied the chills of the Firth of Forth to take part in the annual Loony Dook in South Queensferry.\n\nSome people took to the water in fancy dress while other brave souls opted for swimwear.\n\nCharities including the RNLI benefit from the parade and plunge, which is part of Edinburgh's Hogmanay.\n\nSimilar new year swims took place across Scotland, including at Castle Douglas, Portobello and Loch Ness.\n• None Fireballs welcome the new year", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nScotsman Peter Wright captured his first PDC World Championship title with a superb 7-3 win over 2019 champion Michael van Gerwen at Alexandra Palace.\n\nThe 49-year-old lost 7-4 to Van Gerwen in the 2014 final and had previously lost 10 of his 11 major finals.\n\nBut Wright raced into a 2-0 lead and with the three-time champion missing doubles, built a 6-3 advantage.\n\nSeventh seed Wright, who survived a sudden-death shootout in round two, is the second oldest winner of the event.\n\nPhil Taylor won the last of his 16 world titles aged 53 in 2013.\n\n\"Champion of the world sounds amazing. You should never give up, it doesn't matter how many times you get beaten,\" an emotional Wright told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I couldn't believe that first dart [for the match] didn't go in, or the second one - and I thought 'don't do it again' but I've done it.\"\n\nVan Gerwen had a slightly higher average than Wright - 102.88 to 102.79 - but landed only 40% of his doubles against 53% from the champion.\n\nIn his fifth world final and seeking his third crown in the past four years, 30-year-old Dutchman Van Gerwen was eyeing a 60th win in his 79th encounter with Wright and an eighth successive major final victory over the colourful Scot.\n\nBoth players came into the final with a 44% doubles success rate but Wright missed three darts for the opening leg, although his consistency soon sealed the first set after Van Gerwen clipped the wire of the bullseye with his attempt at a 170 finish in the decider.\n\nAveraging 105.02, Wright raced through the next set 3-1, before the champion needed only 37 darts to take the third 3-0.\n\nVan Gerwen levelled the match at 2-2 after Wright missed his favourite double top that would have given him a two-set lead again.\n\nBut Van Gerwen, who won all six of his major finals in 2019, was in arrears at the interval as Wright recorded a 10-dart finish and then saw the Dutchman squander six darts for the next leg.\n\nWith Van Gerwen continuing to miss the doubles, Wright duly moved two sets clear again, taking the sixth 3-0 and soon led by two for the third time at 5-3.\n\nFind out how to get into darts with our special guide.\n\nBoth players missed two darts to win the ninth set but Wright eventually claimed it to move within one set of the title.\n\nVan Gerwen missed double 12 for the first nine-dart finish of the tournament and he was soon to miss out on the overall prize as well as the assured Wright sank double 10 at the third time of asking to land the sport's biggest prize.\n\nVan Gerwen lamented: \"Of course I'm very disappointed. Everything I missed he took out, his finishing was phenomenal and I can only blame myself.\n\n\"I had six darts to break throw in the fifth set and if you don't take chances like that against a player like Peter Wright you don't win, simple as that.\"", "Carlos Ghosn, the former boss of Nissan, managed to leave Japan where he was awaiting trial\n\nHe was once a titan of the car industry who held hero status in Japan. He then became one of the country's most well-known criminal suspects. Now he's an international fugitive.\n\nCarlos Ghosn, the multi-millionaire former boss of Nissan, spent months preparing to stand trial on financial misconduct charges. At least, that was what the Japanese authorities were led to believe.\n\nHe posted 1bn yen (£6.8m; $8.9m) in bail in April. He was monitored by a 24-hour camera installed outside his house. His use of technology was heavily restricted and he was banned from travelling abroad.\n\nThen, in a move that left Japan red-faced and his own legal team baffled, he appeared in Lebanon on New Year's Eve. \"I have escaped injustice and political persecution,\" he declared in a statement.\n\n\"I am dumbfounded,\" his lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, told reporters in Tokyo shortly after learning of Mr Ghosn's flight. \"I want to ask him, 'How could you do this to us?'\"\n\nAnother pressing question is: how did he do it at all?\n\nOn 8 January, in his first public comments since fleeing, Mr Ghosn refused to say how he managed to leave Japan.\n\nHe told a news conference in Beirut that he would clear his name despite being on the run, and joked that he was used to \"mission impossible\".\n\nReports suggest that description may not be wide of the mark.\n\nThe former CEO's getaway from Tokyo to Beirut was meticulously planned over a period of several weeks or months, according to numerous media reports.\n\nMr Ghosn walked out of his Tokyo house despite cameras and other security measures\n\nJapanese broadcaster NHK reported that CCTV footage showed Mr Ghosn leaving his house and walking about 800m to a nearby hotel in the middle of the afternoon on 29 December. There he joined two men, thought to be Americans.\n\nThe three then boarded a train to Osaka and went to a hotel near Kansai international airport. Two hours later, the two men were seen leaving with two large containers, according to NHK. No cameras captured Mr Ghosn - the implication being that he was inside one of the containers.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified sources, said a team was carefully assembled to carry out the plot. The group reportedly included accomplices in Japan who transported Mr Ghosn from his house and onto a private jet bound for Istanbul. From there, he continued his journey to Beirut where he arrived in the early hours of 30 December.\n\nThe plane tracking site FlightRadar24 showed a Bombardier Challenger private jet arriving at Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport shortly after 04:00 local time. Mr Ghosn then met his wife Carole, who was born in the city and was heavily involved in the operation, the Wall Street Journal says.\n\nThe ex-Nissan boss was pictured leaving prison while disguised as a workman in March 2019\n\nAn earlier MTV Lebanon report, which now appears to be inaccurate, suggested Mr Ghosn fled with the assistance of a paramilitary group who were disguised amongst a band of musicians.\n\nThe 65-year-old was said to have hid in a large musical instrument case. The broadcaster provided no proof for this theory which, unsurprisingly, spread rapidly across social media.\n\nMr Ghosn's wife, Carole, told Reuters news agency that reports of the musical escape were \"fiction\".\n\nDonning a spy-movie disguise is not beyond Mr Ghosn, however. In March, in a bid to throw journalists off his scent, he left prison disguised as a construction worker. He was quickly identified and his lawyer soon apologised for the \"amateur plan\".\n\nMr Ghosn denies his wife helped him, insisting he organised his escape \"alone\" and she has declined to provide details of the escape.\n\nBut several reports have said Carole Ghosn was a major figure behind the plan for her husband to get out of Japan. She spoke to him for more than an hour on 24 December, Mr Ghosn's Japanese lawyer said. The couple had previously been banned from meeting or communicating under Mr Ghosn's bail conditions.\n\nAfter her husband arrived in Lebanon, Mrs Ghosn told the Wall Street Journal that their reunion was \"the best gift of my life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Ghosn's wife Carole told the BBC in June that Japanese officials were trying to humiliate her husband\n\nMr Ghosn has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. He has also said media speculation that his wife had played a role in his escape was \"inaccurate and false\", adding: \"I alone arranged for my departure.\"\n\nSeveral media reports said private security operatives helped smuggle Mr Ghosn out of house arrest.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that the operatives had been planning the escape for months, and had allegedly split into several teams working in different countries. Two people familiar with the situation said the preparations were assisted by Mr Ghosn's Japanese supporters.\n\nThe former Nissan boss made his escape by flying out of Japan's Osaka airport on a private jet, the newspaper reported. It said Mr Ghosn was not required to wear any electronic tags while on bail.\n\nTwo unnamed sources close to Mr Ghosn told Reuters news agency that even the pilot of the private jet was unaware of Mr Ghosn's presence on board.\n\nQuestions remain about the documents Mr Ghosn used to enter Lebanon. He holds three passports - Brazilian, French and Lebanese - but his legal team maintain that they were in possession of all of them when he left Japan.\n\nIt is not known whether Mr Ghosn was holding duplicate passports - as businesspeople are sometimes allowed to do. It has also been reported that he may have had a diplomatic passport issued by Lebanon although this has not been confirmed.\n\nWhile the French newspaper Le Monde said he travelled on an ID card, others have reported that he may have used a French passport or even forged documents.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Ghosn told the Financial Times he had used a French passport to enter Lebanon but would not disclose how he had left Japan.\n\nGhadi Khoury, from the Lebanese foreign ministry, said the former Nissan boss had entered the country on a French passport and Lebanese ID, according to the newspaper.\n\nMr Ghosn grew up in Beirut and remains a popular figure in the city\n\nThe embarrassment caused by Mr Ghosn's flight soon sparked a reaction from Japan. One Japanese politician asked whether he \"had the support of some country\". A former governor of Tokyo was more forthright, accusing Lebanon of direct involvement.\n\nMr Ghosn grew up in Lebanon, owns property there and is a popular figure. He even appeared on one of the country's postage stamps.\n\nThe two Reuters sources said the Lebanese ambassador to Japan had visited him every day while he was in detention. The ambassador has not publicly responded to this claim.\n\nThe Lebanese government has denied any involvement in Mr Ghosn's escape.\n\n\"The government has nothing to do with [Mr Ghosn's] decision to come,\" Lebanese minister Salim Jreissati was quoted as saying by the New York Times. \"We don't know the circumstances of his arrival.\"\n\nMr Khoury told the Financial Times that Lebanon \"had asked for [Mr Ghosn's] extradition\", but said the government had not had any involvement in his plan to escape.\n\nFrance and Turkey have also said they were unaware of Mr Ghosn's plan.\n\nOn 2 January Lebanon received a \"red notice\" from Interpol for Mr Ghosn's arrest - a request to detain a person pending extradition, surrender or other legal action. However, there is no extradition deal between Japan and Lebanon.\n\nFrance, meanwhile, has said it would not extradite him if he arrived in the country as he is a French citizen.\n\nTurkey has launched an investigation into Mr Ghosn's reported stopover in Istanbul. Local media say seven people have been arrested - four pilots, a cargo company manager and two airport workers.\n\nJapan gives millions in aid to Lebanon and is likely to want Mr Ghosn returned. But it faces questions about how such a high-profile suspect was able to get out of the country in the first place.", "Mr Corbyn will continue to lead his party in Parliament into 2020\n\nJeremy Corbyn has urged Labour to lead \"the resistance\" to Boris Johnson's Tory government over the coming year despite its crushing election defeat.\n\nIn his new year message, the party's leader said it faced tough times ahead after its fourth defeat in a row but its movement remained \"very strong\".\n\nHe said there was \"no other choice\" but to continue the fight against poverty, inequality and climate change.\n\nSeveral Labour MPs responded angrily, saying Mr Corbyn was in denial.\n\nNeil Coyle, the MP for Southwark and Old Bermondsey, posted a message on Twitter with an image from 'Allo, 'Allo!, the World War Two sitcom set in France.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Coyle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Phil Wilson, who lost his Sedgefield seat to the Conservatives, said Mr Corbyn was \"one of the enablers of Boris Johnson\".\n\nThe Labour leader has said he will stand down once a successor has been elected early in 2020. A number of senior Labour politicians have said they are considering entering the race to succeed him, in a contest due to begin in earnest in January.\n\nThe early contenders include Rebecca Long-Bailey, Emily Thornberry, Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Clive Lewis - while Angela Rayner, Yvette Cooper, Jess Phillips, David Lammy and Ian Lavery could also put themselves forward if they secure enough support.\n\nIn his traditional leader's new year message, Mr Corbyn makes no direct reference to the election result or his own future, suggesting 2019 had been \"quite the year for our country and for our Labour movement\".\n\nWhile the party is set to be out of power for at least another four years, he said it must continue to make its influence felt and stand up for its values.\n\nHaving led Labour so recently to defeat, this message was hardly going to be brimming with optimism.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn does focus on his legacy as he prepares to step down. He tells his supporters that they have built a movement which is 500,000 strong and that they can form the resistance to Boris Johnson, not just in Parliament but on the streets.\n\nIn the new year, Labour members will have to decide whether they want a leader who will stick to that message or whether they want the forthcoming leadership contest to result in a change of direction.\n\n\"It won't be easy,\" he said. \"But we have built a movement. We are the resistance to Boris Johnson. We will be campaigning every day. We will be on the front line, both in Parliament and on the streets.\"\n\nHe said Labour's priorities must be to ensure the NHS remains free to all at the point of use, preventing the climate crisis causing \"irreparable damage\" at home and abroad and working with \"movements and parties seeking social justice and change all over the world\".\n\n\"Make no mistake, our movement is very strong... we're not backed by the press barons, by the billionaires or by the millionaires who work for the billionaires. We're backed by you. We are by the many, for the many.\n\n\"2020 and the years ahead will be tough - no one is saying otherwise. But we're up for the fight, to protect what we hold dear, and to build to win and to transform. The fight continues. There is no other choice.\"\n\nLabour's former deputy leader said the past two manifestos had credibility issues\n\nWith the contest to succeed him expected to take about three months, Mr Corbyn is set to continue leading the party in Parliament and the country until the spring.\n\nUnlike in 2010 and 2015, when Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband stood down straight away after election defeats, the party has no deputy leader to step in on a temporary basis, with Tom Watson having stood down at the election.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine, Mr Watson said he had yet to decide whether he would endorse any candidate but, if he did. it was \"unlikely\" to be Ms Long-Bailey or anyone else closely associated with the policies of the Corbyn era.\n\nMr Watson served as Mr Corbyn's deputy for four years although he was elected to the position by Labour members, not appointed by the leader, and disagreed with Mr Corbyn on Brexit and other issues.\n\n\"All the candidates on the frontbench need to explain the last two election defeats,\" he said. \"They signed up to the manifesto in 2017 and 2019 and clearly that was rejected by the electorate.\"\n\n\"The first thing they have to do is to explain to 500,000 Labour Party members why they think it is that we have not won an election for a decade.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon has said he will be standing in the forthcoming deputy leadership election.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Who will be Labour's next leader?", "Cracker was described by his previous owner as a \"placid, friendly, loving dog\"\n\nA dog was found tied up at a church with a note from his old owner saying \"I love you and I'm so, so, so sorry\".\n\nThe brindle and white Staffordshire bull terrier-cross, since named Cracker, was abandoned by the altar of Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool.\n\nA handwritten note left with him said: \"Life has taken a really bad turn for me and I couldn't imagine him being outside with me cold and hungry\".\n\nThe RSPCA said Cracker was doing well and \"getting lots of TLC\".\n\nThe dog was found by staff at the church - which is left unlocked 24 hours a day - when they arrived for work on the morning of 18 December.\n\nThe note found alongside him urged whoever found the dog to \"please believe me when I say I haven't done this easily\".\n\nIt continued: \"My dog means the world to me and I don't know what else to do.\"\n\nThe note said he was a \"placid, friendly, loving dog\" who would turn seven on 22 March 2020.\n\nIt added: \"He has got quite tender front paws, I've been treating them for about a month now but they are still sore.\n\n\"My heart is broken and I will truly miss him more than words can say. I hope he can be found a new home he deserves. I love you and I am so, so, so sorry.xxxx\"\n\nRSPCA inspector Will Lamping, who collected Cracker from the church, said it was clear from the note how much his previous owner loved him.\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately sometimes life can throw some pretty tough things at people and circumstances can drastically change but it's heartbreaking to think that someone out there is missing Cracker and wondering how he is doing.\"\n\nMr Lamping said that if no-one came forward to claim Cracker, who has been checked over by a vet, he would be sent to an RSCPA rehoming centre to look for new owners.\n\nHe added: \"If anyone does come forward then I'd like to let them know that they won't be in any trouble and we'd like to chat to them and see how we might be able to help them, and Cracker.\"\n\nHe urged any pet owners struggling financially to contact their vet, a local rescue centre or a charity like the RSPCA.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited a melting glacier in Pakistan in October\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced a global prize to tackle climate issues, pledging \"a decade of action to repair the Earth\".\n\nFive winners will receive the Earthshot Prize every year between 2021 and 2030.\n\nThe cash prize will be for individuals or organisations who come up with solutions to environmental problems.\n\nPrince William said the world faces a \"stark choice\" to continue \"irreparably\" damaging the planet or \"lead, innovate and problem-solve\".\n\nThe announcement was made in a video narrated by Sir David Attenborough posted on social media.\n\nThe veteran broadcaster and naturalist said the prize would go to \"visionaries rewarded over the next decade for responding to the great challenges of our time\".\n\nThe prize is set to launch officially later in 2020 - a year that will also see the Convention on Biodiversity in China in February and the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November.\n\nA series of challenges will be announced, aimed at finding at least 50 solutions to the \"world's greatest problems\" including climate change and air pollution.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than 60 organisations and experts were consulted in the development the prize.\n\nIt will initially be run by The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, but could become an independent organisation.\n\nKensington Palace said it would be supported by philanthropists and organisations.\n\nThere is more than a little buzz around this project; the Palace is confident that it's got the right kind of people involved and it's not shy of ambition. \"A massive level of ambition\" to be precise - \"the biggest commitment the duke has ever made\".\n\nThere are a lot of international prizes and networking-prizegiving events. Making this special, and keeping it special will be a challenge. The duke brings the strange lustre of royalty. But the global network of supporters will be critical to the prize's international profile.\n\nIt represents another level of exposure for Prince William. It also makes him, rather formally, part of a group of figures who believe in the need for urgent international cooperation over climate change - a conviction that is not shared by everyone.\n\nThe challenges will be rolled out in 2020 and will then renew each year, for a decade - to stimulate the spirit of the race to the moon, but this time in service of the earth.\n\nThe prize's name is inspired by former US President John F Kennedy's \"Moonshot\" - when he set a goal in 1961 to land American astronauts on the Moon before the end of the decade.\n\nThe duke said: \"The earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we are and irreparably damage our planet or we remember our unique power as human beings and our continual ability to lead, innovate and problem-solve.\"\n\nThe royal couple had trailed the announcement with a cryptic tweet on Monday, which read: \"Stay tuned for our first announcement of 2020 very shortly...\"\n\nIt is the latest in a string of public statements that the duke has made on environmental problems this year.\n\nIn October, he called for more education and political action to tackle climate change, as he and the duchess visited a melting glacier in Pakistan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David told Prince William it was \"difficult to overstate\" the threat of climate change\n\nHe has also previously collaborated with Sir David, interviewing him at the World Economic Forum in January.\n\nHe is also patron of the Tusk conservation charity and president of conservation group United for Wildlife.", "All 200 animals from Mogo Zoo survived the fires\n\nAmid the devastating fires ravaging Australia, a small zoo has managed to save all its animals through the extraordinary bravery of its staff.\n\nMogo Zoo houses Australia's largest collection of primates, along with zebras, rhinos and giraffes.\n\nYet when it was right in the line of a bushfire, the keepers managed to protect all 200 animals from harm.\n\nWhile most were sheltered at the site, monkeys, pandas and even a tiger were temporary lodgers at one keeper's home.\n\nOn Tuesday, an evacuation order was made for the New South Wales area where the zoo is located, but staff decided to stay to protect their animals.\n\nZoo director Chad Staples said the situation had been \"apocalyptic\" and that it \"felt like Armageddon\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said the zoo only survived because there'd been a precise plan in place: first the zoo keepers moved everything flammable from the area and then turned to the animals themselves.\n\nThe larger ones like the lions, tigers and orang-utans were moved into secured night enclosures to keep them safe and calm, but the smaller ones needed extra shelter.\n\nSo director Staples decided to simply have them taken to his own house.\n\n\"Right now in my house there's animals of all descriptions in all the different rooms, that are there safe and protected... not a single animal lost,\" he told the ABC broadcaster.\n\nSara Ang from the wildlife park told BBC 5 Live radio that \"some of the smaller monkeys had to be moved to the house, the red panda is in the house and there's a tiger in the back area of the house\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters in New South Wales sheltered in their truck as it was overrun by flames\n\n\"All the animals that needed to be moved indoors have been moved indoors,\" and hence are safe from the fire.\n\nThe zoo was encircled by fire and smoke, the zoo keepers say\n\nGiraffes and zebras were left in their enclosures as they were large enough for the animals to move away from spot fires.\n\nMr Staples explained that these were the only animals that suffered from stress - not from the fires but due to the rush of keepers and vehicles moving around to fight the flames.\n\nHe told the ABC the zoo staff had prepared \"hundreds of thousands of litres\" of water in advance and then put water into smaller tanks on vehicles to drive around and put out spot fires.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by mogowildlife This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDescribing how his team worked for hours and throughout the night, he said the park would have been lost to the fire had it not been for the staff's heroic efforts to save it.\n\nThe zoo's survival is a positive development after a devastating week along Australia's eastern coast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents have taken shelter on beaches to escape the flames\n\nHowever, the small town of Mogo itself has been severely damaged by the fires, with dozens of homes destroyed.\n\nThe bushfires have killed at least seven people in the Australian state of New South Wales since Monday, according to police.\n\nFires have also destroyed more than 200 homes, leaving thousands of people facing an uncertain future.", "A famous French chef who said he had been \"disgraced\" after one of his Michelin stars was removed has lost his lawsuit against the restaurant guide.\n\nThe Michelin Guide is a restaurant guide book, and its three-starred restaurants are often considered to be among the finest in the world.\n\nMarc Veyrat lost his top rating after only one year, and sued Michelin, demanding a full explanation.\n\nBut the French court dismissed his case, ordering him to pay costs.\n\nIt found that the 69-year-old chef had failed to show any proof that he had suffered material damage.\n\nMr Veyrat himself told the AFP news agency ahead of the ruling that business in the restaurant, La Maison des Bois, was up 7% in the past year, and he was fully booked even in the normally quiet period between Christmas and New Year.\n\nHis legal case was aimed at forcing the guide's editors to hand over its judges' notes and the explicit reasons for the decision to strip his restaurant of its third star. He asked for one euro in symbolic damages.\n\nMichelin, however, labelled the chef a \"narcissistic diva\" and said the case was about freedom of opinion and criticism.\n\nMr Veyrat had previously said he had been plunged into months of depression, and criticised Michelin's food critics, known as \"inspectors\".\n\nThey \"dared to say we put cheddar in our soufflé\", he told French Radio at the outset of his legal action, saying he would never use an English cheese in such a way.\n\n\"I put saffron in it, and the gentleman who came thought it was cheddar because it was yellow,\" he said.\n\nEarlier in 2019, he asked the guidebook to remove his restaurant from its listings entirely, rather than be listed with just two stars - something its editors refused to do.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree stars are awarded to roughly 100 restaurants in the world each year. The guide says it awards such a rating only to those restaurants which are worth a \"special journey\" merely to dine there. Two-star restaurants, meanwhile, are \"excellent\" and \"worth a detour\".\n\nBut the authors are well aware of the power the guide has, noting that \"getting a star (or three) could change the fate of a restaurant\".\n\nThe entry for La Maison des Bois, located in Mr Veyrat's home town of Manigod in the Haute-Savoie department, 20km (12 miles) west of Mont Blanc, notes that guests can be \"assured to be well-looked after\" and amid a stunning setting, \"the chef always surprises\".", "Miss Petre began posting her revision notes to help motivate her to study\n\nIt is typically the domain of selfies, or inspirational shots of food and travel.\n\nBut one Cardiff University student has built up a large Instagram following, posting just photos of her revision.\n\nZoe Petre, 21, of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, began posting shots of her notes in September 2016 while studying for her A-levels.\n\nShe now has more than 40,000 followers from across the globe.\n\nExplaining why she began, she said: \"My exams weren't going very well. I had already resat my first year, but still wasn't predicted good grades and knew I could do better.\n\n\"I realised I needed new revision techniques so I began taking photos of my notes and posting them on Instagram to motivate me.\"\n\nHer notes are always immaculately written, which motivates her to want to read them again\n\nAlongside the immaculately written posts, Zoe also began posting updates of how she was getting along with her revision and exams.\n\nShe also added tips she had learnt on how best to study and what subjects to choose.\n\nInitially her @ZoeStudies account was followed by a handful of friends, but it soon started to attract strangers from around the world.\n\n\"I kept getting new followers without really trying,\" she said. \"My numbers just literally started to leap up.\"\n\nAs her followers increased, so too did her grades.\n\nShe said: \"I wanted to go to Cardiff University, but didn't think I'd get the grades.\n\n\"But people kept pushing me to succeed and, in the end, I got one A, two Bs and a C grade, which was enough to get in.\"\n\nIn September 2018, Zoe began a course in biomedical science at Cardiff University.\n\nNow in her second year, she continues to post every other day and is still attracting new fans.\n\nZoe's revision notes and tips have now attracted more than 40,000 followers\n\n\"It encourages me to make my notes look nice, so I want to look at them and learn.\n\n\"I also really try and understand them, then condense them so it's easier for revision.\n\n\"I find Instagramming pushes me and helps me to track my progress, as I always record my highs and lows.\"\n\nAs for why people follow her, she believes they largely come for motivation.\n\n\"Some of people who follow me are Biomed students, which is handy when I get stuck, as someone can usually help,\" she said.\n\n\"But others aren't necessarily doing the same subject.\n\n\"I believe they see someone else working hard and are encouraged.\n\n\"It feels supportive and gives you a pick me up, motivating you to keep learning.\"\n\nShe added: \"Social media can get bad press, but this is a most definitely a good form of it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man who broke into a Taco Bell in the early hours on Christmas Day was caught on CCTV making a snack and then taking a nap.\n\nThe incident happened in the US state of Georgia.\n\nPolice are appealing for the public's help in identifying him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Quibi aims to change how we watch shows on phones\n\nA deep-pocketed new streaming service has revealed it will launch in the US on 6 April.\n\nQuibi has raised $1bn (£763m) in funds and commissioned some of Hollywood's biggest names to make content for its mobile-only service. Each show will be 10 minutes or shorter.\n\nThe firm intends to charge $4.99 (£3.80) per month for basic access and $7.99 for an ad-free version.\n\nBut one industry-watcher questioned consumers' willingness to pay.\n\nQuibi's chief executive Meg Whitman and founder Jeffrey Katzenberg announced the details of the service at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.\n\nShe was previously the chief of eBay and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, while he produced some of Disney's best known animated movies before heading up Dreamworks Animation.\n\nThe stars involved in the new service include:\n\nIn addition to entertainment, the service intends to screen bespoke news bulletins from NBC, BBC and Telemundo, among others.\n\nQuibi has attracted some of the US entertainment industry's biggest names to make content for it\n\nMuch of the presentation was taken up showing off a feature called Turnstile, which allows viewers to keep the image full-screen, whether they hold their phone in landscape or portrait mode.\n\nShow creators have framed their shots so that the action suits either aspect ratio, and in some cases have used the facility to reveal a different point-of-view.\n\nFor instance one show features a traditional perspective when the picture is widescreen, but shows a view of the protagonist's phone when held vertical.\n\nQuibi which stands for \"quick bites\" is commissioning videos running from four to 10 minutes in length.\n\nThe services will include episodic series, and also movies - which will be divided up into chapters.\n\nMs Whitman announced that it had partnered with Steven Spielberg to create a horror series, After Dark, that can only be viewed after sunset. To do this, the app will check the user's location and the local time to check it is indeed dark where they are, Ms Whitman explained.\n\nOff-stage, Ms Whitman told the BBC that Quibi had received more than a 100 pitches a week from filmmakers who wanted to use its Turnstile rotating video tech.\n\nQuibi uses a special device to shoot some of the content for its shows\n\n\"There's a long history in this town of Hollywood, of technology enabling a new form of storytelling. And that's exactly what we're trying to do,\" she said.\n\nThis is not the first time streaming services have released interactive videos.\n\nNetflix has offered a series of interactive programmes since 2017, most notably an episode of its sci-fi series Black Mirror.\n\nBut the feature remains a rarity on its platform.\n\nOne expert said Turnstile had promise but was unlikely to be a key selling point.\n\n\"Turning the screen to keep what is on the screen in frame is great, but it can't dictate the storyline and it is not enough to get someone to buy the content,\" said Dan Rayburn, principal analyst at Frost & Sullivan.\n\nOne of Quibi's biggest challenges will be persuading the public to pay for an additional streaming service.\n\nQuibi will contain a range of factual content made for it by established news organisations\n\nIn 2019, several new players entered the video-streaming space including Apple TV Plus and Disney Plus. And there are others planning launches of their own in the US, including HBO Max and NBCUniversal's Peacock.\n\nNetflix and Amazon Prime are also investing deeply in big-budget content to remain dominant.\n\nBut Quibi Mr Katzenberg told the BBC that he believed Quibi's main competition is other short-form video platforms such as YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok.\n\n\"If anything, we accelerate the experience of watching short form on your mobile device today,\" he added.\n\nQuibi has yet to reveal when it will expand to other countries\n\nQuibi said it would target viewers aged between 18 and 44 years old.\n\nBut most of that audience is accustomed to watching short-form videos for free.\n\n\"I think they are trying to change consumer habits too much,\" commented Mr Rayburn.\n\nQuibi said it planned to release three hours of new premium content each day, excluding news content.", "Former Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns has been cleared of breaching the ministerial code\n\nA ministerial inquiry clearing ex-Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns of misconduct over whether he knew of the \"sabotage\" of a rape trial by his ex-aide has been dismissed as \"a sham\" by the victim.\n\n\"Lucy\" told BBC News she had not been contacted during the investigation.\n\nMr Cairns resigned from the cabinet last year over allegations he knew Ross England had broken a judge's ruling by making claims about her sexual history.\n\nThe Tory MP said he was \"extremely sorry for the trauma\" she had faced.\n\nIt is understood the Cabinet Office did not feel it was necessary or appropriate to contact Lucy.\n\nIn April 2018, at the trial of his friend James Hackett, who had raped Lucy, Mr England told Cardiff Crown Court he had had a casual sexual relationship with her himself.\n\nHe said: \"I was worried about her because we'd had casual sex on... two occasions, one of which was group sex.\"\n\nThis evidence was not permissible in court, although Mr England denies knowing this when he gave evidence.\n\nThe judge said he had no doubt this had been a deliberate attempt to sabotage the trial.\n\nLucy told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: \"He just lied so brazenly and I just thought, 'This man feels like he's untouchable and he was made to feel like that by the Conservative Party.'\"\n\nMr England has since said in a statement he had not been told \"that anything had been ruled inadmissible prior to my testimony\".\n\n\"I gave an honest answer, honouring the oath I took to tell the truth,\" he added.\n\nRoss England gave a speech at the Welsh Conservatives' conference in 2016\n\nMr Cairns resigned as Welsh secretary last November over claims he had endorsed Mr England as a candidate for the Welsh assembly despite having been copied into an email relating to the collapse of the trial.\n\nMr Cairns denies he knew about it.\n\nBBC News had discovered an email sent on 2 August 2018 to Mr Cairns by Geraint Evans, his special adviser.\n\nIt said: \"I have spoken to Ross and he is confident no action will be taken by the court.\"\n\nMr Cairns has since been cleared of breaking the ministerial code, by a government investigation.\n\nThe investigator explained those involved said they had not informed Mr Cairns of Mr England's role and there was \"no direct evidence to contradict this\".\n\nBut Lucy told Victoria Derbyshire no attempt had been made to speak to her.\n\n\"The whole thing feels like a sham,\" she said.\n\n\"What kind of investigation doesn't contact the person who is most affected?\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office investigation looked into whether Mr Cairns had been truthful in public office, and it's understood that a judgement was made that it was not appropriate or necessary to contact Lucy, especially given her anonymity.\n\nMr Cairns had previously appointed Mr England to work as his campaign manager, in the same office as Lucy - who also worked for the MP.\n\nShe claimed she warned Mr Cairns she would leave her job if he appointed Mr England.\n\nLucy told the BBC as soon as she reported the rape to police she had been subjected to a \"campaign of hatred\" from members of the Tory Party, for having \"the gall to tell the police what happened\".\n\nShe was raped as she slept at a house party held by Mr England and his girlfriend Kathryn Kelloway.\n\n\"When I woke up I was being attacked, basically,\" she told Victoria Derbyshire.\n\n\"Eventually, I managed to fight him off and run downstairs, where I told a friend.\"\n\nHackett was convicted at a subsequent trial and jailed for five years.\n\nLucy alleges that on the night of the rape, Ms Kelloway had shouted at police that she was making it up.\n\n\"That just set the tone for the next two years,\" she told the programme.\n\n\"It was a complete smear campaign.\n\n\"They were trying to spread it, about certain people that I'd slept with and therefore if I slept around to this degree, then I must have deserved what happened.\n\n\"They were trying to say I'd lied about other things, I've made stuff up about other women, and therefore if I can make that up, I must be making this up.\"\n\n\"I have told nothing but the truth throughout, including to the police and in court [as a prosecution witness],\" she added.\n\nLucy told Victoria Derbyshire the Conservative Party had a lot of work to do to make it a safe environment for young women to work in.\n\n\"They just didn't have any respect for me, what I was going through,\" she said.\n\n\"It definitely felt like members of Conservative Party were putting me on trial.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party in Wales said in a statement: \"We are deeply sorry for the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the trial and the deep distress this must have caused the victim.\"\n\nMr Cairns said he was \"extremely sorry for the trauma and suffering Lucy has faced\".\n\n\"I believed that my parliamentary staff and I had supported her in a caring and compassionate way throughout,\" he said.\n\n\"Lucy recognised this in messages received at the time.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This year's Academy Awards will not have a host again, organisers of the annual ceremony have confirmed.\n\nLast year's ceremony was also hostless after Kevin Hart stepped down from his master of ceremonies role.\n\nIn his place, a series of famous faces - beginning with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph - came on to present.\n\nThe Academy confirmed the news in a tweet that indicated the show would still have stars, performances and surprises.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Academy\n\nKarey Burke, from Oscars broadcaster ABC, also confirmed on Wednesday \"there will be no traditional host this year\" as ABC had been \"extremely happy\" with how the ceremony had gone on 24 February 2019.\n\n\"Odds are you'll see us repeating what we consider to be a successful formula,\" she said during a press event in Pasadena, California.\n\nBefore 2019, the last ceremony not to have a host was the one in 1989 - widely considered to be one of the most disastrous ever staged.\n\nHart stepped down from hosting the 2019 Oscars following a controversy over homophobic tweets from a decade ago.\n\nHe said in December 2018 he did not want to be a distraction and that he was \"sorry he had hurt people\".\n\nThe nominations for this year's awards, to be held on 9 February in Los Angeles, will be announced on Monday.\n\nTalk show host Jimmy Kimmel was the last person to be the event's overall presenter, having hosted the awards in 2017 and 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are the main story for most of the papers, with their photograph on almost all the front pages.\n\n\"Harry and Meghan quit the firm\" is the Daily Telegraph's take.\n\nAccording to the Times, the couple's \"personal message\" has opened a rift with the rest of the Royal Family.\n\n\"They didn't even tell the Queen\", complains the Daily Mirror, which accuses Prince Harry of petulance and selfishness.\n\nThe Sun headlines its story \"Megxit\". It says the couple have triggered a \"civil war\", leaving the Queen \"deeply upset\" and Prince Charles and Prince William \"incandescent with rage\".\n\nThe Daily Mail has brought out what it calls a \"royal bombshell special issue\", with coverage stretching to page 17.\n\nIt calls the couple \"the rogue royals\" and says they've \"pressed the nuclear button\".\n\nUnnamed royal sources put the knife in, telling the Mail that Harry and Meghan are \"awkward and childish\", have treated the Queen \"shoddily\" and acted with a \"staggering\" level of deceit.\n\nThe Financial Times is more restrained but even it puts the story on the front page - with a headline focusing on the couple's desire for \"financial independence\".\n\nThe announcement has also made headlines on the other side of the Atlantic, where the Sussexes plan to spend more time.\n\nFor the Washington Post, it's a \"bold and remarkable\" move, signalling that two of the younger, more popular royals may be fed up with what it calls \"an anachronistic, cosseted life of endless ribbon-cutting and fusty, scripted engagements - and the scrutiny that comes with all of that\".\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, Donald Trump has stepped back from the brink with a measured reaction to Iran's missile strikes against US forces in Iraq.\n\nThe Guardian says that European leaders \"breathed a sigh of relief\" after the President heeded their public and private pleas to draw a line under the conflict.\n\nIn the Times cartoon, entitled \"Special Relationship\", Donald Trump is riding through the desert on a camel while Boris Johnson walks behind with a dustpan and brush, clearing up.\n\nThe Telegraph says Iran is facing mounting pressure to explain the crash of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran, hours after the missile launches.\n\nThe Daily Star wonders if it was shot down. The Iranians say not, and Western intelligence agencies apparently agree.\n\nThe Times says video footage showing flames streaming from a wing, and photographs of the wreckage on the ground, are consistent with an uncontained engine failure. But it says none of the tell-tale traces of a missile strike is visible in the photos.\n\nThe remains of one of the plane's engines was among the debris\n\nFinally, the government's new Town of the Year competition has - in the Guardian's words - \"backfired spectacularly\" after officials failed to realise that the place chosen for the launch, Wolverhampton, has been a city for almost 20 years.\n\nLocal civic leaders, it says, expressed incredulity when the communities secretary, Robert Jenrick, announced he was kicking off a countrywide tour of towns in their city.\n\nAccording to the paper, the gaffe will be particularly embarrassing for Mr Jenrick, who was born and educated in Wolverhampton.", "Brusthom Ziamani was inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby, his trial at the Old Bailey heard\n\nAn inmate suspected of attacking an officer at a maximum security prison was jailed for planning to behead a soldier, the BBC has learned.\n\nHe is understood to be Brusthom Ziamani, 24, who was found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism in 2015.\n\nThe attack at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire on Thursday, in which four other prison staff were injured, happened as cells were unlocked.\n\nOne officer was slashed and stabbed, the others had rushed to help.\n\nZiamani was assisted by another prisoner, a Muslim convert who was serving time for a violent offence.\n\nBoth inmates were wielding bladed weapons and wearing fake suicide vests during the attack.\n\nThe male officer suffered wounds to his face but his injuries are not believed to be life threatening.\n\nNo arrests have been made, the Met Police said.\n\nThe assault by two inmates at Whitemoor was \"quickly resolved,\" the prison service said\n\nDuring his trial at the Old Bailey it was revealed that Ziamani had been inspired by the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby and used the internet to research cadet bases.\n\nHe converted to Islam in 2014 and, months later, was arrested in east London in possession of a 12-inch-long knife and a hammer.\n\nZiamani was 18 when held in 2014 as part of a joint operation by the Met Police and MI5.\n\nHe was jailed for 22 years but the sentence was later reduced on appeal.\n\nThe Met Police said it was \"deemed appropriate\" its counter-terrorism command unit was sent to HMP Whitemoor \"due to certain circumstances relating to this incident\".\n\nA prison service spokesman said: \"The incident was quickly resolved by our brave staff and our thoughts are with the injured officers at this time.\n\n\"We do not tolerate assaults on our hardworking officers and will push for the strongest possible punishment.\"\n\nIn a tweet, the general secretary of the Prison Officers Association (POA), Steve Gillan, wrote: \"Having liaised with the Whitemoor committee today an official statement will be made tomorrow morning by the POA in a press release.\n\n\"Nothing will be said on social media by the POA that compromises an ongoing police investigation into a very serious incident.\"\n\nHMP Whitemoor houses more than 400 Category A and B prisoners on three wings, including a number of the highest-risk inmates.\n\nIn February last year, a \"small number\" of prison staff there had to receive medical treatment after violence broke out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, Sam Zokaei and Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board\n\nTributes have been paid to three British nationals who died when a Ukrainian plane crashed in Iran.\n\nMohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, who owned a dry cleaners, BP engineer Sam Zokaei and PhD student and engineer Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board the flight.\n\nThey were among the 176 people from seven countries who died in the crash.\n\nUkraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed just after taking off from Imam Khomeini airport at 06:12 local time (02:42 GMT).\n\nThe airline said the plane underwent scheduled maintenance on Monday.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the UK was \"working closely with the Ukrainian authorities and the Iranian authorities\" over the crash, and there was \"no indication\" the plane was brought down by a missile.\n\nIran said it will not hand over black box flight recorders recovered from the plane. Under global aviation rules, Iran has the right to lead the investigation, but manufacturers are typically involved and experts say few countries are capable of analysing black boxes.\n\nAs well as the three Britons, the victims in the crash included 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians - including all of the crew, 10 Swedes, four Afghans and three Germans, Ukraine foreign affairs minister Vadym Prystaiko said.\n\nRescue teams were sent to the crash site but the head of Iran's Red Crescent told state media that it was \"impossible\" for anyone to have survived the crash.\n\nTributes were paid locally to Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh, 40, who ran a neighbourhood dry cleaners in Hassocks, West Sussex, and had a nine-year-old daughter.\n\nSteve Edgington from the pet shop next door said he had known Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh for 14 years, and described him as a lovely, hardworking man who was good at his job and loved by staff.\n\nSavvas Savvidis, 36, who rented a room in Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh's home in Brighton, said he was a \"super-nice person\".\n\n\"It's so sad. Before he left we had a conversation, he told me that he spent all his life working, working really hard, and now finally he wants to start to enjoy life a bit more.\"\n\nMr Savvidis described Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh as a humble man who loved his daughter very much.\n\nThe dry cleaners closed on Wednesday, with neighbouring businesses telling the BBC that staff were too upset to stay open.\n\nA sign on the window of Mr Kadkhoda Zadeh's dry cleaners in Hassocks\n\nMeanwhile, in a statement, BP said \"with the deepest regret\" that its employee Mr Zokaei, 42, from Twickenham, was among the passengers.\n\nMr Zokaei had been on holiday. He had worked for BP for 14 years and was based at the company's site in Sunbury-on-Thames in Surrey.\n\n\"We are shocked and deeply saddened by this tragic loss of our friend and colleague and all of our thoughts are with his family and friends,\" BP said.\n\nA friend of Mr Zokaei, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC they were \"still in shock\".\n\n\"He was a highly accomplished person. Very clever and very friendly. Always smiling and full of positive energy. He will be sorely missed.\n\n\"He was always trying new adventures. He cycled and toured Europe on bikes a few times. He also loved travelling to interesting far out places.\"\n\nAlso killed was Mr Tahmasebi, 35, who worked as an engineer for Laing O'Rourke in Dartford.\n\nLast year, Mr Tahmasebi married his Iranian partner, Niloufar Ebrahim, who was also listed as a passenger on the plane.\n\nMr Tahmasebi, pictured here last Valentine's Day, recently married his partner\n\n\"Everyone here is shocked and saddened by this very tragic news,\" said Laing O'Rourke.\n\n\"Saeed was a popular and well respected engineer and will be missed by many of his colleagues. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this most difficult time and we will do all we can to support them through it.\"\n\nMr Tahmasebi - whose full name was Saeed Tahmasebi Khademasadi - was also a part-time PhD student at Imperial College London's Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation.\n\nA spokeswoman for the university said: \"We are deeply saddened at this tragic news. Saeed Tahmasebi Khademasadi was a brilliant engineer with a bright future.\n\n\"His contributions to systems engineering earned respect from everyone who dealt with him and will benefit society for years to come.\n\n\"He was a warm, humble and generous colleague and close friend to many in our community. Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with Saeed's family, friends and colleagues, as well as all those affected by this tragedy.\"\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both said their thoughts were with the families of those killed.\n\nA UK Foreign Office spokesman has said: \"We are deeply saddened by the loss of life in the plane crash in Iran overnight.\"\n\nThey said it was \"urgently seeking confirmation\" about how many British nationals were on board and would be supporting any families affected.\n\nMelinda Simmons, British ambassador to Ukraine, said her thoughts are with those affected.\n\nUkraine's state aviation service has forbidden its national airlines from using Iranian airspace from Thursday, with the restrictions in place until an investigation into the cause of the crash has concluded.\n\nUkraine's embassy in Tehran and Iranian state television both initially said technical issues caused the crash.\n\nBut the embassy later removed this statement and said any comment regarding the cause of the accident prior to a commission's inquiry was not official.\n\nUkraine said its entire civilian aviation fleet would be checked for airworthiness and criminal proceedings would be opened into the disaster.\n\nThe country's president warned against \"speculation or unchecked theories regarding the catastrophe\" until official reports were ready.\n\nFlowers were laid outside the Canadian embassy in Kiev in remembrance of the 63 Canadians on board the flight\n\nUkrainian International Airlines said the flight disappeared from radar just a \"few minutes\" after take-off.\n\nThe Ukrainian national carrier said according to preliminary data there were 167 passengers and nine crew members on board but its staff were \"clarifying the exact number\".\n\n\"The airline expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the victims of the air crash and will do everything possible to support the relatives of the victims,\" a statement said.\n\nThe airline, which is investigating the crash, said the aircraft - a Boeing 737-800 - was built in 2016 and had its last scheduled maintenance on Monday.\n\nThere was no sign of any problems with the plane before take-off and the airline's president said it had an \"excellent, reliable crew\".\n\nA statement from Boeing said its \"heartfelt thoughts\" were with all those affected following the \"tragic event\".\n\nThere are several thousand Boeing 737-800s in operation around the world which have completed tens of millions of flights. They have been involved in 10 incidents, including this crash, where at least one passenger was killed, aviation safety analyst Todd Curtis told the BBC.\n\nThis is the first time a Ukraine International Airlines plane has been involved in a fatal crash.", "Some struggling families are being pushed into homelessness by failures in the very system designed to keep a roof over their heads, a watchdog says.\n\nThe Local Government Ombudsman found some local authorities in England were miscalculating housing benefit payments and then curtailing rights of appeal.\n\nIt upheld eight out of 10 of the hundreds of complaints it investigated about the benefit in 2018-19.\n\nTown hall bosses said the report raised some important issues.\n\nIt also said the funding councils received to administrate housing benefit fell short of its true cost.\n\nMichael King, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, said: \"Mistakes in benefit administration can only add to the pressures households face.\n\n\"A delay in processing an appeal later upheld can lead to rising rent arrears.\n\n\"Many of the people who complain to us face the threat of losing their homes.\"\n\nIn one example, a young family with a disabled child had to leave their London home following a miscalculation of their housing benefits by Haringey Council.\n\nThe detailed report upholding the family's complaint said: \"The single-parent family had been living in privately rented accommodation but were asked to leave by their landlord after the council incorrectly told him the family owed more than £8,000 in backdated benefits.\n\n\"The family had to stay in unsuitable accommodation while the council put right its mistakes and recalculated the mother's correct entitlement.\n\n\"The council has also agreed to pay the woman £1,000 for the distress caused, a further £1,300 to recognise she was in unsuitable accommodation for six months and £500 for storage costs she incurred when she had to leave her rented property.\"\n\nThe ombudsman also highlighted the story of a man left in limbo for two years, not knowing the amount of support he should receive and how much the council would pursue him for.\n\nA simple administrative error combined with an inability to update records meant the council could no longer work out why it had overpaid his housing benefit.\n\nAll the while it sent him letters threatening recovery action every fortnight.\n\nIn total, the ombudsman received 491 complaints in 2018-19 and carried out detailed investigations into 74.\n\nProblems highlighted by the ombudsman include councils preventing families from challenging decisions by interpreting rules around appeals overly literally.\n\nClaimants who disputed a housing-benefit decision but did not use the word \"review\" or \"appeal\" in their communication, for example, should not be prevented from appealing, the ombudsman said.\n\nOrdinary claimants could not be expected to be expert in the finer points of housing-benefit legislation.\n\nIn addition, some councils started recovering overpayments before the one-month time limit for appeals was up or before appeals had been heard.\n\nAnd others failed to pass on disputed decisions to cases to the relevant social-security tribunal.\n\nA Local Government Association spokesman said as well as a lack of funding, departments had faced continuing pressures and uncertainty over welfare reforms and the introduction of the all-in-one benefit, universal credit. This had also stretched councils' revenues and benefits services.\n\n\"It is vital that the government recognises the ongoing role of councils in administering housing benefit and in supporting claimants [and] provides appropriate, timely funding to councils to deliver this role, to ensure that councils are able to provide the fairest, most accurate service that they can,\" he added.", "The pair were first pictured together at the 2017 Invictus Games after months avoiding the cameras\n\nMeghan Markle was the American actress, with a passion for humanitarian and feminist causes. Harry was the rebel prince turned soldier, considered the world's most eligible bachelor.\n\nIn the summer of 2016, the two were brought together on a blind date by a mutual friend in London.\n\n\"Beautiful\" Meghan \"just tripped and fell into my life\", Harry later told the press, and he knew immediately she was \"the one\".\n\nAfter just two dates, the new couple went on holiday together to Botswana, camping out under the stars.\n\nThey fell in love \"so incredibly quickly\", proof the \"stars were aligned\", said Harry.\n\nTo the British press, their romance was catnip. Here was a golden couple who were able to draw vast crowds, speak the language of younger generations and sprinkle royal stardust on any cause.\n\nFor months the couple avoided the cameras and it wasn't until the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto that the the two were first photographed holding hands in public, smiling and laughing.\n\nBut there had been signs early on that the fairytale was some way off a \"happily ever after\".\n\nWhen Harry first confirmed the relationship in late 2016, it came with a stark attack on the media, accusing them of subjecting his girlfriend to \"a wave of abuse and harassment\".\n\nHe spoke of nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers, attempts by reporters and photographers to get into Meghan's home and the \"bombardment\" of nearly every friend and loved one in her life.\n\nIt was a problem that was only going to get worse.\n\nDespite that - or perhaps because of that - the two grew ever closer and in September 2017, Meghan declared to Vanity Fair magazine: \"Personally, I love a great love story.\"\n\nThe two of them had been enjoying a special time together and were really happy and in love, she said.\n\nThe media was now on high alert for the sound of royal wedding bells - and they didn't have to wait long.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle posed for the cameras in the garden at Kensington Palace\n\nIn November 2017, Harry got down on one knee to propose to Meghan as they made roast chicken together at their home in Kensington Palace.\n\nHarry had designed the ring, made with two diamonds which had belonged to his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. At the centre was a diamond from Botswana.\n\nThe couple shared their story in a candid interview with the BBC, and appearing brimming with positivity for the future.\n\nThey revealed Meghan would give up acting to focus on causes close to her heart, working alongside her husband-to-be.\n\n\"I know that she will be unbelievably good at the job part of it,\" said Harry.\n\nThings began to shift as preparations got under way for a May 2018 wedding in Windsor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt quickly became clear that this was a royal couple who wanted to do things differently - their way.\n\nThe wedding, which much of the world tuned in to watch, had all the traditions - a stunning dress, cheeky bridesmaids and heartfelt vows.\n\nBut, as our royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said at the time, the service with its gospel choir, young black cellist and breathtaking address from Bishop Curry, marked it out as a modern, diverse wedding for a modern, diverse couple, which seemed to point to a different future for the Royal Family.\n\nMarried life brought with it new titles - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - and a new home at Windsor in Frogmore Cottage.\n\nDuring a trip to Merseyside, the duchess told well-wishers she was six months pregnant and did not know if it was a boy or a girl\n\nIn October of that year, the couple embarked on their first royal tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, over 16 days. It was there that they shared the news that they were expecting their first baby.\n\nArchie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, seventh in line to throne and the Queen's eighth great-grandchild, was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nTo Harry, who was by Meghan's side at the birth, little Archie was \"absolutely to die for\".\n\nThroughout Meghan's pregnancy, the continual redrawing of battlelines had gone on between the press and the couple.\n\nThis was to be no repeat of the Duchess of Cambridge's birth with the circus of journalists and photographers lying in wait outside hospital doors for days on end.\n\nThe press had been told there would be no information about the birth, beyond that it was happening.\n\nSuch scrutiny and pressure proved to be a struggle for the newly-wed Meghan during her pregnancy and in early motherhood, she later admitted in an ITV documentary filmed during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\n\"Not many people have asked if I'm OK,\" she said, looking lost. She spoke of her vulnerability during pregnancy and the challenges of having a new-born - \"it's a lot\".\n\nAsked if she could cope, she said she had long told Harry it was not enough to just survive - \"that's not the point of life - you have got to thrive\".\n\nArchie was christened in a private ceremony, from which the press and the public were excluded\n\nThere were further signs that the couple were not happy, when the prince opened up about his mental health.\n\nHe said it was under constant management and he lived with the pressures of avoiding a repeat of the past that took his mother, the Princess of Wales, from him.\n\nShe died in a car crash in Paris when Harry was just 12. The driver had been drinking and the car was being followed by paparazzi on motorbikes.\n\n\"Everything that she went through, and what happened to her, is incredibly important every single day, and that is not me being paranoid,\" he said.\n\n\"Part of this job is putting on a brave face but, for me and my wife, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue,\" he added.\n\nIt has also been suggested the scrutiny of Meghan has been greater because of her African-American heritage.\n\nFormer US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she wanted to hug Meghan for the British media's \"racist\" treatment of her, while Harry has highlighted how \"unconscious bias\" can lead to racist behaviour even if people do not consider themselves to be racist.\n\nTheir struggles were shared in an interview while touring southern Africa\n\nThe couple's frustration and anger with some sections of the press has gone from being a matter between the palace and editors into the full glare of the public spotlight.\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters and Harry filed proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nAs such a dramatic year came to a close, the royal couple took an extended break from royal duties over Christmas, taking Archie to the Canadian province of British Columbia.\n\nIt gave them time to mull over their next move and, within days of the start of a new decade, they dropped their bombshell announcement.\n\nNeither Harry's father, Prince Charles, nor his older brother, Prince William, with whom Harry has said he has \"good days\" and \"bad days\", were consulted.\n\nHarry and Meghan were, they told their Instagram followers, planning to leave their royal duties - and the royal purse - behind.\n\nThey hope their next chapter, spent in North America as well as the UK, will see the two of them, together with baby Archie, make their own path to the future.", "Family doctors are under intense pressure and general practice is running on empty, warns the Royal College of GPs (RCGP).\n\nIt says severe staff shortages are causing \"unacceptable\" delays for patients in England.\n\nIn a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, its chairman says ministers must take urgent action to deal with the lack of GPs.\n\nThe government said it had recruited a \"record number\" of GP trainees.\n\nMinisters are committed to recruiting 6,000 more GPs in England by 2025.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, who took over as RCGP chairman in November, says GPs are struggling with an escalating workload, which is causing many to burn out and leave the profession.\n\nHe says the problem is compounded by difficulty recruiting GPs and other members of staff to manage the demand.\n\nA spokesperson from the Department of Health and Social Care told the BBC the recruitment of thousands more highly-skilled practitioners would mean patients would get \"an extra 50 million appointments a year within the next five years.\"\n\nDr Dharman: \"Sometimes it feels like you're drowning\"\n\nDr Andrew Dharman, who works at the The Avenue surgery in Ealing, said the stress has got worse because of the enormous workload placed on GPs.\n\nHe said: \"Sometimes it feels like you're drowning. You know you're trying to stay afloat and on top of all the workload. And you're trying to make sure you're providing the kind of care that you envisage when you go to medical school.\n\n\"You feel frustrated sometimes that you can't necessarily do that because of the amount of work and patients.\"\n\nProf Marshall has asked Mr Hancock to clarify how he will increase the number of family doctors, and what significant investments he will make in the profession.\n\nThere are concerns that targets for extra GPs might not be met, with figures showing the numbers of doctors falling.\n\nIn the letter, Prof Marshall says: \"No patient should have to wait three weeks for a GP appointment. This is unacceptable and our patients, and GPs, deserve better.\n\n\"We want a commitment to increase GP training places to 4,000 in 2020-21, as outlined in your election manifesto, but also to 5,000 soon after; and significant investment into initiatives to improve GP workload and retain existing GPs in the profession to improve the wellbeing and moral of the whole practice team.\"", "The Scottish government is to pay for people to access superfast broadband after admitting it will not hit its target for extending the fibre network.\n\nMinisters had originally pledged to extend high-speed cables to every home and business in Scotland by 2021.\n\nHowever MSPs have now been told that work on the network will run past 2023.\n\nA voucher scheme will be offered so those not connected on the original schedule can get superfast broadband from satellite or mobile operators.\n\nEnergy minister Paul Wheelhouse said this would ensure everyone would be able to have access to high-speed services in the original timescale, despite the delay to the infrastructure rollout.\n\nBut opposition parties said his announcement was \"deeply disappointing\" and \"another broken promise from the SNP\".\n\nThe SNP's manifesto in 2016 had pledged that the party would \"ensure that 100% of premises in Scotland have access to superfast broadband\" by the end of the parliamentary term, in 2021.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, Mr Wheelhouse said the plan for the Reaching 100% or \"R100\" programme was now to roll out full-fibre broadband - with speeds \"significantly beyond our original commitment\".\n\nHowever he said the \"complexity\" this entails meant that work on \"around half\" of targeted premises in the south and centre of Scotland would be finished by the end of that year, \"with the majority of the build completed by the end of 2023\".\n\nThe minister did not provide a target date for the north of Scotland, where the contract for the work has been caught up in a legal challenge.\n\nMr Wheelhouse acknowledged that \"this on its own would be insufficient to enable superfast access for all homes and business by the end of 2021 as promised\", saying that \"additional support\" would be offered instead.\n\nThis will take the form of a voucher scheme which the government said would \"allow people to obtain superfast broadband from other sources, from satellite operators to fixed wireless/mobile operators and larger fibre suppliers\".\n\nDetails of how this scheme will work are expected later in the year.\n\nMr Wheelhouse said: \"Through our investment, we will extend full-fibre broadband to much of rural Scotland, going beyond our original commitment, and helping to deliver future-proofed economic, social and environmental benefits for the whole country.\n\n\"This is one of the most challenging broadband infrastructure builds anywhere in the world, and this, combined with the decision to future-proof our technology, means the work will take time to complete.\n\n\"We are also setting up a voucher scheme which will launch later this year. This will provide grants to broadband customers, ahead of the delivery of the R100 contracts, to support access to a range of technologies and suppliers.\"\n\nScottish Conservative infrastructure spokesman Jamie Greene said it was \"another day, another failed contract, another broken promise from the SNP\".\n\nHe said: \"The SNP had no obligation to make promises it couldn't keep to businesses and residents, but it chose to do so for political gain knowing it was nigh on impossible to deliver.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Colin Smyth said the government was \"never, ever going to deliver its R100 programme by the end of 2021\", calling this \"the worst kept secret\".\n\nHe said: \"Superfast broadband is no luxury. The ability to have quick and easy access to the internet is a necessity in the modern world, particularly for those in rural areas from the Highlands to the Borders.\"\n\nAnd Lib Dem connectivity spokesman Mike Rumbles said that people were getting \"a piece of paper\" instead of a service, adding: \"Ministers have utterly failed to do what they said they would do and thousands of homes in rural and remote communities have been let down by this Scottish government.\"", "A machine that rapidly chills packaged drinks is on show at the CES tech expo.\n\nThe start-up involved hopes to launch Juno later this year to cool cans and bottles of drink at point of use, meaning they do not need to be stored in refrigerators in advance.\n\nThe BBC's Chris Fox tested the prototype being exhibited in Las Vegas.\n\nCatch up with all the BBC's CES 2020 coverage", "Klaus O was filmed placing toxic substances on his colleagues' sandwiches\n\nA young man, who was in a coma for nearly four years in Germany after his work lunch was poisoned by a colleague, has died, German media report.\n\nThe 26-year-old ingested lead acetate and mercury after it was sprinkled on his sandwiches, resulting in severe brain damage.\n\nTwo of his colleagues were also targeted and suffered kidney damage.\n\nA man, named only as Klaus O, was found guilty of attempted murder last year and sentenced to life in prison.\n\nOn Thursday, state prosecutor Veit Walter said a new trial could be ordered by Germany's Supreme Court now that one of the victims had lost his life, the Bild newspaper reported.\n\nThe death was confirmed by a court in the city of Bielefeld, about 350km (218 miles) west of the German capital, Berlin.\n\nThe case came to light in 2018 after a colleague at a metal fittings company in the town of Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, in north-western Germany, noticed a white powder on his lunch.\n\nVideo surveillance cameras were later installed at the workplace, which captured Klaus O placing the substance on his colleagues' sandwiches.\n\nTests identified it as lead acetate and mercury, almost tasteless substances that if ingested could lead to serious organ damage.\n\nFurther searches at Klaus O's home uncovered mercury, lead and cadmium.\n\nFollowing his trial in March 2019, a judge ruled that Klaus O would not be eligible to have his sentence reduced because he was a \"danger to the general public\".\n\nA psychologist told the trial at the time that Klaus O \"came across like a researcher who was trying to see how different substances affected rabbits\".", "Scientists believe they may have found the cause of the mystery pneumonia that has infected almost 60 people in the Chinese city of Wuhan since December.\n\nPreliminary tests indicated the illness may be caused by a new coronavirus, lead scientist Xu Jianguo told the official Xinhua news agency.\n\nThe World Health Organisation (WHO) had also said a coronavirus could be to blame for the outbreak.\n\nSo far, 59 cases have been reported, seven of which are considered critical.\n\nMr Xu, who is leading efforts to identify the cause, said they had found the \"new type\" of coronavirus by testing infected blood samples and throat swabs collected from 15 people.\n\nCoronaviruses can cause different diseases, ranging from the common cold to much more severe ones such as Sars and Mers. An epidemic of the potentially deadly, flu-like Sars virus occurred in 2002-3, which killed more than 700 people around the world after originating in China.\n\nHowever, Gauden Galea, the WHO representative to China, said \"further investigations\" were required to \"determine the source, modes of transmission, extent of infection and countermeasures implemented\".\n\nSingapore's airport says it will begin temperature screening travellers from Wuhan and Hong Kong health officials say they are also implementing checks on passengers.\n\nAuthorities in Hong Kong have also stepped up the disinfection of trains and aeroplanes, AFP news agency reports.\n\nFears the virus could be spread were further stoked by the fact it struck just before China's peak travel season, when hundreds of millions of people are set to travel for Chinese New Year later this month.\n\nBut it is still unclear how the illness is transmitted, with health officials saying no cases of human-to-human transmission had been confirmed as yet.", "Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sexually abusing dozens of girls\n\nSurveillance video from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's first suspected suicide attempt was destroyed by accident, prosecutors say.\n\nUS prosecutors say the jail mistakenly saved footage from the wrong cell.\n\nEpstein, a convicted sex offender, first tried to kill himself in July last year, then hanged himself in jail in August while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.\n\nHe had pleaded not guilty to abusing dozens of girls, some as young as 14.\n\nSoon after Epstein's death, in August, two of the CCTV cameras outside his cell had malfunctioned and were being examined by the FBI, US media reported.\n\nEpstein was found semi-conscious in his prison cell with injuries to his neck on 25 July. After this incident, he was placed on suicide watch.\n\nEventually, Epstein was moved to a different cell, where he died on 10 August. Two prison guards have since been accused of failing to check on him during this time and falsifying records to say that they had.\n\nThere have been ongoing questions over the July recording, which was initially deemed missing and then was said to have been located by jail staff.\n\nA letter filed by Assistant US Attorneys Jason Swergold and Maurene Comey said \"the footage contained on the preserved video was for the correct date and time, but captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located\", New York City media report.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew spoke to the BBC in November about his links to Epstein\n\n\"The requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors.\"\n\nThe request for the video was made by a lawyer for Nicholas Tartaglione, a former New York police officer who shared a cell with Epstein in July and is charged with homicide in an unrelated case.\n\nThe attorney argued the video could show his client had acted \"admirably\", possibly helping Epstein.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.\n\nNew York-born Epstein worked as a teacher before moving into finance. Prior to the criminal cases against him, he was best known for his wealth and high-profile connections.\n\nHe was often seen socialising with the rich and powerful, including US President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and the UK's Prince Andrew.\n\nEpstein was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002-05. He was arrested on 6 July.\n\nHe avoided similar charges in a controversial deal in 2008, pleading guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group (IAG), the owner of British Airways, has announced he is to step down.\n\nHe is set to retire as chief executive and from the board of IAG on 30 June.\n\nMr Walsh said it had been a privilege to have worked on the creation of IAG after British Airways (BA) and Iberia were merged.\n\nAntonio Vázquez, IAG's chairman, described Mr Walsh as one of the \"main drivers\" of the project.\n\nMr Walsh became the British Airways boss in 2005 and is ending a 15-year career with the IAG group, which also controls Aer Lingus and Vueling.\n\nHe will step down from the role in March before retiring in June this year.\n\nMr Walsh said: \"It has been a privilege to have been instrumental in the creation and development of IAG. I have had the pleasure of working with many exceptional people over the past 15 years at British Airways and at IAG.\"\n\nWillie Walsh is a long-standing figure in the aviation industry. He joined Aer Lingus in the late 1970s as a cadet pilot.\n\nWillie Walsh, then head of British Airways, at the construction site of Heathrow's Terminal 5 in 2005\n\nHe gradually worked his way up through the ranks to work in flight operations and was appointed as chief executive of Aer Lingus in 2001.\n\nLuis Gallego, head of the group's Spanish division, Iberia, since 2014, will succeed Mr Walsh.\n\nHe said: \"It is a huge honour to lead this great company. It is an exciting time at IAG and I am confident that we can build on the strong foundations created by Willie.\"\n\nMr Gallego will take over as head of the holding company of British Airways after the airline saw major disruption last year.\n\nFor the first time in its 100-year history, BA pilots went on strike in a long-running pay dispute.\n\nMr Walsh was boss at British Airways and then IAG for 15 years, more than triple the normal lifespan of a FTSE-100 chief executive. Arguably, though, he achieved more than all of his predecessors put together since the airline was privatised in 1987.\n\nPrevious leaders at BA had tried to do deals with rivals to reduce the company's reliance on a single market - the UK - and a single airport - Heathrow. They had tried to reduce the power of unions at the company, to tackle its potentially ruinous pension deficit and to restore it to steady profitability.\n\nMr Walsh managed to do all four. But his critics will counter that in doing so, he hurt the airline's status and turned British Airways from the \"world's favourite\", as its marketing claimed, to a run-of-the mill carrier.\n\nHe arrived at BA from Aer Lingus in 2005, an unfancied choice to replace the cerebral Australian Rod Eddington.\n\nMr Eddington had been hired, in the words of one board member at the time, \"to put a smile on people's faces\".\n\nMr Walsh never showed any sign of being interested in popularity contests and had a distinctly down-to-earth approach to management. BA had tried to do deals with Air France, KLM of the Netherlands and various other potential partners - to no avail.\n\nMr Walsh quickly tied up a deal with Iberia and followed on with Aer Lingus, turning BA into the largest player in a multi-airline group, IAG.\n\nGenerous terms and conditions for flight crew were gradually whittled down, and he was able to put enough money into BA's two big pension schemes that big chunks of the remaining liabilities could be hived off to insurance companies.\n\nIn the process, though, BA has gradually slipped down consumer rankings. Last month, Which? put it alongside Ryanair as one of the UK's least-favourite airlines, while it has suffered from embarrassing IT glitches.\n\nMr Walsh's successor, the current boss of Iberia, Luis Gallego, will have to consider how to address this challenge when he takes over at the end of June.\n\nMr Gallego is unlikely to continue one of the aviation industry's best-known feuds.\n\nBoth Willie Walsh and Sir Richard Branson claimed to have won a previous bet over the survival of Virgin Atlantic.\n\nMr Walsh suggested that Branson's brand could disappear after Delta Airlines purchased a 49% stake.\n\nIn a blog post, Sir Richard said the stakes were high - \"a knee in the groin\" if the company folded within five years.\n\nOther spats have taken place between Virgin Atlantic and BA.\n\nVirgin launched a campaign against BA's proposed merger with American Airlines in the 1990s, with some planes painted \"No Way BA/AA\".\n\nSir Richard Branson also won damages and an apology from BA at the High Court in 1993 after BA allegedly gave negative stories about the Virgin founder to the media.", "Protestors in Tehran take part in an anti-US rally following the killing of Qasem Soleimani\n\nThe US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iran's retaliatory missile attack have heightened fears of a conflict with far-reaching implications.\n\nWho loses or gains from the crisis could change rapidly depending on what the US and Iran do next.\n\nSo, who are the winners and losers?\n\nDespite the loss of such a powerful military figure, Iran could be a short-term beneficiary of Qasem Soleimani's killing.\n\nThe general's death, and the massive funeral processions that followed, have allowed Tehran to shift public attention away from a violent government crackdown on protests over rising petrol prices in November.\n\nIt also allows Iran to demonstrate its ability to rally at a time of crisis, with its notoriously divided political elite pulling together.\n\nIran has been under economic pressure from renewed US sanctions following President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast year, the situation escalated after Iran downed a US drone and detained shipping tankers. It was also accused of sponsoring missile attacks such as September's strike on Saudi oil facilities - something it denied.\n\nIran has already hit back at America with a missile strike targeting US troops in Iraq. The country may benefit if it drags out any further retaliation and instead continues to play on public sympathy and anxiety over what comes next.\n\nHowever, if the country does take further action, it may no longer be seen as a winner.\n\nDepending on where and how Iran seeks to further avenge Soleimani's death, Tehran, a lesser military power, could find itself in a damaging military cycle of action and reaction with the US.\n\nAlready subject to heavy sanctions and under pressure to comply with the nuclear agreement, continued escalation could further isolate Iran.\n\nThe Trump administration may have succeeded in denting Iran's military prowess, while potentially boosting the President's chance of re-election in November.\n\nIt has also sent a message of strength and solidarity to allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said Iran appeared to be \"standing down\" after missile strikes on US troop bases in Iraq\n\nBut if it is drawn into a tit-for-tat military action this could increase oil prices, lead to further loss of American life and spark another long-running regional war.\n\nThis could have ramifications for many other nations in the Middle East and beyond.\n\nIn the short run, Iran-backed Shia militia in Iraq could benefit from the current crisis.\n\nOver the past few months, the Iraqi government has been the target of many protests over Iran's influence in the country, alongside complaints of poor governance and corruption.\n\nThe protesters represent a cross-section of society in Iraq\n\nThese militias - and the rest of Iraq's political establishment - are using the death of Soleimani to win back lost influence and legitimise their need to remain in the country.\n\nThe pledge to expel US troops from Iraq has long been a rallying cry of these groups and plays into the hand of their leaders.\n\nIt also creates a security vacuum for terrorist groups such as IS and Al Qaeda to exploit.\n\nIran and Israel have long been in conflict over their interests in the Middle East, and Iran's desire to remove the Jewish state.\n\nFrom Israel's perspective, many threats still remain. These include Iran's support for Israel's adversaries such as Lebanon militant group Hezbollah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nHowever, the death of Soleimani does indicate America's growing intention to contain Iran.\n\nIn Israel, this is likely to be seen as a positive step that will benefit its security interests against Iran and the groups it supports.\n\n\"Israel stands with the United States in its just struggle for peace, security and self-defence,\" the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the attack.\n\nThe looming threat of conflict will give Middle Eastern governments an excuse to curb protests throughout the region.\n\nIn particular, the recent protests in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran over issues such as unemployment and corruption will be contained using the justification of national security.\n\nProtesters in Lebanon have been complained of inequality and corruption\n\nGovernments could even go one step further and use the looming crisis to justify crackdowns on political activists and put the brakes on any attempts at political reform.\n\nSaudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are in a precarious position.\n\nBoth were directly affected by last year's shipping attacks in the Straits of Hormuz, and strikes on two major Saudi oil facilities, largely thought to be the work of Iran or Iranian-backed forces. Iran itself denied any involvement.\n\nThe US blamed Iran for a number of attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last year\n\nIn response, the UAE attempted to ease the situation with Tehran, while Saudi Arabia has continued to support maximum pressure from Washington.\n\nSince Soleimani's killing, both countries have called for calm and de-escalation, with the Saudi defence minister travelling to Washington for talks with the Trump administration.\n\nBut their geographic proximity to Iran and their history of tensions makes them vulnerable to possible Iranian attack.\n\nAlready struggling to sustain the fragile Iran nuclear agreement, Europe remains in an awkward middle ground between the US and Iran.\n\nThe UK was not given advance warning of the drone strike by Washington, suggesting ongoing transatlantic tensions or at least lack of communication.\n\nAt the same time, having co-operated in the fight against IS, several European countries with troops in Iraq are liable to be drawn into the crossfire there if Iran chooses a military response.\n\nThe killing of Soleimani should ultimately remind us that the governance and regional stability issues that sparked the Arab Spring protests almost a decade ago remain unresolved.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nDr Sanam Vakil is deputy head and senior research fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Follow her @SanamVakil\n\nChatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, describes itself as an independent policy institute helping to build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world.", "The bodies of Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were found by police on New Year's Day\n\nFriends of a man and woman stabbed to death in the early hours of New Year's Day have paid tribute to \"a wonderful mummy\" and \"a doting dad\".\n\nHelen Hancock, 39, and partner Martin Griffiths, 48, were found by police in New Zealand Lane, Duffield, Derbyshire.\n\nRhys Hancock, 39, is accused of murdering his estranged wife and Mr Griffiths in the marital home.\n\nA friend said Ms Hancock and Mr Griffiths celebrated the new year at her house and left at about 02:00 GMT.\n\nHelen Hancock and Martin Griffiths climbed Mount Snowdon together a few days before they both died\n\n\"She went home with Martin, and we all went to bed,\" Hannah Ruggins told BBC Radio Derby.\n\n\"I put my phone on the next morning, I looked on Facebook and the first thing I saw was a picture of Helen's house.\n\n\"I showed the picture to my husband and I just said: 'Something awful's happened'.\"\n\nRhys Hancock is accused of killing his wife and her new partner\n\nMs Hancock, who had been using her maiden name Helen Almey, was a PE teacher at Fountains High School in Burton-upon-Trent.\n\nHer friend of 20 years, Diana McGrath, said she had been \"loving life\" in her last few months after previously going through a difficult time.\n\n\"It was a whole new lease of life for her within the last six months,\" said Miss McGrath. \"She just really started to pick herself back up again.\"\n\nShe had climbed Mount Snowdon for the first time, with Mr Griffiths, only a few days before they both died.\n\nMs Hancock had also enjoyed the \"best ever\" Christmas Day with her children and the wider family at her sister's house.\n\n\"Helen was like 'we had an amazing Christmas',\" said Miss McGrath. \"Everybody was together, all the grandchildren and everybody.\"\n\nDiana McGrath had been friends with Helen Hancock for 20 years\n\nShe had two sons, aged three and nine, and a daughter aged four. They are being looked after by their maternal grandparents, who will be raising them with the help of Helen's sister and brother-in-law.\n\nMs McGrath said they were \"still really coming to terms\" with losing their mother.\n\n\"Helen was such a lovely mum,\" she said. \"So caring and she just loved children so much. She had such a loving personality.\"\n\nA fundraising page she set up to assist with the children's upbringing has already raised more than £22,000.\n\nAnother friend, Katy Rees, said Mrs Hancock was \"a wonderful mummy to her three beautiful children\", and \"just a lovely, bright, positive person\".\n\nFlowers have been left outside the house where the pair died\n\nMr Griffiths, a marketing and brand strategist, had been with his wife Claire for 21 years and married for 15 of those.\n\nThey had two children together, a daughter aged 13 and a son aged nine.\n\nThey split up in October but were still \"very close\", according to a friend.\n\n\"Claire actually only found out about Helen three days before they died, and it has been an enormous shock for her, but she did have chance to wish Martin well in his new relationship and they were in a good place,\" said Tori Yerbury, who met the family through their children's nursery in Mickleover, Derby.\n\nShe said Mr Griffiths wished his wife a happy new year shortly after midnight, just hours before he died.\n\nHe was \"an absolutely brilliant dad\", Ms Yerbury added, who was \"passionate about his mountaineering\".\n\nAn online fundraiser for Mr Griffiths's children has seen more than £2,000 of donations.\n\nIn a message sent through friends, Mrs Griffiths said she was \"extremely grateful for everything everyone is trying to do for her children\" via the fundraising page.\n\nShe has asked for privacy and said her \"paramount priority is to protect her two young children\".\n\nMr Griffiths's family said in a written message he was \"a family man and a doting dad... a loving son, a loving brother and a special uncle\".\n\nTori Yerbury said Mr Griffiths and Mrs Griffiths were \"still very close\"\n\nMr Hancock attended a hearing at Derby Crown Court on Monday, but did not enter a plea.\n\nThe defendant, of Portland Street, Etwall, is next due in court on 28 February. Judge Nirmal Shant QC set a provisional trial date of 24 August.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Veteran Labour MP Barry Gardiner has said he is considering running for the party's leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, the shadow energy minister said colleagues had told him he could bring \"dynamism to the debate\".\n\nCandidates have until 13 January to win the backing of the 22 MPs and MEPs needed to get on the ballot paper.\n\nOn Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer became the first candidate to pass this threshold, amassing 41 nominations.\n\nHe also won the backing of the UK's largest union Unison, the first union to state a preference.\n\nThe other contenders to succeed leader Jeremy Corbyn are shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis, Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy.\n\nThe party's new leader and deputy will be announced on 4 April.\n\nMr Gardiner, who is at a climate change conference in Abu Dhabi, has been MP for Brent North since 1997. He has served in Mr Corbyn's frontbench team since 2016.\n\nHe said he would run if he believed he had \"the best chance of winning a general election\".\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey dismissed claims he had approached Mr Gardiner about running because of his concerns about the chances of Mrs Long Bailey, who is regarded as the standard bearer for the left of the party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Len McCluskey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnite, Labour's largest financial backer, has said it will not make a decision on who to back until later this month.\n\nMr Gardiner said Mr McCluskey had not asked him to stand but added he would be happy to talk to the union leader.\n\nMrs Long Bailey currently has 17 nominations, one more than Mrs Phillips. Ms Nandy has 12, Ms Thornberry three and Mr Lewis one.", "The Canadian PM says evidence from multiple sources shows the plane taking off in Tehran was hit by an Iranian surface-to-air missile, possibly unintentionally.", "The Commons Speaker said the officers' actions should be recognised\n\nThe Commons Speaker has hailed the bravery of Parliament's security team after they saved a man who fell into the River Thames near the building.\n\nRon Dowson and Habibi Syaaf came to the rescue on Tuesday after the man was found submerged in the freezing water.\n\nSpeaker Lindsay Hoyle said the duo, and another man who alerted the officers after seeing the incident on CCTV, should be recognised for their actions.\n\nMr Syaaf said they were \"not heroes\" and \"did what we were trained for\".\n\nThe incident took place on Victoria Tower Gardens, on the north side of the Thames.\n\nMr Syaaf, a Met Police constable, and Mr Dowson, part of Parliament's security detail, found the man clinging to the steps and \"struggling to breathe\".\n\n\"I got down to the last step and urged him to give me his hand, but as I did he lost his grip from a metal mooring ring and started drifting away,\" explained Mr Syaaf, who has only been working in Parliament for two months.\n\n\"I just shouted 'grab my hand' and managed to pull him back onto the first step... The guy was shaking and could not speak.\n\n\"I am just so grateful he survived. I'm not a hero - Ron and I just did what we are trained for and what we could do to help.\"\n\nSir Lindsay also praised the quick thinking of control room operator Dave Thomas. He spotted the man falling into the water on CCTV and alerted the officers as well as the Police Marine Unit.\n\n\"There's no doubt in my mind that if it had not been for Ron, Habib and Dave Thomas, that man could have drowned,\" he said.\n\n\"We are so lucky to have so many brave security staff looking after us in Parliament but also keeping people in the vicinity safe. I would like to think their bravery could be recognised.\"", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Helen McCourt was murdered by Ian Simms in Billinge, Merseyside, in 1988\n\nA man jailed over the 1988 murder of Helen McCourt is to be released after an appeal to keep him behind bars was rejected.\n\nIan Simms, 63, was convicted of killing the 22-year-old, who disappeared in Merseyside, but has never revealed where he hid her remains.\n\nHer mother, who appealed against the Parole Board's recommendation for his release, said she was \"disappointed\".\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice has now been ordered to free Simms.\n\nThe Parole Board said it was \"satisfied that imprisonment is no longer necessary for the protection of the public\".\n\nSimms, who never admitted his guilt, killed Ms McCourt as she walked home from work in Liverpool.\n\nHer mother Marie said in a statement: \"I am very disappointed with the Parole Board's announcement and do not accept what they are saying - that Simms is safe to be released.\n\n\"I am consulting my legal team to discuss my next steps.\"\n\nShe has previously said she was left shaking with anger after receiving a call from her victim liaison officer at the Parole Board confirming Simms' likely release.\n\nIan Simms, pictured here in 1988, was jailed for murder\n\nMrs McCourt has urged the government to introduce Helen's Law, legislation that would deny parole to killers who do not disclose their victims' remains.\n\nThe bill recently ran out of time, when the general election was called.\n\nSimms was denied release at a hearing in 2016, but was later transferred to an open prison \"due to progress made\", where he had \"followed the rules\" when granted temporary release.\n\nMrs McCourt has described not knowing the whereabouts of her daughter's body as \"torture\".\n\nA Parole Board spokesman said: \"The Parole Board has decided that the original decision to release Ian Simms should stand, after considering a reconsideration application from the Secretary of State.\n\n\"Whilst the Parole Board has every sympathy with Helen McCourt's family, if the board is satisfied that imprisonment is no longer necessary for the protection of the public, they are legally obliged to direct release.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 crashed shortly after take-off in Iran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board.\n\nIn total, 82 Iranians and 63 Canadians were on board the Kyiv-bound Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Flight PS752, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said.\n\nThere were also 11 victims - including nine crew members - from Ukraine, four Afghans, four Britons and three Germans.\n\nIran's head of emergency operations said 147 of the victims were Iranian, which suggests many of the foreign nationals held dual nationality.\n\nA list of passengers was released by the airline, but the BBC is awaiting confirmation from people known to the victims.\n\nThe majority of the passengers on the flight were headed for Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed. Out of the 176 victims, 138 had listed Canada as their final destination.\n\nOf them, 57 of them carried a Canadian passport, but many others were foreign students, permanent residents or visitors.\n\nInitially, the number of Canadian victims was given as 63.\n\nA number of the passengers on board the plane were reportedly students and university staff from Canada returning at the end of the holidays.\n\nThe tragedy was a national one, touching many communities across the country.\n\nArdalan Ebnoddin Hamidi, Niloofar Razzaghi and their teenage son Kamyar, a family of three from Vancouver were returning from Iran where they had taken a short vacation and were confirmed to have been on the flight.\n\nThe University of British Columbia said it is mourning the loss of Mehran Abtahi, a postdoctoral research fellow, and sibling alumnus Zeynab Asadi Lari and Mohammad Asadi Lari.\n\n\"She was full of dreams, and now they're gone,\" Elnaz Morshedi told the BBC of her friend Zeynab Asadi Lari, who was studying health sciences.\n\nHer brother Mohammmad was the co-founder of STEM fellowship, a youth-run charity that helps students in maths and sciences.\n\nOther victims from the west coast province include Delaram Dadashnejad, an international student studying nutrition at a college in Vancouver, and couple Naser Pourshaban Oshibi and Firouzeh Madani.\n\nThe University of Alberta confirmed that 10 members of the institution's community were killed in the tragedy.\n\nPedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand, a married couple who taught engineering at the University of Alberta, were killed in the crash, along with their two daughters, Daria, 14, and Dorina, 9.\n\nPedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand with their two daughters\n\nArash Pourzarabi, 26,and Pouneh Gourji, 25, were graduate students in computer science at the university, and had gone to Iran for their wedding.\n\nOther students who died included Elnaz Nabiyi, Nasim Rahmanifar, and Amir Saeedinia, as well as alumnus Mohammad Mahdi Elyasi, who studied mechanical engineering and graduated in 2017.\n\nObstetrician Shekoufeh Choupannejad, her daughter Saba Saadat, who was studying medicine at the university, and Sara, who had recently graduated, were also among those on the flight\n\nThe \"community is reeling from this loss,\" said university president David Turpin on Thursday.\n\nAlso from the province of Alberta was Kasra Saati, an aircraft mechanic formerly with Viking Air, the CBC confirmed.\n\nVictims from Winnipeg included Forough Khadem, described \"as a promising scientist and a dear friend,\" by her colleague E Eftekharpour.\n\n\"I can't use past tense. I think he's coming back. We play again. We talk again. It's too difficult to use past tense, too difficult. No one can believe it,\" his friend Amir Shirzadi told CTV News.\n\nAmirhossein Bahabadi Ghorbani, 21, was studying science at the University of Manitoba and hoped to become a doctor, his roommate told the CBC.\n\nCBC also confirmed that a family of three from that city - Mohammad Mahdi Sadeghi, his wife, Bahareh Hajesfandiari, and their daughter, Anisa Sadeghi, were travelling together on the flight.\n\nFarzaneh Naderi, a customer service manager at Walmart, and her 11-year-old son Noojan Sadr were also killed.\n\nMany of the victims were returning to their homes in Toronto and other nearby cities in the province of Ontario.\n\nThey included Ghanimat Azhdari - a PhD student at the University of Guelph, Ontario. She specialised in promoting the rights of indigenous groups and her research group described her as \"cherished and loved\".\n\nToronto resident Alina Tarbhai was also among the victims, her employer, the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation (OSSTF), told the BBC. Her mother Afifa Tarbhai was also on board.\n\nThe University of Windsor, Ontario, confirmed five people from their school had died on the plane. PhD student Hamid Kokab Setareh and his wife Samira Bashiri, who was also a researcher at the school, were among those killed.\n\nOmid Arsalani told CBC that his sister Evin Arsalani, 30, had travelled to Iran to attend a wedding with her husband, Hiva Molani, 38, and their one-year-old daughter Kurdia. All three were killed in the crash.\n\nThe University of Toronto confirmed the loss of students Mojtaba Abbasnezhad, Mohammad Amin Beiruti, and Mohammad Amin Jebelli, and Mohammad Salehe.\n\nSeyed Hossein Mortazavi, a childhood friend of Mohammad Salehe, said he was a bit reserved and shy but a brilliant computer programmer whose talent was widely recognised.\n\nMcMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario confirmed the loss of PhD students Iman Aghabali and Mehdi Eshaghian, as well as of former postdoctoral researcher Siavash Maghsoudlou Estarabadi.\n\nThe CBC confirmed that Mahdieh Ghassemi and her two children Arsan Niazi and Arnica Niazi, were on the flight.\n\nTirgan, an Iranian cultural charity, said \"it is with a heavy heart that we bid farewell\" to some volunteers with their organisation, including couple Parinaz and Iman Ghaderpanah.\n\nThe organisation said it was joining in mourning with another volunteer, Hamed Esmaeilion, who lost his wife Parisa Eghbalian, and their daughter Reera Esmaeilion.\n\nWestern University said it was mourning four international students: Ghazal Nourian, Milad Nahavandi, Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Sajedeh Saraeian.\n\nThe University of Waterloo shared the news \"with heavy hearts\" that their community had lost two PhD students Marzieh (Mari) Foroutan and Mansour Esnaashary Esfahani.\n\nEngineer Siavash Ghafouri-Azar was returning home with his new wife, Sara Mamani, when the plane crashed. The couple had just bought their first home near the Canadian city of Montreal.\n\nHis uncle, Reza Ghafouri-Azar, told the BBC \"I cannot come up with words for my kind, dedicated nephew.\"\n\n\"He has been a very positive and passionate from childhood until his soul's departure from his body. Rest in peace my dearest side by your beloved wife,\" he said.\n\nMr Ghafouri-Azar is a professor of engineering in Toronto, and he introduced his nephew to Ali Dolatabadi, an engineering professor at Concordia University who would become Siavash's thesis supervisor.\n\n\"It is a great loss,\" Mr Dolatabadi told the BBC. \"He was very intelligent, a gentleman. He had a kind and a gentle soul.\" He said his wife Sarah Mamani was \"very kind, very polite\". The couple were looking forward to throwing a housewarming party in the New Year.\n\nArmin Morattab was worried when his twin Arvin Morattab, called him from the airport in Tehran, amid reports that Iran had fired missiles at US targets in Iraq.\n\n\"He said he was coming back home soon,\" Mr Morattab told the Montreal Gazette.\n\nArvin Morattab and his wife Aida Farzaneh were both killed.\n\nThe Gazette also confirmed that Mohammad Moeini, from Quebec, was also killed.\n\nGlobal News confirmed that five of the victims have ties to Nova Scotia, a province on Canada's east coast.\n\nDalhousie University student Masoumeh Ghavi, her sister, Mandieh Ghavi, were both killed, as was local dentist Dr. Sharieh Faghihi, and two graduate students at St Mary's University, Maryam Malek and Fatemeh Mahmoodi.\n\nAli Nafarieh, a professor at Dalhousie and president of the Iranian Cultural Association of Nova Scotia, employed Masoumeh Ghavi part-time at his IT company. He says she was one of the university's \"top students\".\n\n\"I remember she has always a smile on her face. What she brought in our company in addition to skills and knowledge and experience was her energy. She changed the atmosphere over there. We'll miss her a lot,\" he told CTV News.\n\nWe have no information on the 82 Iranian nationals who died.\n\nFour British nationals were among the victims.\n\nMohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, Sam Zokaei and Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board\n\nThree have been named as Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, who owned a dry cleaners in West Sussex, BP engineer Sam Zokaei from Twickenham, and PhD student and engineer Saeed Tahmasebi, who lived in Dartford.\n\nLast year, Mr Tahmasebi married his Iranian partner, Niloufar Ebrahim, who was also on the plane.\n\nMr Tahmasebi's colleagues at Imperial College London described him as \"a brilliant engineer with a bright future\", and said that his contributions to engineering \"will benefit society for years to come\".\n\nHis friend and business partner, Nima Shoja, told the BBC that Mr Tahmasebi and his wife were planning to have a baby.\n\n\"I talked with Saeed every other day,\" Mr Shoja said. \"I also tried to call him the day before his flight. [It] was late in Tehran and I was not successful.\n\n\"He sent me a message in the morning [saying], 'I will call you tomorrow' - the tomorrow that he did not have.\"\n\nTen Swedish nationals died in the crash. Many of them are believed to have also had Iranian citizenship.\n\nSwedish media report that several children were among the victims.\n\nSweden's foreign ministry confirmed that Swedes were among those killed. It provided no further details.\n\nNine of the 11 Ukrainian nationals killed were staff at Ukraine International Airlines (UIA).\n\nValeriia Ovcharuk, 28, and Mariia Mykytiuk, 24, were among the flight attendants who died.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by teplo_maria This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn their social media accounts, which are now being filled with tributes, they frequently shared photographs from their travels.\n\nValeria posted just two weeks ago from a hotel in Bangkok with the caption: \"Work, I love you.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by o_valeriia This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIhor Matkov, was flight PS752's chief attendant. The other three flight attendants were named by the airline as Kateryna Statnik, Yuliia Solohub and Denys Lykhno.\n\nThree pilots were on board at the time of the accident: Captain Volodymyr Gaponenko, First Officer Serhii Khomenko and instructor Oleksiy Naumkin.\n\nAll three had between 7,600 and 12,000 hours experience flying a 737 aircraft, according to the airline.\n\nA former UIA pilot said he had flown together with each of the three pilots. Writing on Facebook, Yuri, who wanted to be known only by his first name, described them as \"great pilots\".", "Sales at the UK's biggest supermarket, Tesco, fell slightly in the months that include the crucial Christmas period.\n\nBut stronger takings in the weeks just before the festive period, which included its biggest day to date for food sales, helped bolster performance.\n\nIt was the final Christmas under the leadership of Tesco's boss Dave Lewis, who said the chain had \"performed well\" in a \"subdued\" UK market.\n\nHowever, Tesco said the UK market had \"clearly been challenging\".\n\nMr Lewis said customers were cautious about how they spent their money at Christmas, but the supermarket claimed \"strong\" promotions appealed to shoppers.\n\nThat helped the firm increase sales by 0.1% in the six-week festive period.\n\nHowever, that was not enough to reverse a decline in UK sales in the 19 weeks to 4 January.\n\nDuring that period, like-for-like sales, which exclude new store openings, fell by 0.2%.\n\nJulie Palmer from consultancy Begbies Traynor said Mr Lewis would feel that he was leaving the company on \"solid foundations\".\n\n\"Despite the slump in sales for some of the UK's 'big four' supermarkets, Tesco has managed to remain robust during this precarious period,\" she said.\n\nIn contrast, rival Marks & Spencer reported a rise in sales for the first time since 2017 in the the 13 weeks to 28 December.\n\nM&S said its food departments had a \"standout\" run in the two weeks leading up to Christmas, with like-for-like sales up 1.4%.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales were worse than expected, dropping 1.7% in the same period.\n\nThe chain's boss Steve Rowe also described the market as \"challenging\".\n\nOn Monday, market research firm Kantar said supermarket sales growth over Christmas was the slowest in five years.\n\n\"There was no sign of the post-election rush many had hoped for in the final weeks before Christmas, with shoppers carefully watching their budgets,\" said Kantar's Fraser McKevitt.", "James Manning died after choking on a piece of sausage at Butlin's holiday park in Bognor Regis\n\nA toddler who choked on a sausage while on a Butlin's holiday could still be alive if his tonsils had been removed sooner, an inquest heard.\n\nTwo-year-old James Manning died in June 2018 after choking at Butlin's in Bognor Regis.\n\nConsultant Philip Hyde, from Southampton Children's Hospital told an inquest \"red flags\" were missed despite a number of choking episodes.\n\nThe toddler, from Battle, East Sussex, died two weeks after choking on a piece of sausage at the holiday resort.\n\nJames Manning had been at the resort with his mother and grandmother\n\nWest Sussex Coroner's Court in Crawley heard James had a history of choking issues and breathing difficulties.\n\nHe had been on a waiting list to have his adenoids removed, along with his enlarged tonsils, in a bid to prevent more incidents.\n\nHis mother Natalie Reeves previously told the inquest her son would sometimes wake up gasping for breath and would choke on his food at least once a week.\n\nMs Reeves said she felt she had to plead with doctors to get a hospital referral.\n\nDr Hyde said: \"I feel that the NHS could have responded quicker to his situation, most particular his multiple episodes of presentation. I feel there were opportunities to intervene and they would have made a difference to him choking in 2018.\"\n\nDr Hyde said \"red flags\" were missed and James should have been \"on a much more rapid referral pathway\". He suggested James could still be alive if his tonsils had been removed earlier.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Maginnis earlier told the BBC: \"I certainly didn't call her a queer\".\n\nA recording of Lord Maginnis using the term \"queer\" to describe Scottish National Party MP Hannah Bardell has been released by the Huffington Post.\n\nLord Maginnis had earlier denied that he had used the term.\n\nBut the Huffington Post journalist who spoke to the peer on Wednesday has now tweeted an audio recording of his interview with Lord Maginnis.\n\nThe MP called the remarks a \"homophobic attack\" and said she would report it to police, who are now investigating.\n\nA Metropolitan Police statement said its \"Parliamentary Liaison and Investigation Team is looking into an allegation of hate crime at the House of Commons made to them on Thursday, 9 January\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arj Singh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Thursday afternoon, before the Huffington Post recording was released, Lord Maginnis said: \"I certainly didn't call her a 'queer'.\n\n\"Whether I was asked a question which used that particular term I'm not sure. It's not something I remember.\"\n\nLord Maginnis had spoken to the Huffington Post on Wednesday, after Ms Bardell made allegations against him that he verbally abused security staff as he entered Parliament the day before.\n\nMs Bardell witnessed the incident on Tuesday and raised it in the House of Commons, saying it was \"one of the worst cases of abuse of security staff\" she had witnessed as an MP.\n\nHannah Bardell told the Commons on Wednesday she saw the peer shouting at security staff\n\nLord Maginnis later told BBC News NI that he was not displaying his security pass at the time and admitted that he got \"cross\" when staff insisted that he take it out of his bag and show it to them.\n\nHe explained that doing so would cause him pain due to his arthritis, adding he had difficulty with balance because of nerve damage in his legs and feet.\n\nBut Lord Maginnis went on to accuse Ms Bardell of having an \"ulterior motive\" in making her allegations.\n\nHe said he believed she had complained against him because of his well-known opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.\n\nLord Maginnis made similar claims about Ms Bardell's motives in his Huffington Post interview, but then was heard to say: \"Queers like Ms Bardell don't particularly annoy me.\"\n\n\"Okay, she's got her cheap publicity out of it.\"\n\nReturning to the Commons on Thursday afternoon, Ms Bardell said: \"I'm sorry to say the member from the Other Place [House of Lords] who I have complained about has now launched a homophobic attack on me in the press.\n\n\"This will be reported to the police and I know I, and others, consider this to be a hate crime.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Maginnis LGBT comments to be reported to police\n\nAddressing Ms Bardell's concerns, the Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg urged Lord Maginnis to apologise, calling the comments \"disgraceful\".\n\nIn a statement, the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords, Lord Fowler, said: \"I am deeply concerned by recent reports of a Member of the House of Lords directing offensive language towards parliamentary security staff and a Member of Parliament\".\n\n\"The reported behaviour and use of such language is totally unacceptable and has no place in Parliament.\n\n\"We are working hard to build an inclusive and respectful environment, and behaviour such as this totally undermines our collective efforts.\"\n\nThe Lord Speaker said the use of such language was totally unacceptable\n\nLord Fowler added: \"Security on the parliamentary estate is everyone's responsibility. Any disregard for security rules is against the interests of us all.\n\n\"Our security staff do a difficult job with the utmost professionalism and deserve support from all members.\"\n\nIn an interview on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme earlier on Thursday, Lord Maginnis admitted he became angry with the security guards.\n\n\"The next thing this Scottish lassie, I forget her name, I've never seen her before, she was there and she stood up in the House of Commons and made a scene about my being bad tempered, which was quite true.\n\n\"It's very strange, she must have an ulterior motive,\" the peer added.\n\nLord Maginnis, who is 81, became a life peer in 2001.\n\nPrior to that he had been the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone since 1983.", "The London Pride parade was among the potential targets, the court heard\n\nA man who was cleared over a sword attack on police outside Buckingham Palace went on to plan a series of terror attacks, a court has heard.\n\nMohiussunnath Chowdhury, 28, was found not guilty of a terror charge over an incident outside the palace in 2017, Woolwich Crown Court heard.\n\nHe is accused of later planning attacks on places including London's Madame Tussauds and London Pride parade.\n\nHe appeared in court alongside his sister, Sneha Chowdhury, 25, who is accused of doing nothing to stop his plans.\n\nMs Chowdhury, of the same address, denies two charges of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism.\n\nWoolwich Crown Court heard that, in the attack outside Buckingham Palace in August 2017, two unarmed officers suffered cuts to their hands when they fought to disarm Mr Chowdhury as he shouted repeatedly \"Allahu Akbar\" (God is the greatest).\n\nMr Chowdhury had claimed the incident outside Buckingham Palace had been an attempt at suicide.\n\nBut the prosecution told the court that after he was cleared at the Old Bailey, Mr Chowdhury bragged to undercover officers who had him under surveillance that he had deceived the jury.\n\nHe also unwittingly confided in the officers, who were working to earn his trust from January 2019, plans to target busy London tourist attractions, with Madame Tussauds and an open-top tourist bus among the potential targets discussed, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said.\n\nSneha Chowdhury is accused of doing nothing to stop her brother's plans\n\n\"Believing them to be as sincerely committed as he was, he told them of his devotion to the cause of violent Islamic extremism, the basis for this devotion and the skewed religious beliefs that underpinned it,\" Mr Atkinson said.\n\nHe said Mr Chowdhury was \"motivated by dreams of martyrdom for the cause of Islam, and inspired by preachers of hate\".\n\n\"The object was to unleash death and suffering on non-Muslim members of the public who happened to be present, using a firearm, sword and even a van as part of an attack,\" he said.\n\nThe prosecutor told jurors they could consider Mr Chowdhury's \"assertions\" to the undercover officers that he was \"indeed trying to carry out a terrorist attack in 2017 and that he had deceived the earlier jury that acquitted him of it\".\n\nMr Atkinson added: \"Whatever the position in 2017, he was unquestionably preparing for terrorism in 2019.\"\n\nMadame Tussauds is a top tourist attraction famed for its waxworks of celebrities and historical figures\n\nMr Atkinson said Mr Chowdhury's sister had \"better reason than anyone\" to understand what her brother was thinking and wanting to achieve, but she did nothing to stop him.\n\nThe prosecution said Mr Chowdhury used his sister's bank account on 10 March 2019 to buy two Red Oak Bokken wooden training swords, which were delivered to their home address.\n\nMr Chowdhury was also able to buy a replica Glock gun and looked into firearms training, Mr Atkinson said.\n\nHe also sought to involve the undercover officers in his firearms-related training and carrying out terrorist attacks, Mr Atkinson added.\n\nIn the lead up to the Buckingham Palace incident he had made references on WhatsApp to the \"Westminster jihad attacker\"' Khalid Masood, who had killed five people in March 2017, and wrote it was \"a good way to go\".\n\nMr Chowdhury is charged with one count of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, collecting information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism and of disseminating terrorist publications.", "Zara Tindall was caught speeding in her Land Rover\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall has been banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding at 91mph near her Cotswolds home.\n\nShe was banned under the totting up procedure, having already accumulated nine penalty points on her licence.\n\nMrs Tindall, 38, was given four more points for driving at 91mph on the A417 in Gloucestershire, taking her over the 12 points that usually means a ban.\n\nThe speed limit where she was clocked is 70mph.\n\nThe wife of former Gloucester and England rugby player Mike Tindall did not attend Cheltenham Magistrates' Court because she is in Australia.\n\nShe admitted the speeding offence, which she committed in her Land Rover at Daglingworth, near Cirencester, in November.\n\nGloucestershire Police operate a frequent road safety patrol from a lay-by at Dartley Bottom - a long, straight stretch of the road between Gloucester and Cirencester, where they catch hundreds of drivers a year.\n\nProsecutor Farley Turner said: \"Because Mrs Tindall already has nine points on her licence she was unable to accept a fixed penalty for this offence.\"\n\nRoger Utley, chairman of the bench, announced that as well as the six-month ban, the court was fining Mrs Tindall £666 plus costs and a victim surcharge of £151.\n\nHer mother Princess Anne was caught speeding on the same stretch of road in 2001.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Consumer pressure to end plastic packaging in shops could actually be harming the environment, a report says.\n\nFirms are swapping to other packaging materials which are potentially even worse for the environment, an independent think tank warns.\n\nGlass bottles, for instance, are much heavier than plastic so are far more polluting to transport.\n\nPaper bags tend to have higher carbon emissions than plastic bags – and are more difficult to re-use.\n\nThe change in packaging materials has been prompted by concern from shoppers about the impact of plastic waste in the oceans.\n\nBut the authors of the report, called Plastic Promises, say the consequences of using new materials have not been properly assessed.\n\nSeveral supermarkets, for instance, are selling more drinks in coated cartons under the assumption that they can be recycled.\n\nIn fact, the Green Alliance says, the UK only has the facilities to recycle a third of the coated containers in circulation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family of the inventor of the plastic carrier bag says they were designed to stop trees from being destroyed\n\nThe group has been working with recycling organisations to survey shops’ anonymous responses to public anxiety about plastic polluting the oceans.\n\nIts spokeswoman, Libby Peake, told BBC News: “A lot of shops are selling packaging described as biodegradable or compostable.\n\n“In fact the items might only be composted in an industrial composter – and, even then, some items might not be fully digested.”\n\nThe report says: “Over 80% of consumers think biodegradable or compostable plastic is environmentally friendly, but there is little understanding of what the terms mean and how the material should be dealt with.\n\n“Our interviewees wanted a clearer approach to where it should be used and how it should be marked to avoid confusing consumers and potentially causing more problems.”\n\nThe retailers worried that confusion could potentially harm the environment if people either put \"compostable\" plastic in with conventional plastic, or littered it, wrongly assuming it would biodegrade like an apple core.\n\nSome companies that had tried using this type of plastic also suggested that the material did not degrade as expected in real world conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How recyclable is your food shop?\n\nOne firm is quoted as saying: “Consumers are hugely confused about what bio-based, compostable and biodegradable mean.\n\n“We are aware that [by switching from plastic to other materials] we may, in some cases, be increasing our carbon footprint.”\n\nAnother said: \"If I could have a magic wand, I’d like to see more joined up, top-down government intervention… We would like to see government be braver.\"\n\nA different firm said: “Packaging technology innovations can be quite the competitive advantage in the current climate.”\n\nAndrew Opie, from the British Retail Consortium, echoed calls for a clearer strategy.\n\nHe said: “All responsible retailers agree that climate change needs to be at the heart of their business, whether that is sourcing products or changing packaging.\n\n“Plastic remains the most effective material in many circumstances - for example cucumbers wrapped in plastic last 14 days longer, reducing food waste.\n\n\"A coherent waste and resources strategy is one that prioritises reducing the environmental impact of the things we buy, not simply reducing plastic use.”\n\nThe government published its resources and waste strategy in December 2018, and has conducted initial consultations on three policies: extended producer responsibility for packaging; introducing a deposit return system for drinks bottles; and bringing in greater consistency for recycling and waste collections.\n\nMinisters say businesses will pay for 100% of costs for dealing with material when it becomes waste, as opposed to around 10% currently.\n\nConsultations on the three topics are expected later this year, but the timeline for their implementation remains unclear, and the government has not confirmed if the deposit return will apply to all materials and container sizes.\n\nThere are also efforts to target plastic straws\n\nThe government has partially banned microbeads, and a ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds is set to come in later this year.\n\nA ban on expanded polystyrene has also been mooted and the Treasury has promised to introduce a tax on plastic packaging that does not include at least 30% recycled content.\n\nThe UK has committed to adopting the EU’s Circular Economy Package, which includes much more stringent recycling targets, but has not committed to transposing the Single-Use Plastics Directive, which requires more widespread action on plastic reduction, including bans on plastic cutlery.\n\nThey have said, however, that they will meet or exceed whatever the EU does in this area.\n\nIt is also not clear if the UK will adopt the EU’s much more wide-ranging ban on microbeads.", "A French start-up hopes to radically reduce the amount of time people take to brush their teeth.\n\nY-Brush claims that its product only requires 10 seconds to complete a deep-clean.\n\nZoe Kleinman put the device to the test at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.\n\nCatch up with all the BBC's CES 2020 coverage", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is 2020's Iran crisis already over?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani there should be \"an end to hostilities\".\n\nIn a phone call, Mr Johnson urged calm following Iran's retaliation for the US killing of army chief Qasem Soleimani.\n\nThe PM also underlined the UK's commitment to the Iran nuclear deal, despite pressure to abandon it from US President Donald Trump.\n\nIt came after Iran fired missiles at airbases in Iraq where US and UK troops are stationed.\n\nMr Johnson also raised the \"continued detention and mistreatment\" of charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual nationals who are imprisoned in Iran, and called on President Rouhani to organise their immediate release.\n\nDowning Street said the phone call lasted around 20 minutes.\n\nEarlier, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he recognised the threat Iran poses in the Middle East and a US \"right to self-defence\", after talks with his counterpart in Washington.\n\nMr Raab also reiterated his support for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis during his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\n\"We want to see the tensions de-escalated,\" he said.\n\nThe already tense relationship between the US and Iran has deteriorated significantly in recent days, after a US drone strike killed General Qasem Soleimani, one of Iran's top military commanders.\n\nBoris Johnson spoke with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for around 20 minutes, Downing Street said\n\nMr Raab welcomed US President Donald Trump's call for a diplomatic resolution following Iran's retaliatory missile strikes.\n\n\"Of course it also needs the government in Iran to be willing and committed to that outcome as well,\" he added.\n\nThe US government said Gen Soleimani had been plotting \"imminent attacks\", but Mr Raab refused to say whether he had seen any intelligence on this.\n\nMr Raab reiterated the UK's commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on restricting Iran's nuclear programme,\n\nThe foreign secretary said the UK government was \"looking very hard at what should happen next\" after Iran declared earlier this week that it would abandon all limits on its enrichment of uranium.\n\n\"We are absolutely committed, as our American and European partners are, to avoiding Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon,\" he said.\n\nIran's announcement marked further fracturing of the 2015 nuclear deal, in which the country agreed to limit sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nThe US withdrew from the deal in 2018, but the other parties - the UK, France, Germany, China and Russia - said they were still dedicated to it.\n\nMr Raab said that, while the UK has been committed to the deal, \"we've reached a point where non-compliance has been so acute in the most recent steps taken by Iran.\"\n\nAsked whether there was still a chance that the deal could survive if Iran started to uphold its commitments, he said: \"There is an opportunity to build on this deal.\n\n\"But ultimately the objective is the most important thing which is to avoid the risk of Iran seeking - let alone acquiring - a nuclear weapon.\"", "The ShoeBlast uses a combination of heat and ultraviolet light to achieve its goal.\n\nZoe Kleinman put the device to the test at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.\n\nCatch up with all the BBC's CES 2020 coverage", "The store refused to sell the television to customers at the bargain price\n\nPolice cleared a supermarket in France after customers refused to leave when they were denied a deal on televisions.\n\nGéant Casino in the southern city of Montpellier accidentally priced TVs at €30.99 instead of €399 on Wednesday.\n\nHowever the supermarket refused to honour the bargain price. The customers then blocked the checkout demanding that they be allowed to purchase the television sets.\n\nDozens of police officers were called in to help clear the store.\n\nAccording to French media, when customers arrived at the checkouts, staff told them they could not buy the television sets for the price advertised.\n\nCustomers then became angry and refused to leave the store unless they could purchase the televisions.\n\nJean-Christophe, who works inside the shopping mall, told Midi Libre: \"We are located right across from the Géant Casino checkout lines. I saw a lot of police and a crowd of people. \"\n\nHe added that some people had four or five televisions in their shopping trolley.\n\nImages and video posted to social media shows customers at the checkouts refusing to leave.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by viàOccitanie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice were eventually called to clear the store, getting customers to leave over an hour after the supermarket's closing time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by viàOccitanie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the consumer code, any seller is required to sell the product at the price displayed even if it is due to a labelling error. However if the price is clearly an obvious mistake, then the vendors can refuse to sell, BFM TV said.\n\nThere have been cases in the past where businesses have opted to honour the error price.\n\nLast January, Hong Kong based airline Cathay Pacific mistakenly sold business-class seats on August flights from Vietnam to New York for about $675 (£517) return.\n\nPrices on the same route in July and September cost $16,000. The airline later announced it would honour the fare purchases.", "Rebecca Long Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips (l to r) have all secured the number of nominations needed\n\nRebecca Long Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips have secured support to run in the contest to succeed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe MPs for Salford and Eccles, Wigan and Birmingham Yardley join Sir Keir Starmer on the ballot paper.\n\nCandidates need 22 Labour MPs or MEPs to nominate them before Monday.\n\nEmily Thornberry and Clive Lewis have also declared they are running, but Barry Gardiner, who was considering joining, has now ruled himself out.\n\nMs Thornberry - the shadow foreign secretary - has only secured seven nominations so far, while Mr Lewis - a shadow treasury minister - has four.\n\nThere is also a contest to become deputy leader after Tom Watson stepped down in December.\n\nThe new leader and deputy leader will be announced on 4 April.\n\nShadow business secretary Mrs Long Bailey has 26 nominations so far.\n\nHer supporters include shadow chancellor John McDonnell, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery - who had been considering his own run.\n\nBoth Ms Phillips and Ms Nandy have 22 nominations.\n\nMs Phillips has the backing of former Labour ministers Margaret Hodge and Chris Bryant, while Ms Nandy has shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth and former shadow minister Jack Dromey on side.\n\nThe leadership candidates tweeted to thank the people who had nominated them, with Ms Phillips celebrating the amount she had raised through crowdfunding, adding: \"It means so much to be powered by people.\"\n\nMs Nandy said she was \"proud\" to have gained support from MPs \"representing different parts of the country and different traditions in our movement\".\n\nAnd Mrs Long Bailey tweeted that her nomination was \"an honour and responsibility\" that she took \"incredibly seriously\", adding: \"Together we will build a winning vision of a socialist future.\"\n\nHowever, all three candidates are behind the shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir, who has secured 63 nominations so far - including from the shadow leader of the House Valerie Vaz and shadow Brexit minister Paul Blomfield.\n\nHe also got the backing of the UK's largest union Unison.", "Harry and Meghan at the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto\n\n\"Come to Canada, where you belong.\" It's a bold invitation from the Toronto Star as the world's media digests the news that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will step back from royal duties and consider basing themselves abroad.\n\nNot everyone is as supportive of Prince Harry and Meghan's decision, and there is some outright criticism to be found in editorials and leader columns of British newspapers.\n\nA scathing review of the move in the Daily Mirror says there \"can be no sympathy\" with the way the announcement was made.\n\n\"They were unable to find even a few moments to do our Queen the courtesy of discussing their plans,\" its leader reads.\n\nIt says the move may cause \"an irreparable rift\" with the rest of the Royal Family.\n\nThe Times leader calls the move \"premature... petulant and ill-judged\".\n\n\"The announcement carries all the hallmarks of the petulance and hot-headedness for which Prince Harry is sadly becoming well-known,\" it reads, adding that little thought has been given to the practicalities of their new roles.\n\nIt argues that Harry and Meghan's wish to be financially independent but still be members of the royal family implies that they \"want to have it both ways\".\n\nThe Daily Express's leader is slightly more forgiving. It calls the couple a \"tremendous breath of fresh air\" but says they would have \"gained more empathy\" had they \"shown respect\".\n\n\"It is a massive error judgment not to have informed the Queen of such a bold decision,\" it reads.\n\n\"As a country we do expect a certain decorum from members of The Firm. And Harry's latest decision of not playing by those rules falls way short.\"\n\nThe Daily Mail's Richard Kay analyses \"where it all went wrong\" for Harry and Meghan.\n\nHe says the couple were \"bent on re-writing the rule book of what being a member of the Royal Family actually means\" from the moment they married, which led to a \"disconnect\".\n\n\"The rot set in even before the glow of that May wedding day had passed,\" Kay writes, citing, among other things, the privacy of their honeymoon and their \"secrecy\" over their son's birth.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's Camilla Tominey says their \"break for freedom\" was \"long planned\" and can be traced back to November 2018, when they announced a \"split\" from the royal household they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nShe quotes a source telling the paper at the time that Harry had \"always complained about being sidelined by William\" and they wanted to \"spread their wings\".\n\nThe \"Fab Four\" at Sandringham on Christmas Day, 2017\n\nAcross the Atlantic, \"Megxit\" dominates the front page of the New York Post, which says Harry and Meghan are choosing \"commoner\" lifestyles.\n\nThe New York Times says the duchess faced \"lacerating criticism\" from Britons who \"like their royals to be dutiful and traditional\".\n\nShe was criticised for being \"too bold, too outspoken, too difficult, too American, too multicultural\", it writes, adding that the couple's desire to \"renounce the usual menu of royal obligations speaks directly to the challenges facing the monarchy\".\n\nBack at the Toronto Star, columnist Vinay Menon writes that the move will mean the couple are \"finally free\" and adds: \"Stepping back from your royal duties amounts to stepping into your future.\"\n\nHe adds that the rest of the Royal Family \"don't deserve\" them.\n\nThe Australian says the move has \"breathed new life into the age-old debate over Australia's ties to the British monarchy\".\n\nIt interviews the chairman of the Australian Republic Movement, who says that it \"highlights the Royal Family's waning power\".\n\nIn France, Le Figaro interviews French royal expert Stephane Bern, who says that royals who are \"not at the core\" need to show they can \"earn a living\" in today's world.\n\n\"Gone are the days when the English paid for everyone without wondering why,\" he tells the paper.\n\nLe Monde says it is \"a revolution in Buckingham Palace\".\n\nDie Zeit, in Germany, says the Queen now has a \"shortage of skilled workers\", and Frankfurter Allgemeine agrees that Harry and Meghan's decision is a \"serious loss\" for the Royal Family.\n\nSpain's El Mundo says on its front page that the couple have \"[slammed] the door in the British Royal Family's face\", while El País says they became the victims of a \"curse\" that sees royals without a \"determined destiny\" heavily criticised.\n\nThe Italian paper La Repubblica says it is not clear whether it is \"the definitive strike that will weaken the foundations of The Firm\" or \"a publicity stunt\" to get more Instagram followers.\n\nSweden's Dagens Nyheter compares what it calls \"chaos and civil war in the British royal house\" with Brexit, while the Belgian Flemish-language newspaper Het Nieuwsblad says Harry \"has had enough of the royal circus\".", "UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said he recognises the threat Iran poses in the Middle East and the US's \"right to self-defence\", after talks with his counterpart in Washington.\n\nHis meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo comes less than a day after Iran fired missiles at air bases housing US troops in Iraq.\n\nMr Raab also reiterated his support for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis.\n\n\"We want to see the tensions de-escalated,\" he said.\n\nThe already tense relationship between the US and Iran has deteriorated significantly in recent days, after a US drone strike killed one of Iran's top military commanders, General Qasem Soleimani.\n\nMr Raab welcomed US President Donald Trump's call for a diplomatic resolution following Iran's retaliatory missile strikes.\n\n\"Of course it also needs the government in Iran to be willing and committed to that outcome as well,\" he added.\n\nThe US government said Gen Soleimani had been plotting \"imminent attacks\", but Mr Raab refused to say whether he had seen any intelligence on this.\n\nMr Raab reiterated the UK's commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on restricting Iran's nuclear programme,\n\nThe foreign secretary said the UK government was \"looking very hard at what should happen next\" after Iran declared earlier this week that it would abandon all limits on its enrichment of uranium.\n\n\"We are absolutely committed, as our American and European partners are, to avoiding Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: UK is \"absolutely committed\" to stopping Iran get nuclear weapons\n\nIran's announcement marked further fracturing of the 2015 nuclear deal, in which the country agreed to limit sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nThe US withdrew from the deal in 2018, but the other parties - the UK, France, Germany, China and Russia - said they were still dedicated to it.\n\nMr Raab said that, while the UK has been committed to the deal, \"we've reached a point where non-compliance has been so acute in the most recent steps taken by Iran.\"\n\nAsked whether there was still a chance that the deal could survive if Iran started to uphold its commitments, he said: \"There is an opportunity to build on this deal.\n\n\"But ultimately the objective is the most important thing which is to avoid the risk of Iran seeking - let alone acquiring - a nuclear weapon.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released a statement saying they intend to step back as senior members of the Royal Family. Here's that statement in full:\n\nA personal message from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex:\n\n\"After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution.\n\n\"We intend to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.\n\n\"It is with your encouragement, particularly over the last few years, that we feel prepared to make this adjustment.\n\n\"We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth and our patronages.\n\n\"This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.\n\n\"We look forward to sharing the full details of this exciting next step in due course, as we continue to collaborate with Her Majesty The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and all relevant parties.\n\n\"Until then, please accept our deepest thanks for your continued support.\"\n\n\"Discussions with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are at an early stage.\n\n\"We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced they will step back as senior royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nThe Royal Family are said to be \"hurt\" at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's announcement.\n\nHere are some other times the couple opted to do things differently.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released a statement saying they intend to step back as senior members of the Royal Family. Here's that statement in full:\n\nA personal message from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex:\n\n\"After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution.\n\n\"We intend to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.\n\n\"It is with your encouragement, particularly over the last few years, that we feel prepared to make this adjustment.\n\n\"We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth and our patronages.\n\n\"This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.\n\n\"We look forward to sharing the full details of this exciting next step in due course, as we continue to collaborate with Her Majesty The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and all relevant parties.\n\n\"Until then, please accept our deepest thanks for your continued support.\"\n\n\"Discussions with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are at an early stage.\n\n\"We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe couple said last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals, and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn 2016, Kensington Palace released a statement confirming Harry had been dating US actress Meghan Markle \"for a few months\". They were pictured in public for the first time in Toronto, attending a wheelchair tennis match during the 2017 Invictus Games.\n\nThey announced their engagement a few weeks after being first pictured together. Meghan told BBC News that Harry's proposal was \"just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic\".\n\nIn February 2018, the couple took part in their first joint engagement with Prince Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As Meghan joined their Royal Foundation charity, Harry joked the foursome were now \"stuck together\".\n\nThe couple were married at Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018, with 1,200 public invitations to the grounds of the castle. They travelled through the town in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nUp to 100,000 well-wishers lined the route as the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThe couple kissed on the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family attended the wedding.\n\nThe newlyweds held hands after the ceremony.\n\nIn June 2018, the Queen and the duchess were seen at their first royal engagement together, as they officially opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre.\n\nThat autumn, Kensington Palace revealed the duchess was pregnant and the couple's baby was due in the spring. Shortly after the announcement, they embarked on their first official overseas tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nOn one of their engagements, the couple posed with OneWave, a surfing community group that raises awareness of mental health and wellbeing, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia\n\nOn 6 May, 2019, Meghan gave birth to a boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who became seventh in line to the throne. Harry told reporters: \"It's been the most amazing experience I could ever possibly imagine\".\n\nIn June 2019, the couple announced they were splitting from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own foundation.\n\nLast autumn, Archie travelled with the couple to southern Africa on their first royal tour as a family, and was a big hit with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAn image of a beaming Prince Harry holding his son while on an extended stay in Canada was released by the couple as part of an Instagram compilation summing up their year.\n\nFollowing their trip, the couple were pictured in January on a visit to Canada House.\n\nIn February, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBetting companies with streaming rights for FA Cup ties say they would allow the games to be streamed on a free platform elsewhere.\n\nThe Football Association has been criticised for its decision to sell FA Cup broadcast rights via a third party to seven gambling websites.\n\nSince the start of last season the bookmakers have been able to show FA Cup ties on their websites and apps.\n\nBBC Sport understands the FA would be open exploring the possibilities.\n\nIt is understood the FA would not want matches shown to clash with other television broadcasts of live matches. There was a match broadcast in each of the kick-off slots during the FA Cup third round last weekend, except for the 15:01 GMT start time.\n\nThe seven gambling websites - Bet365, Betfair, William Hill, Coral, Ladbrokes, Unibet and Paddy Power - acquired the rights via agency IMG, who agreed a deal with the FA.\n\nIn the third round of the tournament, 23 matches were available to watch on Bet365 last weekend - all those that did not kick off at 15:01 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe matches were available to anyone who has placed a bet or put a deposit in their account in the 24 hours before kick-off.\n\nIn July 2017, the FA announced it was cutting its ties with gambling firms, but the deal with IMG was made in January 2017.\n\nLast weekend, ties started one minute late as part of the 'Heads Up' mental health awareness campaign.\n\nThe government is \"very angry\" about the issue and the sports minister Nigel Adams has said he will meet the FA next week.\n\nBut, Brigid Simmonds, chairman of the Betting and Gaming Council, said: \"Our members did not seek exclusivity for the rights to screen FA Cup games.\n\n\"They are therefore happy for IMG to offer the rights to screen these games to the Football Association or another appropriate body so that the games can be viewed for free by the public with immediate effect.\"\n\nThe FA has said it will \"review this element of the media rights sales process ahead of tendering rights from the 2024-25 season\", but the government want it to look at taking action earlier.", "Political parties are generally in agreement about one thing - that the NHS needs more money. But is money all it takes?\n\nTo answer this, it's helpful to look at whether the NHS is getting the best out of its existing budget - and how that compares with other countries.\n\nThere's no single way of measuring the efficiency of a health service, though various bodies have tried.\n\nBloomberg's annual healthcare efficiency index, for example, looks simply at spending on healthcare versus life expectancy.\n\nIts latest report ranked 56 wealthy countries, based on 2015 data. It put the UK 35th - down from 21st the year before, partly reflecting the slowing of growth in spending on the NHS particularly in England.\n\nHong Kong and Singapore - mixed public and private systems with elements of both government funding and insurance - came top. They were followed by Italy and Spain - with national health services - which both have higher life expectancies than the UK and spend less per person to achieve this.\n\nThe UK was also beaten by France which has a system of social insurance paid for by the government, individuals and employers.\n\nCompared with 35 other OECD countries (Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development) - a group of rich nations - the UK spends an average amount on healthcare (about 9.8% of GDP) and has a slightly higher than average life expectancy for the group (81.3 years).\n\nLife expectancy is a reasonable proxy for how good a healthcare system is, but it's not a perfect one.\n\nWhile higher healthcare spending is linked to higher life expectancy, it's affected by other complicated social factors including diet and smoking. In the US, for example, opioid deaths and gun crime have been linked to a fall in life expectancy.\n\nIt's also a fairly crude measure - living longer isn't the only thing most people would want to achieve from a health system.\n\nAs a 2018 report by three health think tanks and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, entitled \"How good is the NHS?\", said, UK patients were more likely than average to report having had a good experience of the health system. The think tanks said this was \"a valuable goal of health care in its own right\".\n\nUK patients were also less likely to say they skipped a consultation or prescription medicine because of cost.\n\nAnd looking just at life expectancy doesn't capture how good a health system is at dealing with conditions that may require long-term care but don't cause death.\n\nThe 2018 report concludes that the NHS across the UK is relatively efficient, performing well in managing long-term conditions with \"an unusually low level of staffing and, in at least some categories, equipment\" compared with other countries. This suggests the NHS is doing quite well with the money it has.\n\nBut equally, life expectancy measures don't capture experiences like waiting for a long time on a trolley in A&E or waiting in pain for a routine operation, which aren't fatal but are also not good experiences for patients.\n\nThese have worsened as funding increases have slowed.\n\nThe NHS is below average among OECD countries at treating the illnesses that are the most common direct causes of death.\n\nFor example, the UK mortality rate for cancer and heart disease is higher than the average among similar countries and that's a longer-term trend.\n\nPart of the reason the UK does worse on cancer survival is that British patients present late with cancer symptoms, and get diagnosed at a later stage. That's not necessarily a funding issue.\n\nAcross the UK, waiting times for routine surgery like hip replacements are about average, and waiting times in A&E just below average, compared with other rich countries.\n\nAs the growth in funding has slowed, though, the NHS has become worse at seeing people within four hours in A&E and getting cancer patients into treatment within two months.\n\nThis is significant for patients and their experience of the system, but it hasn't dramatically effected outcomes - although this may take some time to show up. Those worse than average trends pre-dated recent funding cutbacks, again suggesting there's something other than just money going on.\n\nImproving outcomes in the health service often requires funding plus other action - for example training and retaining more staff or launching public information campaigns. Money alone is not enough to make those things happen.\n\nThe NHS is devolved, meaning each nation runs its own health system and can set its own priorities. On waits in A&E, Scotland has fared comparatively better than other UK nations.\n\nUS-based foundation the Commonwealth Fund published a comparison in 2017 which put the UK top out of 11 countries for healthcare performance.\n\nIt looked at five areas including equity and access, as well as health outcomes and the care process.\n\nThe UK came top partly because of the ranking's heavy weighting towards universal systems - since equity and access formed two out of the five criteria.\n\nWhen it came to health outcomes, though, the UK scored tenth out of 11 countries which detracts from the overall score.\n\nAlthough, arguably, the UK's relative equality of access to healthcare for both the rich and poor is a significant when it comes to assessing how well the health service is spending its money.\n\nThe IFS, Health Foundation, King's Fund and Nuffield Trust say the NHS \"does better than health systems in comparable countries at protecting people from heavy financial costs when they are ill\" and that overall, \"the NHS performs neither as well as its supporters sometimes claim nor as badly as its critics often allege.\"", "Two senior McDonald's executives have filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of discriminating against African-American customers and staff.\n\nThey say the climate grew especially hostile after UK-born Steve Easterbrook became chief executive in 2015.\n\nUnder his leadership, they say the firm \"conducted a ruthless purge\" of high-ranked African-Americans and shifted advertising away from black customers.\n\nMcDonald's said: \"We disagree with characterisations in the complaint\".\n\nThe firm said it has reduced the number of \"officer level\" positions over the last five years but that people of colour account for 45% of the firm's corporate officers - an increase since 2013 - and all of its 10 field vice-presidents in the US.\n\nLast year, it launched a marketing campaign aimed at African Americans that was its largest in 16 years, it added.\n\n\"At McDonald's our actions are rooted in our belief that a diverse, vibrant, inclusive and respectful company makes us stronger,\" the company said.\n\nMr Easterbrook, who is named in the complaint, was fired last year for a mutual romantic relationship with a colleague in violation of company rules. He could not be reached for comment.\n\nMr Easterbrook was replaced by Chris Kempczinski, who previously headed McDonald's US division and is also named in the complaint.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in federal court in Illinois by Vicki Guster-Hines and Domineca Neal. The two women have worked at McDonald's since 1987 and 2012 respectively and are both vice presidents for franchising and operations.\n\nThey say McDonald's practised \"systematic but covert\" racial discrimination \"over the years\" but it became \"overt, unmistakable, non-coincidental and highly damaging\" after the 2015 leadership change.\n\nIn the complaint, they cite the shelving of training programmes for African Americans, the exclusion of African Americans from the ranks of senior advisors, and descriptions of colleagues as \"Angry Black Women\".\n\nThey say that the number of black-owned franchises also declined disproportionately - departures they argue were either \"intentional\" or due to the company's \"reckless disregard\" for the cost of some of the investments it demanded of franchise owners.\n\nThey also accuse the firm, which has been pursuing a broader campaign to refurbish stores and upgrade its image, of shifting advertising away from black customers, historically some of the company's strongest patrons.\n\n\"As a consumer block, African Americans were singled out as less desired by McDonald's,\" they say.\n\nThe two women are seeking damages from the firm, which they say retaliated against them for voicing their concerns about the treatment of African Americans.", "Chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-treated beef will be kept out of the UK under any trade deal with the US, the environment secretary has promised.\n\nTheresa Villiers told the BBC the current European Union ban on the two foods will be carried over into UK legislation after Brexit.\n\nUntil now the UK has been wavering on the issue.\n\nBut she told BBC Countryfile: “There are legal barriers to the imports and those are going to stay in place.”\n\nMs Villiers has previously talked of imposing tariffs on any future imports of US chicken and beef. But she’s been under great pressure from Britain’s farmers.\n\nIn the exclusive interview with the Countryfile programme, she said: “We will defend our national interests and our values, including our high standards of animal welfare.\"\n\nChlorine-washed chicken and hormone-treated beef are illegal under EU law for different reasons.\n\nThe EU says feeding cows with growth-enhancing chemicals could potentially result in harm to beef-eating humans – a suggestion the US fervently rejects.\n\nThere is, on the other hand, no human health threat from using a bleach solution to kill salmonella on chickens. In fact, it’s rather effective.\n\nBut the EU says using chlorine allows American farmers to be careless with the welfare of the chickens.\n\nThe US regards the rules against these products as a European ruse to protect its own producers, and has stated that the trade of both meat products will be central to any UK-US trade deal after Brexit.\n\nSo Ms Villiers’ promise may please British consumers unhappy with the thought of chicken sprayed with bleach. But it may make things more difficult for Britain’s trade negotiators.\n\nThe environment secretary has made a strong promise that \"legal barriers\" to the import of chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef will \"stay in place\" and that the government will \"hold the line\" on this even if insisted upon by President Trump in trade talks. This makes a quick trade deal with the US rather tricky to envisage.\n\nLeaked US-UK trade documents showed the US tried to establish how far the UK would, after Brexit, detach from the EU's hard line against US farm trade methods. US officials had made a presentation and repeatedly raised the \"unscientific approach the EU maintains towards Pathogen Reduction Treatments [chlorinated chicken]\". The US has been in a dispute with the EU over such methods since 1997.\n\nIf the environment secretary's rejection of such key US exports is echoed in the UK's negotiating position with the US, the US Congress might also object. When similar statements were made by Michael Gove, when he was former environment secretary, in 2017, it caused a rift in cabinet with Liam Fox, who was then trade secretary .\n\nIt is a clear example of the delicate balancing act and trade-offs involved in the UK's new post-Brexit trade freedom.\n\nThe full interview with the environment secretary will be shown on Countryfile on BBC1 on 26 January.", "Owners of fire-prone Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines will learn in the coming days how long they must wait for a replacement or repair.\n\nMost fear many more weeks without a functioning machine, having already gone through Christmas and New Year unable to put clothes on a hot wash.\n\nSome 519,000 machines sold since 2014 are subject to the recall, owing to an overheating door locking system.\n\nWhirlpool, which owns the brands, said repairs would start on Monday.\n\nSeventy-nine fires are thought to have been caused by the fault which develops over time, according to the company.\n\nThe announcement that these machines could be a danger was made on 17 December. Users of the affected appliances were told to stop using and unplug them or, alternatively, only use the cold cycle of 20C or less to reduce the risk.\n\nMany of those affected said doing so had already been a huge inconvenience for the last three weeks, particularly over the festive period. Some have called for reimbursement of fees they have paid to their laundrette, but this has been ruled out by the company.\n\nWhirlpool has received 1.2 million calls about the issue. So far, 60,000 people were found to have affected machines - only around one in 10 of the affected machines. They will all receive an email by next Friday inviting them to choose a date for replacement or repair via an online portal.\n\nA company spokesman said those cases were anticipated to be completed \"in a matter of weeks\". Whirlpool added in a statement: \"In line with the commitment we made to our customers in December, we have been working tirelessly to ensure that we can now formally reach out to all affected customers who have registered with us to arrange to replace and repair their washing machines.\"\n\nWhirlpool has set up a model checker online. Owners of Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines bought since October 2014 will need to enter the model and serial number of their appliance - found inside the door or on the back - to see if it is one of those affected. If so, their details will be added to a register.\n\nThere is also a free helpline, open every day, available on 0800 316 1442.\n\nThe company will email all those on the register to offer a replacement or repair and invite them to choose a date on an online portal for that to be carried out.\n\nOne of those affected by the recall is Janet McPherson, of Lampeter, south west Wales. The 65-year-old was fed up with the probability of a long wait, had lost trust in the brand, faced an eight-mile round trip to the laundrette, and was frustrated with Whirlpool's customer service.\n\nSo, she bought a new machine just before Christmas.\n\n\"I made my vote by buying a different brand. It did not help with the Christmas budget at all,\" she said.\n\nNow she believes she should be given a refund for the faulty machine and is prepared for a fight with the company.\n\nJanet McPherson has unplugged her Hotpoint machine and put it in the garage\n\nShe is not alone among owners in calling for refunds to be offered, as well as repairs or replacements.\n\nThey have been supported by MPs and consumer groups. A cross-party group of MPs on consumer protection said customers had been \"severely let down\" owing to the delay until machines were fixed or replaced.\n\nThe former head of the Commons Business Committee, Rachel Reeves, has also demanded the company give refunds to those who want them.\n\nSue Davies, head of consumer protection at consumer group Which?, said: \"It would clearly be unacceptable if customers were left for many months without adequate washing facilities in their homes, particularly when there is also no offer to cover consequential costs such as trips to the laundrette.\n\n\"The company should do the right thing and offer customers a refund, so people can get fire-risk machines out of their homes and quickly find a suitable replacement. There needs to be a full investigation about what Whirlpool knew about these machines and when.\"\n\nBut the company said its priority was to ensure potentially dangerous appliances were removed from homes, which would not be guaranteed if refunds were offered. It said other costs would not be refunded.\n\nIt will begin a national advertising campaign about the issue on Monday, and is contacting vulnerable or isolated customers as a priority.\n\nWhirlpool was heavily criticised for its initial response when more than five million tumble dryers, sold over 11 years, were found to be a fire danger. It only launched a full recall for that issue after four years, following an intervention by the regulator.", "London MP Sir Keir Starmer is a former director of public prosecutions\n\nSir Keir Starmer has won the backing of the UK's largest trade union, Unison, to become the next Labour leader.\n\nUnison, which has 1.3 million members, said the shadow Brexit secretary was best placed of the candidates to unite the party and regain public trust.\n\nUnite, Labour's largest financial backer, will decide later this month who to back in the contest.\n\nSir Keir has also become the first to secure enough nominations from MPs and MEPs to get on the ballot paper.\n\nThe Holborn and St Pancras MP has, so far, secured the backing of 41 colleagues - well above the minimum of 22 required.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey is his closest competitor, followed by Jess Phillips.\n\nNominations close on 13 January and the winner will be announced on 4 April following a ballot of party members, trade union and other affiliates and registered supporters.\n\nAs the contest gathers pace, BBC Newsnight correspondent Lewis Goodall reported that Barry Gardiner, the party's international trade spokesman, could become a candidate. The Brent North MP has yet to confirm this.\n\nUnison's endorsement, which was agreed by a committee of \"working people from across the country\", is a major boost for Sir Keir's campaign.\n\nAnnouncing its decision, the union said it believed the former director of public prosecutions was capable of taking Labour back into government. General Secretary Dave Prentis said working people depended on Labour being in power to change their lives.\n\n\"We believe - if elected by the membership - Keir Starmer would be a leader to bring the party together and win back the trust of the thousands of voters who deserted Labour last month,\" he said.\n\n\"Keir has a clear vision to get Labour back to the winning ways of the past. He is best placed to take on Boris Johnson, hold his government to account and ensure Labour can return to power.\"\n\nThe union, which represents workers across the NHS, schools and other public services, backed Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and 2016.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said Sir Keir was the overwhelming choice of the union's Link Committee, having won more support than all of the other candidates combined.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nHe has also recruited Simon Fletcher to his campaign team - Jeremy Corbyn's former chief of staff who ran his successful leadership bid in 2015.\n\nMrs Long Bailey has Momentum founder Jon Lansman as her campaign director and former spokesman for Mr Corbyn, Matt Zarb-Cousin, as her director of communications.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC he was \"delighted\" by the endorsement but played down talk of him now being the frontrunner, telling the BBC \"there was a long way to go\" in the contest.\n\n\"What I want to do is lead a united Labour Party that works with trade unions to bring them together to face the future,\" he said.\n\nIt caps a good day for the shadow Brexit secretary, whose growing number of parliamentary backers include former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett, the new shadow culture secretary Tracy Brabin and Tottenham MP David Lammy.\n\nMrs Long Bailey's 17 backers include shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, while Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips has the support of 16 colleagues, including Wes Streeting and Margaret Hodge - outspoken critics of Mr Corbyn over his handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nWigan MP Lisa Nandy has 11 nominations, while shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has three. Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis has secured his first nomination from Rachael Maskell.\n\nEarlier, Mr Lewis rated Mr Corbyn \"six out of 10\" as leader of the Labour Party. Speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, he criticised the outgoing leader for making mistakes on Brexit and dealing with anti-Semitism.\n\n\"But some things he got right,\" Mr Lewis added, \"so in many ways he's renewed our party.\" The comments follow those of Mrs Long Bailey, who rated Mr Corbyn 10 out of 10 for his performance as leader, despite Labour's electoral defeat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Clive Lewis, who wants to replace Jeremy Corbyn, said Labour must build alliances to win back power\n\nIn the race to become Labour's next deputy leader, shadow education secretary Ms Rayner way out in front so far in terms of nominations with 45 and has also won Unison's backing.\n\nBefore entering Parliament, Ms Rayner was a local Unison representative while employed as a care worker in Greater Manchester.\n\nIan Murray, Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, is second in the list of declared backers so far while shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon is third.\n\nAs of Wednesday evening, shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler and Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan both had seven nominations. The remaining candidate, Birmingham Perry Barr MP Khalid Mahmood, had two.", "It has taken nearly a decade to bring a commercial hydrofoil bicycle to market.\n\nBut New Zealand-based Manta5 has finally launched its product and has brought it to the CES tech show to exhibit.\n\nBBC Click's Spencer Kelly was one of the first to try out the water bike on Lake Las Vegas.\n\nCatch up with all the BBC's CES 2020 coverage", "The Duke of Sussex grew up in the media spotlight - from a young royal dealing with his mother's death, through his partying teenage years, to his career in the military.\n\nSince then Harry has followed in his mother's footsteps, doing charity work across the globe. He has got married and become a father.\n\nNow he and the Duchess of Sussex have begun a new chapter: giving up their royal duties, HRH titles and public funding and living in California.\n\nHarry has tried to balance his public and private lives. At times, the publicity that comes with being sixth in line to the throne has helped him to bolster support for his charitable endeavours. But there have also been times when that attention has become too much, and he has fought fiercely for his family's privacy.\n\nPrince Harry was born in 1984, the second child of the Prince and Princess of Wales\n\nBorn at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, on 15 September 1984, the prince was christened Henry Charles Albert David by the Archbishop of Canterbury in December of that year in St George's Chapel, Windsor.\n\nBut it was officially announced from the start of his life that he would be known as Harry.\n\nAlthough christened Henry, he has always been known as Harry\n\nHarry with his mother and brother on a trip to Thorpe Park in 1993\n\nThe prince's childhood was cut short when his mother died in 1997.\n\nPrincess Diana was killed in a crash in Paris, aged 36, as the car she was in sped through a tunnel followed by paparazzi photographers.\n\nHer death shook royal fans the world over, but it was 12-year-old Harry and 15-year-old William whose lives changed forever.\n\nThe funeral, which featured the image of the boys walking behind their mother's hearse to attend the service at Westminster Abbey, remains one of the most-watched programmes on the BBC.\n\nPrince Harry stood between his father, Prince Charles, and his older brother, Prince William, as they watched the hearse carry Diana's coffin\n\n\"I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well,\" the prince said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 2017.\n\nHe added: \"I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and all sorts of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.\"\n\nThe prince followed the educational path of his older brother William, at Wetherby School in Notting Hill, before entering Eton in 1998.\n\nHarry, five, on his first day at Wetherby School, Notting Hill\n\nPrince Harry watching his brother sign the Eton College entrance book in 1995 - he would follow in his footsteps, joining the school three years later\n\nAfter leaving Eton with two A-levels in 2003, Harry took a gap year.\n\nHe worked on a sheep farm in Australia and with Aids orphans in Lesotho, paving the way for the charity he later set up there.\n\nPrince Charles took his sons on annual skiing holidays to Switzerland\n\nAttention from the press has been a constant in Harry's life.\n\nThe front page of a 2002 edition of the (now defunct) News of the World roared: \"Harry's drugs shame\", and claimed Prince Charles sent his son to visit a rehab clinic as punishment for smoking cannabis.\n\nSt James's Palace confirmed the then 17-year-old had \"experimented with the drug on several occasions\" but said the use was not \"regular\".\n\nThen in October 2004, there was a scuffle with a photographer outside a club.\n\nA royal spokesman said at the time the 20-year-old prince was hit in the face by a camera \"when photographers crowded around him\".\n\nAs part of his gap year, Prince Harry spent time at an orphanage in Lesotho, in southern Africa\n\nWhen Harry pushed the camera away, \"it's understood that a photographer's lip was cut\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe following year, an image of the prince dressed as a Nazi at a fancy dress party sparked outrage.\n\nClarence House later said the prince had apologised for any \"offence or embarrassment\" caused and had realised \"it was a poor choice of costume\".\n\nAnd in 2009, video footage emerged of Harry using offensive language to describe an Asian member of his Army platoon.\n\nSt James's Palace said the prince was \"extremely sorry for any offence his words might cause\" but said he had \"used the term without any malice and as a nickname about a highly popular member of his platoon\".\n\nHarry enjoyed lighter-hearted press coverage during the London 2012 Olympic Games, in his role as an Olympic ambassador.\n\nThe prince was an Olympic ambassador at the London 2012 Games\n\nIn the same year he spent a lot of time in front of the cameras for the Queen's Jubilee. As part of those celebrations Harry completed his first royal solo tour overseas with visits to Belize, the Bahamas, Brazil and Jamaica.\n\nHowever, that August, photos emerged of the prince and a young woman naked in a Las Vegas hotel room.\n\nThe two photos, published on US gossip website TMZ and later in the Sun newspaper, were taken on a private break with friends, with the site reporting the prince was in a group playing \"strip billiards\".\n\nHe later said he had \"probably let myself down\" but added: \"I was in a private area and there should have been a certain amount of privacy that one should expect.\"\n\nThere is, however, a saving grace to the scrapes Harry has found himself in.\n\nAs the younger brother to the expected future king, Harry has relatively little responsibility.\n\nLike the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and Prince Charles's younger siblings, Harry is a \"spare to the heir\" - and a world away from the throne.\n\nSo Harry's indiscretions have done little to dent public opinion of him.\n\nAnd he has perhaps had a freer existence because of it; security worries would have made active service in Afghanistan impossible for his older brother, for example.\n\nHarry served a tour in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot\n\nHarry spent 10 years in the armed forces, becoming the first royal in more than 25 years to serve in a war zone.\n\nHe was left disappointed in 2007 when Army chiefs decided not to send him to Iraq because of \"unacceptable risks\", but later spent 10 weeks serving in Afghanistan in 2008.\n\nHarry returned to the country as an Apache helicopter pilot from September 2012 to January 2013, before qualifying as an Apache commander in July 2013.\n\nHe later described how he had shot at Taliban insurgents, and said that being in Afghanistan was \"as normal as it's going to get\" for him.\n\nThe prince said quitting the Army had been a \"really tough decision\"\n\nWhen he announced he would be leaving the Army in 2015, the prince said his time in the military would \"stay with me for the rest of my life\".\n\nThis is reflected in his charity work, which mostly concentrates on mental health and helping service veterans.\n\nHarry's most notable charity work so far is his founding and chairing of the Invictus Games in 2014.\n\nThe Paralympic-style international competition for injured ex-service personnel has been held in London, Orlando, Toronto and Sydney.\n\nThe prince has been the driving force behind the Invictus Games\n\nHe has also supported the charity Walking With the Wounded, for injured veterans.\n\nThe prince's other charity work includes supporting conservation projects in Africa and jointly founding Sentebale, a charity to help orphans in Lesotho.\n\nOn his visit to Angola in September, Harry said landmines are \"an unhealed scar of war\"\n\nHarry and his brother William have worked together on various charity initiatives\n\nHe has continued his mother's work helping children affected by HIV and Aids, and supporting the Halo Trust's work in clearing landmines.\n\nDiana captured global attention when she walked through a live minefield in central Angola in 1997.\n\nShe died in Paris later that year, before seeing the full impact of her visit - such as the signing of an international treaty to outlaw the weapons - but Harry highlighted her achievements when he retraced her steps in September 2019.\n\nPrince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge supported Heads Together runners at the London Marathon in 2017\n\nIn later years, Harry has had counselling to help him deal with his mother's death.\n\nHe was best man at his brother William's wedding in April 2011, and has since spoken of how hard it was not to have Diana there.\n\nIn a candid interview with the Daily Telegraph, he described shutting down all of his emotions for nearly 20 years and refusing to thinking about his mother.\n\nThis, he said, had a \"quite serious effect\" on his personal life and his work, and brought him close to a breakdown \"on numerous occasions\".\n\nHe also said he would probably regret \"for the rest of his life\" how brief his last phone call with his mother was, and spoke of her \"fun\" parenting. She was a \"total kid through and through\", he said.\n\nHarry, William and the Duchess of Cambridge joined forces to focus their campaigning efforts on mental health.\n\nThey founded Heads Together, which aims to tackle stigma and fundraise for new support services.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle were first pictured together at the Invictus Games in 2017\n\nAs one of the world's most high-profile bachelors, Harry's love life has drawn much interest over the years.\n\nIn late 2016, he confirmed a new relationship with US actor, Meghan Markle, while issuing a statement accusing journalists of harassing her.\n\nHe described \"nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers\", attempts by reporters and photographers to get into her home and the \"bombardment\" of nearly every friend and loved one in her life.\n\nThe pair had met on a blind date, organised by a mutual friend. Then after just two dates, they went on holiday together to Botswana.\n\nIn September 2017, the year before their wedding, Meghan told Vanity Fair magazine she and Harry were \"two people who are really happy and in love\".\n\nAnd in an interview that November, when their engagement was announced, Harry admitted he had never heard of Meghan before his friend introduced them, and was \"beautifully surprised\".\n\nHe designed the engagement ring for Meghan, including two diamonds from his mother's jewellery collection.\n\nThe couple married in May 2018 at a ceremony at St George's Chapel in Windsor, and consequently became known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nOn a 16-day tour of Australia that October, the duke and duchess announced they were expecting their first child, adding that they were happy to share the \"personal joy\" of their news.\n\nBaby Archie, described by Harry as \"our own little bundle of joy\", was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nPrince Harry said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" with the birth of his first child, Archie\n\nThe duke's past few years have been a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.\n\nIn 2019, he and his wife split their household office from that of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the subsequent launch of the Sussexes' Instagram account amassed more than one million followers in record-breaking time (five hours and 45 minutes).\n\nThe joy of becoming parents was followed days later by news Harry had accepted damages and an apology from a paparazzi agency that had used a helicopter to take photographs of his home in the Cotswolds.\n\nIn June, the Sussexes announced they would split from the charity they shared with the Cambridges - fuelling speculation of a rift between brothers Harry and William.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry on his brother, William in 2019: \"We are certainly on different paths at the moment\"\n\nA 10-day tour of Africa at the end of September 2019 started well.\n\nHarry raised awareness for causes close to his heart, and the couple introduced Archie to anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nBut during the tour, the Duchess of Sussex launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nThe duke and duchess went on a 10-day tour of Africa in September 2019\n\nIn a lengthy statement Harry said \"positive\" coverage of the tour of Africa had exposed the \"double standards\" of the \"press pack that has vilified [the duchess] almost daily for the past nine months\".\n\nAnd in an ITV documentary, filmed during the tour and broadcast the following month, the duchess admitted she was struggling to adjust to royal life, while the duke said his mental health was a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nThen, at the start of 2020, the couple made a bombshell announcement that they would be stepping back as senior royals.\n\nLater, Harry would tell host James Corden that the decision to step back was taken to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" situation created by the UK press.\n\nTheir difficult relationship with the UK press saw both Harry and Meghan take legal action against publishers, as well as cutting ties with tabloid newspapers.\n\nAfter a brief stint in Canada, the couple now lives in California and are expecting their second child.\n\nThe duke has since spoken out on several issues, including on structural racism, human rights and unconscious bias.\n\nThe duke and duchess gave an interview with Oprah, who went to their wedding\n\nAnd the couple have signed deals to make shows and podcasts with Netflix and Spotify.\n\nHis charity work continues - although he has returned his military appointments and royal patronages. Buckingham Palace said he and Meghan will keep their \"private patronages and associations\".\n\nHe told interviewer Corden that his \"life is always going to be about public service\". But much of the rest of his future - including how he will continue to carve his own path - remains unclear.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have given their final backing to the bill that will implement the UK government's Brexit deal.\n\nThe Commons voted 330 to 231 in favour of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and it will now pass to the House of Lords for further scrutiny next week.\n\nIf peers choose to amend it will it come back before MPs.\n\nThe bill covers \"divorce\" payments to the EU, citizens' rights, customs arrangements for Northern Ireland and the planned 11-month transition period.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe bill comfortably cleared its third reading in the House of Commons, as expected, with a majority of 99. All 330 votes in favour were Conservative.\n\nIt took just three days for the bill to pass the remaining stages in the Commons, after MPs gave their initial approval to the legislation before the Christmas recess.\n\nTheresa May - Boris Johnson's predecessor in Downing Street - repeatedly failed to get her Brexit agreement passed by MPs, which led to her resignation as prime minister.\n\nThe latest vote gives approval to the 11-month transition period after 31 January, in which the UK will cease to be an EU member but will continue to follow its rules and contribute to its budget.\n\nThe purpose of the transition period is to give time for the UK and EU to negotiate their future relationship, including a trade deal.\n\nLiberal Democrat Brexit spokesperson, Alistair Carmichael said his party would continue to oppose the \"dangerous\" bill.\n\n\"They have voted for a bill that will slash the rights of future generations to live and work across 27 other countries,\" he said.\n\n\"They have voted for a bill that strips away our guaranteed environmental protections, despite the fact that we are facing a climate emergency.\"\n\nAnd SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said Scotland would \"remain an independent European country\".\n\n\"This is a constitutional crisis, because we will not and we cannot accept what is being done to us,\" he told MPs.\n\nBut Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay has said the bill will deliver on the \"overwhelming mandate\" his party was given at the general election to take the UK out of the EU on 31 January.\n\nHe has also said he is \"confident\" the UK will be able to negotiate a trade deal with the EU by the end of the year, despite critics saying that the deadline is too tight.\n\nMr Johnson has also insisted a deal is possible by December 2020 and has said the transition period will not be extended.\n\nHe has said the UK is ready to start negotiations \"as soon as possible\" after 31 January.\n\nOn Wednesday, new European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen warned it would be \"impossible\" to reach a comprehensive trade deal by the end of 2020.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nBeau Greaves had a 16th birthday to remember as she reached the semi-finals of the BDO women's World Darts Championship.\n\nThe teenage debutant beat 29-year-old Dutch third seed Aileen de Graaf 2-1 to reach the last four.\n\nSixth seed Greaves, from Doncaster, averaged 86.3 and hit three maximum 180s.\n\nShe faces Japan's Mikuru Suzuki on Friday's after the reigning champion beat Anastasia Dobromyslova 2-0.\n• None Double trouble at new venue over ticket sales and prize money\n\nFour-time champion Lisa Ashton plays Corrine Hammond in the other semi after a straight-sets victory over Lorraine Winstanley.\n\nHammond earlier beat Laura Turner 2-0 in the women's quarter-finals at London's Indigo at the O2.\n\nAsked whether she felt she could now win the tournament, Greaves told BDO Darts: \"Of course I can. You've always got to be confident, but not too confident.\n\n\"But I felt really good and I'm looking forward to it. It's been an amazing week.\"\n\nIn the men's event, Welsh second seed Jim Williams defeated Ryan Hogarth 4-0 to qualify for the quarter-finals.\n\nWhile the BDO tournament has been hit by low ticket sales and prize money problems, the championship has also showcased some of the sport's rising stars.\n\nLeighton Bennett, who only turned 14 on New Year's Eve, took a set off 2015 champion Scott Mitchell before losing 3-1 on Tuesday.", "Mourners have gathered at the University of Toronto to remember those who died when Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed in Iran on Wednesday.\n\nCanadian PM Justin Trudeau said 138 passengers had been en route to Canada via Kyiv.\n\nAll 176 people on board were killed when the plane crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says the UK and the EU will remain \"best of friends and partners\"\n\nThe UK and the EU will remain the \"best of friends\" but they will \"not be as close as before\" after Brexit, the new European Commission president has said.\n\nSpeaking ahead of talks with the PM, Ursula von der Leyen warned it would be \"impossible\" to reach a comprehensive trade deal by the end of 2020.\n\nShe said if the deadline was not extended it was not a case of \"all or nothing\", but of priorities.\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted a deal is possible by December 2020.\n\nAfter their meeting in No 10, a Downing Street spokesman said talks had been \"positive\", but the PM had been \"clear\" the process of negotiation would not be extended.\n\nAfter its 31 January exit, the UK will enter into an 11-month transition period in which it will largely follow EU rules but will not have any representation in the bloc's institutions. This period will come to an end on 31 December.\n\nOnly when the UK leaves the EU can the two sides begin talks on their future economic relationship.\n\nMr Johnson told Mrs von der Leyen he \"wanted a positive new UK and EU partnership, based on friendly co-operation, our shared history, interests and values\", as well as a \"broad free trade agreement covering goods and services, and cooperation in other areas\".\n\nHe also said the UK was ready to start negotiations \"as soon as possible\" after 31 January.\n\nSpeaking at the London School of Economics earlier in the day, Mrs von der Leyen said the EU was \"ready to negotiate a truly ambitions partnership with UK\" but she warned of \"tough\" talks ahead.\n\n\"We will go as far as we can, but the truth is that our partnership cannot and will not be the same as before and it cannot and will not be as close as before because with every choice comes a consequences with every decision comes a trade off.\"\n\nMrs von der Leyen, a former German defence minister, took over from Jean-Claude Juncker at the start of December. She was a student at the LSE in the 1970s.\n\nShe also attended the same school as Mr Johnson in Belgium - something the prime minister highlighted as they posed for photos in Number 10.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said she hoped the new trading relationship would be based on \"zero tariffs, zero quotas, zero dumping\".\n\nBut she said: \"Without the free movement of people you cannot have the free movement of capital and services.\n\n\"The more divergence there is the more distant the partnership will be.\"\n\nMrs von der Leyen also warned that without an extension of the transition period beyond 2020 \"you cannot expect to agree every single aspect of our new partnership\".\n\nShe called the deadline \"very tight\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOpposition MPs have warned that trade deals typically take years to conclude and the UK risks defaulting to World Trade Organisation rules at the start of 2021, potentially leading to damaging tariffs for some industries.\n\nBut Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay told BBC Breakfast the UK and EU had agreed in the political declaration to do a trade deal by the end of this year and he was \"confident\" they would do that.\n\nThe meeting between Boris Johnson and new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is significant in that it's their first face-to-face in their new roles - but today does not mark the start of post-Brexit trade talks.\n\nEU law dictates that trade talks can't start until the UK legally leaves the bloc. Then EU countries must agree a mandate for the EU Commission to negotiate a comprehensive trade agreement on their behalf.\n\nThis mandate then has to be formally signed off at minister level by representatives of all EU countries.\n\nAll this means, the EU says, is trade talks will start at the beginning of March.\n\nWhen UK ministers complain that's too long to wait, the EU response is that the UK always pushed for bigger role for national governments in EU decision-making to make it more democratic.\n\nExpect red-line drawing with smiles today between the prime minister and Mrs von der Leyen - presented as \"friends telling each other truths\".\n\nThe EU position is that the prime minister's timetable to get an \"ambitious, comprehensive\" trade deal agreed and ratified by December is unrealistic.\n\nHowever, the prime minister will counter this with \"truths\" of his own, including that negotiations have to be done by December because he won't extend the transition period.\n\nLegislation implementing the terms of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal continues to move through the Commons, with the government easily winning all three votes on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill on Tuesday.\n\nThe bill will enshrine in law the terms of the transition period, first negotiated by Mr Johnson's predecessor Theresa May, as well as agreements on citizens' rights, customs arrangements in Northern Ireland and the UK's financial settlement.\n\nAttempts by Northern Ireland parties to amend the bill to ensure \"unfettered access\" for businesses there to the rest of the UK market failed to pass on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nMPs also rejected an attempt by Labour to reinstate child refugee protection rights in the Brexit bill.", "The report cited the case of shamed rock star Gary Glitter\n\nUK authorities are failing to use the powers they have to stop British sex offenders travelling abroad to abuse children, according to an inquiry.\n\nOnly a small fraction of orders made against offenders included a ban on foreign travel, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse found.\n\nIt cited the case of shamed rock star Gary Glitter, who abused children abroad after an earlier conviction.\n\nThe IICSA says the burden of proof for travel bans should be lowered.\n\nThe inquiry's report found measures applied to people convicted of a sexual offence - such as a sexual harm prevention orders (SHPO) - have only had a minimal impact on restricting foreign travel.\n\nOther offenders have been able to breach bans in an attempt to abuse outside of the UK.\n\nSome 5,551 SHPOs were made in 2017-18, but only 11 included requirements affecting the subject's ability to travel abroad, according to the report.\n\nIt cited the cases of Glitter and serial paedophile Richard Huckle as examples of where systems failed to protect children.\n\nGlitter, real name Paul Gadd, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in 1999 for possessing thousands of child abuse images.\n\nBut he was still able to later travel to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. In 2005 he was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam.\n\nGlitter was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for other historical offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC tracked down a British paedophile who breached court orders by fleeing to Bulgaria\n\nHuckle groomed and abused scores of children in impoverished Malaysian communities by posing as a respectable Christian English teacher and philanthropist.\n\nHe was given 22 life sentences at the Old Bailey in 2016 for an unprecedented number of offences against children aged between six months and 12 years, but was killed in jail last year.\n\nThe inquiry found police and courts were being too cautious in applying travel bans, overstating the need for evidence, and were sometimes reluctant to impose a ban across multiple countries.\n\nIn contrast, the report said, Australia had a complete ban on registered sex offenders travelling abroad.\n\nProf Alexis Jay, chair of the IICSA, said: \"The sexual abuse of children overseas by UK nationals is an urgent problem we cannot hide from.\n\n\"Current gaps in our legal system are allowing known offenders to travel abroad to target vulnerable children in less developed countries, and this is simply not acceptable.\"\n\nThe report also recommended the police and courts in this country prosecute more British people who have abused abroad, as they are empowered to do under section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.\n\nThe National Crime Agency has accepted that a previous policy under which foreign police forces were encouraged to investigate - rather than officers in Britain - was \"not well written\".\n\nInstead, the inquiry says, the NCA now encourages British forces to engage with the country where the abuse happened.\n\nResponding to the report, the government said: \"We continue to work closely with law enforcement in the UK and international partners to stop sex offenders from travelling abroad to prey on children, close down online networks and bring offenders to justice.\n\nProf Alexis Jay is leading the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)\n\n\"Clearly, there is more to be done and we and others will consider the findings of this report carefully. We will respond fully in due course.\"", "Rapper Headie One has been sentenced to six months in jail for possession of a blade.\n\nThe drill artist, who's had two top 10 UK singles, was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court in north London on 3 January.\n\nThe 25-year-old, real name Irving Adjei, was arrested last June but played at both Glastonbury and Wireless festivals after being bailed.\n\nHeadie One's record label has no comment on his sentence.\n\nThe rapper is best-known for his track 18Hunna, which features Mercury Prize winner Dave and peaked at number six on the UK charts.\n\nThat and the chart position of his most recent track Audacity, which features on Stormzy's new album, makes him the most successful artist from the UK drill scene.\n\nThe genre has received plenty of negative attention in the press, though, due to its often violent lyrics about drugs and gangs.\n\nThe rapper features on Stormzy's new album Heavy is the Head\n\nThis isn't Headie One's first conviction.\n\nThe rapper was reportedly locked up for 30 months in 2014 after being caught with heroin and cocaine worth £30,000 in Aberdeen.\n\nHis lawyer at the time said he'd been acting as a drug courier to pay off debts.\n\nAsked by the NME last year what his other convictions were for, he said \"everything, really\".\n\n\"Drugs charges, violent charges. I'm lucky to be here today.\"\n\nHeadie One is the latest UK musician to face jail time for carrying a knife, following on from Brit and Mercury Prize-nominated rapper J Hus, who received an eight month sentence in 2018.\n\nDrill artist Unknown T, meanwhile, has been remanded in custody since being charged with murder in July and is awaiting the start of his trial.\n\nYouTube has previously banned drill videos at the Metropolitan Police's request, and last year two drill artists were found guilty of breaching a gang injunction when they performed one of their songs.\n\nHeadie One completed a UK tour at the end of last year and had no upcoming shows planned.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has admitted it was a \"struggle\" becoming a new mother amid intense media scrutiny.\n\nMeghan Markle married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and gave birth to their son Archie this year.\n\nSpeaking in an ITV documentary, the duchess referred to her life under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed\".\n\nShe added: \"Not many people have asked if I'm OK. But it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were both interviewed by Tom Bradby during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\nAsked how she was coping, Meghan said: \"Look, any woman - especially when they are pregnant - you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a new born - you know?\n\n\"And especially as a woman, it's a lot...\"\n\nThe duchess added: \"And also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I'm OK...\"\n\nWhen asked if it would be fair to say it had \"really been a struggle\", Meghan said: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last month with their son Archie\n\nThe documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey airs on ITV on Sunday at 21:00 BST.\n\nPrince Harry described the memories surrounding the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 as \"a wound that festers\".\n\nOn the tour, the prince visited an anti-landmine project championed by his mother in Angola and told ITV it had been \"emotional\" to trace her footsteps.\n\n\"I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back, so in that respect it's the worst reminder of her life, as opposed to the best.\"\n\nPrince Harry visited a landmine project championed by his late mother during the trip\n\nAs the tour ended, the duke and duchess both brought legal actions against the press.\n\nMeghan sued the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nHarry filed his own proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.", "The first Artemis rocket stage was guided towards the Pegasus barge\n\nThe first core stage for Nasa's \"mega-rocket\", the SLS, has left its factory in New Orleans for crucial tests to assess its readiness for launch.\n\nThe Space Launch System (SLS) is a critical part of the space agency's Artemis programme, which aims to return Americans to the Moon by 2024.\n\nThe core stage is the centrepiece of the new rocket and will undergo comprehensive testing in Mississippi.\n\nOn Wednesday, it was placed on a barge which will sail it to its destination.\n\nThe rocket, which will be taller than a 30-storey building, is being built for Nasa by Boeing.\n\nNasa deputy administrator Jim Morhard attended the roll-out of the rocket stage from the Michoud Assembly Facility (Maf) in New Orleans where it was built.\n\nThe core stage provides two million pounds of thrust to help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon\n\nHe said it represented \"an exciting leap forward in the Artemis program as Nasa teams make progress toward the launch pad\".\n\nThe rocket programme, which was announced in 2010, has been hit by delays and cost overruns.\n\nSome in the space community believe it would be better to launch deep space missions on commercial rockets. But supporters of the programme say that Nasa needs its own heavy-lift launch capability.\n\nAfter roll-out from the Maf, the core was loaded on to Nasa's Pegasus barge to travel by water to the Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis in Mississippi.\n\nThe stage will be transported by water from its factory in New Orleans to Mississippi\n\nThe test campaign at Stennis is called the \"Green Run\", and will involve operating all the core stage systems simultaneously for the first time.\n\nThis will see the four powerful RS-25 engines fired for about eight minutes (or perhaps a little less), and throttled at different settings. This will mimic the levels of thrust needed during launch.\n\nThe SLS core stage contains two propellant tanks - one to hold liquid oxygen and another for liquid hydrogen. Together, they hold a combined 733,000 gallons (2.7 million litres) of propellant to power the engines.\n\nThe SLS was designed to re-use technology originally developed for the space shuttle programme, which ran from 1981-2011.\n\nThe B-2 test stand at Nasa's Stennis Space Center will be used for the Green Run campaign\n\nThe RS-25 thrusters are the same ones that powered the orbiter, and the SLS core stage is based on the external tank that fed the shuttle engines with propellant (albeit with significant modifications).\n\nTwo solid rocket boosters (SRBs) - similar to those that helped launch the shuttle - will sit either side of the SLS core.\n\nThe rocket will provide the power required to send the Orion spacecraft - Nasa's next-generation crew vehicle - on its way to the Moon. The rocket's maiden launch (Artemis-1) is expected to occur some time in 2021.\n\nArtwork: The SLS provides the power needed to send Orion on its way to the Moon\n\nLast year, John Shannon, who has been Boeing's head of the SLS programme since 2015, told me: \"I suspect that once SLS is in the national capability, there won't be a need for another heavy-lift vehicle like it for many years. So this is really a once-in-a-generation opportunity.\"\n\nThe core is the largest stage Nasa has ever had built at the Louisiana factory, including the Saturn V rocket stages for the Apollo programme.\n\n\"This is a historic moment for Nasa's Artemis programme and a proud time for the... team as the first flight article leaves the factory floor,\" said Julie Bassler, the Nasa SLS Stages manager.\n\nThe Orion crew vehicle, and its service module - provided by the European Space Agency - are being tested in Ohio\n\nMeanwhile, Nasa and its partners have completed production of the Orion spacecraft for the first Artemis mission. It is currently undergoing final testing at the Plum Brook Station in Ohio.\n\nFor the Artemis-1 mission, Orion will be sent on a loop around the Moon to test the hardware in deep space. The spacecraft will carry no crew.\n\nThe first mission to carry crew will be Artemis-2, which should send four astronauts on a lunar flyby.\n\nArtemis-3, which is being targeted for 2024, will see a man and a woman land at the lunar south pole - the first time astronauts will have travelled to the lunar surface since 1972.", "Louise Tiffney was 43 when she went missing in May 2002\n\nProsecutors have been given permission for a fresh prosecution of Sean Flynn, who was acquitted in 2005 of murdering his mother, Louise Tiffney.\n\nMs Tiffney was last seen in Edinburgh's Dean Village in May 2002. Her remains were found in East Lothian in 2017.\n\nThree judges have now set aside the previous verdict in the case.\n\nThey had considered arguments from prosecutors for a retrial under double jeopardy laws, which mean someone can be tried again on the same charges.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women across Europe have taken to the streets over the past year to demand their governments do more to protect them from sexual violence.\n\nTheir anger was fuelled by two high-profile Spanish cases, which have forced countries to question how they prosecute rape.\n\nA minority of countries in Europe base their legal definition of rape on a lack of consent. In others, rape must involve some sort of violence or threat. But pressure is growing on this to change.\n\nProduced by Sara Monetta, filmed and edited by Andy Smythe.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this video, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.", "Wacky concept cars, flying machines and smart bikes are being exhibited at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.\n\nIn recent years, car tech has become an increasingly important staple of the expo as firms seek the next mega-product after the smartphone.\n\nChip-makers and app-creators are all piling in. But the traditional car-makers are not resting on their laurels.\n\nThe efforts go far beyond new sensors for driverless vehicles - this year there are a host of flamboyant designs for entire vehicles on show.\n\nHonda, for one, is allowing attendees to sit in its bulbous, buggy-like concept car with minimalistic driving controls.\n\nIt has no pedals and a disc-shaped steering wheel that is pushed or pulled like a giant button in order to control acceleration.\n\nFiat is exhibiting a version of its Centoventi modular concept car.\n\nBuyers can, in theory, mix and match the components.\n\nThis autonomous concept car from Audi has a retractable desk at the driver's seat.\n\nUseful for a game of bridge with your passenger?\n\nNot all the cars on show are mere concepts.\n\nFord's Mustang Mach E GT, below, is an electric vehicle set to be released by the end of the year.\n\nIt has a range of around 250 miles (402km) on a full charge and will cost $60,500 (£46,000).\n\nThere's also been some surprise appearances.\n\nSony, the electronics giant, startled CES by unveiling a whole concept car of its own called the Vision S.\n\nIts interior is crammed with entertainment tech, including a panoramic screen next to the dashboard.\n\nAnother car with a sizeable dashboard display is the Byton M-Byte electric vehicle.\n\nDuring a presentation, the Chinese start-up emphasised its idea that the car of the future would run on data power, not just horsepower.\n\nThe M-Byte is due to go on sale later this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmerican-Danish entrepreneur Henrik Fisker unveiled an electric sport utility vehicle, the Fisker Ocean, which he plans to make commercially available by early 2022.\n\nIt will cost $37,000 and have solar panels on its roof, he told attendees.\n\nToyota is displaying its LQ Level 4 concept car, which is designed for automated driving.\n\nIt also has a built-in artificial intelligence assistant of its own called Yui.\n\nA number of flying machine concepts are also on show.\n\nPerhaps the most talked about is Hyundai's S-A1 electric Urban Air Mobility concept vehicle.\n\nHyundai announced that it had entered a partnership with ride-hailing giant Uber and is seeking to manufacture flying taxis for the firm in the future.\n\nThe SA-1 is designed to reach speeds of 180mph.\n\nLast but not least, Cybic displayed its folding e-bike - with built-in Alexa voice assistant.\n\nIt allows riders to speak to Amazon's virtual assistant on the go, such as asking for directions or information about traffic and the weather.", "The singer received 30 first-place votes from the pundits who voted for the Sound Of 2020\n\nBritish-Jamaican soul singer Celeste has won BBC Music's Sound of 2020, which is given to artists who are tipped for success in the coming year.\n\nThe 25-year-old's entrancing voice and jazz-steeped songs made her the runaway winner, after votes were counted from 170 music critics and industry figures.\n\nShe joins the likes of Adele, Haim and Ellie Goulding, who have all topped the Sound Of... list in previous years.\n\nIndie band Easy Life came second, while pop-punk firebrand Yungblud was third.\n\n\"I'm really, really happy,\" Celeste said, after being told she'd won. \"It's like all of the work that went in throughout the [last] year wasn't invisible.\n\n\"I can't wait now to see what the rest of the year will look like. I'm so thrilled and so excited. I can't wait.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by celesteVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBorn in Los Angeles and raised in Brighton, Celeste Waite started making music as a teenager, while working in pubs and charity shops to make ends meet.\n\nShe wrote her first song, Sirens, at the age of 17, in tribute to her Jamaican father, who had died of lung cancer a year earlier. The track was uploaded to YouTube, where it caught the attention of her manager - but success was still a long way off.\n\nThree years ago, the singer moved to London with just £100 in her pocket; but was fired from her job because she kept skipping work to write songs.\n\n\"I'd rather call in sick and go to the studio than have the money for that month,\" she tells the BBC, \"and there was a couple of months where I was like, 'What am I going to do?'\"\n\nLuckily, unemployment coincided with Celeste's discovery - first by Lily Allen's label Bank Holiday Records, which released her first EP, and later by Polydor, who signed her in 2018.\n\nSince then, she's supported Janelle Monáe, Neneh Cherry and Sound of 2012 winner Michael Kiwanuka on tour. Fellow soul singer Jorja Smith recently described Celeste as \"incredible, stunning, everything\".\n\n\"Celeste is a phenomenal talent, a voice that does not come around often and when you are exposed to it, is impossible to ignore,\" said Radio 1's Annie Mac, who has supported the singer on her show.\n\n\"I have received countless emotional texts from listeners who have had to sit in their car and lose themselves to her song Strange before carrying on with their evening. Her songwriting is personal and poignant but with universal appeal.\n\nCeleste's victory in the BBC Sound Of 2020 follows similar accolades from the Brits, where she received the rising star award, and BBC Music Introducing, who named her their artist of the year - but she says awards have never been the goal.\n\n\"When I write music I never think about whether anybody wants to listen to it,\" she explains. \"I just keep pushing myself in all these different ways where eventually, hopefully, I've made something distinct that can be enjoyed by other people.\"\n\nThe singer was born in LA but raised in Brighton after her parents split up\n\nCongratulations on winning the Sound Of 2020. How does it feel?\n\nThere's an element of heightened expectation, potentially. You really want to make sure you live up to it but, ultimately, it's really encouraging to know you're on the right track.\n\nWhat do you hope it will do for your career?\n\nHopefully it'll mean more people will hear my music. At the moment, there are people listening to it - but it's not, like, everyone in England, so I hope that will widen out.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Celeste This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nLet's go right back to the beginning... What were you into as a kid?\n\nAll sorts of things. I was very hyperactive and I was very much into sports, and on Saturday I'd go to ballet. The teachers there took a liking to me and they told my mum, I could go to a performing arts school on a scholarship. So I went there for a year when I was 10.\n\nIt was really intense, everyone was being nurtured to be a product of the school.I remember saying to my mum, \"Everyone's like robots!\" So I went back to normal school with my friends.\n\nWas there a lot of music at home?\n\nNone of my family played a musical instrument - but there was such an appreciation for lyrics and melody. On a Friday night, we'd put music on and my step-dad would pick it apart, he'd be like, 'the strings in this part are nuts'. So without really thinking about it, I began to take note of those things myself.\n\nWhich artist got you hooked?\n\nMy granddad had this cherry red Jaguar, and he only had three CDs in it - but one of them was Aretha Franklin, and that's the one I remember the most.\n\nI love her for her storytelling - just how she structures her songs and her raw delivery and her emotion. From the first note she sings, it doesn't relent. That's something I'm interested in, in any music I listen to. It just has to be really raw and real and true.\n\nThe singer started her vinyl collection in the House Project Centre in Salt Dean, near Brighton\n\nIs it true that you started collecting vinyl in your teens?\n\nYeah! There was a charity shop at the top of my mum's road and I used to go in there and rummage around the vinyl section. Initially, I was just interested in the artwork - I didn't even have a record player at the time!\n\nA few years later, I got to listen to those things I'd been collecting for three years, music from the 50s and 60s like Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan and Shirley Bassey, and I was like, \"Woah, this sounds amazing!\"\n\nWere you already thinking you could become a singer?\n\nActually, at my college we were all encouraged to go to university and I started really optimistically. I took on loads of subjects - English literature, history, fine art and media studies - but then my dad passed away in the first term. I came back after that a bit bewildered and confused. I stopped working and going to classes, and I wasn't handing in my work.\n\nMy teachers were confused because I hadn't told them, or even my friends [about my dad dying]. When I finally explained, they gave me the opportunity to drop some subjects - and that's when I took up music. But most of the focus I put into that was in my own time. It wasn't in that class.\n\nWas it hard to be creative in school?\n\nDefinitely. If you're slightly more introvert, which I was at the time, you don't necessarily want to sing in a room of 20 or 30 people.\n\nBut I had some friends who played in bands and they were like, \"We've heard you can sing, do you want to come round to our house after school and try and play some stuff?\" And I loved it. It was self-discovery through my friends helping me build my self-confidence.\n\nCeleste made her Glastonbury debut on the BBC Introducing stage last June\n\nWe played a cover of Wild Wood by Paul Weller, and some other songs in a little bar underground near the seafront in Brighton. I just remember the process of being in that room and performing took over; and any nerves I had evaporated. People were surprised because they'd known me growing up but they had no idea I could sing.\n\nDaydreaming was the song that got you noticed. When was that written?\n\nI was actually working in a pub! It was one of the hottest days of the year and all my friends were texting me like, \"We're going to the beach!\" but I was stuck in work.\n\nAnd there was a little side door that used to blow open sometimes; and a tiny beam of light came through and hit the stage my boss had built to the left of the bar. I started imagining what it would be like to be to be in one of those amazing concert halls of the 1930s, singing under the spotlight - which was the light coming from the door - and I started writing down the lyrics for Daydreaming.\n\n\"Another day, another wage, work again / I'll play away, I'm drifting, not listening,\" and those were my thoughts exactly.\n\nYour family obviously play a big role in your music. Isn't that your mum on the artwork for She's My Sunshine?\n\nYes it is! That song's about her and the cover is mum in 1994 when she was pregnant with me. The other day she was like, \"I've gone viral!\" I was like, \"I don't think so\".\n\nCeleste's mother, Debbie, was a stylist who worked on films in Hong Kong and LA before returning to England\n\nFather's Son also talks about growing up in a single-parent family.\n\nYeah, a lot of my friends grew up in similar situations, especially my male friends, and we'd been having conversations about whether they'd inherited traits from their fathers, even though they hadn't grown up in the same household.\n\nWhen I met my dad for the first time as an adult, we had a very similar personality but it wasn't something witnessed and learned from him. So I thought, \"Yeah, maybe I am my father's daughter\".\n\nWhy do you sing \"Father's Son\" in the song?\n\nI went to a football match with my friends and there was graffiti on the wall that said, \"Father's Son\". I remember it like a film: England had lost, and it was all smoky and there was a pandemonium on in the background - people throwing traffic cones up in the air and all this stuff. But the phrase really struck me.\n\nStraight away I thought, \"Maybe I'm my father's son, because I'm surrounded by men and I feel this affinity with them, but I'm also myself and I'm still feminine\". That's why I wanted to write the song in the way I did.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by Celeste This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nYour most recent single, Strange, has taken on a life of its own.\n\nI'm really pleased. Initially, people thought it wouldn't be easy to get it played on daytime radio, so I'm pleased I stuck to my guns.\n\nThe first time I first sang it, I got a feeling I'd be singing it a lot more...\n\nThe vocals are incredible. You're barely there, it's almost like a whisper, but it's so moving because of that.\n\nThanks very much! It's funny because I was actually in America when I recorded it and there were a lot of fires at the time. There was so much ash and smoke in the air that I found myself really husky, so when I went to the studio, I couldn't sing to the full extent. It made me approach singing and the chord structure in a different way. I went in with a whisper, because I was trying to be careful with my voice.\n\nI think it's that song in particular that's earned you the Sound Of 2020 and the Brit award... so what do you have planned for the rest of the year?\n\nI've hit the ground running in January and I'm not going to stop! I'm still working on my album and I'm aiming to complete it by the end of this year. I'm just hoping everything will align.\n\nCeleste was chosen for the BBC Sound of 2020 list by a panel of 170 music critics, broadcasters, festival bookers and previous nominees - including Lewis Capaldi, Chvrches and Billie Eilish. The top five were:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch clips from the BBC Sound Of 2020 nominees\n\nOn 5 February, Annie Mac will host Sound of 2020 Live on BBC Radio 1 from 8-11pm, welcoming all of the longlisted artists to the BBC's legendary Maida Vale studios for a mixture of live performances and interviews, in front of a studio audience.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "M&S said it overestimated demand for tight-fitting men's clothing in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nAs a result, the High Street retailer said it had ordered more \"regular\" and \"relaxed-fit\" clothing for spring.\n\nM&S boss, Steve Rowe, said \"disappointing\" issues, such as the surplus of skinny menswear, held the firm back from a stronger performance over Christmas.\n\nWeak sales in clothing and homeware were offset by higher food sales.\n\nHowever Mr Rowe said M&S did have issues with the \"waste and supply chain\" in its food department over Christmas.\n\nThe retailer said it ordered too much food in the final two weeks before the big day.\n\nMeanwhile, an overly complex supply chain meant that food spent more time in the delivery system and less time on shelves.\n\nNevertheless, like-for-like food sales, which exclude takings from new stores, increased by 1.4% in the final 13 weeks of 2019.\n\nHowever, that growth was largely offset by a dip in the home and clothing departments at M&S.\n\nThe firm said customers were also more conservative when giving presents over Christmas.\n\nM&S said fewer customers bought items from its gift range, which includes things that could be considered token presents, such as fragrance sets.\n\nAs a result, like-for-like sales at M&S climbed just 0.2% in the final months of the year.\n\n\"Disappointing one-off issues - notably waste and supply chain in the food business, the shape of buy in menswear and performance in our gifting categories - held us back from delivering a stronger result,\" said Mr Rowe.\n\nHowever, the firm outperformed rivals Tesco and Sainsbury's, both of which saw sales slip during a similar period.\n\nRichard Lim, the boss of analyst firm Retail Economics, said M&S could be showing signs of recovery after what was a tough year for the business, which dropped out of the FTSE 100 in September.\n\n\"Food performed particularly well, benefiting from stronger underlying household finances, but consumers also responded positively to more competitive pricing,\" he said.\n\n\"While clothing and home lagged overall growth, it still improved on previous performances.\"\n\nBut investors were disappointed by the result.\n\nShares in the M&S fell by as much as 11.2% after it revealed its results on Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nPolice are investigating after a performer was left in a life-threatening condition by a fall during rehearsals for the Winter Youth Olympic Games opening ceremony in Switzerland.\n\nThe unnamed Russian skater, who lives in Germany, fell from a height of five metres as she was being lifted by a metal ring attached to a cable in the Vaudoise Arena ice rink.\n\nThe 35-year-old was seriously injured after \"suddenly losing her balance\" and falling on to the ice, according to police in Lausanne.\n\nLausanne 2020 organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said they were \"saddened to hear of an accident\".\n\n\"Lausanne 2020 and the IOC wish the performer a fast and full recovery,\" they added in a statement.\n\nThe opening ceremony for the Winter Youth Olympic Games takes place on 9 January.", "Kelechi Iheanacho's equaliser gave Leicester City a deserved draw to leave the Carabao Cup semi-final against Aston Villa delicately poised after an entertaining encounter at the King Power Stadium.\n\nSubstitute Iheanacho finished emphatically from Jamie Vardy's pass with 16 minutes left to give The Foxes the reward their incessant second-half pressure merited to set up a tense second leg at Villa Park.\n\nVilla, struggling with injuries after goalkeeper Tom Heaton and striker Wesley were ruled out for the season, defended with organisation and resilience to protect the lead given to them after 28 minutes when Frederic Guilbert stole in at the far post to meet Anwar El Ghazi's cross.\n\nEzri Konsa's header also struck the bar for Villa but Leicester applied most of the pressure with keeper Orjan Nyland saving twice from James Maddison and Vardy, who also shot just wide late on, before he was beaten by Iheanacho's powerful strike from 12 yards.\n\nThe second leg at Villa Park takes place on Tuesday, 28 January.\n• None Reaction to action from the King Power Stadium\n• None Quiz: Name all EFL Cup semi-finalists of the 2010s\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate was in the stands at The King Power Stadium to cast his eye over several players as he finalises his Euro 2020 plans.\n\nVilla defender Tyrone Mings and Leicester pair James Maddison and Ben Chilwell have already won full caps - so Southgate will have been paying particular attention to Jack Grealish, who has been a key figure for Dean Smith's side this season.\n\nGrealish is yet to make the breakthrough to full England status and his midfield battle with Maddison, who is yet to fully convince Southgate, was an intriguing sub-plot to this semi-final.\n\nAnd the Villa captain did not disappoint, surely pressing his claims for inclusion in England's squad and the opportunity to put himself in contention for this summer's Euros.\n\nVilla spent much of the game on the back foot but Grealish was composed and strong on the ball when he got the chance, always looking for the chance to play the decisive pass on the rare occasions they were able to build pressure.\n\nMaddison is currently ahead of Grealish in Southgate's pecking order, but this classy display from the 24-year-old will have given Southgate food for thought as Villa set up a platform to give themselves a real chance of reaching the EFL Cup Final against either Manchester City or Manchester United.\n\nLeicester City were not quite at their fluent best that has taken them into second place in the Premier League, forcing their way between runaway leaders Liverpool and reigning champions Manchester City.\n\nAnd yet, despite this, the Foxes showed real determination and patience to maintain the pressure until marksman Vardy turned creator with an astute pass that released Iheanacho for his late leveller.\n\nThere were occasions when the home crowd, largely supportive, became impatient as Leicester probed but they stayed true to the principles of manager Brendan Rodgers and no-one apart from Villa could complain about their equaliser.\n\nRodgers would have wanted victory from this home leg but he looked satisfied at the final whistle, clearly believing this is a result Leicester City can work with at Villa Park, where their pace and power on the break - spearheaded by Vardy - may be an even bigger weapon than it was here, as it was in their recent 4-1 league victory.\n\n'He has really come to the fore' - reaction\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Kelechi is a big talent. He didn't play a lot of football at Manchester City and it takes a bit of time to adapt.\n\n\"But since I've come in his confidence has grown and grown and we believe in him and believe in his talent and this season he has really come to the fore.\n\n\"He works so hard every day. He's either making a goal or scoring a goal now and he works so hard in his pressing game. He was a threat when he came on against Villa and I'm delighted for him.\"\n\nAston Villa manager Dean Smith: \"It should be a good second leg, all square and a boisterous crowd, a full house.\n\n\"It wasn't the performance I wanted, Leicester were the better team but we defended well at times. We have to be honest, they created chances as well. We were loose on the ball tonight, we've got to do better.\n\n\"I'm certainly content with a draw, just not the performance. We gave away a farcical goal. Ezri Konsa has got brain dazzled. A disappointing goal but it sums up some of our performance on the night. We did get in a lot of tackles and blocks.\"\n• None Villa have scored 17 League Cup goals this season - their most since 2012-13, with Villa last scoring more in the 1999-00 campaign (18).\n• None Villa have not kept a clean sheet on the road in all competitions in their last 17 games, last doing so against Bolton Wanderers in April 2019.\n• None Iheanacho has been directly involved in seven goals in his five competitive appearances against Aston Villa (five goals, two assists) - more than any other opponent in his professional club career.\n• None Vardy has provided five assists in his 22 appearances in all competitions this season; as many as he got for Leicester City in the previous two campaigns (five assists in 78 apps).\n• None El Ghazi has been directly involved in 11 goals in all competitions for Aston Villa this season (five goals, six assists); only Grealish has more for the Villans (14).\n• None Guilbert's goal in the 28th minute was Aston Villa's only shot on target in the match. In fact, they only recorded three shots in the entire game - the lowest total they have registered in all competitions since May 2016 against Newcastle United (two shots).\n• None No player had more shots (eight), shots on target (two) or created more chances (four) than Leicester's Maddison in this match, with Grealish having zero shots and recording just one key pass by comparison.\n\nLeicester are home to Southampton in the league on Saturday (15:00 GMT) and Villa host Manchester City on Sunday (16:30 GMT)\n• None Attempt saved. Çaglar Söyüncü (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.\n• None Attempt missed. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jamie Vardy.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.\n• None Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ricardo Pereira following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. James Maddison (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jamie Vardy. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"She was full of dreams and now they're gone\": Vigil held for Iran plane crash victims in Toronto\n\nIn the aftermath of the deadly Ukraine Flight PS752 crash, Canadians are left to mourn not just the loss of life but the bright futures snatched away, write Jessica Murphy and Robin Levinson-King.\n\nIn a small room inside a student housing complex at the University of Toronto, more than a hundred people gathered to mourn, pray and share stories of the loved ones they lost in Ukraine Flight PS752.\n\nThe space, which is typically used as a student common area, had been transformed into a kind of funeral parlour, decorated with candles, white bouquets and photos of the victims. Most of the service was in Persian, and tea and sweets were served.\n\nLike many being held across the country, the vigil on Wednesday evening was an impromptu event, quickly put together in the hours after the plane went down earlier that morning.\n\nMany were still in shock from the news, less than 24 hours old.\n\n\"She was full of dreams, and now they're gone,\" Elnaz Morshedi told the BBC between sobs. Her friend, University of Toronto student Zeynab Asadi Lari, was killed in the crash.\n\nMs Morshedi says Ms Lari, who was studying health sciences, had wanted to volunteer with Doctors Without Borders next semester.\n\n\"She was studying all the time, but she wanted to live, she wanted to have fun, to fall in love. And she doesn't have time for this anymore.\"\n\nMs Lari's brother, Mohammad Asadi Lari, also died in the crash. He was the co-founder of STEM fellowship, a youth-run charity that helps students in the maths and sciences.\n\n\"They were the best of us,\" Ms Morshedi says.\n\nAll 176 people on board the flight were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Iran.\n\nSixty-three of them were Canadian nationals, but many more called Canada their home, at least temporarily.\n\nThey lived in cities like Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. Many were students or professors, working on important research in their fields.\n\nUS sanctions have made it increasingly difficult to travel between Iran and Canada, and the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev and then to Toronto is popular because it is one of the most affordable options for the journey, said Younes Zangiabadi with the Iranian Canadian Congress.\n\nSome 63 Canadians were on the Tehran to Kiev flight, en route to Toronto\n\nThe deaths have cast a pall over university campuses across the country.\n\n\"You look at the odds of such a thing happening to you,\" said Seyed Hossein Mortazavi with disbelief, \"but I suppose that's fate.\"\n\n\"They definitely didn't expect this. None of us did. But I think it's just a burden the whole community has to carry.\"\n\nCanada is home to a large Iranian diaspora, with some 210,000 citizens of Iranian descent, according to the federal census. But Mr Mortazavi said that on campuses the community feels small.\n\n\"Nearly anybody in our community knows someone on that plane, through friends, through family,\" he said.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to ensure the cause of the crash was found.\n\n\"Canadians have questions and they deserve answers,\" he told media in Ottawa on Wednesday evening.\n\nMr Trudeau said Canada would work closely with its partners to ensure the crash is thoroughly investigated - and would be requesting the presence of Canadian officials in Tehran to assist families seeking consular assistance, as well as to participate in any investigation into the cause of the incident.\n\nTo those who lost family members and loved ones, he said \"your loss is indescribable\".\n\n\"This is a heartbreaking tragedy. While no words will erase your pain, we want you to know that an entire country is with you, we share your grief.\"\n\nIt was truly a national tragedy, leaving families and loved ones in mourning across the country.\n\nAnd each story was a tragedy in itself.\n\nIn Vancouver, Ardalan Ebnoddin Hamidi, Niloofar Razzaghi, and their teenage son Kamyar were on the flight, confirmed family friend Kei Esmaeilpour, with the Civic Association of Iranian-Canadians.\n\nMr Esmaeilpour said the family were in Iran for a short vacation, and that his friend Ardalan had expressed concerns to him before leaving about the security situation there, but eventually decided to go on the trip.\n\nHe said people who knew the family were asking how something like this could have happened.\n\nTwo separate couples were killed on the way back from their weddings in Iran.\n\nEngineer Siavash Ghafouri-Azar was returning home with his new wife, Sara Mamani, when the plane crashed.\n\nThe couple had just bought their first home near the Canadian city of Montreal, and were looking forward to throwing a house-warming party, said his former thesis supervisor Ali Dolatabadi, an engineering professor at Concordia University.\n\n\"It is a great loss,\" Mr Dolatabadi told the BBC. \"He was very intelligent, a gentleman. He had a kind and a gentle soul.\"\n\nThe couple had met a few years earlier at Concordia and both went on to work at top engineering firms in Montreal. They had decided to get married in Iran because they wanted to celebrate with family, Mr Dolatabadi said.\n\nPedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand with their two daughters\n\nNewlyweds Arash Pourzarabi, 26, and Pouneh Gourji, 25, were graduate students in computer science at the University of Alberta and were also returning to Canada from their wedding.\n\nThe crash also claimed the lives of two young girls, Daria and Dorina Mousavi, aged 14 and 9, along with their parents, Pedram Mousavi and Mojgan Daneshmand, who taught at the University of Alberta.\n\nPayman Parseyman, an Iranian-Canadian from Edmonton, said the community was devastated as they learned that many from the city's Iranian diaspora, as well as foreign Iranian students who had been studying there, had been on flight PS752.\n\n\"It's mostly been shock, disbelief,\" he told the BBC.\n\nCanadians across the country mourned lost family members and loved ones\n\nHe said many Iranian-Canadians were already glued to their televisions or the internet watching for news about the ballistic missile strikes launched by Iran on air bases housing US forces in Iraq late on Tuesday evening, and ended up watching early reports on the plane crash in real time.\n\nPeople were quick to begin connecting via the Telegram messaging app, seeking information and finding ways to support the families and loved ones of those killed.\n\nCanada has not had diplomatic representation in Iran since 2012, when it closed its embassy in Tehran and expelled Iranian diplomats from Ottawa.\n\nOfficials said a number of allies, including France, Italy, and Australia, have offered Canada assistance on the ground in Iran.\n\n\"We've been having such a split as a community these past few months,\" says Mr Mortazavi, who attended the vigil at the University of Toronto.\n\n\"I hope this acts as a turning point for all of us, so that people start reflecting about each other, about the friendships.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe couple said last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals, and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn 2016, Kensington Palace released a statement confirming Harry had been dating US actress Meghan Markle \"for a few months\". They were pictured in public for the first time in Toronto, attending a wheelchair tennis match during the 2017 Invictus Games.\n\nThey announced their engagement a few weeks after being first pictured together. Meghan told BBC News that Harry's proposal was \"just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic\".\n\nIn February 2018, the couple took part in their first joint engagement with Prince Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As Meghan joined their Royal Foundation charity, Harry joked the foursome were now \"stuck together\".\n\nThe couple were married at Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018, with 1,200 public invitations to the grounds of the castle. They travelled through the town in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nUp to 100,000 well-wishers lined the route as the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThe couple kissed on the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family attended the wedding.\n\nThe newlyweds held hands after the ceremony.\n\nIn June 2018, the Queen and the duchess were seen at their first royal engagement together, as they officially opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre.\n\nThat autumn, Kensington Palace revealed the duchess was pregnant and the couple's baby was due in the spring. Shortly after the announcement, they embarked on their first official overseas tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nOn one of their engagements, the couple posed with OneWave, a surfing community group that raises awareness of mental health and wellbeing, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia\n\nOn 6 May, 2019, Meghan gave birth to a boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who became seventh in line to the throne. Harry told reporters: \"It's been the most amazing experience I could ever possibly imagine\".\n\nIn June 2019, the couple announced they were splitting from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own foundation.\n\nLast autumn, Archie travelled with the couple to southern Africa on their first royal tour as a family, and was a big hit with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAn image of a beaming Prince Harry holding his son while on an extended stay in Canada was released by the couple as part of an Instagram compilation summing up their year.\n\nFollowing their trip, the couple were pictured in January on a visit to Canada House.\n\nIn February, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Royal correspondent Jonny Dymond: \"It is very clear the palace is very upset about what has happened\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced they will step back as \"senior\" royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn a statement, Prince Harry and Meghan also said they plan to split their time between the UK and North America.\n\nThe BBC understands no other royal - including the Queen or Prince William - was consulted before the statement and Buckingham Palace is \"disappointed\".\n\nSenior royals are understood to be \"hurt\" by the announcement.\n\nLast October, Prince Harry and Meghan publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight.\n\nIn their unexpected statement on Wednesday, also posted on their Instagram page, the couple said they made the decision \"after many months of reflection and internal discussions\".\n\n\"We intend to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.\"\n\nThey said they plan to balance their time between the UK and North America while \"continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages\".\n\n\"This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.\"\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the fact palace officials said they were \"disappointed\" is \"pretty strong\".\n\n\"I think it indicates a real strength of feeling in the palace tonight - maybe not so much about what has been done but about how it has been done - and the lack of consultation I think will sting.\n\n\"This is clearly a major rift between Harry and Meghan on one part, and the rest of the Royal Family on the other.\"\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said discussions with the duke and duchess on their decision to step back were \"at an early stage\", adding: \"We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through.\"\n\nOver Christmas, the couple took a six-week break from royal duties to spend some time in Canada with their son, Archie, who was born in May.\n\nAfter returning to the UK on Tuesday, Harry, 35, and Meghan, 38, visited Canada's High Commission in London to thank the country for hosting them and said the warmth and hospitality they received was \"unbelievable\".\n\nThe couple, together with their son Archie, recently spent time in Canada\n\nDuring the visit, Meghan said it was an \"incredible time\" to enjoy the \"beauty of Canada\".\n\n\"To see Archie go 'ah' when you walk by, and just see how stunning it is - so it meant a lot to us.\"\n\nFormer actress Meghan lived and worked in Toronto during her time starring in the popular US drama Suits, and she has several Canadian friends.\n\nClose up, it was painfully clear that there were great chunks of the job they simply could not stand.\n\nBoth of them appeared to come alive with the crowds. But Harry hated the cameras and was visibly bored by the ceremonial.\n\nAnd though Meghan was often the consummate professional, at times her impatience with the everyday slog of the role sometimes broke through.\n\nShe said she didn't want to become a voiceless figurehead; but when she raised her voice, she found criticism waiting for her.\n\nThey both made their feelings known in the 2019 interview with ITV's Tom Bradby.\n\nBut beyond the detail, what was so shocking was how unhappy they both seemed. The sun-drenched wedding of the year before seemed like a dream; here were two people visibly struggling with their lives and positions.\n\nThere are far more questions than answers; what will their new role be? Where will they live, and who will pay for it? What relationship will they have with the rest of the Royal Family?\n\nAnd there's the institutional question. What does this mean for the Royal Family?\n\nIt comes just a few months after Prince Andrew stepped back from his duties. Some might see this as the slimmed-down monarchy that the 21st century needs.\n\nBut Harry and Meghan reached people that other royals didn't.\n\nThey were part of the reinvention and refreshing of the institution. This was not the way anyone would have planned its future.\n\nFormer Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter suggested the decision showed Prince Harry's \"heart ruling his head\".\n\nHe told the BBC the \"massive press onslaught\" when their son Archie was born may have played a part in the decision.\n\nAnd he compared the move to Edward VIII's abdication in 1936 in order to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.\n\n\"That is the only other precedent, but there's been nothing like this in modern times,\" Mr Arbiter said.\n\nMeghan and Prince Harry married in May 2018\n\nAsked how being a \"part-time\" member of the Royal Family might work, Mr Arbiter said he did not know.\n\n\"If they're going to be based in the UK, it means they are going to be doing a lot of flying [with] a big carbon footprint,\" he said, adding that this may \"raise eyebrows\".\n\nHe also questioned how the couple would become financially independent.\n\n\"I mean, Harry is not a poor man, but to settle yourself in two different continents, to raise a family, to continue to do your work - how's the work going to be funded?\n\n\"How is their security going to be funded?\n\n\"Because they're still going to have to have security - who's going to have to pay for this? Where's the security coming from? Is the Metropolitan Police going to be providing it and if so whether there's going to be any contribution in covering the security cost?\"\n\nMr Arbiter also suggested questions would be raised over why £2.4m of taxpayer's money was spent on renovating the couple's home, Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, if they will now be living elsewhere for some of the year.\n\nHarry and Meghan met senior Canadian diplomats in London earlier this week\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the couple have \"considerable savings\", including Harry's inheritance from Princess Diana's estate and the money Meghan earned as an actress.\n\nBut, asked about whether they might get jobs, he added: \"There is a problem for members of the Royal Family - relatively senior ones, even if they say they're no longer senior - getting jobs, because they are seen to monetise their brand and you run into a whole host of questions about conflict of interest\".\n\nHe added that we are now in \"wait and see mode\" as to whether this new model of being a royal can work - \"or if this is really a staging post for them to leave the Royal Family\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales pays for the public duties of Harry, Meghan, William and Kate and some of their private costs, out of his Duchy of Cornwall income, which was £21.6m last year.\n\nAccounts from Clarence House show this funding - in the year Meghan officially joined the Royal Family - stood at just over £5m, up 1.8% on 2017-18.\n\nRoyal author Penny Junor said she \"can't quite see how it's going to work\", adding: \"I don't think it's been properly thought through.\"\n\n\"I think it's extraordinary but also I think it's rather sad,\" she said. \"They may not feel they are particularly loved but actually they are very much loved.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nHarry is sixth in line to the throne - behind Prince Charles, Prince William and his three children.\n\nIn an ITV documentary last year, Meghan admitted motherhood was a \"struggle\" due to intense interest from newspapers.\n\nPrince Harry also responded to reports of a rift between him and his brother William, the Duke of Cambridge, by saying they were on \"different paths\".\n\nIn October, the duchess began legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nAnd the duke also began legal action against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry on his brother, William in 2019: \"We are certainly on different paths at the moment\"\n\nPrince Harry also released a statement, saying: \"I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess moved out of Kensington Palace, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge live, in 2018 to set up their family home in Windsor.\n\nThen last summer, they split from the charity they shared with Prince William and Kate to set up their own charitable projects.\n\nThe couple's announcement on Wednesday comes two months after the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.", "Retail group John Lewis Partnership has warned its staff bonus may be in doubt as it reported a fall in festive sales at its department store chain.\n\nIt warned that annual partnership profits were expected to be \"substantially down on last year\".\n\nThe board will meet in February to decide if it is \"prudent\" to pay the staff bonus, the partnership said.\n\nIn a surprise announcement, John Lewis & Partners also said its managing director Paula Nickolds will step down.\n\nThe partnership has been combining the executive teams behind John Lewis and Waitrose into one team, and she was expected to become executive director of brand next month when the teams merged.\n\nJohn Lewis said: \"After some reflection on the responsibilities of her proposed new role, we have decided together that the implementation of the future partnership structure in February is the right time for her to move on.\"\n\nMs Nickolds was the first woman to become managing director of the partnership, having worked her way up after joining as a graduate trainee in 1994.\n\nShe will leave the partnership next month.\n\nThere will be another big change at the top of the partnership in February, when top former civil servant Sharon White will take over as chair.\n\nOutgoing chairman Sir Charlie Mayfield said the decision for Ms Nickolds to step down was taken by both of them.\n\n\"Paula has been a brilliant leader of this business for many years,\" he said. \"We decided together now is the time to step away.\"\n\nMs Nickolds had been a rising star in the business. When asked about what had changed between October and January, Sir Charlie said: \"Things change. People's desires, people's perspectives change.\n\n\"My perspective is that what we've done and what we're doing is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe decision on whether or not to pay the traditional staff bonus, which will be taken by Ms White, will be \"influenced by our level of profitability, planned investment and maintaining the strength of our balance sheet\", the partnership said.\n\nThe John Lewis Partnership is owned by its staff, who are known as partners.\n\nThe last time that staff did not receive a bonus was in 1953.\n\nHowever, whether or not it would be paid was in doubt last year.\n\nIn March 2019, the partnership cut the bonus after a plunge in profits.\n\nJohn Lewis warned that this time around, full-year profits might not be enough for it to pay out any bonus.\n\nThe partnership fell to a loss in the first half of 2019, as it warned of \"difficult\" trading conditions and \"subdued consumer confidence\".\n\nIt said on Thursday that it would reverse those losses, but it warned that profits would still be \"substantially down\" on the previous year.\n\nSir Charlie said that profits had been hit \"because we are price competitive, because we match prices\".\n\nJohn Lewis has a price comparison promise enshrined in its \"never knowingly undersold\" slogan, which commits it to matching the prices of High Street competitors, but not those of online-only competitors.\n\nTrading conditions are tough at the moment, he said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, you can't choose the weather. When the weather is fine, you make hay - and we did.\n\n\"You have to use the winter to sow the seeds for the next harvest.\"\n\nChristmas sales at John Lewis department stores were down 2% on a like-for-like basis, the partnership said.\n\nSales in its home and technology departments were weak, down 3.4% and 4% respectively in the seven weeks from 17 November to 4 January.\n\nBut it said beauty department sales were up 4.7% and Black Friday department store sales jumped 10%.\n\nAt the same time, Waitrose sales rose 0.4%, which Sir Charlie described as \"a good sales performance\" in a \"weak grocery market\".\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at Begbies Traynor, said the results were \"a huge dent to John Lewis' recovery plans\".\n\n\"A company that was once placed on a pedestal as the future of retail by government and analysts has had its legs taken from under it, leaving it stumbling battered and bruised into 2020,\" she said.\n\nThe \"never knowingly undersold\" promise \"continues to erode margins as it seeks to compete on price with competitors that have leaner operations and lower overheads\", she said.\n\n\"The rules of this promise may need to be reviewed and renewed if the retailer is to start turning around, and a savvy operator with Treasury experience like Sharon White may be just the kind of mind needed to do it,\" Ms Palmer added.", "A six-year-old who sparked a nine-hour search when he vanished from a service station was asleep when he was found beside the motorway, his father said.\n\nAadil Umair Rahim was on a school trip when he went missing from Newport Pagnell services on the M1, near Milton Keynes, on Friday.\n\nMore than 1,000 people joined a search for the Nottingham schoolboy.\n\nUmair Rahim said his son was \"perfectly fine\", adding: \"Police told me he was sleeping when they found him.\"\n\nAadil was found near roadworks just off the northbound carriageway at about 04:15.\n\n\"I have no idea if he was outside for the whole nine hours,\" his father said.\n\nMr Rahim said his son and his classmates had been visiting museums in London \"and the group had stopped at the services for a comfort break\".\n\nHe said he was grateful to the emergency services, and \"those members of [the] public who sacrificed their evening to assist with the search for our son\".\n\nAadil was found about half a mile from the service station where he went missing\n\nSearch-and-rescue teams from four regions deployed 54 searchers, three dogs, and a boat to search for Aadil.\n\nInitially it was thought the schoolboy could be hiding in the service station, but concern grew over the hours when there was no sign of him.\n\nBuckinghamshire Search and Rescue's Al Goffey said \"it was a very cold Friday night\", with temperatures falling to 1C, and \"there was a lot of concern for his safety and wellbeing\".\n\nSearchers went out \"to 350-500m in all directions\" to try to find the six-year-old.\n\nMr Goffey said the boy had \"managed to walk up through some fields\" and was found close to a footbridge near Newbolt Close.\n\nSupt Amy Clements described the search as \"a challenging operation in difficult circumstances\", and added that \"the community response was immense\".\n\nThey lost the boy at Newport Pagnell\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The olive ridley turtle is normally found off the warmer shores of Mexico\n\nA rare turtle has been rescued off the south coast by two women who were out swimming.\n\nThe injured olive ridley turtle, usually found in Mexico or the Canaries, was spotted 20m off Seaford beach in East Sussex.\n\nEmma Holter and Lisa Glandfield brought the reptile to shore and saw it had injuries to its face and shell.\n\nThey called the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, which took the turtle to Brighton Sea Life centre for treatment.\n\nThis vulnerable species of turtle was also found in British waters in 2016, off the north coast of Wales.\n\nEmma Holter (left) and Lisa Glandfield pulled the turtle to shore\n\nCorinne Gordon, a marine medic, said: \"She does have some damage but her injuries are not life threatening.\n\n\"However, it is a big concern that she only had a temperature of 10.8C when picked up. She is in cold shock.\n\n\"We are really hoping she survives.\"\n\nThe turtle weights 2.5kg and is less than half a metre in length - olive ridleys usually grow to about 1m\n\nOnce the juvenile turtle is at a more natural temperature for her breed, it is hoped she will be able to feed, Ms Gordon added.\n\nNettie Glandfield was with her mother Lisa when the reptile was brought to shore.\n\n\"We thought she may be dead, but every now and then she would make a small movement,\" she said.\n\n\"The beach was windy, so we wrapped her in a wet towel to keep her a bit warmer, and sheltered, until the vet arrived.\n\n\"She wasn't very big, about the size of a Jack Russell, and she's so far from home.\"\n\nThe name of the olive ridley derives from the generally greenish colour of its skin and shell\n\nDr Sky Yates, a vet who helped with the rescue and confirmed the markings and colour were consistent with the olive ridley breed, said: \"It was so bizarre seeing this turtle on Seaford beach.\n\n\"She's got a long way to go with recovery, but the ladies who pulled her from the water did a great job.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's procession towards their first title in 30 years continued with a hard-fought win over Manchester United at Anfield that extended their lead at the top of the table to 16 points with a game in hand.\n\nThe hosts were the superior side but faced late United pressure as they defended Virgil van Dijk's 14th-minute header, before wrapping up the win in style in injury time when goalkeeper Alisson's long clearance set Mohamed Salah clear to score and spark wild celebrations among supporters now convinced that long wait is coming to an end.\n\nLiverpool could have emphasised their superiority as Roberto Firmino had a goal contentiously ruled out by the video assistant referee for Van Dijk's challenge on David de Gea, while the United keeper touched Jordan Henderson's shot on to the post and Salah missed an open goal from six yards.\n\nUnited, who had striker Marcus Rashford ruled out for a lengthy period before kick-off with a back injury, actually had chances of their own. Andreas Pereira turned wide of an open goal in the first half and Anthony Martial shot over the top from an inviting position after the break.\n\nIt came as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side rallied in the second half, but it was to no avail and Liverpool march relentlessly on, with 21 wins from their first 22 games.\n• None Goodison? The Etihad? When & where can Reds win the league?\n\nIt is simply a case of when the coronation comes as Liverpool reeled off yet another win en route to the Premier League title. They are not only doing their own job but watching in satisfaction as the chasing pack - chasing from afar it must be said - fall further behind, with dropped points for Manchester City and Leicester City on Saturday and Sunday respectively.\n\nThere was rare anxiety around Anfield in the closing minutes before the sweet release of Salah's goal - Alisson rightly running the length of the pitch to join in the celebrations after his long clearance sent the Egyptian clear to score.\n\nLiverpool could have wrapped up victory more comfortably, but with the imperious Van Dijk at the back and menace up front, it is hard to see how they can be stopped in one game - and they certainly will not be in this title race.\n\nAnd, of course, victory was made even sweeter as it was at the expense of Manchester United, the old foe who famously fulfilled Sir Alex Ferguson's promise to knock Liverpool off their perch.\n\nUnited now trail Liverpool by 30 points and this is not a gap that flatters Klopp's men.\n\nThe gulf is not only huge between Liverpool and United. In the Premier League context, it is huge between Liverpool and the rest of the Premier League.\n• None Everyone can celebrate apart from us - Liverpool boss Klopp\n• None How did you rate Liverpool & Man Utd players?\n\nManchester United may point to the fact they were in with a chance of gaining a point until the closing moments here but any suggestion they matched Liverpool is an exercise in delusion.\n\nIn United's defence they are without key players such as Rashford, Scott McTominay and Paul Pogba but they now trail Liverpool on and off the pitch by an embarrassing margin.\n\nSolskjaer's side were clinging on for so much of this game and squandered the big opportunities when they came in the shape of those chances for Pereira and Martial.\n\nMartial's wild finish was symptomatic of his performance. United were counting on him even more in Rashford's absence but he simply failed to deliver. He was laboured and lack-lustre.\n\nUnited did close down Liverpool's potent full-backs Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson for large parts of the game but there is a glaring lack of quality that has been exposed so often this season.\n\nLiverpool found it was a very long way back to title glory once momentum had been lost and too many poor decisions made.\n\nOn this evidence, it does not look like it will be any easier for Manchester United.\n• None No Rashford, no fear factor for Man Utd - Jenas analysis\n\n'The energy was incredible' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"It's a big relief, I was really happy with 85-90% of the game, we were brilliant. We dominated the game, especially in the first half. The energy they put on the pitch was incredible.\n\n\"On a normal day we would have scored three times in the first half and in the second half until 65 minutes we should have been more clear.\n\n\"But then United have obvious quality, played a bit more football and we had to defend. There were little mistakes here and there, we didn't use possession well enough and so the game stays open.\n\n\"Then we scored a wonderful, wonderful goal at the end, a really good feeling.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: \"The players gave us everything. Today we hung on a bit at the start of second half, but the last 25-30 minutes we pressed them and pushed them back. I'm disappointed with conceding from a corner and with the last kick - but very many positives.\n\n\"I felt in the second half we performed really well against a good team and at a difficult place.\n\n\"We didn't have quality with our finishing or last pass. Fred was absolutely top and David de Gea. As a team we worked together as a unit.\"\n\n91 from 93 - Liverpool's incredible run and other stats\n• None Liverpool have won consecutive home Premier League games against Manchester United for the first time since winning three in a row between September 2008 and March 2011.\n• None Manchester United have lost nine of their last 16 away Premier League games (W3 D4 L9), failing to score in eight of those games.\n• None Liverpool have taken 91 points from the last 93 available to them in the Premier League (P31 W30 D1).\n• None Liverpool became the first team since Arsenal in 2001-02 to score in their first 22 Premier League matches of the season - the Gunners went on to score in every game and win the title that season.\n• None Liverpool have kept seven consecutive Premier League clean sheets for the first time since December 2006 (seven in a row).\n• None Since the start of last season, Liverpool full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has more Premier League assists than any other player (21).\n• None Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson became the first Reds goalkeeper to assist a Premier League goal since March 2010, when Pepe Reina assisted against Sunderland.\n\nLiverpool travel to Wolves on Thursday, 23 January (20:00 GMT) while Manchester United are at home to Burnley one day earlier (20:15).\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Manchester United 0. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alisson following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Diogo Dalot replaces Luke Shaw because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Aaron Wan-Bissaka tries a through ball, but Mason Greenwood is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The government is examining whether to move the House of Lords out of London, the Conservative Party chairman has said.\n\nJames Cleverly told Sky News the idea was among a \"range of options\" being considered to \"reconnect\" politics with voters outside of the capital.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, York and Birmingham have emerged as contenders to permanently host the upper chamber.\n\nBut Labour MP Nadia Whittome described the idea as \"superficial\".\n\nAccording to the newspaper, a decision on whether to relocate the chamber will be determined as part of a constitutional review being launched in the spring.\n\nIt reported that disused land near York railway station has been identified as a possible site to host the chamber, which houses 795 peers.\n\nThe House of Lords is already due to temporarily relocate out of the Palace of Westminster as part of refurbishment plans due to begin in around 2025.\n\nA parliamentary committee has previously recommended the chamber should move to the government-owned Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster whilst works are under way.\n\nThe venue would only be a short walk from Richmond House, the former home of the Department of Health, which has been proposed as a temporary home for the House of Commons.\n\nAsked to comment on the proposals in the Sunday Times report, Mr Cleverly told Sky's Sophy Ridge: \"It's one of a range of things that we are looking into.\n\n\"What we are looking at is a whole range of options about making sure every part of the UK feels properly connected to politics,\" he added.\n\n\"Fundamentally what this is about is demonstrating to the people that we are going to do things differently.\"\n\nFor many reasons, 'The Lords of the North,' as some are calling it, appears far-fetched.\n\nHowever, the fact that it is being considered at all highlights the government's desire to address a perceived disconnect between politicians and voters.\n\nThe subject has also featured heavily in the Labour leadership contest, with several of the candidates calling for our democracy to be far less London-centric.\n\nLarge swathes of the Midlands and the north of England turned Conservative in the election - and the government wants to bring Westminster closer to the voters it represents; perhaps literally.\n\nWhether or not it actually comes to pass, the idea of moving the second chamber north fits in nicely with Downing Street's \"levelling up\" agenda.\n\nSending peers to work hundreds of miles away from MPs would, though, present logistical as well as constitutional challenges.\n\nWhat would happen, for example, on the day of the Queen's Speech? Would Her Majesty have to travel to York?\n\nWould Black Rod take a train to London, only to have the door of the Commons ceremonially slammed in her face? Would MPs go on a coach trip up the M1 to hear the government's plans?\n\nInternational Development Secretary Alok Sharma said he was not involved in discussions about a Lords relocation but was \"supportive\" of the idea.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"As a principle it's a perfectly good thing that we are connecting government to all parts of the country.\n\n\"I think it's absolutely right that if you want to be a government of the people, you must reach out to people across the country.\"\n\nBut Nadia Whittome, the newly-elected MP for Nottingham East, told the programme: \"Working class people whether in the North, the Midlands or the South don't care about the unelected House of Lords.\"\n\n\"We want jobs, we want proper investment and meaningful decentralisation of power,\" she said.\n\n\"Replace the House of Lords with an elected chamber and move it to the North and then we're talking - but this is superficial, it's tinkering around the edges.\"\n• None What is the House of Lords?", "The wigs were part of the company's men's autumn and winter collection at Paris Fashion Week\n\nJapanese fashion brand Comme Des Garçons has been accused of cultural appropriation after white models took to its runway wearing cornrow wigs.\n\nThe wigs were part of the company's men's autumn and winter collection on show as part of Paris Fashion Week.\n\nCritics on social media called the styling for Friday's show \"offensive\".\n\nHairstylist Julien d'Ys said he had been inspired by an \"Egyptian prince\" look, and had not intended to hurt or offend anyone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut critics called out the styling, with Instagram account diet_prada stating that \"the avant-garde Japanese label seemed to have taken a step back with their men's show, this time putting white models in cornrow wigs\".\n\nThere were also black models in the show, some of whom wore the wigs, while others kept their own hair.\n\nJulien d'Ys responded to the backlash on his Instagram page, stating: \"My inspiration for the Comme Des Garçons show was Egyptian prince, a look I found truly beautiful and inspirational. A look that was an hommage.\n\n\"Never was it my intention to hurt or offend anyone, ever. If I did I deeply apologise.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, despite more than 2,000 likes for his post, many of the comments underneath were negative.\n\nDevinpink67 said: \"Looks appropriate on the handsome dark skin model, a joke on the others next to and behind it never looks right but stupidity ridiculous braids, cornrows, twist, bantu knots, afro puffs, afros, slicked baby hairs REPEAT ARE B-L-A-C-K CULTURAL RELATED.\"\n\nAnd Kharileigh suggested: \"In future, to avoid facing this heat again when taking inspiration from a culture that is not yours, PLEASE work closely with one from said culture to guide you in doing it properly.\n\n\"Your intention might not have been to culturally appropriate Egyptian culture, however your lack of care or awareness in executing it is extremely reckless and hence why it is deemed as cultural appropriation. Education alone avoids these situations, so learn from this and keep it pushing.\"\n\nThe hairstylist had also posted an image of one of the sketches he had shown to the company before the show, using hashtags to reinforce the Egyptian inspiration (#égyptienboy #pharaon - French for pharoah).\n\nDazed reported that the brand had apologised in a statement: \"The inspiration for the headpieces for Comme des Garçons menswear FW'20 show was the look of an Egyptian prince. It was never ever our intention to disrespect or hurt anyone - we deeply and sincerely apologise for any offence it has caused.\"\n\nThe hairstylist said he was inspired by Egyptian styles\n\nIn 2018, the company which was founded by Rei Kawakubo, was criticised for the lack of diversity in the choice of models it used in its mainline women's collection runway shows.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the brand for comment.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The US Space Force posted a picture its new uniform on Twitter\n\nThe US Space Force has defended its newly unveiled camouflage uniforms after they were roundly mocked on social media.\n\nThe force, officially launched by US President Donald Trump last month, posted a picture of the uniform to its Twitter account.\n\nThe uniform in the picture has a woodland camouflage design with badges embroidered on the arm and chest.\n\nReacting to the uniform, many critics had the same question: \"Camo in space?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by United States Space Force This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe force explained its rationale in a tweeted response. It said it was \"utilising current Army/Air Force uniforms\" and \"saving costs of designing/producing a new one\" in doing so.\n\n\"Members will look like their joint counterparts they'll be working with, on the ground,\" the force added in the tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by United States Space Force This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut the force may as well have been tweeting in a vacuum, as the derision continued unabated.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by James Felton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFlanked by US troops, Mr Trump officially launched the force at an army base near Washington in December last year.\n\nMr Trump said the force would help the US military \"deter aggression\" in what he called \"the world's newest war-fighting domain\".\n\nBut the new military service, overseen by the US Air Force, is not intended to put troops into orbit.\n\nRather, it will protect US assets such as the hundreds of satellites used for communication and surveillance.\n\nUS Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said the Space Force would comprise about 16,000 air force and civilian personnel.\n\nThe Trump administration has allocated $40m (£34m) to fund the force in its first year.", "The author of the best-selling Jack Reacher novels is handing over the writing duties to his younger brother.\n\nLee Child, 65, reportedly considered killing off the 6ft 5ins vigilante hero, who is played by actor Tom Cruise in film adaptations.\n\nBut the writer said: \"I love my readers and know they want many, many more Reacher stories in the future.\"\n\nHis brother Andrew Grant, 51, who will write under the pen name Andrew Child, is already an established author.\n\nChild, whose real name is James Grant, said he felt he was \"ageing out\" of being able to produce more of the books.\n\nHe said: \"So I have decided to pass the baton to someone who can.\"\n\nHe described his younger sibling as the \"best tough-guy writer I have read in years.\"\n\n\"We share the same DNA, the same background, the same upbringing,\" he said, adding: \"He's me, fifteen years ago, full of energy and ideas.\"\n\nThere have been two Jack Reacher films starring Tom Cruise\n\nThe Coventry-born author said they would work on the next few novels together \"and then he'll strike out on his own\".\n\nChild started writing after being fired from his job as a presentation director at Granada Television in 1995.\n\nHis first Reacher novel, Killing Floor, was published in 1997.\n\nHe has since sold more than 100 million books and Amazon has announced it is adapting the series for TV.\n\nThe novels, which are set in the United States, have been translated into 40 languages and adapted into two movies starring Cruise.\n\nThe protagonist of the book series is a former major in the US Army military police who roams the US investigating suspicious and dangerous situations.\n\nGrant said he had been \"blown away\" by his elder brother's first Reacher novel.\n\nHe said: \"The more time I spent with him in each new adventure, the more I craved the next. So I know what it's like to wait for the new Reacher novel.\"\n\nHe added: \"I understand what Reacher fans want - because I am one. And I'll do my best to deliver for them.\n\n\"I'll have to. Because my big brother will be watching.\"\n\nThe Sentinel, the 25th Jack Reacher novel, is due to be published on 29 October 2020.", "Leaked documents reveal how Africa's richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption.\n\nIsabel dos Santos got access to lucrative deals involving land, oil, diamonds and telecoms when her father was president of Angola, a southern African country rich in natural resources.\n\nThe documents show how she and her husband were allowed to buy valuable state assets in a series of suspicious deals.\n\nMs Dos Santos says the allegations against her are entirely false and that there is a politically motivated witch-hunt by the Angolan government.\n\nThe former president's daughter has made the UK her home and owns expensive properties in central London.\n\nShe is already under criminal investigation by the authorities in Angola for corruption and her assets in the country have been frozen.\n\nNow BBC Panorama has been given access to more than 700,000 leaked documents about the billionaire's business empire.\n\nMost were obtained by the Platform to Protect Whistle-blowers in Africa and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).\n\nThey've been investigated by 37 media organisations including the Guardian and Portugal's Expresso newspaper.\n\nThirty per cent of Angolans live in poverty on less than $2 a day\n\nAndrew Feinstein, the head of Corruption Watch, says the documents show how Ms Dos Santos exploited her country at the expense of ordinary Angolans.\n\n\"Every time she appears on the cover of some glossy magazine somewhere in the world, every time that she hosts one of her glamorous parties in the south of France, she is doing so by trampling on the aspirations of the citizens of Angola.\"\n\nThe ICIJ have called the documents the Luanda Leaks.\n\nOne of the most suspicious deals was run from London through a UK subsidiary of the Angolan state oil company Sonangol.\n\nMs Dos Santos had been put in charge of the struggling Sonangol in 2016, thanks to a presidential decree from her father Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who kept a tight grip on his country for the 38 years he was in power.\n\nBut when he retired as president in September 2017 her position was soon under threat, even though his hand-picked successor came from the same party. Ms Dos Santos was sacked two months later.\n\nMany Angolans have been surprised at the way that President João Lourenço has gone after the business interests of his predecessor's family.\n• None 30%of population live in poverty - less than $1.90/day\n\nThe leaked documents show that as she left Sonangol, Ms Dos Santos approved $58m of suspicious payments to a consultancy company in Dubai called Matter Business Solutions.\n\nShe says she has no financial interest in Matter, but the leaked documents reveal it was run by her business manager and owned by a friend.\n\nPanorama understands that Matter sent more than 50 invoices to Sonangol in London on the day that she was fired.\n\nMs Dos Santos appears to have approved payments to her friend's company after she was sacked.\n\nAlthough some consultancy work had been carried out by Matter, there's very little detail on the invoices to justify such large bills.\n\nOne asks for €472,196 for unspecified expenses - another asks for $928,517 for unspecified legal services.\n\nTwo of the invoices - each for €676,339.97 - are for exactly the same work on the same date and Ms Dos Santos signed them both off anyway.\n\nThese are some of the invoices Isabel dos Santos signed off in her last week at Sonangol\n\nLawyers for Matter Business Solutions say it was brought in to help restructure the oil industry in Angola, and that the invoices were for work that had already been carried out by other consultancy companies it had hired.\n\n\"Regarding the invoices related with expenses, it is common for consultancy companies to add expenses to invoices as a general item. This is often due to those expenses involving large amounts of paperwork... Matter can produce documentary evidence to confirm all expenses incurred.\"\n\nMs Dos Santos's lawyers said her actions with regard to the Matter payments were entirely lawful and that she had not authorised payments after she had been dismissed from Sonangol.\n\nThey said: \"All invoices paid were in relation to services contracted and agreed between the two parties, under a contract that was approved with the full knowledge and approval of the Sonangol Board of Directors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Isabel dos Santos: \"I regret that Angola has chosen this path\"\n\nThe ICIJ and Panorama have also uncovered new details about the business deals that made Ms Dos Santos rich.\n\nMuch of her fortune is based on her ownership of a stake in the Portuguese energy company Galp, which one of her companies bought from Sonangol in 2006.\n\nThe documents show it only had to pay 15% of the price upfront and that the remaining €63m ($70m) was turned into a low-interest loan from Sonangol.\n\nUnder the generous terms of the loan, her debt to the Angolan people didn't have to be repaid for 11 years.\n\nHer stake in Galp is now worth more than €750m.\n\nMs Dos Santos's company did offer to repay the Sonangol loan in 2017.\n\nThe repayment offer should have been rejected because it didn't include almost €9m of interest owing.\n\nBank orders signed by Isabel dos Santos transferred almost $58m out of the Angolan state oil company\n\nBut Ms Dos Santos was in charge of Sonangol at the time and she accepted the money as full payment of her own debt.\n\nShe was fired six days later and the payment was returned by the new Sonangol management.\n\nMs Dos Santos says she initiated the purchase of the stake in Galp, and that Sonangol made money from the deal as well.\n\n\"There's absolutely no wrongdoing in any of those transactions. This investment is the investment that in history has generated the most benefit for the national oil company and all the contracts that were drafted are perfectly legal contracts, there are no wrongdoings.\"\n\nHer lawyers say the repayment offer in 2017 covered what Sonangol had indicated was owed.\n\nIt's a similar story in the diamond industry.\n\nThey were supposed to be 50-50 partners in a deal to buy a stake in the Swiss luxury jeweller De Grisogono.\n\nBut it was funded by the state company. The documents show that 18 months after the deal, Sodiam had put $79m into the partnership, while Mr Dokolo had only invested $4m. Sodiam also awarded him a €5m success fee for brokering the deal, so he didn't have to use any of his own money.\n\nIsabel dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo can often be seen at film premieres and festivals with the world's stars\n\nThe diamond deal gets even worse for the Angolan people.\n\nThe documents reveal how Sodiam borrowed all the cash from a private bank in which Ms Dos Santos is the biggest shareholder.\n\nSodiam has to pay 9% interest and the loan was guaranteed by a presidential decree from her father, so Ms Dos Santos's bank cannot lose out.\n\nBravo da Rosa, the new chief executive of Sodiam, told Panorama that the Angolan people hadn't got a single dollar back from the deal: \"In the end, when we have finished paying back this loan, Sodiam will have lost more than $200m.\"\n\nThe former president also gave Ms Dos Santos's husband the right to buy some of Angola's raw diamonds.\n\nThe Angolan government says the diamonds were sold at a knockdown price and sources have told Panorama that almost $1bn may have been lost.\n\nMs Dos Santos told the BBC she couldn't comment because she was not a shareholder of De Grisogono.\n\nBut the leaked documents show that she is described as a shareholder of De Grisogono by her own financial advisers.\n\nMr Dokolo did put in some money later. His lawyers say he invested $115m and that the takeover of De Grisogono was his idea. They say his company paid above the market rate for the raw diamonds.\n\nThe leaked documents also reveal how Ms Dos Santos bought land from the state in September 2017. Once again she only had to pay a small up-front fee.\n\nHer company bought a square kilometre of prime beachfront land in the capital Luanda with the help of presidential decrees signed by her father.\n\nAngolan state oil company Sonangol has a subsidiary in London where suspicious deals took place\n\nThe contract says the land was worth $96m, but the documents show her company paid only 5% of that after agreeing to invest the rest in the development.\n\nPanorama traced some of the ordinary Angolans who were evicted to make way for the Futungo development.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Albertina de Fatima describes living next to an open sewer in Angola\n\nThey've been moved from the Luandan seafront to an isolated housing development 30 miles (50km) from the capital.\n\nTeresa Vissapa lost her business to Ms Dos Santos' development and is now struggling to bring up her seven children.\n\nShe said: \"I only ask God to make her think a little more about our situation. Maybe she doesn't even know it, but we are suffering.\"\n\nMs Dos Santos declined to comment on the Futungo development.\n\nBut it was not the only land deal involving Ms Dos Santos that displaced the local population.\n\nAbout 500 families were evicted from another stretch of the Luandan seafront after Isabel dos Santos got involved in another major redevelopment project.\n\nThe families are now living in desperate conditions next to an open sewer. Some of their shacks are flooded with sewage whenever the tide rises.\n\nMs Dos Santos says there weren't any evictions linked to her project and that her companies were never paid because the development was cancelled.\n\nThe billionaire has also made big profits from the telecoms industry in Angola.\n\nShe acquired a 25% stake in the country's biggest mobile phone provider, Unitel. It was granted a telecoms licence by her father in 1999 and she bought her stake the following year from a high ranking government official.\n\nUnitel has already paid her $1bn in dividends and her stake is worth another $1bn. But that's not the only way she got cash from the private company.\n\nShe arranged for Unitel to lend €350m to a new company she set up, called Unitel International Holdings.\n\nThe leaked documents show Isabel dos Santos signed off on loans from Unitel as both the borrower and the lender\n\nThe company name was misleading because it wasn't connected to Unitel and Ms Dos Santos was the owner.\n\nThe documents show Ms Dos Santos signed off on the loans as both lender and borrower, which is a blatant conflict of interest.\n\nMs Dos Santos denied that the loans were corrupt. She said: \"This loan had both directors' approval and shareholders' approval, and it's a loan that will generate, and has generated, benefit for Unitel.\"\n\nHer lawyers say the loans protected Unitel from currency fluctuations.\n\nMost of the companies involved in the dodgy deals were overseen by accountants working for the financial services company, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC). It's made millions providing auditing, consultancy and tax advice to her companies.\n\nBut PWC has terminated its relationship with the billionaire and her family, after Panorama questioned the way the company had assisted Ms Dos Santos in the deals that had made her rich.\n\nPWC says it is holding an inquiry into the \"very serious and concerning allegations\".\n\nTom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, criticised PWC for giving the corruption a \"veneer of respectability\"\n\nTom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, told Panorama that PWC had given legitimacy to Ms Dos Santos and her companies.\n\n\"PWC, if not facilitating the corruption, are providing a veneer of respectability that makes what's happening acceptable or more acceptable than it might otherwise be.\n\n\"So if I was at PWC I'd be conducting a pretty thorough audit of what decisions were made, and in hindsight actually: 'Did we make the wrong decision to accept this business and should we have reported what we had been presented with?'\"\n\nPWC says it strives to maintain the highest professional standards and has set expectations for consistent ethical behaviour across its global network.\n\n\"In response to the very serious and concerning allegations that have been raised, we immediately initiated an investigation and are working to thoroughly evaluate the facts and conclude our inquiry.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to take appropriate actions to ensure that we always stand for the very highest standards of behaviour, wherever we operate in the world.\"\n\nPanorama: The Corrupt Billionaire is available on BBC iPlayer in UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nEngland's Stuart Bingham became the oldest Masters winner by defeating Ali Carter 10-8 in a thrilling and fluctuating final at Alexandra Palace.\n\nBingham, 43, claimed his second Triple Crown event title to go alongside his 2015 World Championship win.\n\nCarter turned around a 5-3 deficit to lead 7-5, but world number 14 Bingham showed tremendous bottle to fight back.\n\nHe sealed victory with a nerveless break of 109 - his first century of the tournament ending Carter's hopes.\n\nBingham becomes the 24th different name on the Paul Hunter Trophy, collecting a record £250,000 winner's prize money.\n\nWelshman Ray Reardon was 43 years and three months when he claimed the Masters in 1976, while Bingham is five months older.\n\n\"Ali played so well I was starting to think about what to say after being beaten. How I turned it around I don't know,\" said Bingham.\n\n\"I have won seven major tournaments now and want to get to 10. Hopefully one will be the UK Championship and I will go into the history books for winning the Triple Crown.\n\n\"I've really enjoyed the week and I think that's the key to my game and why I can perform like that.\n\n\"I am shattered. I've had about nine hours' sleep in two days. Every time he was scoring I was sitting in my chair thinking 'this is getting really comfy'. To get my hands on this trophy means the world.\"\n\nBingham's record in this tournament was dreadful with eight defeats at the first hurdle in nine appearances.\n\nHe was a 50-1 long shot when he lifted the sport's biggest prize at the Crucible Theatre and at the start of this tournament he would have been an outside bet to take the invitational event in London.\n\nBingham's form has been poor this season, reaching just one quarter-final at a ranking event, and his most recent silverware came at the Gibraltar Open last March.\n\nBingham missed this lucrative tournament two years ago as he served a six-month ban for betting breaches but has redeemed himself and the late bloomer - who won his first title in 2011 after first turning professional 16 years previously - now just needs to win the UK Championship to complete the Triple Crown series.\n\nHaving seen defending champion Judd Trump, UK winner Ding Junhui and former world champions Mark Selby and Neil Robertson all exit in the first round, he seized the opportunity to add a major to go alongside his six ranking titles.\n\n\"People will stop saying Bingham was a fluke to win the World Championship,\" said former world champion John Parrott. \"He's backed it up and proven he's a top-class player.\"\n\n\"Stuart played himself into form in this tournament and withstood a lot of things thrown at him,\" said Parrott's fellow BBC pundit Steve Davis.\n\n\"Under pressure he held his nerve and his cueing stood the test.\"\n\nSeven-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan's decision to withdraw from the event meant his place went to world number 17 Carter, who he does not see eye-to-eye with following an on-table clash at the World Championship two years ago.\n\nAway from the table, Carter has battled to recover from both testicular and lung cancer, as well as being diagnosed with Crohn's disease, stating after his semi-final win that he had \"been to hell and back\".\n\nBut there was to be no fairytale with Carter falling short in his third Triple Crown final, having lost to O'Sullivan in the 2008 and 2012 World Championships.\n\nBBC pundits Stephen Hendry and Ken Doherty had said \"fate\" and \"destiny\" might be on Carter's side having beaten former world champions Selby, John Higgins and Shaun Murphy to advance, but it was not to be his day despite a resurgence and two centuries, though a £100,000 runners-up cheque may be of some comfort.\n\n\"I'm very disappointed to not win but he was the better player,\" said Carter. \"I have to say all the right things but I am gutted.\n\n\"The interval swung the match. I was on fire to win those four frames. I look back at the pink but I've missed one ball in four frames.\"\n\nThe story of the match\n\nThese two Essex-born players used to compete against each other in the junior county league but were meeting in a major final for the first time.\n\nCarter made the perfect start with a superb 126 break and also compiled 56 and 93 - in between Bingham's 75 - for a 3-2 advantage.\n\nPlay was momentarily halted with Bingham at the table in the fifth frame when someone seemed to have left a 'whoopee cushion' device inside the arena which kept emitting sounds. The crowd laughed at the incident but neither player found it funny.\n\nCarter should have taken the sixth which could have been a huge turning point. With a deficit of 69 points and only 67 remaining on the table, he got the snooker required but then missed the final brown, allowing Bingham to pinch the frame on the black.\n\nWorld number 14 Bingham made 50 in the next, as well as snatching a 40-minute frame for a two-frame cushion heading into the evening session.\n\nThe evening session was thrilling. Carter turned the match around by punishing Bingham's mistakes, clinching four frames in a row, including breaks of 95 and 133.\n\nBut Bingham provided a gutsy response after the mid-session interval by taking four on the trot with frame-winning contributions of 64, 85, 58 and 88 to go one from victory.\n\nCarter halted the flow with a quick 77 after Bingham missed a red with the rest, but he finished off in style to avoid a nervy decider.", "Lord Maclennan was once acting leader of the Liberal Democrats\n\nLord Robert Maclennan, former leader of the Social Democrat Party, who also served as joint interim leader of the Liberal Democrats, has died aged 83.\n\nThe peer led the SDP in the late 1980s as it carried out negotiations to merge with the Liberal Party.\n\nLord Maclennan then became joint interim leader of the merged party.\n\nHe served as an MP in the Highlands for 35 years, retiring from his Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross seat in 2001.\n\nActing Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey said: \"Bob was the kind of politician we all strive to be.\n\n\"Considerate, honest and hardworking with an uncanny ability to reach out across the political spectrum to find common ground.\n\n\"He was also a great servant, over many decades, to his Highland constituents. A passionate advocate of devolution, he campaigned tirelessly for the creation of the Scottish parliament and wider constitutional reform.\n\n\"As Liberal Democrats, we also pay him a huge debt of gratitude. It was his determined leadership and bravery that proved critical in the formation of the movement we know today.\"\n\nLord Maclennan led the Social Democrat Party before its merger with the Liberal Party\n\nLord Maclennan, who was a Labour MP before joining the SDP, was parliamentary under-secretary at the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection in the late 1970s.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"Bob was such a kind and generous gentleman who was passionate about social democracy and fairness.\n\n\"He was a dedicated servant for the Caithness and Sutherland and founder of the Liberal Democrats. A close friend and mentor to many in the party he will be missed so much.\"", "A report in 2014 found at least 1,400 children were subjected to sexual abuse in Rotherham\n\nA survivor of sexual abuse in Rotherham has told the BBC she feels \"vindicated\" by a watchdog's investigation that found South Yorkshire Police did not do enough to protect her.\n\nIn a report initially leaked to the Times newspaper, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said officers failed to deal with offenders adequately.\n\nThe force has accepted the findings.\n\nThe complainant, who was repeatedly abused as a girl, said she was \"astounded\" when she read the report.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) report also upheld a complaint that the victim's father was told by a senior officer, whom the IOPC has been unable to identify, that the force was aware abuse \"had been going on 30 years and the police could do nothing because of racial tensions\".\n\nA report in 2014 by Prof Alexis Jay found at least 1,400 children were subjected to sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage.\n\n\"For 18 years I have being trying to prove that I'm not a liar, that I didn't make it up,\" said the woman, who was abused over several years from about 2003.\n\n\"I'm really, really disgusted in what were in that [the report] - basically, that victims and their families were sacrificed. Their lives ruined, living with a life sentence because of fear of racial tension.\"\n\nThe watchdog's report, seen by the BBC, upheld the victim's complaints that \"police took insufficient action to protect you from harm\" and that \"police failed to adequately deal with offenders and this failure led you to be exposed to abuse\".\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"South Yorkshire Police accepts the findings of this report and have been working to address the issues it raises since the publication of the Jay Report in 2014.\n\n\"After such a lengthy IOPC investigation it is disappointing that no individual officer has been identified as this is not something we would tolerate in today's force.\"\n\nEarlier this week, a report found that police and social workers investigating child sex exploitation in Manchester knew children were suffering \"the most profound abuse... but did not protect them\".\n\nSteve Noonan from the IOPC said the watchdog had \"completed more than 90% of the inquiries\" as part of its investigation into abuse in Rotherham.\n\n\"At the conclusion of all of our investigations we intend to publish an overarching report covering all of the findings, outcomes and learning from our work on Operation Linden,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Angolan court has ordered the seizure of the assets and bank accounts of the billionaire daughter of ex-President José Eduardo dos Santos.\n\nThe seizure appears to be part of an anti-corruption drive by the current government in oil-rich Angola.\n\nThe administration of President Joao Lourenço is seeking to recover $1bn (£760m) it says it is owed by Isabel dos Santos and her associates.\n\nShe has repeatedly denied wrongdoing during her father's term in office.\n\nOften described as Africa's richest woman, Ms Dos Santos is estimated by Forbes magazine to have a fortune of $2.2bn.\n\nThe 46-year-old lives abroad, saying she moved from Angola because her life had been threatened.\n\nShe runs a huge business empire with stakes in companies in Angola and Portugal, where she has shares in cable television firm Nos SGPS.\n\nThe court ordered the freezing of Ms Dos Santos' Angolan bank accounts and the seizure of her stake in local companies, including telecoms giant Unitel and bank Fomento de Angola (BFA), the state-owned news agency reported.\n\nIn a statement, she said she condemned what she described as a \"politically motivated attack\" against her.\n\n\"I discovered that a trial had been held in total secrecy in Angola and the decision taken to issue a freezing order on my assets. There were no lawyers from my side present, nor the directors of my companies. We were only informed about it after the decision had been taken behind our backs.\n\n\"I have spent the last 24 hours trying to give assurances to my staff and all the families affected by this order that we must not give in. I will use all the instruments of Angolan and international law at my disposal to fight this order and ensure the truth comes out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Isabel dos Santos speaks to the BBC's Paul Bakibinga in 2017\n\nMs Dos Santos gained a high public profile in 2016, when her father controversially appointed her as the head of Angola's state-owned oil firm Sonangol.\n\nShe was sacked from the post in 2017 by Mr Lourenço, her father's handpicked successor.\n\nHer brother, José Filomeno dos Santos, is on trial in Angola on charges of corruption.\n\nThe prosecution alleges that he and his co-accused helped spirit $500m out of the country during his time as head of Angola's Sovereign Wealth Fund. They have pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe court order was read out on state television - a powerful gesture in a country where, for decades, the Dos Santos family had seemed untouchable.\n\nNow, the fate of the vast business empire of Isabel dos Santos, the eldest daughter of the former president, is in doubt.\n\nTwo years ago, Mr Dos Santos stepped down after 38 years in power. And to the surprise of many, his successor turned against the family, promising a major crackdown on corruption.\n\nSince then, billions of dollars in stolen assets have been recovered from abroad.\n\nAngolans are waiting to see if one alleged kleptocracy will simply be replaced by another or whether, as many hope, this vast oil-rich but impoverished nation is now serious about reforms and justice.", "The pair were first pictured together at the 2017 Invictus Games after months avoiding the cameras\n\nMeghan Markle was the American actress, with a passion for humanitarian and feminist causes. Harry was the rebel prince turned soldier, considered the world's most eligible bachelor.\n\nIn the summer of 2016, the two were brought together on a blind date by a mutual friend in London.\n\n\"Beautiful\" Meghan \"just tripped and fell into my life\", Harry later told the press, and he knew immediately she was \"the one\".\n\nAfter just two dates, the new couple went on holiday together to Botswana, camping out under the stars.\n\nThey fell in love \"so incredibly quickly\", proof the \"stars were aligned\", said Harry.\n\nTo the British press, their romance was catnip. Here was a golden couple who were able to draw vast crowds, speak the language of younger generations and sprinkle royal stardust on any cause.\n\nFor months the couple avoided the cameras and it wasn't until the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto that the the two were first photographed holding hands in public, smiling and laughing.\n\nBut there had been signs early on that the fairytale was some way off a \"happily ever after\".\n\nWhen Harry first confirmed the relationship in late 2016, it came with a stark attack on the media, accusing them of subjecting his girlfriend to \"a wave of abuse and harassment\".\n\nHe spoke of nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers, attempts by reporters and photographers to get into Meghan's home and the \"bombardment\" of nearly every friend and loved one in her life.\n\nIt was a problem that was only going to get worse.\n\nDespite that - or perhaps because of that - the two grew ever closer and in September 2017, Meghan declared to Vanity Fair magazine: \"Personally, I love a great love story.\"\n\nThe two of them had been enjoying a special time together and were really happy and in love, she said.\n\nThe media was now on high alert for the sound of royal wedding bells - and they didn't have to wait long.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle posed for the cameras in the garden at Kensington Palace\n\nIn November 2017, Harry got down on one knee to propose to Meghan as they made roast chicken together at their home in Kensington Palace.\n\nHarry had designed the ring, made with two diamonds which had belonged to his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. At the centre was a diamond from Botswana.\n\nThe couple shared their story in a candid interview with the BBC, and appearing brimming with positivity for the future.\n\nThey revealed Meghan would give up acting to focus on causes close to her heart, working alongside her husband-to-be.\n\n\"I know that she will be unbelievably good at the job part of it,\" said Harry.\n\nThings began to shift as preparations got under way for a May 2018 wedding in Windsor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt quickly became clear that this was a royal couple who wanted to do things differently - their way.\n\nThe wedding, which much of the world tuned in to watch, had all the traditions - a stunning dress, cheeky bridesmaids and heartfelt vows.\n\nBut, as our royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said at the time, the service with its gospel choir, young black cellist and breathtaking address from Bishop Curry, marked it out as a modern, diverse wedding for a modern, diverse couple, which seemed to point to a different future for the Royal Family.\n\nMarried life brought with it new titles - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - and a new home at Windsor in Frogmore Cottage.\n\nDuring a trip to Merseyside, the duchess told well-wishers she was six months pregnant and did not know if it was a boy or a girl\n\nIn October of that year, the couple embarked on their first royal tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, over 16 days. It was there that they shared the news that they were expecting their first baby.\n\nArchie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, seventh in line to throne and the Queen's eighth great-grandchild, was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nTo Harry, who was by Meghan's side at the birth, little Archie was \"absolutely to die for\".\n\nThroughout Meghan's pregnancy, the continual redrawing of battlelines had gone on between the press and the couple.\n\nThis was to be no repeat of the Duchess of Cambridge's birth with the circus of journalists and photographers lying in wait outside hospital doors for days on end.\n\nThe press had been told there would be no information about the birth, beyond that it was happening.\n\nSuch scrutiny and pressure proved to be a struggle for the newly-wed Meghan during her pregnancy and in early motherhood, she later admitted in an ITV documentary filmed during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\n\"Not many people have asked if I'm OK,\" she said, looking lost. She spoke of her vulnerability during pregnancy and the challenges of having a new-born - \"it's a lot\".\n\nAsked if she could cope, she said she had long told Harry it was not enough to just survive - \"that's not the point of life - you have got to thrive\".\n\nArchie was christened in a private ceremony, from which the press and the public were excluded\n\nThere were further signs that the couple were not happy, when the prince opened up about his mental health.\n\nHe said it was under constant management and he lived with the pressures of avoiding a repeat of the past that took his mother, the Princess of Wales, from him.\n\nShe died in a car crash in Paris when Harry was just 12. The driver had been drinking and the car was being followed by paparazzi on motorbikes.\n\n\"Everything that she went through, and what happened to her, is incredibly important every single day, and that is not me being paranoid,\" he said.\n\n\"Part of this job is putting on a brave face but, for me and my wife, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue,\" he added.\n\nIt has also been suggested the scrutiny of Meghan has been greater because of her African-American heritage.\n\nFormer US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she wanted to hug Meghan for the British media's \"racist\" treatment of her, while Harry has highlighted how \"unconscious bias\" can lead to racist behaviour even if people do not consider themselves to be racist.\n\nTheir struggles were shared in an interview while touring southern Africa\n\nThe couple's frustration and anger with some sections of the press has gone from being a matter between the palace and editors into the full glare of the public spotlight.\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters and Harry filed proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.\n\nAs such a dramatic year came to a close, the royal couple took an extended break from royal duties over Christmas, taking Archie to the Canadian province of British Columbia.\n\nIt gave them time to mull over their next move and, within days of the start of a new decade, they dropped their bombshell announcement.\n\nNeither Harry's father, Prince Charles, nor his older brother, Prince William, with whom Harry has said he has \"good days\" and \"bad days\", were consulted.\n\nHarry and Meghan were, they told their Instagram followers, planning to leave their royal duties - and the royal purse - behind.\n\nThey hope their next chapter, spent in North America as well as the UK, will see the two of them, together with baby Archie, make their own path to the future.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nA police chief has asked to meet the commander of the RAF base near where Harry Dunn died, to discuss cars being driven on the wrong side of the road.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, was hit by a car driven by Anne Sacoolas, who left for the US claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nVideo has now emerged of a car being driven on the wrong side of the road near RAF Croughton on Friday night.\n\nNorthamptonshire Chief Constable Nick Adderley said these events \"cannot keep happening\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This car was filmed on Friday on the wrong side of the road near the RAF base close to where Harry Dunn died\n\nA police vehicle was also struck by a car on the wrong side of the same road in October.\n\nThe footage that was captured on Friday shows a blue BMW having to brake sharply on a road near the base.\n\nHarry Dunn's family, including his mother Charlotte Charles, have been campaigning for justice\n\nIn a statement, the chief constable said: \"I do not underestimate how much of a concerning incident this was and how much worse it could have been, especially considering the circumstances in which 19-year-old Harry Dunn tragically died.\n\n\"This is compounded by the fact that yesterday, myself and Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold were made aware of another incident in Northampton in which a police vehicle was struck in early October by a vehicle also driving on the wrong side of the road.\n\n\"Thankfully, there were no injuries.\n\n\"I want to be absolutely clear on the fact that these incidents just cannot keep happening.\"\n\nHe said he had requested a meeting with officials from the base to discuss road safety and that he expected it to take place next week.\n\nThe Dunn family spokesman, Radd Seiger, said watching the footage made him feel sick.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\n\"Harry's parents want, more than anything else, for this to never happen to a family again, and I look forward to entering into talks with the authorities, on both sides of the Atlantic, to make sure it never does,\" Mr Seiger said.\n\nMr Dunn died in hospital after a head-on collision with a car on 27 August last year near RAF Croughton.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence officer, is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road and is to be charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nShe claimed diplomatic immunity after the collision, left for her home country and has refused to return to the UK despite an extradition attempt.", "Gail Porter's mental health is the focus of a new BBC documentary\n\nFor Gail Porter, the late 90s were both the best and worst of times.\n\nAt age 21 she was a hallmark of British television - a young, smiling dynamo from Edinburgh's Portobello who was perfectly at home leading daytime programmes such as Fully Booked, The Big Breakfast and Live and Kicking before landing a prime time slot hosting Friday night favourite Top of the Pops.\n\nHer fan base was burgeoning and she often left the studio in a state of total euphoria.\n\nBut her seemingly unstoppable energy would deflate as she stepped inside her London flat - where loneliness, self-doubt and depression set in.\n\nGail in the late 90s after landing a role on Top of the Pops\n\nThen one morning, an event unfolded that left her unable to get out of bed.\n\nGail had taken part in a nude photo shoot for men's magazine FHM, which was projected onto the Houses of Parliament in a now infamous publicity stunt.\n\nIt helped sell more than one million copies of the magazine within two months.\n\nDecades on, Gail maintains she had no idea the photo would be used in such a manner - and that she was never paid for the work.\n\nGail Porter says she had no idea an image from a naked photo shoot would be beamed onto the House of Commons\n\nGail told BBC Scotland: \"I've dealt with things since I was 18 but that knocked my confidence a lot - to think I had trusted someone and then to find my bottom on Big Ben.\n\n\"I had to deal with the backlash, some people were kind and some people were unkind. It made me stay in bed for quite a long time.\"\n\nThe presenter's mental health is the focal point of a new BBC Scotland documentary, which sees her retrace crucial points in her life and career while often hearing difficult truths from friends and family.\n\nIn the film's opening scenes she revisits the Palace of Westminster and recalls the pressures she faced in the aftermath of the FHM media storm.\n\nCriticism and jibes followed her around, occasionally in a very public way - including on an episode of Nevermind the Buzzcocks that same year.\n\nKnown for his acerbic wit, host Mark Lamarr joked he had seen \"more than enough\" of her topless - a comment which left Gail visibly upset on camera.\n\nGail faced often biting comments during the episode in 1999\n\nShe said: \"We met up in the green room and I said he was extremely rude - he actually said sorry, that he thought it was a joke.\n\n\"Personally it just made me feel insignificant. This was a long time ago when you didn't have the Me Too movement.\n\n\"Everyone was going out afterwards; I just wanted to stay home. I thought maybe it's my fault and I deserve this sort of comment.\"\n\nDespite frequent bouts of unhappiness, keeping up the appearance of 'wee smiley Gail' was of utmost importance - though at the time Gail was unaware of the stress it placed on her mind and body.\n\nAfter moving to London aged 19, there was rarely any food in her fridge - instead she survived on wine or Jelly Babies.\n\nShe developed anorexia nervosa - a condition she lived with for around nine years. But Gail only realised something was wrong when she was banned from her gym after fainting.\n\n\"People kept saying 'oh wow, you're looking great',\" she said. \"I kept thinking every time I get thinner, someone said I looked great.\n\n\"I was enjoying the adoration and it got out of control, I couldn't stop it. I thought if I could control my food and make myself look what I thought was better, then everything is going to be great in the world.\n\n\"But it wasn't, I just ended up in the hospital very unwell.\"\n\nWhat followed over the next two decades was a further polarising of highs and lows for Gail.\n\nShe married and celebrated the birth of her \"miracle\" daughter Honey, having been told by doctors she couldn't have children.\n\nA severe struggle with her mental health continued, and Gail developed alopecia, turned to self harm, was sectioned under the Mental Health Act (1983) and experienced a period of homelessness.\n\nShe has no definitive answer for what went wrong for her, though she strongly suspects she developed an aversion to talking through her feelings in her early childhood.\n\nAnd although she has watched her personal life splashed across headlines, Gail does not blame her career in television for any of her struggles.\n\nShe said: \"Being a TV presenter was my favourite thing in the world, it was the most fun ever.\n\n\"I think there were a lot of deeper issues which came out at certain points.\n\n\"I know there's something not quite right wired in my brain.\n\n\"It doesn't make me a bad person, it doesn't mean you can give me a badge and tell me what it is. I'd rather just be Gail.\"\n\nBeing Gail Porter is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.\n• None 'How my daughter made it okay to be bald'", "Reigning champions Saracens will be relegated from rugby union's top flight at the end of this season following persistent salary cap breaches, Premiership Rugby has confirmed.\n\nSarries had already been deducted 35 points for the current Premiership campaign and fined £5.4m for three seasons' spending above the cap.\n\nProof of immediate cap compliance was required to avoid further sanctions.\n\nSaracens \"accept\" the relegation and \"apologise for the mistakes made\".\n\nIn a statement, the club added: \"Our goal is to rebuild confidence and trust. We have accepted the unprecedented measure of automatic relegation from the Premiership at the end of the 2019-2020 season.\n\n\"The board must embody the values of the club, learn from its mistakes so the club can come back stronger.\n\n\"It is in the wider interests of the Premiership and English rugby to take this decisive step, to ensure everybody is able once again to focus on the game of rugby, which we all love.\"\n\nSaracens will finish this season before entering the Championship for 2020-21.\n• None 'The most remarkable scandal in the domestic game'\n• None Saracens Q&A: Why are Saracens being relegated and what happens next?\n• None Stars can still play for England despite relegation\n\n\"Premiership Rugby is prepared to take strong action to enforce the regulations governing fair competition between our clubs,\" chief executive Darren Childs said.\n\n\"At the conclusion of dialogue with Saracens about their compliance with the Salary Cap Regulations, it has been decided that Saracens will be relegated at the end of this season.\n\n\"At the same time as enforcing the existing regulations, we want to ensure a level playing field for all clubs in the future, which is why we have asked Lord Myners to carry out an independently-led review of the salary cap.\"\n\nIn the past five years Saracens have dominated both domestically and in Europe, winning four Premiership titles and three European crowns.\n\nThis decision also means that should the club successfully retain its European Champions Cup crown, they would not be permitted to defend the title next season.\n\nTheir cup campaign continues on Sunday, when they welcome Pool Four leaders Racing 92 to Allianz Park, hoping to better Munster's result and qualify for the knockout phase.\n\nNeil Golding, who took over from Nigel Wray as Saracens chairman earlier this month, said: \"I acknowledge the club has made errors in the past and we unreservedly apologise for those mistakes.\n\n\"I and the rest of the board are committed to overseeing stringent new governance measures to ensure regulatory compliance going forward.\"\n\nPremiership Rugby introduced the salary cap in 1999 to ensure the financial viability of all clubs and the competition.\n\n'They had two choices - they took relegation'\n\nAlthough Saracens' relegation is the punishment some clubs were seeking, there is still a sense of dissatisfaction with the outcome among their fiercest critics.\n\nExeter Chiefs were beaten by Sarries two years in succession in the Premiership's showpiece final, and their chief executive Tony Rowe is still bitter about how long it has taken the game's authorities to take firm action.\n\n\"They've taken relegation,\" Rowe told BBC Radio Devon following the news. \"Let's be very honest about this before people have sympathy with Saracens.\n\n\"They had two choices: they could either open up their books so that Premiership Rugby could do a forensic audit of exactly what has gone on, or they could take relegation. So it was their choice not to open up their books.\n\n\"Premiership Rugby - all the chairmen - we just want to move on. It was their opportunity to open up everything to the salary cap people, or take relegation. They have decided to take relegation.\"\n\nHe added: \"We just want to move on. They have cheated. And I'm just a bit upset it has taken so long to do this. At the moment they are still picking their team each week largely from the squad they had last year which is still in breach of the salary cap. They have been asked by the rest of the Premiership clubs to reduce that (the squad) back as well.\n\n\"Everybody has had their suspicions for a long time. Five years ago they were hauled over the coals for similar offences. We just want a level playing field. Every club just wants the same opportunity and chances and let's hope we get back to that.\"\n\nAsked whether Saracens should be allowed to keep their titles, he replied: \"I'm not sure about that. There is still some more to come out and I'm not privy to talk about that at the moment.\"\n\nThe move calls into question the futures of the club's international stars, such as England players Owen Farrell, Mako Vunipola and Maro Itoje, given the need to trim the wage bill and the fact the club will no longer be competing in elite competition, both domestically and continentally.\n\nWhile the Rugby Football Union have confirmed that players operating in the Championship will be eligible for England duty, financial constraints could make it difficult for the club to retain the services of their elite personnel.\n\nOne issue the players themselves may find is that potential suitors among other clubs have already put much of their recruitment for next season in place and already spent a large extent of their cap.\n\nThe other concern is that a move to France's Top 14, a regular destination for top-level southern hemisphere talent and rugby league converts from the Australasian National Rugby League, may be a potentially lucrative option.\n\nSuch a move would guarantee elite-level competition but would also rule out international representative rugby as the RFU will only select home-based talent.\n\nThus far, Scarlets-bound full-back Liam Williams is the only confirmed departure from the club, and the Wales international was due to end his contract at Saracens at the end of the season in any event.\n\nThis is an extraordinary story - the biggest in English club rugby history - as the Saracens dynasty dramatically crumbles.\n\nWho knows what would have happened if the club had taken a different approach back in November, when they met the initial punishment with indignation rather than contrition - a stance that infuriated their rivals.\n\nBut with the club still breaching the cap in January, Saracens and Premiership Rugby have come to what appears to be a negotiated settlement, with the club accepting relegation.\n\nHowever, while there is finally confirmation of their fate, the questions still come thick and fast: namely, what on earth happens to this star-studded squad between now and next season?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nThe five Labour MPs standing for leader have said party divisions stand in the way of winning an election.\n\nIn the first hustings, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Emily Thornberry, Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips made their pitches to the membership.\n\nSir Keir said \"we've had far too much division\", while Ms Phillips said the \"name-calling has been horrendous\".\n\nParty members in Liverpool questioned them on issues from Brexit to anti-Semitism.\n\nIt was the first in a series of events across the country before Jeremy Corbyn's successor is elected on 4 April.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The five candidates in the race for the Labour leadership set out how they would take on Boris Johnson.\n\nDeputy leader candidates Rosena Allin-Khan, Dawn Butler, Richard Burgon, Ian Murray and Angela Rayner are also answering questions in a separate hustings.\n\nThe five leadership candidates all acknowledged that Labour had suffered from division and in-fighting.\n\n\"We have to be honest with ourselves that over the last four years we haven't been united as a party,\" said Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\nSir Keir said that the unity of the party \"has to be modelled from the top\". \"Don't trash the last Labour government, don't trash the last four years,\" he said.\n\nAlthough all the candidates criticised the party's record on anti-Semitism, Ms Phillips accused some others of \"keeping quiet\" on the issue.\n\n\"As somebody who was in the room, struggling for an independent system - at lots and lots of meetings - I have to say I don't remember some of the people here being in that particular room or being in those particular fights,\" she said.\n\nMs Nandy said a \"collective failure of leadership at the top of the party has let us all down\", while Mrs Long-Bailey, a Jeremy Corbyn ally, said: \"We can never let that level of mistrust happen again.\"\n\nMs Thornberry said Labour \"must be critical of a far-right government of Israel\" but said that blaming Jews is \"where racism begins\".\n\nCandidates were asked how they would bring the party and the country together over Brexit.\n\nWarning of the threat of no trade deal with the EU at the end of the transition period this year, Ms Thornberry said the party needs \"someone in this fight who has been on the right side all along\".\n\nMs Nandy said Labour has allowed the Tories to divide people, pitting the young against the old and cities against towns, as they \"airbrushed out the nuance\".\n\nShe called for the Labour HQ to be moved out of London, as a \"powerful symbol\" of its commitment to empower regional communities.\n\nSir Keir urged the party to let go of the Leave and Remain labels and \"focus on the future\", while Ms Long-Bailey said the country needed a \"democratic revolution\" because voters disliked the centralisation of power in Westminster as much as Brussels.\n\nMs Phillips said the party needed to \"start talking to people's hearts and talking to people in a language people hear and receive, because that is what Boris Johnson does\".\n\nFind out more about the candidates, including their early life, time before Parliament, record as an MP, and leadership pitch:\n\nThe hunt for a new Labour leader was triggered when Mr Corbyn stepped down following the party's fourth general election defeat in a row.\n\nIn order to make the final ballot, each of the Labour leadership hopefuls must secure the backing of unions and local parties.\n\nThe five contenders need the support of 5% of local parties or at least three affiliates - two must be unions - by 14 February to make the final ballot.\n\nMembers of the public who join the party or become affiliated supporters before 20 January will be eligible to vote in the contest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What matters to members in this leadership election?\n\nA YouGov poll of 1,005 Labour members for the Times on Friday suggested Ms Thornberry would go out in the first round of voting with just 3%, with Ms Nandy knocked out in the second round and Ms Phillips in the third, with most of her second preference votes going to Sir Keir.\n\nThe poll - which only includes full Labour members, and not others who are entitled to vote - indicates Sir Keir would beat Mrs Long-Bailey in the final round by 63% to 37%, once the other candidates have been eliminated.\n\nIt suggests Angela Rayner is on course to win the deputy leadership election in the first round with 57%.", "Britain is more built-on than ever, with 44.8 million buildings in total at the end of the decade, up from 40.6 million in 2010.\n\nBut this total accounts for just 1.4% of British land, compared with 40% covered by woodland, the natural environment, rivers and lakes, and a further 45% by agricultural land.\n\nThe data comes from the largest land survey of its type by the Ordnance Survey (OS), which does not cover Northern Ireland.\n\nWe've pulled together some before-and-after pictures showing some of the significant shifts over the last decade, as recognised by OS surveyors.\n\nGrowth of the renewable energy industry has brought with it an increase in infrastructure.\n\nWind power now accounts for one-fifth of total electricity use in the UK, compared with just 2% in 2009, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.\n\nSolar energy accounted for 3.9% in 2018, up from 0.01% in 2010.\n\nPart of that is thanks to the 160,000 solar panels placed in 2015 on the grounds of RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.\n\nIt is now the largest solar farm in the UK, with the capacity to power 10,000 local homes and an on-site military training college.\n\nAt the start of the decade, the Olympic Park was just beginning to take shape in Stratford, east London, ahead of the 2012 Games.\n\nTen years on, what was the Olympic Stadium is now West Ham FC's home ground, the Aquatics Centre is a public pool and the whole site is now the free-to-enter Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.\n\nAnother global attraction from the 2010s is the Harry Potter section of the Warner Bros Studio Tour in Watford. It first opened in 2012 but there has since been expansion.\n\nThe detail shown on the OS map is largely down to Tom Watts, a ground surveyor covering the area.\n\nHe had to persuade Warner Bros security to let him in to measure each of the new buildings and was eventually rewarded with a tour.\n\nEach time the OS ground and aerial surveying teams find a new physical object, spot one that has changed or is no longer there, they alter the map. There have been more than 360 million changes since 2010.\n\nThis can be as subtle as a kerb being taken in or a front garden being paved over, which is important to record for things like flood planning.\n\nOS head of media Robert Andrews described ground surveyors like Mr Watts as \"looking at the world like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix - they see lines and curves where we see roads, buildings and landscapes\".\n\nThis attention to detail is combined with local knowledge and contact with planning authorities, but the ground teams are also assisted - when the weather allows - by drones and two OS planes.\n\nThey sweep back and forth like a lawnmower across target areas, taking hi-res photographs. These are then stitched together and analysed by artificial intelligence to try to spot what has changed since the previous survey.\n\nThe technological advances are reflected also in what the OS data is used for. In 1791 they were set up with an initial task of mapping the south coast in case of French invasion.\n\nMore than two centuries later, their data is used in almost every app on your smartphone and they are working to map the precise locations of lamp posts so they can host sensors for self-driving cars.\n\nAlthough not yet ready for self-driving cars, there are now 4,000 sq km of road in Britain, an increase of nearly 10% since 2010. More roads were built in every part of Great Britain.\n\nMr Andrews said the mapping of new roads and buildings was \"like painting the Forth Bridge - as soon as you've finished surveying an area you need to start it again\".\n\nNeatly illustrating his point is one of the most striking new roads in the past decade: the Queensferry Crossing erected in 2017, next to the famous Forth Bridges that link Edinburgh to north-east Scotland.\n\nHousing has been one of the most significant political talking points of the last 10 years, and Gordon Brown ended the last decade promising five new \"eco-towns\" to try to counter the shortfall in available homes.\n\nWhile political events since 2010 didn't quite work out exactly how Mr Brown might have planned, Northstowe, a sustainably built new town in Cambridgeshire, has made an impact noticeable from the sky.\n\nIt's still a work-in-progress but eventually 10,000 homes will replace what was farmland, a golf course and a former airfield.\n\nAnother feature spotted by surveyors is the increase in ponds and waterways that have come up either naturally as new properties are built, or as part of manufactured efforts to avoid flooding in residential areas.\n\nFor example, the housing development near Romsey in Hampshire, shown above, is accompanied by a couple of new ponds.\n\nBut in other cases, like this development near the most well-known new town, Milton Keynes, existing ponds have been diverted to make way for homes.\n\nAll satellite images from Google Earth. They were selected from different dates due to the quality of images available - each time the closest good quality image to either 2010 or 2020 was selected.", "Leaked documents reveal how Africa's richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country and corruption.\n\nIsabel dos Santos made huge profits from land, oil, diamonds and telecoms when her father was president of Angola, a southern African country rich in natural resources.\n\nThe documents show how she and her husband were allowed to buy valuable state assets in a series of very dubious deals.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Harding interviewed her about the leak.\n\nMs Dos Santos says the allegations against her are entirely false and that it's a politically motivated witch-hunt by the Angolan government.", "Conor McGregor returned to the octagon in style at UFC 246 as he beat American fan favourite Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in just 40 seconds in Las Vegas.\n\nIrishman McGregor, 31, came out on top after one of the most spectacular performances of his career.\n\nTwo of UFC's most popular fighters went toe to toe in the main event at the T-Mobile Arena.\n\nBut referee Herb Dean stepped in and waved off the contest inside a minute after a series of blows from McGregor.\n\n\"I made history tonight. I set a new record. I'm the first fighter in UFC history to secure knockout victories at featherweight, at lightweight and now at welterweight - across three weight divisions, so I'm very proud of that,\" said McGregor.\n\nHe had not won inside the UFC's octagon since capturing his second UFC world title in November 2016, and was submitted in four rounds by undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 in October 2018.\n• None UFC 246: All the action as it happened\n\nMcGregor had said earlier in the week that he would look to \"acquire rounds\" against the 36-year-old American, but he showed no such patience as he came storming out of his corner and threw a huge left hand that immediately signalled his intent to claim a fast finish.\n\nThe Dubliner then connected with a series of shoulders to the face from the clinch, before following his man across the cage and connecting with a huge head kick that badly rocked Cerrone.\n\nSeveral heavy left hands followed as Cerrone crumbled to the canvas, where he received a further barrage of strikes that sealed victory.\n\n\"One of the records he holds [is] the most head-kick knockouts. I'm so happy to be able to get him down with a head kick myself,\" said McGregor.\n\n\"The UFC can strip fighters and give to other fighters make-believe belts in order to replicate my 'champ-champ' status. But they can't give knockout victories across multiple weight divisions, so there you go again. Etch my name in history one more time.\n\n\"I like this weight division. I feel really good. God willing, I came out of here unscathed. I'm in shape. I don't believe I'm there yet, though. I've still got work to do to get back to where I was.\"\n\nMcGregor surged to MMA superstardom when he signed for the UFC as a two-division Cage Warriors champion, then replicated the feat by capturing the UFC titles at featherweight and lightweight, becoming the first man to simultaneously hold UFC titles in two weight classes.\n\nBut those titles were subsequently stripped by the UFC after he failed to defend his belts and, after sharing wins with Nate Diaz in a pair of epic encounters in 2016, the Irishman pursued - and secured - a multi-million-dollar boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr.\n\nHis return to the UFC saw him unsuccessfully challenge for the UFC lightweight title against Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 in an encounter full of bad blood and divisive rhetoric.\n\nBut he vowed to return, and he has kicked off what he described as his \"2020 season\" in spectacular fashion to set up a plethora of big-fight options later in the year.\n\nA shot at the welterweight title, held by Kamaru Usman, or a bout with the UFC's \"BMF\" champion Jorge Masvidal would allow McGregor to continue at his new weight class of 170lb, while he has made no secret of his desire to face Nurmagomedov in a rematch for the lightweight belt.\n\nThere may be options outside of MMA, too. A rematch with Mayweather is a possibility, while Manny Pacquiao is reportedly also interested in a bout with McGregor, who is sure to command a huge TV audience and payday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victims of stalking behaviour, Clive Ruggles and Zoe Dronfield, said they welcomed the new police powers\n\nA court order to stop suspected stalkers under police investigation contacting victims could have made a \"critical difference\" to a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend, her father says.\n\nPowers designed to help police act at \"the earliest opportunity\" come into force in England and Wales on Monday.\n\nThose who breach the civil order could end up with five years in prison.\n\nClive Ruggles, whose daughter Alice was murdered, said the new orders \"have teeth\" but must be properly enforced.\n\nFrom Monday, police will be able to apply to magistrates for a Stalking Protection Order (SPO), which will usually remain in place for two years.\n\nCourts will also have the power to impose an interim SPO to provide immediate protection for victims while a decision is being made.\n\nThe orders will also be able to force stalkers to seek professional help.\n\nMr Ruggles, of the Alice Ruggles Trust, said the existence of the orders could have made a \"critical difference\" for his 24-year-old daughter, who was killed by her former partner.\n\nAlmost one in five women and almost one in 10 men aged 16 and over have experienced some form of stalking, according to the crime survey for England and Wales.\n\nStalking was made a specific criminal offence in England and Wales in 2012.\n\nIn Scotland, stalking is illegal under the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 and in Northern Ireland it is prohibited under the Protection from Harassment Order (NI) 1997.\n\nMr Ruggles said: \"The new stalking orders have teeth, breaching them will be a criminal offence.\"\n\nBut he added they \"absolutely\" have to be properly applied.\n\nProfessor Jane Monckton-Smith, who specialises in researching homicide, stalking and coercive control at the University of Gloucestershire, said: \"I think the orders could be really useful if they are used correctly\".\n\nBut breaches could put victims in danger and must be taken seriously by the courts, she added. \"Stalkers by their nature are obsessive and will keep going and going until they are stopped.\"\n\nPlans to introduce the new civil orders were first floated in 2015, when Theresa May was home secretary.\n\nIn 2016, then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd promised to introduce them as soon as parliamentary time allowed.\n\nCampaigner Sam Taylor, who runs a victim support group in Sussex, said the orders could give victims \"respite\" from being relentlessly pursued.\n\nBut she said they must be followed by a \"significant investment in training\" because there was still a \"fundamental misunderstanding\" in the criminal justice system of what stalking means.", "Yemen's president blamed Houthi rebels for the \"cowardly and terrorist\" attack\n\nThe death toll from Saturday's missile attack on a military training camp in Yemen has risen to at least 111, the country's government has said.\n\nThe missile struck a mosque at the al-Estiqbal camp in Marib where soldiers had gathered for evening prayers.\n\nThe government blamed the rebel Houthi movement, but it did not immediately confirm it had launched the missile.\n\nIt was one of the bloodiest single attacks since the conflict in Yemen escalated five years ago.\n\nThe fighting between the Houthis and forces loyal to the government, which is backed by a Saudi-led coalition, has devastated the country, killed an estimated 100,000 people, and triggered the world's worst humanitarian crisis.\n\nMore than 11 million people face a daily struggle to find enough food, and 240,000 people live in famine-like conditions, according to the World Food Programme.\n\nInitial reports about the attack on al-Estiqbal camp, which is 170km (105 miles) east of the rebel-held capital Sanaa, said at least 80 soldiers were killed.\n\nBut by Sunday night the death toll had risen to at least 111 due to the \"serious and fatal injuries sustained by the soldiers\", Health Ministry Undersecretary Abdul Raqeeb al-Haidari told the news website al-Masdar Online.\n\nMilitary and medical sources told AFP news agency that 116 people had died.\n\nPresident Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi denounced the missile attack as a \"cowardly and terrorist\" act, which he said confirmed \"without doubt that the Houthis have no desire for peace\".\n\nThe Saudi foreign ministry said the incident \"reflects this terrorist militia's disregard for sacred places and... for Yemeni blood\".\n\nThe United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, condemned the recent escalation of hostilities in the country, and said Saturday's attack was \"of particular concern\".\n\n\"I have said before that the hard-earned progress that Yemen has made on de-escalation is very fragile. Such actions can derail this progress,\" he warned. \"I urge all parties to stop the escalation now and to direct their energy away from the military front and into the politics.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The conflict in Yemen has been raging for years - but what is it all about?", "In the great chess game that is world trade, the pieces are shifting slowly around the board. Only in this game there are three major players not two: the US, China and the European Union.\n\nWe've now had a chance to see the first moves from new EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan after his appearance at an event in Washington. And he's choosing a new way to play the game.\n\nWhereas here in the UK, the government treads delicately when dealing with the nations it wants to strike trade deals with, Mr Hogan was rather more blunt, talking about the \"bluffing\", \"sabre-rattling\" and \"short term thinking\" of the Trump administration.\n\nMr Hogan reflected sceptically on whether yesterday's China-US partial deal had achieved much, and also suggested that the EU would examine that deal for compliance with global trade rules.\n\nThe US administration has threatened to withdraw security cooperation from countries that use 5G equipment from the Chinese firm Huawei. Mr Hogan said: \"I think it's a bit of sabre rattling. At the end of the day we can call their bluff on that one\".\n\nAnd yet at the same time, he has joined forces with the US and Japan to tackle the \"threat\" of China's use of industrial subsidies.\n\nThere are other emerging fronts in the US-EU battle - on tech taxes, and on the environment and carbon taxes.\n\nThe UK is about to join the players at the table in its own right, stepping in at a time of tumult, and working out how closely it wants to sit by the EU.\n\nThe EU meanwhile has other priorities on the world stage. That is one reason why Mr Hogan dismissed Boris Johnson's self-imposed end of 2020 deadline for a post-Brexit trade deal as \"just not possible\" describing it as \"brinkmanship\".\n\nMore than that, he specifically indicated that if this was the approach the UK wanted to take, then only a subset of the agreed Brexit political declaration would be up for detailed discussion, and that agreement on that would be needed by 30 June.\n\nThis suggests that the EU may be planning to \"prioritise\" - ie not follow the mandate from the EU27 for UK-EU talks to reflect the UK's timetable - and will not talk about the full 36-page political agreement.\n\nThe UK now has to choose its strategy: on whether to pursue fully parallel talks with the US, whether to publish a detailed negotiating mandate for such talks, and how to assert itself alongside Japan at a World Trade Organisation dominated by US-EU-China. That is all still to be fleshed out.\n\nNo one seems entirely sure if the Department for International Trade will even continue to exist as the government contemplates restructuring Whitehall. There are many fundamental decisions to be made.\n\nBut when it comes to sizing up the UK's opponents across the table, the EU is making one thing clear: it can talk as tough as Trump.", "Joseph Merrick became a celebrity in Victorian London, even being visited by a royal\n\nPrejudice has hampered attempts to build a statue to the Elephant Man, his biographer has claimed.\n\nJo Vigor-Mungovin, who traced Joseph Merrick's grave, has been trying to raise the estimated £100,000 cost for a monument in his native Leicester.\n\nBut progress has been slow with critics saying the idea was a \"freak show\" and the city was already \"ugly enough\".\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin said: \"There is a fear of what the statue would be like - but he was an inspirational figure\".\n\nJoseph Merrick's skeleton has been preserved at the Royal London Hospital\n\nBut the plans for the statue have been backed by artist and disability campaigner Alison Lapper who said anyone offended should \"get over it\".\n\nMerrick was born in Leicester in 1862 but his physical disabilities forced him into a workhouse.\n\nIn 1884 he joined a travelling exhibition and eventually found his way to the Royal London Hospital, where he died in 1890.\n\nWhile Merrick's skeleton was kept at the hospital, his soft tissue was buried in a common plot but its location was forgotten.\n\nJo Vigor-Mungovin traced the location of Joseph Merrick's grave, which is now marked with a plaque\n\nShortly after tracking down the site of his grave, Mrs Vigor-Mungovin began looking into erecting a statue to Merrick.\n\n\"I wasn't expecting it to be controversial,\" she said. \"But I've come across the same reaction over and over.\n\n\"When I approach funding sources or venues, people seem interested at first but when they hear it will be a statue of the Elephant Man, they seem a bit shocked.\n\n\"They either say 'you can't do that' or stop answering emails or the phone.\n\n\"I'm a descendant of Tom Norman, the showman who worked with Joseph, and I've even been accused of being an accomplice to a 'Vampire showman's crime'.\"\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin says the 1980 movie has had a huge impact on perceptions\n\nA letter printed in the Leicester Mercury newspaper said: \"He was a freak of nature... our poor city has become ugly enough without a statue of this poor man being displayed.\"\n\nThe appeal's Facebook page has been challenged, with one person questioning whether Merrick deserves a statue, saying: \"He had a rare condition and apparently that makes him somewhat amazing.\"\n\nOther comments from people called it a \"freak show\", or said \"let's have another [statue] of a bear dancing on hot coals\", and \"disfigurement should not be celebrated\".\n\nDespite only raising a fraction of the cost, Mrs Vigor-Mungovin said she was still trying to realise her dream, with fundraising events, new designs for the statue and a possible exhibition of items related to Merrick.\n\nThe statue has so far only been sketched out\n\n\"I think the maquette [miniature design] will put a lot of people's mind at rest,\" she said.\n\n\"And I am hoping to get items from the Royal London Hospital for the exhibition, maybe even the full-size copy of his skeleton.\"\n\nIt is not the only statue of a notable Leicester figure being planned for the city - and others appear to have been more warmly received.\n\nPlans for a statue to commemorate murdered playwright Joe Orton have received backing from famous names from the acting world and hit its fundraising target of more than £100,000 in November.\n\nAnd last April then-MP Keith Vaz said a statue should be built in memory of Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in a helicopter crash outside the club's stadium in 2018. The design Mr Vaz suggested was of two elephants, with the animal being a symbol of good luck in Thailand.\n\nThe statue of Alison Lapper was on display in Trafalgar Square from 2005 to 2007\n\nArtist Ms Lapper, who was born without arms and with shortened legs, became famous when a statue of her, naked and pregnant, was displayed on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth.\n\n\"Attitudes have changed since then, but not hugely,\" she said. \"I remember sitting below my statue and seeing children being hurried away, people muttering it was 'inappropriate' but it started a conversation which is still going on today.\n\n\"I can't imagine how hard it must have been being disabled in the Victorian era, it was hard enough for me being born in the 60s.\n\n\"It would be great to see a statue of Joseph, especially if it highlights his courage getting himself out of the workhouse.\n\n\"People still feel uncomfortable around disability but if that's all that stopping this, then I say 'Tough, get over it'.\"\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin said: \"People's ideas of him are dominated by the film from the 1980s, they want to feel sorry for him.\n\n\"But the real story is he had quite a good life, all things considered.\n\n\"He took control, he used his condition to his advantage, it's a powerful story.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A state of emergency has been declared in Canada after severe snowstorms hit Newfoundland and Labrador.\n\nAs much as 30 inches (76cm) of snow has fallen leaving some residents trapped in their own homes.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will raise the \"driving habits\" of US personnel at an RAF base near where Harry Dunn died with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, was hit by a car driven by Anne Sacoolas, who left for the US claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking after footage emerged of a car being driven on the wrong side of the road near RAF Croughton.\n\nMr Johnson said he would \"work for justice for Harry Dunn and his family\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This car was filmed on Friday on the wrong side of the road near the RAF base close to where Harry Dunn died\n\nThe footage, captured on Friday, shows a blue BMW having to brake sharply on a road near the base.\n\nA police vehicle was struck by a car on the wrong side of the same road in October.\n\nNorthamptonshire Chief Constable Nick Adderley said: \"I want to be absolutely clear on the fact that these incidents just cannot keep happening.\"\n\nHe said he had requested a meeting with officials from the base to discuss road safety and that he expected it to take place next week.\n\nHarry Dunn's family, including his mother Charlotte Charles, have been campaigning for justice\n\nThe prime minister is in Berlin ahead of an international summit on Libya with world leaders including US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nMr Johnson told Sky News: \"We're certainly raising all those issues about the driving habits of US personnel at the base, and we're continuing to work for justice for Harry Dunn and for his family.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is in Berlin for an international summit on Libya hosted by hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel\n\nThe Dunn family spokesman, Radd Seiger, said watching the footage made him feel sick.\n\n\"Harry's parents want, more than anything else, for this to never happen to a family again, and I look forward to entering into talks with the authorities, on both sides of the Atlantic, to make sure it never does,\" Mr Seiger said.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Dunn died in hospital after a head-on crash with a car on 27 August last year near RAF Croughton.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence officer, is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road and has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nShe claimed diplomatic immunity after the collision, left for her home country and has refused to return to the UK despite an extradition attempt.", "Belper Street was cordoned off while police carried out inquiries\n\nA 10-year-old boy has been stabbed in the street while out with his mother.\n\nThey were approached by a man in Belper Street, Leicester, at about 17:20 GMT on Saturday, who stabbed the boy and then ran off, police said.\n\nA member of the public called emergency services and the child was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where he remains in a stable condition.\n\nHis mother was not injured in the attack and a cordon at the crime scene has been lifted.\n\nLeicestershire Police described the suspect as a light-skinned Asian man, in his mid-20s, about 5ft 10in tall, of chubby build, and wearing a brown jacket.\n\nDet Insp Tim Lindley said: \"This was an act of violence against a young child who was out, in the street, with his mother.\"\n\nHe appealed for witnesses or anyone with dash-cam or CCTV footage of the area around the time of the attack to contact police.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 1,000 people joined police to search through the night for a six-year-old boy who vanished from an M1 service station while on a school trip.\n\nAadil Umair Rahim was found near roadworks just off the northbound carriageway at about 04:15 - nine hours after he went missing at Newport Pagnell services.\n\nHis father said he was \"thankful to everyone\" who searched \"tirelessly\".\n\nHe said he was still \"kind of in shock and panic\", adding: \"he's safe now\".\n\nThe school coach had stopped at the services near Milton Keynes for a break as the pupils travelled back to Nottingham after a trip to London.\n\nHe was initially believed to be hiding but was not found for nine hours\n\nA police helicopter was deployed to find the boy on Friday night, aided by officers on the ground, fire service staff and members of the public.\n\nSearch teams initially thought he could be hiding in the service station but grew concerned as the hours went by and the weather got colder.\n\nTemperatures fell to 1°C before he was found close to a footbridge near Newbolt Close in an area which police said \"houses the matrix system\".\n\nHe was found about half a mile from the service station where he went missing\n\nHis father Umair Rahim said he was \"in shock\" but relieved he was safe.\n\nHe added on Facebook: \"My son has arrived and he is safe now. Thanks for the prayers. Shukar to Allah.\n\n\"Thank you to Thames Valley Police helicopter services fire department, and safe and rescue department who worked tirelessly for 9 hours and found him safe.\n\n\"There was more than a 1,000 people looking for him I'm thankful to everyone.\"\n\nSupt Amy Clements, said: \"This was a very difficult operation involving a very young boy and we are relieved to say that Aadil has been found safe and well.\n\n\"I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the local community, who immediately offered help in trying to find Aadil.\"\n\nThe six-year-old went missing from Newport Pagnell services, near Milton Keynes\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A forensic examination of the scene is under way, police said\n\nThree men have died in a stabbing in east London.\n\nPolice said they were called at about 19:40 GMT on Sunday to reports of a disturbance in Elmstead Road in Seven Kings, Ilford.\n\nThree men, aged in their 20s or 30s, who were involved in a fight, were found by emergency services with stab injuries, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene. Two men, aged 29 and 39, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nCh Supt Steve Clayman said a fight had broken out between two groups who were armed with knives, leaving three men fatally stabbed.\n\n\"We can now say that two arrests have since been made, so there has been progress.\n\n\"The parties are believed to be known to each other and the group are within the Sikh community,\" he added.\n\nSabih Qureshi, who lives in the area, told the BBC he had seen seven or eight men \"fighting each other\" in the same place on Saturday, which he believed was \"linked for sure\".\n\nHe said: \"They were saying 'I will kill you', and the person was saying 'ok kill me'. For sure it was linked.\"\n\nAfter seeing the three \"badly injured\" men following the attack, Mr Qureshi said he and several others tried to help and give them CPR.\n\nThe Ilford resident added that one of the men was already dead, while the other two were \"not conscious\" but breathing \"just a little\".\n\n\"It was very violent. All the blood was in the street,\" he said.\n\nLouis O'Donoghoe described seeing \"absolute chaos\" after he had heard screaming and shouting outside his house.\n\nIt was like something out of a movie, horrific,\" the 40-year-old scaffolder said.\n\nFormal identification of the victims is yet to take place.\n\nThe stabbings bring the number of homicide investigations launched by the Met in 2020 to six.\n\nPolice will continue to patrol the area on Monday\n\nThere has been a visible police presence here since Sunday night.\n\nOfficers were called just before 20:00 to reports of a disturbance but when they arrived, they found three young men - all in close proximity to each other - with fatal stab wounds.\n\nAt the end of one of the police cordons put in place you can just about make out the tops of the forensic tents - three dotted next to each other - which marks the exact spots where these individuals were pronounced dead.\n\nAn enhanced police presence was seen in the Redbridge area on Monday\n\nDespite the works of the emergency services, these men could not be saved.\n\nI've seen graphic video from a nearby resident that was filmed shortly after the incident showing pools of blood on the street.\n\nI've been speaking to some residents here this morning who say they have raised concerns to police over gangs congregating behind Seven King's train station, where they often drink and smoke cannabis.\n\nRoad closures and an enhanced police presence will be seen in the Redbridge area.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted: \"My thoughts are with their families and the local community at this dreadful time.\"\n\nHe said extra police enforcement powers had been authorised for the whole of Redbridge borough until 08:00 on Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA forensic examination of the scene is under way and will continue on Monday, police said.\n\nJas Athwal, leader of Redbridge Council, said: \"An incident like this is unheard of within the Sikh community here in Redbridge.\n\n\"I think tragically there are at least three families who are going to be in mourning and this is going to last a lifetime for the people left behind.\"\n\nHe was critical of bloody footage shared on social media appearing to show the aftermath of the killings.\n\n\"I think the first response should be 'What can we do to help?'. To put it on social media is not right.\"\n• None Homicide level down for first time in five years\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of York, was greeted by well-wishers at St Mary the Virgin Church in Norfolk\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the whole country will want to wish the Duke and Duchess of Sussex well for the future as they give up royal duties.\n\nIt came as the Queen went to church near Sandringham, in her first public appearance since it was announced the couple were giving up their HRH titles.\n\nIn her statement yesterday she wished them \"a happy and peaceful new life\".\n\nBut Thomas Markle, Meghan's father, accused them of \"cheapening\" the Royal Family.\n\nEarlier this month, Prince Harry and Meghan announced their intention \"to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent\".\n\nIt prompted intensive discussions between the prince and other senior royals, led by the Queen.\n\nOn Saturday, the Queen and Buckingham Palace announced that they had reached a new arrangement - that the couple would no longer use their HRH titles, receive public funds for royal duties or formally represent the Queen from spring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Nothing like this has ever happened before\" – royal correspondent Daniela Relph explains\n\nSpeaking briefly to reporters at a summit in Berlin, Mr Johnson said he had been confident the Royal Family would find a way forward for Prince Harry and Meghan, adding: \"I think the whole country will want to join in wishing them the very best for the future.\"\n\nHowever in comments made for a forthcoming Channel 5 documentary, Meghan's father, Thomas Markle, accused the couple of \"destroying\" the Royal Family which he called \"one of the greatest long-living institutions ever\".\n\n\"Every young girl wants to become a princess and she got that and now she's tossing that away,\" he said.\n\n\"It looks like she's tossing that away for money.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan Markle's father reacts to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex deciding to step down as senior royals\n\nDickie Arbiter, former press secretary to the Queen, said the new arrangement had turned a crisis for the Royal Family into a \"workable situation\" that was \"the best sort of deal they could have come up with, without totally upsetting the apple cart\".\n\nDiana Pearl, a former Royal reporter at People, agreed, saying perception of the Royal Family would not ultimately be damaged.\n\nShe said the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge \"look very solid and drama-free after this whole experience - and they really are the future of the family.\"\n\nHowever Katie Nicholl, Vanity Fair royal correspondent, said Harry and Meghan have won their independence, but the Royal Family has lost their \"very magical and unique brand\".\n\nWho has won?, some ask. Harry and Meghan have got what they want. And for some that is enough. Round one to the Sussexes.\n\nBut the price is high, much higher than it was originally thought. The Sussexes and the palace first hoped there might be a way to keep the couple half-in half-out, perhaps with select but high visibility royal duties in and out of the UK.\n\nThat's not happening. Royal through blood and marriage they will always be. But professionally Royal, publicly Royal, they no longer are. They will carry out no duties, no tours, use no royal title. That Royal part their life - all of Harry's life - is over.\n\nIt is a huge step. Only Edward VIII went further, and his is a bitter example.\n\nNo one has won. Everyone - family, Crown and country - has lost.\n\nLast year, Prince Harry and Meghan spoke of the difficulties of royal life and media scrutiny, with the duke saying he feared his wife would fall victim to \"the same powerful forces\" that led to his mother's death.\n\nIn her statement on Saturday, the Queen said she was pleased that a \"constructive and supportive way forward for [her] grandson and his family\" had been found.\n\nShe said she recognised the \"challenges\" they had experienced \"as a result of intense scrutiny over the last two years\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke and duchess understood that under the new arrangement, they were required to withdraw from royal duties, including official military appointments, but would continue to \"uphold the values of Her Majesty\".\n\nThe duke and duchess intend to repay £2.4m of taxpayer money used for the refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, the statement said.\n\nThe house in Windsor, for which they will pay rent, will remain their family home as they divide their time between the UK and Canada.\n\nThe pair will continue to maintain their private patronages and associations - the duke currently holds 16 patronages, including the Invictus Games Foundation, the Royal Marines and the Rugby Football League; and the duchess four - the National Theatre, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, London-based animal charity Mayhew, and women's charity Smart Works.\n\nThey will no longer use HRH, an abbreviation of His/Her Royal Highness, which is part of the title of some members of the Royal Family.\n\nSome questions about the couple's future status remain unanswered, including what their tax and immigration status will be in the UK and Canada.\n\nIt is not yet known whether Meghan still intends to gain British citizenship, which would entail her spending a certain amount of time in the UK.\n\nAnother question is the issue of their security bill when they are in Canada, said David McClure, an expert on royal finances.\n\n\"The Canadians are not keen on picking up the tab, so I'm sure there will be quite heated discussions between the Canadian government and the British government as to who pays for it,\" he said, adding that the Sussexes might come under pressure to contribute to the cost.\n\nThe couple have already begun a transition phase of living in Canada and the UK.\n\nThe duchess is in the Commonwealth country with son Archie, where the Sussexes were for six weeks over the festive period.\n\nOn Tuesday she visited a charity in Vancouver which campaigns for teenage girls living in poverty.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry says it is \"a great sadness that it has come to this\"\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has said he is \"taking a leap of faith\" in stepping back from being a senior royal, adding: \"There really was no other option.\"\n\nSpeaking at an event on Sunday evening, Prince Harry said he and Meghan had hoped to continue serving the Queen, but without public funding.\n\n\"Unfortunately, that wasn't possible,\" he said.\n\nIt was his first speech since the couple said they wanted to stand down from being full-time working royals.\n\nThe prince said he had found \"the love and happiness that I had hoped for all my life\" with Meghan, but he wanted to make it clear they were \"not walking away\".\n\n\"The UK is my home and a place that I love, that will never change,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry said it was a sign of the pressures he was feeling that he would \"step my family back from all I have ever known\" in search of \"a more peaceful life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond gives his five takeaways from Harry's speech\n\nEarlier this month, Prince Harry and Meghan said they intended \"to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent\".\n\nOn Saturday, Buckingham Palace announced that from the spring they will stop using their HRH titles and withdraw from royal duties, including official military appointments.\n\nAnd on Monday Prince Harry was pictured at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, where he held a number of private meetings, including with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hosted an evening reception at Buckingham Palace for heads of government, ministers, business leaders and members of NGOs attending the summit.\n\nIt was the first time the duke and duchess had hosted a reception for world leaders on behalf of the Queen.\n\nPrince Harry did not attend, with BBC royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, saying he is believed to have left on a flight for Canada from Heathrow airport.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were joined at the reception by senior royals including the Princess Royal and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nBeginning his speech at a fund-raising reception in central London for Sentebale, the charity he co-founded which helps children living with HIV in southern Africa, he said: \"I can only imagine what you may have heard and perhaps read over the past few weeks.\n\n\"So I want you to hear the truth from me as much as I can share, not as a prince or a duke but as Harry.\"\n\nDuring his address, the prince said he would always have \"the utmost respect for my grandmother, my commander in chief\".\n\n\"Our hope was to continue serving the Queen, the Commonwealth, and my military associations, but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn't possible,\" he said.\n\n\"I've accepted this, knowing that it doesn't change who I am or how committed I am.\"\n\nPrince Harry met the prime minister at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan have both spoken about the difficulties of royal life and media attention, with the duke saying he feared his wife would fall victim to \"the same powerful forces\" that led to his mother's death.\n\nHe told the audience at the reception for Sentebale, which he founded to continue Princess Diana's legacy in supporting those with HIV and Aids, that he felt they took him \"under your wing\" after she died.\n\n\"You've looked out for me for so long, but the media is a powerful force, and my hope is one day our collective support for each other can be more powerful because this is so much bigger than just us,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs part of a deal finalised on Saturday between the Queen, senior royals, and the couple, Harry and Meghan agreed they will no longer formally represent the monarch.\n\nHowever, the statement by Buckingham Palace said they would continue to maintain their private patronages and associations.\n\nPrince Harry said in his speech that he and Meghan \"will continue to lead a life of service\".\n\n\"I will continue to be the same man who holds his country dear and dedicates his life to supporting the causes, charities and military communities that are so important to me,\" he said.\n\nJohnny Hornby, chairman of Sentebale, said the new arrangements would not affect the prince's work for the charity. \"We don't need - from Sentebale's perspective - his title, we just need his time and his passion,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThere are two big messages in this speech. The first is to deal with the \"Meghan myth\" - the idea that the Duchess of Sussex is at the root of the couple's desire to lead a different life.\n\nHarry speaks of \"many months\" of discussions over how to deal with the challenges of \"many years\"; he's making it clear that he was unhappy with his role long before Meghan entered his life\n\nAnd he talks about the decision that \"I\" made, a decision \"I\" did not make lightly. He stresses that this was his call, though it was clearly one that they came to together.\n\nThe second message is that he wanted to continue in some sort of a royal role; \"unfortunately,\" he says \"that wasn't possible.\"\n\nBoth sides - the Sussexes and the Palace - thought at the beginning of negotiations that such a half-in, half-out role might be possible. But the tension between a royal life and an independent life was too great; the contradictions and possible conflicts of interest were too many.\n\nHarry may or may not believe that to be true. But he wants to let people know that his desire, at least, was to continue to serve.\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who is the author of a critical book about the Royal Family, said the public could end up paying for part of the Prince of Wales' ongoing financial support for his son.\n\nMr Baker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Queen already offset support for family members against the tax bill for the Duchy of Lancaster, the sovereign's estate.\n\nMuch of Prince Harry's funding comes from his father's estate, the Duchy of Cornwall.\n\nMr Baker called for Prince Charles to say how he will support Harry and to publicly guarantee there would be no loss to the taxpayer through a reduction in his tax liability.\n\nThe former MP also called for the Commons public accounts committee to investigate royal finances.\n\nJournalist and royal author Robert Hardman said the agreement with the Queen meant the duke and duchess's Sussex Royal brand, which they applied to trademark last year, is not \"sustainable\".\n\n\"The whole thrust of what has been agreed with the Queen is they won't be trading on their royal credentials,\" he said.\n\nIn Prince Harry's speech, posted on the couple's Instagram account, he said that when he and Meghan were married \"we were excited, we were hopeful, and we were here to serve\".\n\n\"For those reasons, it brings me great sadness that it has come to this.\n\n\"The decision that I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly,\" he said.\n\n\"It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges and I know I haven't always got it right, but as far as this goes there really was no other option.\"\n\nThe couple, together with their son Archie, spent time in Victoria over Christmas\n\nThe couple said they plan to divide their time between the UK and Canada, after they spent six weeks on Vancouver Island with their son Archie over Christmas.\n\nThe prince told attendees it was a \"privilege... to feel your excitement for our son Archie, who saw snow for the first time the other day and thought it was bloody brilliant!\"\n\nThe duchess is currently staying on Canada's west coast with her son, after briefly returning to the UK earlier this month.\n\nWhat questions do you have about Prince Harry and Meghan's future?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A book centre has hosted its first dog-friendly storytime session.\n\nChildren can bring their pets along to Seven Stories in the Ouseburn, Newcastle, to enjoy a book.\n\nIt is hoped the sessions will build confidence and improve children's reading skills.", "Jo Swinson resigned as party leader after losing her seat in the 2019 general election\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have announced they will have a new party leader in place by the middle of July.\n\nEx-leader Jo Swinson resigned after losing her East Dunbartonshire seat at the general election in December.\n\nThe party's federal board has set out a timetable that will see nominations for candidates open on 11 May and close on 28 May.\n\nThe ballot for the new Lib Dem leader will then start on 18 June and conclude on 15 July.\n\nThe party says it has more than 100,000 members who will be eligible to take part in the selection process.\n\nEx-cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey and party president Mark Pack will continue as joint acting leaders of the Lib Dems until the election process is completed, the party said.\n\nMr Pack said: \"I want first to thank Jo Swinson for her determined leadership of the Liberal Democrats.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats are the home for everyone who shares our vision of an outward-looking, caring country that celebrates diversity and benefits from high-quality public services.\n\n\"With our party membership at record levels, I urge everyone else who shares our values to join us in the coming days and vote in the leadership election.\"\n\nMs Swinson lost her seat to Amy Callaghan of the Scottish National Party by 149 votes.", "Businesses have warned that food prices may rise and jobs may be affected after the chancellor vowed to end alignment with EU rules after Brexit.\n\nSajid Javid told the Financial Times the UK would not be a \"ruletaker\" after Brexit, urging businesses to \"adjust\".\n\nThe Food and Drink Federation said the proposals were likely to cause food prices to rise at the end of this year.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry said for many firms, keeping existing EU rules would support jobs.\n\nThe automotive, food and drink and pharmaceutical industries all warned the government last year that moving away from key EU rules would be damaging.\n\nIn an interview with Financial Times, the chancellor said the Treasury would not support manufacturers that favour staying aligned with EU rules, as companies had known since 2016 that the UK was going to leave the EU.\n\n\"Admittedly they didn't know the exact terms,\" he said.\n\nThe UK's 11-month transition period begins after it leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nMr Javid declined to specify which EU rules he wanted to drop, but said some businesses would benefit from Brexit, while others would not.\n\nHe added: \"There will not be alignment, we will not be a ruletaker, we will not be in the single market and we will not be in the customs union - and we will do this by the end of the year.\"\n\nTim Rycroft, chief operating officer of the Food and Drink Federation, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it sounded like the \"death knell\" for frictionless trade with the EU.\n\nAcknowledging that some industries might benefit from Brexit, he said: \"We also have to make sure the government clearly understands what the consequences will be for industries like ours if they go ahead and change our trading terms.\"\n\nThe Food and Drink Federation warned of price rises at the end of the year\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said it welcomed the chancellor's \"ambitious\" vision but said the government should not feel an \"obligation\" to depart from EU rules.\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn, CBI director-general, said for many companies, \"particularly in some of the most deprived regions of the UK\", keeping the same rules would support jobs and maintain competitiveness.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said the automotive industry in the UK and EU was \"uniquely integrated\" and its priority was to avoid \"expensive tariffs and other 'behind the border' barriers\".\n\nIt said it was vital to have \"early sight\" of the government's plans so companies could evaluate their impact.\n\nAnd the Chemical Industries Association said: \"The industry continues to support regulatory alignment with our European counterparts, which represents the largest single market for our products.\"\n\nBBC business correspondent Katy Austin pointed out that the association's members were concentrated in the north of England, an area the government is particularly keen to be seen to support.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell tweeted that Conservative promises about frictionless trade with the EU after Brexit were \"now exposed as not worth paper they were written on\".\n\nThis tough tone from the chancellor appears to have a two-pronged intention.\n\nFirstly, there's the message to business, which is, effectively, that Brexit is going to happen so just get on with it.\n\nGetting on the wrong side of businesses has never been familiar ground for the Conservatives, but a majority government gives you the freedom to do the uncomfortable stuff.\n\nIt means the Tories can now be emboldened to say some companies will suffer because of Brexit in a way they never would have before. And with the general election now behind them, they can also pay little heed to warnings from the shadow chancellor that no alignment could lead to food shortages and job cuts.\n\nThe second motivation for this tough talk is likely to be about positioning ahead of the trade deal yet to be done with the EU.\n\nThe rhetoric around not being a \"rule-taker\" suggests the Conservatives want to be seen as preparing to have a tough battle with the EU to secure a deal without regulations - if they can.\n\nThe government has not yet agreed a future trading relationship with the EU - it plans to do so during the 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK will continue to follow EU rules and contribute to its budget.\n\nThe chancellor also said he wanted to double the UK's annual economic growth to between 2.7 and 2.8%.\n\nThe outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, told the Financial Times last week he thought the UK's trend growth rate was much lower, at between 1 and 1.5%.\n\nMr Javid said the extra growth would come from spending on skills and infrastructure in the Midlands and the north of England - even if they did not offer as much \"bang for the buck\" as projects in other parts of the country.\n\nHe also pledged to rewrite Treasury investment rules, which have tended to favour government investment in places with high economic growth and high productivity.", "Robert Buckland believes an extra prison in Wales would be \"good for the local population\"\n\nUK ministers remain committed to building a new prison in Wales, according to the justice secretary.\n\nRobert Buckland said he was hoping to work with local councils and the Welsh Government \"to make sure that can become a reality\".\n\nPlans for a new \"super-prison\" in Port Talbot were withdrawn after strong local objections.\n\nMr Buckland said he was also \"very interested\" in developing a women's centre in Wales.\n\nThe five prisons currently in Wales - HMP Berwyn, HMP Cardiff, HMP Parc, HMP Swansea, and HMP Usk/Prescoed - are all for men.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Politics Wales programme, Mr Buckland accepted there was a \"problem\" with female prisoners from Wales having to serve sentences in England but said he had to balance the idea of a women's centre \"against all the other competing priorities\".\n\nLast summer, Boris Johnson announced plans to create 10,000 new prison places in Wales and England.\n\nMr Buckland, the second Llanelli-born Lord Chancellor after Lord Elwyn Jones (1974-1979), said he \"would love\" an extra Welsh prison to be part of the programme.\n\nA new category C super-prison for up to 1,600 prisoners was planned for Port Talbot before UK ministers withdrew the plan after strong local opposition.\n\nThere are more than 5,000 prison places in Wales, including 1,550 at Berwyn in Wrexham, which opened in 2017\n\nAsked if the UK Government still had plans for a similarly-sized facility, Mr Buckland said: \"We still want to build an extra prison in Wales.\n\n\"I'm not so much interested in the glib titles, I want to make sure that we have a facility that is the right size and the right model, and that actually delivers purposeful prison activity.\n\n\"I'm not going to commit myself to a particular size prison now.\n\n\"What I do commit to is a real concern about the fact that I think having an extra prison in Wales would be good for the local population.\n\n\"I've got to get on with that apace. I want to deliver it by the middle of the decade, so my officials will do whatever they can to identify sites in England and Wales that fit the bill, and that can deliver those extra places,\" he added.\n\nResearch published by Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre in January 2019 claimed Wales has the highest imprisonment rate in western Europe.\n\nMr Buckland also signalled opposition to transferring full control of the justice system in Wales to the Welsh Government.\n\nA commission chaired by Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd called for the devolution of policing and prisons because people in Wales are \"let down by the system in its current state\".\n\nMr Buckland, the Conservative MP for South Swindon, said: \"I think the question you've got to ask yourself is 'what is the outcome?'\n\n\"It's all very well obsessing about process, working out which desk is going to be responsible for what.\n\n\"What is more important I think from the point of view of residents is outcomes.\"\n\n\"Making our streets in Wales safer, I find that's what the public would expect me and the home secretary and the prime minister to be concentrating on, rather than worrying about who holds the pen,\" he added.\n\nA Plaid Cymru debate called for the devolution of criminal justice at the Senedd on Wednesday.\n\n\"For a fraction of the amount that we are spending keeping people in prison we could invest in a really good quality probation service,\" said Leanne Wood, Plaid AM for Rhondda, in an interview on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHer comments come after a coroner at Conner Marshall's inquest criticised the probation service's \"woefully inadequate\" management of a case worker supervising a man who beat the 18-year-old to death.\n\n\"These are the things that we need to tackle,\" said Ms Wood.\n\n\"They are not being tackled at the moment and we could tackle them if devolution of criminal justice was seen through.\"\n\nAfter Friday's inquest, the National Probation Service in Wales said it had taken responsibility for managing all offenders on licence in Wales from the Community Rehabilitation Company.", "Parts of Australia's east coast have been hit by heavy rain and thunderstorms, dousing some bushfires but also bringing the threat of flooding.\n\nSome, such as this thirsty koala, have been making the most of the wet conditions.\n\nRead more: Storms lash some of Australia's fire-hit regions", "Police are investigating the cause of the caravan fire\n\nA three-year-old boy was killed in a caravan fire in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nHis sibling, aged four, is in a critical but stable condition in hospital and his father is stable.\n\nThe fire service said a touring caravan and vehicle were completely destroyed and adjacent property damaged in the blaze at Ffair Rhos, near Tregaron, Ceredigion.\n\nEmergency services had been called to the scene at 05:35 GMT on Sunday.\n\n\"Enquiries so far lead us to believe that three people were inside the caravan at the time the fire broke out,\" said Dyfed-Powys Police's Det Ch Supt Steve Cockwell.\n\n\"These were a father and two children - a four-year-old, and a little boy who we believe to have been aged three.\n\n\"While the father and the eldest child were able to get out of the caravan, the younger of the siblings was tragically found deceased inside.\"\n\nSpecialist officers are now supporting the family while a major incident room has been set up at Aberystwyth Police Station.\n\nDet Ch Supt Cockwell added: \"The father is currently in a stable condition in hospital, while the four-year-old is critical but stable.\n\nThe Criminal Investigation Department is investigating the cause of the fire and an appeal was made for witnesses.\n\n\"This was a tragic incident, and we will be doing all we can to find answers for the family, whose world will have been torn apart by this morning's events,\" the officer added.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Mid and West Wales Fire service said appliances from Tregaron, Aberystwyth and Lampeter attended.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe couple said last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals, and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn 2016, Kensington Palace released a statement confirming Harry had been dating US actress Meghan Markle \"for a few months\". They were pictured in public for the first time in Toronto, attending a wheelchair tennis match during the 2017 Invictus Games.\n\nThey announced their engagement a few weeks after being first pictured together. Meghan told BBC News that Harry's proposal was \"just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic\".\n\nIn February 2018, the couple took part in their first joint engagement with Prince Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As Meghan joined their Royal Foundation charity, Harry joked the foursome were now \"stuck together\".\n\nThe couple were married at Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018, with 1,200 public invitations to the grounds of the castle. They travelled through the town in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nUp to 100,000 well-wishers lined the route as the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThe couple kissed on the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family attended the wedding.\n\nThe newlyweds held hands after the ceremony.\n\nIn June 2018, the Queen and the duchess were seen at their first royal engagement together, as they officially opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre.\n\nThat autumn, Kensington Palace revealed the duchess was pregnant and the couple's baby was due in the spring. Shortly after the announcement, they embarked on their first official overseas tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nOn one of their engagements, the couple posed with OneWave, a surfing community group that raises awareness of mental health and wellbeing, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia\n\nOn 6 May, 2019, Meghan gave birth to a boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who became seventh in line to the throne. Harry told reporters: \"It's been the most amazing experience I could ever possibly imagine\".\n\nIn June 2019, the couple announced they were splitting from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own foundation.\n\nLast autumn, Archie travelled with the couple to southern Africa on their first royal tour as a family, and was a big hit with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAn image of a beaming Prince Harry holding his son while on an extended stay in Canada was released by the couple as part of an Instagram compilation summing up their year.\n\nFollowing their trip, the couple were pictured in January on a visit to Canada House.\n\nIn February, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child.", "Leaked documents reveal how Africa's richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption.\n\nIsabel dos Santos got access to lucrative deals involving land, oil, diamonds and telecoms when her father was president of Angola, a southern African country rich in natural resources.\n\nThe documents show how she and her husband were allowed to buy valuable state assets in a series of suspicious deals.\n\nMs Dos Santos says the allegations against her are entirely false and that there is a politically motivated witch-hunt by the Angolan government.\n\nThe former president's daughter has made the UK her home and owns expensive properties in central London.\n\nShe is already under criminal investigation by the authorities in Angola for corruption and her assets in the country have been frozen.\n\nNow BBC Panorama has been given access to more than 700,000 leaked documents about the billionaire's business empire.\n\nMost were obtained by the Platform to Protect Whistle-blowers in Africa and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).\n\nThey've been investigated by 37 media organisations including the Guardian and Portugal's Expresso newspaper.\n\nThirty per cent of Angolans live in poverty on less than $2 a day\n\nAndrew Feinstein, the head of Corruption Watch, says the documents show how Ms Dos Santos exploited her country at the expense of ordinary Angolans.\n\n\"Every time she appears on the cover of some glossy magazine somewhere in the world, every time that she hosts one of her glamorous parties in the south of France, she is doing so by trampling on the aspirations of the citizens of Angola.\"\n\nThe ICIJ have called the documents the Luanda Leaks.\n\nOne of the most suspicious deals was run from London through a UK subsidiary of the Angolan state oil company Sonangol.\n\nMs Dos Santos had been put in charge of the struggling Sonangol in 2016, thanks to a presidential decree from her father Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who kept a tight grip on his country for the 38 years he was in power.\n\nBut when he retired as president in September 2017 her position was soon under threat, even though his hand-picked successor came from the same party. Ms Dos Santos was sacked two months later.\n\nMany Angolans have been surprised at the way that President João Lourenço has gone after the business interests of his predecessor's family.\n• None 30%of population live in poverty - less than $1.90/day\n\nThe leaked documents show that as she left Sonangol, Ms Dos Santos approved $58m of suspicious payments to a consultancy company in Dubai called Matter Business Solutions.\n\nShe says she has no financial interest in Matter, but the leaked documents reveal it was run by her business manager and owned by a friend.\n\nPanorama understands that Matter sent more than 50 invoices to Sonangol in London on the day that she was fired.\n\nMs Dos Santos appears to have approved payments to her friend's company after she was sacked.\n\nAlthough some consultancy work had been carried out by Matter, there's very little detail on the invoices to justify such large bills.\n\nOne asks for €472,196 for unspecified expenses - another asks for $928,517 for unspecified legal services.\n\nTwo of the invoices - each for €676,339.97 - are for exactly the same work on the same date and Ms Dos Santos signed them both off anyway.\n\nThese are some of the invoices Isabel dos Santos signed off in her last week at Sonangol\n\nLawyers for Matter Business Solutions say it was brought in to help restructure the oil industry in Angola, and that the invoices were for work that had already been carried out by other consultancy companies it had hired.\n\n\"Regarding the invoices related with expenses, it is common for consultancy companies to add expenses to invoices as a general item. This is often due to those expenses involving large amounts of paperwork... Matter can produce documentary evidence to confirm all expenses incurred.\"\n\nMs Dos Santos's lawyers said her actions with regard to the Matter payments were entirely lawful and that she had not authorised payments after she had been dismissed from Sonangol.\n\nThey said: \"All invoices paid were in relation to services contracted and agreed between the two parties, under a contract that was approved with the full knowledge and approval of the Sonangol Board of Directors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Isabel dos Santos: \"I regret that Angola has chosen this path\"\n\nThe ICIJ and Panorama have also uncovered new details about the business deals that made Ms Dos Santos rich.\n\nMuch of her fortune is based on her ownership of a stake in the Portuguese energy company Galp, which one of her companies bought from Sonangol in 2006.\n\nThe documents show it only had to pay 15% of the price upfront and that the remaining €63m ($70m) was turned into a low-interest loan from Sonangol.\n\nUnder the generous terms of the loan, her debt to the Angolan people didn't have to be repaid for 11 years.\n\nHer stake in Galp is now worth more than €750m.\n\nMs Dos Santos's company did offer to repay the Sonangol loan in 2017.\n\nThe repayment offer should have been rejected because it didn't include almost €9m of interest owing.\n\nBank orders signed by Isabel dos Santos transferred almost $58m out of the Angolan state oil company\n\nBut Ms Dos Santos was in charge of Sonangol at the time and she accepted the money as full payment of her own debt.\n\nShe was fired six days later and the payment was returned by the new Sonangol management.\n\nMs Dos Santos says she initiated the purchase of the stake in Galp, and that Sonangol made money from the deal as well.\n\n\"There's absolutely no wrongdoing in any of those transactions. This investment is the investment that in history has generated the most benefit for the national oil company and all the contracts that were drafted are perfectly legal contracts, there are no wrongdoings.\"\n\nHer lawyers say the repayment offer in 2017 covered what Sonangol had indicated was owed.\n\nIt's a similar story in the diamond industry.\n\nThey were supposed to be 50-50 partners in a deal to buy a stake in the Swiss luxury jeweller De Grisogono.\n\nBut it was funded by the state company. The documents show that 18 months after the deal, Sodiam had put $79m into the partnership, while Mr Dokolo had only invested $4m. Sodiam also awarded him a €5m success fee for brokering the deal, so he didn't have to use any of his own money.\n\nIsabel dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo can often be seen at film premieres and festivals with the world's stars\n\nThe diamond deal gets even worse for the Angolan people.\n\nThe documents reveal how Sodiam borrowed all the cash from a private bank in which Ms Dos Santos is the biggest shareholder.\n\nSodiam has to pay 9% interest and the loan was guaranteed by a presidential decree from her father, so Ms Dos Santos's bank cannot lose out.\n\nBravo da Rosa, the new chief executive of Sodiam, told Panorama that the Angolan people hadn't got a single dollar back from the deal: \"In the end, when we have finished paying back this loan, Sodiam will have lost more than $200m.\"\n\nThe former president also gave Ms Dos Santos's husband the right to buy some of Angola's raw diamonds.\n\nThe Angolan government says the diamonds were sold at a knockdown price and sources have told Panorama that almost $1bn may have been lost.\n\nMs Dos Santos told the BBC she couldn't comment because she was not a shareholder of De Grisogono.\n\nBut the leaked documents show that she is described as a shareholder of De Grisogono by her own financial advisers.\n\nMr Dokolo did put in some money later. His lawyers say he invested $115m and that the takeover of De Grisogono was his idea. They say his company paid above the market rate for the raw diamonds.\n\nThe leaked documents also reveal how Ms Dos Santos bought land from the state in September 2017. Once again she only had to pay a small up-front fee.\n\nHer company bought a square kilometre of prime beachfront land in the capital Luanda with the help of presidential decrees signed by her father.\n\nAngolan state oil company Sonangol has a subsidiary in London where suspicious deals took place\n\nThe contract says the land was worth $96m, but the documents show her company paid only 5% of that after agreeing to invest the rest in the development.\n\nPanorama traced some of the ordinary Angolans who were evicted to make way for the Futungo development.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Albertina de Fatima describes living next to an open sewer in Angola\n\nThey've been moved from the Luandan seafront to an isolated housing development 30 miles (50km) from the capital.\n\nTeresa Vissapa lost her business to Ms Dos Santos' development and is now struggling to bring up her seven children.\n\nShe said: \"I only ask God to make her think a little more about our situation. Maybe she doesn't even know it, but we are suffering.\"\n\nMs Dos Santos declined to comment on the Futungo development.\n\nBut it was not the only land deal involving Ms Dos Santos that displaced the local population.\n\nAbout 500 families were evicted from another stretch of the Luandan seafront after Isabel dos Santos got involved in another major redevelopment project.\n\nThe families are now living in desperate conditions next to an open sewer. Some of their shacks are flooded with sewage whenever the tide rises.\n\nMs Dos Santos says there weren't any evictions linked to her project and that her companies were never paid because the development was cancelled.\n\nThe billionaire has also made big profits from the telecoms industry in Angola.\n\nShe acquired a 25% stake in the country's biggest mobile phone provider, Unitel. It was granted a telecoms licence by her father in 1999 and she bought her stake the following year from a high ranking government official.\n\nUnitel has already paid her $1bn in dividends and her stake is worth another $1bn. But that's not the only way she got cash from the private company.\n\nShe arranged for Unitel to lend €350m to a new company she set up, called Unitel International Holdings.\n\nThe leaked documents show Isabel dos Santos signed off on loans from Unitel as both the borrower and the lender\n\nThe company name was misleading because it wasn't connected to Unitel and Ms Dos Santos was the owner.\n\nThe documents show Ms Dos Santos signed off on the loans as both lender and borrower, which is a blatant conflict of interest.\n\nMs Dos Santos denied that the loans were corrupt. She said: \"This loan had both directors' approval and shareholders' approval, and it's a loan that will generate, and has generated, benefit for Unitel.\"\n\nHer lawyers say the loans protected Unitel from currency fluctuations.\n\nMost of the companies involved in the dodgy deals were overseen by accountants working for the financial services company, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC). It's made millions providing auditing, consultancy and tax advice to her companies.\n\nBut PWC has terminated its relationship with the billionaire and her family, after Panorama questioned the way the company had assisted Ms Dos Santos in the deals that had made her rich.\n\nPWC says it is holding an inquiry into the \"very serious and concerning allegations\".\n\nTom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, criticised PWC for giving the corruption a \"veneer of respectability\"\n\nTom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, told Panorama that PWC had given legitimacy to Ms Dos Santos and her companies.\n\n\"PWC, if not facilitating the corruption, are providing a veneer of respectability that makes what's happening acceptable or more acceptable than it might otherwise be.\n\n\"So if I was at PWC I'd be conducting a pretty thorough audit of what decisions were made, and in hindsight actually: 'Did we make the wrong decision to accept this business and should we have reported what we had been presented with?'\"\n\nPWC says it strives to maintain the highest professional standards and has set expectations for consistent ethical behaviour across its global network.\n\n\"In response to the very serious and concerning allegations that have been raised, we immediately initiated an investigation and are working to thoroughly evaluate the facts and conclude our inquiry.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to take appropriate actions to ensure that we always stand for the very highest standards of behaviour, wherever we operate in the world.\"\n\nPanorama: The Corrupt Billionaire is available on BBC iPlayer in UK.", "Heavy rains have doused many of the country's bushfires\n\nForecasters have warned of severe storms in Australia's fire-hit state of Victoria, which could lead to flooding.\n\nRecent heavy rains have dampened many of the country's bushfires, but also led to power cuts and road closures.\n\nThe fires, which began in September, have claimed at least 28 lives, destroyed thousands of homes and scorched millions of acres of land.\n\nAs wet weather helped to ease the crisis, the government announced a major package to aid tourism recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said the government would channel some A$76m ($52m; £40m) from the national bushfire recovery fund into the industry.\n\nHe described the package on Sunday as an \"urgent injection\" of funds for affected businesses, and said tourism in the country was facing \"its biggest challenge in living memory\".\n\nThe Australian Tourism Industry Council told Reuters news agency that damages to the industry were approaching A$1 billion. The Australian Tourism Export Council told the Australian Financial Review that the losses may go above A$4.5 billion by the end of the year.\n\nThe Bureau of Meteorology in Victoria issued severe thunderstorm warnings for parts of the state on Sunday, saying damaging winds and heavy rainfall were expected.\n\nIt said storms and widespread rainfall were forecast in the state for the next three days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Susan Powell looks at the week ahead\n\nOne forecaster from the bureau said the state was \"about to see its wettest two-day period in many, many months\", according to ABC News.\n\nAt least 14 fires were still burning in Victoria as of Sunday.\n\nIn NSW, where 69 fires were burning on Sunday, forecasters said widespread heavy rainfall in the north of the state would ease, as it withdrew flood warnings for the Bellinger and Orara rivers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some, such as this thirsty koala, have been making the most of the wet conditions\n\nOfficials in Queensland urged people to \"exercise caution\" on Gold Coast beaches, where \"large water movement and significant debris\" were expected after heavy rainfall on Saturday.", "The cordon has now been lifted\n\nArmed police were deployed in Shrewsbury after a report of a man with a firearm on the roof of a Tesco supermarket.\n\nWest Mercia Police said it received a call at about 16:00 GMT that an armed man was on the Tesco Extra on Battlefield Road.\n\nThe police helicopter was sent out and a cordon was in place while a search of the area was carried out.\n\nPolice said no-one was found but the call was \"made in good faith\".\n\nSupt Jim Baker said they took \"all reports involving firearms incredibly seriously\" and armed officers were deployed to carry out a search of the area.\n\n\"An extensive search has been carried out by officers on the ground, the police helicopter and a fire and rescue service drone and we're satisfied the call was made in good faith and have been able to discount the information we initially acted on,\" he said.\n\nHe thanked the public for their patience during the disruption the search caused.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Paul Fulgoni said he saw \"at least 10 armed police\" as well as a helicopter. He said all of Battlefield had been cordoned off, including McDonald's, Frankie & Benny's and the residential estates.\n\nThe supermarket, which was sealed off for about three hours, has since reopened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Sussex grew up in the media spotlight - from a young royal dealing with his mother's death, through his partying teenage years, to his career in the military.\n\nSince then Harry has followed in his mother's footsteps, doing charity work across the globe. He has got married and become a father.\n\nNow he and the Duchess of Sussex have begun a new chapter: giving up their royal duties, HRH titles and public funding and living in California.\n\nHarry has tried to balance his public and private lives. At times, the publicity that comes with being sixth in line to the throne has helped him to bolster support for his charitable endeavours. But there have also been times when that attention has become too much, and he has fought fiercely for his family's privacy.\n\nPrince Harry was born in 1984, the second child of the Prince and Princess of Wales\n\nBorn at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, on 15 September 1984, the prince was christened Henry Charles Albert David by the Archbishop of Canterbury in December of that year in St George's Chapel, Windsor.\n\nBut it was officially announced from the start of his life that he would be known as Harry.\n\nAlthough christened Henry, he has always been known as Harry\n\nHarry with his mother and brother on a trip to Thorpe Park in 1993\n\nThe prince's childhood was cut short when his mother died in 1997.\n\nPrincess Diana was killed in a crash in Paris, aged 36, as the car she was in sped through a tunnel followed by paparazzi photographers.\n\nHer death shook royal fans the world over, but it was 12-year-old Harry and 15-year-old William whose lives changed forever.\n\nThe funeral, which featured the image of the boys walking behind their mother's hearse to attend the service at Westminster Abbey, remains one of the most-watched programmes on the BBC.\n\nPrince Harry stood between his father, Prince Charles, and his older brother, Prince William, as they watched the hearse carry Diana's coffin\n\n\"I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well,\" the prince said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 2017.\n\nHe added: \"I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and all sorts of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.\"\n\nThe prince followed the educational path of his older brother William, at Wetherby School in Notting Hill, before entering Eton in 1998.\n\nHarry, five, on his first day at Wetherby School, Notting Hill\n\nPrince Harry watching his brother sign the Eton College entrance book in 1995 - he would follow in his footsteps, joining the school three years later\n\nAfter leaving Eton with two A-levels in 2003, Harry took a gap year.\n\nHe worked on a sheep farm in Australia and with Aids orphans in Lesotho, paving the way for the charity he later set up there.\n\nPrince Charles took his sons on annual skiing holidays to Switzerland\n\nAttention from the press has been a constant in Harry's life.\n\nThe front page of a 2002 edition of the (now defunct) News of the World roared: \"Harry's drugs shame\", and claimed Prince Charles sent his son to visit a rehab clinic as punishment for smoking cannabis.\n\nSt James's Palace confirmed the then 17-year-old had \"experimented with the drug on several occasions\" but said the use was not \"regular\".\n\nThen in October 2004, there was a scuffle with a photographer outside a club.\n\nA royal spokesman said at the time the 20-year-old prince was hit in the face by a camera \"when photographers crowded around him\".\n\nAs part of his gap year, Prince Harry spent time at an orphanage in Lesotho, in southern Africa\n\nWhen Harry pushed the camera away, \"it's understood that a photographer's lip was cut\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe following year, an image of the prince dressed as a Nazi at a fancy dress party sparked outrage.\n\nClarence House later said the prince had apologised for any \"offence or embarrassment\" caused and had realised \"it was a poor choice of costume\".\n\nAnd in 2009, video footage emerged of Harry using offensive language to describe an Asian member of his Army platoon.\n\nSt James's Palace said the prince was \"extremely sorry for any offence his words might cause\" but said he had \"used the term without any malice and as a nickname about a highly popular member of his platoon\".\n\nHarry enjoyed lighter-hearted press coverage during the London 2012 Olympic Games, in his role as an Olympic ambassador.\n\nThe prince was an Olympic ambassador at the London 2012 Games\n\nIn the same year he spent a lot of time in front of the cameras for the Queen's Jubilee. As part of those celebrations Harry completed his first royal solo tour overseas with visits to Belize, the Bahamas, Brazil and Jamaica.\n\nHowever, that August, photos emerged of the prince and a young woman naked in a Las Vegas hotel room.\n\nThe two photos, published on US gossip website TMZ and later in the Sun newspaper, were taken on a private break with friends, with the site reporting the prince was in a group playing \"strip billiards\".\n\nHe later said he had \"probably let myself down\" but added: \"I was in a private area and there should have been a certain amount of privacy that one should expect.\"\n\nThere is, however, a saving grace to the scrapes Harry has found himself in.\n\nAs the younger brother to the expected future king, Harry has relatively little responsibility.\n\nLike the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and Prince Charles's younger siblings, Harry is a \"spare to the heir\" - and a world away from the throne.\n\nSo Harry's indiscretions have done little to dent public opinion of him.\n\nAnd he has perhaps had a freer existence because of it; security worries would have made active service in Afghanistan impossible for his older brother, for example.\n\nHarry served a tour in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot\n\nHarry spent 10 years in the armed forces, becoming the first royal in more than 25 years to serve in a war zone.\n\nHe was left disappointed in 2007 when Army chiefs decided not to send him to Iraq because of \"unacceptable risks\", but later spent 10 weeks serving in Afghanistan in 2008.\n\nHarry returned to the country as an Apache helicopter pilot from September 2012 to January 2013, before qualifying as an Apache commander in July 2013.\n\nHe later described how he had shot at Taliban insurgents, and said that being in Afghanistan was \"as normal as it's going to get\" for him.\n\nThe prince said quitting the Army had been a \"really tough decision\"\n\nWhen he announced he would be leaving the Army in 2015, the prince said his time in the military would \"stay with me for the rest of my life\".\n\nThis is reflected in his charity work, which mostly concentrates on mental health and helping service veterans.\n\nHarry's most notable charity work so far is his founding and chairing of the Invictus Games in 2014.\n\nThe Paralympic-style international competition for injured ex-service personnel has been held in London, Orlando, Toronto and Sydney.\n\nThe prince has been the driving force behind the Invictus Games\n\nHe has also supported the charity Walking With the Wounded, for injured veterans.\n\nThe prince's other charity work includes supporting conservation projects in Africa and jointly founding Sentebale, a charity to help orphans in Lesotho.\n\nOn his visit to Angola in September, Harry said landmines are \"an unhealed scar of war\"\n\nHarry and his brother William have worked together on various charity initiatives\n\nHe has continued his mother's work helping children affected by HIV and Aids, and supporting the Halo Trust's work in clearing landmines.\n\nDiana captured global attention when she walked through a live minefield in central Angola in 1997.\n\nShe died in Paris later that year, before seeing the full impact of her visit - such as the signing of an international treaty to outlaw the weapons - but Harry highlighted her achievements when he retraced her steps in September 2019.\n\nPrince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge supported Heads Together runners at the London Marathon in 2017\n\nIn later years, Harry has had counselling to help him deal with his mother's death.\n\nHe was best man at his brother William's wedding in April 2011, and has since spoken of how hard it was not to have Diana there.\n\nIn a candid interview with the Daily Telegraph, he described shutting down all of his emotions for nearly 20 years and refusing to thinking about his mother.\n\nThis, he said, had a \"quite serious effect\" on his personal life and his work, and brought him close to a breakdown \"on numerous occasions\".\n\nHe also said he would probably regret \"for the rest of his life\" how brief his last phone call with his mother was, and spoke of her \"fun\" parenting. She was a \"total kid through and through\", he said.\n\nHarry, William and the Duchess of Cambridge joined forces to focus their campaigning efforts on mental health.\n\nThey founded Heads Together, which aims to tackle stigma and fundraise for new support services.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle were first pictured together at the Invictus Games in 2017\n\nAs one of the world's most high-profile bachelors, Harry's love life has drawn much interest over the years.\n\nIn late 2016, he confirmed a new relationship with US actor, Meghan Markle, while issuing a statement accusing journalists of harassing her.\n\nHe described \"nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers\", attempts by reporters and photographers to get into her home and the \"bombardment\" of nearly every friend and loved one in her life.\n\nThe pair had met on a blind date, organised by a mutual friend. Then after just two dates, they went on holiday together to Botswana.\n\nIn September 2017, the year before their wedding, Meghan told Vanity Fair magazine she and Harry were \"two people who are really happy and in love\".\n\nAnd in an interview that November, when their engagement was announced, Harry admitted he had never heard of Meghan before his friend introduced them, and was \"beautifully surprised\".\n\nHe designed the engagement ring for Meghan, including two diamonds from his mother's jewellery collection.\n\nThe couple married in May 2018 at a ceremony at St George's Chapel in Windsor, and consequently became known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nOn a 16-day tour of Australia that October, the duke and duchess announced they were expecting their first child, adding that they were happy to share the \"personal joy\" of their news.\n\nBaby Archie, described by Harry as \"our own little bundle of joy\", was born on 6 May 2019.\n\nPrince Harry said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" with the birth of his first child, Archie\n\nThe duke's past few years have been a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.\n\nIn 2019, he and his wife split their household office from that of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the subsequent launch of the Sussexes' Instagram account amassed more than one million followers in record-breaking time (five hours and 45 minutes).\n\nThe joy of becoming parents was followed days later by news Harry had accepted damages and an apology from a paparazzi agency that had used a helicopter to take photographs of his home in the Cotswolds.\n\nIn June, the Sussexes announced they would split from the charity they shared with the Cambridges - fuelling speculation of a rift between brothers Harry and William.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry on his brother, William in 2019: \"We are certainly on different paths at the moment\"\n\nA 10-day tour of Africa at the end of September 2019 started well.\n\nHarry raised awareness for causes close to his heart, and the couple introduced Archie to anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nBut during the tour, the Duchess of Sussex launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nThe duke and duchess went on a 10-day tour of Africa in September 2019\n\nIn a lengthy statement Harry said \"positive\" coverage of the tour of Africa had exposed the \"double standards\" of the \"press pack that has vilified [the duchess] almost daily for the past nine months\".\n\nAnd in an ITV documentary, filmed during the tour and broadcast the following month, the duchess admitted she was struggling to adjust to royal life, while the duke said his mental health was a matter of \"constant management\".\n\nThen, at the start of 2020, the couple made a bombshell announcement that they would be stepping back as senior royals.\n\nLater, Harry would tell host James Corden that the decision to step back was taken to protect himself and his family from the \"toxic\" situation created by the UK press.\n\nTheir difficult relationship with the UK press saw both Harry and Meghan take legal action against publishers, as well as cutting ties with tabloid newspapers.\n\nAfter a brief stint in Canada, the couple now lives in California and are expecting their second child.\n\nThe duke has since spoken out on several issues, including on structural racism, human rights and unconscious bias.\n\nThe duke and duchess gave an interview with Oprah, who went to their wedding\n\nAnd the couple have signed deals to make shows and podcasts with Netflix and Spotify.\n\nHis charity work continues - although he has returned his military appointments and royal patronages. Buckingham Palace said he and Meghan will keep their \"private patronages and associations\".\n\nHe told interviewer Corden that his \"life is always going to be about public service\". But much of the rest of his future - including how he will continue to carve his own path - remains unclear.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah Champion said South Yorkshire Police needed to make \"dramatic changes\"\n\nRotherham's MP Sarah Champion has said she finds it \"difficult to believe\" that a police officer mentioned in a report into the treatment of a sex abuse survivor cannot be identified.\n\nMs Champion said South Yorkshire Police needed to make \"dramatic changes\" in the wake of the police watchdog report.\n\nIt said police failed to protect the complainant, exposing her to abuse.\n\nIt also found an officer - whose identity is a mystery - said \"racial tensions\" meant nothing could be done.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) looked at several complaints made by a Rotherham woman, who was abused as a child for several years.\n\nIn its report, initially leaked to the Times newspaper, the watchdog upheld the woman's complaints, saying that \"police took insufficient action to protect you from harm\" and that \"police failed to adequately deal with offenders\".\n\nThe IOPC also upheld a complaint that the victim's father was told by a senior - but unidentifiable - officer that the force was aware abuse \"had been going on 30 years and the police could do nothing because of racial tensions\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said on Saturday it accepted the findings of the IOPC.\n\nA report in 2014 by Prof Alexis Jay found at least 1,400 children were subjected to sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage.\n\nMs Champion told BBC Radio 5 live that the IOPC inquiry was the latest in a series of investigations that showed \"victims and survivors were let down by paid professionals\".\n\n\"Apparently now South Yorkshire Police don't actually know who the officers were that repeatedly let down this survivor, which I find incredibly difficult to believe,\" the MP said.\n\n\"I think what we as a town need to see, and definitely for the survivors to get closure, they need to see cases of misconduct. They need to see people held to account.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police could not be contacted for comment about the Labour MP's remarks.\n\nAbuse survivor Sammy Woodhouse said victims were \"failed, ignored, blamed\"\n\nHer views were echoed by Sammy Woodhouse, who was abused as a teenager in the South Yorkshire town.\n\nShe said she was not shocked by the report's findings.\n\n\"I think for the last six years we've more than proved what happened to us,\" said Ms Woodhouse.\n\n\"How we were viewed how we were treated, failed, ignored, blamed... unfortunately that's not a thing of the past, it's still happening today.\n\n\"We've started to now see perpetrators that have committed the rapes and the abuse being held to the account, but yet whenever when it comes to professionals I feel that we constantly hit a brick wall and I don't think anybody will be ever held to account.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of Africa's major oil producers, Angola is still tackling the physical, social and political legacy of a 27-year civil war that ravaged the country after independence.\n\nFollowing Portugal's own revolution in 1974, and the subsequent withdrawal of its colonial administration in 1975, the rival former independence movements competed for power until 2002.\n\nAngola has vast mineral and petroleum reserves, and its economy is among the fastest-growing in the world - but economic growth is highly uneven. Much of its oil wealth lies in its separate Cabinda province, where a decades-long separatist conflict simmers.\n\nJoao Lourenco became the country's first new president in 38 years in September 2017.\n\nHe was the chosen candidate of his predecessor Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who did not run in the general election but who was still expected to retain a strong influence over the running of the country.\n\nHowever, Mr Lourenco surprised many by firing several security chiefs close to his predecessor.\n\nHe also removed Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the former president, as head of the country's state oil company Sonangol. The former president's son, José Filomeno dos Santos, was sentenced for five years in jail for fraud and corruption in 2020.\n\nMr Lourenco is a retired general who first fought in the independence struggle against Portugal, and later against the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) during the civil war.\n\nState-owned media dominate the media landscape. Of the many privately owned newspapers that emerged following the advent of multiparty politics in 1992, only four still exist in print form.\n\n\"Censorship and control of information still weigh heavily on Angolan journalists,\" says the NGO, Reporters without Borders (RSF).\n\nThe Angolan civil war involved forces from Cuba, pictured, as well as from South Africa\n\n16th-18th Centuries - Angola becomes a major Portuguese trading area for slaves. Between 1580 and 1680, more than one million people are enslaved and shipped to Brazil.\n\n1956 - The early beginnings of the socialist guerrilla independence movement, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), based in northern Congo.\n\n1961 - Forced labour abolished after revolts on coffee plantations leave 50,000 dead. The fight for independence is bolstered.\n\n1975 - Portuguese withdraw from Angola without formally handing power to any movement. MPLA is in control of Luanda and declares itself government of independent Angola. Unita and FNLA set up a rival government in Huambo.\n\n1979 - MPLA leader Agostinho Neto dies. Jose Eduardo dos Santos takes over as president. He steps down 38 years later.\n\n1988 - South Africa agrees to Namibian independence in exchange for removal of Cuban troops from Angola.\n\n1998 - Luanda launches offensive against Unita - thousands killed in next four years of fighting.\n\n2002 - Unita leader Jonas Savimbi is killed by government troops. The government and Unita sign a ceasefire shortly afterwards.\n\n2012 - Angola launches a $5bn sovereign wealth fund to channel its oil wealth into investment projects.\n\nThe civil war came to an end following the killing of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former employees of new MP Jamie Wallis say he worked in the same office that ran a \"sugar daddy\" website\n\nConservative MP Jamie Wallis worked in the same office that ran a \"sugar daddy\" dating website, two former employees have told BBC Wales.\n\nThe newly-elected Bridgend MP has distanced himself from Sugar-Daddy.net.\n\nA Labour MP has said this was \"clearly\" contradicted by company records.\n\nJames Cleverly told Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday it was not his job as the chairman of the Conservative Party to investigate any claims linked to \"business arrangements\".\n\nOne ex-staffer said he \"was aware\" the site was being run from the office, while another said his denial \"totally lacks credibility\".\n\nBBC Wales tried to contact Mr Wallis for comment but was told \"he's not available\".\n\nSugar-Daddy.net offered introductions to wealthy individuals, saying: \"We can introduce you to your very own sugar daddy and solve your money worries.\n\n\"Whether you're a boy, girl, straight or gay, there's a sugar daddy for you.\"\n\nLabour's Tonia Antoniazzi raised the link between Jamie Wallis MP and the site in the House of Commons on Wednesday following reports by Buzzfeed News.\n\nThe Gower MP claimed Mr Wallis had \"misled the press about his involvement\" in the website, which she called \"exploitative and demeaning\".\n\nMr Wallis told BuzzFeed: \"Online queries indicate the Sugar-Daddy.net website was registered in 2004 and ceased to be operational in 2010.\"\n\n\"The site appears to have been owned and operated by a company named SD Billing Services Limited.\n\n\"For the avoidance of any doubt, I have never had a financial interest, nor been a director of SD Billing Services Limited and cannot comment on its operational activities.\"\n\nJamie Wallis was elected as MP for Bridgend in December\n\nJamie Wallis is listed at Companies House as a person with significant control of Fields Group Ltd.\n\nFields Group Ltd is listed as sole shareholder of SD Billing Services between October 2007 and October 2010.\n\nWithin that period Mr Wallis was a shareholder and director of Fields Group.\n\nThe Fields Group has operated a number of businesses from an office in Pencoed, outside Bridgend.\n\nTwo former employees of those, who worked in an office with Jamie Wallis, told the BBC's Politics Wales programme that Sugar-Daddy.net was also run from that office.\n\nOne said: \"It's not believable to think he didn't know about the site because it was up there on the screen (in the office).\n\n\"He would be aware, he was always in the management meetings with everyone else and that's when they talk about how their businesses are going.\n\n\"It was just one main office, couple of smaller offices off it on one floor.\n\n\"It wasn't a big office, I would say there's about 20 people in it on the main floor. Everyone knew each other.\n\n\"It [Sugar-Daddy.net] was on screen. I saw it many times on screen.\"\n\nThey said he \"had to be aware\".\n\nTonia Antoniazzi said the site was \"demeaning\" and \"exploitative\"\n\n\"I mean, just walking through the office he would see it on screen,\" they added.\n\nAnother former employee said: \"Sugar Daddy was run from the Bridgend office. Jamie was aware of it and he was fine with it.\n\n\"He saw it as a good business model. He had no concerns and never raised any issues about the ethics of it.\"\n\nBuzzFeed News reported that 10 companies where Mr Wallis was or is a director were subject to more than 800 complaints to trading standards between January 2008 and February 2017, according to Bridgend council.\n\nThe council said the companies had been the subject of 20 enforcement visits.\n\nMr Wallis told BuzzFeed the figures were \"nonsense\" and he is taking legal action against Bridgend council.\n\nA Bridgend council spokesman confirmed they had received a \"letter-before-action\" from Fields Group Limited but could not comment further \"due to the possibility of ongoing proceedings\".\n\nMr Cleverly told Sky News: \"The activities of that website is not something I am at all comfortable with but, ultimately, the relationship between that company and any companies that Jamie might have been involved in is something I am not in a position to look into. Business arrangements are separate.\n\n\"If he has done anything wrong that will be looked at by the whips but, at this stage, I don't know he has done anything wrong and the exact relationship between him and various businesses I don't have full details of that.\"\n\nBBC Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 10:00 GMT on Sunday 19 January and on the BBC iPlayer.\n• None Blow to Labour as seat goes blue after 32 years", "The Duke of Sussex has spoken for the first time after Buckingham Palace announced the terms on which he and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will step back from being senior royals.\n\nHe made his remarks during a speech at a private reception in central London for his charity Sentebale.\n\n\"Good evening, and thank you for being here for Sentebale, a charity me and Prince Seeiso created back in 2006 to honour my mother's legacy in supporting those affected by HIV and Aids.\n\n\"Before I begin, I must say that I can only imagine what you may have heard or perhaps read over the last few weeks...\n\n\"So, I want you to hear the truth from me, as much as I can share - not as a prince, or a duke, but as Harry, the same person that many of you have watched grow up over the last 35 years - but with a clearer perspective.\n\n\"The UK is my home and a place that I love. That will never change.\n\n\"I have grown up feeling support from so many of you, and I watched as you welcomed Meghan with open arms as you saw me find the love and happiness that I had hoped for all my life. Finally, the second son of Diana got hitched, hurray!\n\n\"I also know you've come to know me well enough over all these years to trust that the woman I chose as my wife upholds the same values as I do. And she does, and she's the same woman I fell in love with.\n\n\"We both do everything we can to fly the flag and carry out our roles for this country with pride.\n\n\"Once Meghan and I were married, we were excited, we were hopeful, and we were here to serve.\n\n\"For those reasons, it brings me great sadness that it has come to this.\n\n\"The decision that I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly. It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges. And I know I haven't always got it right, but as far as this goes, there really was no other option.\n\n\"What I want to make clear is we're not walking away, and we certainly aren't walking away from you. Our hope was to continue serving the Queen, the Commonwealth, and my military associations, but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn't possible.\n\n\"I've accepted this, knowing that it doesn't change who I am or how committed I am.\n\n\"But I hope that helps you understand what it had come to, that I would step my family back from all I have ever known, to take a step forward into what I hope can be a more peaceful life.\n\n\"I was born into this life, and it is a great honour to serve my country and the Queen.\n\n\"When I lost my mum 23 years ago, you took me under your wing.\n\n\"You've looked out for me for so long, but the media is a powerful force, and my hope is one day our collective support for each other can be more powerful because this is so much bigger than just us.\n\n\"It has been our privilege to serve you, and we will continue to lead a life of service.\n\n\"It has also been a privilege to meet so many of you, and to feel your excitement for our son Archie, who saw snow for the first time the other day and thought it was bloody brilliant!\n\n\"I will always have the utmost respect for my grandmother, my commander in chief, and I am incredibly grateful to her and the rest of my family for the support they have shown Meghan and I over the last few months.\n\n\"I will continue to be the same man who holds his country dear and dedicates his life to supporting the causes, charities and military communities that are so important to me.\n\n\"Together, you have given me an education about living. And this role has taught me more about what is right and just than I could have ever imagined.\n\n\"We are taking a leap of faith - thank you for giving me the courage to take this next step.\"", "Police maintained a cordon at the scene of the incident\n\nThe death of a man in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, is now being treated as murder, police have said.\n\nGlen Quinn's body was found in Ashleigh Park in the Woodburn area on Saturday.\n\nTwo men, aged 38 and 39, and a woman aged 47, earlier arrested in connection with Mr Quinn's death, were rearrested on suspicion of murder on Monday night.\n\nThey were later released on police bail pending further enquiries. Police said forensic examinations and further investigations were ongoing.\n\nDet Supt Jason Murphy said he was aware of speculation circulating that the death \"is in some way related to the activities of South East Antrim UDA\".\n\n\"The investigation remains at a very early stage and it is not yet possible to be definitive about the motivation for this man's murder but the potential for it to be linked to those associated with paramilitary organisations will form part of our investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"Rumour and speculation within the community is likely to be unhelpful as we seek to establish the circumstances surrounding this man's death and I would appeal to the community to contact us.\"\n\nMr Quinn, who was in his 40s, was found dead on Saturday night.\n\nInvestigators in forensic suits examined the scene of Mr Quinn's death\n\nOn Sunday, police maintained a cordon around a block of six flats in the area.\n\nOne neighbour told the BBC that Mr Quinn lived alone and had only recently moved into the area.", "Conner Marshall, from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, died following an unprovoked attack\n\nThe family of a man murdered at a caravan park by a serial offender was refused access to details of the killer's probation monitoring for over a year, an inquest has heard.\n\nConner Marshall, 18, was beaten to death at Trecco Bay in Porthcawl in March 2015.\n\nKiller David Braddon, who was 26 at the time, pleaded guilty to murder and is serving a life sentence.\n\nBraddon was subject to two community orders at the time.\n\nHe had been convicted of two drug offences and assaulting a police officer, but probation staff were unaware he had previously been convicted of beating up a partner.\n\nNadine Marshall told the inquest in Pontypridd they were only told Braddon was under supervision five months after her son's death.\n\nShe said it took eight months of \"pleading\" with the Wales Community Rehabilitation Company to get a summary of the details of Braddon's case in April 2016, and was refused access to the full probation report.\n\nShe and her husband went to the Ministry of Justice in London in the end to request the report and were again told they were not entitled to it, but the day after their visit they were told they would be allowed to see it after all.\n\nHowever they did not receive a copy until November 2016, seven months later.\n\nAssistant coroner Nadim Bashir said \"too much reliance on self-reporting\" had meant staff had not known of Braddon's prior conviction for battery in 2009.\n\nProbation officer Katherine Oakley said she had been \"overwhelmed with work\" as there were often lots of people off sick and she had not carried out a risk assessment on Braddon.\n\n\"I was sometimes dealing with 15 to 20 cases a day. Because of this I didn't have time to carry out every risk assessment,\" she told the inquest.\n\nBraddon had told Ms Oakley he was suffering from anxiety and depression and had been diagnosed with psychosis but had stopped taking his medication.\n\nHe had missed six rehabilitation appointments, but Ms Oakley said there would be a \"substantial reason\" to miss one.\n\n\"I'd usually require documentary evidence such as a doctor's note. If it was childcare issues, we'd rearrange appointments,\" she said.\n\n\"If he used that reason more than once. I would get suspicious and not accept it as a reason.\"\n\nOutlining the events leading to Mr Marshall's death, Mr Bashir said the attacker had taken a cocktail of drugs and alcohol, including cocaine and Valium.\n\nHe had been staying at the caravan park with his estranged partner and their children when a row erupted over an ex-boyfriend.\n\nBraddon armed himself with a kitchen knife and said he was going to look for the ex-boyfriend and kill him, the coroner's court heard.\n\nMistaking Conner Marshall for that individual, Braddon launched a frenzied attack when \"the red mist descended\", he told police in interviews.\n\nHe admitted striking the teenager with a pole and repeatedly punching him, before stripping him naked to humiliate him.\n\nConner Marshall's mother Nadine has demanded answers following her son's murder\n\nAddressing the inquest, the murder victim's mother Mrs Marshall described the past few years as going through \"the depths of despair\".\n\nShe said she missed the nightly text messages from her son telling her: \"Nos da - caru chi\" - Welsh for \"Good night - love you\".\n\nMrs Marshall, from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, said the whole family now felt anxious and nervous about the most simple daily tasks.\n\n\"I feel we failed to protect Conner, but giving your children as they grow up independence is so important - but equally hard,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet explains the significance of the attack\n\nThe killing of Gen Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, represents a dramatic escalation in the low-level conflict between the US and Iran and one whose consequences could be considerable.\n\nRetaliation is to be expected. A chain of action and reprisal could ensue bringing the two countries closer to a direct confrontation. Washington's future in Iraq could well be called into question. And President Trump's strategy for the region - if there is one - will be tested like never before.\n\nPhilip Gordon, who was White House co-ordinator for the Middle East and the Persian Gulf in the Obama administration, described the killing as little short of a \"declaration of war\" by the Americans against Iran.\n\nThe Quds Force is the branch of Iran's security forces responsible for operations abroad. For years, whether it be in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria or elsewhere, Soleimani has been a key instigator in expanding and extending Iran's influence through planning attacks or bolstering Tehran's local allies.\n\nFor Washington, he was a man with US blood on his hands. But he was popular in Iran itself. And in practical terms, he led Tehran's fightback against the broad campaign of pressure and US-imposed sanctions.\n\nWhat is most surprising is not that Soleimani was in President Trump's sights but quite why the US should strike him now.\n\nA series of low-level rocket attacks against US bases in Iraq were blamed on Tehran. One US civilian contractor was killed. But earlier Iranian operations - against tankers in the Gulf; the shooting down of a US unmanned aerial vehicle; even the major attack against a Saudi oil facility - all went without a direct US response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs for the rocket attacks against the US bases in Iraq, the Pentagon has already hit back against the pro-Iranian militia believed to be behind them. That prompted a potential assault on the US embassy compound in Baghdad.\n\nIn explaining the decision to kill Soleimani, the Pentagon focused not just on his past actions, but also insisted that the strike was meant as a deterrent. The general, the Pentagon statement reads, was \"actively developing plans to attack US diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\nQuite what happens next is the big question. President Trump will hope that in one dramatic action he has both cowed Iran and proven to his increasingly uneasy allies in the region like Israel and Saudi Arabia that US deterrence still has teeth. However it is almost unthinkable that there will not be a robust Iranian response, even if it is not immediate.\n\nCould Iran target US soldiers stationed in Iraq in response?\n\nThe 5,000 US troops in Iraq are an obvious potential target. So too are the sorts of targets hit by Iran or its proxies in the past. Tensions will be higher in the Gulf. No wonder the initial impact was to see a surge in oil prices.\n\nThe US and its allies will be looking to their defences. Washington has already despatched a small number of reinforcements to its embassy in Baghdad. It will have plans to increase its military footprint in the region quickly if needed.\n\nBut it is equally possible that Iran's response will be in some sense asymmetric - in other words not just a strike for a strike. It may seek to play on the widespread support it has in the region - through the very proxies that Soleimani built up and funded.\n\nIt could for example renew the siege on the US embassy in Baghdad, putting the Iraqi government in a difficult position, and call into question the US deployment there. It could prompt demonstrations elsewhere as cover for other attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could Iran instigate more attacks on the US embassy in Baghdad such as this one earlier this week?\n\nThe strike against the Quds force commander was a clear demonstration of US military intelligence and capabilities. Many in the region will not mourn his passing. But was this the wisest thing for President Trump to do?\n\nHow well is the Pentagon prepared for the inevitable aftermath? And just what does this strike tell us about Mr Trump's overall strategy in the region? Has this changed in any way? Is there a new zero-tolerance towards Iranian operations?\n\nOr was this just the president taking out an Iranian commander he would no doubt regard as \"a very bad man\".", "The assassination of Qasem Soleimani has plunged Iran and the United States into their most serious confrontation since the hostage crisis in 1979.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's decision to kill Soleimani removes one of the most obdurate and effective enemies of the US, and delivers a blow to the heart of the Islamic republic of Iran. It is also a dangerous escalation in a region that was already tense and full of violence.\n\nThe killing at Baghdad airport has increased tensions sharply, creating fears of a slide into an all-out war. That is no certainty. Neither the Americans nor the Iranians want one. But the crisis brought on by the killing of Soleimani - and a senior Iraqi ally - amplifies the chances of a bloody miscalculation.\n\nIran has sworn vengeance. That threat has to be taken seriously. Soleimani was at the core of the regime, and a talisman for Iran's hardliners. They will want to get even, perhaps more than that.\n\nDespite arms embargoes, Iran has developed a modern arsenal of rockets and missiles. But if it wanted to use them against US forces as part of a reprisal, Iran would risk making matters worse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn act of war to answer that of the US - for example attacking US ships in the Gulf - would risk provoking a devastating response. Iran's oil refineries are on the coast and would be easy targets for the vast firepower the US has in and around the Gulf.\n\nWhen Iran retaliates, it is likely to follow Soleimani's own indirect tactics: so-called asymmetric warfare, spurning an attack through the front door for one through a side window.\n\nSoleimani cultivated a range of well-armed militias, which give Iran options short of a head-to-head confrontation with the Americans which it would only lose.\n\nThe Americans will now be looking at their most vulnerable deployments in the Middle East. One is the small force in Syria.\n\nA big question is why the Americans chose now to kill Soleimani.\n\nHe had been a thorn in their sides since at least the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. He made sure Iraqi Shias raised, trained and equipped militias which became effective and ruthless fighters against the US and its allies.\n\nThe Americans and their allies in Israel and the West have tracked Soleimani closely for years. It's likely that he has been in their sights before.\n\nThe fact that this time the Americans pulled the trigger suggests that President Trump believes the reward is worth the risk, that the Iranian regime has been so weakened by isolation, economic sanctions and recent demonstrations that it will rage but not offer a serious strategic threat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump - We took action to stop, not start a war\n\nBut it is not at all clear whether the assassination fits into a coherent US strategy, and such an assumption could be dangerous and wrong.\n\nSoleimani was a colossal figure inside Iran. He was its strategic mastermind. Perhaps he left a plan of steps to take if he were killed.\n\nThis assassination at the start of a new year and a new decade might turn into another Middle Eastern milestone, touching off another sequence of bloody events.\n\nTo begin with, the Iranian regime must now be planning its answer to his death, to show that the position Soleimani spent so long creating outside its borders in the Middle East can be defended.", "Burger King has launched its first plant-based burger in the UK - but it is not suitable for vegans and vegetarians.\n\nThe soy-based version of its Whopper burger is cooked on the same grill as meat burgers.\n\nThe fast food chain says the Rebel Whopper is aimed at those who want to cut meat consumption.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the Vegan Society called the launch a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nBurger King says that the burger \"patty\" itself is plant-based, but because of how it is cooked it will not be labelled as suitable for vegans or vegetarians.\n\nIt will also be served with mayonnaise, unless the customer asks otherwise.\n\nKatie Evans, marketing director for the chain, said the burger was aimed at \"flexitarians\". She added it wanted the burger to replicate the \"flame-grilled taste\" as closely as possible.\n\nBurger King did confirm, though, that its vegetarian bean burger and its vegetarian option on the children's menu are cooked separately.\n\nSam Calvert, head of communications at the Vegan Society, said that not making the new burger fully vegan \"seems a missed opportunity\".\n\nShe added that vegan mayonnaise was \"readily available\" and used by other well-known chains, which would also make the burger suitable for some religious groups that avoid eating certain animals and eggs.\n\nThe Rebel Whopper launch on Monday also saw a backlash on social media. One Twitter user called it \"a case of big corporations jumping on the bandwagon of a trend\".\n\nLifestyle blogger Donna Wishart criticised Burger King for failing to deliver \"actual vegan products\", when other fast food companies do so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donna Wishart - What the Redhead said This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Donna Wishart - What the Redhead said\n\nHowever, Toni Vernelli, international head of communications and marketing at Veganuary, dismissed claims that Burger King was trying to \"capitalise on the vegan pound\".\n\nShe said that \"increasing the availability of plant-based options\" was the best way to encourage the reduction of meat consumption.\n\n\"Don't let perfection be the enemy of good,\" she said.\n\nThe Vegan Society describes veganism as a \"lifestyle\" that avoids all animal foods such as meat, dairy, eggs and honey, as well as animal-based products like leather.\n• None 600,000According to a Vegan Society survey of 2,000 people in 2018\n\nAccording to the latest research by the Vegan Society, conducted in 2018, there are about 600,000 vegans in Great Britain.\n\nFlexitarianism, part-time vegetarianism or veganism, is becoming more popular.\n\nIn 2020, at least 300,000 people pledged to go vegan for the first month of the year, under the Veganuary campaign, the organisation said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Lane, the co-founder of Veganuary, started the movement in January 2014.\n\nInterest in vegan and vegetarian products shows no sign of slowing down. This January, other well-known food chains have launched meat substitutions for popular products.\n\nBakery Greggs announced a vegan \"steak bake\" after the success of its vegan sausage roll last year, while coffee chain Costa said it would offer a \"vegan ham and cheese\" toastie.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said his team's performance was \"sensationally good\" as Curtis Jones' stunning winner earned the Reds a fully deserved FA Cup third-round victory and extended Everton's miserable record of Anfield failure.\n\nThe German made nine changes from the side that increased their Premier League lead to 13 points with victory over Sheffield United on Thursday - including three debutants in Takumi Minamino, Nathaniel Phillips and substitute Yasser Larouci.\n\nAnd it was 18-year-old Jones who grabbed the Merseyside derby glory with a magnificent curling 25-yard drive that eluded the outstretched arms of Everton keeper Jordan Pickford as it arced into the top corner after 71 minutes. The Toffees remain without a win at their rivals since September 1999.\n\nKlopp said: \"I saw a sensationally good performance of a not very experienced team with a lot of players playing for the first time on this kind of stage, in front of this crowd, against the opponent. It was outstanding. I loved it - I loved each second of this game.\n\n\"If you want to be a Liverpool player, you have to respect the principles of this club. We cannot always play the best football in the world but we can fight like nobody else. And as long as we use our principles, we will be a difficult opponent to play against.\"\n\nThe Reds boss had the luxury of resting superstars such as Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Virgil van Dijk, survived the early loss through injury of James Milner, and yet still saw his side fully merit their place in the fourth round.\n\nEverton manager Carlo Ancelotti played virtually his strongest available side but the visitors paid for a lacklustre display and a succession of missed opportunities in the first half, when Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Mason Holgate and Richarlison saw efforts saved by Liverpool keeper Adrian.\n\nThe Italian blamed a drop in his side's performance level during the match.\n\n\"The line-up of Liverpool didn't affect our idea of how to play,\" he said. \"We knew that Liverpool put in fresh players and that the intensity could be a high intensity, so I think the defeat arrived because we were not able to keep the intensity in the second half.\n\n\"We lost energy, we lost confidence, we were not able to build up quick from the back.\n\n\"We are going to speak and work together to find a solution to help improve the team. I know we have to work.\"\n\nThe fourth-round draw takes place on Monday at 19:35 GMT on BBC One and the iPlayer, before Arsenal's game against Leeds.\n• None Curtis Jones: Has Liverpool teen had his 'Rooney moment'?\n• None Watch all of the latest FA Cup highlights\n• None Where will the third-round shocks be? Ladhood star Liam Williams takes on Lawro\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nLiverpool are the team who have forgotten how to lose - and they were playing an Everton side who have long forgotten how to win at Anfield.\n\nKlopp took no chances with his big players but the Reds still had too much energy for this laboured Everton team.\n\nDivock Origi added physicality up front but it was the likes of Jones and 16-year-old Harvey Elliott who epitomised the host club's victory - along with 22-year-old central defender Nathaniel Phillips, effectively brought back from a loan spell at Stuttgart to play in this game.\n\nIt was a moment of genius from Jones, born two years after Everton last won at Anfield, that made the difference before Liverpool closed out the victory with maturity and without problems from a bitterly disappointing Everton.\n\nThey even survived the blow of losing Milner in the opening minutes, depriving Klopp of one of his most experienced players. In the event, it just gave another teenager, Yasser Larouci, his chance to shine.\n\nKlopp and his players took the acclaim in front of the Kop after the final whistle as Liverpool's dream season continues.\n\nEverton manager Carlo Ancelotti now knows the full extent of the job he must undertake at Goodison Park.\n\nThis was as embarrassing as it gets for Everton, outmanoeuvred and beaten by what was more or less a Liverpool reserve team.\n\nAnd for many players whose names are on this loss, it will surely prove to be a watershed moment and the beginning of the end of their careers at the club.\n\nGylfi Sigurdsson, at £45m, was a lightweight passenger in midfield, too easily shrugged off the ball, outpaced and deservedly substituted - he looked heavy-legged and unfit for purpose.\n\nMorgan Schneiderlin has been out injured but he was also miles off the pace, while Theo Walcott produced an absolute horror show of a performance, riddled with dreadful decisions and cheap concession of possession.\n\nTrue, it took a magnificent strike for Liverpool to clinch their place in the fourth round and Everton squandered so many first-half chances but this was what the visitors' effort, or lack of it, deserved.\n\nOn this day, when presented with a below-strength Liverpool, Everton were exposed as faint-hearted and lacking in stomach for the fight.\n\nThis was a grim chapter - the only forward-looking note being that Ancelotti has been given a rapid reminder of exactly why Everton paid so much to bring him to Goodison Park.\n\nToffees toppled again in the third round - stats\n• None Liverpool remain unbeaten in their past 23 home games against Everton in all competitions (W13 D10); they have beaten the Toffees twice at Anfield in the same season for the first time since the 1986-87 campaign.\n• None Everton have never won away to Liverpool in the FA Cup in six attempts (D4 L2).\n• None Liverpool have progressed from the FA Cup third round in eight of their past nine seasons, failing only in 2018-19 thanks to a 2-1 defeat at Wolves.\n• None Everton have been eliminated in the FA Cup third round in four of the past six campaigns, as many as in the preceding 20 seasons.\n• None Liverpool have won 23 of their past 25 home games in all competitions (D2), keeping a clean sheet in each of their past five matches at Anfield.\n• None Origi has been directly involved in six goals in his five home Merseyside derby appearances against Everton, scoring five and assisting Jones' winner.\n• None Liverpool named three teenagers in their starting XI for a Merseyside derby (Harvey Elliott, Neco Williams and Jones) for the first time since October 2012 (Raheem Sterling, Suso and Andre Wisdom), a 2-2 draw in the Premier League at Goodison Park under Brendan Rodgers. Indeed, the Reds had not started a single teenager in any of their previous 10 meetings with Everton in all competitions before today.\n\nThe Reds are at Tottenham on Saturday 11 January (17:30 GMT) and the Toffees host Brighton (15:00 GMT) on the same day.\n• None Attempt missed. Moise Kean (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Djibril Sidibé with a cross.\n• None Offside, Everton. Yerry Mina tries a through ball, but Richarlison is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Curtis Jones.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Divock Origi.\n• None Attempt missed. Morgan Schneiderlin (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Curtis Jones.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 1, Everton 0. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Divock Origi.\n• None Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Yasser Larouci. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman and Sam Mendes were among a raft of British winners\n\nBritish stars have had a golden night at a Golden Globes, where Australia's bushfires were the main talking point.\n\nThe newly knighted Sir Sam Mendes received two awards for his World War One epic 1917 - the same number won by Elton John biopic Rocketman.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge's sitcom Fleabag won two prizes, while Olivia Colman won for playing The Queen in The Crown.\n\nOnce Upon a Time In Hollywood was the biggest winner overall, with Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino both recognised.\n\nThe revisionist Tinseltown fable was named best musical or comedy, saw Tarantino win best screenplay and earned Pitt his second Golden Globe for best supporting actor.\n\nThe event saw multiple mentions of the deadly fires in Australia, which have claimed at least 24 lives since they began in September.\n\nMendes was named best director for 1917, which went on to be crowned best film drama at the end of the Los Angeles ceremony.\n\n\"I really hope this means people will turn up and see it on the big screen as intended,\" he said as he took to the stage with his film's cast and crew.\n\nWelsh star Taron Egerton, named best actor in a musical or comedy for playing Sir Elton in Rocketman, said the film had been \"the best experience of my life\".\n\nThere was also success for Sir Elton and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, who won best film song for their Rocketman composition I'm Gonna Love Me Again.\n\nJoaquin Phoenix was named best actor in a film drama for Joker, while Renee Zellweger won the female equivalent for playing Judy Garland in Judy.\n\nThe actress, who won her last Golden Globe in 2004, thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for \"inviting me back to the family reunion\".\n\nPhoenix used his own acceptance speech to exhort his fellow stars to \"take responsibility and make changes\".\n\n\"Contrary to popular belief I don't want to rock the boat, but the boat is [doomed],\" said the actor.\n\n\"We don't have to take private jets to Palm Springs to the awards sometimes.\"\n\nAwkwafina and Renee Zellweger won the two main film acting awards\n\nAwkwafina was the other winner in the main film acting categories, winning best actress in a musical or comedy for The Farewell.\n\nThe actress and rapper - whose real name is Nora Lum - is the first woman of Asian heritage to win the award.\n\nEarlier in the evening, there were two awards for Fleabag as Waller-Bridge was named best actress in a TV series (musical or comedy).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nAs she collected her award, Waller-Bridge thanked her Irish co-star Andrew Scott for bringing \"so much fire\" to his role as the show's \"Hot Priest\".\n\nFleabag went on to be named best TV series (musical or comedy) at the star-studded ceremony.\n\nWaller-Bridge used her second acceptance speech to thank former US president Barack Obama for recommending the BBC comedy in a recent tweet.\n\nLeft-right: Olivia Colman, Sam Mendes and Phoebe Waller-Bridge were among the British winners\n\nColman, another of Waller-Bridge's Fleabag co-stars, said she had not expected to be recognised for her work in the third series of The Crown.\n\n\"I had money on this not happening,\" the British Oscar-winner admitted as she was named best actress in a drama series.\n\n\"For the last year I feel I've been living someone else's life, and now I feel I've won someone else's award.\"\n\nClaire Foy, Colman's predecessor on The Crown, also won a Golden Globe for playing The Queen in the Netflix drama.\n\nColman accepted her prize while wearing a ring promoting ERA 50:50, a campaign advocating equal gender representation on British stage and screen.\n\nOther British winners include Brian Cox, who was named best actor in a drama series for Succession.\n\nThe satirical series, created by Peep Show's Jesse Armstrong, was later named best TV drama.\n\nBrad Pitt won one of three awards given to Once Upon a Time In Hollywood\n\nRussell Crowe was another early winner, receiving the award for best actor in a limited series or motion picture made for television for The Loudest Voice.\n\nThe Australian-based actor was not at the ceremony, instead sending a message about the devastating bush fires ravaging his home country.\n\n\"Make no mistake, the tragedy taking place in Australia is climate change-based,\" he said in a message read out by actress Jennifer Aniston.\n\nPierce Brosnan, whose sons Dylan and Paris are serving as this year's Golden Globe ambassadors, also sent a message of goodwill to those affected by the fires.\n\nCate Blanchett, meanwhile, paid tribute to the volunteer firefighters who are tackling the blazes.\n\n\"When one country is facing a climate disaster, we are all facing a climate disaster,\" the Australian actress declared.\n\nRicky Gervais, hosting the event for the fifth time, kicked off proceedings with a salty monologue that poked fun at James Corden, Martin Scorsese and others.\n\n\"I came here in a limo and the licence plate was made by Felicity Huffman,\" he joked - a reference to the US star's recent jail term for her role in a university cheating scandal.\n\nYet the British comedian also took Hollywood's great and good to task for expressing political opinions while simultaneously accepting money from multinationals with questionable business practices.\n\n\"If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech,\" he said. \"You're in no position to lecture the public about anything.\"\n\nTalk show host Ellen DeGeneres received a special award at the ceremony, as did actor Tom Hanks.\n\nThe two-time Oscar winner was briefly moved to tears as he paid tribute to his ever-supportive family.\n\nTom Hanks and Ellen DeGeneres were both honoured with special awards\n\nAs expected, South Korean satire Parasite - winner of the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes - was named best foreign language film.\n\n\"Just being nominated with fellow international film-makers was a huge honour,\" said director Bong Joon-Ho in a speech delivered in his native Korean.\n\n\"Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films,\" he went on to say via his translator.\n\nOne notable upset came in the best animated film category, where stop-motion film Missing Link beat out such hit sequels as Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4.\n\nThere was no surprise, though, when perennial Globe favourite Laura Dern was named best supporting film actress for Marriage Story.\n\nThe Jurassic Park star - who was Miss Golden Globe in 1982 - has won five Golden Globes for her film and TV work.\n\nDern's was the only award for Netflix's marital drama, which started the night with more nominations - six - than any other film.\n\nYet it was one more than Martin Scorsese's mob drama The Irishman, another Netflix production, which failed to make good on any of its five nominations.\n\nThe Globes is the biggest ceremony of the awards season outside of the Oscars and many of its award recipients traditionally go on to enjoy success at the later event.\n\nYet the way the HFPA has spread the riches offers few clues over what films and stars will win Academy Awards on 9 February.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bosses of Britain's leading firms will be paid more within three working days of 2020 than the average employees' annual wage, according to research.\n\nFTSE 100 chief executives starting work on 2 January will by 17:00 GMT on Monday have earned above the average wage of £29,559, the report says.\n\nThe data was compiled by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the High Pay Centre think tank.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the pay gap was \"concerning\".\n\nThe figures - based on the latest available data - suggests the average FTSE 100 chief was paid £3.46m in 2018, equivalent to £901.30 an hour.\n\nThe average full-time annual salary of £29,559 works out at £14.37 an hour, the report said, meaning that top bosses earned about 117 times their average employee.\n\nThe report said high pay will be a key issue in 2020 as this is the first year that publicly listed firms with more than 250 UK employees must disclose the ratio between chief executive pay and that of their average workers, and explain the reasons for their executive pay ratios.\n\nThe CIPD and High Pay Centre called on businesses not to treat the new reporting requirements as a \"tick-box\" exercise and to use it as an opportunity to fully explain chief executive pay levels.\n\nPeter Cheese, chief executive at the CIPD, said: \"This is the first year where businesses are really being held to account on executive pay. Pay ratio reporting will rightly increase scrutiny on pay and reward practices, but reporting the numbers is just the start.\n\n\"We need businesses to step up and justify very high levels of pay for top executives, particularly in relation to how the rest of the workforce is being rewarded.\"\n\nLuke Hildyard, director of the High Pay Centre, said: \"CEOs are paid extraordinarily highly compared to the wider workforce, helping to make the UK one of the most unequal countries in Europe.\"\n\nMs Leadsom accepted that the figures were a concern, but said changes to the rules on reporting executive pay would help shine a light on the issue.\n\nShe said: \"Today's figures will be eye-watering for the vast majority of hard-working people across the UK.\n\n\"The numbers are better than they were - down a quarter since 2012 and 13% on average since last year - but the situation is still concerning, especially in those cases where executives have been rewarded despite failing their employees and customers.\"\n\nBut Ms Leadsom added that changes to the way companies report pay would \"increase transparency around how directors meet their responsibilities\".\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said the report \"tells you everything about how unfair our economy is\".\n• None How much should bosses be paid?", "Soleimani - seen here in Iraq in 2015 - directed militia in Iraq who attacked US troops and later fought the Islamic State group\n\nNext to Iran's Supreme Leader, Qasem Soleimani was arguably the most powerful figure in the Islamic republic.\n\nAs head of its military abroad known as the Quds Force, Soleimani was the mastermind behind the country's activities across in the Middle East, and its real foreign minister when it came to matters of war and peace.\n\nHe was widely considered an architect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against rebels in Syria, the rise of pro-Iranian paramilitaries in Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State group, and many battles beyond.\n\nCharismatic and often elusive, the silver-haired commander was revered by some, loathed by others, and a source of myths and social media memes.\n\nHe had emerged in recent years from a lifetime in the shadows directing covert operations to achieve fame and popularity in Iran, becoming the subject of documentaries, news reports and even pop songs.\n\nAs far back as 2013, former CIA officer John Maguire told The New Yorker that Soleimani was \"the single most powerful operative in the Middle East\".\n\nWhen his end came, it was violent and sudden. On 3 January the Pentagon announced that it had carried out a successful operation to kill him, at the direction of US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe assassination followed a sharp escalation between the US, Iran and Iran-backed groups in Iraq following the death of a US military contractor in a missile attack on a US base in Iraq - for which the US held Iran responsible.\n\nThe US responded with an air strike on the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah. Militia supporters then attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran had been rising since the US pulled out of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to curb Iran's nuclear programme and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. The US has also reimposed sanctions on Iran, sending its economy into freefall.\n\nSoleimani is believed to have come from a poor background and to have had very little formal education. But he had risen through the Revolutionary Guards - Iran's elite and most powerful force - and was reportedly close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.\n\nAfter becoming commander of the Quds Force in 1998, Soleimani attempted to extend Iran's influence in the Middle East by carrying out covert operations, providing arms to allies and developing networks of militias loyal to Iran.\n\nOver the course of his career he is believed to have aided Shia Muslim and Kurdish groups in Iraq fighting against former dictator Saddam Hussein as well as other groups in the region including the Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Islamist organisation Hamas in the Palestinian territories.\n\nAfter the US invaded Iraq in 2003 he began directing militant groups to carry out attacks against US troops and bases, killing hundreds.\n\nHe is also widely credited with finding a strategy for Bashar al-Assad to respond to the armed uprising against him that began in 2011. Iranian assistance along with Russian air support helped turn the tide against rebel forces and in the Syrian government's favour, allowing it to recapture key cities and towns.\n\nSoleimani himself was sometimes pictured at funerals of Iranians killed in Syria and Iraq, where Iran had deployed thousands of combatants and military advisers.\n\nHe also travelled frequently across the region, regularly shuttling between Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where Iranian influence has steadily grown. When he was killed he was travelling in a two-car convoy away from Baghdad airport with others including Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed.\n\nSoleimani was killed in an air strike near Baghdad's airport\n\nIn April 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Quds Force as foreign terrorist organisations.\n\nThe Trump administration has said the Quds Force provided funding, training, weapons and equipment to US-designated terrorist groups in the Middle East - including Hezbollah movement and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group based in Gaza.\n\nIn a statement, the Pentagon said Soleimani had been \"actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region\".\n\n\"General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,\" it added.", "An early life full of neglect, deprivation and adversity leads to people growing up with smaller brains, a study suggests.\n\nThe researchers at King's College London were following adopted children who spent time in \"hellhole\" Romanian orphanages.\n\nThey grew up with brains 8.6% smaller than other adoptees.\n\nThe researchers said it was the \"most compelling\" evidence of the impact on the adult brain.\n\nThe appalling care at the orphanages came to light after the fall of Romania's communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.\n\n\"I remember TV pictures of those institutions, they were shocking,\" Prof Edmund Sonuga-Barke, who now leads the study following those children, told the BBC.\n\nHe described the institutions as \"hellholes\" where children were \"chained into their cots, rocking, filthy and emaciated\".\n\nThe children were physically and psychologically deprived with little social contact, no toys and often ravaged by disease.\n\nThe children studied had spent between two weeks and nearly four years in such institutions.\n\nPrevious studies on children who were later adopted by loving families in the UK showed they were still experiencing mental health problems in adulthood.\n\nHigher levels of traits including autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and a lack of fear of strangers (disinhibited social engagement disorder) have all been documented.\n\nThe latest study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to scan the brains for answers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere were 67 Romanian adoptees in the study and their brains were compared to 21 adoptees who did not suffer early life deprivation.\n\n\"What we found is really quite striking,\" Prof Sonuga-Barke told the BBC.\n\nFirst the total brain volume - the size of the brain - was 8.6% smaller in the Romanian adoptees on average.\n\nAnd the longer they spent in the Romanian orphanages, the greater the reduction in brain size.\n\nHowever, the impact on the brain was not uniform.\n\nProf Mitul Mehta, one of the researchers, said: \"We found structural differences between the two groups in three regions of the brain.\n\n\"These regions are linked to functions such as organisation, motivation, integration of information and memory.\"\n\nThe researchers say these findings could help explain lower IQ and higher rates of ADHD in these adults.\n\nWhat the study cannot explain is what exactly about early life neglect and deprivation has this effect on the brain.\n\nIt means it is hard to work out the effect of other early life traumas such as abuse or being a refugee.\n\nHowever, the study is clear that the impact on the developing brain goes far beyond just poor nutrition.\n\nProf Sonuga-Barke said: \"This study is important because it highlights for the first time, in a compelling way, the power of the early environment and early adversity to shape brain development.\n\n\"It drives impairments over this long period of time - over 20 years - even when children have received top-notch care in loving adoptive families.\"", "Reynhard Sinaga filmed himself assaulting unconscious victims at his student flat in Manchester\n\nA man convicted of 159 sex offences, including 136 rapes, will \"never be safe to be released\", a judge has said.\n\nReynhard Sinaga was found guilty of luring 48 men from outside Manchester clubs to his flat, where he drugged and assaulted them - filming the attacks.\n\nPolice say they have evidence Sinaga, 36, who is being named for the first time, targeted at least 190 victims.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Sinaga was \"the most prolific rapist in British legal history\".\n\nThe judge ruled his life sentence must include a minimum of 30 years in jail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Reynhard Sinaga? The BBC's Judith Moritz reports on the case\n\nReporting restrictions were also lifted at a sentencing hearing at Manchester Crown Court on Monday, meaning Sinaga could be identified for the first time.\n\nThe post-graduate student was already serving life, with a minimum term of 20 years, for the offences he was convicted of in two earlier trials, which took place in summer 2018 and last spring.\n\nAcross four separate trials, the Indonesian national was found guilty of 136 counts of rape, eight counts of attempted rape, 14 counts of sexual assault, and one count of assault by penetration, against a total of 48 victims.\n\nDetectives say they have been unable to identify a further 70 victims and are now appealing for anyone who believes they may have been abused by Sinaga to come forward.\n\nAt the hearing, Judge Suzanne Goddard QC said Sinaga was \"an evil serial sexual predator who has preyed upon young men\" who wanted \"nothing more than a good night out with their friends\".\n\n\"In my judgment you are a highly dangerous, cunning and deceitful individual who will never be safe to be released,\" she said - adding that the decision to release prisoners is made by the Parole Board.\n\nSinaga would wait for men leaving nightclubs and bars before leading them to his flat in Montana House, Princess Street, often with the offer of somewhere to have a drink or call a taxi.\n\nHe drugged his victims before assaulting them while they were unconscious. When the victims woke up many of them had no memory of what had happened.\n\nThe student, who denied the charges, had claimed all the sexual activity was consensual and that each man had agreed to being filmed while pretending to be asleep - a defence described by the judge as \"ludicrous\".\n\nAt an earlier sentencing, the judge said she was sure that Sinaga had used a form of date rape drug such as GHB.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"deeply concerned\" by the use of such a drug.\n\nPolice say they have evidence Sinaga assaulted at least 190 victims, but many men have not been identified and will have no recollection of what happened\n\nIn victim impact statements read out in court, one victim said Sinaga had \"destroyed a part of my life\", while another said: \"I hope he never comes out of prison and he rots in hell.\"\n\n\"I have periods where I can't get up and face the day,\" another added.\n\nMany of the victims were unaware they had been raped until they were contacted by police.\n\nLisa Waters, of the St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, where victims received support, said some men found this \"very difficult to process\", with some experiencing mental health issues and suicidal thoughts.\n\nEvidence given in the trial suggested Sinaga drugged the men by giving them spiked drinks\n\nSinaga, who was studying for a PHD at the University of Leeds, carried out his attacks over several years.\n\nThe rapist was caught in June 2017 when one victim, who regained consciousness while being assaulted, fought Sinaga off and called the police.\n\nWhen officers seized Sinaga's phone they found he had filmed each of his attacks - amounting to hundreds of hours of footage.\n\nThe discovery led to the launch of the largest rape inquiry in British history.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mabbs Hussain said the true extent of Sinaga's offending would probably never be known.\n\n\"We suspect he's offended over a period of 10 years,\" he said. \"The information and evidence we are going from is largely from trophies that he's collected from the victims of his crimes.\"\n\nInvestigators traced dozens of victims from the videos using clues found in Sinaga's Manchester flat, such as stolen phones, ID cards and watches.\n\nThe University of Manchester, where Sinaga was previously a student, said some members of its community had been \"directly affected\" by the case and it had set up a dedicated confidential phone line to offer support.\n\nA statement from Vice-Chancellor Dame Nancy Rothwell, said the news was \"profoundly distressing\" and her thoughts were with all those affected.\n\nJudge Goddard said the \"scale and enormity\" of Sinaga's offending meant it was \"accurate\" for one of his victims to have described him as a monster.\n\nShe added that Sinaga had shown \"not a jot of remorse\" and at times appeared to be \"actually enjoying the trial process\".\n\nFollowing the sentencing, Ian Rushton, from the CPS, said Sinaga was \"the most prolific rapist in British legal history\" and possibly \"in the world\".\n\n\"His extreme sense of sexual entitlement almost defies belief and he would no doubt still be adding to his staggering tally had he not been caught,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he thought Sinaga took \"a particular pleasure in preying on heterosexual men\".\n\nJurors were shown CCTV footage of Sinaga leaving his flat on the hunt for victims\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said in response to Sinaga's \"truly sickening crimes\" she had asked an independent council to prioritise a review into whether controls for drugs like GHB were \"tough enough\".\n\nGHB (gammahydroxybutyrate) is a class C drug. Anyone found in possession of it can be imprisoned for up to two years.\n\nSinaga's trials took place across 18 months at Manchester Crown Court, resulting in unanimous guilty verdicts on all charges.\n\nHis convictions relate to crimes he committed from January 2015 to June 2017, but police believe he began offending years earlier.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said anyone who believes they might have been attacked by Sinaga can report information online or call its police line on 0800 092 0410 from inside the UK or 0207 158 0124 from abroad.\n\nThe force said anyone in need of support from specialist agencies could call 0800 056 0154 from within the UK or 0207 158 0011 from abroad.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Newlands, Cape Town (day four of five):\n\nEngland need eight wickets for victory on the final day of the second Test in Cape Town after being frustrated by South Africa's top order.\n\nDom Sibley made 133 not out - his maiden Test ton - and Ben Stokes hit 72 as England declared on 391-8 to set the Proteas a Test record 438 to win.\n\nJoe Denly removed opener Dean Elgar for 34 and Zubayr Hamza fell for 18 to James Anderson in the penultimate over.\n\nBut Pieter Malan remained unbeaten on 63 as South Africa closed on 126-2.\n\nAnderson's late strike provided England a welcome boost on a Newlands pitch not offering as much variable bounce as England would have hoped for by now.\n\nThey will still have to work hard and stay patient to secure victory, but have time and runs to play with, given the hosts require a further 312 to win.\n\nResuming on 85, Sibley made careful progress towards his century, reaching the mark off 269 balls in the 14th over of the day with a firm sweep off Keshav Maharaj for four.\n\nAfter removing his helmet to acknowledge the crowd and embrace Stokes, the Warwickshire batsman settled straight back into his task, padding away, leaving and waiting for the bad ball.\n\nBy stark contrast, Stokes - dropped on 38 by Quinton de Kock at full stretch as he ran towards square leg - had already smashed his way to a 34-ball half-century by the time Sibley reached three figures.\n\nIt was stunning onslaught by the all-rounder, hitting Maharaj down the ground, reverse-sweeping medium pacer Dwaine Pretorius and crashing anything over-pitched through the covers before he finally holed out at long-on.\n\nStokes' thrilling knock took the game completely away from South Africa at a stirring pace and was made possible by Sibley's patient accumulation, providing a glimpse of how England may have been able to bat with a more reliable top order in recent years.\n\nJos Buttler hit two sixes in a brisk 23 and Sibley also showed more invention with a few reverse sweeps before captain Joe Root finally called his side in 20 minutes after lunch.\n\nAnderson and Stuart Broad bowled a decent opening spell but Malan and Elgar left well and kept rotating the strike to repel England's premier duo.\n\nBoth also used their feet well when off-spinner Dom Bess was introduced early and Root had to turn to the part-time leg-spin of Denly to break an opening stand of 71.\n\nTargeting the rough outside Elgar's off stump, Denly drew the left-hander forward and induced a very thin edge through to Buttler, with a small spike on UltraEdge meaning the decision was not overturned after a bemused Elgar called for a review.\n\nEngland remained patient but were matched by South Africa, with impressive debutant Malan steadily bringing up his maiden Test half-century off 146 balls.\n\nStokes was saved until the 40th over and tested both batsmen with quick, short-pitched bowling, drawing a few false shots from Hamza, but without success.\n\nAnderson was duly given one last burst and England's all-time highest Test wicket-taker delivered, finding reverse swing to move the ball away from Hamza, who nicked to Buttler and perhaps ease any nerves.\n\nNightwatchman Maharaj survived Sam Curran's final over and will hope to survive for as long as possible on Tuesday before South Africa's key batsman and captain Faf du Plessis starts his innings.\n\n'That feeling is pretty addictive' - what they said\n\nEngland's Dom Sibley told BBC Sport: \"I've dreamed millions of times about scoring a hundred for England and that was better than I'd dreamed. To do it at Newlands, in front of this crowd, was amazing - an amazing moment.\n\n\"The hard work was done yesterday and the topping was today.\n\n\"It's going to be hard graft tomorrow. Getting that second wicket tonight was a massive bonus. It gives us a boot of energy and we're excited to get going tomorrow to try and win this Test.\"\n\nCricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"Credit to South Africa. It has been very interesting day. England completely bossed the first half of it and South Africa blunted the second.\n\n\"I would be amazed if South Africa got 438 - it would need De Kock to go berserk. England are favourites because we know there's not much to come after Philander. A draw wouldn't be too far out.\n\n\"England are going to have to start tomorrow with a bang. What they must not do is really go out searching for wickets. You've got to relax and bowl. All the pressure is on the batsmen.\"\n\nSouth Africa batsman Dean Elgar on Sky Sports: \"The game is evenly poised. It can go either way at the moment.\n\n\"The wicket is playing nicely. We need two or three guys to grind it out. We have batters in the shed who can do that. We have to start well.\"\n\nFormer England batsman Michael Carberry on The Cricket Social: \"Malan has looked very assured. His judgement outside off stump has been superb. He has done the job necessary for the team. He is going to have to play a major knock for South Africa to save this game.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn theory, the Iran nuclear deal is still in existence. But only just.\n\nThe country has announced that it will no longer be bound by any of its restrictions in terms of the numbers or type of centrifuges that can be operated or the level of enrichment of uranium that it can pursue.\n\nBut Tehran insists that all of the steps it has taken to breach the agreement - formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - are reversible. Other parties have to honour its terms, which presumably means that the US must abandon its crushing economic sanctions and endorse the deal once more.\n\nIt is very hard to imagine President Donald Trump abandoning his \"maximum pressure\" campaign and lifting the sanctions, so that may well be a non-starter.\n\nAt the very least, the Europeans must find some payment mechanism to make up for the damage that is being done to the Iranian economy. They have tried to do this but so far to no great effect.\n\nGovernments can posture from the sidelines but it is up to individual companies to decide if they want to trade with Iran and risk the weight of US sanctions. The evidence so far is that they do not.\n\nSo is the nuclear agreement dead and buried, or could it be revived? If it is well and truly defunct, then why not simply acknowledge this fact? And who exactly killed it?\n\nThe last question is the easiest to answer. For in a purely technical sense, looking at the agreement and its implementation, the Iranians have a point when they blame the US.\n\nThe deal has effectively been on life support ever since the Trump administration abandoned it in May 2018. Donald Trump has consistently railed against former President Barack Obama's \"bad deal\". But all of its other signatories - the UK, France, Russia, China, Germany and the EU - still believe it has merit.\n\nThe JCPOA was never designed to be a perfect deal - there is no such thing. Its purpose was to constrain Iran's nuclear programme for a set period in a largely verifiable way.\n\nThere was a hope that as economic benefits came to Iran, its wider disruptive policies might change. By the time the constraints of the agreement finally expired, perhaps there would be an altogether different Iran from the one we know today.\n\nBut the deal's main rationale - a particularly significant one given the current crisis - was that it helped to avert war. Before its signature, there was mounting concern about Tehran's nuclear activities and every chance that Israel (or possibly Israel and the US in tandem) might attack Iran's nuclear facilities.\n\nIran has always insisted that it does not want the bomb. But at one point it certainly had a military nuclear programme. The specifically military aspects of its nuclear programme were halted some time ago, but its enrichment effort, the hardening of its facilities against attack, and its developing missile programme, all stoked fears that Tehran would one day get to a point where it could \"break out\" and dash towards a bomb.\n\nThe whole point of the 2015 deal was to make this \"break-out\" time sufficient to ensure that any military-related activities would be spotted in time for international action to be taken.\n\nThe deal went into force. But then along came President Trump and he wanted the agreement gone. Sanctions were re-imposed. Iran condemned this as a breach of the whole deal and thus determined to take action itself.\n\nIt should be noted that prior to the US withdrawal, the international nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, was clear: Iran was living up to its side of the bargain.\n\nSince the US withdrawal, Iran (albeit after some delay) has successively breached some of the key constraints of the deal. Now it appears to be throwing these constraints over altogether. What matters now is precisely what it decides to do.\n\nWill it up its level of uranium enrichment to 20%? This would significantly reduce the time it would take Tehran to obtain suitable material for a bomb. Will it continue to abide by enhanced international inspection measures?\n\nMuch has been made in Washington of Iran's wider regional behaviour. Signing the nuclear deal made no difference to this. Indeed, the initial relaxation of sanctions may have provided funds for Iran's expansive regional campaign of influence.\n\nBut that is not what the agreement was designed to constrain. It was a nuclear agreement alone and according to most of its signatories it was working up until the US walked away.\n\nWe are now at the destination the Trump administration clearly hoped for in May 2018. But the major powers, while deeply unhappy about Iran's breaches of the deal, are also shocked at the controversial decision by Mr Trump to kill the head of Iran's Quds Force - a decision that has again brought the US and Iran to the brink of war.\n\nThe tensions between the US and many of its European allies complicate things no end. Nobody other than President Trump wants to declare the agreement dead. Once it is gone and Iran is breaching its terms, the Europeans will have to decide whether to renew nuclear-related sanctions themselves.\n\nAccepting the deal's demise might make a difficult situation even worse and Iran clearly sees value in holding to the empty shell of the agreement - a least, to differentiate itself from Washington.", "The attack happened outside a police station in Gelsenkirchen\n\nGerman police have shot dead a man who tried to attack officers with a knife in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.\n\nPolice say a search of the man's flat later did not suggest a terrorist motive. The 37-year-old Turkish citizen is thought to have been mentally ill.\n\nHe struck a police car with a stick and attempted to assault two officers standing by the vehicle, police said.\n\nHe was also wielding a knife and was shot four times after refusing to heed a shouted warning, police said.\n\nPolice are examining electronic data seized in their search of the man's flat and checking reports that he shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" (God is greatest) during the attack.\n\nPolice say the man was known for previous acts of violence. He had been living in Germany since 2002.\n\n\"We are now working on the basis that this was the lone act of a mentally ill man,\" North-Rhine Westphalia interior minister Herbert Reul said.\n\nGermany revised its terror threat level on Friday, citing possible attacks after the US killed an Iranian general. Deutsche Welle reports.\n\nThe incident came hours after police in the eastern French city of Metz shot and wounded a man who had rushed towards them.\n\nThe local prosecutor's office said the man was on a list of people monitored for links to militant groups.", "Mr Elcombe was remanded on bail for trial at Plymouth Crown Court on 7 April\n\nA man has denied wielding a seagull in a fight with a cafe customer.\n\nPaul Elcombe, 26, allegedly threw the bird at Kyle Towers at Goodbody's cafe in Plymouth on 12 May last year.\n\nMr Elcombe, from Greenbank in Plymouth, appeared at the city's crown court to deny wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.\n\nNo plea was entered to another charge of attempting to injure a wild bird. Mr Elcombe was remanded on bail for trial at Plymouth Crown Court on 7 April.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New car registrations in the UK last year fell to their lowest level since 2013, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).\n\nIt was the third consecutive year of decline, and the SMMT expects that trend to continue in 2020.\n\nThose expectations are largely due to weak consumer confidence and confusion over clean-air legislation.\n\nThe organisation also says the industry is facing serious challenges adapting to new emissions legislation.\n\nIt says new rules will require a huge expansion in the use of electric and hybrid cars.\n\nBut according to the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes, the fallout from Brexit remains the biggest \"clear and present danger\" to the sector in the UK.\n\nThe SMMT's figures show a total of 2.31 million new cars were registered in 2019, down 2.4% from the year before.\n\nSince reaching a record high of 2.69 million vehicles in 2016, the market has been steadily contracting, in response to what Mr Hawes describes as a \"perfect storm\" for the industry.\n\nA key factor has been the collapse in demand for diesel-powered cars, which fell by 22% compared with 2018.\n\nWhere once they accounted for half of all new cars sold, now they make up just a quarter of the market.\n\nThe SMMT says uncertainty over future air quality rules, and in particular over potential restrictions on diesel vehicles entering city centres, has left consumers confused.\n\nThat, combined with political uncertainty and a general fall in consumer confidence, has meant many potential buyers have decided to hang on to their old cars rather than investing in new ones.\n\n\"You can never put it down to one single factor. It has been a perfect storm over the past few years\", says Mr Hawes.\n\n\"It's really no surprise the market has been declining. That's why we need a return of confidence and strong economic conditions\".\n\nThe situation is not expected to improve this year, however, with the SMMT forecasting a further 1.6 % fall in registrations in 2020.\n\nOne area in which sales have increased dramatically over the past year is the market for \"alternatively fuelled vehicles\", in other words electric cars and hybrids. They rose by more than a fifth. Registrations of pure-electric cars were up 144%, albeit from a very low level.\n\nThe problem for the industry is that this increase is not happening nearly fast enough. New EU rules which are being phased in this year, and which enter fully into force in 2021, oblige manufacturers to cut the average CO2 emissions of their new car fleets dramatically - or face swingeing fines.\n\nThese targets are expected to remain in force, even after the UK has left the EU. But they imply a cut of more than a third in overall CO2 output, and the industry believes that meeting them will be extremely challenging.\n\nIn fact, the SMMT calculates that without other changes, the market share of electric vehicles would have to rise from the current 1.6% to 27% - or the combined share of electric vehicles and hybrids would have to increase from 7.4% to 56%.\n\nIn reality, manufacturers will not rely solely on selling more low- or zero-emission vehicles in order to meet the targets. They will also be able to withdraw their most-polluting models and sell more efficient petrol and diesel vehicles, for example.\n\nBut sales of electric and hybrid vehicles will still need to rise very substantially, and Mr Hawes insists government must play a role.\n\n\"These are still expensive technologies. They carry a price premium,\" he says.\n\n\"That's why incentives are so significant in determining the uptake.\"\n\nBut of all the clouds hanging over the industry, one remains darker than the rest in the eyes of the SMMT: the aftermath of Brexit.\n\nAlthough the UK is due to leave the EU on 31 January, what happens after the transition period remains uncertain.\n\nThe government insists it will be able to conclude a trade deal with the EU by the end of the year.\n\nBut if that doesn't happen, there remains the possibility that the movement of cars and car parts across the channel could be subject to steep tariffs or disruptive border checks and delays.\n\n\"That is probably the clear and present danger,\" says Mr Hawes\n\n\"Yes, we will always sell cars in the UK and buy cars in the UK. Where they come from will be affected by Brexit. How much you pay will be affected by Brexit.\"\n\n\"That is right before us now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Phil Mercer says Kangaroo Valley has \"a horrible, ghostly feel\"\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned that the devastating bushfires raging in the country might go on for months.\n\nAt least 24 people have died since the fires began in September. Air quality in the capital Canberra was this weekend rated the worst in the world.\n\nMr Morrison announced the creation of a recovery agency to help those who have lost homes and businesses in the fires.\n\nHe has faced fierce criticism over the speed of his response to the crisis.\n\nThe weekend saw some of the worst days of the crisis so far, with hundreds more properties destroyed. Rural towns and major cities saw red skies, falling ash and smoke that clogged the air.\n\nConditions eased in Victoria and New South Wales on Sunday after temperatures and wind speeds dropped and some light rain fell. But authorities warned that the danger was far from over.\n\n\"We're in uncharted territory,\" said the New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian. \"We can't pretend that this is something that we have experienced before. It's not.\"\n\nJohn Steele, 73, who was evacuated with his wife from their rural property north of Eden late on Saturday, told the AFP news agency: \"Visibility was down to about 50 metres, if that, and we had lots of debris falling out of the sky and a lot of white ash.\n\n\"The sky is still red. We're not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Phil Mercer witnessed a dust storm \"coming towards us like a monster\"\n\nPrime Minister Morrison on Saturday announced the largest military call-up in the country's recent history, mobilising up to 3,000 reservists to assist exhausted volunteer firefighters.\n\nMr Morrison, who cancelled a planned visit to India because of the crisis, faced further condemnation on Sunday, after the head of the NSW Rural Fire Service revealed the service had only learned of the plan to call up reserve troops through the media.\n\nIn an indication of the long road ahead, Mr Morrison warned that the fires might burn for many months, and said that the newly-created recovery agency would run for at least two years. The body will help bushfire-hit communities recover, media reports said, through work ranging from rebuilding infrastructure to providing mental health support.\n\nQueen Elizabeth on Sunday said she was \"deeply saddened\" by the fires, and thanked the emergency services \"who put their own lives in danger\" to help communities.\n\nA fundraiser for fire services launched by the Australian comedian Celeste Barber on Friday raised more than A$20 million (£10.6m; $13m) in just 48 hours\n\n\"Please help any way you can. This is terrifying,\" Ms Celeste wrote in a Facebook appeal.\n\nShe called the rush of donations \"incredible\", and said the proceeds would go to NSW Rural Fire Service - a government-funded agency staffed by volunteers - and the Brigades Donations Fund, which channels charitable donations directly to fire brigades.\n\nMembers of the comedian's family were evacuated from the town of Eden in New South Wales, where officials told residents to leave immediately and head north if they did not have a bushfire response plan.\n\nMany New South Wales residents have turned to evacuation centres after fleeing their homes\n\nA number of celebrities have also donated money to support the firefighting effort in recent days - among them the US singer Pink and Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, who pledged $500,000. \"Our family's support, thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the fires all over Australia,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nNews of the donations was praised by Australians on social media, but some lamented that private citizens were raising funds they said should have been put in place by the government.\n\nNearly 200 fires are still burning across the country, with every state and territory affected. More than 1,200 homes have been destroyed and millions of hectares of land scorched.\n\nTens of thousands of homes in NSW were left without power and thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal towns over the past week. The town of Cooma suffered a further blow on Saturday night when a large tower carrying millions of litres of water exploded, flooding homes and sweeping away vehicles.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham say no evidence was found to support allegations of racism from their fans towards Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger during the sides' Premier League match last month.\n\nPlay was stopped during the game after Rudiger said he heard monkey noises.\n\nSpurs say they \"fully support Antonio Rudiger with the action he took\" and the club and police \"exhausted all avenues of investigation\".\n\n\"There is no evidence to corroborate or contradict the allegation,\" they said.\n\nChelsea said: \"We support Toni Rudiger totally and unequivocally on this matter, and as Tottenham's statement makes clear, a lack of evidence does not mean an incident did not take place.\n\n\"In responding to this incident, we must be very careful about the climate we create for players who experience and report racist behaviour.\n\n\"It is vitally important that we continue to encourage all players, whatever shirt they wear, to report racist abuse without fear of doubt or reprisal.\"\n\nA total of six arrests were made following Chelsea's win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 22 December as part of the Metropolitan Police operation at the fixture, but none were linked to the incident involving Germany international Rudiger.\n\nOne Chelsea fan was arrested for a racially aggravated public order offence against Spurs forward Son Heung-min, who had been sent off after a collision with Rudiger.\n\nSpurs said they were able to \"track every fan\" using cameras at their new 62,062 stadium and that any supporter found to be guilty of racism would \"receive a lifetime ban\".\n\nIn their statement on Monday, the club said they had worked with professional lip-readers, and that all reports had also been reviewed by the police.\n\n\"We are fiercely proud of our anti-racism work and our zero tolerance of any form of discrimination,\" the club said. \"This is one reason why we have attributed so much time and resource to investigating this matter.\n\n\"Had we identified anyone guilty of this we were intent on issuing them with a lifetime ban from our stadium as they would have no place among our proud, diverse fanbase.\n\n\"If any new information comes to light, this will be fully investigated.\"\n\nThey said the police had notified them that \"they have closed the crime report as they can find no evidence to support the allegation of racial abuse\".", "Police have been to the scene of a \"sudden death\" in Carrickfergus, County Antrim.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it happened in the Woodburn area of the town on Saturday night and involved a man in his 40s.\n\nA post-mortem examination was needed to determine the cause of death, police said.\n\nUlster Unionist MLA John Stewart tweeted police were dealing with a \"serious incident\" at Ashleigh Park.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Stewart MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice maintained a cordon around a block of six flats in the Woodburn estate on Sunday.\n\nOne neighbour told the BBC that the man lived alone and had only recently moved into the area.\n\nA neighbour and friend of the man who died said he last saw him on Thursday evening when he called to his flat.\n\nHe added he let the police into the communal part of the building on Saturday afternoon after they received a call from someone expressing concern for the man.", "Michelle Williams has been praised by fellow actors after giving an impassioned speech about women's rights at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.\n\nThe 39-year-old made the comments, which alluded to abortion, after picking up one of the acting awards.\n\n\"I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose,\" she said. \"To choose when to have my children, and with whom.\"\n\nBut she came in for criticism from anti-abortion commentators in the US.\n\nThe four-time Oscar nominee won the Golden Globe for best actress in a limited series or TV movie for her role in drama series Fosse/Verdon.\n\n\"I am grateful to live in a moment in our society where choice exists, because as girls and women, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice,\" she told the ceremony.\n\n\"I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognise my handwriting all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I carved with my own hand.\"\n\nWilliams and actor Heath Ledger had a daughter in 2005, and the star is now expecting a child with director Thomas Kail.\n\nShe was applauded by stars in Los Angeles for encouraging women of all ages to vote \"in your own self-interest\" in this year's US presidential election.\n\n\"It's what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them,\" she said.\n\nReese Witherspoon described her acting colleague as a \"champion of women\" and an \"inspiration\", while the Time's Up movement, which aims to end harassment and gender discrimination, thanked Williams for her remarks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reese Witherspoon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWilliams' speech came three months after she tackled the issue of gender pay inequality in her Emmy Awards acceptance speech.\n\n\"Michelle Williams again drops truth!\" wrote Jamie Lee Curtis after the Golden Globes speech.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn making a politically-driven speech, Williams had ignored host Ricky Gervais's humorous request for winners not to do so.\n\nWhile many applauded her for it, others, including US President Donald Trump's legal advisor Jenna Ellis, strongly criticised her.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Jenna Ellis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther conservative commentators took issue with her message, with political comedian and author Tim Young writing: \"Regardless what side you're on, abortion should be more solemn than paraphrased: If you have one, you can win awards like me!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Tim Young This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jonathan Coe's book Middle England, which takes a humorous look at life in Britain before and after the Brexit referendum, has been named the best novel of 2019 at the Costa Book Awards.\n\nThe book was described by the prize's judges as \"the perfect novel for now\".\n\nAward organisers said Coe's 13th novel tells the story of \"a changing country and the cracks that appear within families and between generations\".\n\nHe is one of five winning authors in different genre categories.\n\nThey will each receive £5,000 and go forward to be in contention to be named the overall Costa Book of the Year on 28 January.\n\nMiddle England spans 2010 to 2018 and follows a range of characters including a couple who attend marriage counselling after voting different ways in the 2016 referendum.\n\nIn the other categories, Sara Collins won best first novel for her gothic romance The Confessions of Frannie Langton, about the twisted love affair between a Jamaican maid and her French mistress in 19th Century London.\n\nWelsh author and former war reporter Jack Fairweather's biography of unsung war hero Witold Pilecki, who infiltrated Auschwitz, won the biography award; while Jasbinder Bilan's first children's novel Asha & the Spirit Bird was also among the winners.\n\nLast year the novel award was won by Irish author Sally Rooney for her second effort Normal People, and the overall book of the year award was won by Bart van Es for his biography The Cut Out Girl.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "No 10 has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, saying their work is vital.\n\nSoleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq on Friday on the orders of President Donald Trump.\n\nIraqi MPs responded to the strike by passing a non-binding resolution calling for an end to the foreign military presence in their country.\n\nEuropean leaders have called for all sides to show restraint.\n\nMeanwhile, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has denied US troops are pulling out of Iraq, after a letter from a US general there suggested a withdrawal.\n\nThe letter said the US would be \"repositioning forces in the coming days and weeks\" - but Mr Esper said there had been \"no decision whatsoever to leave\".\n\nEarlier, Boris Johnson spoke to Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi by phone, and a Downing Street spokesman said the leaders had \"agreed to work together to find a diplomatic way forward\".\n\n\"The prime minister underlined the UK's unwavering commitment to Iraq's stability and sovereignty and emphasised the importance of the continued fight against the shared threat from Daesh [the Islamic State group]\".\n\nMr Johnson then chaired a meeting of senior ministers to discuss the deepening crisis.\n\nAfterwards, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the government's key message was the \"importance of de-escalating the tensions and finding a diplomatic way through this crisis\".\n\nHe also distanced the UK from the US president's threat that cultural sites in Iran could be targeted, saying: \"We have been clear cultural sites are protected under international law and we would expect that to be respected.\"\n\nAbout 400 British troops are stationed in Iraq, while the US has 5,200.\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Monday that the alliance's forces had suspended training in Iraq. Only a small number of the UK troops in Iraq are involved in that operation.\n\nThe Army says that British troops are in the country to provide training and equipment to Iraqi and Kurdish security forces - rather than in a combat role - and have trained more than 25,000 Iraqi forces.\n\nCaretaker Iraqi Prime Minister Mr Abdul Mahdi spoke in favour of US and other foreign forces leaving the country, although most Sunni and Kurdish MPs boycotted the vote.\n\nA UK government spokesman said that coalition forces were in Iraq to protect its people and others from the Islamic State group, at the request of the Iraqi government.\n\nMeanwhile, Iran's ambassador to the UK has strongly denied reports in the Times that his country had threatened to kill British troops following the assassination of Soleimani.\n\nThe paper quotes an unnamed senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard as saying that its forces would \"target US troops in the Middle East without any concern about killing its allies, including UK troops\".\n\nBut Hamid Baeidinejad described the story as \"provocative\" and a \"vicious lie\" in a Twitter post.\n\n\"I will ask the concerned UK authorities to take swift action to stop such malicious false propaganda in this very sensitive time,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn Iranian Embassy official also told the BBC there were no plans to attack British targets and said any suggestion that an attack could take place in Britain was laughable, adding \"we are not idiots\".\n\nRetired army officer Sir Simon Vincent Mayall warned on Radio 4's Today programme that British troops serving in the Middle East could \"possibly\" be killed in retaliation attacks on US soldiers.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence adviser said western allied troops stationed in neighbouring Iraq were \"joined at the hip\" and that casualties could be shared in Iraq if Iran hits back.\n\nIn a joint statement issued on Sunday night, Mr Johnson, Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron said the current cycle of violence \"must be stopped\" and called on Iran to refrain from further violent action and proliferation.\n\nThe three leaders said they were concerned by the \"negative\" role Iran has played in the region but called on \"all parties to exercise utmost restraint and responsibility\".\n\nWith tensions rising in the region, Iran has responded by vowing revenge and announcing it will no longer abide by the restrictions in its 2015 nuclear deal.\n\nThe deal limited Iranian nuclear capacities in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said Iran's announcement was \"extremely concerning\".\n\n\"It's in everyone's interest that the deal remains in place,\" he said, adding that \"it makes the world safer\".\n\n\"We've always said the nuclear deal is a reciprocal deal and in light of Iran's announcement we are urgently speaking to partners about next steps,\" the spokesman said.\n\nIn their statement, the three European leaders urged the country to \"reverse all measures inconsistent with\" the deal.\n\nMr Johnson said he spoke to President Trump on Sunday about the assassination of the Iranian general, who spearheaded the country's military operations in the Middle East as head of the elite Quds Force.\n\nThe White House said the two leaders had \"reaffirmed the close alliance between the two countries\".\n\nFollowing warnings from Iran, Mr Trump said that the US would respond in the event of retaliation for Soleimani's death, \"perhaps in a disproportionate manner\".\n\nHe repeated a threat to target Iranian cultural sites, saying the US would \"strike very fast and very hard\" if Tehran attacked Americans or US assets.\n\nOn Monday, former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Breakfast one \"heartbreaking\" result of the crisis was that it was now going to be \"much harder\" to secure the release of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nShe was jailed in Iran over spying allegations that she denies.\n\nMeanwhile, a British frigate and destroyer - HMS Montrose and HMS Defender - are to start accompanying UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, where a tanker was seized by Iran last July.", "Three men have been arrested for allegedly trying to break into a British Army base in central Kenya.\n\nRegional police chief Marcus Ochola said officers were interrogating the suspects to establish their motive.\n\nThe failed intrusion occurred at a camp in the town of Nanyuki where 10,000 UK troops receive training every year.\n\nIt came hours after an attack on a US army base in Kenya's coastal region - but it is not clear whether the two incidents are connected.\n\nOn Sunday, al-Shabab militants attacked Camp Simba on Manda Island in Lamu County killing a US military service member and two contractors .\n\nA spokesperson for the British Army told the BBC that they were working with Kenyan authorities in the investigations.\n\n\"Kenyan police are currently investigating suspicious activity near a base used by the British Army for training,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nKenyan police said the three suspects were spotted on CCTV attempting to forcedly enter the base.\n\n\"We are still interrogating them to find out the truth,\" Rift Valley Regional Commissioner George Natembeya told the Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper.\n\nThe Nanyuki camp, about 200km (120 miles) north of the capital Nairobi, is used by the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk) under an agreement with Kenya for training British troops in hot and rugged terrain.", "Takieddine Boudhane worked as a delivery driver for companies Deliveroo and Uber Eats\n\nA Deliveroo and Uber Eats delivery rider stabbed to death in a possible road rage attack has been identified.\n\nTakieddine Boudhane, 30, was attacked while on his moped near Charteris Road, in Finsbury Park, north London, at about 18:50 GMT on Friday.\n\nA white van linked to the stabbing was found in Islington and seized. Met detectives said they were looking for the driver.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil John said the wanted driver was the \"subject of a manhunt\".\n\nMr Boudhane, an Algerian national, had been living in the UK for about three years, police said.\n\nOn Sunday morning police found a \"white VW Caddy panel-type van\" in the borough where Mr Boudhane was killed.\n\nForensic officers worked inside the police cordon, off Charteris Road in Finsbury Park\n\n\"It has been removed to a police compound where a full forensic examination will be undertaken,\" Det Ch Insp John said.\n\n\"The driver and person believed responsible for this tragic matter is now the subject of a police manhunt.\n\n\"At this time I am unable to release any further information concerning the identity of the driver as this may hinder the ongoing police investigation.\"\n\nOn Saturday delivery riders gathered in Stroud Green Road - near the scene of the attack in Lennox Road - said Mr Boudhane had been the victim of a road rage attack.\n\nPolice said the stabbing appeared to be \"spontaneous\"\n\nOne man who said he was a friend of Mr Boudhane described him as a \"good man\".\n\nHe added: \"He doesn't make any trouble - he works and he goes home and he ends up being killed while he's working.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's not safe to work by yourself any more - what can you do?\n\n\"If someone comes at you with a knife you give them what you have or they are going to stab you.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two-year-old Isla is believed by medical experts to be the only person in the world living with a genetic condition that accelerates the ageing of her cells.\n\nSo little is known about it that even specialists do not know what her future holds and what support she might need.\n\nHer parents Stacey Kilpatrick and Kyle Screaton told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme they are considering taking legal action against the hospital that treated her.\n\nUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said it was \"very sorry Isla's parents have concerns about her care in our hospitals. We urge them to contact us directly if they have ongoing concerns.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Actor Russell Crowe has used his winner's speech at the Golden Globes to raise awareness of the deadly bushfire crisis in Australia.\n\n\"Make no mistake. The tragedy unfolding in Australia is climate change-based,\" he said in a message read out on stage by show host Jennifer Aniston.\n\nCrowe won the award for his portrayal of Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes in The Loudest Voice in the Room.\n\nHis comments join a wave of celebrity support for the fire response.\n\nAt least 24 people have died since the fires began in September.\n\nThe fires are a natural part of the Australian weather cycle, but have been worsened this year by hotter-than-average temperatures and a persistent drought in many areas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCrowe is one of thousands of Australian residents whose homes have been lost or damaged by the bushfires, which are affecting every state and territory.\n\n\"We need to act based on science, move our global workforce to renewable energy and respect our planet for the unique and amazing place it is,\" he said in his message.\n\nCrowe was not at the Golden Globes ceremony in Hollywood - Aniston said he had stayed at home to protect his family.\n\nHe has been posting regularly on social media since the fires began, about the damage to his home but also encouraging donations to the largely volunteer fire services.\n\nHis latest video showed his Golden Globe alongside his firefighting equipment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge, who took home two award for her Fleabag series, said she would auction off her custom-made suit to raise funds.\n\nActress Cate Blanchett also paid tribute at the ceremony to the largely volunteer firefighting operation, saying: \"When one country is facing a climate disaster, we are all facing a climate disaster.\"\n\nAnd Joaquin Phoenix, who won best actor in a drama for The Joker, called on Hollywood to \"get unified and make some changes\" on climate change.\n\nThe Golden Globe speeches are part of a surge of celebrity activism over the past week, as the scale of the crisis has become more known internationally.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScores of actors, singers and sports stars - Australian or otherwise - have donated to help the victims of the fires or are encouraging others to do so.\n\nAustralian actress Margot Robbie shared an emotional appeal on Instagram on Monday showing pictures of her childhood to show \"how beautiful our country is\".\n\n\"It is so beautiful and it's really hurting right now,\" she said, while calling for her followers to give to various charities \"to give future generations the kind of childhood I was so lucky to have\".\n\nProminent Australian writers have also joined forces under the #AuthorsForFireys hashtag on Twitter, auctioning off personalised pieces of writing, workshops, illustrations or coaching in exchange for donations.\n\nIn the sports world, Australian cricket great Shane Warne is auctioning off his famous green Test cap to raise funds for the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund.\n\nThe highest bid is currently more than A$300,000 ($209,000; £160,000).\n\nSeveral tennis players taking part in the Brisbane Open have said they will give sizeable donations - or in the case of Australian world number one Ashleigh Barty all her prize money if she wins.\n\nDonations have also been pledged by Australian actress Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban, and by the singer Pink, who said on Saturday she was \"totally devastated\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kim Kardashian West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian Celeste Barber, who found fame through recreating celebrity Instagram pictures, launched an appeal through her account at the weekend which has already raised more than A$31m.\n\nShe shared an image of her mother-in-law's home, saying: \"It's terrifying. They are scared.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKim Kardashian-West, who has nearly 63 million followers on Twitter, tweeted a string of news articles about the fires on 3 January, followed by the message: \"Climate change is real\", while Selena Gomez, with more than 59 million followers on Twitter, also called for donations.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned that the fires could burn for months.", "She was convicted following a trial after recanting a claim that she was raped in a hotel room in July.\n\nThe foreign secretary has urged Cyprus to \"do the right thing\" in the case of a British teenager convicted of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa.\n\nDominic Raab said Cyprus was \"sensitive\" about interference, but added the woman's sentencing on 7 January was \"firmly on my radar\".\n\nHe also told the BBC he had spoken to the woman's mother and offered support.\n\nThe 19-year-old was convicted after she recanted a claim that she was raped by 12 Israelis in a hotel on 17 July.\n\nThe UK previously said it was \"seriously concerned about the fair trial guarantees\" for the woman.\n\nAnd speaking to the Andrew Marr programme on Sunday, Mr Raab revealed he had conveyed his \"very serious concerns\" about her treatment by the Cypriot authorities to his opposite number on the island.\n\nHe said the teenager had gone through a \"terrible ordeal\" and that he had spoken to her mother on Friday \"to see what further support we could provide\".\n\nHe added it was his priority to get the woman back to the UK to start her recovery.\n\nThe Cypriot government previously responded to criticism by saying it had \"full confidence in the justice system and the courts\".\n\nAsked whether the Foreign Office would advise tourists against visiting Cyprus, Mr Raab said it always keeps its travel advice \"under review\".\n\nEarlier, he told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that the teenager's case must be handled \"sensitively to make sure we don't do anything counter-productive\".\n\nAsked what he would do if he felt there has been a miscarriage of justice, Mr Raab added: \"We don't control the Cypriot justice system...but there are clear questions around the due process, the fair trial, safeguards that have applied in this case.\"\n\nThe teenager could face up to a year in jail and a £1,500 fine on Tuesday, but her lawyers have asked for a suspended sentence.\n\nDominic Raab was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show\n\nThe teenager first contacted Cypriot police in July, hours after she claims she was raped by 12 Israeli youths in a room at the Pambos Napa Rocks hotel in Ayia Napa.\n\nThe 12 were arrested but later freed and returned home after she retracted her claims 10 days later.\n\nShe was then arrested and later appeared in court facing charges of public mischief, to which she pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe woman has since said Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about the incident - something police have denied.\n\nShe was found guilty on a charge of causing public mischief on 30 December.\n\nThe conviction has attracted criticism from women's groups and human rights campaigners.\n\nProtesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women protested outside the court on the day of the teenager's conviction.\n\nProtesters from the Network Against Violence Against Women were outside the court\n\nThe woman's lawyers have also criticised the conviction and the way the case was handled by the Cypriot police and Judge Michalis Papathanasiou.\n\nThey pledged to appeal against it and plan to take her case to the Cyprus Supreme Court.\n\nSenior legal figures in Cyprus later signed a letter written to the Attorney General Costas Clerides asking him to intervene in the case, including former justice minister Kypros Chrysostomides.\n\nMr Chrysostomides said the teenager had \"already suffered a lot\" and he expects her sentence will be \"very lenient\".\n\nHe added: \"She has already been in detention for four and a half weeks and she has already been prevented from travelling for about five months already.\"\n\nThe woman's mother said her daughter was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, hallucinations, and was sleeping for 18 or 20 hours a day because of a condition called hypersomnia.\n\nShe said the teenager urgently needs to return to the UK to get treatment.\n\nThe woman's mother said she believed her daughter's experience in Ayia Napa was not an isolated incident, and backed an online campaign for tourists to boycott the island.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The place isn't safe - it is absolutely not safe. And if you go and report something that's happened to you, you're either laughed at, as far as I can tell, or, in the worst case, something like what's happened to my daughter may happen.\"\n\nMeanwhile, one of the men accused of taking part in the gang-rape, Yona Golub, told the Mail On Sunday that the group were \"preparing to sue\" the teenager.\n\nHe said the group \"deserve compensation for what we went through\".", "The body of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general killed in a US drone strike, has been brought back to Iran.\n\nFootage filmed by Iran Press shows huge crowds taking to the streets of the Iranian city of Ahvaz, marking the beginning of ceremonies in his honour.\n\nGeneral Soleimani's burial will take place in his home town of Kerman on 7 January.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"We lost the public's trust in the Labour Party as a force for good\"\n\nCandidates hoping to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader have questioned the party's manifesto choices while opening up dividing lines on Brexit.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said its election offer was \"over-loaded\" while both Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips said voters did not trust its free broadband pledge.\n\nMs Phillips also said she would not rule out rejoining the EU if Brexit turned out not to be a success.\n\nShe said she would not change her view that the UK was \"better off\" in the EU.\n\nSir Keir and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry - both strong supporters of another referendum before the election - said Labour's focus as an opposition should now be on ensuring Boris Johnson negotiated the best economic and trade partnership with the EU.\n\nFive candidates, also including Clive Lewis, have so far entered the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour's ruling body is due to meet on Monday to decide the timetable for the election. Would-be candidates have to be nominated by more than 20 MPs and must also get the backing of at least 5% of constituency parties or three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey is also expected to officially declare her candidacy in the coming days.\n\nThe contest was called after Mr Corbyn announced he would stand down as leader after Labour's heavy election defeat.\n\nBoth Sir Keir and Ms Phillips told the BBC's Andrew Marr the party must learn the lessons of the defeat and why some many previously rock-solid Labour seats in the Midlands and the North of England turned to the Conservatives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jess Phillips: \"The country didn't trust us to govern\"\n\nSir Keir said the manifesto was one of a number of \"cumulative\" factors that eroded trust, on top of concerns over the party's Brexit policy, its leadership and its record on tackling anti-Semitism.\n\n\"There was a general feeling the manifesto was over-loaded. We lost the public's trust in the Labour Party as a force for good and a force for change,\" he said. \"After four general election losses we have to address that straight away.\"\n\nBut he warned Labour against \"unpicking\" the last manifesto when it should be focused on its offer to voters in five years time. He also said it would be wrong to \"retreat\" from Mr Corbyn's focus on reducing inequality and protecting the public services.\n\nWhile not the sole reason for its defeat, Ms Phillips also identified the manifesto - which pledged to bring rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership and extend the role of the state into new areas - as one of Labour's weak points.\n\n\"The fundamental thing is that the country did not trust us to govern,\" she said. \"They did not trust to deliver on the things we were saying.\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey is expected to join the race\n\nWhile there was a strong case for nationalising the railways and ending private involvement in the prison and probation services, she suggested tackling deep-seated social problems, such as homelessness and social care, were more important than public control of key utilities.\n\n\"We lost them on some of the basics. My son does not go to school five days a week. Lots of people in the country can give you their own example. While that was the case, offering free broadband was just not believable.\"\n\nThe Birmingham Yardley MP said the party must stop obsessing with factionalism and internal positioning and speak honestly to people.\n\n\"People have to feel a connection with us again. People have to feel we are on their side.\"\n\nMs Nandy also distanced herself from the broadband pledge, telling BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics: \"People said to us, 'It's all very well promising free broadband but can you sort out the buses?' and that was the more pressing issue in their lives. It's not about whether you're radical or not it's about whether you're relevant.\"\n\nMs Thornberry said Labour had been wrong to allow the Conservatives to fight the election on the \"single issue\" of Brexit.\n\nShe told Sky News that the opposition's focus should now be on ensuring the UK had a relationship with Europe in the coming years that's \"going to work for jobs and the economy\".\n\nSir Keir, who like Ms Thornberry was a supporter of another referendum, suggested the issue of EU membership was now closed and the party needed to move on from an argument between Remain and Leave.\n\nAsked whether she would support, as leader, the UK going back into the EU, Ms Phillips said it was sensible to \"wait and see\".\n\n\"If we are living in an absolute paradise of trade and totally safe in the world...then maybe I will be proven wrong. But if the reality is if if our country is safer and more economically viable to be in the EU, I will fight for that regardless of how difficult that argument is to make.\"\n\nThe candidates have also been pressed on the UK's relationship with the US following the killing of Iran's top military leader, Qasem Soleimani, in Iraq.\n\nMs Phillips said people were \"not shedding any tears\" over the Iranian general's death and, while she opposed the Iraq War, she would always support the deployment of British forces abroad if there was a \"moral case\" for it.\n\n\"What we have to make sure is that when we take action, it is lawful, proportionate and there is a moral case for it. If those questions can be answered, then I would absolutely take action to protect British lives.\"\n\nHowever, Sir Keir said the UK should never find itself in the position of \"blindly following the Americans\".\n\nIf he became prime minister, he said he would pass legislation to circumscribe the ability of governments to take military action. He suggested it would have to pass three tests - if it was lawful, had been supported by Parliament and was part of a viable plan.", "A mysterious viral pneumonia that has infected dozens in central China is not Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), health chiefs have said.\n\nThey also discounted bird flu and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and said investigations were continuing.\n\nA total of 59 cases have been reported in the city of Wuhan, seven of which are considered critical.\n\nThe outbreak prompted Singapore and Hong Kong to bring in screening processes for travellers from the city.\n\nAn epidemic of the potentially deadly, flu-like Sars virus killed more than 700 people around the world in 2002-03, after originating in China.\n\nIn a statement posted on its website late on Sunday, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said 163 people who had had contact with those infected had been placed under medical observation. It said efforts were continuing to identify the virus and its source.\n\nThe commission said previously that there had been no human-to-human transmission of the illness. It added that a number of those infected worked at a seafood market in the city, leading authorities to sanitise the area.\n\nThe outbreak occurred in the city of Wuhan\n\nSingapore and Hong Kong have both set up systems to check travellers arriving from Wuhan for possible fever.\n\nHong Kong has admitted 16 travellers with pneumonia-like symptoms to hospital, the South China Morning Post reported, but none have so far been found to have the unidentified strain. Singapore has had one suspicious case, it added.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is aware of the outbreak and is in contact with the Chinese government.\n\n\"There are many potential causes of viral pneumonia, many of which are more common than severe acute respiratory syndrome coronovirus,\" a spokesman said last week. \"WHO is closely monitoring this event and will share more details as we have them.\"\n• None They risked their lives to stop Sars", "These Tripoli residents welcomed news of Turkish military support for the GNA\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said troops have begun moving into Libya after parliament approved the move last week.\n\nHe said their mission was to ensure stability for the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli.\n\nThe Libyan government is fighting an insurgency by rebel forces under Gen Khalifa Haftar, based in eastern Libya.\n\nGen Haftar is backed by Egypt and the UAE, while the UN-backed government is supported by Turkey and its ally Qatar.\n\nRebel forces have been trying to capture Tripoli and were blamed for an air strike on a military academy on Saturday that killed at least 30 people. They denied any involvement.\n\nThe Turkish government has given no details about the scale of the military deployment.\n\n\"Our soldiers' duty there is co-ordination. They will develop the operation centre there. Our soldiers are gradually going right now,\" President Erdogan told the CNN Turk TV channel.\n\nHe said Turkey's objective was \"not to fight\" but \"to support the legitimate government and avoid a humanitarian tragedy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Arabic found videos of bodies being desecrated by fighters loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar.\n\nThe UN Security Council is expected to meet behind closed doors on Monday to discuss the situation in Libya, AFP news agency reported, citing diplomats.\n\nWhat do other countries think about the Turkish action?\n\nIt has been condemned by several countries, including the US.\n\nLast week, President Donald Trump told Mr Erdogan in a phone call that \"foreign interference is complicating the situation in Libya\".\n\nEgypt said military intervention in Libya was a \"matter of Egyptian national security\" and it would defeat efforts seeking \"to control\" its neighbour, news agency Reuters reports.\n\nWhile Israel, Greece and Cyprus issued a joint statement warning against the Turkish deployment. They called it a dangerous threat to regional stability, and warned that it breached a UN arms embargo imposed on Libya in order to end years of violence.\n\nRead more about what's happening in Libya:\n\nMPs in Turkey approved the bill allowing the deployment of troops last Thursday with 325 in favour and 184 against.\n\nLibya has been torn by violence since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011 by Nato-backed forces.\n\nThe country has two rival administrations, the UN-backed one based in Tripoli, and Gen Haftar's one in the eastern city of Tobruk.", "The Capel Celyn Memorial Chapel stands on the banks of Tryweryn reservoir\n\nA memorial to a lost village and an apple-shaped refreshment kiosk are two of the sites given a heritage listing in Wales in the past year.\n\nHeritage body Cadw gave special protection to nine sites, including the Capel Celyn Memorial Chapel in 2019.\n\nThe Big Apple in Mumbles, an iconic feature and described as \"a rare and unusual example of a seaside refreshment kiosk\" is also listed.\n\nFour buildings and five sites were protected.\n\nIn 1965, Capel Celyn was controversially flooded in order to create a reservoir which would supply water to Liverpool.\n\nA family leaving Capel Celyn for the last time in 1956\n\nThe Gwynedd village's school, chapel, post office and houses were lost beneath the Tryweryn reservoir.\n\nA memorial chapel was built on the side of Tryweryn using stones that were once part of the buildings in the lost village.\n\nWelsh Water chief executive Chris Jones said listing it reflects \"its cultural significance and its crucial importance to the local community and the history of our country\".\n\nThe Mumbles apple is the last surviving example of a string of kiosks built in the 1930s to promote a brand of cider\n\nThe other two buildings listed are Pearl Assurance House, Pontypool and Theatr Clwyd in Mold.\n\n\"We are proud of our rich heritage and we value our unique historic buildings and monuments,\" said deputy culture minister Lord Elis-Thomas.\n\n\"Our heritage is at the heart of our identity as a nation and contributes to our economic vitality and cultural wellbeing.\"\n\nHe added each site listed in the past year has its \"own unique story\".\n\nThe two pill box defence sites listed are in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThe sites that were made scheduled monuments included the Llanerch-y-Mor smelting chimneys in Holywell and Ffynnon Angoeron (the Freezing Well), in Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire.\n\nThere is also the remains of a Lockheed aircraft abandoned in 1942 and now buried at Morfa Harlech National Nature Reserve.\n\nFrom World War Two, \"pill box\" anti-invasion defences at St Mary's and Tresilian Bay, both in Vale of Glamorgan, are the fourth and fifth monuments listed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nRebecca Long Bailey has become the sixth candidate to join the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn an article for the Tribune magazine, she said Labour needed a \"socialist leader who can work with our movement, rebuild our communities and fight for the policies we believe in\".\n\nShe joins Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry, Clive Lewis, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips in the contest.\n\nLabour's new leader, and deputy leader, will be announced on 4 April.\n\nThe six leadership contenders are facing questions from Labour MPs at a hustings in Westminster, as the three-month contest officially gets under way.\n\nIn her article, Mrs Long Bailey said Labour had a \"mountain to climb\" to get back to power, but there was a \"path to victory\" if the party stayed true to its socialist values.\n\nThe Salford and Eccles MP, who has been shadow business secretary since 2016, is backed by her flatmate and deputy leadership contender Angela Rayner. She also has the support of key figures within Mr Corbyn's inner circle, including shadow chancellor John McDonnell.\n\nMr McDonnell said he was also backing the shadow justice secretary, Richard Burgon, to be his party's deputy leader.\n\nMr Corbyn, though, said he would not be publicly backing anyone - although he commented that Mrs Long Bailey was a \"wonderful colleague\".\n\nAsked what he thought of her telling ITV she rated his leadership at \"10 out of 10,\" he commented: \"I never mark my own homework.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour chairman Ian Lavery has ruled out a bid for the leadership and also thrown his weight behind Mrs Long Bailey, saying she \"has the intellect, drive and determination to take forward and develop the popular, common sense socialist policies that Jeremy Corbyn has championed\".\n\nBarnsley Central MP Dan Jarvis, who had previously indicated he might stand for the leader post, also ruled himself out of the contest on Tuesday, saying he wanted to concentrate on his role as mayor for the Sheffield City region.\n\nRebecca Long Bailey is pitching herself as the \"carry on Corbyn\" candidate.\n\nIt's no big surprise - she has long been a stalwart of Camp Corbyn. She's been ultra loyal to the Labour leader in the shadow cabinet and in the NEC (the party's ruling body).\n\nIn her launch article in the Tribune, she makes absolutely clear that she stands by the Corbyn policies that the party put before the electorate.\n\nInterestingly, though, in a subsequent interview with the BBC, she adopted a slightly more nuanced approach.\n\nShe acknowledged that Brexit harmed the party in the election. She also conceded on anti-Semitism - saying that behind the scenes she was pressing for tougher action on this.\n\nMrs Long Bailey said Labour's election defeat last month, its fourth in a row, was due to a failure of campaign strategy and the \"lack of a coherent narrative\", rather than a rejection of its policies.\n\nIf elected leader, she said there would be no return to the \"Tory lite\" agenda which she said had held the party back for many years.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she was \"not your typical politician\" and could be trusted to \"fight the establishment tooth and nail\".\n\nShe also said that she had argued against Labour's Brexit policy in shadow cabinet, suggesting the focus at the election should have been on getting a \"good deal\" rather than another referendum.\n\nMeanwhile, Ian Murray, Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, and MP for Tooting Rosena Allin-Khan are the latest to join the race to replace Tom Watson as deputy leader.\n\nAnnouncing his candidature, Mr Murray - a long-time critic of Jeremy Corbyn - said the architects of the party's ''catastrophic failure\" in 2019 could not be allowed to lead the response.\n\nLabour MP for Tooting Rosena Allin-Khan has announced she will run for deputy leader\n\nAnd Dr Allin-Khan, in her pitch, told Today the party had to \"learn from mistakes from the past\" and \"listen to those who have lost faith\".\n\nUnder the timetable agreed by Labour's ruling body on Monday, the contenders have until 13 January to show they have the support of the 22 MPs and MEPs required to get on the ballot paper.\n\nThey must also demonstrate they have the backing of 5% of local Labour parties and three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.", "A group of Russian fishermen attempted to pull their cars from the sea after the ice they were parked on melted.\n\nThe cars plunged up to two metres below the surface off Russky Island, near Vladivostok in the far east.", "The IRGC is estimated to have more than 190,000 active personnel\n\nIran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) was set up 40 years ago to defend the country's Islamic system, and to provide a counterweight to the regular armed forces.\n\nIt has since become a major military, political and economic force in Iran, with close ties to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many other senior figures.\n\nThe IRGC is estimated to have more than 190,000 active personnel, boasts its own ground forces, navy and air force, and oversees Iran's strategic weapons.\n\nIt also controls the paramilitary Basij Resistance Force, which has helped suppress domestic dissent, and the powerful bonyads, or charitable foundations, which run a considerable part of the economy.\n\nThe IRGC exerts influence elsewhere in the Middle East by providing money, weapons, technology, training and advice to allied governments and armed groups through its shadowy overseas operations arm, the Quds (Jerusalem) Force.\n\nThe US accuses the Quds Force of supporting terrorist organisations and being responsible for attacks in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East that have resulted the deaths of hundreds of American and allied military personnel.\n\nOn 3 January 2020, the US killed the Quds Force's powerful commander, Major General Qasem Soleimani, in a drone strike in Baghdad. The defence department said he had orchestrated a rocket attack in Iraq that killed an American contractor and was \"actively developing plans to attack\" American diplomats and troops in the region.\n\nBefore the 1979 revolution, Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi relied on military might to ensure national security and to safeguard his power.\n\nAfterwards, the new Islamic authorities, headed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, realised they too needed a powerful force committed to consolidating their leadership and revolutionary ideals.\n\nThe IRGC was set up after the 1979 Iranian revolution to defend Iran's Islamic system\n\nThe clerics therefore produced a new constitution that provided for both a regular Military (Artesh), to defend Iran's borders and maintain internal order, and a separate Guard Corps (Sepah-e Pasdaran), to protect the Islamic system.\n\nIn practice, these roles have often overlapped, with the IRGC also helping to keep public order and developing its own army, navy and air force.\n\nDespite having an estimated 230,000 fewer troops than the regular military, the IRGC is considered the dominant military force in Iran and is behind many of the country's key military operations. The IRGC's overall commander, currently Major General Hossein Salami, and other senior officers routinely advise the supreme leader.\n\nThe IRGC navy is tasked with patrolling the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway connecting the Gulf to the Indian Ocean through which 20% of the world's oil supply passes.\n\nThe force's small boats have intercepted US warships that it says have approached Iran's territorial waters, and detained or diverted international shipping.\n\nThe IRGC's air force, which does not generally operate combat aircraft, is meanwhile responsible for Iran's missiles.\n\nThe US has said Iran has the largest ballistic missile force in the Middle East, with more than 10 ballistic missile systems either in its inventory or in development, and a stockpile of hundreds of missiles.\n\nIn 2018, ballistic missiles were fired at an Iranian Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq and at Islamic State group positions in Syria.\n\nBut perhaps the most prominent IRGC entity in recent years has been the Quds Force, which Iran's government is said to use to implement its foreign policy goals.\n\nIran has acknowledged the role of the Quds Force in the conflicts in Syria, where it has advised forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and armed thousands of Shia Muslim militiamen fighting alongside them, and Iraq, where it has backed a Shia-dominated paramilitary force that helped defeat IS.\n\nThe conflicts turned the once-reclusive commander, General Soleimani, into a something of celebrity in Iran.\n\nThe Trump administration has alleged that the Quds Force is also \"Iran's primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting\" US-designated terrorist groups across the Middle East - including Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and Palestinian Islamic Jihad - by providing funding, training, weapons, and equipment.\n\nThe Quds Force has also been accused by the US of plotting or carrying out terrorist attacks, directly or through its proxies, in five out of seven continents.\n\nIn 2011, the Quds Force was allegedly involved in a plan to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US by bombing a restaurant in Georgetown. And last year, a court in Germany convicted a Quds Force operative of spying on the former head of a German-Israeli group and people close to him.\n\nSuch alleged activities prompted the United States in April 2019 to designate the IRGC as a \"foreign terrorist organisation\" - the first such designation of an official military force. At the same time, the US tightened its sanctions on Iran's oil exports, further weakening its economy.\n\nIn response, Iran began a counter-pressure campaign. The IRGC's forces shot down a US military surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz in June and seized a British-flagged tanker in the same area the following month.\n\nThe US also accused Iran of being behind a series of explosions that damaged six tankers in the Gulf of Oman in May and June; drone and cruise missile attacks on two Saudi oil facilities in September; a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base used by US troops on 27 December that killed the American contractor. Iran denied any involvement.\n\nThere was a serious escalation in the confrontation between the US and Iran following the rocket attack.\n\nOn 29 December, the US carried out air strikes on five bases in Iraq and Syria associated with the Iran-backed Iraqi militia that it believed fired the rockets, Kataib Hezbollah. The strikes killed at least 25 militia fighters and sparked violent protests outside the US embassy in Baghdad.\n\nFive days later, a US Reaper drone fired missiles at a convoy leaving the city's international airport, killing General Soleimani and several militia leaders, including Kataib Hezbollah chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.\n\nThe IRGC also has a powerful presence in Iran's civilian institutions.\n\nIt controls the Basij Resistance Force (Mobilisation of the Oppressed), an Islamic volunteer militia of about 100,000 men and women. The Basij are loyalists to the revolution who are often called out onto the streets to use force to dispel dissent.\n\nThe IRGC and Basij were prominent in putting down the mass opposition protests that erupted in 2009 after the disputed re-election of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Dozens of opposition supporters were killed and thousands detained.\n\nThe IRGC's popular power, combined with the strong support of Ayatollah Khamenei, has made it a key player in Iranian politics.\n\nFormer IRGC officers occupy or have occupied influential positions in government, parliament and other bodies, among them Mr Ahmadinejad, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, and Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Expediency Council.\n\nThe former overall commander, Major General Mohammad Ali Jaafari, openly opposed the concessions made by moderate President Hassan Rouhani during the negotiations that led to Iran's 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers.\n\nThe IRGC is also thought to control around a third of Iran's economy through a series of subsidiaries and trusts.\n\nApart from military industries, the IRGC is active in housing development, dam and road construction, oil and gas projects, food, transportation and even educational and cultural activities.\n\nThe IRGC's engineering wing - Khatam-ol-Anbia (Seal of the Prophet), also known by an acronym, Ghorb - is reported to have tens of thousands of employees and has been awarded billions of dollars of construction and engineering contracts.\n\nPresident Rouhani, who has faced protests over the state of Iran's economy, has on many occasions criticised the IRGC's sprawling business empire. He once called it a \"government with a gun\" that had \"scared\" the public sector.", "The government's Troubled Families project is getting £165m in funding to ensure it continues for another year.\n\nLaunched by David Cameron in 2012, the scheme targets families with multiple and complex social and health issues.\n\nExisting support for the project was due to run out later this year, prompting speculation about its future.\n\nBut Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said it had proved a success in transforming lives and relieving the burden on public services.\n\nThe programme was set up by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government in response to the 2011 riots in English cities, at a cost of £448m.\n\nIt was revamped in 2015, with the aim of helping 400,000 families by 2020.\n\nAbout £920m has been spent since then, averaging about £157.6m, a year, with councils being paid on the basis of their results in helping the most vulnerable families.\n\nAnne Longfield, the Children's Commissioner for England, said the government announcement was \"welcome\" but needed to be followed by \"long term and extended funding commitments\" in this year's spending review.\n\nWriting on Twitter, she highlighted the \"vital\" role children's centres and so-called family hubs played in the initiative.\n\nUnder the project, local authorities identify and support families in England with multiple problems, including domestic abuse, unemployment, mental health problems and truancy.\n\nCentral government funds local authorities to work with these families on a payment-by-performance basis.\n\nIn 2016, a report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research concluded that the initiative had had no measurable effect on school attendance, employment or behaviour.\n\nAnd former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith suggested last year that the scheme had become a high-profile \"distraction\" and some of its targets were \"slightly nebulous\".\n\nBut ministers said an evaluation published last April demonstrated that the programme had reduced the proportion of children going into care by a third, reduced the proportion of adults going to prison by a quarter and had cut the number of adults claiming Jobseeker's Allowance.\n\nTheir latest analysis suggests 297,733 families have \"made improvements\" with the problems that led to them joining the programme since 2015. In 26,848 of these families, one or more adults has moved off benefits and into work.\n\nThe scheme was set up in the wake of the 2011 riots in England\n\nThe Treasury indicated in September's Spending Review that the programme would be extended, although ministers have yet to commit to its long-term future.\n\nMr Jenrick said the new funding would be used to help families with inter-connected problems, including unemployment, poor school attendance, mental health issues, anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse.\n\n\"The programme will help more people in need get access to the early, practical and coordinated support to transform their lives for the better,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the right thing to do for families and for society as a whole, and these reforms will reduce the demand and dependency on costly, reactive key public services.\"\n\nIn their election manifesto, the Conservatives promised to develop \"family hubs\" to give vulnerable families intensive, integrated support to help care for their children, both in the early years and through to adulthood.\n\nMr Jenrick's predecessor, James Brokenshire, suggested last year that the Troubled Families project could potentially be renamed to ensure it is not \"getting in the way of the positive objectives\".\n\nThe Department for Communities said any future changes would be considered and announced in due course.", "Joy Crookes channels the Hindu goddess Lakshmi in the video for Don't Let Me Down\n\nOver the last two years, Joy Crookes has released enough music to fill a (decidedly accomplished) debut album.\n\nThose early EPs and one-off singles show a nuanced and individual ear for melody, while her \"mad honest\" lyrics depict love lost and found on the rainy streets of south-east London.\n\nThey've earned her fourth place on the BBC Sound of 2020 list, which tips acts for success in the next 12 months.\n\nBut if the attention is welcome, Crookes isn't sure she's enjoying it.\n\n\"What does it feel like? Anxiety central is what it feels like!\" laughs the singer.\n\n\"I could give you the pretty answer but, honestly, it feels like when you go to Winter Wonderland and you get on that huge tower that rises up above Hyde Park then - whomp - it drops and your stomach rises to your eyeballs.\n\n\"It's half an incredible feeling because there's so much adrenalin, but the other half is like, 'I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die!'\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who is of Bangladeshi-Irish descent, first came to attention when she posted a cover of Hit The Road Jack to YouTube as a teenager.\n\nSince then, she's developed a sound that combines the eclectic range of music her father played as he drove her to her weekly Irish dancing lessons.\n\n\"My dad wanted to give me a real education, from Nick Cave to King Tubby to all this Pakistani music,\" she says. \"He'd say, 'This is from your ends of the world, you should hear this.'\"\n\nTo celebrate her position on the Sound of 2020 list, Crookes took a break from recording her actual debut album to chat about her rise to fame, impersonating Liberty X, hustling her school-friends, and the pressure to succeed.\n\nJoy Crookes was chosen for the BBC Sound of 2020 list by a panel of 170 music critics, broadcasters, festival bookers and previous nominees - including Lewis Capaldi, Chvrches and Billie Eilish. The top five were.\n\nWhen I was three or four I went into my mum's room and put on her knee-high boots, then I summoned my family like, 'Mum! Dad! Assemble!'\n\nThey sat on the sofa, and I walked in and performed Just A Little by Liberty X. We had it on VHS and I stood in front of the TV doing the moves.\n\nMaybe not for a three year old! I remember the night before, I got my mum to cut a hole in my black vest because the girls in the video had leather PVC suits with holes where their cleavage would be. I mean, I didn't have cleavage at three or four, but I wanted to look like them.\n\nSo your first memory is a musical one?\n\nYeah, it's so vivid in my mind. I was so, so concentrated on that performance. I hadn't even practiced it, I was just like, \"This is my time to shine!\"\n\nThe singer has also been nominated for the Brits rising star award\n\nI heard you were quite an entrepreneur as a child, too...\n\nWhere did you find that out?! But, yeah, when I was about nine, I worked out it would cost me £80 to get everyone in my family Christmas presents. So I went to Poundland in Elephant and Castle, and you could buy a box of 10 candy canes for £1. I worked out that if I sold each of them for £1, I could make 900% profit.\n\nI also had a side hustle selling clothes, because that £80 needed to come quick. If someone said, \"That top looks great on you\", I'd say, \"I'll give it to you for a fiver\".\n\nWhen my mates came round to our house, little did they know, it wasn't playtime, it was selling time!\n\nIf music doesn't work out, you can always apply for the Apprentice.\n\nYou grew up listening to music - but was there a point where you thought, \"This is something I can do for a career?\"\n\nI never had that epiphany because I never thought music was a legitimate job. I thought that pop stars were pop stars and that's who they were. I almost didn't see them as human beings until Kate Nash came about.\n\nShe made me realise I could use music as a diary. I was going through a lot at home and I didn't have anyone to talk to, so I just used my guitar. But I didn't really think, \"Oh, I'm a musician now\".\n\nThe singer-songwriter is self-taught on the guitar, piano and bass\n\nHow did you learn to play?\n\nWith piano, I learnt a couple of chords at school, then I taught myself the songs from the film Once by looking up the chords on YouTube. With guitar it was the same: I learnt two chords from a family friend, then I went home and learned a lot of Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber songs because, no offence, I thought they'd be easy.\n\nI used to have a cupboard that had a mirror on it, so I'd sit down and watch myself playing guitar. That's really good when you're learning, because you can watch where your hands are going.\n\nSo that was my mentality, and then I started writing after that.\n\nMy mum's friend had a son who was my age who played the most incredible Brazilian guitar. I loved Astrud Gilberto, so I asked him round to mine and I said, \"Do you know this song Hit The Road Jack? I think we should cover it\".\n\nSo we recorded it on iMovie, put it on YouTube and it got 500,000 views - which was mad.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Joy Crookes This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThings really exploded in 2017 when you played Mother May I Sleep With Danger on the YouTube channel Colors. The video's now been watched 8 million times. Did it change your career?\n\nThat song was never meant to be a single. I wrote it on my own, at the piano, on the first of January 2017. But the Colors performance made more sense than the record, because I'd been playing the song on tour. When you tour a song you get to know it - you stay over at its house, you meet its mum, you get to know the sibling it doesn't like. So by the time we did Colors, it was a walk in the park.\n\nThat performance was our third take and I remember I pretended my mum was right there and I was singing it to her.\n\nThe video really changed everything. For about six months after that, everywhere I went people would say, \"Are you Joy from Colors?\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by COLORS This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nYou thought music wasn't a viable career, so did that video force you to rewrite the story in your head?\n\nIt definitely started kicking in there. We'd gone to Germany [to make the video] and I was like, 'What do you mean I'm flying to Berlin for work, to sing songs?'\n\nBut even after that, I went for a job interview as a waitress at a Kurdish restaurant.\n\nNo! As soon as I went for the interview, I regretted it. The manager was looking at me like, \"What do you mean, you can't work on most days?\"\n\nSeveral of your songs, like For A Minute and London Mine, are love letters to London. Why does it inspire you so much?\n\nThe beauty of London is that it wouldn't be London without all the immigration, and the mix of cultures and colours and the smells and the stories it contains.\n\nI grew up on a street where my neighbours are Bajan and the neighbours after that are Bengali and the neighbours after that are from Nigeria. I learned so many mannerisms and different forms of respect and stories and myths and legends from all these places. I wouldn't be the person I am without London. It inspires me to be a certain kind of woman, and a certain kind of person.\n\nCrookes is currently recording her debut album, with a self-imposed deadline of May 2020\n\nAmerican musicians often eulogise their hometowns, but it's not so common in the UK. Why is that?\n\nI love my area, and London as a whole, so I think I should sing about it and celebrate it.\n\nBut when I write about London, it's also a response to the austerity of the last 10 years. For A Minute is about growing up in an area that may not be rich or vibrant, but making the most out of things like having £2 to go to the chicken shop after school. There's a lyric, \"eating sunshine every day\", that's a comment on poverty.\n\nThen I also talk about \"creamy legs in London air\" because when I was growing up all the girls from secondary school, who are mainly black and brown, would have the most moisturised legs you've ever seen in your life.\n\nSo I try and have a positive message: \"Hey, this is the sick stuff about London. If we all packed up and left, and went back to India, Yorkshire or wherever, you wouldn't know what to do. It wouldn't be London any more.\"\n\nThere's a fearlessness in the way you talk about relationships, too. I love that line in Man's World - \"I find my love in red wine\".\n\nI was very angry when I wrote that! I'm saying I find my love in something that's an object, as opposed to you. You are less important to me than a drink.\n\nAt least alcohol's always there when you need it.\n\nExactly. That's probably a very Irish message!\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 4 by JoyCrookesVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOn a more serious note, you've been playing a new song recently that addresses your mental health...\n\nYeah, it's called Anyone But Me. The first line is, \"Seven years strong with my therapy, making mosaics of my memories,\" so there's no mucking around. It's literally like, this is how I feel: I feel like there's another person living in my head.\n\nIt's something I've battled with for a long time. I remember when I was 12, I rang up the NHS and said, \"I can't get out of bed. I'm not ill, I haven't got a cold, I just can't get out of bed\". And the guy on the other end of the phone said, \"Ah, have you heard of depression?\"\n\nHave you spoken to your therapist about how the music industry could affect your health?\n\nNo, I haven't been able to see him because I haven't had time - which is not good. And I'm kind of struggling with that now. The first album just makes me want to crap myself. I'm like, \"Why am I stressed every day, I should be excited about this? But why should I be excited when this is nerve-wracking?\"\n\nI'm massively over-thinking everything. It's like when I did my GCSEs, I was the type of person who'd leave an exam going, \"Oh my God, I failed that\". Then I got all As and A stars, and dropped out straight after.\n\nWhere does the pressure to succeed come from?\n\nIt's all me. My manager is like, \"You don't have a deadline for the album\", and I'll go, \"Yes I do. It's May.\" I've got IBS. I am the most stressed person ever.\n\nThat doesn't come across in the music…\n\nI can't imagine what an IBS song would sound like, though.\n\nMaybe like that Mabel song, The Anxiety Anthem? I could do the IBS Anthem, and the video would be me against a green screen, and the background would be the inside of your insides.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Angela Rayner became MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester in 2015\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner has announced she is joining the contest to replace Tom Watson as Labour's deputy leader.\n\nShe is the fourth Labour MP to declare her intention to run, alongside Richard Burgon, Dawn Butler and Khalid Mahmood.\n\nMs Rayner said Labour now faced a stark choice following December's heavy election defeat - \"win or die\".\n\nBoth the new leader and deputy leader will be announced on 4 April, the party's ruling body has decided.\n\nClive Lewis, Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips, Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry have formally entered the race to replace outgoing leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey, who is a friend and flatmate of Ms Rayner, is also expected to join the main contest soon.\n\nLaunching her deputy leadership bid in Stockport, Ms Rayner said Labour's defeat last month had left the party facing its \"biggest challenge in our history\".\n\nShe said Labour needed to find a \"new kind of coalition\" to regain power, and needed to \"win back\" former supporters who had deserted the party.\n\nShe said Mr Corbyn's leadership had been a factor in the party's poor performance, but also blamed the election strategy, saying its list of target seats had proved to be \"wide of the mark\".\n\n\"Seats where we suffered catastrophic defeats were seen as secure, while we tried to fight 'target' seats we had effectively already lost. It cannot happen again.\"\n\nAnd she continued: \"The quick fix of a new leader will not be enough. We must rethink and renew our purpose and how we convince the people to share it.\n\n\"Either we face up to these new times or we become irrelevant. The next five years will be the fight of our lives.\"\n\nMs Rayner said she would back Ms Long Bailey if she stood for the top job, adding that she wanted the leadership of the party to be a \"team effort\".\n\nAfter the launch, Ms Long Bailey tweeted that she would be lending her \"full support\" to her \"good friend\" Ms Rayner in her pitch for the deputy's post.\n\nMs Rayner also unveiled a list of other Labour MPs backing her candidacy, including shadow trade secretary Barry Gardiner - seen as a potential contender himself - and senior colleagues Louise Haigh and Jonathan Reynolds.\n\nRebecca Long Bailey and Angela Rayner are friends and political allies\n\nMs Rayner became shadow education secretary in June 2016, just over a year after she became MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester.\n\nAfter leaving school aged 16, she became a care worker and representative for the Unison union before entering Parliament. She has previously described herself as being on the \"soft left\" of the party.\n\nAt her launch she also called for the party to draw a \"line in the sand\" over the issue of anti-Semitism within its ranks, so it could \"regain the moral authority\" to unite the country against racism.\n\nThe party, she added, needed to \"educate where there is ignorance\" and \"remove bigotry wherever it is found\".\n\nUnder party rules decided by the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) on Monday, deputy leader and leader candidates must be nominated by at least 22 Labour MPs or MEPs.\n\nThey must also secure nominations from at least 5% of Labour's constituency parties or three affiliated bodies - two of which must be trade unions.\n\nNew members will have until 20 January to join and be eligible to vote in both contests, with voting to begin on 21 February.\n\nThere will also be a 48-hour window from 14-16 January for registered supporters - who are not full members - to pay £25 in order to secure a vote.\n\nThe 4 April announcement date means the winners will take their posts before English council elections in May.\n\nFormer deputy Tom Watson announced he was stepping down from his role and would not stand as an MP before last month's general election.\n\nMr Watson was elected deputy leader in 2015, on the same day that Mr Corbyn won his own ballot to run the party.\n\nHowever, the pair came from different wings of the party and were often at odds on a number of issues, notably over the party's position on Brexit.\n\nMr Watson has since said he faced \"political factionalism\" and \"brutality and hostility\" within the party during his time in post.\n• None Who will be Labour's next leader?", "Boris Johnson has said \"we will not lament\" the death of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, describing him as \"a threat to all our interests\".\n\nBut the prime minister called for \"de-escalation from all sides\" following the killing in a US airstrike in Iraq on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson's intervention came as Iraqi MPs called for foreign troops to leave.\n\nAnd in a separate joint statement, Mr Johnson and his French and German counterparts urged restraint.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined the PM in calling on Iran to refrain from further violent action and proliferation.\n\n\"The current cycle of violence in Iraq must be stopped,\" the joint statement, released late on Sunday night, said.\n\nWith tensions rising in the region following the drone strike ordered by US President Donald Trump, Iran has responded by vowing revenge and announcing it will no longer abide by the restrictions in its 2015 nuclear deal.\n\nIn the statement, the three leaders urged the country to \"reverse all measures inconsistent with\" the deal.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson is preparing to assemble key ministers to discuss the spiralling crisis in the Middle East.\n\nThe prime minister said he spoke with Mr Trump on Sunday about the assassination of the Iranian general, who spearheaded the country's military operations in the Middle East as head of the elite Quds Force.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, in his first public statement since Soleimani's death, Mr Johnson said the 62-year-old had been \"responsible for a pattern of disruptive, destabilising behaviour in the region\".\n\n\"Given the leading role he has played in actions that have led to the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and western personnel, we will not lament his death,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"It is clear, however, that all calls for retaliation or reprisals will simply lead to more violence in the region and they are in no one's interest.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was in \"close contact\" with all sides to encourage de-escalation and said Parliament will be updated when it returns on Tuesday.\n\nIraqi MPs have responded to the drone strike by passing a non-binding resolution calling for an end to the foreign military presence.\n\nCaretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi spoke in favour of US and other foreign forces leaving, although most Sunni and Kurdish MPs boycotted the vote.\n\nAbout 400 British troops are stationed in Iraq, while the US has 5,200.\n\nA UK government spokesman said that coalition forces were in Iraq to protect its people and others from the Islamic State group.\n\n\"We urge the Iraqi government to ensure the coalition is able to continue our vital work countering this shared threat,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, HMS Montrose and HMS Defender are to start accompanying UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, where a tanker was seized by Iran last July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab says he found out about the Soleimani killing \"as it happened\"\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab, who told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that he learned of the US attack on Soleimani \"as it happened\", spoke to the Iraqi prime minister on Sunday morning.\n\nMr Raab defended the killing because of the US's \"right to self-defence\" against Soleimani's use of militia's to destabilise the region and attack Western forces.\n\nHe also defended Mr Johnson for being on holiday as the crisis unfolded, saying that he had been \"in constant contact with the prime minister over the Christmas break on a whole range of foreign policy issues\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary and Labour leadership candidate Emily Thornberry accused the prime minister of \"sunning himself\" while the chief civil servant chaired three meetings of Cobra, the government's emergency response committee.\n\nShadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, who is standing to be Labour deputy leader, said Mr Johnson's response was \"pathetic\", adding that he should stand up to a US president \"recklessly threatening to launch a war\".", "Renée Zellweger was recognised for her portrayal of Judy Garland\n\nThe winners of this year's Golden Globe Awards have been announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles, California.\n\nHere is the full list of winners and nominees:\n\nBest actress in a motion picture - musical or comedy\n\nBest actor in a motion picture - musical or comedy\n\nAwkwafina was named best actress in a musical or comedy for The Farewell\n\nBest actress in a supporting role in any motion picture\n\nBest actor in a supporting role in any motion picture\n\nElton John and Bernie Taupin accepted the award for best original song\n\nDundee-born Brian Cox was named best drama actor for Succession\n\nBest actress in a television series - musical or comedy\n\nBest actor in a television series - musical or comedy\n\nBest television limited series or motion picture made for television\n\nMichelle Williams was awarded best actress in a limited series for Fosee/Verdon\n\nBest actress in a limited series or TV movie\n\nBest actor in a limited series or a motion picture made for television\n\nBest actress in a supporting role in a series, limited series or a motion picture made for television\n\nBest actor in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said they had secured the campus and deployed officers to deter further violence\n\nPolice in India have entered the campus of one of the country's most prestigious universities after reports of masked men attacking students.\n\nAbout 20 students are said to have been injured at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the capital Delhi.\n\nImages on Indian TV show masked people wielding sticks and the student union president bleeding from a head wound.\n\nThe cause of the trouble is unclear. The university recently saw protests over a controversial citizenship law.\n\nThere were also violent clashes at JNU last year over a rise in hostel fees.\n\nThe student union blamed the latest violence on the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a right-wing student body linked to India's governing BJP political party. However, the ABVP said that its members had been attacked by left-wing groups, and some had been injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ANI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne member of staff said masked men armed with stones and sticks had attacked students and teachers on Sunday evening.\n\n\"These were not small stones, these were big stones that could have broken our skulls,\" Professor Atul Sood told NDTV.\n\n\"I fell on the side and when I came out, I saw cars completely vandalised, including my car.\"\n\nProfessor Sood said about 50 teachers and 200 students had been holding a meeting on the campus when the masked attackers walked in.\n\nAngry students staged a protest outside police headquarters in Delhi after the university attack\n\nHe said the violence was unlike anything the campus had witnessed before.\n\nEducation Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank condemned the violence calling it \"extremely worrying and unfortunate\".\n\n\"I appeal to all students to maintain the dignity of the university and peace on campus,\" he added.\n\nGovernment Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the scenes of violence were \"horrifying\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called the attack a \"heinous act\" and a shame on democracy.\n\nThe Students Federation of India said it would stage rallies in Delhi on Monday in protest at the \"barbaric attack\" at the JNU.\n\nA police spokesman said university authorities had asked for their assistance.\n\n\"We were informed that there was a clash between two groups of students,\" a statement said.\n\n\"After we received written request from the JNU administration, we entered the campus and restored peace.\"", "Aliens exist and it is possible they are among us on Earth, the first Briton to go into space has said.\n\nDr Helen Sharman told the Observer Magazine that extra-terrestrial life is bound to be somewhere in the universe.\n\n\"Aliens exist, there's no two ways about it,\" she said, adding that \"there must be all sorts of different forms of life\" among the billions of stars.\n\nDr Sharman, 56, made history when she travelled to the Soviet space station Mir in May 1991.\n\nThe chemist, who now works at Imperial College, London, added that although aliens may not be made up of carbon and nitrogen like humans \"it's possible they're here right now and we simply can't see them\".\n\nHelen Sharman joined Anatoly Artsebarsky and Sergei Krikalev on a space mission in 1991\n\nIn the interview, she also highlighted her frustration at being referred to as the first British woman in space, rather than simply the first Briton.\n\n\"It's telling that we would otherwise assume it was a man,\" she said.\n\n\"When Tim Peake went into space, some people simply forgot about me. A man going first would be the norm, so I'm thrilled that I got to upset that order.\"\n\nShe said being in space \"taught me that it's people, not material goods, which truly matter\".\n\nShe added: \"Up there we had all we needed to survive: the right temperature, food and drink, safety. I gave no thought to the physical items I owned on Earth.\n\n\"When we flew over specific parts of the globe, it was always our loved ones we thought of down below us.\"\n\nDr Sharman was recognised in the 2018 New Year's honours list and joined the Order of St Michael and St George.\n• None Call for 'more Britons in space'\n• None The Britons who have been to space", "Jasmine Lobe is a \"silence breaker\", one of the dozens of women who have come forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault after allegations about his behaviour became public in 2017.\n\nAhead of the Hollywood producer's trial on criminal charges, she spoke to the BBC's Nick Bryant about what a guilty verdict would mean for alleged survivors.\n\nMr Weinstein is accused of raping one woman in a hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulting another in his apartment in 2006. He has pleaded not guilty and denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.", "Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins was helping a robbery victim when she was mugged by the girl\n\nA 15-year-old girl has admitted mugging singer Katherine Jenkins and stealing her phone in London.\n\nThe 39-year-old Welsh mezzo-soprano was attacked after intervening in a street robbery as she went to rehearse for a carol concert, on 4 December.\n\nAt Highbury Corner Youth Court, the girl admitted stealing Ms Jenkins' iPhone and assaulting a police officer.\n\nThe teenager was handed a six month referral order. She has offered to apologise to Ms Jenkins.\n\nThe singer was on her way to a rehearsal for the Henry van Straubenzee charity event, when she witnessed an \"older lady being mugged\" and intervened to help, her agent said.\n\n\"Katherine was then mugged herself,\" her agent added.\n\nAt the hearing, district judge Susan Williams also ordered the girl's mother to pay £20 in compensation.\n\nSabrina Fitzgerald, the girl's counsel, said the teenager took the phone \"because she thought she was being filmed\".\n\nThere were \"issues around peer pressure and poor decision-making skills\", she added.\n\nMs Jenkins was not in court for the hearing.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta \"shouted a lot\" at half-time to inspire an improved performance that helped the Gunners beat Leeds United and progress to the FA Cup fourth round.\n\nLeeds dominated before the break, with Patrick Bamford hitting the bar with one of United's 15 first-half efforts.\n\nArsenal were excellent in the second half and Reiss Nelson scrambled home to secure a second consecutive win.\n\nThe Gunners will visit Bournemouth in the next round later this month.\n\nArsenal keeper Emiliano Martinez said Arteta was \"really angry\" at the break and striker Alexandre Lacazette told BBC One: \"The manager shouted a lot. He was not happy because we knew they'd play like this and we didn't respect what he had said.\"\n• None From Arteta to Fergie, Brown to Benitez - infamous team talks that hit the headlines\n• None Watch & vote for best goal of FA Cup third round\n\nThe hosts had the majority of the second-half chances, with Lacazette clipping the crossbar with a free-kick.\n\n\"Now I'm really pleased but we saw two different teams - one in the first 30 minutes, and another after that,\" said Arteta.\n\n\"I tried to tell them exactly what they were going to face and after 32 minutes we had won one duel, I think. We changed our attitude, desire and organisation at half-time and then we were completely different.\n\n\"Sometimes they have to experience themselves how tough and how hard it is going to be. I watched a lot of Leeds games and they battered every team every three days. It was good for my players to learn and to suffer on the pitch.\"\n\nLeeds boss Marcelo Bielsa will see the game as a missed opportunity for the Championship leaders - especially after their first-half performance - although he can now focus on promotion and ending the club's 16-year absence from the top flight.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Arteta's 'angry' team talk and will Salah visit 'The Meadow'?\n• None Watch all of the latest FA Cup goals, highlights and reaction\n\nArsenal manage to turn it around\n\nArteta said in the build-up that Arsenal had to take the FA Cup \"very seriously\" and become \"addicted\" to winning, naming a strong team.\n\nThey came into the game on the back of one of their most impressive performances of the season. They were excellent in the first half of their 2-0 win over Manchester United on New Year's Day, although faded after the break.\n\nThis was the exact reverse.\n\nThe 13-time FA Cup winners were abject in the first half - with only 37.2% possession and one shot on target - and could have been out of the game before half-time.\n\nBBC pundit Alan Shearer said Arsenal \"turned up in the first half and thought 'we don't have to run around'\".\n\nFormer Premier League striker Chris Sutton, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, said: \"The first half was just so flat. Was it a lack of effort? It looked that way.\"\n\nWhatever was said by Arteta at the break worked perfectly and they were a team reborn in the second half.\n\nNicolas Pepe fired over a shot just seconds after the restart as they immediately expressed their intent. Lacazette forced a save from Illan Meslier and then struck the bar with a free-kick.\n\nLacazette had a hand in the goal as his cross was deflected by Gaetano Berardi into the path of Nelson, whose scuffed shot just went in.\n\n\"The emotions are high,\" said Nelson after scoring his second goal of the season. \"They played well in the first half. Leeds are a great team and they pressed us, we didn't expect it. We got the goal in the end and that is the most important thing.\n\n\"This will give us confidence to go forward.\"\n\nThere was only one winner from the moment Nelson scored and substitute Gabriel Martinelli drew a good save from Meslier with a 20-yard drive.\n\nThe hosts did have a scare when VAR checked whether Lacazette should be sent off for violent conduct after appearing to kick out at Berardi but he escaped punishment.\n\nLeeds will take heart into promotion bid\n\nBielsa said he was taking the cup seriously, although handed debuts to two players - French teenage goalkeeper Meslier and 20-year-old midfielder Robbie Gotts - both of whom did well.\n\nThey are nine points clear of third-placed Brentford in the Championship and hoping to avoid a repeat of their late-season collapse from last year.\n\nBased on this performance - and a rowdy away following of 8,000 fans - they would be a wonderful addition to the Premier League.\n\nIn the first half at Emirates Stadium they were magnificent, dominating possession and territory, creating plenty of chances and putting Arsenal under constant pressure whenever they had the ball.\n\nThey looked nothing like a Championship team away from home against a \"big-six\" side.\n\nBamford had three shots in the opening 10 minutes before smashing the crossbar after playing a one-two with the lively Jack Harrison.\n\nHarrison had a 20-yard curling effort saved by Martinez and after 17 minutes Leeds boasted seven shots to Arsenal's one.\n\nThe pressure kept on coming. Ezgjan Alioski drove a shot just wide and then his header was kept out by the busy Martinez.\n\nThey must have wondered whether they would be made to pay for missing their chances - and they were.\n\nTheir performance dipped in the second half as Arsenal upped their game, and they never looked like mounting a comeback after Nelson bundled home.\n\n\"What we needed to do in the match is repeat what we did in the first half,\" said Bielsa.\n\n\"The first half was very, very positive for us. In the second half the control of the match changed a lot.\n\n\"In the first half we pressed the opponents' defence more and were able to attack fast. We couldn't do that in the second half.\"\n\nMatch stats - Arsenal win two in a row for first time since October\n• None Arsenal have won eight FA Cup games against Leeds - only against Wolves and Chelsea (nine each) have the Gunners won more matches in the competition.\n• None The Gunners remain unbeaten in their last seven matches against Leeds (W6 D1), since a 3-2 defeat at Highbury in the Premier League back in May 2003.\n• None Leeds have won just one of their last 12 FA Cup matches away from home against top-flight opposition (D3 L8), a 1-0 victory against Manchester United at Old Trafford back in January 2010.\n• None That was their only clean sheet in their last 19 FA Cup games against top-flight sides.\n• None Arsenal have won back-to-back matches for the first time since October (against Standard Liege and Bournemouth), which was also the last time they kept consecutive clean sheets.\n• None Reiss Nelson has been directly involved in four goals in his last four starts for Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in all competitions - two goals and two assists.\n• None Leeds attempted 15 shots in the opening 45 minutes against Arsenal, the joint most shots the Gunners have faced in the first half of a game this season.\n\nArsenal visit Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday (12:30 GMT), while Leeds host Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship at 15:00.\n• None Attempt missed. David Luiz (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The shooting happened in a building a short distance from the railway station in Rot am See\n\nA man has shot dead six members of his family - including his parents - in the south-west German town of Rot am See, local police have said at a briefing.\n\nThe 26-year-old suspect called the emergency services at lunchtime to say he had shot several people in a restaurant.\n\nThe man, who had a gun licence, was arrested as he waited for police outside the building.\n\nThe bodies of three men and three women were found inside the restaurant.\n\nThe victims were aged between 36 and 69, the police in the state of Baden-Württemberg said.\n\nTwo other relatives were injured, one critically.\n\nThe police said the suspect had also threatened two teenage members of his family - but that the boys were not harmed.\n\nThe shooting is believed to be related to a family dispute.\n\nForensic experts are now examining the scene\n\nPolice are trying to determine the exact motive for the shooting.\n\nThere is no evidence that anyone else was involved in the shooting, they say.\n\nThe shooting happened at around 12:45 (11:45 GMT) in a building in the Bahnhofstrasse that features the Deutscher Kaiser restaurant.\n\nThe area has been sealed off. A team of forensic scientists are currently working at the scene.\n\nRot am See is a small town of some 5,000 residents in the Schwäbisch Hall district north-east of Stuttgart.", "Outbound trains in Wuhan have been stopped\n\nThere have been widely-shared reports on social media and some state-run services that healthcare services in Wuhan - one of China's largest cities - are under strain following the outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nHu Xijin, the editor of state-run newspaper Global Times, said there had been a \"failure\" to contain the virus, and videos of patients queuing to get seen in hospitals.\n\nHowever, other Communist-party outlets have praised the response to the outbreak.\n\nWuhan is a major transit hub with a population of about 11 million people, and has effectively been put on lockdown, along with other major cities in the region, in an unprecedented move to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe city serves as the main economic hub for the wider province, Hubei, and has the most advanced healthcare facilities in the region.\n\nThe metropolitan area has seven major hospitals - considered some of the best in China, with Tong Ji Hospital ranked third nationally - treating patients.\n\nIt has seven more hospitals supporting the efforts, and 61 clinics around the city which are testing patients for symptoms of the virus. A local government report from 2014 included Wuhan among the top six cities for medical treatment in the country - although it ranks behind Beijing and Shanghai.\n\nIn terms of capacity, the report said Wuhan had 6.51 hospital beds and 3.08 doctors per 1,000 people - this isn't a straightforward indication of healthcare capacity (more doctors doesn't always mean better healthcare), but it does rank Wuhan among the more developed places in the world. The UK and US have 2.8 and 2.6 doctors per 1,000 heads, respectively.\n\nSo - is is this enough for a such a large city undergoing a mass shutdown?\n\nThe lockdown in Wuhan has caused panic in the city - the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that containing a large city like this is \"new to science\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Xinyan Yu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHubei as a province has a lower number of doctors per 1,000 people, at 2.55 according to the latest government statistics.\n\n\"It's yet to be seen whether the costs associated with this kind of mass quarantine measure (not just financially, but with respect to personal liberty too) will translate into effective infection control,\" said Dr. Maia Majumder, an expert at Harvard Medical School in the US, who is tracking the virus.\n\nHubei has declared a \"Grade 1 public health emergency\", the most severe level - that means the response is led centrally from Beijing by the State Council, the government's cabinet.\n\nBeijing has tried to allay concerns by sending more healthcare professionals, and constructing two hospitals from scratch providing more than 2,000 extra beds.\n\nReports from state-run media say there are 405 medical staff from Shanghai and 205 staff from Guangdong travelling to the region.\n\nThey're also expanding existing capacity in other facilities.\n\nThe government has also assigned 21 centres in Hubei province to help co-ordinate treatment, and train local health officials.\n\nProfessor Shenglan Tang, an expert in global health at Duke University in the US, says there are concerns that rural areas will struggle to cope.\n\n\"I'm confident that the health centres in Wuhan will be able to handle the outbreak, but I am a bit worried about Hubei province - rural workers have gone back home from Wuhan to celebrate Chinese New Year, and in these areas the hospital capacity is weak,\" said Professor Tang.\n\nDespite resilient rhetoric from the government, people are expressing concern about the city's ability to cope with the outbreak.\n\nThe BBC spoke to a number of people in the region who said that getting test results was taking longer than officials are claiming.\n\nWe were told that in some cases medical staff lack equipment and doctors are overstretched. There are also claims that local government, which was apparently made aware of the outbreak in mid-December, ignored initial warning signs.\n\nWe haven't been able to independently verify these claims.\n\nThe government has called for people to report poor medical responses to an online \"inspection\" platform.\n\nThe regional government has issued a statement appealing for donations to help with the response, including asking for facemasks.", "A women's charity has criticised a family court judge for a \"misogynistic and legally inaccurate\" rape ruling.\n\nJudge Robin Tolson dismissed a woman's allegation she had been raped by her then partner, saying she did \"nothing physically\" to stop him.\n\nThe woman argued the judge's approach led to her losing the legal battle with the man, which centred on their son.\n\nWomen's Aid told the BBC family courts were not safe spaces for domestic and sexual abuse survivors.\n\nThe case had started when the man asked to be allowed to spend time with his son, who was in the care of his former partner. She objected because she said the man had been controlling and had raped her.\n\nA High Court judge has now upheld an appeal made by the woman over the handling of the case and said the other judge had come to a \"flawed\" verdict.\n\nMs Justice Russell, based in the Family Division of the High Court in London, said specialist training is needed on how family court judges deal with sexual assault allegations.\n\nIn her ruling, she said family court judges often had to make decisions about cases where there had been allegations of serious sexual assault - but they had not always had training on the issue.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had lost her court battle with her former partner, which was over custody of their son, and believed Judge Tolson's \"outdated views\" on sexual assault influenced his conclusion.\n\nJudge Tolson said what happened \"did not constitute rape\".\n\nHe told the family court that because the woman \"was not in any sense pinned down\", she \"could easily, physically, have made life harder\" for the man.\n\nIn her ruling, Ms Justice Russell said Judge Tolson's approach towards consent was \"manifestly at odds with current jurisprudence\".\n\nShe said: \"This is a senior judge, a designated family judge, a leadership judge in the family court, expressing a view that - in his judgment - it is not only permissible but also acceptable for penetration to continue after the complainant has said no (by asking the perpetrator to stop) but also that a complainant must and should physically resist penetration, in order to establish a lack of consent.\n\n\"This would place the responsibility for establishing consent or lack thereof firmly and solely with the complainant or potential victim.\"\n\nThe lack of transparency in the family courts makes it difficult to monitor the way in which judges are doing their job.\n\nIt is not easy to assess how they are applying directions designed to protect vulnerable witnesses, such as the use of allowing evidence to be given from behind screens or by video link.\n\nThere is little or no training in a trauma-informed approach when dealing with victims and witnesses. For example, PTSD may cause a victim of domestic abuse to not appear scared or be unable to remember dates.\n\nThis may not be fully understood by some judges and be taken by them as signs of a lack of truthfulness or credibility.\n\nThat can lead to something of a \"postcode lottery\" as to how victims of domestic abuse are dealt with by judges.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is co-ordinating a working party to assess the risk of harm to victims and witnesses in the family justice system.\n\nMany believe that there is a pressing need for better training for judges to enable them to understand the nature and effects of domestic abuse.\n\nShe said the family court judge's approach to fact-finding over the sexual assault claims was flawed, leading to the conclusion it was \"unsafe and wrong\".\n\nIn her ruling, which was made in December but only published this week, she added: \"The logical conclusion of this judge's approach is that it is both lawful and acceptable for a man to have sex with his partner regardless of their enjoyment or willingness to participate.\"\n\nJudge Tolson had originally heard the case in August\n\nShe ordered a fresh case to be held, which will be heard before a different judge.\n\nWhile training was provided to judges in criminal courts considering issues of serious sexual assault and consent, that was not the case in the family court, she added.\n\nThe President of the Family Division of the High Court, Sir Andrew McFarlane, is now to make a formal request for such training to take place.\n\nLucy Hadley, campaigns and public affairs officer at Women's Aid, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the case was \"absolutely horrific\".\n\n\"Unfortunately it's not isolated,\" she said. \"We've been campaigning on this issue for years because the family courts simply are not safe spaces for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.\n\n\"What this case shows so clearly is that it's sexist attitudes within the court system that actually enable and facilitate that abuse to carry on.\n\n\"We hear from women all the time about poor understanding and awareness of domestic abuse and sex violence by the family court judges and family court professionals. It absolutely needs to change.\"", "Fergal Keane reports for news programmes such as The Andrew Marr show\n\nThe BBC's Fergal Keane is stepping down from his role as Africa editor due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\nHis diagnosis was the result of \"several decades of work in conflict zones around the world\", said the BBC's head of newsgathering, Jonathan Munro.\n\nHe added that Keane had \"been dealing privately with the effects of PTSD for several years\".\n\nKeane, who was appointed an OBE for his journalism in 1996, will continue to report for BBC News but in a new role.\n\nKeane pictured at the Peabody Awards in 2016\n\nMunro told staff that the reporter had been supported \"by friends and colleagues in News, as well as receiving professional medical advice,\" after his diagnosis.\n\n\"However, he now feels he needs to change his role in order to further assist his recovery.\n\n\"It's both brave and welcome that he is ready to be open about PTSD,\" he added.\n\nKeane joined the BBC in 1989 as the corporation's Northern Ireland correspondent, and later covered South Africa and Asia for the corporation before being appointed Africa editor.\n\nHe won an Amnesty television prize in 1994 for his investigation of the Rwandan genocide.\n\nAnother BBC correspondent, the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, has previously spoken about his own diagnosis of PTSD.\n\n\"I've suffered from depression and a lot of it has related to things that have cropped up in my working life... I had the symptoms of PTSD,\" he told the Radio Times in 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None PTSD affects 'one in 13 by age of 18'", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's mother said the family's \"determination was stronger than ever\" to bring the woman charged with causing his death back the UK.\n\nThe Dunn family met their MP Andrea Leadsom to discuss what the government would do following the US decision to refuse Anne Sacoolas' extradition.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash on his motorbike outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August.\n\nCharlotte Charles said: \"She has to come back, it's the right thing to do.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Charles: \"She has to come back, it's the only right thing to do.\"\n\nSpeaking after meeting Mrs Leadsom in Towcester, Mrs Charles said: \"Our determination is probably stronger now than ever, if that's possible.\n\n\"We very much feel supported by her and the government.\"\n\nHarry Dunn's father Tim Dunn described the meeting with Mrs Leadson as \"promising\".\n\nHe said: \"I feel like she's behind us, I really do.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence officer who worked at the base, left the country under diplomatic immunity following the crash.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turned down the extradition request in an email to the UK Government on Thursday evening.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMrs Leadsom, who is also the Business Secretary, said \"it will take some time to consider what the government's next steps should be\" but it was \"determined to see justice done for Harry\".\n\nShe said: \"There is no way that diplomatic immunity was to be used to leave a grieving family behind who are absolutely heartbroken.\"\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman earlier said the government would \"carefully consider\" what future action could be taken and was \"urgently considering\" options.\n\nHe added the Crown Prosecution Service was considering the legal position.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said he had told the US Ambassador the government was \"disappointed\" about the decision and that the UK \"would have acted differently\" had the crash occurred in the US and involved a UK diplomat.\n\n\"We feel this amounts to a denial of justice and we believe Anne Sacoolas should return to the UK,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Live coverage from Washington DC, as President Donald Trump's impeachment trial continues in the Senate.\n\nThe impeachment is in its final stages as senators prepare to cast their final vote on Wednesday, with acquittal almost certain.", "Plans by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to trademark their Sussex Royal brand could face an official challenge.\n\nA \"notice of threatened opposition\" was filed with the Intellectual Property Office, giving the complainant a month to lodge a formal objection.\n\nThat is now being rescinded, after an Australian doctor named in the filing said his details had been used without permission.\n\nBut since then, three more notices have been filed.\n\nIt is not yet clear on what basis the complainants might want to oppose the Sussex Royal trademark.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan's foundation applied to trademark the term - used on their website and social media - in June last year. The application covered products such as clothing and stationery, as well as campaigning and charitable fundraising.\n\nTheir plans attracted further attention after the couple announced their intention to \"step back\" from royal duties and become \"financially independent\".\n\nRecords at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which governs trademarks in the UK, show that a notice of threatened opposition was filed on 21 January.\n\nThe World Trademark Review website said it was filed in the name of a doctor living in Victoria, Australia.\n\nBut the IPO said it was rescinding this notice after it had been \"advised by an individual that their personal details have been used without their permission to submit a 'Notice of threatened opposition' to the Sussex Royal trade mark\".\n\nSince the objection was first publicised, three similar notices also appear to have been filed on 24 January.\n\nThe notices mean the \"opposition period\", during which detailed objections can be made, is extended to 20 March.\n\nBen Evans, senior associate and chartered trademark attorney at Blake Morgan, said the IPO had considered the Sussexes' application for an unusually long time before publishing the trademark, perhaps because of rules over the term \"royal\".\n\nHe said someone might formally oppose a trademark registration because they have a competing brand with which it might be confused, or because they object to the description - since the couple are no longer senior royals.\n\nBut unlike a full objection, filing a notice of threatened objection requires no fee and no evidence, he said.\n\n\"You could just do it to be difficult,\" said Mr Evans. \"It looks like the IPO might be quite busy on this one.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the Sussexes have found themselves in a battle over their preferred brand.\n\nThe Sussex Royal name on Instagram was originally taken by driving instructor Kevin Keiley, who lives in West Sussex and supports Reading FC - nicknamed the Royals.\n\nInstagram handed the name to the duke and duchess, leaving Mr Keiley as @_sussexroyal_ instead.", "Mr Harrison was arrested at Dublin Port after returning from France and Belgium.\n\nThere is nothing to stop the extradition of a County Down lorry driver to the UK from Ireland, the High Court in Dublin has ruled.\n\nEamonn Harrison, from Mayobridge, is wanted for the deaths of 39 people in a refrigerated container in Essex last October.\n\nHe faces 39 manslaughter charges and two charges of conspiracy.\n\nDespite the decision, Mr Justice Donald Binchy delayed ordering the extradition until 4 February.\n\nLawyers for Mr Harrison indicated they may appeal once they see the details of the ruling.\n\nThe bodies of the 39 people were found in a refrigerated container in October 2019.\n\nHis conspiracy charges are connected to human trafficking and assisting unlawful immigration.\n\nMr Harrison was arrested at Dublin Port after returning from France and Belgium.\n\nA previous court hearing heard he had driven the container in which the 39 people were found to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before it was transported to England.\n\nHis lawyers, who opposed extradition, argued there was no evidence the 39 died in the UK.\n\nThe Dublin High Court was also told at a previous hearing that the UK's extradition warrant was too rushed.\n\nMr Harrison was wrongly described as a British rather than an Irish citizen, it was alleged.\n\nLawyers seeking his extradition told the court that he drove the lorry used to deliver a container to the port of Zeebrugge and was identified as doing so in Belgium by CCTV footage.\n\nThe court also heard that he signed the shipping notice for the container which was later found with the 39 bodies inside.\n\nLawyers for Eamonn Harrison raised the question as to why if his alleged offences occurred in Belgium the UK was seeking his extradition.", "The area is popular with British skiers\n\nThe body of a 24-year-old British man has been found after a 12-hour search in the French Alps.\n\nLocal newspaper reports suggested he was the victim of a fall.\n\nThe man was reported missing in the early hours of Thursday morning after he became separated from his friends while returning from a night out.\n\nA spokesperson for the Foreign Office confirmed it is \"supporting the family of a British man who has died in the French Alps\".\n\nThe man's body was spotted by a helicopter at 16:50 local time on Thursday following an extensive search involving police, firefighters and mountain rescue, French newspaper Le Dauphine reported.\n\nIt is believed the man was returning to his accommodation in the ski resort of Brides-les-Bains in the early hours of Thursday, after a night out in the nearby village of Les Allues with other British people.\n\nHe was reported missing to the police around 05:00 on Thursday after failing to return to his accommodation.\n\nThe three-mile walk between Les Allues and Brides-les-Bains takes an estimated one-and-a-half hours. Temperatures were reported to be -3C (26F) at the time.\n\nThe Foreign Office said they were working with local authorities. The man's identity has not been released.\n\nThe resort of Brides-les-Bains is connected by cable car to the well-known resort of Meribel in France's Trois Vallees, an area popular with British skiers.\n\nThe latest tragedy follows the death of trainee surgeon William Reid who died earlier this month after plunging over a 30ft cliff while skiing in the French Alps.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graphic footage from PC Stuart Outten's body worn camera showed Rodwan punching the officer before grabbing a sharpened machete\n\nA van driver who repeatedly struck a police officer with a machete during a routine traffic stop has been found guilty of wounding with intent.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan attacked PC Stuart Outten, 29, after he was pulled over in Leyton, east London, on 7 August.\n\nThe officer was badly injured and has yet to return to work.\n\nRodwan, 56, of Luton, had claimed he was acting in self defence. He was convicted of wounding with intent but found not guilty of attempted murder.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out to the Old Bailey PC Outten said: \"This incident has changed my life but I hope it has not changed the way I police.\"\n\nRodwan, who has previous convictions for rape and two other machete attacks, was also cleared by the jury of possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nPC Outten suffered several injuries including six wounds to the head\n\nPC Outten suffered six blows to the head from a 2ft-long blade after stopping Rodwan's white van for having no insurance.\n\nThe defendant said he was not aware at the time that the insurance on his van had expired 12 days earlier.\n\nFollowing the attack PC Outten said he counted himself \"very lucky\" to survive, saying \"thankfully\" his head was hard enough to withstand the onslaught.\n\nHe suffered six deep wounds to the head, exposing his skull, slash wounds to his arm, several broken fingers and three severed tendons in one hand.\n\nBleeding heavily from deep gashes to the head and arm the Met Police officer Tasered Rodwan twice before subduing him, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan was convicted of wounding with intent but found not guilty of attempted murder\n\nRodwan told jurors he did not recall punching PC Outten before he was arrested.\n\nIn the struggle, the officer pulled some of Rodwan's dreadlocks out, which was \"extremely painful\", and grabbed his throat, he said.\n\n\"I could not breathe at all,\" Rodwan told his trial.\n\n\"It felt like he cracked my throat, squeezed so hard it felt like it was popping.\"\n\nRodwan said he retrieved his machete from the van but could not remember how many times he hit PC Outten with it before getting out.\n\nHe said: \"I was just trying to hit him to get him away from me.\"\n\nPC Outten suffered six wounds to the head, including a fractured skull\n\nThe defendant said he did not know Pc Outten had a Taser and had raised the machete up to \"try to scare him away from me\".\n\nGraphic footage from the police officer's body worn camera showed Rodwan punching the officer before grabbing a sharpened machete as Pc Outten tried to arrest him.\n\nRodwan had claimed he had the machete in his van for his gardening work.\n\nThe jury was told the defendant had a conviction for rape in 1982.\n\nAnd in 1997 at Snaresbrook Crown Court he was convicted of two offences of wounding with intent for an unprovoked machete attack on a tenant and his friend for which he was sentenced to nine years in prison.\n\nSeveral of Rodwan's dreadlocks were pulled out during the struggle.\n\nAt the time of his arrest last year, Rodwan gave a relative's address in Luton, Bedfordshire, but went on to tell jurors he slept in his van around Waltham Forest.\n\nDuring his trial, Mrs Justice Carr ruled Rodwan's violent past was inadmissible despite jurors asking about previous convictions.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nathan Munson, who led the investigation, said: \"Rodwan was not acting in self-defence on that day - the number of blows, the force of the blows and targeted blows to PC Outten's head proved this.\n\n\"It is reassuring for Londoners to know this violent individual will be unable to cause harm to other members of the emergency services or the wider public.\"\n\nRodwan told jurors he slept in his van around Waltham Forest\n\nFollowing the verdicts, Det Ch Supt Richard Tucker paid tribute to PC Outten, saying: \"He did what I would hope the vast majority of police officers in the country would do.\n\n\"He had the training, he put that into action, notwithstanding he was very, very lucky that day and I'm very, very proud of Stuart.\n\n\"He did an amazing job to apprehend that individual.\"\n\nAccording to figures from the Metropolitan Police, 5,900 officers and staff were attacked between January and December last year, compared to 5,700 in the period between November 2018 and October 2019.\n\nA total of 45% involved some form of injury, and of those, 10% amounted to grievous bodily harm or grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China has widened a lockdown in Hubei province - the centre of the coronavirus outbreak - as the death toll climbed to 25.", "Louise Lawford admitted animal welfare offences not linked to the missing dogs\n\nA dog walker who said she lost five pets in her care has been banned from keeping animals for five years.\n\nLouise Lawford admitted four animal welfare offences relating to her business Pawford Paws in Birmingham.\n\nProsecutors rejected her claim the dogs ran off - but said they could not prove what happened and had to drop charges relating to the pets' disappearance.\n\nShe was called a \"dog killer\" by someone in the public gallery, which the judge described as \"outrageous\".\n\nBirmingham Magistrates' Court heard Mrs Lawford, from Erdington, had been placed in a position of trust and left customers anguished.\n\nThe fate of the missing \"Tamworth Five\", Ralph, Charlie, Pablo, Maggie and Jack, which disappeared after a walk in Hopwas Woods near Tamworth on 23 June, remains a mystery.\n\nSome of the pets' owners were in court to witness Mrs Lawford being sentenced.\n\n\"The dogs were never found, despite being chipped and there being extensive searches,\" said Jonathan Barker, prosecuting, adding he did not accept Mrs Lawford's account that the dogs got lost in the woods, but could not prove otherwise.\n\nBecky Parsons believes her dogs Pablo and Maggie have died\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the dogs' owners - who say they \"know\" their pets are dead - said they would take civil action against Mrs Lawford.\n\n\"It's a positive outcome because the court just did not believe the dogs were lost,\" one owner Becky Parsons said. \"It just doesn't make sense.\"\n\nShe said the past six months had been \"an emotional rollercoaster\" and that she was so upset at losing her dogs, Pablo and Maggie, that she \"couldn't face going back\" to her house and has had to move.\n\nThe case, brought by Birmingham City Council, has attracted much attention on social media, and Mrs Lawford was called a \"dog killer\" when she left court briefly before sentencing.\n\nPugs Charlie and Ralph were among the dogs that went missing in Tamworth in June\n\nDistrict Judge Joanna Dickens was right to describe this as a \"very strange case\".\n\nThe investigation began when the five dogs vanished, but criminal proceedings ended today and we still don't have any answers. What happened last June remains a mystery.\n\nThe dogs' owners are convinced they're no longer alive, and have their own theories about the circumstances, but we must wait until they bring a civil case against Mrs Lawford before we find out what they think happened.\n\nThe decision not to pursue charges relating to their disappearance may at first seem baffling, but the owners of the \"Tamworth Five\" say it will help their civil case, as it means that the dog-sitter's explanation - that the dogs ran away - hasn't been accepted in a legal setting.\n\nMrs Lawford's legal representatives said she had also been sent anonymous death threats online.\n\nShe said she was suffering \"extreme emotional and physical stress\" when the dogs vanished in Tamworth in June 2019.\n\nShe had separated from her husband in March and suffered a nervous breakdown when she made the \"foolish decision\" to continue her dog-walking duties, the court heard.\n\nThe owners of the missing dogs were in court for sentencing\n\nDescribing it as \"a very strange case\", Judge Joanna Dickens expressed frustration she could not take the disappearance of the dogs into account when sentencing Mrs Lawford.\n\nThe former dog walker, who has already had her licence revoked, admitted breaching conditions including limits on the number of dogs she boarded at any one time, boarding dogs from different homes, as well as failing to seek treatment for the dog with a skin condition.\n\nMrs Lawford's defence said she expressed \"extreme and continuing remorse for what happened to the dogs\".\n\n\"This is well-intentioned but incompetent care,\" her legal representative Tom Walking said.\n\nMrs Lawford apologised for the pain owners of the missing dogs have suffered\n\nThe 49-year-old was fined £800 and banned from owning dogs for five years for breaching her licence conditions and failing to seek treatment for the dog that developed a skin condition while in her care. She must also pay costs of £2,616 and a victim surcharge of £80.\n\nHer sentence means she will have to give up her elderly pet labrador.\n\nBirmingham City Council welcomed the sentence, calling the case \"unusual and upsetting\".\n\n\"Only Mrs Lawford knows the truth of what happened to the five beloved pets placed in her care,\" said Vicky Allwood, the council's senior animal welfare officer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Going to the pub with your children? You may have to watch your drink consumption.\n\nWetherspoons pubs are limiting parents to two alcoholic drinks each if they have their children with them.\n\nThe rule came to light when the Robert Pocock pub in Gravesend, Kent, put up a poster publicising it.\n\nThe chain said its guideline for staff applied in its pubs nationwide, and was designed to deter \"unruly behaviour\" by children left unsupervised.\n\nAs far as Wetherspoons is concerned, a child is anyone under the age of 16.\n\nIt has been a crime since 1902 to be drunk in charge of a child under the age of seven in a public place. The offence can be punished by a fine or up to a month in jail.\n\nThe poster at the pub, which has since been taken down, read: \"As part of our licensing it is our responsibility to ensure that we are protecting children from harm.\n\n\"Therefore adults in charge of children will be allowed to have one alcoholic drink and a further alcoholic drink with a sit-down meal.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Naomi B 🦉 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ruling has led to comments on social media.\n\nOne patron tweeted: \"Sounds like this particular pub is trying to crack a nut with a sledgehammer and solve a minor issue with big policy change. How about instead Wetherspoons invest to make the space enjoyable for children too?\"\n\nJackie Taylor told the BBC that \"children should be looked after.\"\n\nBut customers at the Mannamead pub in Plymouth were more supportive.\n\nKevin Appleby said he \"wouldn't be offended\" if he were denied a third drink if at the pub with his children. He said that while \"you can't tell parents how to parent\", the guidance is \"rather relevant as you don't want kids running around\".\n\nJackie Taylor told the BBC it is \"absolutely\" right of the pub to send out such advice as \"children should be looked after.\"\n\n\"Parents should be responsible and actually to give them a limit of two drinks is wise,\" she added.\n\nKevin Appleby said he \"wouldn't be offended\" if he were denied a third drink\n\nA Wetherspoons spokesman said: \"The manager took the decision to put the poster in the pub to emphasise to customers that she would not allow parents to drink while their children were running round uncontrolled in the pub.\n\n\"The notice had a positive effect, with mostly good feedback.\"\n\nWetherspoons added: \"There is a guideline, though not a policy, that we will serve the adult a maximum of two alcoholic drinks with their meal.\n\n\"The reason is that we don't want children being unruly in the pubs and parents thinking they can continue to drink while this happens.\"", "The boss of Sonos apologised on Thursday for a decision to prevent older speakers from receiving software updates.\n\nIn a statement, the company's chief executive Patrick Spence said the company would deliver updates to all products \"for as long as possible\".\n\nBut the company did not retract its earlier decision.\n\nThe plan has sparked outrage with customers since it was announced earlier this week.\n\nSome Sonos customers who spent thousands of pounds on their products voiced their anger on social media. They attacked the company claiming it was trying to force them to invest in new products.\n\nIn a letter posted on the company's website, Mr Spence said the company \"did not get [the announcement] right from the start.\"\n\n\"Many of you have invested heavily in your Sonos systems, and we intend to honour that investment for as long as possible,\" wrote Mr Spence.\n\nSonos said it will still offer fixes for bugs and security patches for older products. But the plan needed to be put in place because older hardware would not be able to support the new software.\n\nOwners who have systems that include both older and newer Sonos speakers will have to be set up two speaker groups to allow the correct updates to come through. Once a single speaker in a system can no longer receive new software it prevents the rest of the system from receiving updates.\n\nWithout updates, these devices will eventually stop working.\n\nThe change affects four models sold between 2006 and 2015, including the Play:5, Connect:Amp and Connect.\n\nAffected Sonos customers are being offered a 30% discount towards a new product if they recycle their old speakers.", "Four companies that were developing age verification schemes for pornography websites are seeking damages after the government scrapped the idea.\n\nThe plans would have forced adult websites to verify users' ages or face being blocked in the UK.\n\nCulture Secretary Baroness Morgan scrapped the scheme in October 2019 amid a wave of privacy concerns.\n\nAgeChecked, VeriMe, AVYourself and AVSecure are seeking over £3m in damages from the government.\n\nThey have lodged a judicial review with the High Court to review the lawfulness of the decision to axe the scheme.\n\nThe so-called \"porn block\" had been pitched as a way to stop children \"stumbling across\" pornography on the internet.\n\nWebsites would be required to age-verify visitors. However, how they would do this was not explicitly explained in the proposal.\n\nAt the time, children's charity the NSPCC welcomed the proposal. It said: \"Exposure to pornography can be damaging to young people's views about sex, body image and healthy relationships.\"\n\nHowever, critics warned that many under-18s would have found it relatively easy to bypass the restrictions or seek out porn on platforms not covered by the plan, such as Reddit or Twitter.\n\nThere were also privacy concerns, amid suggestions that websites might ask users to provide ID such as passports or driving licences, which could be exposed in a data breach.\n\nChief executive and founder of AgeChecked, Alastair Graham, claimed those concerns were unfounded.\n\n\"The age verification sector developed technology to guarantee privacy and data security for consumers, abiding by a new standard created by the British Standards Institution,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"AgeChecked provides anonymous age verification, and it does not retain any personal data.\"\n\nSteve Winyard, chief marketing officer at AVSecure, claimed the government was concerned about negative media attention ahead of the general election in 2019.\n\n\"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that [the porn plan] could have caused some consternation in the press.\"\n\nOpen Rights Group - a UK-based organisation that campaigns for digital rights - warned that a database of pornographic preferences would have put people's privacy at risk.\n\nJim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group said the government did the \"responsible thing\" by abandoning the plans.\n\n\"The adult industry has a terrible record on data security. We're being asked to hope they don't repeat the many, many times they have lost personal data, with the result that blackmail scams and worse proliferate,\" he said.\n\n\"Age verification must not be pushed forward until there is compulsory privacy regulation put in place.\"\n\nThe companies developing the age-verification schemes were not subject to tight privacy regulations.\n\nInstead, the government had asked them to make \"voluntary\" privacy commitments.", "Brazil fans were emotional following their country's defeat to Germany in 2014\n\nDevoted football fans experience such intense levels of physical stress while watching their team they could be putting themselves at risk of a heart attack, research suggests.\n\nThe Oxford study tested saliva from Brazilian fans during their historic loss to Germany at the 2014 World Cup.\n\nIt found levels of the hormone cortisol rocketed during the 7-1 home defeat in the semi-final.\n\nThis can be dangerous, increasing blood pressure and strain on the heart.\n\nThe researchers found no difference in stress levels between men and women during the game, despite preconceptions men are more \"bonded to their football teams\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Martha Newson: 'Football gets discounted all the time, as just a game, and it's not'\n\n\"Fans who are strongly fused with their team - that is, have a strong sense of being 'one' with their team - experience the greatest physiological stress response when watching a match,\" said Dr Martha Newson, researcher at the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, at Oxford.\n\n\"Fans who are more casual supporters also experience stress but not so extremely.\"\n\nRaised cortisol can also give people a feeling of impending doom, that their life is in danger or they are under attack.\n\nPrevious research has shown an increase in heart attacks among fans on important match days, whether supporting club or country.\n\nIn their study, the University of Oxford researchers tracked cortisol levels in 40 fans' saliva before, during and after three World Cup matches.\n\nThe most stressful by far was the semi-final.\n\n\"It was a harrowing match - so many people stormed out sobbing,\" Dr Newson told BBC News.\n\nBut the fans had used coping strategies such as humour and hugging to reduce their stress, bringing it down to pre-match levels by the final whistle.\n\nDr Newson suggested stadiums should dim the lights and play calming music after crunch games.\n\n\"Clubs may be able to offer heart screenings or other health measures to highly committed fans who are at the greatest risk of experiencing increased stress during the game,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Workers disinfect the Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan, a day before the shutdown\n\nWith two days until the Chinese New Year, the railway station in Wuhan should be buzzing.\n\nAcross the country, millions of people are heading home to see loved ones. But in China's seventh biggest city - home of the coronavirus - most platforms are deserted.\n\nAs of 10:00 on Thursday (02:00 GMT), buses, trains, subways and ferries were stopped from leaving the city.\n\nFlights were also suspended. Roads are not officially closed, but roadblocks have been reported, and residents have been told not to leave.\n\nSo the question is - can you quarantine an entire city? And if you can - does it work?\n\nThermal scanners that detect temperatures of passengers inside the Hankou station in Tuesday\n\nWuhan is a huge place - the 42nd biggest city in the world, according to UN data - and cannot easily be turned into an isolation ward.\n\nMore than 20 major roads come into Wuhan, plus dozens of smaller ones. Even with public transport closed, sealing the city would require a massive military effort.\n\n\"The only way you could do it, realistically, would be to ring-fence the city with the PLA [Chinese military],\" says Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott, a health security expert from the University of Sydney.\n\nBut even if they do it, where - literally - would they draw the line? Like most modern cities, Wuhan sprawls into smaller towns and villages.\n\n\"Cities are shaped in unorthodox ways,\" says Professor Mikhail Prokopenko, a pandemics expert also from the University of Sydney,\n\n\"You can't really block every road and every connection. It may be possible to an extent... but it's not a foolproof measure.\"\n\nGauden Galea, the World Health Organization's representative in China, puts it more bluntly.\n\n\"To my knowledge, trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science,\" he told the Associated Press. \"We cannot at this stage say it will or it will not work.\"\n\nAnd - even if it proves possible to shut the stable door on Wuhan - the horse may already have bolted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Wuhan virus was reported to the WHO on 31 December. It wasn't until 20 January that officials in China confirmed it could be passed human-to-human.\n\nBy that time, tens of thousands of people had been and gone from the city. The virus has since been reported across China and Asia, and even in the US - all in people who had recently been in Wuhan.\n\nBut, even though the virus is spreading worldwide, Prof Kamradt-Scott says the domestic situation is more worrying.\n\n\"In each of the [other] countries where we've seen cases emerge, it's only been one or two, or four in Thailand,\" says Prof Kamradt-Scott.\n\n\"They're very small numbers of cases. It appears they have effectively been caught in time to prevent further transmission locally. So the bigger concern is within China.\"\n\nOf the 571 cases reported by Thursday, 375 were in Hubei province, where Wuhan is the capital. But there were another 26 in Guangdong, 10 in Beijing, plus 38 possible cases in Hong Kong.\n\n\"If the virus is already there, and there's already local community transmission, then the measures in Wuhan are too late,\" says Prof Kamradt-Scott.\n\nProf Prokopenko agrees that the international response has been good. Passengers on the last plane from Wuhan to Sydney, for example, were greeted by biosecurity officials.\n\nThe problem, the professor says, is many people could have the virus and not even know it.\n\n\"There is a difference between infected and infectious,\" he warns.\n\n\"Infected people have a virus in their organism, but they are not yet infectious. They don't show symptoms. They look totally normal until they have already been in contact with other people.\"\n\nThe normal incubation period for flu, he says, is two or three days. But for a coronavirus, it could be five to six days, a week, or even longer.\n\nThat is - someone could have caught the virus last week, taken it across the world, infected others, and still not know they are ill.\n\n\"And when they do start showing symptoms, it may be confused with common cold or flu,\" says Prof Prokopenko. \"That's the difficulty.\"\n\nNone of this means China is wrong to try to contain the virus. The WHO has praised their efforts, and there are some precedents for what experts call \"social distancing\".\n\nIn April 2009, Mexico City shut down bars, cinemas, theatres, football grounds, and even churches in an attempt to stop swine flu. Restaurants were only allowed to serve takeaway food.\n\n\"It did apparently slow the transmission of the virus in Mexico City, and helped authorities get a handle on the situation,\" says Prof Kamradt-Scott. \"Did it stop it completely? No.\"\n\nSo overall, is the Wuhan shutdown worthwhile?\n\n\"China has only been reporting confirmed cases,\" says Prof Kamradt-Scott.\n\n\"On the basis of those numbers [571 cases, with 17 dead], if it was me, I probably wouldn't do it. But if there are thousands of suspected cases, then that would considerably change the equation.\"", "A historic moment for the EU: Signing off on the UK's exit\n\nThe heads of the European Commission and Council - Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel - have signed the Withdrawal Agreement, ahead of the UK's exit from the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe Queen approved it on Thursday, and next Wednesday the European Parliament is expected to vote for it too.\n\nThe UK has agreed to abide by EU rules during a transition period until the end of the year. By 2021 the UK aims to have agreed a deal on future ties.\n\nAfter the document was signed in Brussels it was taken to Downing Street by EU and UK officials, for signing by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, due later on Friday. The agreement will then travel back to Brussels, and a copy of it will remain in London.\n\nNext week's European Parliament vote is seen as all but a formality, after it was backed by the parliament's constitutional affairs committee on Thursday.\n\nMrs von der Leyen and other senior EU figures are sceptical about the UK government's plan to negotiate a comprehensive deal on future relations before the end of 2020. They believe the timetable for that is too tight.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson is upbeat, insisting the UK can now move forward after years of wrangling over Brexit.\n\nCharles Michel, the former Belgian Prime Minister who chairs EU summits, said in a tweet \"things will inevitably change but our friendship will remain.\n\n\"We start a new chapter as partners and allies.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe EU Commission official who spent more than three years negotiating Brexit - Michel Barnier - stood behind the two EU leaders at the low-key signing ceremony.\n\nEarlier Mr Johnson said \"at times it felt like we would never cross the Brexit finish line, but we've done it.\n\n\"Now we can put the rancour and division of the past three years behind us and focus on delivering a bright, exciting future - with better hospitals and schools, safer streets and opportunity spread to every corner of our country.\"\n\nMPs overruled an attempt by the House of Lords to secure additional rights, including for unaccompanied child refugees, in the Withdrawal Agreement.\n• None What is the Withdrawal Agreement Bill?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graphic footage from PC Stuart Outten's body worn camera showed Rodwan punching the officer before grabbing a sharpened machete\n\nA man has been jailed for repeatedly slashing a police officer with a machete in a \"brutal and shocking\" attack.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan, 56, from Luton, slashed PC Stuart Outten, 29, after the van driver was pulled over by officers in Leyton, east London, in August.\n\nDespite his injuries, the PC managed to Taser Rodwan twice, subduing him.\n\nJailing him for 16 years, Mrs Justice Carr said \"arrogant\" Rodwan had shown \"not a shred of remorse or insight\".\n\nA jury at the Old Bailey convicted him on Thursday of wounding but acquitted him of attempted murder.\n\nMuhammad Rodwan was convicted of wounding with intent but found not guilty of attempted murder\n\nPC Outten suffered wounds to his head and hand from a 2ft-long blade after stopping Rodwan's white van for having no insurance.\n\nHe also suffered slash wounds to his arm, several broken fingers and three severed tendons in one hand.\n\nThe judge told Rodwan: \"This was a brutal and a shocking attack with a machete on a police officer carrying out his duties.\"\n\nShe told Rodwan the situation was entirely of his own making, carried out while he was \"in a rage\".\n\nThe judge added he had shown \"belligerent arrogance\".\n\nPC Outten suffered six wounds to the head, including a fractured skull\n\nDuring his trial, the defendant said he did not know PC Outten had a Taser and had raised the machete up to \"try to scare him away from me\".\n\nGraphic footage from the police officer's body worn camera showed Rodwan punching the officer before grabbing a sharpened machete as PC Outten tried to arrest him.\n\nRodwan claimed he was acting in self-defence and that he kept the machete in his van for gardening work.\n\nPC Outten suffered several injuries including six wounds to the head\n\nFollowing the verdicts on Thursday, PC Outten said he felt \"no hatred\" for Rodwan despite having to\" fight for my life\".\n\n\"He did what he did, he's now paying the price for it,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't feel the attack was personal. He was attacking an officer in uniform and I responded as such.\"\n\nSeveral of Rodwan's dreadlocks were pulled out during the struggle with the officer\n\nThe court was told Rodwan had previous convictions for rape and two other machete attacks, for which he was jailed for nine years.\n\nThe defendant was convicted of wounding with intent, but cleared of charges of attempted murder and having an offensive weapon, namely a machete.\n\nRodwan was told by Justice Carr he must serve at least two-thirds of the custodial sentence in prison.\n\nShe added he was also given an extended sentence of a further three years on licence \"to protect the public\".\n\nShe also ordered the disposal of the machete.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe US has turned down an extradition request for a woman who is to be charged with causing the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after a crash in Northamptonshire in August which led to the suspect Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence officer, leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said they had taken the news \"in our stride\".\n\nThe Home Office said the decision appeared \"to be a denial of justice\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Seiger said the latest move had been \"factored it into our planning and strategy\".\n\n\"The reality is that this administration, which we say is behaving lawlessly and taking a wrecking ball to one of the greatest alliances in the world, they won't be around forever whereas that extradition request will be,\" he added.\n\n\"We will simply plot and plan for a reasonable administration to come in one day and to reverse this decision.\"\n\nThe US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turned down the extradition request in an email to the UK Government on Thursday evening.\n\nWashington said granting the request would \"render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity\".\n\nThe family's constituency MP Andrea Leadsom is due to meet the US ambassador Woody Johnson in London later to discuss the case.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson previously said the chance of Ms Sacoolas, who is to be charged with causing the death by dangerous driving, ever returning to the UK was very low.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Seiger said \"no reason\" was given by Mr Pompeo in rejecting the extradition request.\n\n\"It's one of the darkest days in the history of this special relationship,\" he said.\n\n\"Boris Johnson wanted to be prime minister, he is now being tested severely.\n\n\"I expect him today to rise to that challenge and come and meet with me and the family and tell us what he's going to do about it.\"\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nThe 42-year-old left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nIn a statement released on behalf of the suspect after she was charged in December, Mrs Sacoolas's lawyers said: \"Anne will not return voluntarily to the United Kingdom to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.\"\n\nHarry Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles is expected to be react fully to the news on Friday\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed in this decision which appears to be a denial of justice\".\n\n\"We are urgently considering our options,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nA statement from the US State Department said: \"At the time the accident occurred, and for the duration of her stay in the UK, the US citizen driver in this case had immunity from criminal jurisdiction.\n\n\"If the United States were to grant the UK's extradition request, it would render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mini nuclear reactors could be generating power in the UK by the end of the decade.\n\nManufacturer Rolls-Royce has told the BBC's Today programme that it plans to install and operate factory-built power stations by 2029.\n\nMini nuclear stations can be mass manufactured and delivered in chunks on the back of a lorry, which makes costs more predictable.\n\nBut opponents say the UK should quit nuclear power altogether.\n\nThey say the country should concentrate on cheaper renewable energy instead.\n\nEnvironmentalists are divided over nuclear power, with some maintaining it is dangerous and expensive, while others say that to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 all technologies are needed.\n\nHowever, the industry is confident that mini reactors can compete on price with low-cost renewables such as offshore wind.\n\nRolls-Royce is leading a consortium to build small modular reactors (SMRs) and install them in former nuclear sites in Cumbria or in Wales. Ultimately, the company thinks it will build between 10 and 15 of the stations in the UK.\n\nThey are about 1.5 acres in size - sitting in a 10-acre space. That is a 16th of the size of a major power station such as Hinkley Point.\n\nSMRs are so small that theoretically every town could have its own reactor - but using existing sites avoids the huge problem of how to secure them against terrorist attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Roger Harrabin explains how small nuclear reactors might work - using bags of rice\n\nIt is a rare positive note from the nuclear industry, which has struggled as the cost of renewables has plummeted.\n\nIn the past few years, major nuclear projects have been abandoned as Japanese companies Toshiba and Hitachi pulled out because they could not get the required funding.\n\nAnd the construction of Hinkley Point in Somerset could cost £3bn more than was expected, in an echo of the row over the rail mega-project HS2.\n\n\"The trick is to have prefabricated parts where we use advanced digital welding methods and robotic assembly and then parts are shipped to site and bolted together,\" said Paul Stein, the chief technology officer at Rolls-Royce.\n\nHe said the approach would dramatically reduce the cost of building nuclear power sites, which would lead to cheaper electricity.\n\nBut Paul Dorfman from University College London said: \"The potential cost benefits of assembly line module construction relative to custom-build on-site construction may prove overstated.\n\n\"Production line mistakes may lead to generic defects that propagate throughout an entire fleet of reactors and are costly to fix,\" he warned.\n\n\"It's far more economic to build one 1.2 GW unit than a dozen 100 MW units.\"\n\nRolls-Royce is hoping to overcome the cost barrier by selling SMRs abroad to achieve economies of scale.\n\nIts critics have warned that SMRs will not be ready in substantial numbers until the mid 2030s, by which time electricity needs to be carbon-free in the UK already to meet climate change targets.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA violent storm that has ravaged parts of Spain with heavy rain and violent winds has left at least 13 people dead.\n\nSpanish authorities said four people were still missing after Storm Gloria triggered floods and swept away roads.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez flew over some of the worst hit eastern areas and visited Majorca which has been battered by huge waves.\n\nThe government is to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to co-ordinate a response.\n\nMr Sanchez told reporters there would be \"no scrimping on any resource or effort\".\n\n\"I think what's important right now is that we're all united, that we work shoulder-to-shoulder and co-operate, as we are doing,\" he said.\n\nMr Sanchez said climate change had played a part in the severe storm.\n\n\"Meteorological phenomena we are witnessing aren't entirely due to climate change, but what is also true is that climate change is accentuating them,\" he told reporters.\n\nPedro Sanchez saw for himself the damage caused in Cala Rajada, Majorca\n\nStorm Gloria swept into the Balearic Islands - which include the holiday island of Majorca - last weekend with torrential rain whipped up by winds of 100km/h (62mph).\n\nHuge waves forced some residents to evacuate their homes while rivers burst their banks and boats were torn from their moorings and washed on to beaches.\n\nThe storm then struck Catalonia, Valencia and the southern regions of Murcia and Andalusia with rain and snow, leaving a trail of damage in popular tourist resorts busy preparing for the holiday season.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpanish media reported four storm-related deaths in Catalonia, five in Valencia and two in Andalusia with one in the central region of Castile and León and one in the northern region of Asturias.\n\nAmong those killed was a 50-year-old man who was washed away while fishing from rocks in Ametlla de Mar, Catalonia, and a 75-year-old woman whose house collapsed in Alcoi, Alicante.\n\nOn Thursday, emergency workers said they had found the body of a man drowned in his car in the Catalan town of Cabaces.\n\nAuthorities said the death toll could rise further with four people still missing in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.\n\nConditions are easing as the storm passed over the country although several rivers in the north-east burst their banks on Thursday.\n\nStorm Gloria also battered Pyrénées-Orientales, France's southernmost Mediterranean department, which has been placed on high alert.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "James Bulger was two when he was snatched and killed in 1993\n\nA 53-year-old woman who posted a photo said to show one of James Bulger's killers on Facebook has avoided jail.\n\nTina McGuire breached a worldwide ban on revealing Jon Venables's current identity by posting the picture.\n\nThis was as well as a name Venables was said to be using and the prison where he was allegedly being held.\n\nMcGuire, of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, admitted contempt of court by breaching the 2001 injunction.\n\nShe was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for 15 months, and was also ordered to pay legal fees of £3,000 at a High Court hearing in London on Thursday.\n\nThe injunction bans the publication of anything purporting to reveal the identities, appearance or whereabouts of Venables and Robert Thompson.\n\nThey killed two-year-old James in February 1993 when they were aged 10, and have been living anonymously with new identities since being released from a life sentence.\n\nLord Justice Davis, sitting with Mrs Justice May, said the case against McGuire was \"close to the line\" for an immediate prison sentence.\n\nBut he added that in light of \"the early, frank admission, the remorse, the stated and evidenced determination not to infringe again and the psychiatric report\" the sentence could be suspended.\n\nKatherine Hardcastle, representing the Solicitor General, previously told the court the case was brought for a post made by McGuire on a personal Facebook page on 20 February 2018.\n\nJon Venables was 10 when he and Robert Thompson killed James Bulger\n\nIt was the second time she had attempted to post information purportedly about Venables, the court heard.\n\nThe court was told that in November 2017 McGuire posted on Facebook a picture purporting to be of Venables as an adult with a caption which encouraged others to \"share this as much as possible as this photograph I posted this morning was removed\".\n\nThat post was shared nearly 130,000 times, liked 2,800 times and received 3,400 comments, the court was told.\n\nMs Hardcastle said the reference to another photograph being removed \"demonstrates that there were two posts on that day\", making the February 2018 post \"the third occasion on which she had purported to post a picture of Venables in three months\".\n\nShe said the contempt proceedings were not brought in relation to that post because of legal issues with her first police interview, but said it provided \"essential context\" for the later post.\n\nMs Hardcastle added it was \"notable\" the November 2017 post \"included a photograph of a different man to the February 20 post\", and that McGuire had admitted in interview at least \"one of those images must be wrong\".\n\nShe said the posts posed a risk of \"serious harm\" to Venables as well as \"those mistakenly identified as Venables\".\n\nIt was \"particularly troubling that two separate men seem to have been identified\" as Venables, Lord Justice Davis said.\n\nJohn Hipkin, representing McGuire, accepted \"this is an extremely serious matter\" but said there was \"a real prospect of rehabilitation\".\n\nHe said McGuire had since withdrawn from all forms of social media.", "Eminem said his album was not for people who are \"easily offended or unnerved\"\n\nEminem has responded to the recent criticism of his lyrics, saying his new album was \"not made for the squeamish\".\n\nThe rapper was criticised for the track Unaccommodating, which references the Manchester bomb attack that killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nEminem said some lyrics on the album were \"designed to shock the conscience, which may cause positive action\".\n\nHe added the album is not intended for people who are \"easily offended or unnerved\".\n\nOn the opening song on the album, Eminem raps: \"I'm contemplating yelling 'bombs away' on the game/Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting,\" followed by the sound of an explosion.\n\nIn the statement posted on Twitter, the hip-hop star suggested the offending lyrics had been taken out of context, were not intended to be taken literally, and fitted a broader violent theme across the LP.\n\n\"In today's wonderful world, murder has become so commonplace that we are a society obsessed and fascinated by it. I thought why not make a sport of it, and murder over beats? So before you jump the gun, please allow me to explain.\n\n\"This album was not made for the squeamish. If you are easily offended or unnerved at the screams of bloody murder, this may not be the collection for you. Certain selections have been designed to shock the conscience, which may cause positive action. Unfortunately, darkness has truly fallen upon us.\n\n\"So you see, murder in this instance isn't always literal, nor pleasant. These bars are only meant for the sharpest knives in the drawer. For the victims of this album, may you rest peacefully. For the rest of you, please listen more closely next time. Goodnight!\n\nMusic To Be Murdered By, which is the rapper's 11th album, is battling Manchester band The Courteeners for the number one spot in the UK chart this week.\n\nCourteeners frontman Liam Fray suggested Eminem \"crossed a line\" with the offending song, while Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said the lyrics were \"unnecessarily hurtful\".\n\nEminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has a history of causing controversy with his lyrics.\n\nHis last album, 2018's Kamikaze, was criticised for its use of a homophobic slur on the lead single, Fall.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson has signed the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Downing Street.\n\nThe prime minister hailed a \"fantastic moment\" for the country after he put his name to the historic agreement, which paves the way for the UK's exit from the European Union next Friday.\n\nHe said he hoped it would \"bring to an end far too many years of argument and division\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, European leaders signed the document in Brussels, before it was transported to London by train.\n\nThe signings mark another step in the ratification process, following Parliament's approval of the Brexit bill earlier this week. The European Parliament will vote on the agreement on 29 January.\n\nDowning Street officials said the PM marked the document with a Parker fountain pen, as is traditional for ceremonial signings in No 10.\n\nIt was witnessed by EU and Foreign Office officials, including the PM's Chief Negotiator David Frost, and Downing Street staff.\n\n\"The signing is a fantastic moment, which finally delivers the result of the 2016 referendum and brings to an end far too many years of argument and division,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We can now move forward as one country - with a government focused upon delivering better public services, greater opportunity and unleashing the potential of every corner of our brilliant UK, while building a strong new relationship with the EU as friends and sovereign equals.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier on Friday, the document crossed the channel on a Eurostar train, having been signed in Brussels by the European Council's president Charles Michel and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nThe UK will keep a copy of the agreement while the original will return to Brussels, where it will be stored in an archive along with other historic international agreements.\n\nNext week's European Parliament vote is seen as all but a formality, after it was backed by the parliament's constitutional affairs committee on Thursday.\n\nMrs von der Leyen and other senior EU figures are sceptical about the UK government's plan to negotiate a comprehensive deal on future relations before the end of 2020. They believe the timetable for that is too tight.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson is upbeat, insisting the UK can now move forward after years of wrangling over Brexit.\n\nMr Michel, the former Belgian Prime Minister who chairs EU summits, said in a tweet: \"Things will inevitably change but our friendship will remain. We start a new chapter as partners and allies.\"", "The star attended the gala premiere of her documentary in Utah on Thursday night\n\nTaylor Swift has opened up about her struggle to overcome an eating disorder in a new documentary about her life.\n\nIn Miss Americana, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, she said photographs and comments about her appearance had triggered the condition.\n\nDuring her 2015 world tour, under-eating left her feeling \"like I was going to pass out at the end of a show, or in the middle of it,\" Swift said.\n\n\"It's only happened a few times and I'm not in any way proud of it,\" she added.\n\nSwift said she struggled with the condition for several years. Some days, she would \"starve a little bit [and] just stop eating\". The rest of the time, she kept lists of everything she ate and exercised constantly until she was a size double-zero (size two in the UK).\n\nBut she denied having a problem when people confronted her about her weight.\n\n\"I would have defended it to anybody: 'What are you talking about? Of course I eat. I exercise a lot,'\" she said in the film.\n\n\"And I did exercise a lot. But I wasn't eating.\"\n\nSwift elaborated on the origins of her eating disorder in an interview with Variety magazine that coincided with Miss Americana's premiere.\n\n\"I remember how, when I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine, and the headline was like 'Pregnant at 18?'\" she said.\n\n\"And it was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat. So I just registered that as a punishment.\n\n\"And then I'd walk into a photo shoot and be in the dressing room and somebody who worked at a magazine would say, 'Oh, wow, this is so amazing that you can fit into the sample sizes. Usually we have to make alterations to the dresses, but we can take them right off the runway and put them on you!' And I looked at that as a pat on the head.\n\n\"You register that enough times, and you just start to accommodate everything towards praise and punishment, including your own body.\"\n\nThe star says she now practises positive thinking when she is tempted to judge her body, telling herself: \"Nope. We do not do that anymore because it's better to think you look fat than to look sick.\"\n\nMiss Americana, which comes to Netflix on 31 January, received a standing ovation after its gala screening in Utah on Thursday night.\n\nAfterwards, director Lana Wilson praised Swift for being so candid about under-eating.\n\n\"That's one of my favourite sequences of the film,\" Wilson said. \"I was surprised, of course. But I love how she's kind of thinking out loud about it. And every woman will see themselves in that sequence. I just have no doubt.\"\n\n\"I think it's really brave to see someone who is a role model for so many girls and women be really honest about that. I think it will have a huge impact.\"\n\nThe star says she is a healthier weight now than in the mid-2010s when she \"starved\" herself\n\nWilson's candid documentary follows Swift during a turbulent period of her life, opening with a scene where the star learns her 2018 album Reputation has been snubbed by the Grammys.\n\nThe incident acts as a framing device, as the star realises she needs to stop trying to please everyone else and focus on what makes her happy.\n\nWilson pays particular attention to Swift's political awakening, as she sues a Colorado disc jockey for sexual assault and begins to speak out against conservative lawmakers.\n\nShe expresses regret for not opposing Donald Trump in the 2016 election for fear it would alienate fans; and meets with opposition from her team when she decides to endorse the Democrats in Tennessee's 2018 elections.\n\nAs she is about to press send on an Instagram post about Blackburn, her publicist warns that \"the president could come after you\".\n\nSwift's Reputation album and tour saw her fight back against negative press and internet trolls\n\nThe documentary also includes some tender moments, with Swift describing how she fell in love with British actor Joe Alwyn.\n\nThe star says she was attracted by his \"wonderful, normal, balanced kind of life,\" and that he helped anchor her during one of the most difficult periods in her life.\n\nHowever, critics felt that the officially-approved documentary only skimmed the surface of Swift's true story.\n\n\"Swift's awareness of her public persona and how she's perceived gives Miss Americana a low-hum of image management, which in turn makes you question the authenticity of Swift,\" wrote Matt Goldberg on Collider.\n\n\"The trouble with Miss Americana is that, although there is honesty and vulnerability, there's also something rehearsed and distant about it,\" agreed Screen Daily's critic Tim Grierson.\n\n\"Swift invites us in, but she only lets us see so much.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Universities and Science Minister Chris Skidmore has said that the UK will not implement the EU Copyright Directive after the country leaves the EU.\n\nSeveral companies have criticised the law, which would hold them accountable for not removing copyrighted content uploaded by users, if it is passed.\n\nEU member states have until 7 June 2021 to implement the new reforms, but the UK will have left the EU by then.\n\nThe UK was among 19 nations that initially supported the law.\n\nThat was in its final European Council vote in April 2019.\n\nCopyright is the legal right that allows an artist to protect how their original work is used.\n\nThe EU Copyright Directive that covers how \"online content-sharing services\" should deal with copyright-protected content, such as television programmes and movies.\n\nIt refers to services that primarily exist to give the public access to \"protected works or other protected subject-matter uploaded by its users\", such as Soundcloud, Dailymotion and YouTube.\n\nIt was Article 13 which prompted fears over the future of memes and GIFs - stills, animated or short video clips that go viral - since they mainly rely on copyrighted scenes from TV and film.\n\nCritics claimed Article 13 would make it nearly impossible to upload even the tiniest part of a copyrighted work to Facebook, YouTube, or any other site.\n\nHowever, specific tweaks to the law in 2019 made memes safe \"for purposes of quotation, criticism, review, caricature, parody and pastiche\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson criticised the law in March, claiming that it was \"terrible for the internet\".\n\nGoogle had campaigned fiercely against the changes, arguing they would \"harm Europe's creative and digital industries\" and \"change the web as we know it\".\n\nYouTube boss Susan Wojcicki had also warned that users in the EU could be cut off from the video platform.\n\nKathy Berry, a professional support lawyer at Linklaters, welcomed the government's stance on the law, claiming it will \"allow the UK to agree to more tech-friendly copyright provisions in free trade deals with other countries\".\n\nThe law sparked suggestions from its biggest critics that it would end up \"killing memes and parodies,\" despite it permitting the sharing of memes and GIFs.", "She posted pictures of her meal on social media platform WeChat\n\nThe Chinese embassy in Paris has tracked down a woman from Wuhan who said she took tablets to pass airport health checks.\n\nThe woman boasted on social media that she had been suffering from a fever, but managed to reduce her symptoms with medicine.\n\nShe later posted pictures showing herself dining at what she claimed was a Michelin-starred restaurant in Lyon.\n\nThe embassy has now confirmed that her symptoms are under control.\n\nThe woman left Wuhan - where the new coronavirus emerged late last year - before flights were suspended, but when thermal scanning was in place.\n\nSince yesterday, public transport has been shut down, with residents told not to leave the city.\n\nAt least 25 people with the virus have died. It was first reported to the World Health Organization 31 December.\n\nThe virus has spread to countries as far as South Korea, Japan and the US.\n\nPeople have been thermally scanned when leaving Wuhan, and arriving at their destination. This picture was taken in Indonesia on Thursday\n\nThe woman detailed her journey to Lyon on social media site WeChat.\n\n\"Finally I can have a good meal, I feel like I've been starving for two days. When you are in a gourmet city of course you have to eat Michelin [food],\" she wrote.\n\n\"Just before I left, I had a low fever and cough. I was scared to death and rushed to eat [fever-reducing] medicine. I kept on checking my temperature. Luckily I managed to get it down and my exit was smooth.\"\n\nShe also posted pictures of the meal she enjoyed. It is not clear exactly when she arrived.\n\nHer post quickly went viral and she was widely criticised by other social media users.\n\nThe Chinese embassy in Paris said it had received calls and emails about the woman. It said she had taken antipyretics, and that it attached \"great importance\" to the case.\n\nThe embassy said it contacted her on Wednesday evening and asked her to refer herself to medical services.\n\nOn Thursday, in a new statement, the embassy said the woman's temperature was under control, and that she had no more fever or cough symptoms.\n\nIt added that she did not require \"further examinations\" at this point.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina has effectively quarantined nearly 20 million people in Hubei province. Other major cities in China like Beijing and Shanghai are also affected.\n\nAuthorities have cancelled all large-scale celebrations in Beijing. Temple fairs are banned, film releases postponed and the Forbidden City will be closed to the public.\n\nAll this comes as millions of Chinese people are travelling across the country for Lunar New Year.\n\nCurrently known as 2019-nCoV, the virus is understood to be a new strain of coronavirus not previously identified in humans.", "A small government agency is supporting fossil fuel projects abroad with estimated carbon emissions of a country the size of Portugal, it has emerged.\n\nUK Export Finance (UKEF), a government agency in the Department for International Trade, is spending billions of pounds on the projects, Newsnight researchers have found.\n\nThis is despite a government commitment to cut down on carbon emissions.\n\nThe organisation, which describes itself as a forum for conservatives who support conservation and decarbonisation, said funding the projects was \"a blemish on the UK government's record on climate change\".\n\nAn investigation by Newsnight, in conjunction with Unearthed - Greenpeace's investigations unit - found that UKEF has helped to finance oil and gas projects that, when complete, will emit 69 million tonnes of carbon a year, according to government estimates.\n\nThat's nearly a sixth of the total annual carbon emissions of the UK.\n\nThe government calculated the UK's total emissions to be 449 million tonnes of C02e (carbon dioxide equivalent) in 2018.\n\nIt said the 69 million tonne estimate was a \"worst case\" scenario - and the emissions of the projects may be lower when the projects are operational.\n\nThe UK is just one of a number of backers for these projects.\n\nUKEF was set up a century ago - and aims to support British businesses abroad.\n\nEarlier this week, Boris Johnson announced that the UK would no longer finance coal mining or coal-fired power plants abroad.\n\nNewsnight's investigation found all of UKEF's current fossil fuel financing was for oil and gas projects, and not coal.\n\nNewsnight research also found that - since 2010 - UKEF has financed £6bn of fossil fuel projects. Financing has been provided to some of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world.\n\nThe projects that UKEF helps to fund abroad include oil refineries, power plants and liquefied gas extraction.\n\nLast year, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) published a report criticising UKEF as an \"elephant in the room undermining the UK's international climate and development targets\".\n\nKerry McCarthy MP, a Labour member of the EAC said: \"It's ludicrous that we would be funding something overseas, that we are purporting to be moving away from in our own country.\n\n\"There's just a complete disconnect, there's complete hypocrisy, that we boast of cleaning up our own act, but actually we are enabling other countries to carry on polluting.\"\n\nUKEF told Newsnight: \"We are committed to working with countries across the world to unlock their renewable energy potential and support their transition away from fossil fuels to cleaner alternatives.\"\n\nAs well as investments in fossil fuels UKEF has also financed some renewable projects.\n\nThe CEN's Sam Hall said the government needed to solve the issue of what UKEF funds before COP26 - an international climate change conference due to be held in Glasgow in November this year.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "A review of patient care relates to a consultant's work at Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull\n\nA private healthcare provider is reviewing the care of more than 200 patients after stopping a surgeon from practising.\n\nSpire Healthcare said it had contacted 217 people whose shoulder operations were carried out by orthopaedic consultant Habib Rahman.\n\nThey have been offered consultation with an independent surgeon to assess their recovery.\n\nThe probe relates to Mr Rahman's work at Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull.\n\nSpire Healthcare said it first restricted his practice in September 2018, before suspending his full practising privileges in January last year. Five months later, they were completely withdrawn.\n\nMr Rahman is employed by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which says that since July he has been subject to \"working with interim restrictions\".\n\nThe trust says it has not recalled any of his NHS patients.\n\nSpire said it had acted in line with safety procedure but did not say how concerns emerged, although a legal firm representing \"a handful of patients\" said the review focused on whether Mr Rahman undertook \"unnecessary or inappropriate\" surgery.\n\nLinda Millband of Thompsons Solicitors said she became aware of the matter when one of Mr Rahman's patients made contact on receiving a \"recall letter\" from Spire.\n\nThe patient, she said, sought advice on remembering that disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson had also operated at Spire hospitals in the Midlands.\n\nPaterson was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of wounding patients.\n\nA Spire spokesperson said during the period in which Mr Rahman's practising privileges were downscaled, it invited the Royal College of Surgeons to review his work and liaise with the NHS, the Care Quality Commission and General Medical Council.\n\nThe spokesperson added that following the college's guidance, the company wrote to \"all shoulder patients who were identified as requiring follow-up\" to \"review their care and to understand more about their post-operative recovery\".", "Security researchers have criticised Facebook's head of communications, Sir Nick Clegg, for his response to the hacking of Amazon chief Jeff Bezos.\n\nMr Bezos' phone was hacked in May 2018 after he received a WhatsApp message loaded with malware.\n\nBut in an interview with the BBC, Sir Nick said WhatsApp's encrypted messages could \"not be hacked into\".\n\nAnd he failed to acknowledge security flaws in the app that had let hackers compromise their target's smartphones.\n\n\"Nobody tell Nick Clegg about how exploits work,\" joked cyber-security researcher Kevin Beaumont.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Bezos' phone was compromised after he received a WhatsApp message containing a malicious file from the personal number of Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to the Guardian newspaper which broke the story.\n\nAn investigation suggested the phone secretly started sharing huge amounts of data after he received the message.\n\nThe kingdom's US embassy has described the allegations as \"absurd\".\n\nWhen asked about the hack in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Nick said: \"It can't have been anything when the message was sent in transit because that's end-to-end encrypted on WhatsApp.\n\n\"We're as sure as you can be that the technology of end-to-end encryption cannot... be hacked into.\"\n\nBut cyber-security researchers have pointed out that security flaws in WhatsApp's software have previously been discovered.\n\nTwo significant problems were disclosed in 2019.\n\nOne let hackers remotely install surveillance software on phones just by initiating a voice call, even if the recipient did not answer.\n\nAnother let surveillance tools be deployed by sending the recipient an infected MP4 video clip.\n\nSir Nick told the BBC: \"If someone sends you a malicious email, it only comes to life when you open it.\"\n\nHowever, some of the most significant vulnerabilities in WhatsApp let hackers install their malware without the recipient doing anything at all.\n\nAlex Stamos, who was Facebook's chief security officer for three years until August 2018, later tweeted that it had not been proven that Mohammed bin Salman's account was involved in the hack, and the media should not make assumptions.\n\nBut he added: \"Clegg is right that WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, he's just applying that fact to the wrong issue... Nick needs some better staff briefings on this issue. Not reasonable to expect him to have this expertise.\"\n\nFacebook told the BBC it had nothing to add to Sir Nick's comments.", "The boy was thrown five floors in the attack\n\nA boy who was thrown from a balcony on the 10th floor of the Tate Modern has recovered enough to be able to open his left hand again, his parents said.\n\nThe French tourist, then aged six, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain when he was attacked at the London gallery, last August.\n\nHis family say he is making progress and \"manages to open his left hand when we ask him to do it\".\n\nJonty Bravery, 18, has admitted throwing the boy to be on the TV news.\n\nThe boy's family said he was making progress with his recovery\n\nHis victim sustained a fractured spine, along with leg and arm fractures, when he fell five floors from the viewing platform.\n\nHis latest health developments were posted in a statement on the family's fundraising page.\n\n\"Hello everybody, One month has passed, and we are more and more tired. But our son is still in progress. He can now eat mash.\"\n\n\"We hope that he will be able to drink soon, with a straw to start with,\" they added.\n\n\"He cannot use his left arm but he manages to open his left hand when we ask him to do it (two or three times in a row),\" they said.\n\nLast month, the family said their son had begun uttering syllables and on Friday said: \"We understand better and better what he tells us.\n\n\"However, he still cannot stand or walk, and has great difficulty staying focused and thinking.\"\n\nHis their latest statement, his parents added: \"Thank you for your help. We keep fighting with our little knight.\"\n\nTheir GoFundMe page has raised more than €186,000 (£156,500) towards the cost of their son's treatment.\n\nBravery, from Ealing, who pleaded guilty to attempted murder, told police he carried out the attack because he wanted to be on TV news to highlight his autism treatment.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey in February.\n\nJonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US Space Force logo on left and the Star Trek emblem on right\n\nThe newly unveiled logo for US Space Force appears to have boldly gone where Star Trek went before.\n\nTwitter users noted that the emblem, revealed by President Donald Trump, bears an uncanny likeness to the insignia from the cult sci-fi TV series.\n\nThe striking resemblance left many critics as stunned as though they had been zapped by Captain Kirk's phaser.\n\nBut others online insisted the logo was really based on the US Air Force One.\n\nThe intergalactic controversy comes after mockery erupted last week when it emerged Space Force troops would wear woodland camouflage uniforms.\n\nUnveiling the insignia on Friday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"After consultation with our Great Military Leaders, designers, and others, I am pleased to present the new logo for the United States Space Force, the Sixth Branch of our Magnificent Military!\"\n\nGeorge Takei, star of the original 1960s Star Trek TV series, tweeted archly in response.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Takei This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother Twitter user joked that the Space Force had copied Star Trek's \"homework\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Peter Botte This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Consultant led A&E services could end at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital\n\nPlans which could see the A&E department at a south Wales hospital downgraded are being considered by health chiefs.\n\nThe proposals would mean an end to 24-hour consultant-led services at Royal Glamorgan Hospital's A&E.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board will discuss the options in a report to the board on 30 January.\n\nThe downgrade formed part of an agreement to centralise some health services in south Wales in 2014.\n\nMore than 53,000 people responded to a public consultation on the plan - called the South Wales Programme - in 2013.\n\nWhile other parts of the plan have happened, the proposed changes to A&E departments have not been implemented.\n\nInterim chief executive Sharon Hopkins said service and staffing pressures meant the current set up was \"increasingly unsustainable\".\n\nShe said staff had \"worked exceptionally hard\" to deliver emergency services across three sites - the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nBut in a statement Dr Hopkins added: \"Continuing and growing service and staffing pressures have meant that this situation is becoming increasingly unsustainable... and safe services cannot be maintained beyond the immediate short term without unacceptable risks to patient safety\".\n\nThe report said an option to continue the current system should be \"rejected\", instead recommending two options.\n\nOne would see the consultant-led service end, replaced by a minor injuries unit with nurses.\n\nThe other would see consultants continue at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital during the day, and a nurse-led minor injuries unit would operate overnight.\n\nOptions to replace the consultant-led A&E will be discussed at a health board meeting\n\nLocal politicians attending a meeting with the health board on Friday were told the last full-time A&E consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital would leave at the end of March, meaning services would be provided by locums from April.\n\nA statement on Facebook from Rhondda AM Leanne Wood said the situation was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe former Plaid Cymru leader added: \"The poor workforce planning from successive Labour health ministers means Wales has one of the lowest doctor to population ratios in Europe.\"\n\nRhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant said either of the options proposed would be \"terrible news\" for people in the area.\n\nHe said many would have no choice but to use public transport and mountain roads which were unreliable in winter.\n\nIn a joint statement, Pontypridd Labour AM Mick Antoniw and MP Alex Davies-Jones said the proposal \"will be of concern to many\".\n\nThey said: \"Robust A&E provision at the Royal Glamorgan is a critical component of health service provision to people in Pontypridd and the wider valleys communities and we are strongly opposed to any reconfiguration that results in a material dilution of A&E services at the Royal Glamorgan.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokeswoman Angela Burns said: \"Just this week we have had the worst A&E results for the Welsh NHS and yet the Welsh Labour government are allowing this downgrade to go ahead.\n\n\"Surely, the Welsh Government should be looking at options to reduce the more than 6,000 people that wait 12 hours or more for treatment in A&E in Wales.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We expect the health board to work with its partners to consider options and agree a sustainable model of care for the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tesco chief executive on getting rid of multi-wrap plastic use\n\nTesco is removing plastic wrapping from its multipack tins in an effort to cut down on waste.\n\nThe supermarket giant says it will remove 350 tonnes of plastic a year from the environment.\n\nBritain's biggest supermarket is working with the likes of Heinz and Green Giant to replace plastic-wrapped multipacks with multi-buy deals.\n\nTesco said the move was the first of its kind by a major UK retailer.\n\nAnd environmental group Greenpeace welcomed the decision to get rid of what it called \"pointless plastic\".\n\nThe changes start on 2 March when Tesco will stop ordering more plastic-wrapped multipacks. Some items will remain on the shelves as Tesco sells remaining stocks.\n\nMore than 40% of Tesco customers buy tinned multipacks, with 183,000 sold across its stores every day. Multipacks of baked beans, tuna, tinned tomatoes and soup are among the most frequently-bought grocery items in the UK, it said.\n\n\"We are removing all unnecessary and non-recyclable plastic from Tesco,\" said Tesco chief executive, Dave Lewis.\n\nLate last year Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons and Waitrose pledged to clear hard-to-recycle \"black plastics\" from shelves.\n\n\"While we know we have more to do, this initiative is good news for the environment,\" said Georgiana de Noronha, president of Kraft Heinz in Northern Europe.\n\nSupermarkets have come under fire from environmental campaigners for the increasing use of single-use plastic, which rose 2% in 2018 to 903,000 tonnes, according to Greenpeace.\n\n\"It's great that Tesco are getting rid of multipack plastic packaging that's completely pointless and are also pressuring their branded suppliers like Heinz and Branston to do the same,\" said Fiona Nicholls, ocean plastics campaigner for Greenpeace UK.\n\nShe added: \"This is such an easy, common sense first step that all supermarkets should have done this long ago. We urge retailers to end the nonsense of double-plastic packaging on all products straight away, and be bolder by introducing reusable and refillable packaging.\"\n\nThe World Wide Fund for Nature also supported Tesco's move.\n\n\"We need to remove unnecessary single-use plastic wherever possible, to stop the contamination of the natural world,\" said Paula Chin, from the WWF.\n\nThe top eight UK supermarkets produced 58.3 billion pieces of plastic packaging last year, according to a report last year by Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency.\n\nTesco is not the only supermarket to look into scrapping plastic wrap around tinned goods.\n\nWaitrose has been trialling the removal of plastic wrap on multipacks of some of its canned vegetables since last October, in a move it says will save 18 tonnes of plastic a year.\n\nAldi is running a trial in 270 stores to replace the plastic wrapping on tuna multipack tins with a cardboard alternative.\n\nSainsbury's says it has committed to halving the use of its plastic packaging by 2025.\n• None Plastic packaging: How are supermarkets doing?", "Laurence Fox has apologised for comments he made about the inclusion of a Sikh soldier in a World War One film.\n\nThe actor had previously referred to \"the oddness in the casting\" of a Sikh soldier in Sir Sam Mendes' movie 1917.\n\n\"Fellow humans who are Sikhs, I am as moved by the sacrifices your relatives made as I am by the loss of all those who die in war, whatever creed or colour,\" Fox tweeted.\n\n\"Please accept my apology for being clumsy in the way I expressed myself.\"\n\nHis original comments attracted widespread criticism and historians drew attention to the contribution of Sikhs in the British Army during World War One.\n\nAbout 130,000 Sikh men took part in the war, making up 20% of the British Indian Army, according to the WW1 Sikh Memorial Fund.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LAURENCE FOX This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking on the James Delingpole podcast at the weekend, Fox said: \"It's very heightened awareness of the colour of someone's skin because of the oddness in the casting.\n\n\"Even in 1917 they've done it with a Sikh soldier, which is great, it's brilliant, but you're suddenly aware there were Sikhs fighting in this war. And you're like 'OK, you're now diverting me away from what the story is'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We like to say that we're the warrior race\" Kameldeep Singh Samra explains the importance of remembering the role of Sikh soldiers in the First World War\n\nThe former Lewis star also responded to Delingpole's comments about film-makers \"shoehorning\" people of different ethnicities into dramas.\n\nFox said: \"It is kind of racist - if you talk about institutional racism, which is what everyone loves to go on about, which I'm not a believer in, there is something institutionally racist about forcing diversity on people in that way. You don't want to think about [that].'\n\nFormer Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati responded with an image of Sikh soldiers and queried the inclusion of just one in the film.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shobna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFox later appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain, where he said the film, which has 10 Oscar nominations, was a \"great movie\" but that the casting \"felt incongruous\". He also said people \"shouldn't be afraid to say how they feel\".\n\nPresenter Piers Morgan told Fox his comments were \"insulting to solders who had served\" and were \"an unfortunate thing to have said\" and co-host Susanna Reid added: \"Sikhs fought with British forces, not just with their own regiments - it's a historical fact.\"\n\nMorgan said he had agreed with other things Fox had said in the last two weeks, referring to the actor's high-profile appearance on BBC One's Question Time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actor Laurence Fox clashed with an audience member over whether Meghan's treatment in the press was \"racist\"\n\nThe actor clashed with audience member Rachel Boyle, a university lecturer and race and ethnicity researcher, who said the way Meghan Markle had been treated in the press was \"racist\".\n\nFox responded to her by saying: \"It's not racism, we're the most tolerant, lovely country in Europe. It's so easy to throw the charge of racism at everybody and it's really starting to get boring now.\"\n\nFootage of Fox's appearance was widely shared on social media - with some praising his comments but others calling them offensive.\n\nThe programme received more than 250 complaints, the corporation revealed in its fortnightly report for the BBC complaints service.\n\nThe main issues cited were that the \"audience [was] not representative of the local area, leading to a pro-Conservative bias\" and a \"discussion on racism [was] felt to be offensive\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's march to the Premier League title continued as Roberto Firmino's late winner at Wolverhampton Wanderers gave them the victory that extends their lead at the top to 16 points with a game in hand.\n\nWolves can consider themselves unfortunate to be the victims of Liverpool's 22nd win in 23 league games after making life as uncomfortable as anyone has for Jurgen Klopp's side this season before Firmino ensured Liverpool took another significant step towards their first title in 30 years.\n\nReds captain Jordan Henderson headed them in front from Trent Alexander-Arnold's corner after eight minutes but Wolves drew level six minutes after the break when Raul Jimenez glanced in Adama Traore's cross.\n\nIt was the first goal Liverpool - who lost Sadio Mane to a muscle injury in the first half - had conceded in the league for more than 12 hours and it required important saves from goalkeeper Alisson to keep out Traore and Jimenez as Wolves pressed.\n\nLiverpool, as ever, carried a huge threat and Firmino drilled home the winner with six minutes left - although substitute Diogo Jota then wasted a glorious chance to give Wolves a point in stoppage time.\n\nThe Reds, who have won their past 14 league games, are the third team to go 40 games unbeaten in the Premier League.\n\nLiverpool were arguably put under more pressure here at a vibrant Molineux than at any time in the Premier League this season - but the champions-elect did what champions do and found a way to get the job done.\n\nAfter Wolves equalised, and with the dangerous Traore moving through the gears, there was the possibility that Liverpool could lose their first league game in more than a year.\n\nThis, however, is a team that has forgotten how to draw never mind lose and even though it came against the run of play, it was no great surprise when Firmino made the decisive late contribution.\n\nAnd at the heart of it all was captain Henderson, unsung for so long but now in the best form of his career.\n\nHenderson delivered a collector's item with that header from a corner but it was his more customary attributes that helped his team through periods of suffering in the second half, although he also delivered the crucial pass for Firmino's winner. He was constantly available and always urging his team-mates to greater efforts.\n\nHe has grown in stature, along with Liverpool, in these last two seasons and is now the heartbeat of this outstanding team.\n\nHis influence is increasingly recognised and he was the driving force as Liverpool ground out a win in such a difficult environment.\n\nWolves are here to stay\n\nWolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo and his players understandably cut dejected figures at the final whistle, denied so late on as they pushed to become only the second team after Manchester United to take points off Liverpool this season.\n\nWhen that disappointment subsides, they can look back with pride on a performance that produced further evidence of what has been rebuilt at this famous old club.\n\nWolves were organised, played without fear, and in Jimenez and Traore possess a huge threat to back up their many qualities elsewhere.\n\nTraore's power and pace gave Andrew Robertson a very uncomfortable night while Jimenez has developed into a striker of the highest class.\n\nIt is all played out in Molineux's atmospheric arena, where the Wolves fans are revelling in what is being produced - and so they should.\n\nWolves can now regard themselves rightfully as a force in the Premier League. They are entertaining and superbly coached. This is a team that is here to stay in the upper reaches.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to BBC Sport: \"We changed the system two or three times, we calmed it down. We had incredible chances in the first half and then at the end it was a magic moment from Bobby.\n\n\"The boys are human. It was a little bit up and down. We had discussion on the pitch, there was stuff to improve but set-pieces can bring us back in the game, a good bit of skill can bring us back in the game. Wolves were really strong but it's clear we could settle again.\n\n\"You just have to find a way to win and have someone who makes the perfect decision and that was Bobby again.\"\n\nWolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo to BBC Sport: \"It was a good game. We played well. There is nothing to be disappointed about. Getting the momentum was important.\n\n\"We defended well, we were well organised. This is what we want. We want to compete and keep on growing.\n\n\"We had in the last moment of the game [the chance to equalise]. It's about creating. Things will come naturally.\n\n\"I'm happy when we perform well. We faced a fantastic team. This is the standards we want.\"\n\nMost points after 23 games ever - match stats\n• None Liverpool have amassed 67 points from a possible 69 this season - five more than any side in English top-flight history have after 23 games.\n• None Raul Jimenez's goal for Wolves ended a run of 725 minutes without conceding a Premier League goal for Liverpool since Richarlison scored for Everton at Anfield exactly 50 days ago.\n• None Jimenez is the third Premier League player to net 20 or more goals in all competitions this season, after Sergio Aguero (21) and Raheem Sterling (20).\n• None Wolves duo Adama Traore and Jimenez have combined for eight Premier League goals this season, more than any other partnership in the competition.\n• None Wolves have lost four consecutive home league games against Liverpool for the very first time.\n• None Liverpool are the first club to win three top-flight games on a Thursday in the same season since Leicester City in 1933-34.\n• None Wolves have conceded the first goal in 17 of their 24 Premier League games this season, including each of their last eight in a row.\n• None Jordan Henderson has scored more than once in the same season for Liverpool for the first time since 2015-16. Five of his last six goals for the Reds have come away from home.\n• None Since the start of last season, Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold has assisted 22 Premier League goals, at least five more than any other player, with 10 of those coming from dead balls, also a league-high.\n• None Roberto Firmino has scored six goals in his last eight games for Liverpool, as many as he had in his previous 32. All 10 of his goals this season have come away from Anfield.\n\nLiverpool play three times before Wolves' next game. The Reds visit Shrewsbury in the FA Cup fourth round on Sunday (17:00 GMT), and go to West Ham next Wednesday (19:45) in their Premier League game in hand.\n\nKlopp's side then host Southampton on Saturday, 1 February (15:00), with Wolves visiting European rivals Manchester United at 17:30.\n• None Attempt missed. Diogo Jota (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from very close range is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Raúl Jiménez.\n• None Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Liverpool 2. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jordan Henderson.\n• None Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Diogo Jota (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Leander Dendoncker tries a through ball, but Jonny is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "US senators have been accused of falling asleep, playing games and breaking other rules during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.\n\nJim Risch and Jim Inhofe are among members who have apparently nodded off during the lengthy hearings.\n\nCrossword puzzles, fidget spinners and at least one paper plane have been spotted with senators.\n\nThe trial has heard that Mr Trump's alleged abuse of power threatens American democracy.\n\nThe senators are acting as the jury to decide whether the president should be removed from office.\n\nThe upper chamber of US Congress prides itself as a hallowed sanctum of decorum.\n\nBut some of its members - Republican and Democrat alike - have this week been accused by US media of acting like bored schoolchildren.\n\nThe rules call for senators to remain seated during the impeachment trial.\n\nBut at least nine Democrats and 22 Republicans left their seats at various times on Thursday, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nMarsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, defended herself on Thursday after she was spotted reading a book in the chamber.\n\nShe tweeted that the tome - How Trump Haters Are Breaking America, by Kim Strassel - \"provides good insights into today's proceedings\".\n\n\"Busy mamas are the best at multi-tasking,\" she added. \"Try it.\"\n\nMr Risch, a Republican who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was seen this week slumped motionless with his eyes closed at his desk during the hearings.\n\nA spokesman for the Idaho senator denied he had been asleep, telling the Wall Street Journal he was just listening closely \"with his eyes closed or cast down\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, was spotted on Wednesday by an NBC reporter appearing to briefly doze off before he was nudged by Senator Todd Young, an Indiana Republican who sits next to him.\n\nMark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, was observed leaning on his right arm with his hand covering his eyes for 20 minutes.\n\nOn Thursday, Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, handed out fidget spinners, a children's toy, to fellow senators to help them while away the hours in the chamber.\n\n\"I saw somebody grab up a few of them, so they must have some real anxiety going along with this,\" said Mike Braun, an Indiana Republican. He said he did not require one of the gizmos.\n\nPhones, laptops and tablets are a regular accessory during normal Senate hearings, but all electronics have been banned in the chamber for this trial, leaving many restless.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's Ukraine got to do with the Trump impeachment?\n\nPat Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, was heard drawling \"my precious\" as he retrieved his phone from the cupboard outside the chamber.\n\nSome senators have apparently found a way around the strict rules by wearing smart watches.\n\nRand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, reportedly worked on a crossword puzzle and made a paper plane as Democratic prosecutors laid out their case on Wednesday.\n\nMassachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic front-runner for the 2020 White House nomination, was spotted by an ABC News reporter playing an unspecified game on paper.\n\nTalking is banned on the floor during arguments and senators are daily admonished by the Senate sergeant-at-arms to remain silent during proceedings \"on pain of imprisonment\".\n\nBut on Wednesday, two Republicans - Tim Scott of South Carolina and Ben Sasse of Nebraska - threw caution to the wind and began whispering after hours of passing notes to each other.\n\nThere are also strict rules against food, but senators have been spotted munching chocolate and chewing gum.\n\nPress access to the chamber has been heavily restricted during the Senate trial, meaning there are fewer cameras to catch senators' unguarded moments.\n\nBut other senators have appeared to pay close attention to the trial with some diligently taking notes.\n\nMarco Rubio, a Florida Republican, was observed scribbling away with what appeared to be a quill pen.\n\nMr Trump is only the third president ever to be impeached, but he is unlikely to be convicted in a chamber that is controlled by his fellow Republicans.\n\nBefore Thursday's arguments began, some Republican senators said they had heard nothing new in Democratic prosecutors' arguments and had already made up their mind to clear the president. A two-thirds majority votes is required to remove Mr Trump from office.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and online; Live text on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nSerena Williams says she made \"far too many errors to be a professional athlete\" as she was knocked out in the Australian Open third round.\n\nThe defeat means Williams' quest for a 24th Grand Slam singles title goes on.\n\n\"I can't play like that. I literally can't do that again. That's unprofessional. It's not cool,\" Williams said.\n• None Where does Melbourne exit leave chase for another Grand Slam?\n\nThe seven-time champion in Melbourne beat 28-year-old Wang in just 44 minutes at the US Open in September when the Chinese player won only one game and 15 points.\n\nThat was not reflective of the ability of a player who has been a regular fixture in the world's top 30 over the past 18 months and reached a career high of 12 after her run in New York.\n\nThis time, after initially flinching when serving for the match at 5-4 in the second set, she made amends in spectacular fashion.\n\nWang had the tools to hurt Williams and continued to execute them in a third set in which most observers would have backed her illustrious opponent to go on and win.\n\nAfter briefly faltering again as Williams rallied, Wang sealed victory on her third match point.\n\n\"I honestly didn't think I was going to lose that match,\" said Williams when asked on her thoughts after levelling at one set all.\n\n'I'm going to be training tomorrow' - Williams back to work after shock loss\n\nWilliams, seeded eighth, came into the match on the back of winning the Auckland Classic and relatively straightforward wins over Russia's Anastasia Potapova and Slovakia's Tamara Zidansek.\n\nInstead of those results laying the platform for another title challenge, they preceded her earliest exit at the Australian Open since 2006.\n\n\"I made a lot of errors. I didn't hit any of those shots in New York or in general in a really long time,\" Williams said.\n\n\"I just made far too many errors to be a professional athlete today.\n\n\"I'm definitely going to be training tomorrow. That's first and foremost, to make sure I don't do this again.\"\n\nOpportunities to equal Margaret Court's record of Grand Slam singles titles are running out for Williams, who is in her 23rd year as a professional.\n\nShe has not won a Slam since the 2017 Australian Open, when she was eight weeks pregnant.\n\nWilliams says she still has the drive to win that elusive 24th title and believes she can still match Australian Court.\n\n\"I definitely do believe or I wouldn't be on tour,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't play just to have fun. To lose is really not fun.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\n'I trusted myself' - Wang on digging deep to win\n\nWang grew in confidence after she saved three break points in the sixth game of the opening set. Her firm forehands began to trouble Williams, whose movement could not match her opponent's.\n\nWang - who defeated current world number one Ashleigh Barty at the US Open before losing to Williams - broke for a 5-4 lead and then served out to seal the first set.\n\nWilliams was struggling to gain the upper hand as the unforced errors totted up - they would eventually reach 56 - and she was broken again when Wang converted the second of her three break points with a deep forehand winner.\n\nThe Chinese player's form deserted her as she served for the match at 5-4, with Williams breaking back with a superb forehand winner at the end of a 24-shot rally. The American saved two more break points at 5-5 before eventually levelling the match in a one-sided tie-break.\n\nThe final set went with serve until the 12th and final game. Wang had wasted two chances to seal victory on Williams' serve before she was presented with another, which was taken when the American netted a backhand.\n\n\"After the second set I was a little bit confused, but my mind always said I had to focus on the court, on every point and trust myself,\" said Wang, who now faces Tunisian Ons Jabeur in the fourth round.\n\nWang dedicated the victory to her former coach, Peter McNamara, who died from cancer just weeks before last year's US Open.\n\n\"I always dream about him,\" she said. \"I think he can see what I play today. He will proud of me. I miss him.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLeague Two Northampton earned a replay with Championship club Derby after a goalless draw in the fourth round of the FA Cup at the PTS Academy Stadium.\n\nCobblers forward Vadaine Oliver went closest to a breakthrough in the first half, striking the crossbar from close range.\n\nCurtis Davies headed wide in the second half for the visitors, who failed to register a shot on target.\n\nThe fifth-round draw is live on BBC One during The One Show on 27 January.\n• None How to follow the FA Cup action on the BBC\n\nNorthampton manager Keith Curle had hoped Wayne Rooney would be rested for Friday's tie, but the former England captain was one of three survivors from the Rams side that beat Hull in the Championship last weekend.\n\nRooney and his team-mates were firmly on the back foot in the opening exchanges, however, with Cobblers centre-forward Oliver proving a constant thorn in the Derby defence.\n\nThe striker scooped the ball on to the top of the crossbar from point-blank range after County had failed to clear Jordan Turnbull's effort, before sending a towering header narrowly wide from Paul Anderson's deep cross.\n\nDerby had created little up to that point, but they were adamant Northampton should have been reduced to 10 men when the otherwise impressive Charlie Goode hauled Jack Marriott to the ground with the Rams striker through on goal.\n\nThe visitors appealed for a red card, but their protests were waved away by referee Darren England, who didn't award a free-kick.\n\nPhillip Cocu's team offered more of a threat in the second half and went close to an opener when Curtis Davies sent a powerful header past the post from Marriott's teasing delivery.\n\nTown midfielder Chris Lines hooked a volley over the crossbar late on, but neither side could muster a winner.\n\n'Red card would have changed the flow' - what the managers said\n\nNorthampton manager Keith Curle, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We all needed to be on the same page. Today showed the work in progress and the work we put in at the football club.\n\n\"We've earned the draw over 94, 95 minutes. The replay gives us another opportunity, to go to Derby and put in another performance that we're proud of. We might be able to express ourselves a little more on the ball at their place.\"\n\nOn Charlie Goode's foul on Jack Marriott: \"I did see it. The referee was unsighted. A red card would have changed the flow of the game massively, but we showed that we can compete against a very good football club.\"\n\nDerby manager Phillip Cocu, speaking to BBC Sport about Goode's foul: \"If he doesn't pull Jack Marriott down, Marriott would be one-on-one and probably score.\n\n\"There's only one decision to make. I cannot imagine why he doesn't give it. The referee tried to be man of the match and he became man of the match.\n\n\"Northampton deserved credit. They played a good game. They had passionate home fans, it was a great atmosphere. They played a direct style of football.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Chris Martin (Derby County) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Wayne Rooney with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Ryan Watson (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jayden Bogle (Derby County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jason Knight.\n• None Attempt missed. Martyn Waghorn (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Martin. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The trust is likely to be criticised at an inquest into the death of baby Harry Richford on Friday\n\nEngland's care watchdog has carried out a no-notice inspection of an NHS trust at the centre of concerns over the possible preventable deaths of babies.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) is investigating East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust but has not yet decided whether to prosecute.\n\nAt least seven preventable baby deaths may have occurred at the trust since 2016, a BBC investigation found.\n\nThe trust apologised and said it had made \"significant changes\".\n\nIt comes as the trust is likely to be heavily criticised on Friday at an inquest into the death of baby Harry Richford.\n\nEast Kent is one of England's largest hospital trusts\n\nEast Kent Hospitals NHS Trust consists of five hospitals and community clinics and almost 7,000 babies are born there each year.\n\nOn Thursday, the BBC revealed significant concerns have been raised about maternity services at the trust, and a series of preventable baby deaths may have occurred there.\n\nOn Wednesday and Thursday this week, the trust's maternity services were subject to an unannounced inspection from the CQC.\n\nTed Baker, chief inspector for hospitals at the commission said: \"CQC's 2016 inspection rated maternity services at East Kent NHS Foundation Trust as 'requires improvement', identifying that staffing levels were impacting on the quality of patient care.\n\n\"That rating remained unchanged at our 2018 inspection, during which it was noted that the department had changed its approach to foetal monitoring training after concerns were identified.\n\n\"The trust remains subject to close monitoring and further inspections. We conducted an unannounced inspection of the trust's maternity services and we will publish the findings of this inspection as soon as we are able to.\"\n\nHe said the CQC's investigation was ongoing and no decision had yet been taken on whether to prosecute the trust for a failure to provide safe care or treatment, resulting in avoidable harm or a significant risk of avoidable harm.\n\nEast Kent's maternity care is expected to be heavily criticised later on Friday as the inquest into the death of Harry Richford ends.\n\nHarry was born in November 2017 at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate, but died seven days later after complications with his delivery and aftercare.\n\nOver the past three weeks, a number of witnesses have told the coroner there were a succession of failures in Harry's care, for which the trust has already apologised.\n\nAt the start of the inquest, the trust apologised for the care Harry received\n\nOn Thursday night, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said in a statement: \"We are truly sorry for the death of baby Harry and our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to Harry's family.\n\n\"We accept that Harry's care fell short of the standard that we expect to offer every mother giving birth in our hospital and we are fully cooperating with the CQC's investigation into Harry Richford's death.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has discovered the trust was paid nearly £1.5m for providing good maternity care.\n\nEast Kent Hospitals NHS Trust had to certify it had met 10 safety standards to qualify for the £1,475,313 from the Maternity Incentive Scheme in 2018.\n\nThe scheme was launched by NHS Resolution, the legal arm of NHS trusts in England, to improve maternity care and reduce the cost of errors.\n\nTrusts were required to assess whether they had met the maternity safety \"actions\", including reducing error and acting on the concerns of patients.\n\nThe trust was able to qualify for a payment if its board certified all standards were met.\n\nIt was under the same scheme that another NHS trust - which was at the centre of England's largest inquiry into baby deaths - was also paid nearly £1m.\n\nIn order to secure the money, spent on new equipment, the trust certified it was meeting all of the standards.\n\nIt was then eligible for monies including £500,000 paid in by other trusts which had not certified themselves as meeting every requirement.\n\nResponding to the £1.5m it received, East Kent Hospitals said: \"The trust's board reviewed the evidence that these 10 actions had been completed in year one of the scheme, and were assured that they could demonstrate compliance.\"\n\nIt added: \"The trust will be carrying out a comprehensive and wide-ranging review of its maternity service and quality assurance to assure itself, the public and the wider health system and will make any changes that are required.\"\n\nThe trust has said it made \"significant changes\" to its maternity service, but it recognised that the scale of change required has not taken place quickly enough.\n\nThe trust said it is recruiting more doctors and will be working with the NHS Maternity Support Programme.", "The Prince visited the Church of Mary Magdalene, where his grandmother is buried\n\nThe Prince of Wales has visited the tomb of his \"inspirational\" paternal grandmother, Princess Alice, during his first official trip to Jerusalem.\n\nShe was honoured by Jewish people for humanitarian efforts in Nazi-occupied Athens during World War Two.\n\nShe died in 1969, aged 84, and was buried near her aunt at the Church of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem.\n\nPrince Charles said he had \"long drawn inspiration from the selfless actions of my dear grandmother\".\n\nThe prince laid flowers on her final resting place as his two-day visit to the Middle East came to an end.\n\nOn her tomb was a Greek royal standard which the prince had made in London after the original had become worn.\n\nOn Thursday in Jerusalem, he addressed world leaders at the World Holocaust Forum to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.\n\nHe warned that lessons of the Holocaust are still \"searingly relevant\" and called on leaders to be \"fearless in confronting falsehoods\" and violence.\n\nPrincess Alice of Battenberg married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, with whom she had a son, Prince Philip, who would later renounce his Greek title to become the Duke of Edinburgh after marrying the Queen.\n\nDuring World War Two, she helped shelter Jewish refugees from the Nazis, for which she was declared 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Israel's Holocaust memorial institution.\n\nAfter the war, she stayed in Greece and founded a Greek Orthodox order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary.\n\nBefore her death she gave away all her possessions and was buried at her request at the Church of Mary Magdalene, near her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, a Russian Orthodox saint.\n\nHer life was depicted in the third series of Netflix programme The Crown, in which she was portrayed in later life as a chain-smoking nun.\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh with his mother Princess Alice Of Battenberg\n\nPrince Charles visited her tomb at the Church of Mary Magdalene\n\nHe met nuns at the Russian Orthodox Church\n\nIn a speech on Friday in Bethlehem, Charles said he would pray for \"a just and lasting peace\" in the Middle East.\n\nHe said he had been \"struck by the energy, warmth and remarkable generosity of the Palestinian people\".\n\nDuring the trip, the prince visited a mosque and a church, built on the site said to be where Jesus was born.\n\nThe prince visited the crypt at the Church of the Nativity, which was built on the site Jesus is said to have been born\n\nThe prince said he had \"endeavoured to build bridges between different religions\" across the world and that it \"breaks my heart... to see such suffering and division\".\n\n\"No-one arriving in Bethlehem today could miss the signs of continued hardship and the situation you face, and I can only join you, and all communities, in your prayers for a just and lasting peace,\" he said.\n\n\"We must pursue this cause with faith and determination, striving to heal the wounds which have caused such pain.\"\n\nHe added that it was his \"dearest wish\" that the future would bring \"freedom, justice and equality\" to Palestinians.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has been on a two-day tour of the Middle East\n\nEarlier, the prince visited the Mosque of Omar, which is named after Caliph Omar, who conquered Jerusalem in 637 but guaranteed that Christians would be free to continue to worship.\n\nThe prince said Bethlehem embodied the \"vital co-existence between Christians and Muslims\".\n\nCorrection 26 March 2020: This article has been amended to clarify that this was Prince Charles's first official trip to Jerusalem.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry, seen with his parents Sarah and Tom Richford, died aged just seven days\n\nThe death of a baby seven days after his emergency delivery was \"wholly avoidable\", a coroner has ruled.\n\nHarry Richford died a week after he was born at Margate's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in 2017.\n\nCoroner Christopher Sutton-Mattocks was told Harry was born not crying, pale, and with no movement in an operating room \"full of panicking people\".\n\nGiving a narrative conclusion, he found Harry's death was \"contributed to by neglect\".\n\nDr Paul Stevens, medical director for East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"We are deeply sorry and wholeheartedly apologise for our failings in Harry's care and accept the coroner's conclusion and findings.\"\n\nMr Sutton-Mattocks said Sarah and Tom Richford had been excited about becoming first-time parents but had been left grieving.\n\nHe said: \"They are grieving for a child they believe should not have died. I agree with them.\n\n\"Mr and Mrs Richford were failed by the hospital, but more importantly Harry was failed.\"\n\nThe inquest was told Harry would have survived but for failings by the hospital\n\nMr Sutton-Mattocks criticised the hospital trust for initially saying Harry's death was \"expected\", which meant the coroner was not informed of Harry's death.\n\nIt was only because of the persistence of the family that an inquest was ordered, the coroner said.\n\nHe praised Harry's parents for being \"calm and dignified\" during the inquest, and added: \"Today Harry should be almost two years and three months old... a bundle of energy.\n\n\"Instead his family are still grieving and will do so for the rest of their lives.\"\n\nMrs Richford had gone to the midwifery-led unit at QEQM on 31 October 2017. Twenty hours later she was moved to the labour ward and given a drug to speed up labour.\n\nAt 01:30 GMT on 2 November, concerns were raised about Harry's heartbeat.\n\nThree midwives and a senior doctor recalled how it kept dropping and how there were concerns over his position before he was born.\n\nAt 02:05 it was decided the baby needed to be delivered, but it was not until an hour later that locum registrar Dr Christos Spyroulis began an attempt to do so using forceps.\n\nHarry was born by emergency Caesarean at 03:32, \"to all intents and purposes lifeless\". It took 28 minutes to resuscitate him \"by which time the damage was done\", the coroner said.\n\nObstetrics expert Myles Taylor had told the inquest \"but for a failure to deliver at 2am\" Harry would have been born in good condition and would have survived.\n\nDr Giles Kendall, a neonatal medicine expert, said Harry suffered irreversible brain damage and that had resuscitations been of an appropriate standard, Harry would almost certainly have survived.\n\nExplaining his conclusion, Mr Sutton-Mattocks said he considered the divergences of unlawful killing or neglect.\n\n\"I do not conclude the failures were so large and so atrocious as to fall within the definition of unlawful killing.\"\n\nBut he said there were failures by a number of people, some of whom lacked the experience for the positions they were in.\n\nWhen Harry was less than nine hours old he was transferred to a neo-natal intensive care unit in Ashford where he survived for a week with the aid of life support.\n\nHis parents were told he would never be able to feed himself or walk, so the advice from the consultant was that they withdraw his care\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mrs Richford said she and her husband were unable to hold their son \"until the day that he died\", and the seven days during which he had survived had been \"the worst week\" in their life.\n\n\"Harry was perfect when we saw him and to have to withdraw the care from your baby and to live with that afterwards... it's a whirlwind of negative emotions to try and cope in everyday life.\n\n\"It has been the hardest two years of our life,\" she said.\n\nThere are fears there have been more preventable baby deaths at East Kent Hospitals Trust\n\nOn Thursday it was revealed that at least seven preventable baby deaths may have occurred at the East Kent Hospitals Trust since 2016.\n\nThe trust was placed into special measures in 2014 following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) which rated its care, including maternity services, as inadequate.\n\nSubsequent CQC reports have rated it as \"requires improvement\".\n\nTed Baker, chief inspector for hospitals, said the commission was aware of the conclusion of Harry's inquest, and it had conducted an unannounced inspection of the trust's maternity services on Wednesday and Thursday.\n\n\"CQC's investigation is ongoing and no decision has been taken at this stage on whether we will prosecute the trust for a failure to provide safe care or treatment resulting in avoidable harm or a significant risk of avoidable harm,\" he said.\n\nDr Paul Stevens, medical director for East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"We are so sorry and apologise wholeheartedly for the devastating loss of baby Harry.\n\n\"We fully accept that Harry's care fell below the standard that we want to offer every mother giving birth in our hospitals.\n\n\"Mr and Mrs Richford's expectation in November 2017 was that they would welcome a healthy baby into their family and we are deeply sorry that we failed in our role to help them do that.\n\n\"With great sadness we accept that we failed Harry and his family, and apologise unreservedly.\n\n\"We are also truly sorry that Harry's family was not given the support and answers they needed. We deeply regret the extra pain that our delays have caused them.\"\n\nDr Stevens said the trust fully accepted the coroner's findings and recommendations, and it was \"committed to learning the lessons from Harry's death\".\n\nAfter the hearing, Mr Richford said: \"Our son died because of a number of serious and preventable failings that amounted to neglect.\n\n\"Sarah had a textbook pregnancy and Harry was born on his due date. But as a result of the failure to resuscitate him, he died.\"\n\nMr Richford added the trust had tried to avoid outside scrutiny by refusing to call the coroner, despite being asked numerous times, and had said Harry's death was \"expected\".\n\nHe said: \"Accidents happen every day but failing to learn from them appears to have become part of the culture of this trust. It was known there was a risk. The risk was present as far back as 2014.\"\n\nMr Richford said the trust \"failed to mitigate the risk despite the risk being a real risk to life\".\n\nHe said: \"We are calling on the secretary of state to order an independent investigation or inquiry into maternity services at East Kent.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We can never underestimate the agony of losing a baby and our thoughts are with Harry's family following the tragic loss of their son.\n\n\"An extensive programme of support is in place to improve the maternity services at the Trust and we will continue to closely monitor the actions and progress.\"", "No-one took full account of how complex and risky the HS2 high-speed rail project was likely to be, the government spending watchdog has said.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) and HS2 Ltd did not allow for all uncertainties when estimating initial costs, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.\n\nIn 2015, HS2 was due to cost £56bn.\n\nEarlier this week, however, a leaked government-commissioned review suggested the total could reach £106bn.\n\nThe findings of the independent review, conducted by former HS2 Ltd chair Doug Oakervee, have not yet been officially published.\n\nThe government will use the report to inform its final decision on whether to give the go-ahead to the HS2 project, and has said a final decision on whether to continue with it will be made in February.\n\nIn its progress update, the NAO said that the DfT and HS2 Ltd \"have not adequately managed risks to taxpayer money\".\n\nThis led to the project being over budget and behind schedule, it added.\n\n\"Significant challenges to completing the programme and delivering value for taxpayers and shareholders remain,\" the NAO report said.\n\nThe first phase of the project, between London and Birmingham, is due to open at the end of 2026, with the second phase to Leeds and Manchester expected to be completed by 2032-33.\n\nDespite concerns about the rail link, Europe's largest infrastructure project, work is not on hold and the project currently gets through about £250m a month.\n\nGareth Davies, the head of the NAO, said: \"There are important lessons to be learned from HS2, not only for the Department for Transport and HS2 Ltd, but for other major infrastructure programmes.\n\n\"To ensure public trust, the Department and HS2 Ltd must be transparent and provide realistic assessments of costs and completion dates as the programme develops, recognising the many risks to the successful delivery of the railway that remain.\"\n\nA DfT spokesperson said: \"The department has supported this review and is already acting on many of its recommendations. To ensure transparency around the project, we have worked closely with the NAO to provide information on the latest cost and schedule estimates for HS2.\n\n\"We recognise that there have been significant underestimations of both the cost and schedule of HS2 in the past, which is why we commissioned the Oakervee review to provide advice on whether and how to proceed with HS2.\"\n\nEmployers' organisation the CBI said that whatever the misgivings, the project should go ahead.\n\nMatthew Fell, the CBI's chief UK policy director, said: \"HS2 is an ambitious project and the National Audit Office's report usefully highlights the challenges of delivering large-scale infrastructure. But what is clear to the CBI, and business generally, is the colossal cost of not delivering HS2.\n\n\"If the government truly believes in levelling up the regions, especially the Midlands and the North, it should deliver HS2 in full.\n\n\"It is exactly the post-Brexit project the government should be championing.\"\n\nThis is a slap on the wrist for HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport.\n\nWhen you consider the massive overspend on HS2, headlines about underestimating the scale of the project and not acknowledging associated risks are hardly surprising.\n\nAs the government decides the fate of the project, there are a few interesting nuggets.\n\nThe report paints a picture of a high speed line like no other in Europe. HS2 plans 18 trains per hour. Other lines in Europe typically run between two and six trains an hour.\n\nThe incredibly high spec justifies the high price tag, supporters say.\n\nCritics say it's one reason why the project is flawed.\n\nThe government's review of HS2 has looked at a series of options, like reducing the spec of HS2.\n\nBut as this report acknowledges, civil servants have looked at ways of making the project more affordable before.\n\nIn short, tinkering with aspects of this project, like reducing the very high speed of the trains, wouldn't save huge amounts of money.\n\nThere is a stark contrast in its assessment of the two phases.\n\nAlthough it criticises the substantial overspend on phase one - London to Birmingham - the National Audit Office does now believe that the costings on that part of the project are \"robust\".\n\nInevitably phase two - Birmingham to Manchester and Birmingham to Leeds - which is at a very early stage, is in a very different position.\n\nIn fact phase two is at such an early stage that this report concludes that no assessment for the overall cost of HS2 can be made with any real certainty.\n\nWe visited two vast construction sites at Curzon Street in Birmingham and in Solihull.\n\nWhen you see the scale and type of work underway, like moving a bridge over a motorway, then it is hard to imagine that the government will pull the plug on phase one.\n\nGiven the scepticism of some figures within government and recent leaks in the media, the future of phase two is less certain.", "The Prince of Wales has warned \"hatred and intolerance still lurk in the human heart\", at an event in Israel marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.\n\nDuring his speech in Jerusalem, he said lessons of the Holocaust are still \"searingly relevant\" and called on world leaders to be \"fearless in confronting falsehoods\" and violence.\n\nThe Nazis murdered more than a million people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews.\n\nPrince Charles delivered his call for action at the World Holocaust Forum being staged at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and US Vice-President Mike Pence were among those attending.\n\nHowever, a decision by Poland's President Andrzej Duda not to join them threatened to overshadow the event.\n\nPrince Charles, on his first official trip to Israel and the occupied West Bank, told them that hatred and intolerance \"tell new lies, adopt new disguises, and still seek new victims\".\n\n\"All too often, language is used which turns disagreement into dehumanisation,\" he said.\n\n\"Words are used as badges of shame to mark others as enemies, to brand those who are different as somehow deviant.\n\n\"All too often, virtue seems to be sought through verbal violence. All too often, real violence ensues, and acts of unspeakable cruelty are still perpetrated around the world against people for reasons of their religion, their race or their beliefs.\n\n\"Knowing, as we do, the darkness to which such behaviour leads, we must be vigilant in discerning these ever-changing threats; we must be fearless in confronting falsehoods and resolute in resisting words and acts of violence.\n\n\"And we must never rest in seeking to create mutual understanding and respect.\"\n\nThe focus, say the organisers, will be on fighting anti-Semitism today.\n\nBut some speeches - particularly those outside of the event - look set to go further; as Jerusalem bristles with presidents and princes in what officials say amounts to the biggest political gathering since Israel's founding.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already used the lead up to say the number one lesson from Auschwitz is stopping a nuclear armed Iran.\n\nWhile the decision to give the podium to President Putin of Russia has sparked fury in Poland.\n\nIts nationalist president Andrzej Duda is staying away in protest at not being invited to speak; accusing Mr Putin of distorting the history of the Holocaust and the war to attack his country.\n\nAhead of the event, the prince met survivors of the Holocaust, saw the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, and visited Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.\n\nMr Rivlin told the prince that Israel \"deeply appreciates\" his attendance at the gathering, which he said would help to \"show that when we are united we can fight this phenomenon\".\n\nThe prince met Holocaust survivors George Shefi and Marta Wise at the Israel museum ahead of the forum\n\nHe also told the prince that \"we still expect your mother to come\" to Israel. The Queen has never visited the country during her 67-year reign.\n\nTo commemorate the visit, Charles was invited to plant an oak tree in the gardens of the president's official residence, Beit HaNassi.\n\nDuring his two-day trip, Prince Charles is also likely to visit the grave of his grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, in Jerusalem's Church of St Mary Magdalene.\n\nShe was honoured by the Jewish people for hiding and saving the lives of Jews in Nazi-occupied Athens, Greece, during World War Two.\n\nIn his address on Thursday, Prince Charles spoke of his \"immense pride\" at the honour, saying he has \"long drawn inspiration from the selfless actions of my dear grandmother\".", "Rebecca Long-Bailey has won the backing of the Unite trade union in her bid to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nThe shadow business secretary now needs just one more union or affiliate group to endorse her to confirm her place on the members' ballot.\n\nUnite's general secretary, Len McCluskey, said Mrs Long-Bailey had the \"brains and the brilliance\" to take on PM Boris Johnson.\n\nThe union will also back Richard Burgon for the vacant deputy leader post.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting in London, Mr McCluskey said his union would make a \"substantial\" donation towards Mrs Long-Bailey's campaign.\n\nThe union, which was Labour's biggest financial backer during last month's election, had been widely expected to back her pitch for the top job.\n\nAfter receiving the nomination, Mrs Long-Bailey said she was \"honoured\" to receive the union's backing.\n\n\"I didn't see myself as the kind of person who could ever become an MP. It was Unite, my trade union, that supported me to realise my potential,\" she added.\n\nMr McCluskey said Unite's executive committee had concluded Mrs Long-Bailey was \"best placed to take the fight to the Tory party\" on behalf of its members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\n\"She is standing for unity, socialism and the determination to make Johnson's term in office short-lived,\" he added.\n\nHe added that the union was confident that Mr Burgon would make a \"superb deputy\" for the party.\n\nIn an apparent swipe at former deputy leader Tom Watson, he said Mr Burgon would display \"the qualities that have long been absent from that post,\" including \"pride in our values\" and \"loyalty to their leader\".\n\nMr Watson was often at odds with the leadership during his time in the role, and faced an attempt to oust him at Labour's conference last year.\n\nTo make the ballot, hopefuls need the support of three unions and affiliate groups representing 5% of the membership, or 33 local branches.\n\nShadow brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy have already secured this level of support ahead of the 14 February deadline.\n\nHaving already been nominated by bakers' union BFAWU, Unite's support for Ms Long-Bailey means she needs just one more union or affiliate to join them.\n\nHowever the fourth leadership contender, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, is yet to receive any union or affiliate backing and has only secured endorsements from three local branches so far.\n\nSir Keir has cancelled all campaign events this weekend after his mother-in-law was involved in a serious accident. She remains critically ill in hospital.\n\nHe sent Labour's Chris Matheson to the Unite meeting in his place.\n\nLabour's general secretary, Jennie Formby, also confirmed the hustings due to take place in Leeds between the leadership candidates on Saturday would be cancelled, although the deputy leadership event would go ahead.\n\nShe added: \"We have sent our very best wishes and solidarity to Keir and his family, and our hope that his mother-in-law recovers very soon.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner is the only candidate for the deputy leadership to have made it onto the ballot, with the support of Unison, the GMB, Usdaw and the NUM.\n\nAs well as Mr Burgon, the others in the running are Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, Ian Murray, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, and Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan.\n\nThe new leader and deputy will then be announced on 4 April.", "Thousands of passengers could save money on rail fares as \"split tickets\" become more common, experts predict.\n\nBuying multiple tickets to split one journey into sections can work out to be cheaper than having a single ticket.\n\nUsers do not have to change trains, as long as their train stops at the final destination printed on each ticket - but the practice has been \"niche\".\n\nBooking site Trainline has now released a SplitSave tool to help find cheaper journeys by splitting trips into legs.\n\n\"Split tickets\" are legal provided that trains stop at ticket destinations.\n\nTravel journalist Simon Calder told BBC News \"split ticketing\" was not a new concept, but had previously only been carried out by a well-informed group of passengers.\n\n\"What we're seeing now is the whole thing moving from the niche to a company through which millions buy tickets,\" he said.\n\nPreviously, passengers could use split ticketing websites such as RailEurope's Pricehack and Split My Fare to check ticket prices.\n\nThe ticket companies' apps are able to find combinations of tickets to save passengers money on most routes across the UK, by automatically splitting the trip into multiple legs.\n\nPassengers buy more than one ticket, rather than a single ticket covering the entire journey.\n\nAs long as the train makes a stop at a passenger's split ticket station along the way, they can be on the same train throughout the whole journey.\n\nTo buy a ticket from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads without splitting the fare could cost up to £112 on Monday morning.\n\nHowever, buying one ticket from Paddington to Didcot - which is on the same route - and another from Didcot to Bristol would save around a third of the cost of the trip. The practice is legal so long as the train stops as Didcot.\n\nTrainline said other examples of potential savings included one of £80.10 between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston, and £79.85 between Edinburgh Waverley and London King's Cross.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, called for a reform to the whole rail fares structure, describing the split-ticket feature as a \"sticking plaster\" solution to a \"system in need of major surgery\".\n\nExperts say the rules governing how tickets are sold - which date back to 1995 - have not kept pace with technology or how people work and travel.\n\nThe rail industry has previously admitted that passengers are not always offered the cheapest fare available due to \"long-standing anomalies\".\n\nThe RDG published a wish list of reforms last year, including allowing ticket prices to be set more flexibly.\n\nMr Calder said ticket-splitting by large numbers of passengers may speed up rail fare reforms as train companies begin to lose revenue.\n\n\"The railway industry says it has been calling for reform for years and I think [ticket splitting] could accelerate that process,\" he said.\n\n\"We're going to see train companies saying to the government: 'We're losing all this money, you've got to help us sort this out.'\n\nJacqueline Starr, chief operating officer at RDG, said: \"We support any effort to improve how people buy tickets within the current fares structure, but ultimately these are only sticking plaster solutions on a system in need of major surgery.\n\n\"Reforms proposed by train operators and backed by consumer groups would deliver a better range of fares for everyone, encouraging people to use the network and generating revenue for government to re-invest back in to improvements in services.\"\n\nThe tool was welcomed by independent watchdog Transport Focus for enabling passengers \"to take advantage of cheaper journeys where they are available\".\n\nHowever, the group's chief executive, Anthony Smith, added: \"Of course, people shouldn't need tips and tricks to know they are getting the best deal and so we want to see major fares and ticketing reforms coming out of the forthcoming Williams review.\"", "Britain has condemned the arrest of the UK ambassador to Iran as a \"flagrant violation of international law\".\n\nRob Macaire was detained for a short time on Saturday night after attending a vigil for those who died when Iran's military shot down a passenger plane.\n\nHe left the vigil when it turned into a protest but was later accused of helping to organise the demonstrations.\n\nIran said he was \"an unknown foreigner in an illegal gathering\" and summoned him to the foreign ministry on Sunday.\n\nIn a statement, Iran's foreign ministry said Mr Macaire was \"reminded\" that his presence at \"illegal gatherings contravened\" the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said Mr Macaire was understood to have protested strongly that his detention was unjustified.\n\nOur correspondent says Mr Macaire made clear any suggestion that he was involved in demonstrations was completely untrue, and he was attending an event advertised as a vigil for the victims of Wednesday's crash - which killed 176 people, including four Britons.\n\nEarlier, Iran's deputy foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who denied Mr Macaire was detained, said in a tweet that he thought it \"impossible\" when police first told him that the UK ambassador had been arrested.\n\nA phone conversation confirmed Mr Macaire's identity and he was released 15 minutes later, Mr Araghchi added.\n\nMr Macaire has denied taking part in protests and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemned his arrest.\n\nHe was arrested and held for three hours when he stopped at a barber shop for a haircut on his way back to the UK embassy.\n\nIn a tweet the ambassador said he was attending the vigil because it was \"normal to want to pay respects\", adding that some of the victims were British.\n\nThe ambassador added: \"Arresting diplomats is of course illegal, in all countries.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned Mr Macaire's arrest in a joint statement following a phone call on Sunday, in which they discussed their \"shared interests in ensuring Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon\".\n\nAnd Security Minister Brandon Lewis said on Sunday that the UK ambassador's arrest was \"totally unacceptable\" and a breach of the 1961 Vienna Convention.\n\n\"Iran does need to step back from that kind of activity and play a proper part in working with partners to de-escalate,\" Mr Lewis told Sky's Sophy Ridge.\n\nUnder the convention, diplomats cannot be detained. The Foreign Office is to demand a full explanation.\n\nIn a statement issued on Saturday night Mr Raab added: \"The arrest of our ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law.\n\n\"The Iranian government is at a cross-roads moment. It can continue its march towards pariah status with all the political and economic isolation that entails, or take steps to deescalate tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forwards.\"\n\nThe Iranian Etemad newspaper shared a picture of the ambassador on Twitter after the Tasnim news agency reported his arrest.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 🌐 اعتمادآنلاين This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProtesters had taken to the streets in Iran's capital, Tehran, to vent anger at officials, calling them liars for having denied, then admitting, shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane.\n\nIran had initially denied responsibility for the plane crash, but on Saturday, President Hassan Rouhani admitted Iranian military had \"unintentionally\" shot down the passenger plane after mistaking it for a cruise missile when it turned towards a sensitive military site.\n\nPresident Rouhani said the missile strike was an \"unforgivable mistake\".\n\nThe crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.\n\nMr Johnson said Iran's admission was an \"important first step\" and called for an investigation into the \"tragic accident\".\n\nAnd writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Raab said it was time for Tehran \"to come to the negotiating table to resolve all of Iran's issues of international concern.\"\n\nHe said Iran \"must stop pursuing a nuclear weapon, end its support for terrorism, and release the foreign nationals and dual nationals it cruelly holds\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to show missile strike on Ukrainian plane in Iran\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the shooting down of the passenger plane by Iran was \"an appalling act, and part of a whole pattern of appalling acts all across the region\".\n\nThe Queen has also sent a message of condolence to the Governor-General of Canada - where the majority of the passengers on the flight were headed.\n\nOut of the 176 victims on board the Kyiv-bound flight, 138 had listed Canada as their eventual destination.\n\nThe Queen said she and the Duke of Edinburgh were \"deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall added their condolences, saying they were \"utterly horrified\" by the disaster.\n\nBritons Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, Sam Zokaei and Saeed Tahmasebi were all on board\n\nFour Britons were on board the Ukrainian passenger plane.\n\nThree have been named as Mohammed Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, who owned a dry cleaners in West Sussex, BP engineer Sam Zokaei from Twickenham, and PhD student and engineer Saeed Tahmasebi, who lived in Dartford.\n\nMr Tahmasebi's Iranian wife, Niloufar Ebrahim, was also listed as a passenger on the plane.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 2019 interview Meghan said it was a “struggle” becoming a mother amid intense media scrutiny\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has admitted it was a \"struggle\" becoming a new mother amid intense media scrutiny.\n\nMeghan Markle married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in May 2018 and gave birth to their son Archie this year.\n\nSpeaking in an ITV documentary, the duchess referred to her life under the spotlight \"on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed\".\n\nShe added: \"Not many people have asked if I'm OK. But it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex were both interviewed by Tom Bradby during their tour of southern Africa in September.\n\nAsked how she was coping, Meghan said: \"Look, any woman - especially when they are pregnant - you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a new born - you know?\n\n\"And especially as a woman, it's a lot...\"\n\nThe duchess added: \"And also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I'm OK...\"\n\nWhen asked if it would be fair to say it had \"really been a struggle\", Meghan said: \"Yes.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last month with their son Archie\n\nThe documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey airs on ITV on Sunday at 21:00 BST.\n\nPrince Harry described the memories surrounding the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 as \"a wound that festers\".\n\nOn the tour, the prince visited an anti-landmine project championed by his mother in Angola and told ITV it had been \"emotional\" to trace her footsteps.\n\n\"I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back, so in that respect it's the worst reminder of her life, as opposed to the best.\"\n\nPrince Harry visited a landmine project championed by his late mother during the trip\n\nAs the tour ended, the duke and duchess both brought legal actions against the press.\n\nMeghan sued the Mail on Sunday over a claim that it unlawfully published one of her private letters.\n\nHarry filed his own proceedings at the High Court against the owners of the Sun, the defunct News of the World, and the Daily Mirror, in relation to alleged phone-hacking.", "The author of more than 50 books on aesthetics, morality and politics, he was also a government adviser.\n\nA statement on his website said he had been \"fighting cancer for six months\" and \"died peacefully\" on Sunday.\n\nBoris Johnson led the tributes, calling him the country's \"greatest modern conservative thinker\", while Chancellor Sajid Javid said \"he made a unique contribution to public life.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir Roger was at the centre of controversy last year when he was dismissed from, then reinstated to, an unpaid role as a government housing adviser after criticism of his comments about China and Muslim immigrants.\n\nAfter he was restored to the role when supporters said his remarks had been misrepresented, he claimed there was a \"witch-hunt\" against right-wing figures, aiming to characterise them as racist or fascist.\n\nConservative MEP Daniel Hannan said Sir Roger was the \"greatest conservative of our age\".\n\n\"The country has lost a towering intellect. I have lost a wonderful friend,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHistorian Timothy Garton Ash said he was \"a man of extraordinary intellect, learning and humour, a great supporter of central European dissidents, and the kind of provocative - sometimes outrageous - conservative thinker that a truly liberal society should be glad to have challenging it\".\n\nBorn in February 1944, Sir Roger attended grammar school before studying at Cambridge.\n\nHe told the Guardian he became a Conservative when visiting Paris during the 1968 student protests, which he saw as an \"unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans\" professing \"ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook\".\n\nSir Roger received one of Hungary's highest honours in a ceremony in London last month\n\n\"I knew I wanted to conserve things rather than pull them down,\" he said.\n\nIn 1971, he began teaching philosophy at Birkbeck College, but claimed his career was held back in the \"heart of the left establishment\".\n\nThree years later he became a founding member of the Conservative Philosophy Group, which was intended to provide an intellectual basis for the Conservative Party to regain power. Newly elected Tory leader Margaret Thatcher attended the group.\n\nIn 1982, Sir Roger became founding editor of the Salisbury Review, a journal championing conservatism.\n\nHe also began visiting dissidents in Communist Czechoslovakia, smuggling in books, offering courses in suppressed subjects and supporting banned artists. In 1985 he was detained in Brno before being expelled from the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Anne Applebaum This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter the fall of Communism, Vaclav Havel, the dissident-turned-president, awarded Sir Roger the Medal of Merit.\n\nIn the 1990s, he bought a farm in Wiltshire - nicknamed Scrutopia - and celebrated his passion for fox hunting in a book, On Hunting.\n\nAnother book, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Pop Culture, led to him being successfully sued by the Pet Shop Boys after he falsely claimed their songs were mostly the work of sound engineers.\n\nIn 2002, he was criticised for writing articles in defence of smoking without acknowledging that he was being paid by JTI, one of the largest tobacco companies.\n\nIn 2009 - Sir Roger wrote and presented a BBC Two documentary - Why Beauty Matters - in which he argued modern society had placed itself in peril by no longer valuing beauty.\n\nHungary's right-wing nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, presented Sir Roger with the Order of Merit in December last year, describing him as an \"ardent and active ally\" of anti-communism in central and eastern Europe.\n\nMr Orban said Sir Roger was \"forward-looking enough to see the threat of illegal migration and defend Hungary against its unjust critics\".\n\nSir Roger leaves his wife, Sophie, and two children, Sam and Lucy,\n\nThe statement on his website said his family was \"hugely proud of him and of all his achievements\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSerena Williams won her first title in three years and first since becoming a mother with victory over Jessica Pegula at the Auckland Classic.\n\nIt is the 38-year-old's first singles title since she won the Australian Open in 2017 and her 73rd WTA title overall.\n\nWilliams, in her fourth decade on the WTA Tour, lost the Wimbledon and US Open finals in 2018 and 2019 and retired from the 2019 Rogers Cup final.\n\nShe said after her victory that she would donate her prize money in Auckland and a dress she had worn to the Australian bushfire appeal.\n\n\"It feels good. It's been a long time, I think you could see the relief on my face,\" said Williams.\n\n\"I have been playing for so long and been through so much and I'm happy to be doing something I love.\"\n\nThe Australian Open begins on 20 January, with Williams bidding to equal Margaret Court's record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles.\n\nWilliams won her first WTA title in February 1999, when she beat France's Amelie Mauresmo on carpet at the Open Gaz de France.\n\nShe made a slow start in Auckland, with Pegula taking a 3-1 lead in the first set, before recovering to win the next five games and close out the opening set.\n\nWilliams broke the unseeded Pegula's serve early in the second set and converted her fourth match point to ensure victory.\n\nShe celebrated on court with her daughter, Olympia, with whom she was eight weeks pregnant when she won her last Grand Slam title in Melbourne.\n\nWilliams was also in the doubles final with Caroline Wozniacki, but the two were beaten 6-4 6-4 by Asia Muhammad and Taylor Townsend.\n\nIn Brisbane, Karolina Pliskova successfully defended her title with a 6-4 4-6 7-5 win over American Madison Keys.\n\nSingles world number one Ashleigh Barty - who is donating all her prize money to the bushfire appeal - and her doubles partner Kiki Bertens lost their final against Barbora Strycova and Hsieh Su-wei 3-6 7-6 (9-7) 10-8.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nThe United States has criticised the UK's request to extradite an American accused of killing motorcyclist Harry Dunn, calling it \"highly inappropriate\".\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died after being hit by a car allegedly driven by suspect Anne Sacoolas, who left the country for the US claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe Home Office submitted a request on Friday to extradite her to the UK.\n\nDunn family spokesman Radd Seiger said she will \"100% be coming back\".\n\n\"I have no doubt in my mind, the only thing I can't tell you is when,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"This campaign won't stop until Anne Sacoolas is back in the UK facing the justice system. There is no celebration and until she is back, we won't rest.\n\n\"This lady is accused of taking Harry's life, then fleeing the country. No-one is above the law in modern society. You don't get to move to a country, break a law in that country and then leave.\"\n\nMr Seiger said that under the circumstances, the family was \"really pleased\" the UK authorities had taken the \"huge step towards justice\", but if the Trump administration was to ignore or reject the request, it would be re-presented should another administration come into power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radd Seiger: Anne Sacoolas will \"100% be coming back...the only thing I can't tell you is when''\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe crash happened outside RAF Croughton, where Mrs Sacoolas' husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer. Mr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe 42-year-old left the UK shortly after the crash on 27 August and returned to the US, prompting a justice campaign by the teenager's parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn.\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in December by the Crown Prosecution Service with causing death by dangerous driving and the Home Office submitted its extradition request to the US Department of Justice.\n\nA spokeswoman for the US State Department said: \"It is the position of the United States government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an abuse.\n\n\"The use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomat by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Capaldi and Dave have the most nominations for this year's ceremony\n\nIt'll be a battle between ballads and bangers at this year's Brit Awards, with Lewis Capaldi and Dave pitched against each other in four categories.\n\nThe Scottish torch singer and the Streatham-born rapper are both up for best male, best newcomer, best single and album of the year at the ceremony, which takes place in London next month.\n\nStormzy and Mabel are the second most-nominated artists, with three apiece.\n\nBut Ed Sheeran is largely frozen out, receiving just a single nomination.\n\nThe six-time Brit Award winner had one of last year's most successful albums - the star-studded No. 6 Collaborations Project, which spent five weeks at number one, and selling 568,000 copies.\n\nHowever, he is locked out of the best male and best album categories, while his Justin Bieber duet I Don't Care is up for best single.\n\nNotably, that's the only category where nominees are not selected by the 1,200 industry figures who vote for the Brits - with the 10 shortlisted songs representing the biggest-selling singles of 2019.\n\nMabel was previously nominated for the Brits' Critics Choice award in 2018\n\nMabel, who is the daughter of Neneh Cherry and Massive Attack producer Cameron McVey, is the most-nominated female artist, reflecting the popularity of her single Don't Call Me Up, which charted in the top 10 across Europe and attracted viral attention in the US.\n\n\"It's crazy how a song can grow wings and fly you everywhere,\" said the 23-year-old. \"I'm really grateful for that tune.\"\n\nThe singer, who is nominated for best female, best new artist and best single, joked that if she won a trophy in February, she would change her Uber profile name to \"Brit Award-winner Mabel\".\n\nHer nominations come exactly 30 years after her mother, who was born in Sweden, won two Brits - for best international artist and best international breakthrough.\n\nThis year, Dave is a front-runner for best album, having already won the Mercury Prize for his debut Psychodrama.\n\nA serious, reflective record that addresses life as a young black Briton today, it's framed as a therapy session, with Dave discussing his absentee father, his brother's incarceration, domestic violence and the pressure to succeed as a musician.\n\nCapaldi is also a strong contender: His debut, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, was the best-selling record of 2019; propelled by the success of his tear-jerking ballad Someone You Loved.\n\nFellow grime artist Stormzy is also nominated for his charismatic and powerful second album Heavy Is The Head; and the shortlist is completed by Michael Kiwanuka's soul-searching Kiwanuka and Harry Styles's nostalgic pop opus Fine Line.\n\nFor the first time since 2017, no female artists made the shortlist. According to The Guardian, of the 193 albums submitted for consideration to Brits' voters, only 35 were by women.\n\n\"It's clear there's a wider issue here,\" wrote the paper's chief music critic Alexis Petridis.\n\n\"One that involves the British music industry's ability or otherwise to sign and develop female artists [and] to turn them into lasting success stories.\"\n\nThe last female artist to win best album was Adele, whose third record, 25, scooped the top prize in 2016.\n\nTyler, The Creator, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande are all up for the international prizes\n\nIn the international categories, Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish led the nominees for best female - although Taylor Swift misses out.\n\nA diverse shortlist for best international male features Burna Boy, Post Malone and Bruce Springsteen, who last won an Brit award 34 years ago.\n\nThis year's ceremony will be held at London's O2 Arena on Tuesday, 18 February, hosted for a third time by Jack Whitehall.\n\nLast year, organisers announced sweeping changes to the show, dropping several categories and handing more creative control to performers.\n\nThe ceremony will be broadcast live on ITV.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Coveney: \"Just because British law says something, doesn't mean that law applies to the other 27 countries\"\n\nThe EU \"will not be rushed\" on a trade deal with the UK after Brexit, according to Ireland's deputy PM.\n\nBoris Johnson says a deal can be agreed by the end of 2020 and has included a pledge in his Brexit bill not to extend any transition period to secure one.\n\nBut Simon Coveney says it is \"probably going to take longer than a year\".\n\nSecurity Minister Brandon Lewis defended Mr Johnson's deadline, saying he had a \"strong record of getting things done\".\n\nAfter the UK leaves the EU on 31 January, it will enter an 11-month transition period, where it will largely follow EU rules but will not have any representation in the bloc's institutions.\n\nThis period will come to an end on 31 December and Mr Johnson has ruled out extending it any further if a deal on the future relationship between the UK and EU has not been agreed.\n\nThe promise is included in the prime minister's Brexit bill, which was voted through by MPs earlier this week and will now head to the House of Lords before becoming law.\n\nBut opposition parties have raised concerns about the hard deadline, saying it creates another way of the UK leaving without a deal.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Coveney said he accepted the UK was leaving the EU at the end of January, and he hoped for the future deal to \"achieve the closest possible relationship\" between the two sides.\n\nBut he warned there was \"no way of the UK... maintaining the same relationship we have today while outside the European Union,\" adding: \"That is the reality of Brexit, I'm afraid.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security Minister Brandon Lewis: \"We're very ambitious for a good, holistic agreement across security\"\n\nMr Coveney said Mr Johnson had \"set a very ambitious timetable\" in his bill.\n\n\"Just because a British parliament decides that British law says something doesn't mean that law applies to the other 27 countries of the European Union,\" he added.\n\n\"The European Union will approach this on the basis of getting the best deal possible, a fair and balanced deal, to ensure the UK and the EU can interact as friends in the future.\n\n\"But the EU will not be rushed on this just because Britain passes law.\"\n\nThe deputy prime minister (Tanaiste) said the EU had \"constantly warned [Mr Johnson's] timeframe is ambitious, if not unrealistic\".\n\n\"From an EU perspective, we will try to approach all of these really important and sensitive areas with a sense of partnership and friendship.\n\n\"But at the same time, they are complex... [and] in my view, it is probably going to take longer than a year. But we will have to wait and see.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says the UK and the EU will remain \"best of friends and partners\"\n\nGovernment minister Mr Lewis admitted the negotiations would be difficult, but he disagreed with Mr Coveney's assessment of the timetable.\n\n\"I think we can do it,\" he told Andrew Marr. \"I think it can be done, not just because both parties… are committed to doing it, and want to do it, but we are a country that has already got a known pattern of work with the EU.\n\n\"Therefore getting a holistic agreement in the next 12 months is achievable\".\n\nMr Coveney's comments followed a speech by new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen earlier this week, saying it would be \"impossible\" to reach a comprehensive trade deal by the end of 2020.\n\nShe warned that without an extension to the transition period beyond 2020 \"you cannot expect to agree every single aspect of our new partnership\". She called the deadline \"very tight\".\n\nMrs von der Leyen, a former German defence minister, took over from Jean-Claude Juncker at the start of December. She met Mr Johnson for talks in London last week.", "Meghan and Harry have a global appeal, but how could they make money?\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have agreed to stop using their HRH titles as part of their plans to withdraw from royal duties and \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said royals were usually excluded from doing paid work, but by setting aside their titles the couple had gained more freedom.\n\n\"Of course once you lose the title then you are no longer royal and special, and it may be that your brand is much less attractive to potential partners,\" he said.\n\nPublic relations consultant Mark Borkowski said even without their titles, the couple are \"powerful A-listers in their own right, so they're going to attract a lot of attention\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan plan to split their time between the UK and North America - and their global reach could open up a wealth of opportunities.\n\nBut how might they earn their financial independence and fund their charitable causes?\n\nAn application to trademark the Sussex Royal brand was lodged by the couple in June last year, covering items such as books, calendars, clothing, charitable fundraising and campaigning.\n\nIt raised the possibility of Prince Harry and Meghan launching their own lines of products, from beauty to clothing.\n\nBut the agreement with the Queen has cast doubt on that idea. A brand incorporating the word \"royal\" may not be compatible with their agreement to step back from royal duties, while upholding \"the values of Her Majesty\".\n\nJournalist and royal style commentator Elizabeth Holmes says criticism for exploiting the royal connection is a risk in any commercial venture, adding: \"That's why I think they'll be careful about it.\"\n\nMeghan is a royal patron of Smart Works and helped style women during a visit to the charity last year\n\nEven if they have to go back to the drawing board with the Sussex Royal name, Ms Holmes says: \"Any brand on the planet would want to work with them.\"\n\nWhether it's a designer handbag or Archie's hand-knitted bobble hat, whenever the Sussexes are pictured with a product, sales go through the roof.\n\nWe probably shouldn't expect the couple's 10.5 million Instagram followers to be suddenly bombarded with sponsored content and product placement though, Ms Holmes says.\n\nWhile the royal couple have a huge platform, it pales in comparison to the likes of Kylie Jenner, who has more than 150 million Instagram followers.\n\nThe reality TV star, who topped last year's Instagram rich list, is estimated to earn around $1.2m (£960,000) for a single sponsored post.\n\nCould Meghan and Harry follow that trend? Ms Holmes says: \"I don't think that's necessarily an appropriate thing for a member of the Royal Family.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess have said they plan to launch a charitable organisation to achieve \"progressive change\" through \"local and global community action\".\n\nMs Holmes suggests any commercial partnerships would be tied to the couple's charitable causes, perhaps with a secondary opportunity to raise personal income.\n\nFor example, Meghan is the patron of a charity that provides free clothing and interview training to unemployed women and has launched her own clothing line for the organisation.\n\nWhile the couple may be legally allowed to draw a salary from their charity, that is not the approach taken by some of their likely inspirations.\n\nHarry and Meghan said they \"researched the incredible work of many well-known and lesser-known foundations\" in drawing up their plans.\n\nOrganisations such as the Clinton Foundation, the Obama Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been suggested as potential models.\n\nBut the Clintons say they draw no income or expenses from their charity, the Obamas are not listed among their foundation's highest-paid officers, and Mr and Mrs Gates famously use their organisation to give away wealth rather than to receive it.\n\nWith Meghan first finding fame as an actress in the US television drama Suits, it is perhaps no surprise that some of the couple's first opportunities have come from the entertainment world.\n\nHarry has already teamed up with US media mogul Oprah Winfrey on a series addressing mental health for Apple TV, which is due for broadcast in 2020.\n\nAnd when the duke and duchess announced their intention to \"step back\", it was revealed that Meghan has already signed a voiceover deal with Disney in return for a donation to an elephant conservation charity.\n\nOprah Winfrey was a guest at the duke and duchess' wedding\n\nNetflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos has already expressed an interest in working with the couple. \"Who wouldn't be interested? Yes, sure,\" he said.\n\nThat could represent a chance to follow in the steps of the Obamas, who signed a deal with the streaming video company to produce documentaries and drama series about social and political issues.\n\nA similar deal could give the duke and duchess an opportunity to highlight causes close to their hearts.\n\nFor Meghan, these include equality and women's rights, while Harry has been vocal in campaigning on mental health and military veterans' welfare.\n\nWhile the couple have spoken about their struggles with the intense media interest in their lives, the idea of revealing more about themselves in their own words might be more appealing - and lucrative.\n\nThe 2017 book deal signed by Barack and Michelle Obama was believed to be worth more than $60m (£48m).\n\nIt's also an area Meghan has previously shown an interest in. In her introduction to last year's September issue of Vogue, which she guest edited, Meghan wrote of her \"love of writing\".\n\nBefore she married Harry, she also ran a lifestyle blog, The Tig, where she shared beauty, fashion and travel tips.\n\nMichelle Obama's memoir sold more than 10 million copies in its first five months\n\nNatalie Jerome, a literary agent at Aevitas, says the couple have \"enormous power and reach\" and any book deal would be extremely lucrative.\n\n\"People have compared them to the Obamas and I think there's potentially some merit in that,\" she says.\n\nMeghan is an aspirational figure for many women of colour and young people, she adds.\n\n\"We're in a period now where we're talking increasingly about diversity within publishing and there's a real push to reach wider audiences,\" she says.\n\n\"If she were to publish a book in her own right and reach out to young people on the ground by doing talks and going to schools like Michelle Obama did, I think the book would be hugely successful.\"\n\nAnother potential avenue for the pair to explore could be after-dinner speeches and events.\n\nJeremy Lee, director at speaking agency JLA, says if they maintained a positive profile the couple could earn six-figure sums for each appearance.\n\nHe predicts demand would be higher in US, where Mr Lee says the pair could earn up to $500,000 (£380,000) per engagement.\n\nHowever, he says companies in the UK would be more sensitive to reputational risk if public opinion turned against the couple.\n\nMr Lee predicts UK companies would only be willing to take the royals as speakers at an event linked to one of their campaigning interests, in return for a donation to their charitable foundation - rather than a fee - in the region of £100,000.\n\nBut in the US, there would be interest from \"anybody that wants to show off and has got the budget\", he says.", "Sinn Féin and the DUP have re-entered devolved government in Northern Ireland after three years of deadlock.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster was appointed as Northern Ireland's first minister, while Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill is deputy first minister on Saturday.\n\nThe two parties supported a deal to restore Stormont's political institutions.\n\nStormont's power-sharing coalition, led by the DUP and Sinn Féin, collapsed in January 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Arlene Foster says parties must work for everyone\n\nThe first minister comes from the largest party in the assembly and deputy first minister is from the second-largest party.\n\nThe positions are known as a \"diarchy\" which means they are equal and govern together.\n\nThe deputy first minister is not subordinate to the first minister, despite the title.\n\nAddressing the assembly, Mrs Foster said the politicians have \"many differences\".\n\n\"Michelle's narrative of the past 40 years could not be more different to mine,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm not sure we will ever agree on much about the past, but we can agree there was too much suffering, and that we cannot allow society to drift backwards and allow division to grow.\"\n\nShe added that it was \"time for Stormont to move forward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was her \"sincere wish that 2020 brings real change\".\n\nShe also pledged to immediately resolve the pay parity row that has led to industrial strike action among health workers.\n\nShe said: \"I see no contradiction in declaring and delivering on our firm commitment to power sharing with unionism in the Stormont Assembly while also initiating a mature and inclusive debate about new political arrangements which examine Ireland's future beyond Brexit.\n\n\"Similarly, there is no contradiction in unionism working the existing constitutional arrangements while taking its rightful place in the conversation about what a new Ireland would look like.\n\n\"We can do this while maintaining our independent distinct political identities and working in the best interests of all of the people.\"\n\nBoth prime ministers have welcomed the restoration of devolved government at Stormont\n\n\"The parties of Northern Ireland have shown great leadership in coming together to accept this fair and balanced deal in the interests of everyone in Northern Ireland,\" Boris Johnson said.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar commended Northern Ireland's political parties \"for their decision to put the people they represent first and make measured compromises to reach a deal\".\n\n\"I look forward to working with representatives in Northern Ireland as they begin working together again on behalf of all people in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nThe first day back was always going to bring its challenges - but despite some malfunctioning microphones, events in the chamber moved at pace.\n\nThe surprising move by the DUP to support a Sinn Féin speaker instead of the SDLP, already has some sceptics suspecting not much has changed when it comes to how the two biggest parties operated in the last mandate.\n\nBut there's no denying Parliament Buildings has a buzz about it again.\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill now have to prove that they can share power and deliver on the commitments in the new Stormont deal.\n\nThe SDLP, Alliance and Ulster Unionists are back in the executive too - a sign they would rather be helping take decisions, than stuck outside looking in.\n\nAfter the session ended, the new ministers were immediately met by their departmental officials: the task of getting down to business starts now.\n\nReacting to the return of Stormont, former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said the assembly provided a place to \"moderate differences, and to define common ground\".\n\n\"It doesn't have to be back on the streets, it doesn't have to be these mad radio talk programmes, it doesn't have to be who shouts and yells the loudest,\" Mr Adams told RTÉ's Week in Politics programme.\n\nAll five main parties in Northern Ireland - the DUP, Sinn Féin, Alliance, SDLP and UUP - have joined the new executive.\n\nMLAs - members of the legislative assembly - met at Stormont on Saturday.\n\nTheir first item of business at Stormont on Saturday was the election of Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey as the assembly's new speaker.\n\nThe DUP's Christopher Stalford; UUP's Roy Beggs and SDLP's Patsy McGlone are his three deputies.\n\nGordon Lyons (DUP) and Declan Kearney (Sinn Féin) will serve as junior ministers.\n\nShe said it followed conversations with Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill on Friday night.\n\nMrs Long said she was \"honoured to have the support of all sides of the house\".\n\nWith the exception of the role of justice minister, the posts are shared out using a system called D'Hondt, in which ministerial posts are allocated according to parties' representation in the assembly.\n\nThe other members of the executive are:\n\nThe d'Hondt mechanism is used to appoint almost all the ministerial departments in the executive - meaning the departments are shared round the parties based on how many MLAs they have.\n\nJustice is different though - it is elected by a cross-community vote.\n\nThis is because when the Northern Ireland Executive was first created in 1999 it was considered that it was not yet appropriate to devolve policing and justice powers. There was still a tense security situation and so those powers remained at Westminster.\n\nIn 2010 a deal was struck to devolve justice, but the DUP did not want a Sinn Féin minister to be able to hold the post.\n\nInstead it was agreed any justice minister required a cross-community vote.\n\nRobin Swann stood down as UUP leader in October due to family commitments\n\nA big surprise was the appointment of Robin Swann as health minister.\n\nIt comes just three months after the UUP North Antrim MLA stepped down as party leader due to the impact the role was having on his \"role as a husband and a father\".\n\nHe told the BBC that the party considered health a major priority and \"when we had the chance to take it, we did\".\n\nMr Swann said he was going to hold the first and deputy first ministers to account and would not let them \"play party politics with health\".\n\nRelations between the DUP and Sinn Féin had deteriorated in recent years as the two parties were diametrically opposed not only on Northern Ireland's position within the UK, but also issues such as the Irish language; same-sex marriage; abortion and how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nBut unexpectedly it was a row over a green energy scheme which pushed their relationship past breaking point.\n\nThe Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme was set up by DUP leader Arlene Foster when she was enterprise minister, but it ran over budget and at one point threatened to cost taxpayers £490m.\n\nSinn Féin demanded that Mrs Foster step aside as first minister during an inquiry into the RHI scheme and when she refused, they pulled out of government on 9 January 2017.\n\nTwo key sticking points in the Stormont talks were around an Irish language act and the petition of concern.\n\nThe purpose of petition of concern is to protect one community from legislation that would favour another and a valid petition requires the signatures of 30 MLAs.\n\nThe new deal says there is to be \"meaningful reform\" of the petition, which would be \"reduced and returned to its intended purpose\" and would \"only be used in the most exceptional circumstances and as a last resort, having used every other mechanism\".\n\nThe deal would see legislation created for the appointment of both an Irish language commissioner and an Ulster-Scots commissioner.\n\nEarlier, Irish language group Conradh na Gaeilge welcomed the deal as an \"historic advancement\" but added it \"falls very much short\" of promises for an Irish Language act.\n\nOther key points in the deal include the Northern Ireland Executive settling an ongoing pay dispute with nurses and increasing policing numbers.", "Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said a second independence referendum would not be allowed, even with a strong SNP result in 2021\n\nThe Scottish Secretary has said victory in the 2021 Scottish elections would not give the SNP a mandate to hold a second independence referendum.\n\nIn a U-turn on comments he made in November, Alister Jack said a majority would not legitimise another vote on leaving the union.\n\nBefore the general election he implied an SNP victory could provide a mandate.\n\nSNP spokeswoman Mhairi Black said the general election had already shown there should be a new referendum.\n\nMr Jack said he had advised Boris Johnson to not grant a section 30 order.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, he said: \"Nicola Sturgeon has asked for the Scottish parliament to have the right to have referendums in the future at times of its own choosing.\n\n\"I have written to the prime minister on this subject this week and he will be replying very soon to Nicola Sturgeon's letter of 19 December.\"\n\nHe added: \"It would be wrong for us to give the right to the Scottish parliament to set referendums and the context and the timings for the simple reason that Scotland would be plunged into 'neverendums'.\n\n\"Nicola Sturgeon has said she fully expects a rebuttal from the PM and my advice to him is to say that.\"\n\nThe MP for Dumfries and Galloway said that the SNP should have to wait until \"a generation or a lifetime has passed\".\n\nAlister Jack said his advice to Boris Johnson was to reject the requests made in her letter to the prime minister\n\nHe said that what Scotland needed now was to settle down, come out of the hated common fisheries policy, to rebuild its coastal communities and to get the benefit of trade deals.\n\nHe said: \"Referendums are very divisive for our society and I think the time now is for us all to pull together as one United Kingdom, and go forward and take on the benefits that exist.\n\n\"Let's see the benefits of Brexit. They (the SNP) have talked it down as being a disaster. Let's see if the world is still spinning on 1 February and how things can be good for Scotland.\"\n\nMr Jack's SNP shadow, Mhairi Black, insisted there was demand for a fresh referendum on independence.\n\n\"The SNP won a landslide victory in last month's general election,\" she said, \"winning 80% on a mandate for an independence referendum, while the Tories lost more than half their MPs.\n\n\"They stood on a platform of stopping Scotland's right to choose and were humiliated at the polls. The Tories have no mandate whatsoever to block Scottish democracy.\"\n\nMs Black added: \"I am confident that when the people of Scotland are given a choice on their future, they will choose to escape the mess of Brexit and the broken Westminster system to build a fairer Scotland.\"\n\nThe Scottish Secretary's comments came the day after thousands took to the streets of Glasgow for the first of eight pro-independence marches planned for 2020.\n\nOrganisers said 80,000 people had joined the march from the city's west end to Glasgow Green in severe weather conditions.\n\nThousands of people attended Saturday's march in very poor weather conditions\n\nThe event was organised in the wake of last month's general election, which saw the pro-independence SNP win 48 of the 59 seats in Scotland while the Conservatives won a majority across the UK as a whole.\n\nPower over the constitution in the UK lies with the UK government.\n\nFor an agreed second referendum to take place, a transfer of power through a section 30 order would need to be approved by Westminster.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned Mr Johnson that a \"flat no\" to her request - which is expected to be his response - will not be the end of the matter, and has predicted that the prime minister will eventually have no choice but to agree to her request.\n\nShe has also ruled out holding an unofficial referendum similar to the one in Catalonia two years ago, arguing that it would not lead to independence.\n\nThe UK government has said it does not support a further vote on independence.", "Ketty Maisonrouge has tried on her spacesuit and is ready for take off\n\nKetty Maisonrouge has waited 15 years for a trip that she knows will be out of this world.\n\nThe 61-year-old business school professor signed up back in 2005 for the promise of five minutes in zero-gravity, paying $250,000 (£190,500) to travel beyond the earth's atmosphere.\n\nNow the company that sold her the ticket, Virgin Galactic, says it will finally begin flights this year. Its founder, Sir Richard Branson, will be on the first trip, and Mrs Maisonrouge won't be far behind.\n\n\"Hopefully it will be as amazing as I think,\" says Mrs Maisonrouge.\n\nIf all goes to plan, Virgin Galactic will be the first private company to take tourists into space. The company says 600 people have already purchased tickets, including celebrities like Justin Bieber and Leonardo DiCaprio.\n\nBut rival firms are close behind. Blue Origin, started by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has also starting speaking to possible passengers for trips it hopes to start this year, while SpaceX, founded by Tesla's Elon Musk, announced in 2019 that a Japanese billionaire would be its first passenger for a trip around the moon.\n\nNasa has announced it will allow private space tourists to visit the International Space Station for a fee\n\nIn 2019, Swiss bank UBS released a report estimating space tourism could become a $3bn industry in the next 10 years.\n\nFor Virgin Galactic, early buyers such as Mrs Maisonrouge helped prove the demand was there for private space travel - even with ticket prices at a quarter of a million dollars.\n\n\"To be able to put products as expensive as space on the market in the first place does include a high premium,\" explains Julia Hunter, a senior vice-president at Virgin Galactic responsible for the day-to-day running of the human spaceflight programme.\n\nMrs Maisonrouge's love of space started early. She can still remember vividly the moment in July 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon.\n\nWhen she learned that Virgin Galactic was offering to send ordinary travellers to space, she immediately rushed to sign up.\n\nSince buying her ticket, Mrs Maisonrouge has kept her plans mostly private, sharing them only with family, close friends and her fellow \"founders\" - the group of original Virgin Galactic ticket holders.\n\nIn November 2019, a group of them got their first chance to try on the spacesuits - designed by sportswear brand Under Armour - which they will wear on their trip to space.\n\n\"For me, it was like the realisation that this is really going to happen soon,\" says Mrs Maisonrouge. \"When you've been waiting for 15 years, when you've been dreaming about it for as long as you can remember, you wonder until it happens if it will really happen.\"\n\nKetty Maisonrouge has experienced zero gravity as part of her preparation\n\nUnlike the astronauts from the legendary Apollo missions, who went through months of rigorous training and gruelling physical ordeals, Mrs Maisonrouge and her fellow space tourists will take just three days to train for their trip. Virgin Galactic says it could be shorter, but they want passengers to \"understand the choreography\" and \"get the most\" out of their experience.\n\nShe and fellow founders have also been given an early chance to visit Virgin Galactic's terminal at Spaceport America, in the desert of New Mexico. The company has designed a lounge equipped with floor-to-ceiling windows to view the launches, a barista to make fresh coffee and an interactive walkway.\n\nVirgin Galactic's lounge is the first of what Spaceport America hopes will be many terminals at the complex\n\nFrom here, Virgin Galactic's tourists will board spaceships for a 90-minute round trip with just a few minutes in low-orbit. It's a far more luxurious experience from the one that government astronauts have had.\n\nDan Hicks, who manages Spaceport America for the state of New Mexico, says Virgin Galactic is spearheading this new type of travel and that the facility will one day be a \"full-up transportation hub for the space industry\".\n\nA quarter of a million dollars may seem like a hefty price tag for a tourist trip. But Virgin Galactic says it expects near-term demand for space flights to far outstrip supply, which could even cause the price of tickets to rise.\n\nSeven private citizens have already paid for multi-million dollar tickets to go into space with Russian Soyuz spaceflights going back as far as 2001, making them the first space tourists.\n\nThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has also relied on Soyuz spaceships to take US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) since it ended its shuttle program in 2011, paying approximately $86m per spot.\n\nSpaceX has partnered with Nasa to send astronauts to space at a cost of nearly $55m per ticket\n\nNasa is now also turning to private enterprise. The agency has signed deals with SpaceX and Boeing to carry US astronauts. Those tickets don't come cheap either - Nasa is paying SpaceX $55m per spot and Boeing $90m.\n\nSpaceflights for government astronauts and space tourists are only part of the potential private space industry. Point-to-point travel that leaves Earth's orbit could become a $20bn sector by 2030, according to UBS. By leaving the planet's orbit, trips across the world would be much faster.\n\nSpaceX has already released marketing material for a 40-minute flight from New York City to Shanghai, using its spaceflight technology.\n\nThat could mean far more of us get the chance to sample space travel, at least briefly.\n\nVirgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson celebrating after the company became the first human spaceflight company to list on the New York Stock Exchange\n\nThe space travel industry has caught the eye not just of billionaire businessmen such as Sir Richard and Jeff Bezos, but also Wall Street investors. Virgin Galactic became the first human space flight company to list its shares on the stock market in October 2019.\n\nFor the many people hoping to make money from space tourism, 2020 could be the year when stellar promises really start to take off.", "Iranians were angered by officials who initially denied shooting down a plane outside Tehran\n\nAfter days of denial, the Iranian authorities admitted that a crash involving a Ukrainian International Airlines jetliner was caused by human error.\n\nThe incident on Wednesday came just hours after Iran had launched a series of ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases hosting US troops, in a bid to avenge the killing of senior commander Qasem Soleimani.\n\nIt was amid these high tensions, Iran says, that an air defence operator misidentified flight PS752 as a cruise missile and shot it down, killing all 176 people on board.\n\nWhile Iran initially denied responsibility, US and Canadian intelligence agencies soon uncovered evidence that one of the country's surface-to-air missile had caused the accident. This led to significant international pressure for Iran to openly investigate the case.\n\nTehran's decision to reverse its initial statements and take full responsibility for the downing of the plane provoked a positive response from several countries, including those whose passengers were onboard - Canada, the UK, Germany, and Sweden.\n\nThe admission of guilt was ultimately read as a positive first step.\n\nBut officials from these governments also said the admission should be followed by constructive behaviour from Iran. This would likely mean it pursuing a transparent investigation, the repatriation of the bodies and compensation for the victims, as well as taking the necessary steps to ensure similar tragedies are averted in future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A crowd gathered outside Amir Kabir university, calling for resignations and accusing officials of lying\n\nOn the international front, the downing of flight PS752 is unlikely to result in further escalation and might even provide an opportunity for defusing some of the tensions which have been simmering over the past few months.\n\nOn the domestic front, however, this tragic accident could have much deeper repercussions.\n\nJust days before the flight crashed, Iran displayed an unprecedented level of unity and popular support when millions of people poured on to the streets all over the country to mourn the death of Soleimani.\n\nThis seemed to indicate that, when faced with the external threat of military confrontation, Iranians from different political and economic backgrounds could come together and put aside their divisions.\n\nMillions of Iranians mourned the death of top general Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike\n\nBut the shooting down of flight PS752 and the subsequent denials from the authorities could lead these divisions to re-emerge and become even sharper.\n\nWhile the admission of guilt could assuage some of the popular criticism towards the grave mishandling of the situation, the establishment might still be perceived as having tried to hide evidence and avoid responsibility before international pressure mounted on Iran to come clean.\n\nThis is likely to revive the divisions and unrest that erupted in November when the Iranian government approved a sharp spike in fuel prices. This move triggered large demonstrations across the country and resulted in widespread repression and the killing of at least 300 people.\n\nWhile acknowledging the truth is an important first step, the Iranian people will likely demand accountability and the prosecution of those responsible, as well as the adoption of all the steps needed to ensure this does not happen again.\n\nThey will also pay attention to how the victims of the air crash are treated by the Iranian elite. An important test here is whether their funerals will result in national mourning, similar to that of Soleimani, or instead be largely ignored.\n\nAll of these demands will be added to previous grievances over the state of the economy and the limitations on some social freedoms.\n\nParliamentary elections are due to take place in just over a month and internal discord over this crash could lead to further unrest. Plus, tension with the West has abated but is far from over.\n\nThe way in which the government and the rest of the establishment handle the broader repercussions of this plane crash could be a watershed moment for Iran. The choices it makes are likely to reverberate throughout Iranian politics and society for months, or even years, to come.", "One of Britain's oldest department stores has warned that it could collapse into administration.\n\nBeales, which began trading in Bournemouth in 1881, said 22 stores and 1,000 jobs were at stake if it cannot find a buyer.\n\nThe firm is negotiating with its landlords to try and agree rent reductions.\n\nIt is also in talks with two potential buyers - a rival retailer and a venture capital investor, the BBC understands.\n\nChief Executive Tony Brown led a management buyout of the firm in 2018.\n\nIt's a brutal time for retailers. Debenhams began closing 19 shops yesterday. Mothercare's 79 UK stores will stop trading today.\n\nNow Beales, with its 22 stores up and down the country, confirmed that it may have to call in administrators.\n\nBeales has been around for almost 140 years, but poorer than expected trading over Christmas threatens its survival.\n\nEven if its immediate future can be assured, store closures aren't being ruled out, with a risk to jobs.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said last year was the high street's worst on record.\n\nIn the year to March 2019, Beale Ltd posted a loss of £3.1m, up from £1.3m for the year earlier as costs swelled and sales dipped.\n\nBeales has stores in the following towns and cities:\n\nIt comes after UK retail sales fell for the first time in a quarter of a century last year.\n\nSales in November and December fell by 0.9%, according to industry body the British Retail Consortium (BRC).\n\nJohn Lewis has warned that its staff bonus may be in doubt as it reported Christmas sales at its department stores were down 2% for stores open at least a year.\n\nLast week, fashion chain Superdry warned that its profits could be wiped out after sales fell sharply over Christmas.\n\nThe firm, which has been trying to sell more clothes at full price, said it had been hit by \"unprecedented levels of promotional activity\" by rivals.\n\nA raft of collapses in 2019 including Jessops, card chain Clintons, Bonmarche and Karen Millen depressed rents and hit landlords.\n\nSome companies are prospering, however.\n\nSports fashion retailer JD Sports says it expects to report full-year profits at the top end of forecasts.\n\nNext lifted its profit forecast after better than expected sales over Christmas trading period. The company's full-price sales rose by 5.2%.\n\nAnd big companies are using the tough environment to experiment.\n\nIkea will open its first small-format store in the UK, following the acquisition of a shopping centre in London.\n\nThe Swedish retail giant paid £170m for the Kings Mall Shopping Centre in Hammersmith.", "Liverpool setting records in the best-ever start to a season by a club in Europe's top-five leagues \"doesn't feel special somehow\", says Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\nRoberto Firmino's first-half goal ensured the European champions opened up a 16-point lead over Leicester City at the top of the table with a game in hand.\n\nBut while Liverpool's peerless start of 20 wins from 21 games has put them on course for a first top-flight title for 30 years, Klopp played down its significance.\n\n\"We know about it and it is special but I can't feel it,\" said the German boss.\n\n\"When someone gives you a trophy it is done but until then you need to fight. It is only the start. We need to continue because our contenders are so strong.\n\n\"Pep (Guardiola, Manchester City boss) will not give up. I will do the same. So far, so really good.\"\n\nKlopp's men have now amassed 104 points across their last 38 Premier League matches, scoring in all 21 of their matches this term.\n\nThat record was maintained in London by Brazil forward Firmino, who turned Spurs' young debutant Japhet Tanganga and beat Paulo Gazzaniga with a sweet left-foot strike to give the visitors a deserved lead.\n\nHowever Liverpool were then grateful for poor finishing from Jose Mourinho's side - who were without the injured Harry Kane - in order to record another victory on their seemingly relentless march to a first title in three decades.\n\nSon Heung-Min and substitute Giovani lo Celso missed excellent second-half chances to give Spurs some reward for a performance that improved as the game went on.\n• None 'Liverpool now operate on a different level to Spurs'\n• None Why Liverpool's run from start of season tops Bayern, Barca and Juve\n• None What happened in the Premier League on Saturday?\n• None The various ways Minamino will help Liverpool\n\nBut Liverpool, their position at the top strengthened further by Leicester City's shock home loss to Southampton, held on to increase the sense of formality about the destination of this season's Premier League trophy.\n\nLiverpool not at most fluent - but win again\n\nLiverpool may not have been at their best - there were even spells in the second half when they looked jaded - but this is a team on a seemingly unstoppable run to the Premier League title.\n\nThis was their 12th successive league win and it is a remarkable feat to have dropped only two league points from their first 21 games.\n\nIt is true they were let off by Spurs' missed chances but there is perhaps a sense that Liverpool's dominance is having a psychological impact on their opponents so that when rare opportunities come along, they are being snatched at.\n\nAnd even when not in prime form, Liverpool's forward line is so potent that there is always a goal in them - as Firmino proved with his neat 37th-minute sidestep and thumping finish.\n\nSpurs will claim, with justification, they should have had a throw-in before the goal but Liverpool are now being propelled with growing momentum to end that long wait to reclaim their perch at the summit of the English game.\n\nThe root of Spurs' downfall came in two distinct aspects of their performance - albeit one did get better as the game wore on.\n\nIn the first half, Spurs were far too passive and negative as they sat back, presumably waiting for an opportunity to strike on the counter attack.\n\nThe tactic was undone by Firmino's goal, leaving Spurs with no option but to be more positive in the second period.\n\nIt was then, without the marksmanship of long-term injury victim Kane, that they were so wasteful in front of goal - with both Son and Lo Celso missing when it seemed easier to score.\n\nLo Celso's miss, in particular, left Mourinho openly lamenting his side's absence of a clinical edge as he collapsed dramatically to his knees after the Argentina midfielder failed to hit the target from close range.\n\nSpurs' wasteful moments against Liverpool may well further convince their manager he has to strengthen his attacking options in this transfer window as the fight for a top-four place intensifies.\n\n'This is the best team in the world' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"This is football. Sometimes you get more than you deserve. Sometimes you get less. This was an occasion when we got nothing when we deserved something. This is the best team in the world against a team in a difficult moment, with injuries, in a difficult part of the season. The boys were fantastic when we tried to change and create problems.\"\n\nOn a potential handball in the build-up to the goal: \"I didn't watch it. What I watch is 200% that the throw in for the start of the goal was our throw. I am confused with VAR because of that.\"\n\nOn finishing in the top four: \"It is possible to talk about top four when you start the season on zero points. But it is hard to talk about it when you start at minus 12 (the number of points off the top four Spurs were when he took over).\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport: \"It was very hard-fought because we didn't close the game down early. We should have been one or 2-0 up already when we scored. If you have a quality opponent like Tottenham and you don't close the game they will come back. Allison makes things look easy. It is not what we would have wanted. It is intense, you lose the ball and you are facing one of the best counter-attacking sides. We had Robbo (Andy Robertson) free two or three times and he didn't find a team-mate, so we didn't help ourselves.\"\n\nOn his side's defensive record: \"We needed Allison for that today. We had a few dips defensively. Some games he has not had a lot to do with us winning the ball high early. It is good but there is no other chance to win games than to defend well.\"\n• None Liverpool have 61 points in the Premier League in 2019-20 - the most any side has ever registered after 21 games in a single season across Europe's big five leagues (assuming three points for a win).\n• None Liverpool have collected 104 points across their last 38 Premier League matches (W33 D5 L0) - a record total by any team across a 38-match spell in the competition's history, overtaking 102-point stretches by Man City (ending in 2018) and Chelsea (2005).\n• None Tottenham Hotspur have conceded 20 goals in 13 matches in all competitions under Jose Mourinho; it took Mourinho's Chelsea side 44 games before letting in their 20th goal during his first spell in England as a manager in the 2004-05 season.\n• None This is Liverpool's joint-best scoring run from the start of a season in English top-flight history, with the Reds also scoring in their opening 21 games in 1933-34.\n• None Liverpool have now gone 38 Premier League games without defeat; since their last league loss at Man City in January 2019, Tottenham have lost 16 Premier League matches by comparison, including three to the Reds.\n• None Tottenham have lost back-to-back Premier League matches for the first time this season, having last done so in May 2019, while this is the first time their manager Jose Mourinho has lost consecutive games in the competition since August 2018 as Manchester United boss.\n• None Liverpool have kept six consecutive clean sheets in the Premier League for the first time since December 2006 (seven).\n• None Roberto Firmino has scored five goals in his last six games for Liverpool in all competitions, as many as he had in his previous 30 appearances for the Reds before this run.\n\nTottenham host Middlesbrough in their FA Cup third-round replay on Tuesday, 14 January (20:05 GMT). They then travel to Watford in the Premier League on Saturday, 18 January (12:30 GMT).\n\nLiverpool welcome Manchester United to Anfield in their next Premier League fixture on Sunday, 19 January (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas Moura.\n• None Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.\n• None Attempt saved. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Serge Aurier with a cross.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Toby Alderweireld tries a through ball, but Serge Aurier is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Lucas Moura. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Turkish Coast Guard rescued eight people from the waters off Cesme\n\nEight children were among the 11 migrants who drowned when their boat sank off Turkey's western coast, state media report.\n\nEight other people were rescued from the waters off Cesme, a tourist resort on the Aegean coast opposite the Greek island of Chios.\n\nTheir nationalities are not yet known.\n\nTurkey has been a key transit point for migrants trying to reach Europe, mainly via Greece. Many are fleeing violence and persecution in their countries.\n\nMany rely on people smugglers and face dangerous land and sea routes which often result in deaths. In 2016, Turkey reached a financial deal with the European Union to stem the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe.\n\nThe Turkish Coast Guard said it responded to \"screaming sounds\" from the sea at around 20:30 local time (17:30 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nCesme is just 15km (nine miles) from Chios, where thousands of migrants are living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions.\n\nThe number of people crossing from Turkey has risen sharply recently. Most of them are coming from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.\n\nTurkish authorities held some 60,000 people trying to cross the Mediterranean last year, while almost 9,000 suspected human traffickers were arrested, according to state-run Anadolu news agency.\n\nTurkey is home to some four million refugees, the largest refugee population in the world, and over 3.6 million of them are from Syria.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aladdin and Bushra from Syria experienced first-hand how the migrants are treated in Turkey\n\nHours earlier, another migrant boat sank in the Ionian Sea near the south-western Greek island of Paxi, leaving at least 12 dead. Greek officials said 21 people had been rescued and that they were still trying to determine how many people were on the vessel.\n\nThe nationalities and age of the migrants have not been confirmed.", "Britain must be prepared to fight wars without the United States as its key ally, the Defence Secretary has warned.\n\nBen Wallace said the prospect of the US stepping back from its international leadership role under Donald Trump \"keeps me awake at night\".\n\nIt may force the UK to rethink its assumptions about defence, he added.\n\nHis comments come as the UK prepares to carry out the \"deepest review\" of Britain's security, defence and foreign policy since the end of the Cold War.\n\n\"I worry if the United States withdraws from its leadership around the world,\" Mr Wallace told the Sunday Times. \"That would be bad for the world and bad for us. We plan for the worst and hope for the best.\"\n\nHe said the defence review should be used to make the UK less dependent on the US in future conflicts.\n\n\"Over the last year we've had the US pull out from Syria, the statement by Donald Trump on Iraq where he said Nato should take over and do more in the Middle East,\" Mr Wallace said.\n\n\"The assumptions of 2010 that we were always going to be part of a US coalition is really just not where we are going to be.\n\n\"We are very dependent on American air cover and American intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets. We need to diversify our assets.\"\n\nMr Wallace said last month there was a shortfall of funding in the Ministry of Defence's budget.\n\nThe MoD was given £2.2bn, a rise of 2.6%, in September's spending review.", "Thousands of people attended in very poor weather conditions\n\nTens of thousands of Scottish independence supporters have marched through Glasgow in the first of a series of protests planned for the coming year.\n\nThe All Under One Banner (AUOB) march from the west end to Glasgow Green took place in very poor weather conditions.\n\nA mass rally that was due to be held afterwards was cancelled after rain and high winds were forecast.\n\nThe UK government has said it does not support a further vote on independence.\n\nThe \"emergency\" march was organised in the wake of last month's general election, which saw the pro-independence SNP win 48 of the 59 seats in Scotland while the Conservatives won a majority across the UK as a whole.\n\nIt is the first of eight marches that the grassroots AUOB group plans to hold across Scotland over the coming year as activists aim to increase the pressure for independence.\n\nThe march took a route through the city centre to Glasgow Green\n\nThe organisation has staged several similar marches and rallies in town and cities across Scotland over the past five years.\n\nAUOB decided that the march would definitely go ahead despite the cancellation of the rally, with the group tweeting: \"If we let some Scottish rain stop us marching then we've no chance. The march is on.\"\n\nGary Kelly of AUOB said: \"It's another mandate at the end of the day and it shows there's still an appetite and a desire in Scotland for Scottish independence.\n\n\"We don't get a lot of media publicity and the fact is that we do get it now. The world's media is here today watching us.\"\n\nOrganisers estimated that about 80,000 people attended the march.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by All Under One Banner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by All Under One Banner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿\n\nScottish voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% in a referendum in 2014 - but Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader and Scotland's first minister, says she wants to hold another vote on independence later this year.\n\nThat currently looks unlikely to happen because the UK government has made clear it will not transfer the powers that Ms Sturgeon says would be needed to ensure any referendum is legal.\n\nThe first minister has ruled out holding an unofficial referendum, similar to the disputed one in Catalonia in 2017, as she does not believe it would lead to independence regardless of the result.\n\nMs Sturgeon has never attended an AUOB march, although she did speak at a rally organised by the pro-independence National newspaper in Glasgow's George Square in November. It was the first time she had spoken at a major independence rally since 2014.\n\nThe first minister has written to Prime Minister Johnson requesting agreement on a further referendum.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We do not support a second referendum on leaving the UK.\n\n\"Scots voted decisively to remain part of the UK in a once in a generation referendum in 2014.\n\n\"The Prime Minister will respond in full to the First Minister's letter shortly.\"\n\nAnother AUOB march will be held in Glasgow in May, with similar events scheduled for Arbroath, Peebles, Elgin, Kirkcaldy, Stirling and Edinburgh.", "The climate change activists have urged Roger Federer to 'wake up'\n\nTennis star Roger Federer has responded to climate change critics - including campaigner Greta Thunberg - by saying he takes the issue very seriously.\n\nActivists oppose Federer's sponsorship deal with Credit Suisse over its links to the fossil fuel industry.\n\nSome appeared in court this week after refusing to pay a fine for playing tennis inside Credit Suisse offices in 2018 to highlight Federer's deal.\n\nFederer did not address the deal directly in his statement.\n\nThe activists - most of them students - appeared in court in Renens, Lausanne, on 7 January to appeal against the fine. Some supporters gathered outside holding banners which read: \"Credit Suisse is destroying the planet. Roger, do you support them?\"\n\nGreta Thunberg - the Swedish teenager who has become the public face of worldwide protests against government policies on climate change - joined the criticism against Federer and Credit Suisse when she retweeted a post from activists 350.org Europe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 350.org Europe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe post said loans by Credit Suisse to companies investing in fossil fuels were incompatible with action on climate change and urged Federer to \"wake up\".\n\nIn his response, the 20-time Grand Slam champion who is in Melbourne for the Australian Open, said: \"I take the impacts and threat of climate change very seriously, particularly as my family and I arrive in Australia amidst devastation from the bushfires.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFederer said he had \"a great deal of respect and admiration for the youth climate movement\" and was \"grateful to young climate activists for pushing us all to examine our behaviours and act on innovative solutions\".\n\n\"We owe it to them and ourselves to listen. I appreciate reminders of my responsibility as a private individual, as an athlete and as an entrepreneur, and I'm committed to using this privileged position to dialogue on important issues with my sponsors.\"\n\nFor its part, Credit Suisse has said it is \"seeking to align its loan portfolios with the objectives of the Paris Agreement [to combat climate change] and has recently announced in the context of its global climate strategy that it will no longer invest in new coal-fired power plants\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by Roger Federer This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nFederer is taking part in a fundraising event next Wednesday in aid of relief efforts to address the Australian bushfires which have killed at least 28 people and destroyed thousands of homes since September.\n\nMore on the Australian bushfires:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "It is a truth universally acknowledged that for a modern monarchy to retain the support of the public it cannot be too interesting.\n\nPrince Harry is very interesting. He says and does interesting things. This means he gets in the news rather a lot.\n\nIf you look back over the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the House of Windsor has faced greatest jeopardy when it has been most newsworthy.\n\nThe Queen mostly stays out of the news; her opinions are largely unknown.\n\nThe same is broadly true of Prince William, who only adopts issues - such as mental health - which are not politically partisan.\n\nThere is not much interest in their views, frankly, because the Queen and Prince William do not set out to say interesting things. Other royals do.\n\nBefore her death, Princess Diana was probably the most famous person in the world. Her opinions on a range of matters, and talent for playing the media, were widely known.\n\nPrince Charles' opinions on a range of issues, from homeopathy to architecture, are familiar.\n\nIn recent times, as his ascension presumably nears, he has dialled down his public pronouncements on many issues.\n\nFrom a media management point of view, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who might currently be the most famous couple on the planet, are just far too interesting for the House of Windsor right now.\n\nMix their fame and strained relations with other royals, together with the fact they belong to the Instagram generation, and - in Prince Harry's case - have instinctively despised much of the media for decades, as a result of his mother's death, and you have a toxic brew.\n\nAnd that's before you add in the disastrous recent Prince Andrew interview, which gave every indication of a Firm in which nobody, from a public relations point of view at least, has a grip, or even a clue.\n\nIn their detailed and clearly long-planned announcement of a new media strategy, the duke and duchess issued several soothing words about their support for a free and fair press, but their enmity was impossible to conceal.\n\nThey made an interesting distinction between royal correspondents and their editors, suggesting the former often report stories accurately only for their editors in London to put an opinionated or inaccurate spin, or headline, on their work.\n\nThe duke and duchess visited southern Africa last year with their son Archie\n\nIn his furious statement last October, Prince Harry singled out Britain's tabloid newspapers, saying that they had ruined his mother's life and he wouldn't let them ruin his wife's.\n\nIt is impossible for any of us to imagine what life must be like with the degree of intrusion, and lack of privacy, that relentless tabloid pressure can put on a family.\n\nHere it has driven a young couple to say they will relocate for half the year.\n\nAnd a lot of people don't like tabloid culture full stop.\n\nBut it is worth saying that the tabloids have got some of their coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan right.\n\nThe fact that the couple flew on Elton John's private jet, having made many pronouncements about the environment, is a legitimate story.\n\nFor several months, tabloid reporters in Britain have been writing that there were tensions between Prince Harry and his brother, that a formal split in operations within the family could be imminent, and that the Queen was not being kept fully aware of their plans.\n\nThis story has proved correct: Prince Harry admitted some of it on camera to ITV's Tom Bradby.\n\nAnd this week, Dan Wootton of the Sun was the first to report that the couple were thinking of moving overseas. He got the scoop and deserves credit for that.\n\nFor many years, royal coverage has operated through the royal rota system.\n\nA bit like the lobby in Westminster, this gives privileged, approved journalists access to the royals in exchange for deeper reporting and - the Windsors hope - more positive coverage.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess say they will pull out of the system.\n\nTabloid journalists are furious at this perceived declaration of war. But Prince Harry and Meghan went further still in saying they will still give access to journalists - it's just they'll favour younger reporters or those who support causes close to their heart.\n\nThis couldn't be better calculated to enrage Britain's tabloid press.\n\nPrince Harry has previously has said that tabloid newspapers ruined his mother's life\n\nThe key point here is generational. Princess Diana spent years cultivating journalists, with long lunches and phone calls.\n\nIn the 1990s, if you wanted to build relations with the public, journalists were the filter you had to go through.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle belong to the Instagram generation.\n\nThey believe they can use social media and their own website to appeal directly to the public, and shape their own public narrative.\n\nThey have much less emotional attachment to, and (as they see it) less need for, newsprint, or even broadcast news bulletins.\n\nA chasm is likely to open up, between what they say about themselves online - and what others in traditional media have to say about them.\n\nThe huge challenge they face stems from the fact that traditional media, while much weaker, are far from dead: tabloid newspapers and TV and radio bulletins reach millions of people in Britain every day. They're going nowhere fast. They still have influence.\n\nIt therefore does matter - albeit less than it once did - if your relations with, for instance, royal correspondents at the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail deteriorate.\n\nThere is something desperately sad for the couple in the fact that, even in North America, you cannot get away from scrutiny - given that every passer-by has a smartphone.\n\nRight now, there are journalists in Britain having conversations at home and at work in which they make clear they expect to be travelling to Canada quite a bit in coming months. Some of them will have already booked tickets.\n\nIf you want to stay out of the media, it's not about where you are, it's about who you are and what you do.\n\nDon't be too interesting. Ironically, this week has radically increased interest in this curiously modern young family.\n\nIn other words - even if he changed his name back to Henry David - for the young prince and his family, who desperately want to be left alone, it's too late.", "Vets have been joined by volunteers to help with the treatment of animals injured in the bushfires on the wildlife haven of Kangaroo Island, Australia.\n\nTwo people and tens of thousands of animals were killed as fires swept through valued habitats, destroying areas it's estimated cover up to half of the island.", "The Queen attended a church service at Sandringham on Sunday morning\n\nThe Queen has summoned senior royals to Sandringham on Monday for face-to-face talks to discuss the future roles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nPalace officials told the BBC that Prince Harry, the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Wales would all attend, while Meghan is expected join the discussion over the phone from Canada.\n\nThe Sussexes say they plan to step back as senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThere is no suggestion a conclusion will be reached at the meeting.\n\nBut BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said it is hoped that the talks will produce a \"next step\" on the way to defining the couple's new relationship with the Royal Family - in line with the Queen's wish to find a solution within days.\n\nHe added that there were still \"formidable obstacles\" to overcome in the talks.\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke of Cambridge has spoken of his \"sadness\" at the broken bond with his brother, the Sunday Times reports.\n\nAccording to the paper, Prince William told a friend: \"I've put my arm around my brother all our lives and I can't do that any more; we're separate entities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Views from the public at Sandringham Estate: 'You can't just be a royal then decide not to be'\n\n\"All we can do, and all I can do, is try and support them and hope that the time comes when we're all singing from the same page.\"\n\nPrince Charles is currently in Oman, after travelling overnight to attend the first of three days of official condolences alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said. He will return to the UK in time to attend Monday's talks.\n\nOn Sunday morning the Queen was seen smiling and waving to crowds as she was driven to church in Sandringham.\n\nPrince Charles is in Oman, where he met the country's new sultan\n\nMonday's gathering at the Queen's estate in Norfolk - being described as the \"Sandringham summit\" - will be the first time the monarch has come face-to-face with Harry since the Sussexes' announcement, which was posted on their official Instagram account.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the trickiest area will be to agree the financial position of the Sussexes, who said in their statement on Wednesday they intend to \"step back\" as senior royals and work to become financially independent.\n\nThe couple also said they plan to split their time between the UK and North America, while \"continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages\".\n\nThere are likely to be tax implications to any decision to base themselves outside the UK for any length of time and Buckingham Palace will want \"tight protocols to prevent them cashing in on their royal status\", our correspondent added.\n\nMonday's royal summit may not be the last such gathering needed to sort things out; but enough progress has been made by palace staff and civil servants for the most senior members of the family to meet to discuss some pretty concrete proposals on the way ahead for Prince Harry and Meghan.\n\nThere are still formidable obstacles - it's not at all clear how much in the way of royal duties the prince and Meghan see themselves doing.\n\nOn that will hang issues such as funding and liaison between the palace and Prince Harry and Meghan's new organisation. Unpicking the current relationship is complicated - creating a new one, that lasts, will be even tougher.\n\nThere's a strong desire to get this done. But equally the deal must be robust and workable.\n\nPrecedent is being established here - a way of doing things that may extend in years to come to other members of the royal family.\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles, William and Harry are expected to review a range of possibilities for the Sussexes, taking into account plans outlined by the couple.\n\nIf a deal is agreed in the coming days, there is a general understanding that it will take some time to implement.\n\nMeanwhile, Meghan is in Canada with her eight-month-old son Archie after flying there amid the ongoing discussions, which have involved the UK and Canadian governments.\n\nShe and Prince Harry had been in Canada over Christmas, before they returned to the UK on Tuesday after a six-week break from royal duties.\n\nOn Friday, the couple's official Instagram account returned to publicising their appearances.\n\nPictures were posted showing the couple during a private visit on Tuesday to a community kitchen in north Kensington, west London, where meals were cooked for families displaced by the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nLast October, Prince Harry and Meghan publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight.\n\nThe couple were already preparing to launch their own Sussex Royal charity, which they set up after splitting from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's foundation in June last year.\n\nAnd in December it was revealed that the couple had made an application to trademark their Sussex Royal brand across a string of items including books, calendars, clothing, charitable fundraising, education and social care services.\n\nDo you have any questions about Harry and Meghan's decision to step back as senior royals?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Cheryl Grimmer disappeared shortly after her family moved to Australia\n\nDetectives investigating the suspected murder of a British toddler abducted from an Australian beach 50 years ago are offering a million dollar reward.\n\nThree-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, originally from Bristol, vanished from a shower block in Wollongong, New South Wales, on 12 January 1970.\n\nA man was due to face a murder trial but the charges were dropped last year.\n\nCheryl's brother, Ricki Nash, said he hoped the reward, equivalent to £528,000, would bring justice.\n\nHe said: \"There are no words to describe the pain of losing a sister and the impact Cheryl's disappearance has had on our entire family.\n\n\"Every day we are reminded of the tragic way she was taken from us and we hope this reward is what is needed to bring justice for Cheryl.\"\n\nThe family had emigrated from England to Australia not long before Cheryl disappeared from Fairy Meadow beach, where a memorial walk will be led by her brothers and other relatives later.\n\nWitnesses reported seeing an unknown man carrying Cheryl towards the car park of the Fairy Meadow Surf Club, police say\n\nEfforts to find her were fruitless, despite extensive searches of the area\n\nIn 2017, a man - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was arrested and later charged with Cheryl's murder.\n\nBut a judge ruled statements made by the suspect during a police interview in 1971, when he was aged 17, were inadmissible.\n\nThe Supreme Court of New South Wales found the evidence could not be heard because the teenager had not had an adult representative present during the interview.\n\nCheryl, second right, will be remembered during a memorial walk led by her three brothers\n\nDet Supt Daniel Doherty, from New South Wales police, said he was appealing to those who knew something but had not previously been inclined to assist officers.\n\nHe added: \"Witnesses at the time reported seeing an unknown male carrying Cheryl towards the car park 50 years ago today, but there has been no trace of her ever since.\n\n\"We welcome any information that may assist the investigation. There are now a million reasons to come forward.\"", "Protesters in Tehran have chanted calls for the resignation of officials, after Iran admitted it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane on 8 January.\n\nRelatives and friends of those who died held a vigil near the Amirkabir University of Technology on Saturday.\n\nVideos uploaded to social media show a crowd gathered, with some chanting for their country's leaders to resign and calling officials \"liars\".\n\nIran had initially denied reports its missiles had brought down the plane, but said on Saturday that it had \"unintentionally\" shot it down.", "There are an estimated 7,500 wild elephants in Sri Lanka\n\nA record number of elephants - 361 - have died in Sri Lanka during 2019, environmental groups say.\n\nIt is highest figure of elephant deaths to be reported since Sri Lanka became independent in 1948, conservationists said. Most were killed by people.\n\nThere are an estimated 7,500 wild elephants in Sri Lanka. Killing them is illegal, but the animals often come into conflict with rural communities.\n\nElephants are revered in Sri Lanka but some farmers view them as pests.\n\nSajeewa Chamikara, an environmentalist from the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform, told the BBC that some 85% of elephant deaths last year may have been caused by human activity.\n\nHe said communities had used electric fences, poison and explosives concealed as food to kill the animals.\n\nIn September, officials said they suspected seven elephants found dead in a reserve were poisoned by local residents for destroying crops.\n\nBBC World Service South Asia editor Anbarasan Ethirajan says the expansion of villages and farms in Sri Lanka has contributed to dwindling supplies of food and water for the animals.\n\nOfficials have promised to work to resolve the conflict by putting fences between elephant habitats and rural communities.\n\nBut Mr Chamikara said the government needed to do more to improve the quality of protected areas, such as tackling the issue of invasive plants which grow over grasslands that feed the elephants.\n\n\"Our development plan is not eco-friendly. We need a sustainable development plan,\" he said.\n\nTrains are responsible for killing some wild elephants during their migration. Others die of natural causes, he said.\n\nDozens of elephants are kept in captivity in Sri Lanka to raise income from tourists, while others are forced to march at local festivals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSergio Aguero scored his 12th hat-trick to become the highest overseas goalscorer in Premier League history in rampant Manchester City's six-goal hammering of struggling Aston Villa.\n\nThe Argentine moved level - and then past - Thierry Henry, before joining Frank Lampard on 177 goals in England's top flight.\n\nOnly three men - Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Andy Cole - are still ahead of him on the all-time Premier League list. Aguero's number of hat-tricks is a Premier League record.\n\nIt was part of a merciless City performance as they took apart a Villa side who were suffering their worst defeat since Liverpool beat them at 6-0 at Villa Park in February 2016 and have dropped into the relegation zone.\n\nRiyad Mahrez scored the first two, with Gabriel Jesus splitting Aguero's double just before half-time.\n\nThe result leaves City second, the highest position they have occupied following a full round of matches since the beginning of November, although they remain 14 points behind leaders Liverpool, having played a game more.\n\nIt is scarcely believable now but there were some people who thought City had wasted their money when they spent £40m to buy Aguero from Atletico Madrid in 2011.\n\nHe scored twice against Swansea on his debut and it feels like he has not stopped finding the net since.\n\nAguero's most famous goal came at the end of that first season, against QPR to win the title, but for City fans his impact goes way beyond that single strike.\n\nThe 31-year-old is the club's record scorer and now needs only one more to reach 250 for the Blues in all competitions.\n\nHis first was a ferocious effort, the third a clinical strike after he had been given a clean sight of goal.\n\nBut maybe the best indication of the relentlessness with which Aguero goes about his job came from the long conversation he had with Mahrez after the half-time whistle had gone, when he demanded to know why his team-mate had not set him up about five minutes earlier.\n\nCity were 4-0 up at the time.\n• None Can you name the highest-scoring foreign players in the Premier League?\n• None 'Aguero is a legend and will die scoring goals' - Guardiola\n\nIt was a sobering return to action for Danny Drinkwater, who joined Villa on loan from Chelsea in midweek after a similar stint with Burnley came to an end.\n\nThis was Drinkwater's fourth appearance since March 2018 and remarkably meant four of the last five games he had played were against City - for three different clubs - all of which have ended in defeat.\n\nDrinkwater started quite well, with a couple of simple touches.\n\nBut it wasn't long before he was showing clear signs of rustiness after being deprived of match action for such an extended period of time.\n\nDrinkwater would have known Mahrez's strengths - he shared a dressing room with him as Leicester won the title. But he was powerless to stop the Algerian stepping around him, before darting into the area to put the visitors in front.\n\nSix minutes later, Drinkwater unwisely decided to control and assess his options as the ball broke to him off Aguero deep inside his own box.\n\nDavid Silva afforded no time, biting into the challenge and providing Mahrez with the opportunity to crash home his second.\n\nAfter that it was an exercise in chasing shadows for the former England man, who needs to find his form quickly if he is to help Villa out of the problems they find themselves in.\n\nWatching from the stands, goalkeeping duo Tom Heaton and Pepe Reina were powerless to stop the first-half carnage.\n\nWith Heaton on crutches as a legacy of the season-ending knee injury he suffered at Burnley on 1 January, and Reina not registered in time to feature as he is about to complete a loan move from AC Milan, Orjan Nyland was handed his Premier League debut.\n\nIt proved to be a torrid afternoon for the 29-year-old Norwegian, who became the first goalkeeper in Premier League history to concede six goals on his first start in the competition.\n\nNyland was beaten at his near-post for the opener and Aguero's historic effort seemed to go straight through his hands.\n\nReina will surely start at Brighton next Saturday, knowing Villa must improve on their record of two top flight clean sheets since 16 September.\n\nVilla now have a worse goal difference than Southampton, and they suffered that 9-0 home defeat by Leicester on 25 October.\n\nA few fans headed for the stairs with their side 3-0 down after half an hour but the majority stayed with their team to the end and cheered loudly when Anwar el Ghazi scored their injury-time consolation from the penalty stop.\n\nBut, with a Financial Fair Play issue hanging over them if they return to the Championship after a single season in the top flight, it looks like being a busy couple of weeks for Villa as they try to bolster Dean Smith's squad.\n\n'We gave City too much respect' - what they said\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith: \"It's tough when you come up against world-class teams.\n\n\"There's a professional pride as a coach and a team, and the third goal summed it up - they had about 20 passes without us laying a glove on them.\n\n\"We gave them too much respect.\n\n\"Our season is not going to be defined by defeats by Man City and Liverpool. You have to learn from this.\n\n\"We have to ask why weren't we competitive and why we gave them too much respect.\"\n• None Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Manchester City have scored 343 Premier League goals - 42 more than any other team.\n• None This was Pep Guardiola's 300th top-flight league win as a manager - he has reached that tally in just 390 games with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and City.\n• None City's David Silva has assisted 21 Premier League goals for team-mate Sergio Aguero - the only player to assist another more in the competition is Frank Lampard for Didier Drogba (24 goals).\n• None City's Riyad Mahrez is the only Premier League player to both score and assist 20 goals since the start of last season in all competitions (21 goals, 23 assists).\n• None In all competitions, City's Kevin de Bruyne has assisted 15 goals this season - five more than any other Premier League player.\n• None Gabriel Jesus has started 76 matches for City in all competitions - he has been directly involved in 71 goals in those matches (54 goals, 17 assists).\n\nVilla need to regroup quickly before their game at Brighton next Saturday (15:00 GMT), while Manchester City host Crystal Palace at the same time.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Manchester City 6. Anwar El Ghazi (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Anwar El Ghazi (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ahmed El Mohamady with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Anwar El Ghazi (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trézéguet with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Trézéguet (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 0, Manchester City 6. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Thousands of burned tubes of Pringles could be seen at the side of the vehicle\n\nThousands of tubes of Pringles were burnt to a crisp when a lorry caught fire on the M1 motorway.\n\nFlames took hold of the HGV near junction 25 in Derbyshire at about 07:00 GMT, closing a slip road.\n\nThe driver, who was unhurt, managed to save the tractor unit before escaping, Highways England said.\n\nCountless burnt tubes were seen at the side of the vehicle in the aftermath. The clean-up meant the road did not reopen until about 14:20.\n\nFire crews started tackling the blaze from about 07:00\n\nThe clean-up following the blaze took several hours\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour leadership hopeful Sir Keir Starmer has called for unity and said \"factionalism has to go\" if the party is to recover from its election defeat.\n\nSpeaking at his campaign launch in Manchester, he said: \"We are not going to trash the last Labour government… nor are we going to trash the last four years [under Jeremy Corbyn]\".\n\nHe has also vowed to end anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\nSir Keir is one of six candidates running to replace Mr Corbyn as leader.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary has won the backing of the UK's largest trade union, Unison.\n\nHowever, on Saturday the grassroots group Momentum said it will ballot its members on backing Rebecca Long Bailey in the contest.\n\nDuring his speech on Saturday, the MP for Holborn and St Pancras said: \"We can't fight the Tories if we are fighting each other. Factionalism has to go.\"\n\nHe criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson, describing him as a \"man of no principles and no moral compass, who will go anywhere to stay in power\".\n\nHowever, Sir Keir said he would not \"trash\" the Labour governments of Tony Blair or Gordon Brown, or the previous leadership of Mr Corbyn. He said there had been \"many important moves\" made.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn was right to make us the party to fight austerity,\" Sir Keir said. \"We build on that, we don't trash it going forward.\"\n\nHe said Labour should treat the 2017 manifesto as its foundation going forward, saying the next manifesto must \"give hope to people that the next 20 years can be better with a Labour government\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the speech, he said: \"I think what we need to do is make a radical and relevant case to [voters] for change. They need to know it's going to work and trust us to implement it.\n\n\"I'm absolutely committed to the fundamental change needed to deal with the rank inequality in this country.\"\n\nThere are currently six MPs in the Labour leadership contest\n\nBBC political correspondent Nick Eardley called Sir Keir \"the man to beat\" in the contest and said the leadership hopeful was \"not shying away from being radical\".\n\nHe added: \"But it's interesting that he said 2017's manifesto should be a foundation - that was a lot less radical than the 2019 manifesto, which many in the party believed offered far too much far too quickly.\"\n\nEarlier, Sir Keir told BBC Breakfast he would personally take charge of the fight against anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.\n\n\"If you're anti-Semitic you should not be in the Labour Party. It is not complicated,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir insisted that anyone who is anti-Semitic should be \"chucked out\" and said he would take \"personal responsibility\" for the issue.\n\nSir Keir was the first of the six Labour leadership contenders to secure the 22 nominations required to progress to the next stage of the contest.\n\nShadow business secretary Mrs Long Bailey and backbenchers Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips have also received the required support.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who currently has 10 nominations, and Clive Lewis, with four, are seeking more support.\n\nMomentum is to ballot its members on backing Rebecca Long Bailey as the next leader\n\nMrs Long Bailey also addressed anti-Semitism at a Labour event in Staffordshire on Saturday, saying \"we've got to make sure this never happens again\".\n\nShe added: \"Voters didn't trust that we were united within our party. Our voters expect us to be united and professional - and yes, we are passionate about what we believe in because it matters so much.\n\n\"But that passion must never spill over into abuse, wherever it is coming from.\"\n\nA new leader and deputy leader will be announced on 4 April.\n\nMomentum has said it will ballot its members early next week on its recommendation to back Mrs Long Bailey and Angela Rayner for leader and deputy leader respectively.\n\nFollowing a meeting of the organisation's steering group, it issued a statement saying Mrs Long Bailey was the \"only viable candidate\" able to build on the party's \"socialist agenda\".\n\n\"We need a new generation of left-wing MPs to lead our party and build on Labour's popular policy agenda,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBut Laura Parker, Momentum's national co-ordinator, said the organisation's leadership should not have \"decided in advance\" of the ballot which candidates to support.\n\n\"Members should be able to choose from all Leader & Deputy candidates,\" she said on Twitter.\n\nMomentum also said it was recommending support for Ms Rayner as deputy, saying the pair could \"work well together\" and \"unite the party against the Conservatives\".", "\n• Keeping the rise in global average temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius will avoid the worst impacts of climate change, scientists say. That’s compared with ‘pre-industrial’ times. The world has already warmed about 1C since then.\n• The original target for limiting the rise in global average temperature. Recent research points to 1.5 degrees being a far safer limit.\n• The current likely rise in average global temperature by the year 2100 if countries keep their promises to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, which are driving climate change.\n• A prediction of the likely rise in average temperature by 2100 if no further action is taken. This would see major sea-level rise, with many coastal areas becoming uninhabitable, as well as regular severe heatwaves and massive disruption to agriculture.\n• An action that helps cope with the effects of climate change - for example building houses on stilts to protect from flooding, constructing barriers to hold back rising sea levels or growing crops which can survive high temperatures and drought.\n• Stands for 'Anthropogenic Global Warming', which means the rise in temperatures caused by human activity like the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. This produces carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere and cause the planet to become warmer. This is in addition to changes in the climate which happen because of natural processes.\n• The Arctic Ocean freezes in winter and much of it then thaws in summer, and the area thawing has increased by 40% over the past few decades. The Arctic region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.\n• Attribution is the process by which scientists try to explain whether climate change has made a particular weather event - like a heatwave - more likely.\n• The average temperature of the world is calculated with the help of temperature readings taken from weather stations, satellites and ships and buoys at sea. Currently it stands at 14.9C.\n• Stands for 'Bio Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage'. It's the name for a system in which crops are grown (which draws in carbon dioxide from the air) and when they are burned to make electricity, carbon emissions are captured and then stored. Scientists see this is a key way to keep the lights on while not adding to global warming, but the technology is in its infancy.\n• A fuel derived from renewable, biological sources, including crops such as maize, palm oil and sugar cane, and some forms of agricultural waste.\n• Biomass is plant or animal material used to produce energy or as raw materials for other products. The simplest example is cow dung; another is compressed wood pellets, which are now used in some power stations.\n• Carbon is a chemical element which is sometimes described as a building block for all life on Earth because it is found in most plant and animal life. It is also found in fuels like petrol, coal and natural gas, and when burned, is emitted as a gas called carbon dioxide.\n• The trapping and removal of carbon dioxide gas from the air. The gas can then be reused, or injected into deep underground reservoirs. Carbon capture is sometimes referred to as geological sequestration. The technology is currently in its infancy.\n• Carbon dioxide is a gas in the Earth's atmosphere. It occurs naturally and is also a by-product of human activities such as burning fossil fuels. It is the principal greenhouse gas produced by human activity.\n• The amount of carbon emitted by an individual or organisation in a given period of time, or the amount of carbon emitted during the manufacture of a product.\n• A process where there is no net release of carbon dioxide (CO2). For example, growing biomass takes CO2 out of the atmosphere, while burning it releases the gas again. The process would be carbon neutral if the amount taken out and the amount released were identical. A company or country can also achieve carbon neutrality by means of carbon offsetting. The phrase 'net zero' has the same meaning.\n• Carbon offsetting is most commonly used in relation to air travel. It allows passengers to pay extra to help compensate for the carbon emissions produced from their flight. The money is then invested in environmental projects - like planting trees or installing solar panels - which reduce the carbon dioxide in the air by the same amount. Some activists have criticised carbon offsetting as an excuse to continue polluting, arguing that it does little to change behaviour.\n• Anything which absorbs more carbon dioxide than it emits. In nature, the main carbon sinks are rainforests, oceans and soil.\n• Stands for ‘Carbon Capture and Utilisation’. This consists of using technology to draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into products like biofuels and plastics.\n• A pattern of change affecting global or regional climate, as measured by average temperature and rainfall, and how often extreme weather events like heatwaves or heavy rains happen. This variation may be caused by both natural processes and by humans. Global warming is an informal term used to describe climate change caused by humans.\n• Climate models are computer simulations of how the atmosphere, oceans, land, plants and ice behave under various levels of greenhouse gases. This helps scientists come up with projections for what Earth will be like as global warming continues. The models do not produce exact predictions, but instead suggest ranges of possible outcomes.\n• Climate negotiations take place every year as the United Nations brings governments together to discuss action to stop climate change. The goal is usually a collective agreement to reduce carbon emissions by certain dates. The latest of these is the Paris Agreement of 2015 which set the targets of limiting warming to 2C or 1.5C if possible. Negotiations are always difficult because many countries are heavily dependent on fossil fuels and worry about the effects of any change on their economies.\n• Means carbon dioxide, a naturally occurring gas which is also a major product of human activity such as burning fossil fuels. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more heat is retained, causing the planet to warm up.\n• Stands for 'Conference of the Parties'. It is the name for the annual UN negotiations on climate change under what is called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (see UNFCCC). The aim is to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate.\n• A UN climate summit was held in Copenhagen in 2009 which descended into acrimony and ended with countries only agreeing a non-binding accord that climate change was \"one of the greatest challenges of the present day\". The event is widely regarded as one of the least productive since climate negotiations began.\n• Coral bleaching refers the change in colour of coral reefs when the ocean temperature rises above a certain level, forcing the corals to eject the algae they normally co-exist with - this turns them white. Coral can recover if the water cools, but lasting damage can be done if it remains too hot.\n• The clearing of forests to make way for farming such as soy crops to feed livestock or palm oil for consumer products. This releases significant levels of carbon dioxide as trees are burned.\n• Climate deniers believe that climate change is only taking place because of natural processes and that human activity has no role. They dispute the work of many thousands of experts around the world, whose research has been peer-reviewed and published and is based on research stretching back more than a century.\n• Emissions are any release of gases such as carbon dioxide which cause global warming, a major cause of climate change. They can be small scale in the form of exhaust from a car or methane from a cow, or larger-scale such as those from coal-burning power stations and heavy industries.\n• Extreme weather is any type of unusual, severe or unseasonal weather. Examples could be major heat waves, with temperature records broken, extended droughts as well as cold spells and heavier than usual rainfall. Scientists predict that extreme weather will become more common as the world becomes warmer.\n• In a feedback loop, rising temperatures change the environment in ways that affect the rate of warming. Feedback loops can add to the rate of warming or reduce it. As the Arctic sea-ice melts, the surface changes from being a bright reflective white to a darker blue or green, which allows more of the Sun’s rays to be absorbed. So less ice means more warming and more melting.\n• Fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas were formed when tiny plants and animals flourished in the ancient past, absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, before dying and being crushed over millions of years. When burned, they release carbon dioxide.\n• Geo-engineering is any technology which could be used to halt or even reverse climate change. Examples range from extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it underground, to more far-fetched ideas such as deploying vast mirrors in space to deflect the Sun's rays. Some scientists say geo-engineering may prove essential because not enough is being done to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Others warn that the technologies are unproven and could have unforeseen consequences.\n• Usually a reference to temperature averaged across the entire planet.\n• The steady rise in global average temperature in recent decades, which experts say is mostly caused by human-produced greenhouse gas emissions. The long-term trend continues upwards with 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 being the warmest years on record.\n• Green energy, sometimes called renewable energy, is generated from natural, replenishable sources. Examples are wind and solar power as well as biomass, made from compressed wood pellets.\n• Natural and human-produced gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the surface. The Kyoto Protocol restricts emissions of six greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, perfluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, and sulphur hexafluoride.\n• The Gulf Stream is a warm ocean current which originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows up the east coast of the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists believe Europe would be significantly cooler without it. There is a fear that the stream could be disrupted if rising temperatures melt more polar ice, bringing an influx of freshwater.\n• A hydrocarbon is a substance consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. The major fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas - are hydrocarbons and as such, are the main source of emissions linked to climate change.\n• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific body established by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization. Its role is to examine and assess the latest scientific research into climate change. Its report in 2018 warned that the rise in global temperatures should be limited to 1.5C to avoid dangerous impacts.\n• A jetstream is a narrow band of fast-flowing air at high altitude which acts as major influence on the weather. Jetstreams could be disrupted by warming in polar regions, and this may make extreme weather like Europe’s hot summer of 2018 more common.\n• A set of rules agreed at Kyoto in Japan in 1997, in which 84 developed countries agreed to reduce their combined emissions by 5.2% of their level in 1990.\n• A term used to describe people who believe that climate change is real, and being driven by human activity, but that its effects will not be as bad as predicted by scientists.\n• Methane is a gas which traps about 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide. It is produced by human activity from agriculture – cows emit large amounts – as well as waste dumps and leaks from coal mining. Methane is also emitted naturally from wetlands, termites and wildfires. One big concern is that carbon held in frozen ground in arctic regions will be released as methane as temperatures rise and the ground thaws. This could cause extra, unpredictable global warming.\n• Action that will reduce human-driven climate change. This includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by switching to renewable power, or capturing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere by planting forests.\n• A term used to describe any process where there is no net release of carbon dioxide (CO2). For example, growing biomass takes CO2 out of the atmosphere, while burning it releases the gas again. The process would be net zero if the amount taken out and the amount released were identical. A company or country can also achieve net zero by means of carbon offsetting. Net zero processes or manufactured items are sometimes also describbed as being 'carbon neutral'.\n• The ocean absorbs approximately a quarter of human produced carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, which helps to reduce the effect of climate change. However, when the CO2 dissolves in seawater, carbonic acid is formed. Carbon emissions from industry in the last 200 years have already begun to alter the chemistry of the world’s oceans. If this trend continues, marine creatures will find it harder to build their shells and skeletal structures, and coral reefs will be killed off. This would have serious consequences for people who rely on them as fishing grounds.\n• The ozone layer is part of Earth's high atmosphere which contains a large concentration of gas molecules comprising three oxygen atoms called ozone. Ozone helps filter out harmful ultraviolet light from the Sun, which can increase the risk of skin cancer. In the 1980s and 1990s, industrial gases called chlorofluorocarbons (or CFCs) were banned because they damaged the ozone layer. These gases are also potent greenhouse gases, contributing to global warming.\n• An abbreviation for 'parts per million', used to describe the concentration of a gas such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested in 2007 that the world should aim to stabilise greenhouse gas levels at 450 ppm CO2 equivalent in order to avert dangerous climate change. Some scientists, and many of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, argue that the safe upper limit is 350ppm. Modern levels of CO2 broke through 400ppm (at the Mauna Loa Laboratory in Hawaii) in 2013, and continue to climb at about 2-3ppm per year.\n• Scientists use a baseline with which to compare the modern rise in temperatures on Earth. The baseline often quoted is 1850-1900, and global temperatures have risen by about 1C since then. The reality, of course, is that industry actually got going much earlier, but there is nonetheless a perceptible uptick in the levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 1850-1900 and the period is deemed therefore to be a useful marker.\n• Normally refers to energy sources such as biomass (such as wood and biogas), the flow of water, geothermal (heat from within the earth), wind, and solar.\n• Describes how the climate change may suddenly change after passing a 'tipping point', making it even harder to stop or reverse. In 2018, the IPCC said that global emissions must be reduced by 45% by 2030, and to net zero by 2050 to have 50% chance of limiting temperature rises to 1.5C this century.\n• Sea-ice is found in polar regions. It grows in extent and thickness in autumn and winter, and melts in spring and summer. The amount of sea-ice in the Arctic is seen as a key indicator of climate trends because the region is warming faster than most other locations on Earth. The smallest ever extent (in the satellite era) of Arctic sea-ice was recorded in September 2012. The 3.41 million square kilometers was 44% below the 1981-2010 average.\n• Rising sea levels are predicted to be one of the most drastic impacts of climate change. In this context, there are two main causes for sea-level rise: (1) the expansion of seawater as the oceans warm; and (2) the run-off into the ocean of water from melting ice sheet and glaciers. Current sea levels are about 20cm higher on average than they were in 1900. Year on year, sea levels are presently going up by just over 3mm.\n• Sustainability means consuming the planet's resources at a rate at which they can be replenished. It's sometimes known as 'sustainable development'. Types of renewable energy such as solar or wind power are described as sustainable, while using wood from managed forests where trees are replanted according to how many are cut down is another example.\n• Describes how the climate may suddenly change after passing a ‘tipping point’, making it even harder to stop or reverse. Scientists say it is urgent that policy-makers halve global carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 or risk triggering changes that could be irreversible.\n• Stands for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This is an international treaty, signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, which stated that countries should work to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to avoid dangerous climate change.", "The hydropower scheme is projected to produce enough electricity to power about 3,600 homes\n\nA community claiming they were offered £1,000 a year by a firm building a hydropower project on their doorstep have said the amount is \"insulting\".\n\nThe river Tywi will be used to generate power at the site near Llyn Brianne dam at Ystradffin, Carmarthenshire.\n\nBut campaigners say the firm should pay 20 times that much to the community and affected landowners, based on the £1m the project would make annually.\n\nH20 Power Towy Ltd denied offering £1,000 but would not reveal a figure.\n\nIt also refused to say how many jobs would be created.\n\nCommunity councillor Dr Roger Slade said: \"No-one in the village is complaining about hydro - the problem here is that they're using a public resource and they expect to get it for nothing.\n\n\"There are pockets of real deprivation here and just up the valley there's a company making a million pounds a year.\n\n\"Some of that money should come back to the community.\"\n\nDr Slade described the £1,000 a year from the firm as an \"insulting\" offer.\n\nRoger Slade: \"Money should come back to the community\"\n\nThe scheme is projected to produce 1.8 megawatts of electricity - enough to power about 3,600 homes - with a feed-in tariff which should alone account for £600,000 annually.\n\nThe electricity will then be sold with a guaranteed price for 20 years, producing an annual income in excess of £1m.\n\nCampaigners say there are other schemes where companies pay 4% of revenue annually to affected landowners and 2% to the local community.\n\nIn Ystradffin, this would amount to £20,000 a year, which local people say would be a huge help in supporting various schemes in an area where rural deprivation is an issue.\n\nEmyr Jones, local community council chairman, said: \"It seems to happen time and time again in this area.\n\n\"We provide all the resources and all the finances go out of the area.\n\n\"Any contribution would be a help here - everything is a struggle in this area.\"\n\nCatrin Davies: \"The benefit will not come back to the local community\"\n\nLocal people insist there is broad support for such schemes and that they see renewable energy as a viable way of producing power in the future.\n\nResident Catrin Davies said: \"I feel glad we're able to contribute something towards this huge problem of climate change and I'm happy for the landowners to benefit but I'm sad that the landscape is being ripped up again and that the benefit will not come back to the local community at all.\"\n\nIn a statement, the company deny claims that they offered a sum of £1,000 to the local community but have not provided an alternative figure.\n\nAnd they said there was support for the scheme among the local community.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fire services in England suffer from a \"toxic\" culture, with some firefighters not treating colleagues with \"enough humanity\", a watchdog chief has said.\n\nInspectors uncovered cases of bullying and harassment at some services, while some staff were said to find the poor treatment of others to be \"amusing\".\n\nIt is the first annual report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.\n\nIts chief inspector, Sir Thomas Winsor, called for a new code of ethics.\n\nHe also urged building owners to remove cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower, to help avoid another blaze.\n\nSir Thomas highlighted in his report a staff survey that found 24% reported feeling bullied or harassed at work in the past 12 months, with the number rising to 46% at one service.\n\nHe said inspectors had heard allegations of unlawful discrimination and that some services lacked defined values for people to follow and use to challenge unacceptable behaviour.\n\n\"The fire sector refers to itself as humanitarian, yet firefighters in some services don't treat their colleagues with enough humanity,\" he wrote in his report.\n\nWhile the inspectorate said in a briefing with journalists that the problems were found within \"isolated pockets\" of services, it said it had spoken with female firefighters left \"in tears\" when discussing intimidating behaviour by colleagues and a \"lack of inclusivity\".\n\nAlso in his report, Sir Thomas said it was \"alarming\" that, more than two years after the Grenfell fire in which 72 people died, more than 300 buildings still had the same cladding as the tower.\n\n\"Remedial work to remove similar cladding systems, including rainscreens with polyethylene cores, should be done by the building owners as quickly as possible,\" Sir Thomas said.\n\n\"No other fire service should have to tackle a blaze of such severity because of these unsafe materials.\"\n\nThe Grenfell inquiry's phase one report, published in October, found Grenfell Tower's cladding did not comply with building regulations and was the \"principal\" reason for the fire's rapid spread.\n\nElsewhere, Sir Thomas accused the Fire Brigades Union of putting the public at risk.\n\nHe gave the example of staff in Greater Manchester refusing to serve in a team formed to respond to terrorist gun attacks because of a pay dispute.\n\nSir Thomas said the FBU had used its \"considerable industrial muscle\" to demand more money for firefighters required to provide medical assistance alongside ambulance crews.\n\n\"The union shouldn't be interfering in operational matters\", he said. \"They're there to protect their members' interests, to ensure that they're properly paid, their working terms and conditions.\"\n\nLast June, a watchdog warned lives could be put at risk because of the dispute.\n\nIn a statement, the FBU said: \" We utterly refute any suggestion that we have put the public at risk. Operational fire service matters are intrinsically linked to the health and safety of firefighters, and are therefore at the core of our work as a union.\"\n\nIt added: \"Firefighters know best about their service and should have a strong voice in how it is run.\"", "The sharp increase in university students in the UK getting top degree grades seems to have stalled, according to annual official figures.\n\nIt follows warnings from ministers of the need to prevent \"grade inflation\" devaluing degrees.\n\nThe latest figures show 28% of students were awarded first class degrees in 2018-19 - the same as the year before.\n\nEngland's higher education watchdog, the Office for Students, had attacked \"unexplained\" increases in top grades.\n\nNicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students (OFS), said the latest figures showed an end to successive increases in first class degrees every year since 2011.\n\nOver those years the proportion of students getting a first had risen by 80%.\n\n\"Grade inflation risks undermining public confidence in higher education for students, graduates and employers alike,\" said Ms Dandridge.\n\nThe latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show 28% of candidates were awarded first class degrees, 48% upper second, 19% lower second and 4% third class - with all these the same as the previous year.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said grade inflation was \"something we had to stop\" to protect the reputation of the UK's universities.\n\n\"We will reverse that trend,\" he said, warning there had to be public confidence in \"what grades mean\".\n\nNick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, suggested the stalling in top grades reflected the pressure put on universities.\n\n\"As universities award their own degrees, and despite external examination arrangements, decisions on how many top grades to award are made at an institutional level - but institutions cannot ignore outside interests,\" said Mr Hillman.\n\n\"The higher education sector is, in effect, going through the same cycle that A-levels went through, with lots of inflation followed by a period of reflection.\"\n\nThe number of students in higher education also reached a record high of 2.38 million - up by about 40,000 on the previous year.\n\nThe number of female students has continued to climb more quickly than for men - with 57% of students female in 2018-19.\n\nIt means there are about 340,000 more women in higher education than men.\n\nIn terms of ethnicity among UK students, the biggest increase in recent years has been Asian students - with numbers up by 20% since 2014-15.\n\nThe number of black students has risen by 17% across those years - but for white students, the numbers are below where they stood five years ago.\n\nThe Reform think thank said the figures were \"dire\" in terms of widening access into university for disadvantaged youngsters.\n\n\"Just 12% of students came from came from low participation neighbourhoods in 2018-19 - the same proportion as in 2014-15,\" said researcher Imogen Farhan.", "But fortunately he was still very good at answering the question.\n\nEvan Davis had been interviewing experts about the news TV cameras can film in Crown Courts in England and Wales for the first time.\n\nThe PM programme had meant to book the famous US lawyer who helped successfully defend OJ Simpson, to discuss the development with a retired Supreme Court justice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From inside the Old Bailey, Clive Coleman explains what we can expect once cameras are allowed in\n\nTV cameras are to be allowed to film in Crown Courts in England and Wales for the first time.\n\nNew legislation being laid before Parliament will allow judges' sentencing remarks in serious high-profile criminal cases to be seen and heard by TV and online audiences.\n\nHowever, trials will not be televised as they are in countries such as the US as only the judge will be filmed.\n\nThe judiciary, broadcasters and government have welcomed the move.\n\nThe legislation will, for the first time, allow TV cameras to film judges passing sentence in murder, sexual offences, terrorism and other serious high-profile criminal cases in Crown Courts in England and Wales, including the Old Bailey.\n\nIt marks a radical change and a significant extension to the operation of open justice though whole trials will not be televised.\n\nFilming in the Scottish Courts has been allowed subject to permissions and conditions since 1992 but it does not happen that often and the first filming of a sentencing in Scotland was in 2012.\n\nIn the US, cases including the 1995 trial of OJ Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman made gripping television but faced criticism for providing an unedifying spectacle at times.\n\nIn England and Wales, the concern has always been that televising trials could deter victims, witnesses and jurors - the vital cogs in the trial process - from taking part.\n\nSo, the judge alone will be seen on camera as he or she delivers their sentencing remarks. No-one else involved in the trial - victims, witnesses, jurors, lawyers or the convicted defendant - will be filmed.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland denied the move would be a \"blind stumble\" into an \"undesirable OJ Simpson-style scenario\".\n\nHe told TalkRadio it was \"about information rather than entertainment\" and the plans had the full support of the judiciary.\n\nTV scenes from the 1994 murder trial of OJ Simpson will not be replicated in the UK\n\nThe filming can be \"live\", with a short time delay to avoid breaking any reporting restrictions or any other error.\n\nMore often it is envisaged that the judge's sentencing remarks will be filmed for use in later news broadcasts.\n\nAll Crown Court staff who will be involved in the cases where filming takes place will receive training and new guidance.\n\nThe new rules will allow filming only of the judge - not anyone else involved in a trial\n\nThe full sentencing remarks of any case broadcast will also be hosted on a website to which the public has access.\n\nThe legislation should take around three months to make its way through Parliament, meaning the first broadcasts should take place in late spring or early summer.\n\nToday's move follows a successful three-month pilot that allowed not-for-broadcast sentencing remarks to be filmed in eight Crown Courts.\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, said: \"It is important that the justice system and what happens in our courts is as transparent as possible.\n\n\"My hope is that there will be regular broadcasting of the remarks in high profile cases, and that will improve public understanding.\"\n\nCriminal Bar Association chairwoman Caroline Goodwin QC said the move would \"bring greater transparency and a better public understanding of the criminal justice system\".\n\nHowever, she stressed the importance of restricting filming to sentencing remarks, adding: \"Nothing must compromise the interests of justice, the primacy of a fair trial, and respecting the interests of vulnerable witnesses, witnesses generally and defendants.\"\n\nBut not everyone has given the move an unconditional welcome. Bar Council chairwoman Amanda Pinto QC said: \"If the public see judges' faces in the living room on television and are able to identify them more readily then unfortunately they are more likely to be personally attacked, and possibly details published about them which should not be.\"\n\nSince 1925 it has been a criminal offence to film, or even sketch in court - so court artists must go outside and draw those involved in the trial from memory.\n\nFilming has been allowed in the UK Supreme Court since its creation in 2009, and in 2013 cameras were allowed in the Court of Appeal but cases in these courts are appeals, and confined to lawyers' arguments and judges' rulings.\n\nToday's announcement marks the first time cameras will be permitted in Crown Courts in England and Wales where serious crimes are tried.", "The money on offer does nothing to fix problems with health and education, says Conor Murphy\n\nNorthern Ireland will be kept in an \"austerity trap\" unless the government's financial package is increased, the Stormont finance minister has said.\n\nConor Murphy claimed the £1bn on offer does nothing to fix problems with health and education.\n\nHe earlier described the package as an \"act of bad faith\".\n\nNI Secretary Julian Smith has rejected criticism of the financial package to underpin the deal to restore Stormont.\n\nMr Murphy said the government has \"stepped back from its financial commitment\" and that it \"isn't acceptable\".\n\n\"It wouldn't be acceptable if Sinn Féin, the DUP or any of the other parties said: 'We've made a political agreement - we're not going to do that, so you'll just have to get on with it anyway',\" he said.\n\n\"[The deal] does nothing to allow us to transform public services, it really keeps us in the austerity trap that we've been in for nine years.\n\n\"There is an obligation on [the government] to live up to an agreement they made.\n\n\"The executive parties are united on this, they want to see this delivered.\"\n\nJulian Smith said it was the \"biggest injection of new money in Northern Ireland in well over a decade\".\n\nThe Westminster government is to give the NI Executive an extra £1bn to support the agreement.\n\nA further £1bn will be added to Stormont's budget as an automatic result of spending plans for the entire UK.\n\nIt is part of the New Decade New Approach deal to restore Northern Ireland devolution.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr Smith warned the Northern Ireland parties about the \"stringent conditions attached\" to the financial package and called for a transformation of how spending is controlled.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Murphy said the financial package \"makes our [NI executive] job much more difficult\".\n\n\"The bottom line is with this proposed package, our public services face a shortfall of at least £1bn next year alone,\" he said.\n\nMr Smith expressed disappointment that politicians in Northern Ireland had already ruled out introducing water charges and other rates increases.\n\n\"Northern Ireland taxpayers deserve to know that their money is being used efficiently and effectively,\" he said.\n\nThe NI secretary of state faced criticism from opposition parties and NI MPs about the level of funding promised.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe honeymoon period after the New Decade, New Approach deal is definitely over now.\n\nIn fact, it has passed quicker than any of us might have expected.\n\nConor Murphy doesn't like the fact that the Northern Ireland Office has put any of the figures out there because I think he would have hoped, as would some of the other ministers in the new Executive, that this would all still be subject to negotiations.\n\nInstead, Julian Smith published the financial package, saying it's a £2bn package and that it's a brilliant one.\n\nOthers say, hang on, £1bn of that will be coming anyway and there's only £1bn attached to this particular deal.\n\nThat is not what the local politicians wanted.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nColum Eastwood asked for assurances over funding for a medical school at Magee\n\nThe NI secretary of state faced criticism from opposition parties and NI MPs about the level of funding promised.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said there was a gap between the commitments made by both governments and the financial package which needed to be addressed.\n\nHe also called for assurances over the funding for a medical school in Londonderry and to increase student numbers to create a \"full size\" university in the city.\n\nThe DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson also sought assurances that the outstanding money from his party's confidence and supply deal with the conservatives would be made available to the NI executive.\n\nIn response to concerns about the level of funding being provided, Mr Smith described the financial package as a \"good start\" and said the government would look positively at other challenges in future budgets.\n\nHe added that Northern Ireland already receives 20% more funding than any other part of the UK.\n\nMr Smith called on the executive ministers to set out their priorities on how best to spend the money now on offer.", "The UK, France and the UN are hosting a virtual climate meeting on Saturday. About 75 world leaders will attend, marking five years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement. Pope Francis will also address the meeting.\n\nThis virtual gathering is taking place after the pandemic caused the postponement of the annual Conference of the Parties, due to take place in Glasgow this year.\n\nNations will be revealing how they intend to cut their greenhouse gas emissions which means we’ll find out if their commitments are ambitious enough to stop the worst effects of climate change. But just what is climate change? And why are scientists calling for urgent action?\n\nThis video was first published in January 2020.", "Louise Lawford has not revealed what happened to the pets, it is alleged\n\nA dog walker accused of losing several pets in her care is to be prosecuted for animal welfare offences.\n\nLouise Lawford is alleged to have been looking after at least five dogs when they went missing during a walk in woods in Staffordshire, in June.\n\nOwners said Mrs Lawford, who operated Pawford Paws in Sutton Coldfield, had not revealed what happened to the pets.\n\nThe case, brought by Birmingham City Council, is due to be heard at the city magistrates' court on 23 January.\n\nMrs Lawford, 49, from Erdington, is accused of nine animal welfare offences, including five counts of undertaking group walks without ensuring each dog had been vaccinated, allowing dogs off the lead without written consent and failing to contact the owners or dog warden immediately when dogs were lost.\n\nShe is also accused of three counts of breaching conditions of the licence to operate a business providing home boarding for dogs and one further charge of failing to provide veterinary treatment for a skin infection for a dog.\n\nThe council said Mrs Lawford's dog boarding licence was revoked on 28 June.\n\nIt is claimed the dogs vanished in Hopwas Woods near Tamworth, on 23 June.\n\nApril Lock, who owned pugs Charlie and Ralph, said she was on holiday when Mrs Lawford contacted her about their disappearance.\n\n\"I thought originally maybe that they'd got stolen. She let us search for about two weeks,\" said Ms Lock.\n\nMs Lock and two other pet owners whose dogs disappeared on the same day have been crowdfunding to take civil action against Mrs Lawson.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it had investigated allegations of theft relating to the missing dogs but there was insufficient evidence to consider charges.", "Flybe, the airline which has received government help to avert collapse, is planning to scrap its Newquay-Heathrow service in March.\n\nIt will replace it with flights from Newquay to London's Gatwick airport.\n\nIt comes just days after ministers said the airline should receive support because of its regional connectivity.\n\nThe change is expected to anger businesses in the South West, who value the range of international destinations Heathrow provides.\n\n\"Heathrow puts you on the map when it comes to attracting inward investment,\" said one regional development official.\n\nCornwall's links to London are considered important enough to make the route one of the few in the UK to be operated under a \"public service obligation\" contract.\n\nThis means the government offers a subsidy for the route and invites tenders to operate it.\n\nThe BBC understands that Flybe had been talking to Newquay airport about measures that might mitigate the effects of the change to Gatwick.\n\nSenior industry sources said the decision to move had now been made and the airline's website has for some time not been selling Newquay-Heathrow flights past the end of March.\n\nThe route will, however, still qualify for public subsidy.\n\nEarlier this week, the government said it would conduct a review of regional connectivity as part of its \"levelling up\" drive to spread economic growth across the regions.\n\nThe announcement was made at the same time as ministers approved help for Flybe, which is thought to centre on giving the airline time to pay about £100m of outstanding air passenger duty.\n\nFollowing the rescue deal, the Department for Transport said: \"In light of these discussions Flybe have confirmed they will continue to operate as normal, preserving flights to airports such as Southampton, Belfast and Birmingham.\"\n\nFlybe said it was working closely with its \"partners across the network\" to finalise its full summer programme. \"Our future plans are business confidential and not yet ready for release,\" it said.\n\nSeparately, the BBC has learned that Flybe will, also from the end of March, be free to divert many of the Heathrow runways slots it uses for domestic flights to other short-haul services.\n\nFlybe was awarded the slots in 2017 as part of \"remedy\" imposed by competition regulators on British Airways after it bought BMI British Midland.\n\nBA had to surrender the slots - which are highly prized, with pairs selling for £20m or more - as long as the new owner operated them on certain domestic routes.\n\nFlybe is, however, free to change to other short-haul routes from the end of March.\n\nIndustry sources said it could use those slots for European flights currently operated by its partner airlines - leaving one of its shareholders, Virgin Atlantic, or its partner Delta Air Lines of America, the chance to start new long-haul services from Heathrow.", "The US and China have signed an agreement aimed at easing a trade war that has rattled markets and weighed on the global economy.\n\nSpeaking in Washington, US President Donald Trump said the pact would be \"transformative\" for the US economy.\n\nChinese leaders called it a \"win-win\" deal that would help foster better relations between the two countries.\n\nChina has pledged to boost US imports by $200bn above 2017 levels and strengthen intellectual property rules.\n\nIn exchange, the US has agreed to halve some of the new tariffs it has imposed on Chinese products.\n\nHowever the majority of the border taxes remain in place, which has prompted business groups to call for further talks.\n\n\"There's a lot of work to do ahead,\" said Jeremie Waterman, president of the China Center at the US Chamber of Commerce. \"Bottom line is, they should enjoy today but not wait too long to get back to the table for phase two.\"\n\nThe US and China have engaged in a tit-for-tat tariff war since 2018, which has led to extra import taxes being levied on more than $450bn (£350bn) worth of traded goods. The ongoing dispute has disrupted trade flows, dampened global economic growth and unnerved investors.\n\nAt a signing ceremony in Washington, Mr Trump said the deal sets the stage for a stronger relationship between the US and China. The event, which occurred as the Senate prepared to take up Mr Trump's impeachment, was attended by top Republican donors and business leaders.\n\n\"Together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security,\" he said.\n\n\"Far beyond even this deal, it's going to lead to an even stronger world peace,\" he added.\n\nChinese Vice Premier Liu He, who signed the deal on behalf of China, said the agreement was rooted in \"equality and mutual respect\" and defended his country's economic model in his remarks.\n\n\"China has developed a political system and a model of economic development that suits its national reality,\" he said.\n\n\"This doesn't mean that China and the US cannot work together. On the contrary, our two countries share enormous common commercial interests.\"\n\n\"We hope both sides will abide by and keep the agreement in earnest.\"\n\nIt has been hailed by the White House as a breakthrough in a war that President Trump triggered to protect American jobs and companies from what he viewed as unfair competition from China.\n\nThe weapon of choice: billions of dollars of tariffs, or extra charges, on imports. But that has hurt the very workers and businesses they were meant to protect, in both countries.\n\nFor all the fanfare - and the unusual appearance of a president at the signing of a bilateral trade deal - this is more armistice than victory - with only a small proportion of the tariffs being reversed and relatively minor concessions granted by both sides. Tariffs remain on around two-thirds of the goods Americans buy from China\n\nMoreover, Washington's fundamental complaints about Chinese practices - from its approach to subsidising businesses to cybertheft - remain unresolved. With President Trump's ambition to rewrite the rules of global trade yet to be achieved, some fear he may turn his firepower on Europe next - just as the UK is looking to broker an advantageous post-Brexit relationship\n\nMr Trump has said the accord signed on Wednesday is a \"phase one\" agreement and promised that the administration will take up other issues - such as China's state subsidies - in future negotiations.\n\nThe US accuses China of \"unfair\" business practices, such as providing subsidies for domestic businesses and administrative rules that have made it difficult for US firms to operate in the country.\n\nMr Trump has defended maintaining the bulk of the tariffs, saying they will provide leverage in future talks. But US business groups and analysts expressed concern.\n\n\"While Phase One makes incremental progress, it remains to be seen whether it will deliver any meaningful relief for farmers like me,\" said Michelle Erickson-Jones, a Montana wheat farmer, who is affiliated with the lobby group Farmers for Free Trade. \"The promises of lofty purchases are encouraging but farmers like me will believe it when we see it.\"\n\nCharles Kane, a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said Mr Trump sees China as a useful political scapegoat, making any serious negotiation unlikely until after the November presidential election.\n\n\"He's using [the trade war] as a political weapon,\" Mr Kane said.", "Read through the 44-page defence provided by the Mail on Sunday to the High Court and you quickly realise why the Royal Family rarely resort to the courts in their endless struggles with the media.\n\nBack in February last year the Mail on Sunday published excerpts from a letter that the Duchess of Sussex had written to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018. That letter referred to the period around her wedding to the Duke of Sussex in May the same year.\n\nThe publication of the letter by the Mail on Sunday followed hard on the heels of an article in the US-based People magazine where five people, who remain unnamed but are reported to be part of the duchess' inner circle, put her side of the story.\n\nIn that article it was suggested by a \"long-time friend\" that Thomas Markle refused to take Meghan or Prince Harry's calls and that he refused to get into a car sent to take him to the airport and then to the UK for the wedding.\n\n\"He knows how to get in touch,\" one friend is reported as saying. \"Her telephone number hasn't changed. He's never called; he's never texted.\"\n\nThe article also referred to a letter that Meghan wrote to her father, asking him to stop criticising her.\n\nIt's the publication of that letter that the duchess is suing the Mail on Sunday over. She alleges breach of copyright, breach of data regulation laws and a breach of her right to privacy. She also alleges that the letter was selectively edited.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday pushes back on all three charges - it says that copyright applies to work that is the author's own intellectual creation; the letter was \"pre-existing fact and admonishment\" and as such is not protected under copyright law.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex visited a women's centre in Vancouver on Tuesday\n\nThe newspaper says that, as the personal data considered topics that Meghan had herself put into the public domain, its processing and publication was not unlawful.\n\nAnd it says that by becoming part of the British Royal Family - who \"generate and rely on publicity about themselves… to maintain the privileged positions they hold\" - there is rightly enormous public interest in her story.\n\nBut the Mail on Sunday's defence goes further - much further.\n\nIt notes that Meghan did not ask her father to keep the letter private.\n\nIt says the letter appears to have been \"immaculately copied out\" without \"crossings-out or amendments\" as if Meghan anticipated it being published.\n\nIt says the way the letter reads - \"to put [Meghan] and her conduct in the best possible light\" strongly suggests that that the duchess wanted or expected it to be read by others.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday accuses those friends of Meghan's who spoke to People magazine of lying. And it does so by citing Meghan's father, Thomas.\n\nHe says he did call and text his daughter in the weeks before the wedding, that he did tell her he couldn't make it to the wedding and that when after the wedding he tried to call her again, he was cut off by the couple.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday presents the publication of Meghan's letter to her father as his response to the lies that, he says, were put around by her friends in the People magazine article.\n\nQuite how much of the above is relevant to the actual case is up for debate. But the tone and content of the defence offered by the Mail on Sunday is a shot across the bows of Team Meghan.\n\nIt is a taster of what the Mail on Sunday will try to make the court case about - not centred on copyright law and data regulations, but about Meghan's character, her credibility, and the way she treats her family.\n\nAnd standing in court, supporting the Mail on Sunday, could be her father Thomas - who is prepared to go to court, his daughter Samantha told the BBC.\n\nIt is an astonishing prospect - and a reminder of why the royals so rarely reach for their lawyers like this.", "The boss of Ryanair has threatened legal action over the government help given to regional carrier Flybe.\n\nMichael O'Leary has written a strongly-worded letter to the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, saying the state rescue of Flybe contravenes competition rules.\n\nHe argues measures that are being put in place to help Flybe should be extended to other airlines.\n\nIf they are not, Ryanair intends to launch legal proceedings against the government, Mr O'Leary said.\n\nBritish Airways' owner IAG has already filed a complaint with the EU, arguing the rescue breaches state aid rules.\n\nEarlier this week, the government approved help for Flybe, which is thought to centre on giving the airline extra time to pay about £100m of outstanding Air Passenger Duty (APD).\n\nDetails of the rescue plan have not been made public, however the government has said it is fully compliant with state aid rules.\n\nMr O'Leary's letter describes the rescue as a \"badly thought-out bailout of a chronically loss-making airline\" and calls for any tax holiday granted to Flybe to be extended to rival operators.\n\n\"Unlike Flybe we all operate profitable business models (without the benefit of being owned by billionaires)\" the letter says \"We must be treated the same as Flybe if fair competition is to exist.\"\n\nFlybe's owners include Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Group and Cyrus Capital who have agreed to invest £30m into the airline.\n\nStobart Group said it will provide £9m of capital \"with the funds drawn down only if required\".\n\nHMRC has indicated in a tweet that what is being described as a \"tax holiday\" for Flybe is available to other businesses that run into trouble.\n\n\"Time to Pay agreements are common where taxes or duties are owed,\" it said. HMRC said last year more than 700,000 such arrangements were used.\n\nRyanair's letter said that the government should clarify what support is being given to Flybe including details of any \"APD holiday\".\n\n\"Should you fail to confirm these facts within the next seven-day period, please be advised that Ryanair intends to launch proceedings against your government for breach of UK and EU competition law and breach state aid rules,\" the letter said.\n\nIAG has also written to the government accusing it of a \"lack of transparency\" and has submitted a Freedom of Information request over the details of the rescue.\n\nThe government has said it will review APD as part of a government commitment to improving regional connectivity across the UK. It intends to make a further announcement at the Budget in March.\n\nA rail industry body and environmental lobby groups have voiced concern that cutting taxes on flying provided the wrong incentives at a time when the government is also aiming to cut carbon emissions in order to tackle the climate crisis.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the outcome would \"benefit the entire industry\".", "Dominic Hamlyn became unresponsive while swimming at the family home in Crundale, Kent\n\nA student died during an underwater challenge at his brother's 21st birthday party, an inquest heard.\n\nDominic Hamlyn, 24, became unresponsive while swimming at the family home in Crundale, Kent, on 28 July.\n\nHis father, neurosurgeon Peter Hamlyn, said he had been performing the same \"party trick\" since he was a child.\n\nCoroner Scott Matthewson said the Cambridge graduate had a pre-existing heart condition and died from \"sudden adult death syndrome\".\n\nThe inquest heard Dominic had challenged a family friend to swim lengths of the pool underwater and had swum about two-and-a-half while holding his breath before he was seen to be not moving.\n\nMr Hamlyn told the inquest in Maidstone he gave his son emergency treatment while waiting for the paramedics to arrive.\n\nDominic was taken to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford but he died about 15 hours later.\n\nHis father, who treated boxer Michael Watson after his near-fatal brain injury during his Chris Eubank fight in 1991, said his son had been unresponsive for \"seconds rather than minutes\" before being pulled out of the pool.\n\nA medical student at the party initially performed CPR before Mr Hamlyn took over until paramedics arrived at about 03:45 GMT.\n\nDominic Hamlyn's father told the inquest he had performed the party trick since the age of 11\n\nPeter Hamlyn said his eldest son could usually swim four or five lengths underwater and would take a series of deep breaths before doing so.\n\n\"It was an entirely routine thing which I had seen him do since he was a child,\" Mr Hamlyn told the court.\n\nHe said his son had been an extremely fit athlete, played rugby, cricket and rowed for Downing College, Cambridge. The inquest also heard that alcohol was not relevant\n\nPathologist Dr Olaf Biedrzycki said he could have lost consciousness underwater caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain, but \"on the balance of probability\" it was \"an underlying heart condition\".\n\n\"If he wasn't trying to do more than he had done before, that is slightly more likely than shallow water blackout,\" he said.\n\nHe gave the cause of death as acute cardiac arrhythmia - sudden adult death syndrome.\n\nIn a statement, the 24-year-old's family said there was a \"lack of medical awareness\" about the syndrome.\n\n\"As a result, victim's families will continue to go unscreened and readily treatable warning signs missed.\"\n\n\"In life Dominic gave so much to others. It is up to us to ensure his legacy is not just a family immersed in our grief but that his loss brings awareness and change,\" they said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is no application form for the Royal Family. No interview, no appeal, few in the way of entrances or exits. It is that strange lottery, an accident of birth.\n\nBut to stay royal you have to do two things. Serve, and survive.\n\nYou have to do some service. Some of it ceremonial, and often dull. Some of it - if it involves celebrities or travel - less dull. A lot of it is woven into the civic life of the UK - openings, namings, lunches and dinners.\n\nYou have to survive. You have to aid - and certainly not threaten - the survival of the House of Windsor and the British monarchy.\n\nIt's not a bad life. It is a constrained life, often unchosen. In exchange for a pretty comfortable standard of living in perpetuity, you lose a lot of choice.\n\nBut you must do these two things if you want to remain a royal.\n\nAnd it's not clear that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex really want to do either.\n\nIn Sandringham later the players will receive a series of options, a range of possibilities.\n\nThese will be based on the stated aim of Prince Harry and Meghan that they want financial independence, to take paid employment, to spend a lot more time outside the UK, to exclude the media from their lives at their discretion and to continue at least in part, a royal life, service to the Queen.\n\nLeaving aside the heady brew of contradictions detailed elsewhere, the balancing of these different aims and demands is hard enough. Money is a big issue.\n\nBut so will be the status of the court of Prince Harry and Meghan that emerges. Will it be entirely independent of the palace, of the monarchy? Will the palace retain any veto on direction or projects for the couple?\n\nMuch, says one official, depends on how much royal work the prince and Meghan intend to do, and where.\n\nMeghan will be in Canada with her eight-month-old son Archie during Monday's meeting\n\nTo watch Prince Harry for not very long, as I have, is to observe a man who comes alive with crowds, with love, with those who need him.\n\nBut also to see a man entirely unhappy with his lot. A man who desperately wants to get away from cameras, observers, outsiders, looking and filming and exploiting him.\n\nNow the prince, who has worn the nation's uniform in combat and amongst death and injury, is openly sneered at across pages and feeds and memes. It is hardly a great national moment.\n\nPrince Harry has had a hard time, from when his mother was taken from him, a boy aged 12. It is important to remember also because it demolishes the Meghan Myth - that somehow she is the root of all today's turmoil.\n\nThe Meghan Myth is nonsense, with a generous sprinkling of spite, misogyny and some racism. The prince always wanted out. And together, with her brains and understanding and love, they think they have a way.\n\nMaybe a deal comes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. But what are not up for negotiation are service and survival. Both must be observed by Prince Harry and Meghan if they are to remain royals.\n\nPerhaps Prince Harry's allergy to media coverage can be managed at those royal events and duties he attends. Perhaps the couple will make themselves available to a significant and visible degree of service.\n\nBut the style of their departure from familial obligation, their declaration of independence last week, was so abrupt and so disrespectful.\n\nThe duke has gone beyond rebellious prince. Meghan, the enabler, is in Canada, with child and dogs. That degree of going rogue looks quite a lot like a direct threat to the survival of the monarchy.\n\nThat is why today's meeting is hard.\n\nMaybe the two sides can strike a deal over the next day, two days, invent a new structure that officials say might be emulated for a new royal generation.\n\nBut will the couple really agree to the restrictions that service and survival demand?\n\nA deal will probably be crafted - however the direction of travel is one way. Prince Harry and Meghan are looking for the exit.", "An appeal to raise £500,000 by the weekend has been launched to ensure Big Ben chimes when the UK leaves the EU at 23:00 GMT on 31 January.\n\nThe famous bell has only rung a few times since renovations began in 2017.\n\nThe PM's spokesman highlighted \"potential difficulties\" in using money raised from public donations.\n\nBut the Brexit Party's Richard Tice said it would be \"pretty feeble if we can't organise for a bell to chime at this historic moment\".\n\nStandUp4Brexit, the organisation behind the crowdfunder, says if it does not reach the target, the money will be donated to veterans' charity Help For Heroes.\n\nMore than £155,000 had been raised by Friday morning, with one of the largest single contributions coming from Tory MP Mark Francois, who donated £1,000.\n\nBusiness Secretary Andrea Leadsom has said she donated £10.\n\nAppealing for contributions, the group writes: \"However you may have voted in the referendum, this unique moment is unlikely ever to be repeated...\n\n\"If you would like to see it marked by the chiming of the most iconic timepiece in the world, please donate now.\"\n\nThe House of Commons Commission has estimated that getting the bell to ring during renovation works on the Palace of Westminster's Elizabeth Tower, which houses it, would cost between £350,000 and £500,000.\n\nThe body - a group of MPs and officials responsible for the day-to-day running of Parliament - said this was because of the costs of bringing back the chiming mechanism and installing a temporary floor, and delays to the conservation work.\n\nOn Wednesday the commission said the estimated costs could not be justified, and appeared to cast doubt on the idea that public donations should cover them.\n\nIn a statement, the body said using donations for the works would be an \"unprecedented approach\".\n\n\"Any novel form of funding would need to be consistent with principles of propriety and proper oversight of public expenditure,\" it added.\n\nOn Thursday, the PM's spokesman said: \"The House of Commons authorities have set out that there may be potential difficulties in accepting money from public donations.\n\n\"I think the PM's focus is on the events which he and the government are planning to mark 31 January. It's a significant moment in our history and we want to ensure that's properly recorded.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said there was a need to \"weigh up the costs\" involved in making Big Ben chime for Brexit.\n\n\"You are talking about £50,000 a bong,\" he added.\n\n\"We also have to bear in mind that the only people who will hear it will be those who live near or are visiting Westminster.\"\n\nBut Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice told the BBC's Today programme he did not believe the figure was correct, pointing out that the bell rang on New Year's Eve.\n\nHe also suggested that \"bureaucrats in the Houses of Parliament\" might stop the money being used, on the grounds that it would not be public money.\n\nHe added that if the target was not reached, a recording of Big Ben's chimes would be played through a loudspeaker at a Brexit event organised by Leave Means Leave group in London's Parliament Square.\n\nThe event gained \"provisional authorisation\" from the Office of the London Mayor on Wednesday.\n\nResponding to the call for donations, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg told the Commons: \"One shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.\"\n\n\"If people wish to pay for things, that should be considered as part of their public spiritedness, rather than thinking everything should fall on the hard-pressed taxpayer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky.\"\n\nHundreds of birds found dead on a road may have been killed trying to escape a bird of prey, police have said.\n\nMore than 200 starlings were found dead on Anglesey on 11 December.\n\nOne of the birds had a tag from Lithuania, 1,032 miles (1,662 km) from where it was found dead.\n\nNorth Wales Police's Rural Crime unit said investigations supported the theory they had hit the ground trying to avoid a predator.\n\nInitial post-mortem examinations by the Animal Plant and Health Agency suggested the starlings had died on impact with the road.\n\nOne had a ring on its left leg and was ringed in 2015 Ventes Ragas, Lithuania, making it four years old.\n\n\"It's highly likely the murmuration took avoiding action whilst airborne, from possibly a bird of prey with the rear of the group not pulling up in time and striking the ground,\" a tweet from the unit said.\n\nMystery had surrounded the death of the birds with one starling expert suggesting they could have been disorientated by sun reflected from a wet road.\n\nAt the time Dafydd Edwards, whose partner found the birds, said it was as if \"they had dropped down dead from the sky\".\n\nThe force said it was waiting for further toxicology results before a final theory could be confirmed.", "Epstein owned two islands in the US Virgin archipelago, including Little St James (pictured)\n\nFinancier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused girls as young as 12 on his private islands, the US Virgin Islands prosecutor has claimed.\n\nEpstein, who died in prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial for abuse dating back to 2005, is alleged to have trafficked girls as recently as 2018.\n\nThe lawsuit against his estate says the girls were \"lured and recruited\" to his Caribbean home and forced into sex.\n\nThis is the first lawsuit filed against Epstein in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe suit seeks to seize part of his $577m (£442m) fortune and his two private islands, Little Saint James and Great Saint James.\n\nThe two islands are estimated to be worth $86m.\n\n\"Epstein clearly used the Virgin Islands and his residence in the US Virgin Islands at Little Saint James as a way to be able to conceal and to be able to expand his activity here,\" US Virgin Islands prosecutor Denise N George says in the suit.\n\n\"Epstein and his associated trafficked underage girls to the Virgin Islands, held them captive, and sexually abused them, causing them grave physical, mental and emotional injury.\"\n\nJeffrey Epstein was charged with sexually abusing dozens of girls\n\nAs recently as July 2017, Epstein refused to allow an official to enter his Little Saint James island for routine monitoring of the registered sex offender, the lawsuit claims.\n\nHe is also accused of using fake visas to traffic women and girls, several of them aspiring models, in and out of the island territory and using a computerised database in order to track his victims' movements on his island.\n\nIn one incident, the suit claims that a 15-year-old girl attempted to swim away from Epstein's island after she was forced to engage in sex acts with Epstein and others.\n\nIn that case, she was captured and had her passport confiscated by Epstein, the suit claims.\n\nEpstein's legal permanent residence was registered to the Virgin Islands. In the days before his suicide in jail, he filed an updated version of his will to the US island territory.\n• None The case of Jeffrey Epstein - in 300 words", "Grenfell Tower families have raised concerns to the PM about a potential conflict of interest involving a member of the inquiry into the disaster.\n\nBenita Mehra will join chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick for the inquiry's second phase, which begins this year.\n\nThe Guardian has revealed Ms Mehra ran a charity that received funding linked to US firm Arconic, which supplied the cladding that helped the fire spread.\n\nSeventy-two people died during the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nShah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the fire, told the BBC: \"We have to look into it and see what the facts are and, if there's a conflict interest, I'm afraid she has to go. She has to be replaced.\n\n\"She's going to be sitting on panel judging and analysing things and we can't have any sort of conflict of interest.\"\n\nHe added that, in a meeting with bereaved families on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to \"listen, look into it and he'd come back to us\".\n\nA report - following the first phase of the public inquiry into the fire - found in October last year that the tower block's cladding did not comply with building regulations and was the \"principal\" reason for the fire's rapid and \"profoundly shocking\" spread.\n\nArconic said the grant was made by its charitable arm, the Arconic Foundation, which is \"an independently endowed and managed foundation\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"It's part of Arconic Foundation's mission to create access to these fields for girls and women all over the globe. The grant we awarded in 2017 to this particular UK association was purely on this basis.\"\n\nMs Mehra, a civil engineer, was appointed to the Grenfell Tower inquiry panel shortly before Christmas, replacing academic Professor Nabeel Hamdi.\n\nIt has since emerged that Ms Mehra is an immediate past president of the Women's Engineering Society (WES), which previously received funding from the Arconic Foundation for an apprentice conference.\n\nEarlier, Karim Mussilhy, vice-chairman of the survivors and bereaved group Grenfell United, told the Guardian: \"Her society has been supported by Arconic. She will look at it from the perspective of Arconic doing good things for the industry, that they are a great organisation. Her perspective will be affected.\"\n\nHowever, a spokeswoman for the inquiry said they do not believe Ms Mehra's former role with the WES will have any influence on her ability to be impartial.\n\n\"The consideration and appointment of panel members is a matter for the Cabinet Office,\" said the spokeswoman.\n\n\"The inquiry does not consider that Benita Mehra's former presidency of the Women's Engineering Society in any way affects her impartiality as a panel member.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"There are robust processes in place to ensure the Grenfell Tower Inquiry remains independent and that any potential conflicts of interest are properly considered and managed.\"\n\nThey added that the Arconic Foundation donated to a \"specific scheme which provides mentoring for women in engineering and is unrelated to the issues being considered by the inquiry\".\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister \"reaffirmed his commitment to getting to the truth of what happened, learn lessons and deliver justice for victims\".\n\nOn Thursday's meeting with Grenfell families, a No 10 spokesman added: \"During the meeting, they reflected on the phase one report of the Grenfell Inquiry, and looked ahead to the next stage.\"\n\nMs Mehra stepped in for the second phase of the inquiry after Prof Nabeel Hamdi, a housing expert, decided to quit because of the commitment involved in taking part in the inquiry.\n\nThe second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry begins on 27 January.\n\nAfter considering the night of the fire, during the first phase, the focus will switch to the refurbishment of the building and its role in the fire, as well as issues surrounding the building regulations.\n\nThouria Istephan, who specialises in construction regulations, will join Sir Martin and Ms Mehra on the panel.", "No Time To Die will be Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond\n\nThe producer of the James Bond films has ruled out making the character female after Daniel Craig's departure.\n\nNo Time To Die, which will be released in April, marks Craig's final outing as 007, and his replacement has not yet been announced.\n\n\"James Bond can be of any colour, but he is male,\" producer Barbara Broccoli told Variety.\n\n\"I believe we should be creating new characters for women - strong female characters.\n\n\"I'm not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that.\"\n\nThe forthcoming Bond film will see actress Lashana Lynch play a female 00 agent after Craig's Bond has left active service.\n\nLashana Lynch plays a new MI6 agent with a licence to kill\n\nLynch was seen in character for the first time in the trailer, reigniting the conversation about whether James Bond himself could be re-cast as a woman for the next film.\n\nBroccoli oversees the franchise with her half-brother Michael G Wilson. \"For better or worse, we are the custodians of this character,\" she said. \"We take that responsibility seriously.\"\n\nThe pair reflected on how the Craig era has altered the direction of the franchise.\n\nPierce Brosnan's final Bond film, 2002's Die Another Day, was a financial success but was criticised for pushing the boundaries of realism.\n\nThe film's plot involved a giant space laser and an invisible car.\n\n\"We got too fantastical,\" says Wilson, referring to the film. \"We had to come back to Earth.\"\n\nCraig's era has, in contrast, more closely resembled the original character Ian Fleming wrote.\n\nBroccoli says she is a \"custodian\" of the Bond character\n\nMartin Campbell, the director of GoldenEye and Casino Royale, admitted he was not convinced Craig was the correct choice to begin with, but came around with Broccoli's persuasion.\n\n\"To be honest, it took me a little while to see it,\" he said. \"Daniel's acting was terrific, but he wasn't a pretty-boy. Barbara was adamantly in favour of him.\"\n\nCraig had originally indicated he would not return to the series, but agreed to film one more after speaking with Broccoli.\n\n\"Barbara doesn't take no for an answer,\" said Craig. \"It's not in her wheelhouse.\n\n\"I had a nice long break, which I really needed. And then she was just persistent and came to me with some ideas, which we started formulating, and I got excited again.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "James Farrar says he is now considering taking legal action\n\nA union boss who used a megaphone close to two police officers' ears has been found not guilty of assaulting them.\n\nThere was no evidence taxi union chief James Farrar had committed a crime, Judge Philip Bartle QC said.\n\nPC Ann Spinks had told Mr Farrar's trial she was left with ringing in her ear \"like a fire alarm going off\" after a megaphone was purposely aimed at her.\n\nMr Farrar, 51, said the legal action against him was \"a corrupt and crude attempt... to break our union\".\n\nThe chairman of the United Private Drivers' branch of the IWGB union said the Metropolitan Police and Transport for London (TfL) had also tried to \"further disenfranchise precarious workers\" and he had instructed his lawyers to \"pursue the matter\".\n\nAt Southwark Crown Court, Judge Bartle instructed the jury to find Mr Farrar not guilty of the two counts of assault he faced.\n\nDismissing jurors, the judge said: \"The facts did not justify the offence in either case of assault by beating because the offence requires unlawful application of force.\"\n\nThe confrontation happened at a demonstration in Parliament Square, which the court heard was organised by Mr Farrar, against TfL plans to exempt black cabs from the congestion charge but enforce it for Uber and minicab drivers.\n\nMr Farrar, from Bordon, Hampshire, had been told not to use the megaphone at ear level before the alleged assault, his trial heard.\n\nPC Spinks told the jury the union boss had continued shouting through his megaphone, which was about a foot away from her head.\n\nShe said she told another officer at the time: \"[Mr Farrar] had blasted the megaphone into my left ear causing ringing, tinnitus, like a fire alarm going off in your ear.\"\n\n\"My ear at that time had gone bright red and was quite hot to touch,\" she added.\n\nAlthough no physical beating took place, the prosecution alleged Mr Farrar's actions amounted to an \"unlawful application of force\".\n\nNeither police officer suffered lasting hearing loss as a result, the court was told.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The report calls for a zero-tolerance approach to criminals\n\nThe number of people cautioned or convicted for carrying knives in England and Wales has reached record levels, Ministry of Justice data shows.\n\nThere were 14,135 offences in the year to September 2019 - the most since the data was first compiled in 2007.\n\nWhen possession offences involving other weapons were added, the total was almost 22,300 - the most since 2009.\n\nThis week it was reported Boris Johnson will lead a new cabinet committee looking at ways to tackle the crime.\n\nIt comes after data released by the Office for National Statistics in October revealed police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument hit a record high in the year to June - up 7% on the previous 12 months to 44,076.\n\nThe latest MoJ figures show that for most offenders (71%) this was their first crime of this kind.\n\nAccording to the report, offenders are now more likely to be handed an immediate jail sentence for knife and weapon offences, and for longer.\n\nIn the year to September, 38% of knife and offensive weapon offences resulted in an immediate custodial sentence compared with 23% for the same period in 2009.\n\nThe average length of prison sentences also rose over the same period, from six to eight months, the document said.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the record number of knife possession offences could reflect a greater use of police stop-and-search powers, as well as a rise in the number of people carrying knives.\n\nJonathan, pictured with his mother, Michelle, died after being stabbed on a north London high street in 2017\n\nJonathan McPhillips, 28, was killed after being stabbed in the chest on a north London high street in 2017.\n\nHis mother, Michelle, said he had been trying to protect a teenager he knew who was being attacked by a gang when he was stabbed near Islington Town Hall.\n\nThe father-of-two, known as JJ, died in hospital four days later, on 28 February.\n\nMichelle, who now campaigns against knife violence, said tougher sentences - including automatic jail sentences for carrying knives - and more police officers were needed to turn the tide against knife crime.\n\nYoung people also need to better understand the wide-reaching consequences of knife attacks, she says.\n\n\"They don't understand. It's not just the victim's family that are affected - it's the perpetrator's family, too. They feel guilty that they've given birth to a murderer, but no one gives birth to a murderer - murderers are created in our society.\"\n\nNo one has been convicted over Jonathan's killing.\n\nA case against a man accused of the fatal stabbing was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2018 after it decided there was not a realistic prospect of conviction.\n\nBut Michelle said she would continue to fight for justice for her son.\n\n\"I'm not going away. I won't fade into the background.\"\n\nBarnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said: \"We need to tackle the root causes and understand why those involved carry knives.\n\n\"Increasing the number and length of sentences can only be part of the solution, as this may not deter young people who are suffering a poverty of hope.\n\n\"The new government urgently needs to work with charities, education, health, youth workers, the criminal justice system and local communities to find long-term solutions, so vulnerable children have a reason to turn away from crime.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Times reported that Mr Johnson had ordered all Whitehall departments to take action on tackling crime.\n\nAccording to the paper, the prime minister told ministers every department should consider itself a criminal justice department as part of a drive to look at the \"complex causes of crime\", which would involve long-term reforms to improve health, social care, youth services and education.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said there was \"no evidence\" in the data the government's approach to tackling knife crime was having a positive effect.\n\n\"Rising knife crime undermines all the Tory claims on law and order. Unfortunately, until they tackle the crises they created through cuts to policing, schools, to mental health and drug services, there can be little confidence of any major improvement,\" the Labour frontbencher added.\n\nJustice minister Chris Philp said the government was recruiting 20,000 more police officers, replacing those lost over the last decade, was extending stop-and-search powers and ensuring the most violent offenders were kept in prison for longer.\n\n\"These figures should serve as a stark warning to those carrying knives - you are more likely to be jailed, and for longer, than at any point in the last decade,\" he added.", "Luke Williams died in Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil three days after the assault\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a man who died days after being attacked in a street.\n\nLuke Williams, 26, was left injured in the attack in Commerce Place in Aberaman, Rhondda Cynon Taff, at about 21:00 GMT on 16 December.\n\nHe was taken to the Prince Charles Hospital but died three days later.\n\nA 52-year-old man has now been charged with Mr Williams' murder and was due to appear before Cardiff Crown Court later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Sharon Beshenivsky had been a police officer for just nine months when she was killed\n\nA man wanted in connection with the murder of a PC shot dead during a robbery has been arrested in Pakistan.\n\nWest Yorkshire officer Sharon Beshenivsky was killed outside a travel agency in Bradford in 2005 while responding to an armed robbery call.\n\nPolice said Piran Dhitta Khan, 71, had been wanted by officers investigating the fatal raid.\n\nMr Khan appeared in court in Islamabad where extradition was discussed. He was remanded in custody until 29 January.\n\nPC Beshenivsky, 38, had only been an officer for nine months when she was shot in the chest on what was her youngest daughter Lydia's fourth birthday.\n\nShe was a mother of three and stepmother of two children. Three men were jailed for life for her murder, two for manslaughter.\n\nHer shift partner, PC Teresa Milburn, was also shot but survived.\n\nPC Beshenivsky's husband Paul said he was \"glad\" at the news of the arrest.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming. It's just a matter of getting closure within what happened in 2005,\" he said.\n\nPC Teresa Milburn was also injured in the robbery\n\nWest Yorkshire Police had previously said Mr Khan was believed to be on the run in Pakistan and was being sought.\n\nA £20,000 reward had been offered for information leading to his capture.\n\nDet Supt Mark Swift, said: \"I would like to thank the National Crime Agency in Pakistan and partners who have made this arrest possible.\n\n\"This is a major development in this long-running investigation and their assistance in this matter cannot be understated.\n\n\"We are continuing to liaise with partners in Pakistan to process Mr Khan's extradition with the intention of returning him to the UK to face court proceedings.\"\n\nMrs Beshenivsky died attending reports of a robbery at the travel agent in Bradford\n\nBrian Booth, chairman of West Yorkshire Police Federation, said: \"I know my colleagues within West Yorkshire are delighted to hear about the arrest of Piran Dhitta Khan and will now be watching closely the wheels of justice turning in this case and how this plays out.\n\n\"The murder of Sharon and the attempted murder of her colleague PC Teresa Milburn sent a shockwave not only through West Yorkshire but throughout the world.\n\n\"We still mourn the loss of Sharon and I wish to pass on my thanks, on behalf of my West Yorkshire colleagues, to the National Crime Agency in Pakistan for making this arrest possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has warned against blaming Labour's historic election defeat on its 2019 campaign alone.\n\nThe leadership candidate said the party had been losing votes in its heartlands for a \"long time\" and had lost four general elections in a row.\n\nPeople wanted \"fundamental change\" but did not trust Labour to deliver it, he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nHe vowed to restore trust in Labour \"as a force for good and a force for change\" and end factional infighting.\n\nBut he refused to say whether his politics were closer to Tony Blair or Jeremy Corbyn, saying: \"I want to lead a Labour Party that is trusted enough to bring about fundamental change.\n\n\"I don't need somebody else's name or badge to do that.\"\n\nThe BBC's political editor is aiming to interview all five Labour leadership hopefuls before the result is announced on 4 April.\n\nSir Keir, who has been endorsed by Britain's biggest union, Unison, said he could \"unify the party\" and \"forge a path to victory at the next general election\".\n\n\"We need to unify the party and I think I can do that,\" he said.\n\n\"We spent far too much time fighting ourselves and not fighting the Tories. Factions have been there in the Labour Party - they've got to go.\"\n\nSome on the left have blamed the election defeat on Sir Keir and others at the top of the party promoting another Brexit referendum.\n\nHe said: \"We were trying to bring together both sides whether they voted Leave, or they voted Remain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: I think I can restore that trust in Labour\n\n\"But I think the idea that Brexit was the only issue in this election is wrong, or even that in our heartlands it was the determining factor because actually if you look at what's happened in our heartlands we've been losing votes there for a long time.\"\n\nSpeaking at a pub in Somers Town, in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency, he said he believed Labour could win last year's election, even though the \"odds were against us\", but added: \"In the end people didn't have trust in us.\n\n\"Partly that was to do with the leadership, rightly or wrongly, partly it was to do with Brexit, anti-Semitism came up, and the overload of the manifesto.\"\n\nHe said Labour needed to \"restore that trust, but if we only look at the 2019 election we're missing the fact that we've lost four in a row\".\n\nHe said his priority, as a \"moral socialist\", would be tackling the \"gross inequality\" in British society and ensuring \"equal opportunity for everyone, wherever they come from and whatever their background\".\n\n\"I don't need someone else's name or badge.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer wouldn't today reveal whether he saw his ideas and his ambitions for the country as closer to Jeremy Corbyn or Tony Blair.\n\nInstead, when we sat down in a north London pub in his constituency, he wanted to make the valid argument that different leaders work in different eras, confronting different problems.\n\nTimes change, essentially, and the next leader, he believes, needs to be looking to the next set of issues and try to take the party by the scruff of the neck and make it into an effective opposition straight away - but with an eye on where the political battles will be in 2024.\n\nBut his obvious reluctance to plant a flag somewhere on Labour's wide political spectrum is perhaps representative of the problem that he faces in this race.\n\nSir Keir admitted he does have friends who are Tories, and that he received support from colleagues on the Conservative benches when his father died in 2018.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary said he judged people \"by what they say and who they are, rather than which party they're in\".\n\nThe five leadership contenders - Sir Keir, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Emily Thornberry, Jess Phillips and Lisa Nandy - are set to take part in a series of hustings around the country, starting in Liverpool on Saturday.\n\nThey need the support of 5% of local parties or at least three affiliates - two must be unions - by 14 February to make it on to the final ballot of party members.\n\nThe new leader will be announced on 4 April.\n\nIt comes as the grassroots pressure group Momentum endorsed Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\nThe group, which grew out of Jeremy Corbyn's 2015 leadership campaign, said it would mobilise thousands of supporters to elect Mrs Long-Bailey as the next Labour leader.\n\nMomentum polled members on whether it should officially back Mrs Long-Bailey, with 70% of those who took part endorsing the plan, and 52% backing Angela Rayner as her deputy.\n\nAround 14,700 people applied to register as temporary supporters of Labour to vote in the leadership contest, the party has said.\n\nThe 48-hour window to apply to be a temporary supporter closed at 17:00 GMT on Thursday. Applicants who meet the eligibility requirements will be able to vote in the leader and deputy leader elections.", "Freya was playing with a friend when the accident happened\n\nA four-year-old girl died after her bike helmet got caught on a branch, an inquest has heard.\n\nFreya Thorpe \"potentially slipped\" as she climbed a tree after setting her bike aside while playing with a friend in Upper Heyford, Bicester.\n\nThe court heard she was suspended from the branch and the helmet strap became \"tight against her throat\".\n\nCoroner Darren Salter ruled her death, on 8 September last year, was an accident.\n\nHer father Christopher Thorpe told Oxford Coroner's Court the family's lives had been \"utterly destroyed\" by his daughter's death.\n\nHe said he and his wife loved her \"more than life itself\".\n\nA man was giving Freya CPR when paramedics arrived at Carswell Circle in Upper Heyford\n\nThe court heard Freya had been playing with another girl of similar age near their homes when the accident happened.\n\nElisabeth McCall, who was passing by with a child, found Freya and dialled 999 but was unable to remove her from the tree, the court heard.\n\nParamedic Peter Elsmore said a man was performing CPR on her when he arrived.\n\nThe four-year-old died at the John Radcliffe Hospital two days later due to the brain injuries she sustained.\n\nThe court heard the area where the accident happened was a \"popular place for younger children to play\" and was surrounded by 12 houses.\n\nMr Thorpe said: \"I would like to thank anybody that tried to help my little girl.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sport should be part of everyone's life - Prince Harry\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has met young rugby players at his first public event since he and the Duchess of Sussex said they would step back from royal life.\n\nPrince Harry laughed and joked as he met children in Buckingham Palace's gardens ahead of the Rugby League World Cup 2021 draw, which he hosted.\n\nHe also met representatives of the 21 nations playing in the world cup.\n\nMeghan and the couple's son Archie are in Canada but the duke will reportedly stay in the UK for meetings next week.\n\nTalks involving the Queen, Prince Harry, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge to discuss the couple's future were held on Monday at the Queen's Sandringham estate.\n\nThe Queen released a statement agreeing to their wish to step back as senior royals, become financially independent and to split their time between the UK and Canada.\n\nOn Thursday, the prince appeared relaxed and at ease as he took part in the draw hosted at the palace - despite being questioned about his next move.\n\nBBC Sport journalist Shamoon Hafez, who was at the event, said Prince Harry gave \"a loud laugh\" when a reporter asked him how talks on his future were going.\n\nPrince Harry hosted the Rugby League World Cup draws for the men's, women's and wheelchair tournaments, as part of his role as patron of the Rugby Football League.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, Jon Dutton, the tournament's chief executive, praised the prince for being \"authentic\", \"engaged\" and taking his time to meet representatives from participating nations.\n\nThe tournament runs from 23 October to 27 November 2021 in 17 cities across England, with 16 men's, eight women's and eight wheelchair teams taking part.\n\nEngland will play Samoa in the opening match at St James' Park, Newcastle.\n\nThe prince met ambassadors for the global tournament in the gardens of the palace\n\nPrince Harry has enjoyed rugby since his school days and was a house games captain at Eton.\n\nThe duke was joined by ex-England player Jason Robinson and Dame Katherine Grainger for the draw in the throne room of Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"Not only do I continue to see sport actually changing lives, but it's saving lives as well,\" the prince said at the event.\n\n\"Whether it's rugby league or sport in general... it needs to be in everybody's life.\"\n\nJason Robinson and Dame Katherine Grainger joined Prince Harry in the throne room\n\nThe prince helped with the draw to determine the group stages of the tournament\n\nBefore the draw, he met two ambassadors for the global tournament - James Simpson, England and Leeds Rhinos wheelchair rugby league star, and Jodie Cunningham, a rugby league player in the Women's Super League for St Helens.\n\nHe then spoke to 12 young rugby players from St Vincent de Paul Catholic primary school, who are tag rugby champions in Westminster for the third year running.\n\nPrince Harry joked with the youngsters, telling them to look after the palace grass or he would get in trouble.\n\nPosing for a team picture, he teased them, saying: \"Some of you are really warm. Some of you haven't been running around.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry shakes children's hands in the gardens of Buckingham Palace\n\nKevin Sinfield, former rugby league England captain and Leeds Rhinos director of rugby, said on Thursday that Prince Harry had been \"fantastic for the sport\".\n\n\"His enthusiasm, his energy, his engagement with young people in particular, has been outstanding,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMr Sinfield said the Royal Family had helped to \"massively\" improve openness about mental health in rugby league, adding that Prince Harry had \"really driven this\".\n\nThe duke hosted the event as part of his role as patron of the Rugby Football League\n\nIn a video message posted on Instagram on Thursday the prince said he was \"proud\" to support the tournament's decision to adopt a mental fitness charter - a programme including workshops for 8,000 young players and their families.\n\n\"The perception in rugby league is that you need to be tough,\" he said. \"You can't show your feelings, you have to grin and bear it.\n\n\"But something like the mental fitness charter will help us make real progress in getting rid of the stigma associated with mental illness, and remind people that it's not just about being physically fit, but more importantly mentally strong.\"\n\nMr Sinfield added: \"To have a real figurehead involved in it who's championing it left right and centre is only going to do good things.\"\n\nFormer rugby league England captain Kevin Sinfield, pictured left in 2017, said Prince Harry has been \"fantastic for the sport\"\n\nThere has been speculation Prince Harry would travel to Canada after the draw but a source quoted by the Press Association said: \"The duke has some meetings here early next week.\"\n\nPrince Harry's brother, the Duke of Cambridge, did not mention the talks between senior royals during his first official engagement of the year, on a visit to Bradford with the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nMeghan flew to Canada to join eight-month-old Archie ahead of the meeting.\n\nOn Tuesday she visited a charity in Vancouver which campaigns for teenage girls living in poverty.\n\nJustice for Girls said Meghan visited to \"discuss climate justice for girls and the rights of indigenous peoples\".\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex discussed \"the power of young women's leadership\" on a visit in Vancouver, Justice for Girls said\n\nMeghan also visited the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre in Vancouver.\n\nThe centre posted a photograph on Facebook of the duchess with staff and visitors, with a caption which said they had talked about \"issues affecting women in the community\".\n\nIt came as a legal document was submitted to the High Court in London by the Mail on Sunday, outlining its response to Meghan's legal action over its publication of extracts from a private letter she wrote to her father.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Prince Harry launched the next leg of his Invictus Games, for wounded and injured service personnel and veterans, with an Instagram video.\n\nThe prince said he was looking forward to an \"amazing atmosphere\" in host city Dusseldorf, Germany, at the sixth edition of the tournament in 2022.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Nandy said socialists across the world had been \"beaten over and over\" by nationalists\n\nA Labour leadership candidate has claimed that the UK should \"look to Catalonia\" for lessons on how to defeat Scottish nationalism.\n\nLisa Nandy made the comments as she argued that a \"social justice agenda\" could beat \"divisive nationalism\".\n\nHundreds of people were hurt when the Spanish authorities used force to try to stop the disputed independence referendum in Catalonia in 2017.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said people would be \"mortified\" by Ms Nandy's remarks.\n\nAnd Scotland's only Labour MP, Ian Murray, warned all of the candidates in the party's leadership contest that they should not \"come up to Scotland and talk about things that you're not quite sure what you're talking about.\"\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil Show, Ms Nandy said that socialists across the world had been \"beaten over and over\" by nationalists.\n\nShe added: \"We should look outwards to other countries and other parts of the world where they have had to deal with divisive nationalism and seek to discover the lessons where, in these brief moments in history in places like Catalonia and Quebec, we have managed to go and beat narrow divisive nationalism with a social justice agenda.\"\n\nThe Wigan MP was challenged by Neil, who put it to her that the SNP's brand of nationalism is not \"hard right\" and instead goes \"hand in hand with social justice\".\n\nMs Nandy responded by arguing that it suits the SNP to keep the argument about independence going because it meant no one in Scotland was \"paying attention to their record, which is frankly appalling\".\n\nAnd she said she does not want another vote on independence as \"I think this country has had enough of referendums\".\n\nHundreds of people were hurt as Spanish police attempted to stop the Catalan referendum in 2017\n\nIn a referendum on 1 October 2017, which was declared illegal by Spain's Constitutional Court, about 90% of voters backed Catalan independence - although the vote was boycotted by most opponents of independence, and the turnout was only 43%.\n\nThe referendum was marred by violent clashes as police used batons and fired rubber bullets in an attempt to prevent it going ahead.\n\nNine pro-independence Catalan leaders were subsequently jailed for between nine and 13 years for their role in organising the vote, with the sentences sparking further violent clashes between police and protestors.\n\nIn a blog post published after the interview, Ms Nandy said that socialists in Catalonia have \"for years been peacefully resisting the advance of separatists there\".\n\nAnd she argued that \"recent indications suggest that their democratic efforts may well succeed\" and that there are \"hopeful signs their approach of socialism and solidarity - which stands in stark contrast to the unjustified violence we saw from the Spanish police operating under the instruction of Spain's then right wing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy - may yet win out.\"\n\nMs Nandy's remarks were raised in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, with Ms Sturgeon saying that she assumed the Labour MP \"hasn't paid attention to what has actually happened in Catalonia in recent times\".\n\nThe first minister added: \"If she had, she would surely not have suggested that there are any positive lessons at all to be learned from that.\n\n\"Perhaps Lisa Nandy should take the opportunity to clarify exactly what she did mean, recognise the concern that it has caused, and perhaps even apologise for that.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Murray indicated his displeasure at Ms Nandy's intervention as he formally launched his campaign for the party's deputy leadership.\n\nThe Edinburgh South MP told journalists: \"I say this to all leadership and deputy leadership candidates: Please don't come up to Scotland and talk about things that you're not quite sure what you're talking about.\"\n\nMs Nandy is one of five candidates who remain in the contest to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, with the winner being announced on 4 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Red Rebel Brigade group took part in the climate protest in Aberdeen.\n\nExtinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters.\n\nActivists arrived at the Altens base at about 06:30 and remained at the site until 19:30 in a bid to \"hold Shell to account\".\n\nThe group said the protest was part of its two-week long campaign targeting the fossil fuel industry.\n\nShell said it was addressing its emissions and helping customers to reduce theirs.\n\nAnd industry body Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) said climate change would not be solved by \"stunts\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion also had its purple boat at the site.\n\nThe protesters were also in Aberdeen city centre on Thursday afternoon, including at the Union Square shopping centre.\n\nA statement from Extinction Rebellion Scotland said: \"Today's successful protest marked the final day of 10 days of action focused on the fossil fuel industry, and in particular Shell's role in driving the climate crisis.\n\n\"Thirty activists spent 13 hours blockading the entrances to Shell HQ all day, sending a message that we won't take their wilful avoidance in the face of the climate emergency any more.\"\n\nThe group vowed to continue taking action until governments and industry respond \"sensibly and appropriately\" to the warnings from scientists and public figures, such as broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.\n\nIt concluded: \"Anything other than a rapid winding down of the fossil fuel industry is irresponsible and reckless.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the protesters, Michael, a 57-year-old management consultant, said: \"Governments and corporations like Shell all agree that my children are facing a catastrophic climate and ecological collapse yet are doing next to nothing to prevent this.\n\n\"I'm here today because as a parent I am ultimately responsible for the safety of my children whether today, tomorrow or in 30 years time.\"\n\nA Shell spokesman said: \"The heightened awareness of climate change that we have seen over recent months is a good thing.\n\n\"As a company, we agree that urgent action is needed. What will really accelerate change is effective policy, investment in technology innovation and deployment, and changing customer behaviour.\n\n\"As we move to a lower-carbon future, we are committed to playing our part, by addressing our own emissions and helping customers to reduce theirs - because we all have a role to play.\"\n\nOGUK communications director Gareth Wynn said: \"Climate change will be solved by practical actions not conspiracy theories and stunts.\n\n\"It's disappointing that this group is choosing to disrupt the normal working day of people in this industry, causing alarm rather than engage in meaningful discussion with key decision makers.\n\n\"Our industry is packed full of people with the engineering and environmental knowledge and skills to play a key part in reducing emissions and we are already taking action.\"\n\nCh Insp Davie Howieson, local area commander for Aberdeen South, said: \"Officers are currently in attendance at a peaceful protest in Wellington Road, Aberdeen, outside the Shell premises.\n\n\"The road was blocked from around 06:45, and road users are advised to avoid the area for the time being. We are liaising with both Shell and the protest organisers, Extinction Rebellion.\"\n\nStaff at oil company EnQuest in Aberdeen were sent home as a \"precautionary measure\" ahead of the protest walk through the city centre.\n• None Seven in court after drilling rig 'occupation'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens will be relegated from the Premiership unless they can prove compliance with Premiership Rugby's salary cap rules in the next few days.\n\nThey were deducted 35 points and fined £5.3m in November, having broken the cap for the past three seasons.\n\nHowever, there is widespread belief Saracens will once more struggle to get under the £7m limit this campaign.\n\nThe champions have been told to comply with the rules immediately or face relegation at the end of the season.\n\nBut the club say nothing has been finalised and they are still trying to work through a solution before the deadline.\n\nSaracens interim chief executive Edward Griffiths said: \"Discussions are continuing, and nothing has been finalised but our position remains the same.\n\n\"It is clearly in the interests of the league and English rugby that this matter is dealt with as soon as possible, and we are prepared to do whatever is reasonably required to draw that line.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Saracens posted on social media to confirm the club is \"engaged in constructive dialogue\" with Premiership Rugby.\n\nThe bosses of the top-flight clubs met at a Premiership Rugby board meeting in London on Tuesday.\n\nIt was decided that unless Saracens could prove their compliance, they would face the unprecedented step of dropping into the second tier.\n\nAlthough Griffiths revealed to the BBC earlier this month that the club may need to trim their squad to fit under the cap, no players have yet been released.\n\nThe contract season has already run for seven months - since the start of July - with all the money paid to players who have featured for the club during that period counting towards the cap.\n\nFurthermore, any money paid as compensation to players for cutting short contracts would also be included in the wage bill.\n\nPremiership Rugby announced last month a comprehensive review of the current salary cap regulations, conducted by former government minister Lord Myners.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and online; Live text on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAustralian Open organisers are confident the tournament will start and finish on time despite continuing health concerns over Melbourne's air quality from bushfires in the country.\n\nSome players have complained about having to play qualifying matches in smoky conditions.\n\n\"There is a lot of speculation about the Australian Open not happening, or starting later,\" said tournament director Craig Tiley.\n• None 'It boils my blood': GB's Broady furious about air quality email\n• None Gauff, 15, to face Venus Williams again in first round\n• None How to follow the Australian Open on BBC TV, radio & online\n\nSlovenia's Dalila Jakupovic had to be helped off court when she retired from her qualifying match on Tuesday because of the \"unhealthy\" air quality.\n\nBritish player Liam Broady said having to play his first-round qualifier on the same day \"made his blood boil\", adding he was \"gasping for air\" as he lost to Belarusian Ilya Ivashka.\n\nPeople in Melbourne were advised to stay indoors and keep pets inside on Tuesday.\n\nA number of players have also criticised the tournament for not postponing the matches, with American Noah Rubin saying he had \"blood and black stuff\" coming out of his nose following his match on Wednesday.\n\nTiley says he understands the anger of the players, adding he believes it stems from the confusion of seeing different measurements of air quality depending on the app or website they used.\n\nRubin, a former Wimbledon junior champion, also told BBC Sport he was unhappy with the communication from tournament officials, saying they were reluctant to explain the figures to the players.\n\n\"Air quality is a very complex and confusing issue which relates to a number of different factors,\" said Tiley.\n\n\"There are number of different air quality measures and it is made more complex by going on an app. There are different apps and websites which give you different readings.\n\n\"This is about trusting the medical advice and trusting the expertise and scientific advice of the people who analyse this every day.\n\n\"The safety, the wellbeing and the health of the players is the priority for us, as with our staff and our fans.\"\n\nTiley said the tournament decided to use a 'PM2.5 concentrate' measure to monitor the air quality levels after receiving advice from environmental and medical experts.\n\nA PM2.5 reading is being taken every four minutes at Melbourne Park. If the reading exceeds 200, Tiley said it would be deemed hazardous and play would be suspended.\n\nHe says no reading has exceeded the 200 mark while matches have been in progress at Melbourne Park. However, it did exceed that mark - rated as 'very unhealthy' - on Tuesday, when qualifying was delayed by an hour.\n\nIf play is suspended, the Tennis Australia chief executive says the tournament will continue indoors under the roofs on Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena and Melbourne Arena.\n\n\"We do have three indoor arenas in which we can compete. It may look differently but the tournament will happen,\" Tiley said.\n\n\"We are speculating if that would happen but if we had to work it out we would.\n\n\"We don't expect that to happen because we haven't yet seen anywhere in the world where there has been above that 200 on the PM2.5 concentrate consecutively over two weeks.\"\n\nThe first Grand Slam of the year gets under way on Monday.\n\nHear more from Craig Tiley on 5 live Sport from 19:00 GMT on Thursday\n• None What is being done to fight the bushfires?", "British Airways' owner IAG has filed a complaint to the EU arguing Flybe's rescue breaches state aid rules.\n\nThe move comes amid a growing backlash against the government's plan to defer some of Flybe's air passenger duty payments, thought to top £100m.\n\nEasyJet and Ryanair said taxpayer funds should not be used to save a rival.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's proposal to cut Air Passenger Duty (APD), was attacked by the rail industry's trade body and climate campaign groups.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said: \"Taxpayers should not be used to bail out individual companies, especially when they are backed by well-funded businesses.\"\n\nWhile Ryanair said it had called for \"more robust and frequent stress tests on financially weak airlines and tour operators so the taxpayer does not have to bail them out\".\n\nThe government has said the review of the tax will be consistent with its zero-carbon targets.\n\nHowever, in a tweet, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: \"Addressing Flybe problems by reducing APD on all domestic flights is utterly inconsistent with any serious commitment to tackle the Climate Crisis. Domestic flights need to be reduced, not made cheaper.\"\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, also said any review of APD \"that encourages more people to fly domestically would limit efforts to tackle the climate crisis\".\n\nWillie Walsh, the chief executive of the owner of British Airways, said government money should not have been used\n\nAhead of filing the state aid complaint, Willie Walsh, the outgoing chief executive of IAG, wrote to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, criticising the government's involvement in its rescue.\n\nIn a letter, Mr Walsh said: \"Prior to the acquisition of Flybe by the consortium which includes Virgin/Delta, Flybe argued for tax payers to fund its operations by subsidising regional routes.\n\n\"Virgin/Delta now want the taxpayer to pick up the tab for their mismanagement of the airline. This is a blatant misuse of public funds.\n\n\"Flybe's precarious situation makes a mockery of the promises the airline, its shareholders and Heathrow have made about the expansion of regional flights if a third runway is built.\"\n\nBut Downing Street has said the government is \"fully compliant\" with state aid rules. The Prime Minister's spokesman said \"there has been no state aid to Flybe,\" adding that \"any future funding will be made on strictly commercial terms.\"\n\nBritish Airways' owner IAG's decision to make a state-aid complaint to the European Commission underlines its determination to shine a light on - and if possible, overturn - the government's assistance to Flybe.\n\nMinisters have not published the details of the arrangement, but it is understood to include a \"time-to-pay\" arrangement for the company's airline passenger duty liabilities.\n\nThese arrangements are common for companies that are struggling to pay their tax, but unusual when it comes to duty payments.\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh's letter to Grant Shapps points out that Flybe has wealthy backers - Virgin Atlantic is a big shareholder, and one of Virgin's main shareholders in turn is Delta Air Lines, one of the biggest and most profitable airlines in the world. These are not the kind of companies, Mr Walsh argues, that should rely on taxpayer support to keep one of their investments trading.\n\nHis intervention should, of course, be seen in the light of the long and bitter commercial rivalry between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. The latter's position at Heathrow is bolstered by Flybe's feed of domestic traffic, and BA would not be unhappy if that stream of traffic was choked off.\n\nThree Cabinet ministers - Mr Shapps, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom and Chancellor Sajid Javid signed off on the deal that will keep Flybe operating.\n\nAlthough the terms of the direct assistance were not disclosed, they are understood to include forbearance on Flybe's Air Passenger Duty (APD) payments.\n\nMr Shapps said the move was necessary to protect key routes and any rule changes would apply to all carriers.\n\n\"The actions we have taken will support and enhance regional connectivity across the UK, so local communities have the domestic transport connections they rely on,\" he said.\n\n\"Any changes implemented as a result of our reviews of air passenger duty and regional connectivity will apply to all airlines in the competitive aviation market.\"\n\nState aid is assistance given by the government to companies or other organisations that has the potential to distort market competition.\n\nThe aid can be in the form of direct cash grants or indirect aid - such as preferential borrowing rates or tax credits.\n\nUnder EU rules, member-state governments are allowed to provide state aid only with approval from the European Commission.\n\nFor example, in 2015 the UK government submitted plans to provide a subsidy to Drax power station to convert one of its units from coal to biomass fuel. Following an investigation, the commission ruled in favour of the scheme.\n\nBut there are exceptions to the rules. For example, aid worth less than 200,000 euros (£175,000) over three years is exempt.\n\nEven though Brexit is due to happen on 31 January, the UK will continue to follow EU state aid rules during the 11-month transition period that follows.\n\nIAG believes the UK government's proposal would amount to unlawful state aid as it would impact other airlines operating the same routes as Flybe, but the government disagrees.\n\nAirlines collect the duty from passengers as part of their ticket price, and then hand it over to HMRC.\n\nIt is understood Flybe could be given up to three months' breathing space to pay about £100m worth of duty.\n\nThe ministers have also agreed to review air passenger duties on domestic flights in a move attacked by environmental campaigners.\n\nMs Leadsom defended the decision to intervene, saying that Flybe was a \"viable business\".\n\nShe also said Flybe's situation was different to that faced by travel firm Thomas Cook, which collapsed last year. \"The difference... between Flybe and Thomas Cook was that in the case of Thomas Cook it had huge amounts of debt, and any taxpayer's money would simply be throwing good money after bad.\"\n\nFlybe's owners - Virgin Atlantic, Cyrus Capital and Stobart Air - will inject about £30m of new money.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Walsh pointed out that Virgin is part-owned by US carrier Delta Air Lines, which is one of the world's largest and most profitable airlines.\n\nHe argues that Virgin and Delta together have the resources to rescue Flybe, and they should not be asking for taxpayer support. Mr Walsh says Flybe has been mismanaged.\n\nFlybe is already in receipt of some public money for its important Newquay-Heathrow route, which it operates under a \"public service obligation\" contract with the government.\n\nMr Walsh said that British Airways had indicated its willingness to operate that route without assistance - in the summer only - but was excluded because of the Flybe deal.\n\nHe warned the government that Flybe's Heathrow operations could, in time, be diverted to long-haul routes - which would not be in line with its policy of promoting regional connections to London.\n\nBut Rob Griggs, director of policy at Airlines UK, the industry trade body, defended the deal. He said giving extra time to Flybe to pay APD was not the same as a direct injection of public funds.\n\nThe British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), a union, also welcomed the news.\n\n\"This is good news for 2,400 Flybe staff whose jobs are secured and regional communities who would have lost their air connectivity without Flybe,\" said Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton.\n\nLucien Farrell, the chairman of Connect Airways - which owns Flybe - said the group had agreed to \"keep Flybe flying with additional funding alongside government initiatives\".\n\n\"We are very encouraged with recent developments, especially the government's recognition of the importance of Flybe to communities and businesses across the UK and the desire to strengthen regional connectivity,\" he said.", "A promise to do more to protect the soil will form part of a vision for the UK farm industry being unveiled by the government later.\n\nMinisters have accepted that farmers need incentives to farm in a way that leaves a healthy soil for future generations.\n\nSoil protection has become a core issue of the Agriculture Bill that is returning to Parliament.\n\nThere is three times more carbon held in soil than in the atmosphere.\n\nBut much has been lost thanks to intensive farming and deforestation.\n\nThat is fuelling climate change and compromising attempts to feed the world.\n\nUntil recently soil has been a Cinderella subject, even though human life depends on the thin few inches above the rock.\n\nIn its bill the government will promise to reward British farmers who protect the soil.\n\nIt is part of a radical shift in the grant system - previously announced – to move subsidies away from EU Common Agricultural Policy which basically pays farmers for owning land.\n\nInstead in post-Brexit Britain they will be rewarded for providing services for society like clean air, clean and plentiful water, flood protection and thriving wildlife.\n\nThe grant changes will be phased in over seven years.\n\nAlready there is disquiet from farmers and environmentalists alike that the government has not set in law its promise that UK food standards will not be lowered in any post-Brexit deal with the US.\n\nMinette Batters from the NFU said: “This bill is one of the most significant pieces of legislation for farmers in England for over 70 years.\n\n“However, farmers across the country will still want to see legislation underpinning government assurances that they won't allow imports of food produced to standards that would be illegal here.\n\n“We'll continue to press the government to introduce a standards commission as a matter of priority to oversee and advise on future food trade policy and negotiations.”\n\nCPRE, the countryside charity, welcomed what it called a generational opportunity to change the way England farms for the better.\n\nIt said: “This bill represents a radical rethink of farming practice and, most importantly, finally starts to recognise the need to regenerate soil - the fundamental building block of our entire agricultural system.\"\n\nAlthough the bill has been applauded, the policies are still in embryonic stage, and as details emerge conflicts are sure to arise.", "The number of UK pubs and bars increased for the first time in a decade during 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe total number rose by 315, or 0.8%, last year to 39,130, driven by food sales.\n\nThe ONS said that the first increase seen since the financial crisis also saw a boost for smaller pubs.\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) said it \"cautiously welcomed\" the news.\n\nAccording to ONS data, the number of smaller venues with fewer than 10 employees increased by 85 in 2019.\n\nThat follows on from more than 15 years of closures.\n\nHigh Stickland, senior statistician at the ONS, said: \"While smaller pubs have been struggling to survive in recent years, bigger pubs have been growing in number.\n\n\"We'll have to wait to see if this marks a revival for smaller 'locals'.\"\n\nThe ONS suggested that the overall boost was down to \"changing consumer habits\".\n\nNew data shows that pubs and bars now employ more people to serve food, rather than drinks.\n\nIn 2003, roughly four in 10 employees in the pub industry were bar workers, with about three working in the kitchen.\n\nSome 457,000 people now work in pubs and bars across the UK, with food staff making up 43.8% of employees in the sector.\n\nPeople are now spending more of their disposable income on eating out, rather than going for a pint.\n\nMeanwhile, overall consumption of alcohol has fallen by about 16% since 2004, according to the charity Alcohol Change UK.\n\nDespite this, and significant numbers of closures seen in recent years, the number of jobs added in the industry has generally been increasing.\n\nThere were 7,000 more jobs in the sector in 2019 compared with 2018, an increase of 1.6%.\n\nThe data received a mixed response from those in the trade.\n\nA spokesperson for the BBPA said that association \"cautiously welcomed any good news for pubs\".\n\nIt added that its own data has consistently shown a higher total number of pubs in the UK, and a higher number of closures.\n\nIt also said it hoped the upcoming Budget would see further respite for pubs and bars.\n\n\"Policy makers have a great opportunity in the March Budget to help pubs flourish, by easing the significant tax pressures they face from beer duty and business rates\", it said.\n\nNik Antona, national chairman of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), also called for a review of business rates.\n\n\"Unfortunately pubs continue to close across the country, particularly in small or rural communities. This means the loss of the social, cultural and economic benefits that come with a well-run local.\n\n\"To ensure pubs survive and thrive, they need a fair tax system and stability going forward. Camra continues to call on the Government for a review of the business rates system, as was promised in the Conservative general election manifesto.\"\n\nRecent analysis by the BBC's Shared Data Unit showed that councils are losing out on millions of pounds of potential business rates income because of a tax relief on empty properties.\n\nThe Treasury said it would announce a review of business rates \"in due course\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man in his 40s has died after being hit by a car on one of the main routes into Swansea.\n\nEmergency services were called to the A483 Fabian Way near Swansea just after 07:30 GMT on Thursday.\n\nPolice said the pedestrian had been near the \"Amazon\" roundabout when there was a collision with a white Mini Countryman vehicle.\n\nThe road was closed between junction 42 of the M4 and the Jersey Marine roundabout for about five hours.\n\nIt led to widespread delays, with motorists told to avoid the area.\n\nSouth Wales Police has appealed for any witnesses to the incident to come forward, especially any who may have dash-cam footage of what happened.\n\nThe road has now fully re-opened in both directions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Stuart Outten suffered several injuries including six wounds to the head\n\nA police officer was fighting to \"stay alive\" when he was attacked with a machete during a routine stop in east London, a court has heard.\n\nPC Stuart Outten, 29, was stabbed in the head as he tried to arrest Muhammad Rodwan in Leyton on 7 August last year.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he had sent a text earlier that night saying he was \"off to cause trouble\".\n\nMr Rodwan, 56, of Luton, admits striking the PC but denies attempted murder, claiming it was self defence.\n\nPC Outten suffered six wounds to the head, skull fractures, injuries to the arm and broken fingers, the jury has been told.\n\nGiving evidence, the Met PC told the court he was \"on the lookout\" for traffic offences during a night shift when he came across a \"suspicious\" white van which he thought could be without insurance.\n\nPC Outten said Mr Rodwan had appeared \"extremely angry\" at being stopped and tried to make off but he used his leg to stop the 56-year-old closing the van door.\n\n\"I tried to say 'you're not leaving' and then the defendant punched me twice to the face,\" he said.\n\nThe officer told the jury he \"grabbed\" Mr Rodwan by the belt, neck and dreadlocks \"to incapacitate him\" but the 56-year-old lunged into the van.\n\nThe officer said he then felt \"something sharp being snapped against my head\" and realised he was being attacked with a 2ft (60cm) long rusty machete.\n\nPC Outten said he then stumbled away and \"gave a quick command of 'police with Taser',\" before he fired it.\n\nWhen he was asked why he fired, the officer replied: \"To stop myself being attacked with a machete and save my own life.\"\n\nEarlier that night, he had sent a text to his girlfriend, who is also a police officer saying: \"Right I'm off to cause trouble. Stay safe and I will chat when I can.\"\n\nDefence barrister Michael Turner said he was \"sure you will say it is an ironic comment in a sense after what happened that night\".\n\nThe PC said he had been \"on the lookout\" for traffic offences when he came across a \"suspicious\" white van\n\nJurors were also shown a video of the attack taken from mobile phone footage and officers' bodycams during which Mr Rodwan could be heard before he was Tasered by the heavily bleeding officer.\n\nMr Rodwan denies attempted murder, an alternative of wounding with intent, and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Stacey reached the hospital, she found her sister Lucy (pictured) unrecognisable\n\nStacey Jordan still wonders whether she could have done more to save her sister.\n\nLucy White was just 24 when she died in hospital in summer 2018 after a line of cocaine triggered a heart attack and then a coma.\n\nLucy, a student from Bristol, had been introduced to cocaine by her mother, a long-term drug user - but Stacey had managed to get Lucy clean, before she relapsed, a few months before her death.\n\nWhen Stacey got to the hospital she found her sister, almost unrecognisable.\n\n\"I should have been more strict,\" she says 18-months on. \"You look back now and you're like, 'She was hiding from me. She was avoiding me for a reason.'\n\n\"But could I see it? Maybe not. Did I want to see it? That's maybe the question.\"\n\nFigures compiled for BBC News by NHS Digital show Lucy's story is far from unusual, with record levels of cocaine use putting increasing pressure on the NHS in England.\n\nLewis, a 25-year-old from the Midlands, also suffered a heart attack after a line of cocaine.\n\n\"My friend's a nurse and she was taking my pulse and she's whispering, 'Call an ambulance.' My heart is pounding out of my chest.\"\n\nLewis was spending up to £300 a week on cocaine\n\nHe had taken the drug numerous times before but on this occasion it reacted badly with his system and he needed medical treatment.\n\nHe recovered fully and his cocaine use, which he admits once used to cost him £200 to £300 a week, has dramatically reduced in the past year.\n\n\"It wasn't making me happy at all,\" says Lewis of his drug habit. \"It's the worst paranoia I've had in my life.\n\n\"I'd be sat by my window, a car would pull up and I'd be looking over my shoulder. I'd fear my girlfriend was cheating on me.\"\n\nDealers are now marketing cocaine, once seen as mainly for rich people, more widely\n\nThe increased need for the NHS to treat cocaine users comes as the number of people dying after taking the drug hits record levels.\n\nSince 2015, cocaine-related deaths have tripled in Scotland and doubled in England and Wales.\n\nCocaine in Britain is purer, more available and consumed more widely than ever before.\n\nFormer professional footballer Colin McNair says addiction destroyed his career\n\n\"From the age of 15 we've supported people to try to help them address their cocaine use,\" says Eddie Buggy, a drugs worker in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, with the drug charity Addaction.\n\n\"It's easier to buy than alcohol, you don't have to go into a shop.\n\n\"You can use digital platforms to get it which young people are very familiar with - Snapchat, Whatsapp, stuff like that.\"\n\nThe increased availability is driven in part by dealers marketing more widely a drug once seen as mainly for rich people.\n\nSeveral strands with different levels of purity are now sold, costing anything from £100 a gram down to as little as £30 a gram.\n\nThe sheer amount of cocaine in Lanarkshire, indeed across Scotland, has led to Hamilton Academical Football Club taking a leading role in warning teenagers of the dangers of drug abuse.\n\nThe club's chief executive, Colin McGowan, himself a former drug and alcohol addict, has set up an anti-addiction charity, which goes into local schools educating youngsters.\n\nAs part of his talk to teenagers, Colin McNair shows the effect on his body of two decades of drug use\n\nOn a recent Friday, Colin gave a talk at Our Lady's High School in Motherwell accompanied by Colin McNair, a former professional footballer with Hearts, Falkirk and Motherwell whose life spiralled out of control and ended up in prison after he took a line of cocaine in his early 20s.\n\n\"People who are not into drugs can't understand it, 'You actually threw all that away?'\" he says.\n\n\"I didn't throw it away. When you are caught up in addiction, your choices are taken from you.\n\n\"That's how strong and powerful cocaine is.\"", "Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding have hosted the show since 2017\n\nSandi Toksvig is to leave The Great British Bake Off after three years.\n\nThe presenter said she wanted to focus on other work commitments. \"As my waistline will testify, Bake Off is an all-consuming show,\" Toksvig tweeted.\n\n\"Bake Off is a wonderful programme which has already proved it can happily withstand a change of hosting personnel,\" she added.\n\nHer co-host Noel Fielding said he would miss her, but knew \"we were lucky to have her for 3 amazing years\".\n\nThe pair took over presenting duties when the programme moved to Channel 4 in 2017.\n\nPrior to that, the show aired on the BBC and was fronted by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, known as Mel and Sue.\n\nToksvig will still appear on the next series of The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer, broadcast in the spring.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Bake Off This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by British Bake Off\n\nWriting on Twitter, Fielding said he now feels like \"Tom without Jerry\" and \"Mick without a Keef\".\n\nOn Instagram, he added: \"Good double acts are a rare and magical beast! I'm gonna miss Sandi comically and personally but I also know we were lucky to have her for 3 amazing years! Wish you all the best in your next adventures x x love Noel x\"\n\nChannel 4's director of programmes Ian Katz said: \"We are immensely grateful for Sandi's contribution to the show.\n\n\"We will miss her warmth and wit, not to mention her endless willingness to be the butt of jokes about being the least tall person in the Bake Off tent.\"\n\nHe added that the channel have other shows in development with Toksvig, \"none of which involve cake\".\n\nBake Off judge Prue Leith tweeted: \"I have absolutely loved working with Sandi, she's been a brilliant host and enormous fun and I am in awe of how hard she works juggling so many different projects. We shall be lifelong friends way beyond the tent.\"\n\nLeith joined the show in the same year as Toksvig and Fielding, with only Paul Hollywood staying on from the previous BBC line-up.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Hollywood said: \"I will miss Sandi, she has done an amazing job in the tent, much loved by all who met her. I wish Sandi continued success in all that she does XX.\"\n\n\"When stepping down from a job it is quite common for people to say they are doing so in order to spend more time with their family. Unusually I am departing from the Great British Bake Off so I can spend more time with my other work.\n\n\"As my waistline will testify, Bake Off is an all-consuming show. Spending time with Prue, Paul and Noel has been one of the great pleasures of my life. These are friendships which I know will continue beyond the confines of television.\n\n\"Bake Off is a wonderful programme which has already proved it can happily withstand a change of hosting personnel. The reason for that, of course, is that the true stars of the show are the bakers themselves. I wish everyone well.\"\n\nThe show's fans made clear that they will be sorry to see Toksvig go.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Great British Bake Off first aired on BBC Two in 2010, with Mel and Sue hosting and Mary Berry as one of the judges alongside Hollywood.\n\nIt became increasingly popular with viewers over several years and was promoted to BBC One in 2014.\n\nThe BBC's Bake Off line-up L-R: Paul Hollywood, Sue Perkins, Mary Berry and Mel Giedroyc\n\nThe show remained there for another two years before Channel 4 outbid the BBC for the rights to broadcast it.\n\nThe first episode to air on Channel 4 gave the network one of the biggest audiences in its history.\n\nThe most recent series, broadcast last autumn, attracted about 9 million viewers per episode, with a consolidated audience of 9.7 million tuning in for the final.\n\nThe last episode to be broadcast on BBC One, which saw Candice Brown named the winner, was watched by about 14 million people.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Australians are celebrating the arrival of much-needed rain in parts of the nation's bushfire-ravaged south-east.\n\nThough more wet weather is needed to end the fires, the rain has brought a welcome reprieve to many areas. Other parts, however, have not been as lucky.\n\nStorms have also helped disperse smoke in Melbourne, which has endured hazardous air quality in recent days.", "The 10 years to the end of 2019 have been confirmed as the warmest decade on record by three global agencies.\n\nAccording to Nasa, Noaa and the UK Met Office, last year was the second warmest in a record dating back to 1850.\n\nThe past five years were the hottest in the 170-year series, with the average of each one more than 1C warmer than pre-industrial.\n\nThe Met Office says that 2020 is likely to continue this warming trend.\n\n2016 remains the warmest year on record, when temperatures were boosted by the El Niño weather phenomenon.\n\nToday's data doesn't come as a huge surprise, with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) signalling at the start of last December that 2019 likely marked the end of the warmest decade on record.\n\nThe Met Office, which is involved in producing the HadCRUT4 temperature data, says that 2019 was 1.05C above the average for the period from 1850-1900.\n\nLast year saw two major heat waves hit Europe in June and July, with a new national record of 46C set in France on 28 June. New records were also set in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and in the UK at 38.7C.\n\nIn Australia, the mean summer temperature was the highest on record by almost a degree.\n\nAs temperatures continue to rise, efforts to contain heating gases continue to falter as science collides with politics.\n\nThe UK, for instance, fought hard to host the annual UN climate conference at the end of the year where all nations will be urged towards deeper emissions cuts.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson says he wants the UK to lead the world on climate change.\n\nBut in the first test of his new administration he's already being accused of abandoning his principles.\n\nHe's promising to consider cutting the £13 tax on flights in the UK because jobs and connectivity are at stake.\n\nThis contradicts his official advice from the Climate Change Committee which says people need to fly less, so the cost of flying should go up, not down.\n\nThis sort of uncomfortable trade-off will cause ruffles around the world in coming decades as climate change presents an increasing challenge to politics-as-usual.\n\nWhile the three different research agencies all have slightly different figures for the past 12 months, the WMO has carried out an analysis that uses additional data from the Copernicus climate change service and the Japan Meteorological Agency.\n\nThey conclude that in 2019, the world was 1.1C warmer than in the pre-industrial period.\n\nA Nasa graphic showing the differences between 2019 global temperatures and the long-term average\n\n\"Our collective global temperature figures agree that 2019 joins the other years from 2015 as the five warmest years on record,\" said Dr Colin Morice, from the Met Office Hadley Centre.\n\n\"Each decade from the 1980s has been successively warmer than all the decades that came before. 2019 concludes the warmest 'cardinal' decade (those spanning years ending 0-9) in records that stretch back to the mid-19th century.\"\n\nResearchers say carbon emissions from human activities are the main cause of the sustained temperature rise seen in recent years.\n\n\"Carbon dioxide levels are at the highest that we've ever recorded in our atmosphere, and there is a definite connection between the amount of CO2 and the temperature,\" said Prof Liz Bentley from the Royal Meteorological Society.\n\n\"We are seeing the highest global temperatures in the last decade and we will see more of that. As the CO2 continues to grow, we'll see global temperatures increasing.\"\n\nHaving the long term data from three different agencies with different methodologies gives them confidence in the accuracy of their findings.\n\n\"While we know that human activities are causing the globe to warm, it is important to measure this warming as accurately as possible,\" said Prof Tim Osborn, from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, which is involved in gathering the data.\n\n\"We are confident that the world has warmed by about 1C since the late nineteenth century because different methods of working out the global temperature give very similar results.\"\n\nFirefighters in Spain battle blazes in 2019 during the European heatwave\n\nWhile the figures released by the Met Office, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) and Nasa show the temperature recorded on the land and sea surfaces, the amount of warming going into the deeper ocean is also at record levels.\n\nData published this week showed that a record amount of heat went into the oceans last year. This was the biggest increase in the last decade.\n\nWhile natural variability means that scientists don't expect new temperature records year-on-year, the Met Office is forecasting that 2020 will also be very hot, with the global average temperature estimated to be 1.1C above pre-industrial levels. This suggests it will be a warmer year than the one just passed.", "The US and China have finally - after almost two years of hostilities - signed a \"phase one\" deal. But it only covers the easier aspects of their difficult relationship, and only removes some of the tariffs.\n\nThe biggest hurdles are still to come, and could stand in the way of a second phase agreement - one that would in theory remove all of the tariffs, bringing some much needed relief for the global economy, which is in the interests of all of us.\n\nWhat's not in the phase one deal tells us where the flashpoints are in the US-China relationship - and what could derail the second round of negotiations.\n\nSo what didn't make it into the agreement?\n\nThe deal doesn't address Beijing's ambitious 'Made in China 2025' programme, which is designed to help Chinese companies excel and become world-class leaders in emerging technologies. It also doesn't address the subsidies that China gives its state-owned enterprises, says Paul Triolo of the Eurasia Group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Beijing planning with its \"Made in China 2025\" programme?\n\nWashington sees \"Made in China 2025\" as a direct threat to its supremacy in tech, saying that Chinese companies have only caught up with American ones - at times outpacing them - because they get unfair and outsized assistance from the Chinese government in the form of subsidies.\n\nThese were amongst the thorniest issues the Trump administration had with China, but they've been pushed to the phase two process Mr Triolo says, along with \"market access in sectors such as cloud services, cyber security and data governance issues\".\n\nBeijing maintains it doesn't unfairly subsidise these industries or companies, but the reality is China isn't going to give up dominance in these sectors so easily.\n\nThe trade deal won't reduce US pressure on Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant that has been caught in the crossfire of the trade war, with the US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin saying the company isn't a \"chess piece\" in the negotiations.\n\nThat will disappoint both Huawei and the Chinese government which have been furious over how Washington has linked the company's fate to the relationship between the US and China.\n\nThe Chinese firm became a symbol of the US-China tech rivalry and Washington has been lobbying its allies - including the UK - to not use Huawei's 5G technology services in critical communications infrastructure, alleging it could be used by Beijing to spy on customers. Huawei has denied this and had hoped that if the US-China relationship improved, its fortunes would too.\n\nAnalysts tell me that's unlikely. With the signing of this agreement, there's a clear separation between national security and trade, and Huawei and other Chinese companies should still expect the pressure on them to continue. So expect more American export bans not just on Huawei, but on several more Chinese companies and increased US scrutiny on Chinese investments abroad.\n\nWhile the agreement does talk about opening up market access for financial services firms, some analysts have said it doesn't go far enough to ensure they have equal market access.\n\nChina had already publicly said that it was opening up its financial services sector, and has recently allowed foreign companies to have a bigger stake in Chinese firms. But Beijing isn't giving up much by doing that, because China's financial services sector is now dominated by domestic digital payment players.\n\nEven if US payment firms do have greater market access to the Chinese market, it's hard to see how they might be able to compete. Whether China sincerely applies its commitments to treat foreign and domestic firms equally will also be watched closely by the Trump administration, and this could be a potential area where the rapprochement could be derailed.\n\nThe deal has a dispute resolution mechanism in place, which basically requires China - once a complaint has been made - to begin consultations with the US, with the onus on Beijing to resolve it.\n\nBut what the deal leaves out is \"how the US is going to monitor enforcement,\" says Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute.\n\n\"American firms don't like to report intellectual property theft,\" he told me.\"So in the first instance what mechanism is the US using to gather information on this. All that is in the document is consultations.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the US-China trade war has changed the world\n\nThe deal also leaves out how the two sides will interpret these key aspects of the agreement. Already, there are signs of differences. Chinese state media has suggested the dispute resolution mechanism isn't dictated by the US - not entirely in keeping with Washington's messaging.\n\nThis could indicate that even though there is an agreement in place, Beijing might ignore it, as Dan Harris of the China Law blog points out.\n\n\"The problem isn't the law,\" he says. \"It's that when something is important to China - some cutting edge technology that it wants - then those laws don't have any use at all.\"\n\nThe deal doesn't include a definitive timeline on when the tariffs that are still in place will go down.\n\nAccording to research from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, average tariffs on both sides are still up about 20% from pre-trade war levels - six times higher than when the dispute began. That means companies and consumers are still paying more.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who really pays in a tariff war?\n\nAdmittedly, the Trump administration has left the threat of tariffs in place as a stick to beat China with - in case Beijing doesn't keep to its commitments.\n\nAnd there's always that risk, as China's hard line Communist Party mouth-piece the Global Times points out: \"Can a preliminary trade agreement, reached during a period when China-US strategic relations are clearly declining, really work? Will it be replaced by new conflicts or further progress as negotiations continue?\"\n\nThe potential for trade tensions to resume on both sides is still a very big possibility.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nJuan Mata's superb second-half goal sent Manchester United into the FA Cup fourth round as they beat Wolves.\n\nThe Spanish midfielder chipped over keeper John Ruddy to settle the third-round replay after being put through on goal by Anthony Martial.\n\nWolves had an early Pedro Neto strike ruled out by the video assistant referee for a handball in the build-up.\n\nBut it was a deserved win for the hosts, who had the better chances in a tight game at Old Trafford.\n\nManchester United will next travel to either Watford or Tranmere - whose third-round replay at Prenton Park on Tuesday was postponed because of heavy rain.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side did not manage a shot on target in the goalless first game between the two sides at Molineux on 4 January but were much more threatening in this match.\n\nAn excellent save by Ruddy prevented Mata from opening the scoring in the first half, while Daniel James was also denied by the Wolves keeper.\n\nAfter a high-tempo start, the game settled down - but Mata, 31, produced the one moment of quality to seal victory, rolling back the years with a clever finish.\n\nMan Utd get job done but at a potential cost\n\nIt is a tough period for many clubs in the Premier League with games in multiple competitions coming thick and fast. With his side facing a tough trip to league leaders Liverpool on Sunday, Solskjaer may have been forgiven for making numerous changes for this tie.\n\nBut the FA Cup and Europa League arguably represent Manchester United's most realistic routes to trophies this season and Solskjaer underlined how seriously he is taking this competition by naming a strong line-up on Wednesday.\n\nThere were just three changes from the side that beat Norwich 4-0 in the Premier League last Saturday, as Sergio Romero was named in goal, while James and Mason Greenwood also started.\n\nWolves, too, went strong with their line-up, with Ruddy their only change and the two sides, cancelled each other for large periods.\n\nEager to get the job done and wrap up the game inside 90 minutes, Solskjaer sent on top scorer Marcus Rashford in the 64th minute to add bite to his attack and, three minutes later, United were ahead.\n\nBut the gamble to involve Rashford may prove costly; the striker pulled up with an injury and had to be replaced by Jesse Lingard just 16 minutes after coming on.\n\nAfter the game, Solskjaer admitted the decision to play Rashford was one that backfired.\n\n'You can't celebrate' - Coady furious with disallowed goal\n\nVAR has certainly had its critics this season - but for the second time in five days, it was new regulations relating to handball that caused controversy as the video official stepped in to rule out a goal.\n\nThe law regarding handball, updated before the start of this season, states any goal scored or created with the use of the hand or arm will be disallowed \"even if it is accidental\".\n\nWest Ham and Declan Rice fell victim to it last Friday when the midfielder's injury-time equaliser against Sheffield United was ruled out because the ball had touched his arm in the build-up.\n\nThis time, the handball rule was applied early on at Old Trafford when VAR spotted that the ball had brushed Raul Jimenez's hand just before Neto fired home early on.\n\nIt was a let-off for Manchester United and spared Fred's blushes with the strike having come as a result of a wild pass by the midfielder that deflected off a team-mate and into Jimenez's path.\n\nIt also seemed to set the tone for the rest of the game as Manchester United grew in confidence after a strong start by Wolves, who struggled to get Adama Traore involved as much as they would have hoped.\n\nAfter the game, Wolves captain Conor Coady said: \"It's constant, all we are talking about is VAR. It's ridiculous, it's stupid.\n\n\"You can't celebrate. Raul Jimenez didn't even know he had handballed it. We have to get used to it.\n\n\"All of it is terrible for me. It's not for me, it's not for a lot of players. But people higher up in the game are happy with it.\"\n\nManchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: \"I think you can see it was two teams towards the end that were tired. It was end to end and an open game - sometimes that doesn't suit us.\n\n\"We're delighted to beat Wolves finally. Juan Mata is different class. He's got the skill, composure and even pace.\"\n\nWolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo: \"It was a good game of football, an even game. Both teams had chances.\n\n\"We didn't defend the goal well but we reacted well and were in the game. A proper game, I am disappointed to go out because it is frustrating when you perform well and go out.\"\n\nOn the disallowed goal: \"That's VAR, you cannot do anything about it. We are celebrating non-goals - it doesn't make sense.\"\n\nAnother early exit for Wolves - the stats\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past six home matches in the FA Cup without conceding a single goal in this run.\n• None Wolves have been eliminated at the third-round stage or earlier in seven of their past nine FA Cup campaigns, this after having made it to at least the fourth round in each of their nine seasons in a row before this.\n• None Manchester United have won nine of their past 10 home matches against Wolves in all competitions, keeping six clean sheets in those games.\n• None Juan Mata has been directly involved in three goals in his past two games for Manchester United (one goal, two assists), as many as he was in his first 20 appearances of the 2019-20 season in all competitions before this.\n• None Since his FA Cup debut in January 2016, Manchester United forward Anthony Martial has eight assists in the competition. Only Peterborough's Marcus Maddison (11) has more in this time.\n• None Marcus Rashford was the first Manchester United player to both come on as a substitute before then being substituted himself in the same FA Cup match since Alan Smith against Liverpool in February 2006\n\nManchester United travel to Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday, 19 January (16:30 GMT) while Wolves are at Southampton the day before (15:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. João Moutinho tries a through ball, but Oskar Buur is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Romain Saïss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross following a corner.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Raúl Jiménez tries a through ball, but Morgan Gibbs-White is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Oskar Buur replaces Adama Traoré because of an injury.\n• None Leander Dendoncker (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Rúben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by João Moutinho following a corner.\n• None Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Manchester United. Jesse Lingard replaces Marcus Rashford because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Security footage captures the moment two pedestrians in Washington DC narrowly avoided being crushed by falling debris.", "New data suggests that our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals may have been diving under the sea for clams.\n\nIt adds to mounting evidence that the old picture of these ancient people as brutish and unimaginative is wrong.\n\nUntil now, there had been little clear evidence that Neanderthals were swimmers.\n\nBut a team of researchers who analysed shells from a cave in Italy said that some must have been gathered from the seafloor by Neanderthals.\n\nThe findings have been published in the journal Plos One.\n\nThe Neanderthals living at Grotta dei Moscerini in the Latium region around 90,000 years ago were shaping the clam shells into sharp tools.\n\nPaolo Villa, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues, analysed 171 such tools, which all came from a local species of mollusc called the smooth clam (Callista chione). The tools were excavated by archaeologists at the end of the 1940s.\n\nClam shells that wash up on beaches can be distinguished from those that are still live when they're gathered.\n\nThe beached specimens were opaque, sanded down through being knocked against pebbles on the shore, perforated by other marine organisms and encrusted with barnacles.\n\nNeanderthals used shells from the smooth clam, Callista chione, to make tools\n\nMost of the specimens at Grotta dei Moscerini fit the criteria of shells that were collected on a beach.\n\nBut one quarter of them had a shiny smooth exterior, showing no signs of such wear and tear. This suggested they were collected from the seafloor while the clams were alive.\n\nToday, Callista chione is most often fished by dredging, using small boats, or gathered by scuba divers in waters off the Adriatic coast that are more than 10m in depth.\n\nIn the northern part of the Adriatic, however, there are some sand banks where Callista clams can be collected at depths of between half a metre to one metre. In this case, the clams could be caught just by wading.\n\nBut, said Paola Villa: \"It's quite possible that the Neanderthals were collecting shells as far down as two to four metres,\" adding, \"of course, they did not have scuba equipment.\"\n\nDr Matt Pope, from the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, who was not involved with the study, told BBC News: \"We can all come up with exceptional situations where, during a storm event clams get thrown up on a beach.\n\n\"But it's the fact they occur at more than one [archaeological] unit, it's the fact they occur as part of a system of material being brought further into this cave, that suggests there's more than just a single, odd event going on.\"\n\nThe clam shells can be used to make thin, sharp tools\n\nThe evidence is in stark contrast to our old view of the Neanderthals spending much of their time chasing or scavenging big game animals.\n\nIt's known that Neanderthals gathered mussels from estuaries and fished in shallow waters, but there has been little clear evidence for swimming, skin-diving - or in some cases, perhaps, wading.\n\n\"It's more evidence to place Neanderthals into these coastal environments and at points in time making use of coastal resources, not just for food, but also as a raw material for tools,\" said Dr Pope.\n\nHe said that decades ago, this type of resource-gathering had been used to distinguish early examples of our own species, Homo sapiens, from the Neanderthals. \"We can't find that distinction any more,\" he said.\n\n\"What's nice about this paper is that it covers a site which at particular points in time, when you've got high sea levels... is right on the coast. You can see that they're not living there in large numbers for long periods of time. it looks like they're making short trips and they're coming equipped - bringing materials that they might need, such as pre-existing tools.\"\n\n\"Maybe it's a place where they camp seasonally, at particular times of the year. Maybe one of the things that's drawing them there are these shellfish, which are wonderful things to be eating through the winter when there's not a lot of other dependable food around.\"\n\nLast year, a team led by Prof Erik Trinkaus from Washington University in St Louis, US, published evidence showing that many Neanderthals suffered from a medical condition called \"surfer's ear\".\n\nThis condition is characterised by abnormal bony growths that appear in the ear canal. It's often seen in people who take part in aquatic sports in cold climates, but it can occur simply because of repeated exposure to cold, wet weather.\n\nAt the time the paper was released, there were suggestions Neanderthals could have got it from sleeping on chilly, damp cave floors.\n\n\"The archaeological evidence from Moscerini supports the idea of frequent aquatic resource exploitation based on anatomical data,\" Paola Villa and colleagues write in the latest paper.", "The dealer arranged to meet our undercover reporter in Linthorpe Road\n\nChildren as young as 14 can easily buy class A drugs using Snapchat, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThe social media app is being used by dealers across Teesside to advertise substances and arrange drug deals.\n\nThe BBC's Inside Out used a 14-year-old decoy, whose profile clearly showed he was a schoolboy, who was able to buy two grams of MDMA.\n\nThey were picked up by an undercover reporter. The deal was arranged in seconds and was delivered in minutes.\n\nSnapchat is a social media app that allows people to post photos and video, which then disappear once they have been read.\n\nOur reporter discovered a number of Snapchat accounts posting regular videos showing large amounts of cocaine, MDMA, ketamine and cannabis.\n\nThe dealers try to entice new users by offering giveaways\n\nDealers post videos that promote the drugs they have for sale, as well as sending daily offers and advertisements via private messaging.\n\nOne dealer claimed to be giving away an ounce (28g) of MDMA in a raffle users could only enter if they promoted the dealer's account to two of their friends. This \"prize\" could have had a street value of up to £1,400.\n\nUsers in Middlesbrough can buy drugs for as little as £10.\n\nOur reporter used Snapchat to buy cocaine in Dock Street in Middlesbrough and the MDMA was handed over in Linthorpe Road in the town during a two-week investigation.\n\nThe reporter then used a Home Office-approved kit to check the drugs were real.\n\nHarry Shapiro, a drugs adviser, said: \"There's no way you can varnish the truth about this, the worst that can happen to young people who consume a two gram bag of MDMA is they run the risk of dying. It's as simple as that.\"\n\nCarson Price, from Hengoed in south Wales, died last April after taking an ecstasy pill he bought on Snapchat.\n\nHis mother Tatum Price said: \"I blame Snapchat. If they were unable to advertise on Snapchat Carson wouldn't have been able to get hold of those drugs.\n\n\"I shouldn't even know where my local cemetery is, let alone go and visit my 13-year-old child.\"\n\nCarson Price was a \"quiet and naive\" child, his mother said\n\nThe National Crime Agency said the issue was \"alarming\" and acknowledged it was a \"growing threat\".\n\nEsther Rantzen, founder of Childline, said the findings were \"shocking\".\n\n\"I would say to Snapchat it's quite clear that you created this service to provide entertainment and fun.\n\n\"You don't want to kill children but if it's misused that will be the effect, you've got to do something to protect children, to protect young people and stop this murderous trade,\" she said.\n\nSnapchat, which claims to reach more than 60% of 13-34 year-olds in the UK, said it worked with the relevant authorities to ensure it was a positive and safe environment.\n\nIt added it encouraged users to report illegal activity on the platform.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Inside Out North East & Cumbria on Monday 20 January at 19:30 BST or catch up on the BBC iPlayer.", "A six-year-old who sparked a nine-hour search when he vanished from a service station was asleep when he was found beside the motorway, his father said.\n\nAadil Umair Rahim was on a school trip when he went missing from Newport Pagnell services on the M1, near Milton Keynes, on Friday.\n\nMore than 1,000 people joined a search for the Nottingham schoolboy.\n\nUmair Rahim said his son was \"perfectly fine\", adding: \"Police told me he was sleeping when they found him.\"\n\nAadil was found near roadworks just off the northbound carriageway at about 04:15.\n\n\"I have no idea if he was outside for the whole nine hours,\" his father said.\n\nMr Rahim said his son and his classmates had been visiting museums in London \"and the group had stopped at the services for a comfort break\".\n\nHe said he was grateful to the emergency services, and \"those members of [the] public who sacrificed their evening to assist with the search for our son\".\n\nAadil was found about half a mile from the service station where he went missing\n\nSearch-and-rescue teams from four regions deployed 54 searchers, three dogs, and a boat to search for Aadil.\n\nInitially it was thought the schoolboy could be hiding in the service station, but concern grew over the hours when there was no sign of him.\n\nBuckinghamshire Search and Rescue's Al Goffey said \"it was a very cold Friday night\", with temperatures falling to 1C, and \"there was a lot of concern for his safety and wellbeing\".\n\nSearchers went out \"to 350-500m in all directions\" to try to find the six-year-old.\n\nMr Goffey said the boy had \"managed to walk up through some fields\" and was found close to a footbridge near Newbolt Close.\n\nSupt Amy Clements described the search as \"a challenging operation in difficult circumstances\", and added that \"the community response was immense\".\n\nThey lost the boy at Newport Pagnell\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's post-Brexit immigration system will put \"people before passports\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nSpeaking at the UK-Africa Investment Summit, the PM said immigration would become \"fairer... treating people the same wherever they come from\".\n\nFreedom of movement between the UK and EU is expected to end after the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020.\n\nThe government says it will introduce an Australian-style points based system by January 2021.\n\nUnder this system those wanting to work in the UK could be assigned points based on a number of professional and personal characteristics such as education levels.\n\nCurrently, under freedom of movement, EU citizens do not need a visa to work in the UK, but immigrants from outside the EU are subject to a points system based on English language skills, being sponsored by a company and meeting a salary threshold.\n\nSpeaking in London, the prime minister said post-Brexit the UK's immigration system would become \"more equal\".\n\n\"By putting people before passports we will be able to attract the best talent from around the world, wherever they may be,\" he said.\n\nAll the main parties are largely behind the idea of a skills-based system.\n\nThe question here is whether or not the government wants to come up with some kind of control - to put a cap over the top of it.\n\nWe don't know yet what the government's real position is - it's only got 11 months to find out.\n\nIn the coming weeks, the government's main advisory body is going to report back on some of these questions.\n\nIt is only then we'll have some answers about what the PM's direction of travel is.\n\nSpeaking at the summit, Mr Johnson sought to encourage investment in the UK describing the country as a \"one-stop shop for the ambitious growing international economy\".\n\nHe also promised the UK would no longer provide \"any new direct official development assistance, investment, export credit or trade promotion for thermal coal mining or coal power plants overseas\".\n\n\"Not another penny of UK taxpayers' money will be directly invested in digging up coal or burning it for electricity,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no point in the UK reducing the amount of coal we burn if we then trundle over to Africa and line our pockets by encouraging African states to use more of it,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead we are going to focus on supporting the transition to lower and zero carbon alternatives.\"\n\nAccording to the Department for International Development, the UK has not provided bilateral official development assistance for coal-fire power generation and coal mining since 2012.\n\nIt says that in the future direct support for thermal coal mining and coal-fired power plants from the Department for International Trade will be stopped and refocused on other activity.\n\nCommenting on the government's UK-Africa Investment Summit, shadow international development minister Preet Kaur Gill said: \"The Conservatives will continue to misuse the country's aid budget to prop up the needs of business elites rather than spend it on tackling global poverty, inequality and the climate crisis.\n\n\"Trade and investment deals are not a panacea for ending poverty, especially when they're written in line with the demands of big business, and don't have safeguards in place to protect public services or ensure the most marginalised groups aren't left behind.\"", "The wigs were part of the company's men's autumn and winter collection at Paris Fashion Week\n\nJapanese fashion brand Comme Des Garçons has been accused of cultural appropriation after white models took to its runway wearing cornrow wigs.\n\nThe wigs were part of the company's men's autumn and winter collection on show as part of Paris Fashion Week.\n\nCritics on social media called the styling for Friday's show \"offensive\".\n\nHairstylist Julien d'Ys said he had been inspired by an \"Egyptian prince\" look, and had not intended to hurt or offend anyone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut critics called out the styling, with Instagram account diet_prada stating that \"the avant-garde Japanese label seemed to have taken a step back with their men's show, this time putting white models in cornrow wigs\".\n\nThere were also black models in the show, some of whom wore the wigs, while others kept their own hair.\n\nJulien d'Ys responded to the backlash on his Instagram page, stating: \"My inspiration for the Comme Des Garçons show was Egyptian prince, a look I found truly beautiful and inspirational. A look that was an hommage.\n\n\"Never was it my intention to hurt or offend anyone, ever. If I did I deeply apologise.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, despite more than 2,000 likes for his post, many of the comments underneath were negative.\n\nDevinpink67 said: \"Looks appropriate on the handsome dark skin model, a joke on the others next to and behind it never looks right but stupidity ridiculous braids, cornrows, twist, bantu knots, afro puffs, afros, slicked baby hairs REPEAT ARE B-L-A-C-K CULTURAL RELATED.\"\n\nAnd Kharileigh suggested: \"In future, to avoid facing this heat again when taking inspiration from a culture that is not yours, PLEASE work closely with one from said culture to guide you in doing it properly.\n\n\"Your intention might not have been to culturally appropriate Egyptian culture, however your lack of care or awareness in executing it is extremely reckless and hence why it is deemed as cultural appropriation. Education alone avoids these situations, so learn from this and keep it pushing.\"\n\nThe hairstylist had also posted an image of one of the sketches he had shown to the company before the show, using hashtags to reinforce the Egyptian inspiration (#égyptienboy #pharaon - French for pharoah).\n\nDazed reported that the brand had apologised in a statement: \"The inspiration for the headpieces for Comme des Garçons menswear FW'20 show was the look of an Egyptian prince. It was never ever our intention to disrespect or hurt anyone - we deeply and sincerely apologise for any offence it has caused.\"\n\nThe hairstylist said he was inspired by Egyptian styles\n\nIn 2018, the company which was founded by Rei Kawakubo, was criticised for the lack of diversity in the choice of models it used in its mainline women's collection runway shows.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the brand for comment.", "Malaysia is returning 42 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to the UK, its environment minister has announced.\n\nYeo Bee Yin said Malaysia would take \"steps to ensure\" the country \"does not become the garbage dump of the world\".\n\nShe added Malaysia had sent back 150 containers to their country of origin.\n\nThe UK government said it received a request from Malaysian authorities last year to repatriate the waste and some containers had already arrived back.\n\nAn Environment Agency spokesman said: \"We continue to work with the shipping lines and Malaysian authorities to ensure all waste is brought back as soon as possible.\"\n\nHe added the government was also \"working hard to stop illegal waste exports from leaving our shores in the first place\".\n\nThe South East Asian country has seen a sharp rise in foreign plastic waste since China - once the world's largest importer - announced a ban in 2017.\n\nMalaysia said a total of a total of 3,737 metric tonnes of unwanted waste had been sent back to 13 countries, including 43 containers to France, 42 to the UK, 17 to the United States, and 11 to Canada.\n\nThe authorities hope to send back another 110 containers by the middle of 2020 - with 60 of those going to the US.\n\nWaste at an illegal plastic recycling factory in Malaysia\n\nMany wealthy countries send their recyclable waste overseas because it is cheap, helps meet recycling targets and reduces domestic landfill.\n\nThe European Union is the largest exporter of plastic waste, with the US leading as the top exporter for a single country.\n\nA growing number of countries across South East Asia, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, have returned unwanted waste over the last 12 months.\n\nMalaysia's environment minister Yeo Bee Yin has previously singled out the UK for its plastic waste\n\nLast year the UK was singled out by Malaysia's environment minister, who said: \"What the citizens of the UK believe they send for recycling is actually dumped in our country.\"\n\nThe UK Environment Agency said the returned waste was the responsibility of the private companies that exported it and it must be handled according to UK regulations.\n\nA spokesman added that anyone found guilty of exporting waste illegally could face a two-year jail term and an unlimited fine.", "Montague joined BBC Radio 4's World At One from the Today programme in 2018\n\nRadio presenter Sarah Montague has confirmed she won a £400,000 settlement and an apology from the BBC after being treated \"unequally\" by the corporation for years.\n\nThe World At One presenter said she would \"prefer not to be talking about my pay\" but felt she had to respond to \"erroneous\" reports in the press.\n\nShe said the settlement followed \"a long period of stressful negotiations\".\n\nMontague said she accepted the payout, which is subject to tax, last year.\n\nA BBC statement said: \"We are pleased to have resolved this matter with Sarah some time ago.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets, the former Radio 4 Today programme presenter said: \"When I discovered the disparity in my pay and conditions, I was advised that rectifying it all could run into the millions.\n\n\"I chose not to seek such sums from the BBC but I did want some recognition that they had underpaid me.\n\n\"Last year after a long period of stressful negotiations, I accepted a settlement of £400,000 subject to tax and an apology from the BBC for paying me unequally for so many years.\"\n\nHer comments followed newspapers reports that she had received £1m, which the BBC said was incorrect.\n\nIn 2018, Montague said she was \"incandescent with rage\" after finding out her £133,000-a-year salary for working on the programme was less than her co-presenters were earning.\n\nAt the time, a BBC spokeswoman said it was committed to closing its gender pay gap by 2020.\n\nEarlier this month, BBC presenter Samira Ahmed won an employment tribunal which she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay.\n\nAhmed claimed she was underpaid by £700,000 for hosting audience feedback show Newswatch compared with Jeremy Vine's salary for Points of View.\n\nThe unanimous judgement said her work was like that done by Vine, and the BBC had failed to prove the pay gap wasn't because of sex discrimination.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HS2: How much work has already been done?\n\nThe transport secretary has asked for more data before making a \"massive decision\" on HS2 as it emerged the new high-speed rail link could cost £106bn.\n\nA leaked report suggested the project could cost almost double from the £56bn expected in 2015.\n\nGrant Shapps said he has demanded more information about the scheme as the government prepares to decide whether to go ahead with the project.\n\nDowning Street refused to comment on the contents of the leaked report.\n\nMr Shapps told Sky News that the \"massive decision\" on whether to go ahead with HS2 \"needs to be fact-based\".\n\nHe said he had told the report's author, Doug Oakervee: \"Give me the facts, give me the data, give us the information so we can make a proper informed decision.\"\n\nThe unpublished report, which was leaked to the Financial Times, said there was \"considerable risk\" that estimated costs could rise by another 20%.\n\n\"I've always approached this from a relatively neutral point of view and that information will help to inform a decision that is best for the whole country,\" Mr Shapps said. \"We'll be making a final decision, along with the prime minister and the chancellor, on this very shortly,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does a billion pounds look like... and what can it buy?\n\nThe government previously promised to make a decision before the end of 2019. Along with a warning on costs, the report also made a number of suggestions.\n\nAmong those was a recommendation to pause the second phase of the project while experts look at whether conventional lines could help link Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds instead.\n\nBut the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, told the BBC's Today programme it would \"not be acceptable\" if the North of England portion of HS2 was delayed or downgraded to slower speeds.\n\n\"To me that would be the same old story. London to Birmingham, money is no object, and then all the penny pinching is done in the North of England,\" he said.\n\nMr Burnham said the development of an east-west rail route across the North - known as HS3 or Northern Powerhouse Rail - relied on HS2 being built.\n\nHowever, Lord Berkeley, a vocal critic of HS2 who was deputy chairman of the review before withdrawing his backing, said: \"I suspect that most of the people who like to use the trains around Manchester and Leeds would rather have a really good commuter service just like there is in London, rather than get to London half an hour quicker.\"\n\nSome £8bn has already been spent on the project, which will connect London, the Midlands and northern England using trains capable of travelling at 250mph.\n\nWest Midlands' mayor Andy Street said he still expected the project to go ahead.\n\n\"It will drive the regeneration of our economies in Birmingham, in Manchester, in Leeds and other cities in the Midlands and the North,\" he told the BBC. \"No government committed to levelling up around the country would possibly turn its back on that opportunity.\"\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson some of the UK's largest construction firms warned that cancelling the project would do \"irreparable damage\" to the industry, costing thousands of jobs, the Times newspaper reported.\n\nBalfour Beatty, Skanska, Morgan Sindall, Costain, Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine are among firms arguing that a dearth of other big projects mean skills could be lost.\n\nClaire Walker, co-executive director of policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, told the BBC that the project must go ahead.\n\n\"Business communities are united that this project should be delivered and should be delivered in full,\" she said. \"There is no project that has been proposed that will go so far in delivering the transformational change to the Northern business communities as this project will.\"\n\nThe first phase of project, between London and Birmingham, is due to open at the end of 2026, with the second phase to Leeds and Manchester expected to be completed by 2032-33.\n\nDespite concerns about the rail link, Europe's largest infrastructure project, work is not on hold and the project currently gets through about £250m a month.\n\n\"The North's civic and business leaders have argued tirelessly that major infrastructure investment is so badly needed to provide the capacity so urgently needed on our rail network,\" said Northern Powerhouse Partnership Director, Henri Murison.\n\nTrains on the London to Birmingham route would be 400m-long (1,300ft) with up to 1,100 seats. They would run as many as 14 times per hour in each direction. The Department for Transport says the project will cut journey times between the cities from one hour 21 minutes to 52 minutes.\n\nOnce the second phase is complete, Manchester to London journeys would take one hour seven minutes (down from two hours seven minutes), and Birmingham to Leeds would take 49 minutes (down from two hours).\n\nThis would effectively reduce journey times between London and Edinburgh and London and Glasgow by an hour, to three-and-a-half hours.\n\nThe government hopes its creation will free up capacity on overcrowded commuter routes.\n\nIf you've followed the HS2 drama, then an estimate of £106bn for the entire project isn't surprising. But the fact that it's in yet another leaked draft of the government's review makes it part of the official narrative.\n\nThose opposed to HS2 feel a perfect storm is brewing. Conservative MPs (including ones newly elected in constituencies in the north of England) are pressing the PM to reconsider; the government's spending watchdog will soon publish a critical report; and Boris Johnson's transport advisor, Andrew Gilligan, is sceptical about the scheme.\n\nTinkering with the project (reducing the speed of the trains or adding a station in between Birmingham and London) won't save much money and would slow the line down, defeating the point of it being super-high speed.\n\nSo, in broad terms, it feels like the government has an all-or-nothing decision to make. HS2 currently burns about £250m a month, so you'd think the government would be in a hurry to make up its mind.\n\nBut the fact we're told this 'isn't a final draft' of the review (even though we were previously told that the review should have been done at the end of last year) suggests government insiders are keeping their options open. A decision will probably come, I'm told, after Brexit.\n\nHS2 has always been split into fairly distinct parts (Phases 1, 2a and 2b) so putting the second phases on hold for a bit longer while further options are explored wouldn't in itself be a radical option.\n\nBut the project has a lot of support from political and business leaders in the north of England and the Midlands, so if the government was then to scale back that second stretch of the railway it would cause a bit of a storm.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nEngland's Stuart Bingham became the oldest Masters winner by defeating Ali Carter 10-8 in a thrilling and fluctuating final at Alexandra Palace.\n\nBingham, 43, claimed his second Triple Crown event title to go alongside his 2015 World Championship win.\n\nCarter turned around a 5-3 deficit to lead 7-5, but world number 14 Bingham showed tremendous bottle to fight back.\n\nHe sealed victory with a nerveless break of 109 - his first century of the tournament ending Carter's hopes.\n\nBingham becomes the 24th different name on the Paul Hunter Trophy, collecting a record £250,000 winner's prize money.\n\nWelshman Ray Reardon was 43 years and three months when he claimed the Masters in 1976, while Bingham is five months older.\n\n\"Ali played so well I was starting to think about what to say after being beaten. How I turned it around I don't know,\" said Bingham.\n\n\"I have won seven major tournaments now and want to get to 10. Hopefully one will be the UK Championship and I will go into the history books for winning the Triple Crown.\n\n\"I've really enjoyed the week and I think that's the key to my game and why I can perform like that.\n\n\"I am shattered. I've had about nine hours' sleep in two days. Every time he was scoring I was sitting in my chair thinking 'this is getting really comfy'. To get my hands on this trophy means the world.\"\n\nBingham's record in this tournament was dreadful with eight defeats at the first hurdle in nine appearances.\n\nHe was a 50-1 long shot when he lifted the sport's biggest prize at the Crucible Theatre and at the start of this tournament he would have been an outside bet to take the invitational event in London.\n\nBingham's form has been poor this season, reaching just one quarter-final at a ranking event, and his most recent silverware came at the Gibraltar Open last March.\n\nBingham missed this lucrative tournament two years ago as he served a six-month ban for betting breaches but has redeemed himself and the late bloomer - who won his first title in 2011 after first turning professional 16 years previously - now just needs to win the UK Championship to complete the Triple Crown series.\n\nHaving seen defending champion Judd Trump, UK winner Ding Junhui and former world champions Mark Selby and Neil Robertson all exit in the first round, he seized the opportunity to add a major to go alongside his six ranking titles.\n\n\"People will stop saying Bingham was a fluke to win the World Championship,\" said former world champion John Parrott. \"He's backed it up and proven he's a top-class player.\"\n\n\"Stuart played himself into form in this tournament and withstood a lot of things thrown at him,\" said Parrott's fellow BBC pundit Steve Davis.\n\n\"Under pressure he held his nerve and his cueing stood the test.\"\n\nSeven-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan's decision to withdraw from the event meant his place went to world number 17 Carter, who he does not see eye-to-eye with following an on-table clash at the World Championship two years ago.\n\nAway from the table, Carter has battled to recover from both testicular and lung cancer, as well as being diagnosed with Crohn's disease, stating after his semi-final win that he had \"been to hell and back\".\n\nBut there was to be no fairytale with Carter falling short in his third Triple Crown final, having lost to O'Sullivan in the 2008 and 2012 World Championships.\n\nBBC pundits Stephen Hendry and Ken Doherty had said \"fate\" and \"destiny\" might be on Carter's side having beaten former world champions Selby, John Higgins and Shaun Murphy to advance, but it was not to be his day despite a resurgence and two centuries, though a £100,000 runners-up cheque may be of some comfort.\n\n\"I'm very disappointed to not win but he was the better player,\" said Carter. \"I have to say all the right things but I am gutted.\n\n\"The interval swung the match. I was on fire to win those four frames. I look back at the pink but I've missed one ball in four frames.\"\n\nThe story of the match\n\nThese two Essex-born players used to compete against each other in the junior county league but were meeting in a major final for the first time.\n\nCarter made the perfect start with a superb 126 break and also compiled 56 and 93 - in between Bingham's 75 - for a 3-2 advantage.\n\nPlay was momentarily halted with Bingham at the table in the fifth frame when someone seemed to have left a 'whoopee cushion' device inside the arena which kept emitting sounds. The crowd laughed at the incident but neither player found it funny.\n\nCarter should have taken the sixth which could have been a huge turning point. With a deficit of 69 points and only 67 remaining on the table, he got the snooker required but then missed the final brown, allowing Bingham to pinch the frame on the black.\n\nWorld number 14 Bingham made 50 in the next, as well as snatching a 40-minute frame for a two-frame cushion heading into the evening session.\n\nThe evening session was thrilling. Carter turned the match around by punishing Bingham's mistakes, clinching four frames in a row, including breaks of 95 and 133.\n\nBut Bingham provided a gutsy response after the mid-session interval by taking four on the trot with frame-winning contributions of 64, 85, 58 and 88 to go one from victory.\n\nCarter halted the flow with a quick 77 after Bingham missed a red with the rest, but he finished off in style to avoid a nervy decider.", "Job performance details about more than 900 employees of a major office-space provider have been published online by accident after a staff review.\n\nSales staff at Regus had been recorded showing researchers posing as clients around office space available to rent.\n\nInformation about the employees was later published on Trello, a task-management website.\n\nAnd a spreadsheet with names, address and job performance data was found via Google by the Telegraph newspaper.\n\nThe names and addresses of hundreds of the researchers, contracted from a company called Applause by Regus parent company IWG, were also included.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Cook This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Team members are aware they are recorded for training purposes and each recording is shared with the individual team member and their coach to help them become even more successful in their roles,\" IWG said.\n\n\"We are extremely concerned to learn that an external third-party provider, who implemented the exercise, inadvertently published online the outcomes of an internal training and development exercise.\n\n\"As our primary concern we took immediate action and the external provider has now removed the content.\"\n\nMichael Pryor, co-founder of Trello said: \"Trello boards are set to private by default and must be manually changed to public by the user.\n\n\"We strive to make sure public boards are being created intentionally and have built in safeguards to confirm the intention of a user before they make a board publicly visible.\"\n\nThe data breach has not been reported to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office.\n\nBBC News has asked the Luxembourg data commissioner if the breach has been reported there instead and contacted Applause for comment.\n\nAn Applause spokesman said: \"Since being made aware of this issue, we have reiterated our [information security] policies with our worldwide employees and have run an internal audit to confirm that there are no other unapproved third-party software tools being used in any client engagements.\"\n\n21 January 2020: This story has been updated to include a statement from Trello.", "People born in Britain to migrant parents are more likely to feel discriminated against than migrants who are new to the UK, research suggests.\n\nEvidence from two 2018 surveys points to ethnicity being at the root of any perceived discrimination rather than a person's status as a migrant.\n\nAmong immigrants, more than 70% say Britain is welcoming and 90% believe migrants can make it if they work hard.\n\nBut more non-EU migrants feel they face prejudice than those from Europe.\n\nThe University of Oxford's Migration Observatory briefing, Migrants and Discrimination in the UK, is based on data accrued in the European Social Survey and the UK longevity household study (40,000 households) in 2018.\n\nAmongst predominantly white migrants from the EU, only 8% say they feel they are discriminated against in Britain, while those from outside the EU are more than twice as likely to say they were part of a group that is discriminated against, at 19%.\n\nFor second generation migrants, born in Britain, the sense of being discriminated against increases to 30%.\n\nDr Marina Fernandez-Reino, researcher at the Migration Observatory and author of the briefing, described the reasons behind the perceived hostility as \"complex\".\n\n\"Some UK-born minorities actually have worse outcomes than migrants, such as higher unemployment,\" she said.\n\n\"Research also suggests that children of migrants, who were born and raised here, have higher expectations and so are more sensitive to inequalities or unequal treatment they encounter.\n\n\"By contrast, people who migrated here may compare their experience to life in their country of origin and feel that they have benefited from moving - even if they still face some disadvantages.\"\n\nOxford Migration Observatory research on attitudes to immigration finds more than a third of British people would want no Nigerians or Pakistanis to come to the UK, but just one in 10 would want to stop those from culturally close countries, such as Australia.\n\nEU migrants have traditionally reported fewer experiences of discrimination than those born outside the EU.\n\nHowever, there was a spike in the number of EU migrants who reported experiencing discrimination around the time of the EU referendum in 2016 - more than double the levels seen in 2010-12 or later, in 2018.\n\nIn addition, data for 2016-2018 shows EU migrants in the UK were more likely to feel that they faced discrimination (14%) than EU migrants in other EU countries (9%).\n\nBy contrast, the perception of discrimination among non-EU migrants was slightly lower in the UK than in the rest of the EU.\n\nThe latest data suggest attitudes to immigration in the UK have softened again since 2016.\n\n\"The increase in EU migrants' perceptions of discrimination around the time of the referendum is likely associated with the public debate in that period,\" said Dr Fernandez Reino.\n\n\"EU migration was one of the top issues on the UK political agenda in the run-up to the 2016 vote, but has received less attention since.\"\n\nBBC Briefing is a mini-series of downloadable in-depth guides to the big issues in the news, with input from academics, researchers and journalists. It is the BBC's response to audiences demanding better explanation of the facts behind the headlines.", "David G posed as a specialist to convince young women to electrocute themselves (file photo)\n\nA man who impersonated a doctor in order to persuade women and girls to electrocute themselves has been jailed for 11 years in Germany, officials say.\n\nThe 30-year-old, named only as David G, offered victims money to take part in fake pain therapy experiments for his sexual gratification, prosecutors said.\n\nHe watched and recorded the victims on Skype as they used homemade devices connected to mains electricity.\n\nDavid G was found guilty of 13 cases of attempted murder at a court in Munich.\n\nProsecutors told the court that the IT worker from the Bavarian city of Würzburg posed as a doctor while searching for young women online to take part in a fake scientific study.\n\nThey said he then contacted his victims, offering up to €3,000 ($3,325; £2,560) to participate.\n\nHe convinced them to attach devices to mains electricity before shocking themselves while he observed via Skype, prosecutors added.\n\nThe youngest girl was just 13 years old, prosecutors said.\n\nJudge Thomas Bott said David G had instructed his victims to place metal objects near their temples, \"meaning that the human brain was subjected to an electric current\", Germany's Deutsche Welle newspaper reported.\n\nProsecutors said they believed David G derived sexual gratification from his crimes.\n• None 'Fake doctor' arrested over death of four patients", "Gail Porter's mental health is the focus of a new BBC documentary\n\nFor Gail Porter, the late 90s were both the best and worst of times.\n\nAt age 21 she was a hallmark of British television - a young, smiling dynamo from Edinburgh's Portobello who was perfectly at home leading daytime programmes such as Fully Booked, The Big Breakfast and Live and Kicking before landing a prime time slot hosting Friday night favourite Top of the Pops.\n\nHer fan base was burgeoning and she often left the studio in a state of total euphoria.\n\nBut her seemingly unstoppable energy would deflate as she stepped inside her London flat - where loneliness, self-doubt and depression set in.\n\nGail in the late 90s after landing a role on Top of the Pops\n\nThen one morning, an event unfolded that left her unable to get out of bed.\n\nGail had taken part in a nude photo shoot for men's magazine FHM, which was projected onto the Houses of Parliament in a now infamous publicity stunt.\n\nIt helped sell more than one million copies of the magazine within two months.\n\nDecades on, Gail maintains she had no idea the photo would be used in such a manner - and that she was never paid for the work.\n\nGail Porter says she had no idea an image from a naked photo shoot would be beamed onto the House of Commons\n\nGail told BBC Scotland: \"I've dealt with things since I was 18 but that knocked my confidence a lot - to think I had trusted someone and then to find my bottom on Big Ben.\n\n\"I had to deal with the backlash, some people were kind and some people were unkind. It made me stay in bed for quite a long time.\"\n\nThe presenter's mental health is the focal point of a new BBC Scotland documentary, which sees her retrace crucial points in her life and career while often hearing difficult truths from friends and family.\n\nIn the film's opening scenes she revisits the Palace of Westminster and recalls the pressures she faced in the aftermath of the FHM media storm.\n\nCriticism and jibes followed her around, occasionally in a very public way - including on an episode of Nevermind the Buzzcocks that same year.\n\nKnown for his acerbic wit, host Mark Lamarr joked he had seen \"more than enough\" of her topless - a comment which left Gail visibly upset on camera.\n\nGail faced often biting comments during the episode in 1999\n\nShe said: \"We met up in the green room and I said he was extremely rude - he actually said sorry, that he thought it was a joke.\n\n\"Personally it just made me feel insignificant. This was a long time ago when you didn't have the Me Too movement.\n\n\"Everyone was going out afterwards; I just wanted to stay home. I thought maybe it's my fault and I deserve this sort of comment.\"\n\nDespite frequent bouts of unhappiness, keeping up the appearance of 'wee smiley Gail' was of utmost importance - though at the time Gail was unaware of the stress it placed on her mind and body.\n\nAfter moving to London aged 19, there was rarely any food in her fridge - instead she survived on wine or Jelly Babies.\n\nShe developed anorexia nervosa - a condition she lived with for around nine years. But Gail only realised something was wrong when she was banned from her gym after fainting.\n\n\"People kept saying 'oh wow, you're looking great',\" she said. \"I kept thinking every time I get thinner, someone said I looked great.\n\n\"I was enjoying the adoration and it got out of control, I couldn't stop it. I thought if I could control my food and make myself look what I thought was better, then everything is going to be great in the world.\n\n\"But it wasn't, I just ended up in the hospital very unwell.\"\n\nWhat followed over the next two decades was a further polarising of highs and lows for Gail.\n\nShe married and celebrated the birth of her \"miracle\" daughter Honey, having been told by doctors she couldn't have children.\n\nA severe struggle with her mental health continued, and Gail developed alopecia, turned to self harm, was sectioned under the Mental Health Act (1983) and experienced a period of homelessness.\n\nShe has no definitive answer for what went wrong for her, though she strongly suspects she developed an aversion to talking through her feelings in her early childhood.\n\nAnd although she has watched her personal life splashed across headlines, Gail does not blame her career in television for any of her struggles.\n\nShe said: \"Being a TV presenter was my favourite thing in the world, it was the most fun ever.\n\n\"I think there were a lot of deeper issues which came out at certain points.\n\n\"I know there's something not quite right wired in my brain.\n\n\"It doesn't make me a bad person, it doesn't mean you can give me a badge and tell me what it is. I'd rather just be Gail.\"\n\nBeing Gail Porter is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.\n• None 'How my daughter made it okay to be bald'", "South Sudan has faced the destruction of classrooms\n\nA third of the world's poorest girls, aged between 10 and 18, have never been to school, says the United Nations.\n\nA report from Unicef, the UN's children's agency, warned that poverty and discrimination were denying an education to millions of young people.\n\nIt criticised a \"crippling learning crisis\" for impoverished families, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nThe findings were published as education ministers from 120 countries gathered for a conference in London.\n\nThe Education World Forum, an annual international event, brings together representatives of education systems around the world, debating ideas about improving schools and using technology.\n\nBut the Unicef report warned that for too many of \"the world's poorest children\" there is no school at all.\n\nAmong children in the poorest fifth of households in the world, a third of girls have never been to school.\n\nThis was exacerbated by education budgets often being heavily skewed towards children from wealthier families, says the report.\n\nGuinea, Central African Republic, Senegal and Cameroon were named as having the biggest imbalances, with public education spending being focused on rich rather than poorer children.\n\nRefugees in Chad: Conflicts have disrupted the educations of tens of millions\n\nThis unequal distribution means the poorest communities either miss out on school or are faced with large class sizes and a lack of trained teachers.\n\n\"As long as public education spending is disproportionately skewed towards children from the richest households, the poorest will have little hope of escaping poverty,\" said Unicef's executive director, Henrietta Fore.\n\nOvercoming the lack of access to education for girls in developing countries has been a theme raised by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\n\"I don't think that people know how stark that problem is and the damage it is doing,\" Mr Johnson told the BBC when he was foreign secretary.\n\n\"In countries where there is poverty, civil war, that have massive population booms, and that are prey to radicalisation, the common factor is female illiteracy, the undereducation of women and girls,\" he added at the time in March 2018.\n\nSince becoming prime minister, Mr Johnson has repeated his support for an international promise to give 12 years of quality education to all girls.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson, addressing the international education conference in London, said that Brexit would not be a \"sign that we're stepping back from the world. I say quite the reverse\".\n\nHe said that \"our doors are open\" to ideas from other countries and announced that a school exchange scheme, used by 138 schools since it was set up last year, would be extended for another year.\n\nBut the National Union of Students said that a more urgent priority should be to resolve the uncertainty over future of the Erasmus+ exchange scheme, after the UK's departure from the European Union.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrants cross the river Suchiate on the border between Guatemala and Mexico on Monday\n\nHundreds of migrants who waded across a river on Mexico's southern border have been stopped from entering the country on their way to the US.\n\nThe migrants, mainly from Honduras, took to the water after being refused permission to cross a nearby bridge.\n\nThe security forces fired tear gas to force the migrants back and rounded up those who managed to make it across.\n\nMexico has cut off migration routes to the US under pressure from President Donald Trump.\n\nNational Guard troops with riot shields were seen trying to stop the migrants from climbing the banks of the Suchiate river, which marks the border between Mexico and Guatemala.\n\nSome of those who were trying to reach Mexico threw stones at the police.\n\nThe detained migrants have been transferred to immigration stations. They will be returned to their home countries if their legal status cannot be resolved, the government said.\n\nMembers of Mexico's National Guard used their shields to block migrants\n\nThe migrants had been camped out in the Guatemalan town of Tecún Umán, across the border from Mexico's Ciudad Hidalgo.\n\nEight representatives of the migrants were allowed into Mexico for talks with the authorities and to pass a letter on to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.\n\nThey urged him to let them pass and promised to respect the law.\n\nThose who tried to cross the river on Monday were part of a 2,000 to 3,500-strong group dubbed \"2020 Caravan\", evoking previous attempts to cross Mexico en masse to reach the US border.\n\nFor its part, Guatemala said several thousand migrants had crossed into its territory from Honduras since Wednesday.\n\nMany of the migrants on the Mexico border said they were fleeing violence, poverty and high murder rates.\n\n\"We got desperate because of the heat. It's been exhausting, especially for the children,\" Honduran migrant Elvis Martínez told AFP news agency.\n\nMexico has said they can stay and work in Mexico and apply for asylum but will not be allowed free passage to the US.\n\n\"They're trying to trick us. They tell us to register, but then they deport us,\" another migrant said.\n\nThe Mexican interior ministry said it had already taken in 1,100 migrants in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco. Most would be returned to their country of origin \"if their situation warrants it\", it added.\n\nPresident Trump reached a deal with Mexico in June to stem the flow of migrants to the US after threatening it with high tariffs. Mexico agreed to take \"unprecedented\" steps to curb irregular migration, including deploying the National Guard.\n\nAnother agreement, with Guatemala, designates that country as a \"safe third country\". Under the accord, the US can send migrants from Honduras or El Salvador who pass through Guatemala back to that country to seek asylum first.\n\nMr Trump has made the fight against illegal migration to the US a major policy issue and has taken measures to deter entry across the border from Mexico, including plans for a border wall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I sent my seven-year-old across the border alone,\" says one parent on the US-Mexico border", "The government has lost three votes in the Lords over its Brexit legislation - its first defeats since the election.\n\nPeers supported calls for EU nationals to be given a physical document as proof they have the right to live in the UK after it leaves the bloc.\n\nThey also voted to remove ministers' power to decide which EU Court of Justice rulings can be disregarded or set aside by UK courts and tribunals.\n\nMinisters will aim to reverse the moves when the bill returns to the Commons.\n\nWith a majority of 80, the government will be confident of getting its way.\n\nMeanwhile, separately on Monday, the Commons voted to approve the Queen's Speech, which outlines the government's legislative agenda.\n\nThe EU Withdrawal Bill, which paves the way for the UK to leave the EU with a deal on 31 January, was approved by MPs earlier this month without any changes.\n\nBut despite their emphatic victory in December's general election, the Conservatives do not have a majority in the Lords and have suffered a series of defeats during the bill's passage through the unelected House.\n\nThe first amendment passed by peers, by a margin of 270 to 229, would give EU citizens in the UK the automatic right to stay, rather than having to apply to the Home Office, and would ensure they can get physical proof of their rights.\n\nIts supporters said it would allay the \"deep concerns\" felt by many EU nationals who have until the end of June 2021 to apply for settled status.\n\nMore than than 2.7 million people have so far applied. Nearly 2.5 million of these have been told they can continue to live and work in the UK after Brexit, while six \"serious or persistent\" criminals have had their applications rejected.\n\nCampaigners said official documentation could stop a repeat of the Windrush scandal, in which relatives of those who lawfully came to the UK from the Caribbean in the 1940s were threatened with deportation, and in some cases removed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLib Dem peer Lord Oates warned of a \"plethora of problems\" ahead for EU nationals and the government unless this happened.\n\n\"This amendment simply seeks to uphold the promise repeatedly made by Boris Johnson that the rights of EU citizens to remain in the UK would be automatically guaranteed,\" he said.\n\n\"It would remove the risk that those who failed to meet the cut-off deadline would be automatically criminalised and subject to deportation.\"\n\nNo 10 has insisted EU citizens will not automatically be deported if they fail to sign up to the scheme by the deadline. They want them to use a digital code, which will demonstrate their right to be in the UK.\n\nFollowing the vote, security minister Brandon Lewis insisted it would not rethink its approach.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The EU Settlement Scheme grants EU citizens with a secure, digital status which can't be lost, stolen or tampered with.\"\n\nThe government was later defeated twice more over:", "State schools and colleges in England can now order free period products for students as part of a government scheme to tackle period poverty.\n\nTampons, pads and menstrual cups will be available for primary and secondary institutions to order if they opt in.\n\nThe scheme aims to help prevent children missing school if they don't have access to products at home.\n\nCampaigners have warned that schools could disadvantage their pupils if they do not take up the scheme.\n\nSchools will be able to choose from a range of items using an online system, but can also place orders via email or over the phone.\n\nThe products, from supplier phs Group, include single-use and reusable pads, applicator and non-applicator tampons, and menstrual cups.\n\nThe government is giving each school a set amount of money to spend on products in 2020 - calculated on the basis that 35% of pupils who menstruate will use them.\n\nThey come at a range of prices, so it is up to individual schools to decide how they spend their allocated budgets.\n\nIt follows the government's announcement last March that it would fund free period products for secondary school students. The pledge was subsequently extended to primary schools.\n\nAmika George, 20, started the campaign to get free period products into schools when she was 17.\n\nShe said schools should talk to students about provision, to break down stigma and to make sure they knew the demand was there to opt into the system.\n\nDifferent students would need different products, she said. For example, pads for children who cannot use tampons for cultural or religious reasons.\n\nLynda Erroi, head of year seven at Southam College in Warwickshire, said she often works with students who have \"no plan in place for when periods start\" or cannot afford products.\n\n\"This will reduce the stress for any student who is trying hard to attend school when period products are an issue in their life,\" she said.\n\n\"Staff will also feel more empowered that they are able to request supplies and support a child's needs.\"\n\nThe college previously worked with the Red Box Project, which has provided free period products to schools since 2017.\n\nCo-founder Anna Miles said the government scheme could mean the difference between a child attending and skipping school.\n\nAnna Miles with fellow co-founders of the Red Box Project\n\nShe described it as a \"step towards genuine equality\".\n\nChildren and Families Minister Michelle Donelan said the scheme will mean young people can \"go about their daily lives\" without having to worry.\n\nThe Department for Education website says the rate reflects the fact that not all students will need the products all of the time, and is mirrored in a scheme that is already rolled out in Scotland.\n\nWales introduced funding for free products in schools from April 2019.\n\nOne local authority in Northern Ireland offers free products in public places.\n\nOrders from schools are expected to be delivered within five working days.", "Zac (left), aged three, died and his brother Harley, four, is in a critical condition in hospital\n\nThe family of a three-year-old boy who was killed in a caravan fire have thanked people for their \"kind words and support\".\n\nZac died and his brother Harley, four, is in a critical condition following the blaze on Sunday morning in Ffair Rhos near Tregaron, Ceredigion.\n\nShaun Harvey, 28, the boys' father, is in a stable condition in hospital after escaping the fire with the eldest boy.\n\nThe fire is not being treated as suspicious, Dyfed-Powys Police said.\n\nIn a statement the family said: \"We would like to thank everyone for their kind words and support.\n\n\"We thank you for respecting our future privacy as we mourn the loss of Zac and focus on our son Harley who is still critical.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One neighbour described the family's burns as \"horrendous\"\n\nNeighbour Miriam Connolly said the caravan \"went up like an inferno\".\n\nShe said she had been in bed when she heard a knock on her door followed by \"shouting, screaming from outside\".\n\n\"All I could hear was a crescendo of screaming from Shaun,\" she said.\n\nA floral tribute has been left at the scene\n\n\"You could tell he was in agony. I thought the best thing for me to do is phone the emergency services.\n\n\"I could see the reflection of flames on the building next door, so I knew it was a fire, but I couldn't see where it was coming from.\n\n\"It's so horrendous. You can't imagine dealing with anything like that.\"\n\nNeighbour Miriam Connolly: \"You still can't quite comprehend what's happening\"\n\nMrs Connolly's husband, Sean, said Mr Harvey had burns all over his body and one of the little boys was put into a bath of water by firefighters.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like that in my life. It was very traumatic,\" he said.\n\nNeighbours said Mr Harvey had separated from the children's mother Erin and was living in the caravan temporarily while he looked for a permanent home.\n\nMrs Connolly described Mr Harvey as \"a lovely lad\", adding: \"He was so pleased that he had the children for the weekend.\"\n\nCommunity councillor John Jones said: \"We are deeply saddened by the events.\n\nOfficers from Dyfed-Powys Police remain at the scene while investigations continue\n\n\"When it happens on your doorstep in a small rural village like this, it's a total shock.\"\n\nTed Jones lives near to where the blaze happened and said it was \"lucky\" there had been any survivors.\n\n\"My neighbour saw the fire and the caravan just went up in flames and they said it was lucky that anyone got out,\" Mr Jones told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"Ffair Rhos is a tiny, quiet little village in rural Ceredigion so it is a big shock to everybody especially when a small child has died.\"\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene at about 05:30 GMT on Sunday and as well as destroying the caravan and a vehicle, it also damaged an adjacent property.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it sent three ambulances to the scene, taking two patients to Bronglais General Hospital in Aberystwyth.\n\nThe fire destroyed the caravan and a vehicle and damaged an adjacent property\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Police and fire investigators continue to examine the scene though the circumstances are not currently being treated as suspicious.\"\n\nSpecialist officers are supporting the family, police said.\n\nIn a statement, Ceredigion council said: \"Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family following the tragic incident.\"\n\nIt added it was working with Dyfed-Powys Police to provide \"support to the family and school at this difficult time\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and online; Live text on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritish number one Dan Evans came back from two sets down for the first time to beat American Mackenzie McDonald and reach the Australian Open second round.\n\nEvans, playing his first Grand Slam as a seed, looked edgy in the first two sets on a packed outside court, showing his frustration at times.\n\nBut the 30th seed settled down to win 3-6 4-6 6-1 6-2 6-3 in Melbourne.\n\nFellow Britons Johanna Konta and Kyle Edmund's matches were moved to Tuesday after heavy rain on Monday.\n\nIf the 29-year-old wins that then he could face 16-time Grand Slam winner and defending champion Novak Djokovic in the third round.\n\n\"I just hung in, I thought my level was there somewhere,\" the Briton said.\n\n\"I changed my game a little bit, started making few more balls and in the end I was pretty strong.\n\n\"I'm just relieved to have come through and start some momentum in this tournament.\"\n• None Djokovic wins in four sets to join Federer in second round\n\nEvans had never won a five-set match after losing the opening two, finally ending that run at the 15th attempt against a tiring McDonald.\n\nA pinpoint forehand winner down the line, on his first match point, sealed the Briton's place in the second round following a battle lasting three hours and 21 minutes.\n\nEvans has the luxury of avoiding the big names in the early rounds of the men's draw after climbing to a career-high 32nd in the latest ATP rankings released on Monday.\n\nBut he was made to work hard by 129th-ranked McKenzie, a talented player who has slipped down the rankings after an injury-hit 2018.\n\nEvans was tight in the opening two sets and was seemingly distracted by fans standing in the aisles because they could not find an empty seat.\n\n\"I was frustrated. I wasn't playing my game, hitting the ball in,\" Evans said.\n\n\"I was impatient at the start and trying to come in too early.\"\n\nAfter lacking patience and precision as he seemingly stared at defeat, Evans suddenly found the form which has propelled him up the rankings over the past 18 months.\n\nA more positive approach started to pay off as McDonald, playing only his second tournament since last May after having surgery on a hamstring tendon, started to struggle.\n\nEvans twice broke the American's serve early on in the third and fourth sets and, after needing to dig deep again in a fifth set where the players exchanged six breaks, came through.\n\nEvans pointed to his stomach on his way to shaking hands with McDonald, a gesture seemingly directed at Britain's former world number four Tim Henman.\n\nAfter bonding with Evans in his role as British captain at the ATP Cup, Henman jokingly suggesting at the end of the tournament Evans needed to \"miss a few meals\" if he wanted to break into the world's top 20.\n\n\"It was just a joke, there was nothing in it,\" Evans laughed when asked about his gesture.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "A state of emergency has been declared in Canada after severe snowstorms hit Newfoundland and Labrador.\n\nAs much as 30 inches (76cm) of snow has fallen leaving some residents trapped in their own homes.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will raise the \"driving habits\" of US personnel at an RAF base near where Harry Dunn died with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, was hit by a car driven by Anne Sacoolas, who left for the US claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking after footage emerged of a car being driven on the wrong side of the road near RAF Croughton.\n\nMr Johnson said he would \"work for justice for Harry Dunn and his family\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This car was filmed on Friday on the wrong side of the road near the RAF base close to where Harry Dunn died\n\nThe footage, captured on Friday, shows a blue BMW having to brake sharply on a road near the base.\n\nA police vehicle was struck by a car on the wrong side of the same road in October.\n\nNorthamptonshire Chief Constable Nick Adderley said: \"I want to be absolutely clear on the fact that these incidents just cannot keep happening.\"\n\nHe said he had requested a meeting with officials from the base to discuss road safety and that he expected it to take place next week.\n\nHarry Dunn's family, including his mother Charlotte Charles, have been campaigning for justice\n\nThe prime minister is in Berlin ahead of an international summit on Libya with world leaders including US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nMr Johnson told Sky News: \"We're certainly raising all those issues about the driving habits of US personnel at the base, and we're continuing to work for justice for Harry Dunn and for his family.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is in Berlin for an international summit on Libya hosted by hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel\n\nThe Dunn family spokesman, Radd Seiger, said watching the footage made him feel sick.\n\n\"Harry's parents want, more than anything else, for this to never happen to a family again, and I look forward to entering into talks with the authorities, on both sides of the Atlantic, to make sure it never does,\" Mr Seiger said.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nMr Dunn died in hospital after a head-on crash with a car on 27 August last year near RAF Croughton.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence officer, is believed to have been driving on the wrong side of the road and has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nShe claimed diplomatic immunity after the collision, left for her home country and has refused to return to the UK despite an extradition attempt.", "Madonna's Madame X tour is due to come to the UK next month\n\nMadonna has cancelled another show on her Madame X world tour, as she battles an ongoing, but unspecified, injury.\n\nThe star gave fans in Lisbon just 45 minutes' notice that her show on Sunday night was being called off.\n\n\"We regret to inform you that Madonna is unable to perform this evening,\" an email informed ticketholders at 19:45. She had been due on stage at 20:30.\n\n\"Sorry I had to cancel tonight,\" the star wrote on Instagram, \"but I must listen to my body and rest!\"\n\nIt is the eighth time Madonna has had to cancel a show on her current world tour, which sees her playing smaller, intimate theatre venues.\n\nShe has not revealed the nature her injury, but told one audience in San Francisco she was suffering from a \"torn ligament\" and \"a bad knee\" in November.\n\nIn a video posted to social media last week, she was shown wearing knee supports while rehearsing for an earlier show in Lisbon.\n\n\"How an injured Madame X warms up for a show,\" she wrote in the caption. \"Very carefully.\"\n\nThe star has also shared videos of her taking post-show ice baths to help her cope with \"multiple injuries\" that are causing \"overwhelming pain\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMadonna began the current stage of her Madame X tour in Portugal's Coliseu Dis Recreios theatre on 12 January, and had seemed to be in good spirits, interacting with the crowd and drinking port on stage.\n\nThe star said it was her first drink \"in a month\" and that it had \"got her through\" the strenuous show.\n\nShe also joked about her \"25 injuries\" and told the audience \"don't pay attention to what goes on from the waist down\", reported Lisbon-based music magazine Blitz.\n\nThe star also traded high heels for flat shoes during last Thursday's concert.\n\n\"They are very ugly but it was either wear these boots or cancel the show,\" the star was quoted as saying by the Portuguese website Sapo.\n\nMadonna said she hoped the tour would resume this week, writing on Instagram: \"See you on Tuesday, fingers crossed.\"\n\nThe show is due to come to the UK on 27 January, with 15 dates planned at the London Palladium.\n\nAnger and recrimination might well have been expected among the Madonna fans who crowded outside the historic Coliseu Dos Recreios in the heart of Lisbon to hear the news they dreaded.\n\nMany had flown in from around the world to see their \"queen\" grace the intimate venue, just a few miles from her new Portuguese home.\n\nBut as they took photos of the cancellation notices posted on the door, less than an hour before the official start time, there was plenty of understanding and concern for the injured star.\n\nAfter all, fans are fully aware that this is an all-out performer, battling against injury, who offers no compromise on stage. Madonna started out as a dancer and, even at 61, this is a show where her on-stage movement is as much a part of the act as her singing.\n\nOne fan who summed up his own frustration by posting a single-finger message to Madonna was quickly joined online by others speculating that she may need to postpone the rest of her tour, including 15 dates at the London Palladium next month.\n\nBut as a Coliseu staff member, standing at the door that remained resolutely shut, told me: \"She did a great show here last night so you and the other fans here tonight are really unlucky.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A forensic examination of the scene is under way, police said\n\nThree men have died in a stabbing in east London.\n\nPolice said they were called at about 19:40 GMT on Sunday to reports of a disturbance in Elmstead Road in Seven Kings, Ilford.\n\nThree men, aged in their 20s or 30s, who were involved in a fight, were found by emergency services with stab injuries, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene. Two men, aged 29 and 39, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nCh Supt Steve Clayman said a fight had broken out between two groups who were armed with knives, leaving three men fatally stabbed.\n\n\"We can now say that two arrests have since been made, so there has been progress.\n\n\"The parties are believed to be known to each other and the group are within the Sikh community,\" he added.\n\nSabih Qureshi, who lives in the area, told the BBC he had seen seven or eight men \"fighting each other\" in the same place on Saturday, which he believed was \"linked for sure\".\n\nHe said: \"They were saying 'I will kill you', and the person was saying 'ok kill me'. For sure it was linked.\"\n\nAfter seeing the three \"badly injured\" men following the attack, Mr Qureshi said he and several others tried to help and give them CPR.\n\nThe Ilford resident added that one of the men was already dead, while the other two were \"not conscious\" but breathing \"just a little\".\n\n\"It was very violent. All the blood was in the street,\" he said.\n\nLouis O'Donoghoe described seeing \"absolute chaos\" after he had heard screaming and shouting outside his house.\n\nIt was like something out of a movie, horrific,\" the 40-year-old scaffolder said.\n\nFormal identification of the victims is yet to take place.\n\nThe stabbings bring the number of homicide investigations launched by the Met in 2020 to six.\n\nPolice will continue to patrol the area on Monday\n\nThere has been a visible police presence here since Sunday night.\n\nOfficers were called just before 20:00 to reports of a disturbance but when they arrived, they found three young men - all in close proximity to each other - with fatal stab wounds.\n\nAt the end of one of the police cordons put in place you can just about make out the tops of the forensic tents - three dotted next to each other - which marks the exact spots where these individuals were pronounced dead.\n\nAn enhanced police presence was seen in the Redbridge area on Monday\n\nDespite the works of the emergency services, these men could not be saved.\n\nI've seen graphic video from a nearby resident that was filmed shortly after the incident showing pools of blood on the street.\n\nI've been speaking to some residents here this morning who say they have raised concerns to police over gangs congregating behind Seven King's train station, where they often drink and smoke cannabis.\n\nRoad closures and an enhanced police presence will be seen in the Redbridge area.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted: \"My thoughts are with their families and the local community at this dreadful time.\"\n\nHe said extra police enforcement powers had been authorised for the whole of Redbridge borough until 08:00 on Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA forensic examination of the scene is under way and will continue on Monday, police said.\n\nJas Athwal, leader of Redbridge Council, said: \"An incident like this is unheard of within the Sikh community here in Redbridge.\n\n\"I think tragically there are at least three families who are going to be in mourning and this is going to last a lifetime for the people left behind.\"\n\nHe was critical of bloody footage shared on social media appearing to show the aftermath of the killings.\n\n\"I think the first response should be 'What can we do to help?'. To put it on social media is not right.\"\n• None Homicide level down for first time in five years\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is currently the party's shadow Brexit secretary\n\nSir Keir Starmer is the first Labour leadership candidate to pass the final hurdle to get onto the ballot.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) says it is backing the shadow Brexit secretary.\n\nThis gives Sir Keir the support required - that of three unions and affiliate groups representing 5% of the membership - to get to the final stage.\n\nUsdaw has also given its support to shadow education secretary Angela Rayner for deputy leader.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said: \"The Labour Party must be led by someone who can persuade voters that they have what it takes to be a prime minister and we are a government-in-waiting.\"\n\nFour other candidates are still in the running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader - shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, Wigan MP Lisa Nandy and Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four candidates remain in the race for the Labour leadership\n\nBut they have yet to receive the backing of the necessary groups, or the alternative - the backing of 5% of constituency Labour parties (CLPs) - to make the final ballot.\n\nSir Keir, who also has the support of Unison and affiliate group Sera, said he was \"honoured\" to have the backing of Usdaw.\n\nHe added: \"If I'm elected leader, Labour will stand shoulder to shoulder with the trade union movement as we take on the Tories and rebuild trust with working people.\"\n\nMs Rayner also thanked the union for its backing, saying: \"It's a great honour to be nominated by such a campaigning trade union.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides on the next Labour leader?\n\nShe faces competition for the deputy leadership from Scotland's only remaining Labour MP, Ian Murray, shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler, Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan and shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon.\n\nThe unions, affiliate groups and CLPs have until 14 February to get their preferences submitted. The GMB union is expected to announce which candidate it will support on Tuesday after a hustings and meeting.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the deadline passed for new members to join the party - or an affiliated group - in time to vote in the leadership election.\n\nThe final ballot of party members, trade unionists and registered supporters will open on 21 February, and the new leader and deputy will be announced on 4 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry says it is \"a great sadness that it has come to this\"\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has said he is \"taking a leap of faith\" in stepping back from being a senior royal, adding: \"There really was no other option.\"\n\nSpeaking at an event on Sunday evening, Prince Harry said he and Meghan had hoped to continue serving the Queen, but without public funding.\n\n\"Unfortunately, that wasn't possible,\" he said.\n\nIt was his first speech since the couple said they wanted to stand down from being full-time working royals.\n\nThe prince said he had found \"the love and happiness that I had hoped for all my life\" with Meghan, but he wanted to make it clear they were \"not walking away\".\n\n\"The UK is my home and a place that I love, that will never change,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry said it was a sign of the pressures he was feeling that he would \"step my family back from all I have ever known\" in search of \"a more peaceful life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond gives his five takeaways from Harry's speech\n\nEarlier this month, Prince Harry and Meghan said they intended \"to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent\".\n\nOn Saturday, Buckingham Palace announced that from the spring they will stop using their HRH titles and withdraw from royal duties, including official military appointments.\n\nAnd on Monday Prince Harry was pictured at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, where he held a number of private meetings, including with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hosted an evening reception at Buckingham Palace for heads of government, ministers, business leaders and members of NGOs attending the summit.\n\nIt was the first time the duke and duchess had hosted a reception for world leaders on behalf of the Queen.\n\nPrince Harry did not attend, with BBC royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, saying he is believed to have left on a flight for Canada from Heathrow airport.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were joined at the reception by senior royals including the Princess Royal and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nBeginning his speech at a fund-raising reception in central London for Sentebale, the charity he co-founded which helps children living with HIV in southern Africa, he said: \"I can only imagine what you may have heard and perhaps read over the past few weeks.\n\n\"So I want you to hear the truth from me as much as I can share, not as a prince or a duke but as Harry.\"\n\nDuring his address, the prince said he would always have \"the utmost respect for my grandmother, my commander in chief\".\n\n\"Our hope was to continue serving the Queen, the Commonwealth, and my military associations, but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn't possible,\" he said.\n\n\"I've accepted this, knowing that it doesn't change who I am or how committed I am.\"\n\nPrince Harry met the prime minister at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan have both spoken about the difficulties of royal life and media attention, with the duke saying he feared his wife would fall victim to \"the same powerful forces\" that led to his mother's death.\n\nHe told the audience at the reception for Sentebale, which he founded to continue Princess Diana's legacy in supporting those with HIV and Aids, that he felt they took him \"under your wing\" after she died.\n\n\"You've looked out for me for so long, but the media is a powerful force, and my hope is one day our collective support for each other can be more powerful because this is so much bigger than just us,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs part of a deal finalised on Saturday between the Queen, senior royals, and the couple, Harry and Meghan agreed they will no longer formally represent the monarch.\n\nHowever, the statement by Buckingham Palace said they would continue to maintain their private patronages and associations.\n\nPrince Harry said in his speech that he and Meghan \"will continue to lead a life of service\".\n\n\"I will continue to be the same man who holds his country dear and dedicates his life to supporting the causes, charities and military communities that are so important to me,\" he said.\n\nJohnny Hornby, chairman of Sentebale, said the new arrangements would not affect the prince's work for the charity. \"We don't need - from Sentebale's perspective - his title, we just need his time and his passion,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThere are two big messages in this speech. The first is to deal with the \"Meghan myth\" - the idea that the Duchess of Sussex is at the root of the couple's desire to lead a different life.\n\nHarry speaks of \"many months\" of discussions over how to deal with the challenges of \"many years\"; he's making it clear that he was unhappy with his role long before Meghan entered his life\n\nAnd he talks about the decision that \"I\" made, a decision \"I\" did not make lightly. He stresses that this was his call, though it was clearly one that they came to together.\n\nThe second message is that he wanted to continue in some sort of a royal role; \"unfortunately,\" he says \"that wasn't possible.\"\n\nBoth sides - the Sussexes and the Palace - thought at the beginning of negotiations that such a half-in, half-out role might be possible. But the tension between a royal life and an independent life was too great; the contradictions and possible conflicts of interest were too many.\n\nHarry may or may not believe that to be true. But he wants to let people know that his desire, at least, was to continue to serve.\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who is the author of a critical book about the Royal Family, said the public could end up paying for part of the Prince of Wales' ongoing financial support for his son.\n\nMr Baker told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Queen already offset support for family members against the tax bill for the Duchy of Lancaster, the sovereign's estate.\n\nMuch of Prince Harry's funding comes from his father's estate, the Duchy of Cornwall.\n\nMr Baker called for Prince Charles to say how he will support Harry and to publicly guarantee there would be no loss to the taxpayer through a reduction in his tax liability.\n\nThe former MP also called for the Commons public accounts committee to investigate royal finances.\n\nJournalist and royal author Robert Hardman said the agreement with the Queen meant the duke and duchess's Sussex Royal brand, which they applied to trademark last year, is not \"sustainable\".\n\n\"The whole thrust of what has been agreed with the Queen is they won't be trading on their royal credentials,\" he said.\n\nIn Prince Harry's speech, posted on the couple's Instagram account, he said that when he and Meghan were married \"we were excited, we were hopeful, and we were here to serve\".\n\n\"For those reasons, it brings me great sadness that it has come to this.\n\n\"The decision that I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly,\" he said.\n\n\"It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges and I know I haven't always got it right, but as far as this goes there really was no other option.\"\n\nThe couple, together with their son Archie, spent time in Victoria over Christmas\n\nThe couple said they plan to divide their time between the UK and Canada, after they spent six weeks on Vancouver Island with their son Archie over Christmas.\n\nThe prince told attendees it was a \"privilege... to feel your excitement for our son Archie, who saw snow for the first time the other day and thought it was bloody brilliant!\"\n\nThe duchess is currently staying on Canada's west coast with her son, after briefly returning to the UK earlier this month.\n\nWhat questions do you have about Prince Harry and Meghan's future?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The project is set to be the world's largest polyhalite mine\n\nThousands of people who invested in a £4bn mining project may be left out of pocket as a result of a takeover bid.\n\nUp to 85,000 small investors sank cash into the Sirius Mineral development near Whitby before it ran into financial difficulty last year.\n\nMining giant Anglo American has offered to buy the project for £405m, with investors set to receive 5.5p a share.\n\nThe company said it was \"sensitive to the fact that the price is lower than what many people may have invested\".\n\nAbout 10,000 of the investors live near the mine, which would extract polyhalite from beneath North York Moors National Park before transporting it on an underground conveyor belt to a processing plant near the former Redcar steelworks.\n\nSirius failed to reach a fundraising target which would have unlocked a $2.5bn bank loan\n\nScott Murphy, a \"seasoned investor\" from London, looks set to lose about £12,000, but said his thoughts were with investors in the local area.\n\n\"A lot of them have no real investment experience,\" he said. \"They're 'Ordinary Joes' who have been sold the dream and that's what I find disgusting.\n\n\"I've got no excuse for losing my money and I accept it for what it is, but many of these people are not going to get an opportunity to get their money back.\"\n\nThe project plans to extract polyhalite from a mile below the North York Moors\n\nThe takeover of the Sirius Minerals project may secure jobs but there will be dismay and anger behind the front doors of plenty of houses in North Yorkshire and Teesside.\n\nThis scheme attracted a large number of small investors, individuals who saw an opportunity to buy into a local project.\n\nIt was the talk of the area, a huge project to mine a valuable resource. There was gold - well, polyhalite actually - in them there hills.\n\nI remember going to a prospective investors meeting at Ravenscar several years ago where there were dozens of people in their forties, fifties and sixties, thinking of buying in to help their retirement.\n\nIt got under way and soon seemed too big to fail, but not, it seems, too big to be taken over.\n\nNow, anyone who bought shares for more than 5.5p each will be taking a hit.\n\nThe other side of the coin is the old argument that shares can go down as well as up and perhaps you should not invest what you can't afford to lose.\n\nBut many investors had an altruistic take on getting involved; it was local, some of them can literally see the project from their homes.\n\nThat view could now be a painful outlook instead of a pleasant one.\n\nShares in Sirius Minerals hit a high of about 45p in August 2016 and were worth more than 22p a year ago.\n\nBut share prices dropped when Sirius Minerals slowed construction work at the end of 2019 due to funding problems.\n\nSirius chairman Russell Scrimshaw said the company had searched for a partner who would provide cash in return for a minority stake, but in the end the full acquisition by Anglo American was the only \"viable proposal\".\n\nThe deal is subject to shareholder approval but the firm, which has its head office in Scarborough, will recommend they accept Anglo American's offer.\n\nMr Scrimshaw said that if the offer was not approved then there was a high probability Sirius could be placed into administration or liquidation within weeks.\n\nMark Cutifani, the chief executive of Anglo American, said the company will look at opportunities to improve the project but stressed \"this process is about preserving and creating jobs, not cutting them\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Courteeners led Eminem by 2,000 sales in the midweek album chart\n\nEminem's chart rivals The Courteeners believe the rapper \"crossed a line\" by referencing the Manchester bomb attack in the lyrics to his new track.\n\nThe US star was criticised by many last week, including Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, for an \"unnecessarily hurtful\" verse on his new album.\n\nCourteeners singer Liam Fray says he \"feels sorry\" that the rapper has resorted to \"shock\" tactics.\n\nHis band are currently ahead of Eminem in the race for number one.\n\nTheir sixth album More. Again. Forever has sold 2,000 more copies than the rapper's surprise release, Music To Be Murdered By, according to the Official Charts.\n\nFray accepts that his band will probably be overtaken when the full chart is compiled on Friday, as Eminem is outperforming them on streaming services.\n\nBut he isn't impressed by the star's controversial lyrics.\n\n\"It all just felt like an old comedian who can't get on the telly any more just saying something outrageous,\" says Fray.\n\n\"I just felt a bit sorry for him. I just felt like he's jumping the shark a bit.\"\n\nHe adds: \"He's trying to be as outrageous as possible because he's running out of ideas, that's what it is.\n\n\"It's nothing else [but] shock value. You have to shock to be good - that's nonsense.\"\n\nTwenty-two people died when a suicide bomber attacked a crowd outside an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in May 2017.\n\nThe Courteeners were among the bands who officially reopened the venue months later with a benefit gig for families of the victims, alongside Noel Gallagher, Rick Astley and other local acts.\n\nEminem referenced the atrocity in Unaccommodating, the second track on his new album, rapping: \"I'm contemplating yelling 'bombs away' on the game / Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting,\" followed by the sound of an explosion.\n\nOn Sunday, Fray tweeted words to the effect of \"Eminem can get lost\", but was, he admits, simply referring to their chart battle at that point.\n\nThe Courteeners help to re-open the Manchester Arena with the We Are Manchester benefit gig in 2017\n\nHaving been locked in \"Courteeners' world\", since the release of their own new music last week, the singer was blissfully unaware of the star's lyrics until he was hit with \"a deluge\" of replies from fans online.\n\n\"I didn't realise really, it was almost like tongue in cheek,\" he explains, \"As it's quite funny for a lad from Middleton to be calling out the biggest rapper in the world!\n\n\"But you'd have to be stone-hearted to not think of the consequences of those words really. because they're outrageous. What is going on in someone's mind to think that those kind of things are OK?\n\n\"Look, shock has a place in art and it always has done but there's a line and I just think that line was crossed. That's just my opinion and other people might think otherwise but when it's close to home and when you've seen the city pick itself up piece by piece, day by day, then it gets you, man.\"\n\nFray says he hopes the controversy won't cause further pain to the families of the victims.\n\n\"I don't even want to talk too much about it because I feel like it's almost not my place,\" he says. \"I want to give them the respect that they deserve.\"\n\nThe Courteeners were formed in 2006 by school friends Michael Campbell, Liam Fray and Daniel \"Conan\" Moores\n\nThe BBC has asked Eminem for a comment.\n\nThe rapper previously pledged his support to victims of the bombing in 2017, and urged fans to donate money to families who had been affected.\n\nThe cover of The Courteeners' reflective new album carries an image of the worker bee - a symbol of Manchester, which took on added meaning as the city rallied together in the wake of the attacks.\n\nWhoever wins the chart race, they are on course to achieve their biggest first week of sales ever.\n\nIn their review, The Guardian wrote that \"without abandoning the well-executed anthemics\" that the band have become known for, the record \"weighs in on the subjects of ageing, alcohol and mental health\".\n\nThe NME, meanwhile described it as their \"most focussed and adventurous work to date\".\n\nThe north Manchester guitar-slingers have always been a curious beast, capable of putting on their own UK outdoor mini-festivals for their legions of adoring fans, but without having ever really translated that cult popularity into massive mainstream chart success. (They've had five top ten albums, but never a number one).\n\nThis time around though, Fray - who recently bleached his hair blonde just like Eminem - believes there's been \"a real sea change towards us\", which he admits \"feels pretty good\".\n\n\"Because it's not always felt like that\".\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs well as the usual indie rock 'n' roll riffs and barnstorming ballads, Fray points to the addition of hip-hop beats, a trip-hop influence and \"just a lot of thought and consideration that went into it\".\n\n\"We've always took pride in moving it on and I never thought we were never given the credit we deserved early on for kind of changing up the sound,\" says the 34-year-old, whose band will headline this year's TRNSMT festival in Glasgow.\n\n\"Once you release a debut album [2008's St Jude] and it does OK, it's pretty hard to change people's perception of what your sound is.\n\n\"But the songs will speak louder than any interview I'll ever do.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John O'Reilly died a week after being pushed by another patient at a dementia care unit in County Armagh\n\nThe daughter of a man with dementia who died after being pushed by another patient in a care facility, has said her family has been let down by authorities.\n\nJohn O'Reilly died a week after sustaining a head injury at a dementia care unit in County Armagh.\n\nThe 83-year-old was pushed twice by the same patient in the days leading up to the fatal incident.\n\nHis family were not made aware of this until after his death.\n\nIn a statement the Southern Trust said: \"The tragic circumstances of Mr O'Reilly's death have been subject to an inquest process, which the trust fully participated in and which concluded his death was a tragic accident.\"\n\nMr O'Reilly's family said they only discovered about previous pushing incidents during the police investigation that followed their father's death.\n\nHis daughter Maureen McGleenon said the Southern Trust told them about the previous incidents at a meeting, weeks after their father had died.\n\nShe said: \"I couldn't believe it, especially because they had happened only days before the push that led to dad's fatal injuries.\n\n\"We had called the unit every morning during this time period and various family members visited dad over that time frame, so there were ample opportunities to tell us this had happened.\n\n\"If we had known that dad had been pushed twice before, we can say with total assurance that we would have taken him home where he would be safe.\n\nMaureen McGleenon said her father lived for his family\n\nMr O'Reilly, a former Ulster GAA chairman, was a father of seven.\n\nHis daughter said they had grown up in a very happy home.\n\n\"He was married to mum for 55 years and had 15 grandchildren.\n\n\"He loved the GAA, there were times he would travel to Cork and Kerry for a day, just to see a match. That was dad.\"\n\nAfter being diagnosed with dementia a number of years ago, Mr O'Reilly was referred to the Gillis Unit in November 2018 on the grounds of St Luke's Hospital in County Armagh.\n\nIt is a specialist ward for people who have dementia or who are being assessed for dementia symptoms and is run by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nOn 4 December 2018, Mr O'Reilly was pushed by another dementia patient causing him to hit his head off a wall. His family have said he was pushed with such force that it left a dent in the wall.\n\nHe was admitted to Craigavon Area Hospital with severe head injuries and died a week later.\n\nLast week, an inquest heard that the dementia patient who pushed Mr O'Reilly had a history of aggressive behaviour linked to dementia.\n\nThe inquest heard evidence that the patient, referred to as Mr Y, had pushed staff and patients in a previous nursing home and had threatened to kill his wife.\n\nThe Southern Trust is carrying out as Serious Adverse Incident (SAI) investigation into Mr O'Reilly's death\n\nIt also heard that Mr Y had pushed Mr O'Reilly twice on 30 November in the Gillis Unit, which led to him being medicated and placed on close one-on-one observation.\n\nOn 4 December, Mr O'Reilly and Mr Y met in the doorway of a corridor in the unit, a nurse was behind Mr Y at the time when Mr O'Reilly was pushed.\n\nConcluding the inquest, the coroner said the fatal push happened by \"pure chance\" and was a \"tragic accident\".\n\nFollowing Mr O'Reilly's death, Mr Y was sectioned on mental health grounds and has since died.\n\nMaureen McGleenon said her family still have many questions that remain unanswered.\n\n\"Dad couldn't tell us anything because of his dementia, we relied 100% on the health trust staff to tell us how he was.\n\n\"We found out things through the inquest, including the fact that there wasn't a formal written risk assessment carried out with dad after the first two pushing incidents on him.\n\n\"We also didn't know until the inquest that Mr Y had been considered a high risk to patients in the care home where he had been a resident of preceding his placement in Gillis.\n\n\"To say that dad's death was only a tragic accident has devastated us to be honest. We're completely gutted by it.\n\n\"Instead of dying peacefully as was his right, dad died a violent death.\"\n\nThe Southern Trust is carrying out as Serious Adverse Incident (SAI) investigation into Mr O'Reilly's death.\n\nMaureen McGleenon said: \"Our experience of the SAI process has been dreadful. In our view it allows the trust to park the fact that something catastrophic has happened to a family.\n\n\"We were told it would be a 12-week process. It's over a year now and we've expended so much energy trying to figure out this process and find things out for ourselves.\n\nShe added: \"The system just knocks you down and makes you want to give up.\n\n\"We'll never get over what happened to dad and we can't give up on trying to understand it.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Southern Trust said: \"An SAI review has been conducted by an independent chair and independent panel members external to the trust, which unfortunately can take longer to complete, due to complexities of managing the time and availability of the expert members.\"", "The highest air pressure in the UK for over 60 years has been recorded in Wales - in the Mumbles, Gower.\n\nAtmospheric pressure readings were recorded at 1050.5 hectopascals (hPa) on Sunday night - the highest reading since January 1957 in Scotland.\n\nWeather experts said an \"incredibly strong\" Atlantic jet stream had pushed vast amounts of air over the UK - sending the mercury rising.\n\nIt means a spell of settled weather - with some frosty mornings for some.\n\nAccording to the BBC Weather service, the high pressure system has been driven by winds hitting 238mph (383km/h) over the central Atlantic ocean.\n\nLlyn Padarn, Llanberis, where high pressure also means some frosty mornings\n\nIn turn, that has lead to a \"pile-up\" of air over the British Isles, pushing down on the land mass, with the increase in air pressure.\n\nBy comparison - the global average air pressure is 1,013 hPa.\n\nIn contrast to the highs - during the recent Storm Brenda, the air pressure slumped to just 939 hPa as the cyclone moved across the north Atlantic.\n\nThe highest recorded reading for air pressure at sea level in the UK was in 1902 at Aberdeen, when it hit 1,053.6 hPa - or 31 inches of mercury if you are looking at your old wall barometer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nBrad Pitt and his former wife Jennifer Aniston both had reasons to celebrate at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where they briefly reunited backstage.\n\nPitt was named best supporting actor for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.\n\nHis win meant he was among the first to congratulate Aniston when she was named best actress in a drama series for The Morning Show shortly afterwards.\n\nBritain's Phoebe Waller-Bridge was also honoured at the event in Los Angeles.\n\nThe Fleabag creator was named best actress in a comedy series for the second instalment of her BBC sitcom.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge received her own 'Actor' award for Fleabag\n\nJoaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger were named best actor and actress for Joker and Judy respectively, confirming their status as Oscar favourites.\n\nYet there was surprise when the South Korean film Parasite received the best ensemble cast award, the SAG's equivalent to a best film prize.\n\nThe dark comedy beat Bombshell, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit and Tarantino's film to the ceremony's top honour.\n\nThe award suggests Parasite - widely expected to be named best international feature film at the Oscars next month - could have a shot at the best picture award as well. The winners of best ensemble have gone on to receive the best picture Oscar 11 times in the last 24 years.\n\nPitt, who separated from his second wife Angelina Jolie in 2016, made reference to his colourful love life as he accepted his prize.\n\nThe 56-year-old joked that it had been \"a big stretch\" to play stuntman Cliff Booth, \"a guy who takes his shirt off, gets high and doesn't get on with his wife\".\n\nDern thanked Marriage Story co-stars Alan Alda and Ray Liotta as she accepted her prize\n\nPitt then watched Aniston accept her award on a TV monitor and briefly held hands with her when they crossed paths backstage.\n\nThe couple were married from 2000 to 2005, after which Pitt married Jolie and Aniston married actor Justin Theroux.\n\nLaura Dern cemented her own status as a red-hot Oscar favourite by winning best supporting actress for her role in Marriage Story.\n\nThe event also saw Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams recognised for playing the title roles in Fosse/Verdon, the TV miniseries about choreographer Bob Fosse and his actress wife Gwen Verdon.\n\nPeter Dinklage was crowned best actor in a drama series for the final series of Game of Thrones, while Tony Shalhoub won best actor in a comedy series for The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.\n\nThat show also won the best TV comedy ensemble award, with The Crown receiving the equivalent prize for television drama.\n\nGame of Thrones and comic book movie Avengers: Endgame were also honoured for the work of their respective stunt teams.\n\nRobert De Niro, recipient of a life achievement award at Sunday's event, used his acceptance speech to accuse President Trump of \"a blatant misuse of power\".\n\n\"I can imagine some of you are saying, 'All right, let's not get into the politics,\"' he said after receiving his honour from former co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.\n\n\"But we're in such a dire situation and it's so deeply concerning to me and so many others, I have to say something.\"\n\nThe SAG Awards are presented annually by SAG-AFTRA, which formed in 2012 when the Screen Actors Guild merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.\n\nThe organisation represents around 160,000 people, among them actors, dancers, stunt performers and voiceover artists.\n\nThe SAG Awards came 24 hours after this year's Producers Guild Awards, one of which went to Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her fellow Fleabag producers.\n\nSir Sam Mendes' World War One drama 1917 was the big winner at Saturday's event, taking home the event's equivalent of a best film prize.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Trains were replaced on the West Coast Main Line after Stagecoach was disqualified\n\nUK rail operator Stagecoach has taken the government to the High Court, arguing that ministers acted unlawfully in awarding rail franchises.\n\nLast year, Stagecoach and its partners were barred from bidding to run three franchises in a row over pension liabilities.\n\nRail firms face an estimated £7.5bn pensions gap and Stagecoach says it was asked to take on too big a burden.\n\nIt alleges that the Department for Transport mismanaged the bid process.\n\nIt is seeking compensation, as well as a judicial review, which could see franchises already awarded being declared invalid.\n\nStagecoach's legal action is backed by its bid partners, Virgin and French state-owned operator SNCF.\n\nOpening the case for Stagecoach and its partners, Jason Coppel QC said the rail franchise system and the railway pension scheme were both \"in crisis\".\n\nHe added that the procurement process was \"shrouded in secrecy\" and said there had been \"a long series of mistakes and missteps which result in the unlawful disqualification decisions that we challenge\".\n\nA similar but separate case brought by Arriva, owned by Deutsche Bahn, had also been filed with the court.\n\nHowever, at Monday's hearing, the court heard that Arriva had reached a confidential settlement with the DfT over its disqualification from bidding for the East Midlands franchise and had withdrawn its claim.\n\nThe West Coast Main Line, previously run by Virgin Trains, is now operated by a partnership between Aberdeen-based firm FirstGroup and Italy's Trenitalia.\n\nAnother affected franchise, the East Midlands, was awarded to Dutch-owned firm Abellio.\n\nThe hearing is expected to last about four weeks, with a judgement to be issued later this year.\n\nStagecoach has said it is \"disappointing\" that it has had to resort to legal action, but feels it has \"a strong case\".\n\nThe DfT has said it has \"total confidence\" in the franchise competition process and will \"robustly defend\" the decisions that were taken.\n\nThe Pensions Regulator has estimated the UK rail industry needs billions of pounds to plug a shortfall in the railway pension scheme, while Stagecoach has said it was being asked to take on risks it \"cannot control and manage\".\n\nRail firms have called on the government to help make up the pensions deficit.", "Police are investigating the cause of the caravan fire\n\nA three-year-old boy was killed in a caravan fire in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nHis sibling, aged four, is in a critical but stable condition in hospital and his father is stable.\n\nThe fire service said a touring caravan and vehicle were completely destroyed and adjacent property damaged in the blaze at Ffair Rhos, near Tregaron, Ceredigion.\n\nEmergency services had been called to the scene at 05:35 GMT on Sunday.\n\n\"Enquiries so far lead us to believe that three people were inside the caravan at the time the fire broke out,\" said Dyfed-Powys Police's Det Ch Supt Steve Cockwell.\n\n\"These were a father and two children - a four-year-old, and a little boy who we believe to have been aged three.\n\n\"While the father and the eldest child were able to get out of the caravan, the younger of the siblings was tragically found deceased inside.\"\n\nSpecialist officers are now supporting the family while a major incident room has been set up at Aberystwyth Police Station.\n\nDet Ch Supt Cockwell added: \"The father is currently in a stable condition in hospital, while the four-year-old is critical but stable.\n\nThe Criminal Investigation Department is investigating the cause of the fire and an appeal was made for witnesses.\n\n\"This was a tragic incident, and we will be doing all we can to find answers for the family, whose world will have been torn apart by this morning's events,\" the officer added.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Mid and West Wales Fire service said appliances from Tregaron, Aberystwyth and Lampeter attended.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe couple said last year that they would step back as \"senior\" royals, and work to become financially independent.\n\nIn 2016, Kensington Palace released a statement confirming Harry had been dating US actress Meghan Markle \"for a few months\". They were pictured in public for the first time in Toronto, attending a wheelchair tennis match during the 2017 Invictus Games.\n\nThey announced their engagement a few weeks after being first pictured together. Meghan told BBC News that Harry's proposal was \"just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic\".\n\nIn February 2018, the couple took part in their first joint engagement with Prince Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. As Meghan joined their Royal Foundation charity, Harry joked the foursome were now \"stuck together\".\n\nThe couple were married at Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018, with 1,200 public invitations to the grounds of the castle. They travelled through the town in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\nUp to 100,000 well-wishers lined the route as the duke and duchess travelled through Windsor.\n\nThe couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George's Chapel.\n\nThe couple kissed on the steps of St George's Chapel.\n\nThe Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family attended the wedding.\n\nThe newlyweds held hands after the ceremony.\n\nIn June 2018, the Queen and the duchess were seen at their first royal engagement together, as they officially opened the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester's Storyhouse Theatre.\n\nThat autumn, Kensington Palace revealed the duchess was pregnant and the couple's baby was due in the spring. Shortly after the announcement, they embarked on their first official overseas tour, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.\n\nOn one of their engagements, the couple posed with OneWave, a surfing community group that raises awareness of mental health and wellbeing, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia\n\nOn 6 May, 2019, Meghan gave birth to a boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who became seventh in line to the throne. Harry told reporters: \"It's been the most amazing experience I could ever possibly imagine\".\n\nIn June 2019, the couple announced they were splitting from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own foundation.\n\nLast autumn, Archie travelled with the couple to southern Africa on their first royal tour as a family, and was a big hit with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nAn image of a beaming Prince Harry holding his son while on an extended stay in Canada was released by the couple as part of an Instagram compilation summing up their year.\n\nFollowing their trip, the couple were pictured in January on a visit to Canada House.\n\nIn February, the couple announced that they are expecting their second child.", "The UK's largest carbon neutral development is being built in Tonyrefail\n\nAll new homes in Wales will only be heated and powered by clean energy under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nHousing accounts for 9% of all greenhouse gas emissions in Wales.\n\nHowever houses built after 2025 will be more energy efficient, cheaper to run and produce up to 80% less CO2 emissions, under the proposals.\n\nWales' largest housing association, Pobl Group, said the targets were \"challenging but much needed\" to address climate change.\n\nHousing contributes \"significantly\" to the problem, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nIt said \"substantial change\" was needed for buildings to operate close to zero emissions by 2050.\n\nHowever it said residents could also save as much as £180 a year on bills under the proposed new standards to be implemented in Wales over the next five years.\n\nHousing Minister Julie James said reducing the carbon and energy impact of new homes must be cost effective, affordable and practical.\n\n\"To meet our target of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 95% by 2050, we need to take action now to make a significant step change to the way we heat and power our homes,\" she added.\n\n\"The new homes being built today will exist in 2050. Therefore, we must ensure the standards we set for these homes put us on the right path.\n\n\"These measures will not only tackle climate change, but keep down household energy costs, helping people with the cost of living.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Watkinson family live self sufficiently in Pembrokeshire\n\nThe largest carbon neutral development in the UK is being built outside Tonyrefail, Rhondda Cynon Taff.\n\nNone of the 225 new homes being built are connected to mains gas.\n\nInstead, water warmed by the earth 500ft (150m) underground and pumped into the house provides heating, as well as solar panels, while batteries store energy which can also be sold back to the National Grid.\n\nTechnology will also constantly monitor energy tariffs, to make the most of off-peak times, and improved insulation helps reduce bills.\n\n\"The point has come when we have to take action,\" said Rhys Parry of Pobl Group\n\nDevelopers Pobl Group are confident homeowners will save up to 50% on utility bills.\n\n\"The point has come when we need to take action and we can make a big difference,\" said director Rhys Parry.\n\n\"Decarbonisation is at the heart of what we are doing. We're moving away from fossil fuels and using technology already available.\n\n\"But we don't want it to be so difficult that people don't understand. The houses will look, feel and smell the same as any.\n\n\"These are the houses of the future and hopefully this scheme will prove they work.\"\n\nWhile the Tonyrefail development has received £7m of funding from the Welsh Government, the private sector faces paying extra buildings costs of about £6,000 per property.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"It will add to costs in the short run, but the more new technologies are used, the cheaper they become.\n\n\"This has the great benefit that bills will be smaller for people living in these houses and ways of heating our homes that will be sustainable for the future.\"\n\nThe House Building Federation (HBF), which represents the industry in England and Wales, said the targets were \"extremely challenging\".\n\nHowever more than 35% of people would be willing to pay more for a \"zero carbon\" new home, according to a HBF poll.\n\n\"New homes are already significantly more energy efficient than existing homes and the industry is absolutely committed to going much further,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"To achieve these ambitions we need all stakeholders - governments, builders, material suppliers, environmental groups - to work together to agree a co-ordinated, deliverable work plan.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government's consultation on the new proposals closes on 12 March before looking at work on existing homes and non-domestic buildings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section American football\n\nThe San Francisco 49ers defeated the Green Bay Packers 37-20 to win the NFC Championship and will now play the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 54 on 2 February in Miami.\n\nRaheem Mostert ran in four touchdowns as the 49ers took control, with the Packers, who trailed 27-0 at half-time, scoring two Aaron Jones touchdowns and another from Jace Sternberger.\n\nThe Chiefs beat the Tennessee Titans 35-24 in the AFC Championship game earlier on Sunday to secure a first Super Bowl appearance in 50 years.\n\nThis will be the 49ers' first Super Bowl since 2013 when they lost 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans.\n• None Sunday's AFC and NFC Championship matches as they happened\n\nThe 49ers have won it five times, but their last success came 25 years ago when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl 29, which was also held in Miami.\n\nIt has been a remarkable turnaround for Kyle Shanahan's side, who had a 4-12 record in the 2018 regular season, compared to 13-3 in this campaign.\n\nThey had thrashed Green Bay 37-8 in week 12 in November and were completely dominant in the first half against the Packers at Levi's Stadium.\n\nMostert's first touchdown saw him sprint in from 36 yards, before Robbie Gould's huge 54-yard field goal gave the hosts a 10-0 lead early in the second quarter.\n\nTwo further scores from Mostert - from nine and 18 yards - gave the 49ers a 27-0 lead and meant he became the first player in NFL history with 150+ rush yards and three rush touchdowns in a single half of a playoff game.\n\nPackers quarterback Aaron Rodgers found Jones for a nine-yard touchdown early in the third, but Mostert soon ran in from 22 yards for his fourth touchdown - the most from any player in an NFC Championship match.\n\nJones bundled over from one yard for his second touchdown of the day for the Packers, who then missed a two-point conversion attempt when Davante Adams could not hold on.\n\nHowever, Rodgers' eight-yard pass to Jace Sternberger brought the Packers to within 14 points after a 65-yard pass to Davante Adams had set up the chance.\n\nThe Packers were aiming to reach their first Super Bowl since beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 in Super Bowl 45 in February 2011 but could not do enough to complete a fightback against the 49ers, with Gould's 42-yard field goal sealing the home victory.\n\n\"I just woke up like it was any other game,\" said Mostert of his stellar display.\n\n\"It was just one of those games where once we all got in the groove we were like 'Hey, let's keep it riding, keep it rolling' and that's what we did.\"\n\nMahomes shines as the Chiefs fight back to win\n\nQuarterback Patrick Mahomes threw three touchdowns and ran in another as the Chiefs overcame an early 10-point deficit with 28 unanswered points to beat the Titans.\n\nTennessee had previously upset New England and Baltimore in the play-offs.\n\nKansas City were slow starters again, just like last week when they fell 24-0 behind before beating Houston 51-31, and they twice went 10 points behind in a near perfectly executed game plan from the Titans, combined with more sloppy play and penalties from the hosts.\n\nTyreek Hill scored on an eight-yard jet sweep either side of a Derrick Henry run and a touchdown catch from Titans lineman Dennis Kelly - who became the heaviest player ever to catch a play-off touchdown pass in history.\n\nMahomes then took over with two quick scores that have become his trademark - first firing a 20-yard strike to Hill before taking off himself for a breath-taking 27-yard scoring run that saw him evade a couple of tacklers before out-muscling a couple more and driving into the end zone.\n\nThe Titans had dominated first-half possession and Kansas City had made the very most of their time with the ball, but in the second half Kansas City produced more prolonged attacks as they chewed up over seven minutes when scoring their fourth touchdown of the game.\n\nDamien Williams ran in the score from three yards out to cap a 13-play drive covering 73 yards.\n\nFar from sitting on their lead, Kansas City kept pressing and Mahomes unleashed a 60-yard throw to Sammy Watkins to seal the game, despite a late consolation touchdown from Anthony Firkser.\n\nAfter the Chiefs fell at the same hurdle at home last season against the Patriots, this time they saw out the contest to claim the AFC Championship title and book their place in Miami for Super Bowl 54 on 2 February.\n\nKansas City appeared in the first ever Super Bowl and last took part in the big game in Super Bowl IV in 1970 - with their return to the NFL finale representing the biggest gap in Super Bowl appearances in history.\n\n\"It's amazing and to do it at Arrowhead as well,\" said Mahomes.\n\n\"We're not done yet, we're going to do it. This is awesome, we go out every day and you see the work coach [Andy] Reid does.\n\n\"We're going to the Super Bowl and going to play our best football.\"", "Leaked documents reveal how Africa's richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption.\n\nIsabel dos Santos got access to lucrative deals involving land, oil, diamonds and telecoms when her father was president of Angola, a southern African country rich in natural resources.\n\nThe documents show how she and her husband were allowed to buy valuable state assets in a series of suspicious deals.\n\nMs Dos Santos says the allegations against her are entirely false and that there is a politically motivated witch-hunt by the Angolan government.\n\nThe former president's daughter has made the UK her home and owns expensive properties in central London.\n\nShe is already under criminal investigation by the authorities in Angola for corruption and her assets in the country have been frozen.\n\nNow BBC Panorama has been given access to more than 700,000 leaked documents about the billionaire's business empire.\n\nMost were obtained by the Platform to Protect Whistle-blowers in Africa and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).\n\nThey've been investigated by 37 media organisations including the Guardian and Portugal's Expresso newspaper.\n\nThirty per cent of Angolans live in poverty on less than $2 a day\n\nAndrew Feinstein, the head of Corruption Watch, says the documents show how Ms Dos Santos exploited her country at the expense of ordinary Angolans.\n\n\"Every time she appears on the cover of some glossy magazine somewhere in the world, every time that she hosts one of her glamorous parties in the south of France, she is doing so by trampling on the aspirations of the citizens of Angola.\"\n\nThe ICIJ have called the documents the Luanda Leaks.\n\nOne of the most suspicious deals was run from London through a UK subsidiary of the Angolan state oil company Sonangol.\n\nMs Dos Santos had been put in charge of the struggling Sonangol in 2016, thanks to a presidential decree from her father Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who kept a tight grip on his country for the 38 years he was in power.\n\nBut when he retired as president in September 2017 her position was soon under threat, even though his hand-picked successor came from the same party. Ms Dos Santos was sacked two months later.\n\nMany Angolans have been surprised at the way that President João Lourenço has gone after the business interests of his predecessor's family.\n• None 30%of population live in poverty - less than $1.90/day\n\nThe leaked documents show that as she left Sonangol, Ms Dos Santos approved $58m of suspicious payments to a consultancy company in Dubai called Matter Business Solutions.\n\nShe says she has no financial interest in Matter, but the leaked documents reveal it was run by her business manager and owned by a friend.\n\nPanorama understands that Matter sent more than 50 invoices to Sonangol in London on the day that she was fired.\n\nMs Dos Santos appears to have approved payments to her friend's company after she was sacked.\n\nAlthough some consultancy work had been carried out by Matter, there's very little detail on the invoices to justify such large bills.\n\nOne asks for €472,196 for unspecified expenses - another asks for $928,517 for unspecified legal services.\n\nTwo of the invoices - each for €676,339.97 - are for exactly the same work on the same date and Ms Dos Santos signed them both off anyway.\n\nThese are some of the invoices Isabel dos Santos signed off in her last week at Sonangol\n\nLawyers for Matter Business Solutions say it was brought in to help restructure the oil industry in Angola, and that the invoices were for work that had already been carried out by other consultancy companies it had hired.\n\n\"Regarding the invoices related with expenses, it is common for consultancy companies to add expenses to invoices as a general item. This is often due to those expenses involving large amounts of paperwork... Matter can produce documentary evidence to confirm all expenses incurred.\"\n\nMs Dos Santos's lawyers said her actions with regard to the Matter payments were entirely lawful and that she had not authorised payments after she had been dismissed from Sonangol.\n\nThey said: \"All invoices paid were in relation to services contracted and agreed between the two parties, under a contract that was approved with the full knowledge and approval of the Sonangol Board of Directors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Isabel dos Santos: \"I regret that Angola has chosen this path\"\n\nThe ICIJ and Panorama have also uncovered new details about the business deals that made Ms Dos Santos rich.\n\nMuch of her fortune is based on her ownership of a stake in the Portuguese energy company Galp, which one of her companies bought from Sonangol in 2006.\n\nThe documents show it only had to pay 15% of the price upfront and that the remaining €63m ($70m) was turned into a low-interest loan from Sonangol.\n\nUnder the generous terms of the loan, her debt to the Angolan people didn't have to be repaid for 11 years.\n\nHer stake in Galp is now worth more than €750m.\n\nMs Dos Santos's company did offer to repay the Sonangol loan in 2017.\n\nThe repayment offer should have been rejected because it didn't include almost €9m of interest owing.\n\nBank orders signed by Isabel dos Santos transferred almost $58m out of the Angolan state oil company\n\nBut Ms Dos Santos was in charge of Sonangol at the time and she accepted the money as full payment of her own debt.\n\nShe was fired six days later and the payment was returned by the new Sonangol management.\n\nMs Dos Santos says she initiated the purchase of the stake in Galp, and that Sonangol made money from the deal as well.\n\n\"There's absolutely no wrongdoing in any of those transactions. This investment is the investment that in history has generated the most benefit for the national oil company and all the contracts that were drafted are perfectly legal contracts, there are no wrongdoings.\"\n\nHer lawyers say the repayment offer in 2017 covered what Sonangol had indicated was owed.\n\nIt's a similar story in the diamond industry.\n\nThey were supposed to be 50-50 partners in a deal to buy a stake in the Swiss luxury jeweller De Grisogono.\n\nBut it was funded by the state company. The documents show that 18 months after the deal, Sodiam had put $79m into the partnership, while Mr Dokolo had only invested $4m. Sodiam also awarded him a €5m success fee for brokering the deal, so he didn't have to use any of his own money.\n\nIsabel dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo can often be seen at film premieres and festivals with the world's stars\n\nThe diamond deal gets even worse for the Angolan people.\n\nThe documents reveal how Sodiam borrowed all the cash from a private bank in which Ms Dos Santos is the biggest shareholder.\n\nSodiam has to pay 9% interest and the loan was guaranteed by a presidential decree from her father, so Ms Dos Santos's bank cannot lose out.\n\nBravo da Rosa, the new chief executive of Sodiam, told Panorama that the Angolan people hadn't got a single dollar back from the deal: \"In the end, when we have finished paying back this loan, Sodiam will have lost more than $200m.\"\n\nThe former president also gave Ms Dos Santos's husband the right to buy some of Angola's raw diamonds.\n\nThe Angolan government says the diamonds were sold at a knockdown price and sources have told Panorama that almost $1bn may have been lost.\n\nMs Dos Santos told the BBC she couldn't comment because she was not a shareholder of De Grisogono.\n\nBut the leaked documents show that she is described as a shareholder of De Grisogono by her own financial advisers.\n\nMr Dokolo did put in some money later. His lawyers say he invested $115m and that the takeover of De Grisogono was his idea. They say his company paid above the market rate for the raw diamonds.\n\nThe leaked documents also reveal how Ms Dos Santos bought land from the state in September 2017. Once again she only had to pay a small up-front fee.\n\nHer company bought a square kilometre of prime beachfront land in the capital Luanda with the help of presidential decrees signed by her father.\n\nAngolan state oil company Sonangol has a subsidiary in London where suspicious deals took place\n\nThe contract says the land was worth $96m, but the documents show her company paid only 5% of that after agreeing to invest the rest in the development.\n\nPanorama traced some of the ordinary Angolans who were evicted to make way for the Futungo development.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Albertina de Fatima describes living next to an open sewer in Angola\n\nThey've been moved from the Luandan seafront to an isolated housing development 30 miles (50km) from the capital.\n\nTeresa Vissapa lost her business to Ms Dos Santos' development and is now struggling to bring up her seven children.\n\nShe said: \"I only ask God to make her think a little more about our situation. Maybe she doesn't even know it, but we are suffering.\"\n\nMs Dos Santos declined to comment on the Futungo development.\n\nBut it was not the only land deal involving Ms Dos Santos that displaced the local population.\n\nAbout 500 families were evicted from another stretch of the Luandan seafront after Isabel dos Santos got involved in another major redevelopment project.\n\nThe families are now living in desperate conditions next to an open sewer. Some of their shacks are flooded with sewage whenever the tide rises.\n\nMs Dos Santos says there weren't any evictions linked to her project and that her companies were never paid because the development was cancelled.\n\nThe billionaire has also made big profits from the telecoms industry in Angola.\n\nShe acquired a 25% stake in the country's biggest mobile phone provider, Unitel. It was granted a telecoms licence by her father in 1999 and she bought her stake the following year from a high ranking government official.\n\nUnitel has already paid her $1bn in dividends and her stake is worth another $1bn. But that's not the only way she got cash from the private company.\n\nShe arranged for Unitel to lend €350m to a new company she set up, called Unitel International Holdings.\n\nThe leaked documents show Isabel dos Santos signed off on loans from Unitel as both the borrower and the lender\n\nThe company name was misleading because it wasn't connected to Unitel and Ms Dos Santos was the owner.\n\nThe documents show Ms Dos Santos signed off on the loans as both lender and borrower, which is a blatant conflict of interest.\n\nMs Dos Santos denied that the loans were corrupt. She said: \"This loan had both directors' approval and shareholders' approval, and it's a loan that will generate, and has generated, benefit for Unitel.\"\n\nHer lawyers say the loans protected Unitel from currency fluctuations.\n\nMost of the companies involved in the dodgy deals were overseen by accountants working for the financial services company, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC). It's made millions providing auditing, consultancy and tax advice to her companies.\n\nBut PWC has terminated its relationship with the billionaire and her family, after Panorama questioned the way the company had assisted Ms Dos Santos in the deals that had made her rich.\n\nPWC says it is holding an inquiry into the \"very serious and concerning allegations\".\n\nTom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, criticised PWC for giving the corruption a \"veneer of respectability\"\n\nTom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, told Panorama that PWC had given legitimacy to Ms Dos Santos and her companies.\n\n\"PWC, if not facilitating the corruption, are providing a veneer of respectability that makes what's happening acceptable or more acceptable than it might otherwise be.\n\n\"So if I was at PWC I'd be conducting a pretty thorough audit of what decisions were made, and in hindsight actually: 'Did we make the wrong decision to accept this business and should we have reported what we had been presented with?'\"\n\nPWC says it strives to maintain the highest professional standards and has set expectations for consistent ethical behaviour across its global network.\n\n\"In response to the very serious and concerning allegations that have been raised, we immediately initiated an investigation and are working to thoroughly evaluate the facts and conclude our inquiry.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to take appropriate actions to ensure that we always stand for the very highest standards of behaviour, wherever we operate in the world.\"\n\nPanorama: The Corrupt Billionaire is available on BBC iPlayer in UK.", "One of Britain's oldest department stores has collapsed into administration, putting more than 1,000 jobs at risk.\n\nBeales has appointed KPMG as administrators after failing to find a buyer or new investment for the business.\n\nThe department store began trading in Bournemouth in 1881 and has 23 shops.\n\nThere will be no immediate closures and Beales stores will continue to trade, although the website is offline.\n\nBeales had tried to secure rent reductions with landlords and was in negotiations with potential investors and buyers.\n\nBut KPMG said: \"Despite interest from a number of parties, this process did not secure any solvent solutions for the company, and as a result, the directors took the difficult decision to place the companies into administration.\"\n\nIn the year to March 2019, Beale Ltd reported a loss of £3.1m, up from £1.3m for the year earlier as costs swelled and sales dipped.\n\nKPMG's Will Wright, who is the joint administrator to Beales, said: \"With the impact of high rents and rates exacerbated by disappointing trading over the Christmas period, and extensive discussions around additional investment proving unsuccessful, there were no other available options but to place the company into administration.\n\n\"Over the coming weeks, we will endeavour to continue to operate all stores as a going concern while we assess options for the business, including dealing with prospective interested parties.\" He said added that during this period gift vouchers, customer deposits and customer returns/refunds will continue to be honoured.\n\nIndependent retail analyst Richard Hyman said it was \"no surprise\" that Beales had collapsed. \"It has been fighting for survival for quite some time, as have many other department stores,\" he said.\n\nMr Hyman said department stores were \"very expensive to run\" and faced \"overwhelming\" competition from other stores, particularly online rivals, predicting there would be \"far fewer of them\" in future.\n\n\"It is getting much, much harder to operate a department store profitably,\" he said. Beales' chief executive Tony Brown led a management buyout of the firm in 2018.\n\nBeales has stores in the following towns and cities:\n\nThe company's decision to appoint administrators comes at a difficult time for UK retailers.\n\nRecent data from the British Retail Consortium revealed that retail sales fell for the first time in a quarter of a century last year.\n\nJohn Lewis has warned that its staff bonus may be in doubt as it reported Christmas sales at its department stores were down 2% for stores open at least a year.\n\nSome companies are prospering, however.\n\nSports fashion retailer JD Sports says it expects to report full-year profits at the top end of forecasts. Next lifted its profit forecast after better than expected sales over Christmas trading period.", "Sarah Champion said South Yorkshire Police needed to make \"dramatic changes\"\n\nRotherham's MP Sarah Champion has said she finds it \"difficult to believe\" that a police officer mentioned in a report into the treatment of a sex abuse survivor cannot be identified.\n\nMs Champion said South Yorkshire Police needed to make \"dramatic changes\" in the wake of the police watchdog report.\n\nIt said police failed to protect the complainant, exposing her to abuse.\n\nIt also found an officer - whose identity is a mystery - said \"racial tensions\" meant nothing could be done.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) looked at several complaints made by a Rotherham woman, who was abused as a child for several years.\n\nIn its report, initially leaked to the Times newspaper, the watchdog upheld the woman's complaints, saying that \"police took insufficient action to protect you from harm\" and that \"police failed to adequately deal with offenders\".\n\nThe IOPC also upheld a complaint that the victim's father was told by a senior - but unidentifiable - officer that the force was aware abuse \"had been going on 30 years and the police could do nothing because of racial tensions\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said on Saturday it accepted the findings of the IOPC.\n\nA report in 2014 by Prof Alexis Jay found at least 1,400 children were subjected to sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage.\n\nMs Champion told BBC Radio 5 live that the IOPC inquiry was the latest in a series of investigations that showed \"victims and survivors were let down by paid professionals\".\n\n\"Apparently now South Yorkshire Police don't actually know who the officers were that repeatedly let down this survivor, which I find incredibly difficult to believe,\" the MP said.\n\n\"I think what we as a town need to see, and definitely for the survivors to get closure, they need to see cases of misconduct. They need to see people held to account.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police could not be contacted for comment about the Labour MP's remarks.\n\nAbuse survivor Sammy Woodhouse said victims were \"failed, ignored, blamed\"\n\nHer views were echoed by Sammy Woodhouse, who was abused as a teenager in the South Yorkshire town.\n\nShe said she was not shocked by the report's findings.\n\n\"I think for the last six years we've more than proved what happened to us,\" said Ms Woodhouse.\n\n\"How we were viewed how we were treated, failed, ignored, blamed... unfortunately that's not a thing of the past, it's still happening today.\n\n\"We've started to now see perpetrators that have committed the rapes and the abuse being held to the account, but yet whenever when it comes to professionals I feel that we constantly hit a brick wall and I don't think anybody will be ever held to account.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Third Test, Port Elizabeth, (day five of five): England won by innings and 53 runs; lead 2-1 in series\n\nEngland sealed their biggest away win in more than nine years in the third Test against South Africa to move 2-1 up with one match left in the series.\n\nNeeding four wickets on the fifth morning, the tourists bowled the Proteas out for 237 to seal victory by an innings and 53 runs.\n\nFrom 102-6 overnight, still 188 short of making England bat again, South Africa's margin of defeat would have been even greater had it not been for Keshav Maharaj, who clubbed 71.\n\nIn a freewheeling 10th-wicket stand of 99 with Dane Paterson, Maharaj at one stage took 45 runs from 14 deliveries.\n\nBefore that, England's progress had been serene. Just as he did on Sunday, Stuart Broad removed Vernon Philander in the first over of the day, before Mark Wood had Kagiso Rabada caught at mid-on and Dom Bess bowled Anrich Nortje.\n\nHowever, what started as Maharaj and Paterson trying their luck turned into genuine frustration for England, with the ball disappearing to all parts and fielders scattered all over Port Elizabeth.\n\nIt was eventually ended when Maharaj attempted a single to mid-on, failing to beat a Sam Curran throw that hit the non-striker's stumps.\n\nEngland will win the series if they avoid defeat in the fourth Test in Johannesburg, which begins on Friday.\n• None England youngsters 'stood up to be counted' - Silverwood\n• None I am not retiring after this series - South Africa captain Du Plessis\n\nEngland were in such disarray at the beginning of this series that Ben Stokes revealed they were referring to their trip to South Africa as \"The Cursed Tour\".\n\nIllness swept through the squad before and during the first-Test defeat in Centurion, Stokes' father was admitted to hospital with a serious illness and opener Rory Burns had to go home with an ankle injury sustained playing football.\n\nEven though England have suffered injuries to bowlers James Anderson and Jofra Archer since then, they have turned their fortunes around to stand on the verge of only their second away series victory since they won in South Africa four years ago.\n\nThey have done so with experienced players like Broad, Stokes and Joe Root performing, but what is most encouraging is the development of the younger players. Dom Sibley, 24, struck his maiden century in the second-Test win, and in this match 22-year-olds Ollie Pope and Bess recorded a first hundred and first five-wicket haul respectively.\n\nAfter an even first day, England utterly dominated this match on a flat, slow pitch, the kind of surface on which they have struggled so badly away from home in recent times.\n\nThe end result was their first innings win overseas since the famous 2010-11 Ashes triumph in Australia.\n\nThis match was hit by bad weather on days two, three and four, but any hope South Africa had of being saved by the elements was dashed by clear skies and sunshine on Monday.\n\nRoot, who took four wickets on Sunday, hunted his first five-wicket haul in professional cricket by bowling unchanged for more than an hour.\n\nMeanwhile, Philander's push at Broad resulted in an inside edge on to pad that was held by Pope at mid-wicket, Rabada was caught by Broad off a leading edge and Nortje was bamboozled by Bess.\n\nRoot even gave himself the second new ball, only to be hit for three fours and two sixes in an over by Maharaj. When the final delivery went for four byes, the 28 runs conceded equalled the record for the most expensive over in Test history.\n\nThat was the signal for Maharaj and Paterson to play shots at virtually every ball, with Wood and Curran also coming in for some harsh treatment.\n\nBy this point, England were somehow unable to hit the stumps when bowling and were only spared more toil by Curran's accurate throw.\n\nNot only did the tourists ensure they will at least draw the series, but they strengthened their position in third place in the World Test Championship, albeit some distance adrift of India and Australia.\n\nSouth Africa's win in the first Test ended their run of five successive defeats, but since then they have quickly unravelled.\n\nAnd their obstacles to preventing a 3-1 series loss - which would be a repeat of the scoreline when South Africa visited England in 2017 - are growing.\n\nPace bowler Kagsio Rabada is banned for the final Test, while the threat of Vernon Philander, who retires after the match in Johannesburg, has gradually diminished throughout the series.\n\nHowever, it is a lack of runs that is the home side's main problem, not least the form of captain Faf du Plessis, who has gone nine innings without a half-century.\n\nOn Sunday, South Africa coach Mark Boucher said he had \"no clue\" if Du Plessis would carry on as skipper, with the player then confirming his desire to continue in the post-match presentation.\n\nDu Plessis is one part of a misfiring middle order. Number three Zubayr Hamza's place is under threat from Temba Bavuma, who made 180 in South African domestic cricket last week.\n\n'Young guys are stepping up' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"It's a great template for how we want to play our cricket: a big first-innings score and drive the game forward from there.\n\n\"We want to keep giving our young guys confidence so that when they get their opportunities they feel they can perform.\n\n\"Our team is all about the collective and we've got a very good squad of players. Having guys at a young age stepping up is a really exciting place to be.\"\n\nSouth Africa captain Faf du Plessis on his future: \"I have heard the rumours about a possible retirement. I have been clear and consistent that the Twenty20 World Cup [starting in October] is the time I am looking for. Nothing has changed.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"I'm sure Joe Root would love to have Mark Wood and Jofra Archer together for the last Test. Confidence in that South Africa dressing room must be rock bottom - and they have lost Kagiso Rabada.\n\n\"But there's still life in this series. If South Africa win in Johannesburg, they will draw the series - they must remember that.\"", "Both girls and boys can now have HPV vaccines\n\nMercedes was so confident her smear test would come back clear that she was chatting to a friend on the phone as she opened the letter.\n\nBut she was left shocked and confused when, at 24, she read that the cells in her cervix had started to change, caused by a virus called HPV (human papillomavirus).\n\nChanges to the way smear tests work mean more women in the UK are about to be told they have HPV - but misconceptions around it can put a strain on sex, relationships and mental health.\n\nAround 80% of people will contract one of more than 200 strains of HPV at some point in their lives. In most cases people don't even know they have it, and 90% of infections go away by themselves within two years.\n\nIn rare cases, like Mercedes', it can cause cell mutations that can ultimately develop into cervical cancer.\n\nMercedes had treatment to remove the affected cells and the virus had disappeared within six months. But the fact that she had contracted it made her feel anxious.\n\n\"I started to question: 'Where did I get this from? Is it something that I've done wrong?'\" she says.\n\nHearing HPV referred to as a sexually transmitted infection (STI) on TV made matters worse, leaving her feeling \"dirty\".\n\nIt seems she is not alone. A survey of more than 2,000 women carried out by Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust found, on average, 10% of women said they would feel the same if they were told they had it, and 57% said they might think their partner had cheated.\n\nUnder 25s were most likely to feel \"dirty\" (18%) compared to 12% of women aged between 25 and 34 and less than 5% of over 55s.\n\nA vaccine for HPV has been offered to girls since 2008, and was made available to boys last year.\n\nThe virus lives in the skin around the genitals and can be passed on through sex (even if it's with a condom) and other intimate contact, so - technically - it is an STI.\n\nBut Kate Sanger, spokeswoman for the Trust, says that its prevalence means it is more comparable to a common cold than other STIs, so should not be viewed in the same way.\n\nShe is concerned about how the stigma could affect women now that changes to smear tests will lead to more diagnoses.\n\nIn the past, smear tests aimed to detect cell changes. But by the summer, all tests in England, Wales and Scotland are expected to screen for HPV first, to work out more accurately - and earlier on - who is at a higher risk of cervical cancer.\n\nIf both HPV and cell changes are detected, women will be asked to have further tests. But if HPV is found without any cell changes, they will be asked to come back a year later for a second smear to check the virus has gone.\n\n\"Being told you've got HPV doesn't mean you're dirty, it doesn't mean you've done anything wrong, it doesn't mean that you're any different to anyone else,\" she says.\n\n\"It's just like having a cold without any kind of symptoms.\"\n\nCervical cancer survivor Nicole Davidson, 26, takes part in Jo's \"smear for smear\" campaign to encourage women to go for their test\n\nNicole Davidson, 26, from Suffolk, was told she had cervical cancer after her first smear test in 2018. She already had two children, and chose to have a hysterectomy as treatment.\n\nFinding out that it was caused by HPV was an added stress. She had been with her partner for around five years, but began to question her sexual history and ended up taking anti-depressants.\n\n\"It made me feel like I'd caused it myself. I know it sounds really silly, but it makes you feel like if I'd never had sex, I'd never have got cervical cancer,\" she says.\n\nBoth men and women can contract HPV, but most men aren't aware because there is no test for them.\n\nMore than 40% of women said being told they had HPV would impact their dating and sex lives, with younger women being the most concerned.\n\nJust 22% said they would date someone with HPV, and more than half would consider ending a relationship with a partner if they knew they had it.\n\nMs Sanger urges people not to panic if they are diagnosed - and stresses that while HPV is common, smear tests mean that cervical cancer is rare, with around 3,000 cases diagnosed in the UK every year.\n\nThe HPV vaccination programme for girls was relatively new when Nicole was at secondary school, and her mother did not get her vaccinated - a decision she says she will not repeat with her own children.\n\nNow, almost two years on from her diagnosis and with much more knowledge about HPV, she says she is in a better place.\n\n\"It's just knowing that it's such a common thing and I didn't actually do anything to give myself cervical cancer,\" she says.\n\n\"It's not something that's dirty or disgusting, or anything like that, it's just natural.\"\n\nUnlike Nicole, Mercedes was in the early stages of a relationship when she was diagnosed.\n\n\"The emotional impact the whole thing had on me put a real strain on the relationship, because I just wasn't in a good headspace,\" she says.\n\n\"I didn't know very much about his sexual history and I never openly [or] actively blamed him, but I did start to question those things.\"\n\nFor her, feeling better was a question of learning about the prevalence of the virus and how easily it can be passed on.\n\nFour years after opening the letter, and engaged to the man she was dating at the time, she wants other women to be more aware.\n\n\"It's part of life, it's just really unlucky that it affected the cells in my cervix,\" she says.", "US prosecutors have dropped charges of misdemeanour assault against British retail tycoon Sir Philip Green.\n\nSir Philip was charged on four counts in May last year after a fitness instructor in Arizona alleged that he repeatedly touched her inappropriately.\n\nThe incidents were said to have occurred at the Canyon Ranch resort in Tucson in 2016 and 2018.\n\nSir Philip denied the allegations at the time. On Monday, his Arcadia Group said the case had now been dismissed.\n\nThe group owns the High Street chains Topshop, Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge and Wallis.\n\nA statement issued by Arcadia said: \"At the request of the prosecution, the cases alleging assault against Sir Philip Green, due to be heard before the Consolidated Court of Arizona in and for the County of Pima on 20 February 2020, were dismissed.\n\n\"These matters are now closed,\" it added.\n\nLast year, Sir Philip Green prevented the collapse of his retail group when creditors approved a restructuring plan.", "The Duke of Sussex has spoken for the first time after Buckingham Palace announced the terms on which he and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will step back from being senior royals.\n\nHe made his remarks during a speech at a private reception in central London for his charity Sentebale.\n\n\"Good evening, and thank you for being here for Sentebale, a charity me and Prince Seeiso created back in 2006 to honour my mother's legacy in supporting those affected by HIV and Aids.\n\n\"Before I begin, I must say that I can only imagine what you may have heard or perhaps read over the last few weeks...\n\n\"So, I want you to hear the truth from me, as much as I can share - not as a prince, or a duke, but as Harry, the same person that many of you have watched grow up over the last 35 years - but with a clearer perspective.\n\n\"The UK is my home and a place that I love. That will never change.\n\n\"I have grown up feeling support from so many of you, and I watched as you welcomed Meghan with open arms as you saw me find the love and happiness that I had hoped for all my life. Finally, the second son of Diana got hitched, hurray!\n\n\"I also know you've come to know me well enough over all these years to trust that the woman I chose as my wife upholds the same values as I do. And she does, and she's the same woman I fell in love with.\n\n\"We both do everything we can to fly the flag and carry out our roles for this country with pride.\n\n\"Once Meghan and I were married, we were excited, we were hopeful, and we were here to serve.\n\n\"For those reasons, it brings me great sadness that it has come to this.\n\n\"The decision that I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly. It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges. And I know I haven't always got it right, but as far as this goes, there really was no other option.\n\n\"What I want to make clear is we're not walking away, and we certainly aren't walking away from you. Our hope was to continue serving the Queen, the Commonwealth, and my military associations, but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn't possible.\n\n\"I've accepted this, knowing that it doesn't change who I am or how committed I am.\n\n\"But I hope that helps you understand what it had come to, that I would step my family back from all I have ever known, to take a step forward into what I hope can be a more peaceful life.\n\n\"I was born into this life, and it is a great honour to serve my country and the Queen.\n\n\"When I lost my mum 23 years ago, you took me under your wing.\n\n\"You've looked out for me for so long, but the media is a powerful force, and my hope is one day our collective support for each other can be more powerful because this is so much bigger than just us.\n\n\"It has been our privilege to serve you, and we will continue to lead a life of service.\n\n\"It has also been a privilege to meet so many of you, and to feel your excitement for our son Archie, who saw snow for the first time the other day and thought it was bloody brilliant!\n\n\"I will always have the utmost respect for my grandmother, my commander in chief, and I am incredibly grateful to her and the rest of my family for the support they have shown Meghan and I over the last few months.\n\n\"I will continue to be the same man who holds his country dear and dedicates his life to supporting the causes, charities and military communities that are so important to me.\n\n\"Together, you have given me an education about living. And this role has taught me more about what is right and just than I could have ever imagined.\n\n\"We are taking a leap of faith - thank you for giving me the courage to take this next step.\"", "Two dozen barrels of Scotch whisky are being put up for sale in what is being billed as the world's first dedicated online auction for casks.\n\nThe auction will feature a wide range of barrels, from a 2015 Glen Ord cask with a pre-sale estimate of £2,000-£3,000 to a Springbank 1995 sherry hogshead (£40,000-£50,000).\n\nThe event will run from 22 January for 12 days.\n\nIt is the first of four planned this year by specialist firm Cask Trade.\n\nThe barrels have been submitted to the auction by private owners and investors.\n\nCask Trade said it had validated all the sellers and confirmed proof of ownership as well as the history of each cask.\n\nThe London-based company, which specialises in buying and selling \"exceptional cask whiskies\", was set up in 2018 by serial entrepreneur and whisky collector Simon Aron.\n\nCask Trade was founded by entrepreneur and whisky collector Simon Aron\n\nHe founded the business after running out of space for his collection.\n\nHe explained: \"I built up a collection of 2,000 bottles over nearly 25 years, and it drove my wife mad that I had so many of them stored under the stairs and in cupboards around our home.\n\n\"I started to look more at casks and decided to build a new marketplace for buyers and sellers.\n\n\"With the launch of auctionyourcask.com, we offer a fresh approach to selling whisky by the cask, not just the bottle.\"\n\nEntries to the auction can be made until 10 January.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Winds carried smoke from the fires as far away as New Zealand across the Tasman Sea\n\nSmoke from huge bushfires in Australia is drifting as far as New Zealand, 2,000km (1,200 miles) away, leading to haze and a burnt smell in the air.\n\nAustralia is grappling with a bushfire crisis fuelled by record-breaking temperatures and months of drought.\n\nThe smoke first reached New Zealand's South Island on 31 December, turning skies a murky yellow.\n\nSince then, the south's famous glaciers have vanished in haze and even North Island has seen its skies turn \"eerie\".\n\nAt least 18 people are confirmed to have been killed by the bushfires, which have burned vast areas of several Australian states.\n\nSeveral people are still missing and conditions are expected to worsen over the coming weekend.\n\nThe view of Mount Cook over the past days vs on a clear day\n\n\"I have never seen anything like the haze over the past 48 hours,\" Arthur McBride of glacier tour company Alpine Guides told the BBC.\n\nTourist flights up to Tasman, Franz Josef and Fox glaciers are a popular way to experience New Zealand's stunning mountain scenery.\n\nBut in recent days visitors have endured a thick yellow haze, instead of the white snow and bright blue skies expected.\n\n\"Wednesday afternoon was particularly bad,\" Mr McBride says, \"and the smell of woodsmoke is still distinct.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It's been hazy for the past 36 hours, it's been a smoky haze,\" explains Dan Burt of Mount Cook Skiplanes and Helicopters.\n\n\"In fact, we've seen some discolouration on the glacier since a few weeks ago - so that was actually already before the haze of the past days.\"\n\nThere's a layer of brown dust on the usually pristine glacier\n\nHis company runs tour and flights to several glaciers in the region, including the main Tasman glacier.\n\nOver the past days, a few trips had to be cancelled, he said.\n\n\"It still would have been save to fly, but it just wouldn't have been a great experience to be up there.\"\n\nAn Australian woman visiting Franz Josef photographed how dust from the bushfires had \"caramelised\" the mountain snow, turning it brown.\n\nThe tourist, who calls herself Rey, posted pictures on social media on New Year's Eve, saying the snow had been white on the previous day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by WeatherWatch.co.nz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe peaks around the tourist city of Queenstown, further south from the glaciers, were also covered in haze.\n\nOver the past days, the people of Dunedin on South Island woke up to a noticeably darker sky, according to local media, and there's been a strong yellowish twilight over the town.\n\nPictures from Akaroa near the south's main city of Christchurch also showed an striking sky with the hills shrouded in haze.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBy Thursday, the haze and burnt smell had also reached the North Island.\n\n\"The air doesn't smell in Auckland, but the sunrise and morning light was eerie,\" Auckland resident Ena Hutchinson told the BBC.\n\n\"There was a strange, golden glow on the sea, the sky was cloudy, and when the sun broke through it was orange.\"\n\nShe said that while there'd been some haze 10 years ago during earlier Australia fires, things had never been this bad.\n\n\"It's certainly not something that's happened like this before - virtually blanketing the South Island and now heading northwards today.\"", "The graffiti was found on a building near the North Brixton Islamic Cultural Centre\n\nAnti-Islamic slogans have been painted on a building near a mosque in south London.\n\nThe graffiti was found on a building near to the North Brixton Islamic Cultural Centre in Brixton Road at about 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was working with Lambeth Council to remove the \"offensive remarks\" from the building as soon as possible.\n\nThe force said it was investigating who was responsible.\n\nSadiq Khan said he was \"disgusted\" by the graffiti, which comes days after anti-Semitic symbols were daubed across several shops and a synagogue in north London.\n\nThe London mayor tweeted: \"Let me be clear: all prejudice is cowardly and criminals will face the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dominic Fell, Rachel Clark and Joseph Finnis died on New Year's Eve\n\nTributes have been paid to three British Airways (BA) cabin crew who were killed in a crash near Heathrow Airport on New Year's Eve.\n\nDominic Fell, 23, Joseph Finnis, 25, and Rachel Clark, 20, died after their car collided with a lorry on Bedfont Road in Stanwell at about 23:40 GMT.\n\nFriends and colleagues paid tribute to the three \"beautiful young angels\" on an online fundraising page.\n\nA 25-year-old woman who was also in the car remains in a serious condition.\n\nMore than £55,000 has been raised on the Go Fund Me site which was launched by cabin crew member Stephen Crook and named the \"BA Angels\".\n\nWriting on the site, Malgorzata Kubik posted: \"Joe was my coach and he always made sure we were OK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Lauren Rowlands wrote: \"RIP to my friend Dom and angels Joe and Rachel. The sky is eternal now guys.\"\n\nLaura Stewart said: \"Dom and Joe were truly special men and I hope that their families take some comfort in knowing that they were so loved by everyone they have flown with! I'll miss you.\"\n\nThe Mercedes HGV left the road after colliding with the white Toyota Yaris\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for BA said: \"We're deeply saddened to learn of the death of our colleagues involved in a road traffic collision on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with their family and friends, who we are supporting at this distressing time.\"\n\nIt is understood two of the cabin crew had finished work at about 18:00, while the other two were on a day off and not scheduled to be on duty.\n\nCh Insp Mike Hodder, from Surrey Police, said: \"The families and friends of those involved are still coming to terms with what happened.\"\n\n\"Our thoughts continue to be with them today,\" he added.\n\nThe driver of the Mercedes HGV was not injured and no arrests have been made.\n\nNo arrests have been made over the crash\n• None Three BA cabin crew killed in New Year's Eve crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marion Chesney Gibbons wrote under the name MC Beaton\n\nThe creator of two of the world's best-loved fictional detectives has died at the age of 83.\n\nMarion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pseudonym MC Beaton, was the prolific author of the Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin crime novels.\n\nHer son, Charles Gibbons, announced her death via Twitter on Thursday.\n\nHe said that \"the support of her fans and the success she enjoyed in her later years were a source of great pride and satisfaction to her\".\n\nHe added: \"Author of over 160 novels in her prolific 40-year career, this news will sadden many of her family and friends.\"\n\nMC Beaton sold more than 21 million copies of her books around the world and was regularly named as the most-borrowed adult author from UK libraries.\n\nHer Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth novels were translated into 17 languages and were both made into TV dramas.\n\nRobert Carlyle starred as Macbeth in the BBC series and Ashley Jenson played Raisin in the Sky TV dramas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by M.C. Beaton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMC Beaton was born in Glasgow in 1936.\n\nHer first job was as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department at John Smith & Sons Ltd. There, she started to review variety shows for the Scottish Daily Mail and became their theatre critic.\n\nShe worked at Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, before quickly being appointed its fashion editor. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime.\n\nHamish Macbeth ran for three series in the 1990s\n\nThis led to a move to Fleet Street and the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter.\n\nShe lived in the US after marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles.\n\nInitially she worked as a waitress in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes, but they both managed to get jobs on Rupert Murdoch's new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.\n\nIn a bid to spend more time at home with her son, she started to write Regency romances. She moved on to write detective stories under the pseudonym MC Beaton.\n\nAshley Jensen took on the role of Agatha Raisin\n\nA visit to Sutherland on holiday inspired the first Hamish Macbeth story. Agatha Raisin was created when the family moved to the Cotswolds.\n\nShe said: \"Sad news. Marion's sense of humour never deserted her, nor her determination to enjoy life to the full.\"\n\nHer latest novel Beating About The Bush was published in October.", "The number of people killed in crashes of large commercial planes fell by more than 50% in 2019, according to an aviation industry study.\n\nLast year 257 fatalities were recorded, compared to 534 in 2018, according to aviation consultancy To70.\n\nThat's despite the high-profile Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia in March.\n\nThe decrease follows a general trend for the industry that's seen aviation fatalities fall even as air travel has increased sharply.\n\nIn 2019 there were 86 accidents involving large commercial planes, including eight fatal incidents, resulting in 257 fatalities, Dutch aviation consultancy To70 said.\n\nThe 157 people killed in a crash involving Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March accounted for more than half of those deaths.\n\nThere was one fatal accident involving large commercial passenger planes for every 5.58 million flights, according to the report.\n\nLast year was \"one of the safest years ever for commercial aviation\", according to accident tracking website the Aviation Safety Network.\n\nIn 2018, 160 incidents were recorded, including 13 fatal accidents, accounting for some 534 deaths.\n\nThe global aviation industry's safest year on record was 2017. There were no fatal passenger jet crashes that year, and only two fatal accidents involving regional turboprops that resulted in 13 deaths.\n\nThe study includes passengers, air crew, and anyone killed on the ground in a plane accident.\n\nThe types of planes covered by the research are the aircraft used by the vast majority of air passengers around the world.\n\nThe study did not include small commuter planes, and some smaller turboprop aircraft.\n\nIt also did not cover accidents involving military flights, training flights, private flights, cargo planes, and helicopters.\n\nAir passenger safety was under intense scrutiny in 2019 after two crashes in close succession of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft.\n\nIn October 2018, a Boeing 737 Max operated by Lion Air crashed, killing all 189 people on board.\n\nFive months later an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed, killing 157, after which the entire 737 Max fleet was grounded.", "Travelex has been forced to take down its website after a cyber attack.\n\nThe foreign-currency seller has been working on the issue since the software virus attack on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"We regret having to suspend some of our services in order to contain the virus and protect data,\" Travelex boss Tony D'Souza said.\n\nThe company has resorted to carrying out transactions manually, providing foreign-exchange services over the counter in its branches.\n\n\"We apologise to all our customers for any inconvenience caused as a result,\" Mr D'Souza said in a statement.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to restore our full services as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe company said an early investigation \"shows no indication that any personal or customer data has been compromised\".\n\nTravelex said it had deployed \"teams of IT specialists and external cyber-security experts\", who have been \"working continuously since New Year's Eve to isolate the virus and restore affected systems\".\n\nThe firm will continue to provide foreign-exchange services manually at its branches until the problem is fixed.\n\nThe decision to take the site down has affected other services that use Travelex, including Tesco Bank.\n\nResponding to customers on Twitter, the bank said its travel money service was unavailable.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Tesco Bank Help", "Emma Allan gave birth to Scotland's first baby of the decade\n\nScotland has welcomed its first babies of the decade in hospitals around the country.\n\nThe first arrival is believed to have been a boy born at 00:03, at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.\n\nWeighing 8lbs 5oz, he is the first child for Emma Allan and Cameron Cunningham, who are from Port Seton.\n\nNew mother Emma said: \"He was due 10 days ago so this isn't what we expected - he must have wanted to be the first baby of the decade.\"\n\nTen minutes after baby Cunningham was born in Edinburgh, a baby girl weighing 7lbs 11.5oz was born at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital.\n\nParents Kayleigh Clark and Darren Wood, from Inverurie, welcomed Emily Louise Wood into the world at 00:13.\n\nJust over an hour later at 01:18, a baby girl was born at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert to parents Sarah and Lizzie Middleton, from Stenhousemuir.\n\nThe child, named Lexie, arrived weighing 6lb 9oz and is Sarah's first baby.\n\nA boy called Russell was born at 02:09 in St John's Hospital in Livingston.\n\nMary Cruikshank was one of the first babies born at the Ayrshire Maternity Unit\n\nHis parents Laura and Kevin Galbraith are from Bathgate in West Lothian.\n\nThe first Glasgow baby was a girl, born at 04:36 at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital maternity unit.\n\nShe has been named as Catherine by her parents Marie and Peter Rankin, from Clarkston, East Renfrewshire.\n\nAt Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, local couple Alison and Allan Stewart had a boy at 04:11.\n\nAt the same hospital just 19 minutes later, Sophie Jansen van Rensburg and partner Warren, from Nairn, had a little boy.\n\nThey plan to name him Carter.\n\nThe first baby of the year at the Ayrshire Maternity Unit was 7lb 11oz Theodore - a son to Christina and Ryan Maguire from Troon - who was delivered at 05:23.\n\nThree minutes later, Robyn was born to mother Erica Borland and father Sam Love, from Ayr. Weighing 9lb 3oz, Robyn is a little sister for brothers Evan, 4, and two-year-old Luke.\n\nManilyn and Richard Cruikshank, from Maybole, welcomed their first child - a daughter named Mary - at 06:39. Mary weighed in at 4lb 15oz.", "The UK has seen in the start of the new decade.\n\nIn London, some 12,000 fireworks lit up the capital's skyline, with 100,000 tickets being bought for the event.\n\nBig Ben's chimes sounded the start of the display, despite them being silent this year while renovation work is completed.\n\nRead more: Revellers across the UK usher in 2020", "Elaine Manna had her sight saved at Moorfields Eye hospital in London\n\nArtificial intelligence can diagnose eye disease as accurately as some leading experts, research suggests.\n\nA study by Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and the Google company DeepMind found that a machine could learn to read complex eye scans and detect more than 50 eye conditions.\n\nDoctors hope artificial intelligence could soon play a major role in helping to identify patients who need urgent treatment.\n\nThey hope it will also reduce delays.\n\nA team at DeepMind, based in London, created an algorithm, or mathematical set of rules, to enable a computer to analyse optical coherence tomography (OCT), a high resolution 3D scan of the back of the eye.\n\nThousands of scans were used to train the machine how to read the scans.\n\nThen, artificial intelligence was pitted against humans.\n\nThe computer was asked to give a diagnosis in the cases of 1,000 patients whose clinical outcomes were already known.\n\nThe same scans were shown to eight clinicians - four leading ophthalmologists and four optometrists.\n\nEach was asked to make one of four referrals: urgent, semi-urgent, routine and observation only.\n\nArtificial intelligence performed as well as two of the world's leading retina specialists, with an error rate of only 5.5%.\n\nCrucially, the algorithm did not miss a single urgent case.\n\nThe results, published in the journal Nature Medicine, were described as \"jaw-dropping\" by Dr Pearse Keane, consultant ophthalmologist, who is leading the research at Moorfields Eye Hospital.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I think this will make most eye specialists gasp because we have shown this algorithm is as good as the world's leading experts in interpreting these scans.\"\n\nArtificial intelligence was able to identify serious conditions such as wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which can lead to blindness unless treated quickly.\n\nDr Keane said the huge number of patients awaiting assessment was a \"massive problem\".\n\nHe said: \"Every eye doctor has seen patients go blind due to delays in referral; AI should help us to flag those urgent cases and get them treated early.\"\n\nDr Dominic King, medical director, DeepMind Health, explained how his team trained artificial intelligence to read eye scans: \"We used two neural networks, which are complex mathematical systems which mimic the way the brain operates, and inputted thousands of eye scans.\n\n\"They divided the eye into anatomical areas and were able to classify whether disease was present.\"\n\nSome previous attempts at using AI have led to what's known as a \"black box\" problem - where the reasoning behind the computer analysis is hidden.\n\nBy contrast, the DeepMind algorithm provides a visual map of where the disease is, allowing clinicians to check how the AI has come to its decision, which is crucial if doctors and patients are to have confidence in its diagnoses.\n\nSo how soon could AI be used to diagnose patient scans in hospital?\n\nDr Keane said: \"We really want to get this into clinical use within two to three years but cannot until we have done a major real-time trial to confirm these exciting findings.\n\nHe said the evidence suggests AI will ease the burden on clinicians, enabling them to prioritise the more urgent cases.\n\nElaine Manna lost her sight in her left eye 18 years ago.\n\nIn 2013, her vision began deteriorating in her right eye and an OCT scan revealed she needed urgent treatment for wet AMD, which occurs when abnormal blood vessels grow under the retina.\n\nShe now has regular injections which stop the vessels growing or bleeding.\n\nElaine told me: \"I was devastated when I lost sight in my left eye, so my remaining vision is precious.\"\n\nShe said the research findings were \"absolutely brilliant\", adding: \"People will have their sight saved because of artificial intelligence, because doctors will be able to intervene sooner.\"\n\nAI may also be able to interpret mammograms as part of screening for breast cancer\n\nDeepMind is also doing research with Imperial College London to see if AI can learn how to interpret mammograms, and improve the accuracy of breast cancer screening.\n\nThe company also has a project with University College London Hospitals (UCLH) to examine whether AI can differentiate between cancerous and healthy tissue on CT and MRI scans.\n\nThis might help doctors speed up the planning of radiotherapy treatment, which can take up to eight hours in the case of very complex cancers.\n\nWithin a few years it seems highly likely that artificial intelligence will play a key role in the diagnosis of disease, which should free up clinicians to spend more time with patients.\n\nBut there will be some who will be unhappy about their health details being shared with a tech giant like Google.\n\nDr Dominic King, from DeepMind, said: \"Patients have an absolute right to know how, where and who is processing their data. We have a best in class security system; data is protected and encrypted at all times.\"\n\nThe Royal Free Hospital in north London was criticised in 2017 for sharing 1.6 million patient data records with DeepMind.\n\nThe controversy related to an app DeepMind developed to identify patients at risk of kidney disease.\n\nThe Information Commission ruled that the hospital had not done enough to safeguard patient data.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I knew it was something serious... a death cry\": Josias Fletchman gave CPR at the poolside\n\nA man who performed CPR when a British family drowned in a pool at a resort on the Costa del Sol has said more could have been done to prevent their deaths.\n\nGabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel, 16, drowned at the Club La Costa World resort on Christmas Eve.\n\nJosias Fletchman comforted the children's mother when medics called off attempts to revive her family.\n\nSpanish police say the deaths were a tragic accident.\n\nA senior leader of the church where Mr Diya was a pastor in south-east London said he died trying to save his children, adding: \"That was the kind of man he was.\"\n\nPastor Agu Irukwu, of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, also said that Mr Diya's wife Olubunmi was a \"special\" woman who was coping with the tragedy \"remarkably well\".\n\nGabriel Diya, a pastor in south-east London, died with his daughter Comfort\n\nIt comes as Mr Fletchman, 35, a British tourist from Manchester who was on a family holiday at the time of the deaths, said safety measures such as a lifeguard by the pool could have helped prevent them.\n\nHe said he first knew something was wrong when a Spanish woman ran into the hotel reception making a \"death cry\".\n\nThe youth support worker was one of the first people at the scene and gave CPR to Praise-Emmanuel at the poolside.\n\nMr Fletchman, who has three children, said the ordeal was \"traumatising\".\n\nAfter medics called off attempts to revive the three family members, Mr Fletchman said he held Mrs Diya's hand and prayed with her.\n\nHer lawyers have questioned the thoroughness of the police investigation - and the recommendation to close the case after one week.\n\nMr Fletchman said he was surprised police had not spoken to him.\n\n\"If it was my situation, my family members, I'd want [police] to speak to everybody. I'd want an investigation... well and truly they should be investigating,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said there were \"things that could have been put in place\" to prevent what happened.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Church leader Agu Irukwu remembers Gabriel Diya, who was a pastor in south-east London\n\nMr Fletchman said a staff member \"had to run to the reception\" to alert someone and should have had a walkie talkie or another way of raising the alarm.\n\nHe called this an example of \"silly mistakes\".\n\n\"I'm not going to sit here and blame anybody, but... if it was my family that it happened to... I'd be raising alarm bells,\" he said.\n\nMr Fletchman said he felt there should have been a lifeguard on duty and that signs indicating the depth of the pool could have been clearer.\n\nHe added that, had there been constant supervision, Mr Diya \"wouldn't have had to jump in\" and called it \"a simple thing of paying somebody a standard minimum wage\".\n\n\"It's better to do that and save three lives than not do that,\" he said.\n\nThe sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\n\"He died trying to save his children and that really says it all. That was the kind of man he was. He loved his wife, loved his children passionately, loved God dearly,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking about Mrs Diya, he said: \"I've never seen anyone deal with the loss of a loved one with the grace and the dignity with which I saw [Olubunmi] deal with it.\"\n\nSpanish authorities described the deaths as a freak accident caused by a \"lack of expertise\" in swimming - adding that there was no accountability on the part of the hotel.\n\nMrs Diya has previously said that all three family members could swim and she believes there was a fault with the pool.\n\nInvestigators said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool.\n\nThe hotel operator, Club La Costa World, has said Mrs Diya's claims were \"directly at odds with the findings of the police report\" and \"their exhaustive investigations have confirmed the pool was working normally and there was no malfunction of any kind\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters in New South Wales sheltered in their truck as it was overrun by flames\n\nBushfires have killed at least eight people in south-eastern Australia since Monday, while two others remain unaccounted for.\n\nThe latest fires, which raced towards the coast this week, have also destroyed more than 200 homes.\n\nSeven people have been confirmed dead in New South Wales and one in Victoria.\n\nConditions have eased slightly, and a major road that was closed in Victoria was reopened for two hours on Wednesday to allow people to leave.\n\nBut many people remain in fire-hit areas. In one town, police dropped off 1.6 tonnes of drinking water by boat.\n\nThe seven deaths in New South Wales include:\n\nFamily members of Mick Roberts, a 67-year-old Victorian missing since Monday, confirmed that he had been found dead in his home in Buchan, East Gippsland.\n\n\"Very sad day for us to (start) the year but we're a bloody tight family and we will never forget our mate and my beautiful Uncle Mick,\" his niece Leah Parson said on Facebook.\n\nThe deaths bring the total fire-related fatalities across Australia this season to at least 18, with warnings this could rise further.\n\nOf the homes destroyed in this week's blazes, 43 were in East Gippsland, Victoria, while another 176 were in New South Wales.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service said 916 homes had been destroyed this season, with another 363 damaged, and 8,159 saved.\n\nPolice brought water, food and medical supplies into Mallacoota by boat\n\nIn Mallacoota, Victoria - where thousands fled to the beach on Tuesday - police boats arrived with 1.6 tonnes of water for residents.\n\nThey also brought food, a paramedic and medical supplies.\n\nAt the same time, police warned people in Sunbury, Victoria - about 40km (25 miles) north-west of Melbourne - to leave the area, as an emergency fire warning was in place.\n\nThe smoke from Wednesday's fires was visible more than 2,000km (1,200 miles) away from the South Island of New Zealand, where the haze tinted the sky orange.\n\nEarlier, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said workers would take advantage of the milder weather on Wednesday to clear roads and restore power.\n\nBut she said temperatures were expected to rise again on Saturday.\n\n\"At the very least, weather conditions will be at least as bad as what they were yesterday,\" she said.\n\nThe New South Wales fire service has warned of dangerous conditions for tourists on the south coast of NSW over the weekend, telling them to leave before Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NSW RFS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTemperatures are expected to reach the 40Cs in the south-east into the weekend, exacerbating already dangerous conditions in fire-ravaged Victoria and New South Wales.\n\nMeteorologists say a climate system in the Indian Ocean, known as the dipole, is the main driver behind the extreme heat in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fire service warned they had been unable to reach some people in remote areas of NSW.\n\n\"We've got reports of injuries and burn injuries to members of the public,\" said New South Wales rural fire commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.\n\n\"We haven't been able to get access via roads or via aircraft - it's been socked in [runways have been closed] or too dangerous.\"\n\nA satellite image shows the extent of smoke and flames at Batemans Bay, NSW\n\nIn Mallacoota, many people spent the night sleeping in their cars or on deckchairs.\n\nVictoria Emergency Commissioner Andrew Crisp said - as well as the police vessels - \"a large barge\" was sailing from Melbourne to the town with food, water and 30,000 litres of fuel.\n\nIn Cann River, a town about 80km (50 miles) inland from Mallacoota, residents warned that food supplies were running low.\n\nFurther north in Ulladulla, New South Wales, people were queuing outside supermarkets - while cuts to mobile networks and landlines meant people also waited to use payphones.\n\nThe military said amphibious ships were setting off from Sydney and would arrive in fire-hit coastal areas of New South Wales and Victoria by Friday.\n\nA long queue formed at a Woolworths supermarket in Ulladulla, New South Wales\n\nMeanwhile, a woman from Mallacoota who took a photo that went viral has spoken about the image.\n\nAllison Marion took the picture of her 11-year-old son, Finn, moving their family to safety in a powerboat.\n\n\"Finn drove the boat and my other son looked after the dog in the boat and [I am] very proud of both of them,\" she told ABC News.\n\nWhen the family returned to land, as conditions eased, they went to check on their home.\n\n\"Our street somehow escaped the fire somehow,\" she said. \"However, I feel for many people in our community who have lost their homes. It's just truly saddening.\"\n\nThe picture of 11-year-old Finn piloting a powerboat went viral", "Rail fares on routes across Scotland are set to increase from Thursday.\n\nThe average rise will be 2.4% - slightly less than the UK average of 2.7%.\n\nAbellio ScotRail, the company that runs Scotland's rail services, said 85% of its revenue comes from fares set by the Scottish government.\n\nMinisters at Holyrood have said they are committed to ensuring fares are affordable by capping them where they have influence.\n\nThe price of a season ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh will go up by £116 to £4,200.\n\nAn off-peak return ticket from Dundee to Edinburgh has increased in price by 50p to £29.40\n\nThe increase in singles, returns and season tickets is regulated by the Scottish government.\n\nIt is capped at the level of the Retail Price Index (RPI), which was 2.8% as of July last year. Off-peak is capped at 1% below RPI.\n\nThe UK government is expected to publish a white paper on reforming the railways in the coming weeks - including details of how fares will be calculated.\n\nThe Scottish government said, rather than implement any measures prematurely, it would wait to see the UK government's next steps before making \"fundamental change\".\n\nEarlier this week, Abellio ScotRail reported losses of £10m over a 15-month period.\n\nThe company lost £7.9m before tax on turnover of nearly £990m between 1 January 2018 and 31 March 2019.\n\nAt the start of December, it was stripped of the contract to run rail services by the Scottish government amid criticism of performance levels.\n\nThe rail operator said its results had been \"impacted by operational performance issues\".", "Deadly bushfires are ravaging the Australian landscape, so far destroying 1,200 homes across New South Wales and Victoria.\n\nA kangaroo rushes past a burning house in Conjola on New Year's Eve\n\nThis week the fires have razed at least 381 homes in New South Wales and 43 in Victoria, with at least 17 people missing.\n\nThe leader of NSW has declared a week-long state of emergency, starting this Friday.\n\nHere are pictures from the past few days.\n\nA firefighter hoses down trees and flying embers in an effort to save houses near the town of Nowra in New South Wales\n\nFires rage near Bairnsdale in the East Gippsland region, Victoria\n\nBurning embers cover the ground as firefighters battle against bushfires around Nowra\n\nThe declared state of emergency will allow local authorities to carry out forced evacuations, road closures \"and anything else we need to do as a state to keep our residents and to keep property safe\", NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Thursday.\n\nBushfires burn between the townships of Bemm River and Cann River in East Gippsland, Victoria\n\nPeople from the town of Cann River are evacuated to Orbost in East Gippsland\n\nHigh temperatures and strong winds are forecast for the weekend, leading to \"widespread extreme fire danger\".\n\nFire officials have told holidaymakers to urgently leave a 260km (160-mile) stretch of the NSW coast before Saturday.\n\nA firefighter sprays foam retardant in the New South Wales town of Jerrawangala\n\nA satellite image of Batemans Bay on New Year's Eve\n\nDebris is seen around a swimming pool next to the remains of a house destroyed by bushfires near Batemans Bay\n\nA family sit at a showground in the southern New South Wales town of Bega where they are camping after being evacuated from nearby sites\n\nIn December, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison cut short his holiday to Hawaii amid growing criticism of his leadership during the bushfire crisis.\n\nThis week he had to cut short another visit - to a fire-hit town when he was heckled by angry residents.\n\nAn aerial view of property damaged by the East Gippsland fires in Sarsfield (above and below)\n\nTracy Burgess, a volunteer with Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Services (WIRES), holds a severely burnt brushtail possum rescued from fires near Australia's Blue Mountains\n\nMogo Zoo (above), managed to save all its animals, with monkeys, pandas and even a tiger housed at one keeper's home.\n\nThe Australian government has been facing criticism over its climate policies as the country deals with the devastating bushfires.\n\nAustralia is one of the world's biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters.\n\nDamaged property seen in Mallacoota in East Gippsland\n\nThe remains of burnt out buildings seen along a street in Cobargo, New South Wales\n\nA horse tries to move away from nearby bushfires at a residential property near the town of Nowra\n\nA photo from the state government in Victoria shows a helicopter fighting a bushfire near Bairnsdale in East Gippsland\n\nFirefighters hose down trees around the town of Nowra\n\nSmoke and flames rise from burning trees around Nowra\n\n\"Carmelised\" snow caused by dust from Australian bushfires is seen near Franz Josef Glacier in the Westland Tai Poutini National Park, New Zealand", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nFormer Cardiff City defender Chris Barker has died at the age of 39.\n\nThe Sheffield-born player helped the club to promotion from the third tier of English football in 2003.\n\nBarker, whose other clubs included Stoke City, Barnsley and Queens Park Rangers, made 162 appearances for the Bluebirds.\n\nCardiff City confirmed his death via social media on Thursday adding \"details of a Club tribute to Chris will follow in the coming days\".\n\nSouth Wales Police have confirmed the sudden death of a 39-year-old man who was discovered at his home address in the Cyncoed area of Cardiff at about 14:00 GMT on 1 January.\n\nThey added that the death is not being treated as suspicious and the coroner has been informed.\n\nBarker was voted Cardiff's player of the season in 2004-05.\n\nHe spent 2006-07 on loan at Colchester United before joining QPR on a free transfer and went on to play for Plymouth, Southend, Aldershot, Hereford and Weston-super-Mare, before retiring from playing in 2017.\n\nBarker also assisted with coaching at his last three clubs and was under 18s manager at Forest Green Rovers.\n\n\"We're all heartbroken to hear this news which came as a shock to everybody,\" said Hannah Dingley, Forest Green Head of Academy. \"Our immediate thoughts are with his family and friends.\n\n\"Barks was a strong, inspirational leader to our under 18s and a much loved colleague. We'll be offering help and support to those at the club affected by the tragic news - particularly our young players, and ask that Chris' family get some privacy at this challenging time.\"\n\nAlongside his former clubs there was a tribute from Rotherham United, where Barker's brother Richard is assistant manager.\n\nFans and former team-mates have also paid tribute to Barker on social media.\n\nFormer Cardiff City striker Andy Campbell posted on Twitter: \"RIP Chris Barker, so so sad. A friend, a team-mate & all round nice fella.\"", "Millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for train tickets from today.\n\nThe rise, announced by industry body the Rail Delivery Group in November, is lower than the 3.1% increase at the start of last year.\n\nTrain companies say it is the third year in a row that average fares have been held below RPI - the inflation measure on which rises are based.\n\nBut many commuters face an increase of more than £100 for annual passes.\n\nIn Wales, fares have bucked the trend of rising prices in England and Scotland, with an average fall of 1% this year.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the government was committed to \"putting passengers first\", by funding trials for flexible fares, for example.\n\nHe said he planned to tackle the \"fragmented\" system and had begun the process to end the franchise for the rail service Northern, whose performance was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nA final decision on the Northern franchise is expected in a \"matter of weeks\", according to BBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge, as passengers said they would be \"very happy\" to see it end.\n\nMr Shapps told BBC Breakfast that the fare increases enabled investment in the railways that would yield improvements. \"You can judge me on this at the end of the year,\" he said.\n\n\"These changes are going to take time but I think people will see things moving in the right direction.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, said the rise showed passengers were \"once again paying more for less under the Tories\".\n\nIndependent watchdog Transport Focus says fewer than half of train journeys (47%) are rated as satisfactory value for money by passengers.\n\nThe watchdog's director, David Sidebottom, said: \"After a year of pretty poor performance in some areas, passengers just want a consistent day-to-day service they can rely on and a better chance of getting a seat.\"\n\nHe encouraged passengers to claim compensation for eligible delays in order to \"offset\" the cost of fare rises.\n\nSome annual passes go up by more than £100\n\nHowever, Robert Nisbet, director of nations and regions for Rail Delivery Group, said rail companies were investing in improving journeys while holding fare increases below inflation.\n\nHe said 2020 will see 1,000 extra weekly services and 1,000 more carriages added to Britain's rail fleet.\n\n\"There is a record level of investment going into the railway at the moment,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"For people who do suffer from poor punctuality in areas of the country, that could be for a variety of different reasons, we apologise. We are looking at trying to make punctuality much better across the board,\" he said.\n\nOfficial statistics show that just over one in three trains failed to arrive on time in July, August and September 2019, although that figure was an improvement on the previous year.\n\nAbout 40% of annual rail price rises are regulated by governments in England, Scotland and Wales. They are pegged to the Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation measure for the previous July. Other fare rises are decided by train companies.\n\nBut RPI inflation is generally higher than the most widely watched measure of inflation, the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).\n\nPassenger groups have repeatedly called for the system to be changed since RPI inflation was abandoned by the UK Statistics Authority as a national statistic in 2013.\n\nEmily Yates, a freelance writer from Brighton who co-founded the Association of British Commuters, said the annual rises feel like \"Groundhog Day\" and a \"complete charade\".\n\n\"Every year, we ask for a fares freeze, the government says no, and the rail industry defends the decision,\" she said.\n\nProtests will be held against the fare increase on Thursday, including a demonstration outside London King's Cross station.\n\nThe rallies come as the Trades Union Congress (TUC) releases research suggesting fares have risen by twice as much as wages in the last 10 years.\n\nThe TUC said someone earning an average salary in the UK would have to spend 16% of their wages for a season ticket from Chelmsford to London (£511 a month), but similar commutes would cost 2% of the average salary in France, and 4% in Germany and Belgium.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nWayne Rooney captained Derby County to victory on his debut for the Rams and set up their first goal as they beat Championship strugglers Barnsley.\n\nJack Marriott atoned for a number of squandered chances at Pride Park when he poked home Rooney's free-kick just before half-time to put the Rams ahead.\n\nBarnsley levelled soon after the break when Elliot Simoes tapped in after Derby goalkeeper Ben Hamer spilled Conor Chaplin's shot.\n\nMartyn Waghorn restored Derby's lead when he fired home Andre Wisdom's low cross and the hosts held on for victory.\n\nRooney, whose last game was at the end of October for DC United, played the full 90 minutes in the centre of midfield.\n\nDerby remain 17th in a tight table but move level on points with Middlesbrough, while Barnsley are three points off safety in 23rd.\n\nRams manager Phillip Cocu had no hesitation putting 34-year-old Rooney straight into the starting XI and making him captain, citing his \"leadership\" qualities.\n\nHaving joined the club on an 18-month player-coach deal in August, the former England captain was ineligible to play until January.\n\nIn a subdued but comfortable first-half performance, Rooney pulled the strings and finally gave a crowd of 27,782 reason to celebrate as he assisted the hosts' opener with an excellent inswinging free-kick.\n\nFrom midway inside Barnsley's half, Rooney bent the ball over the defence and onto the foot of Marriott who finished first time from 12 yards.\n\nHe also played a part in their second goal, sending a lovely cross-field pass to Wisdom who then set up Waghorn.\n\nRooney even had the chance to mark his debut with a goal, but miscued a header from a few yards out and the ball dribbled wide.\n\nAfter struggling for form this term, Derby started the match closer to the Championship relegation zone than the play-off places, but their win moved them to eight points off sixth place.\n\nMonday's win against Charlton was their first victory in eight games, with Rooney in the dugout as a coach for seven of those matches.\n\nEngland's all-time record goalscorer, Rooney won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups in 13 years with Manchester United and is now off to a winning start in his first spell in England's second tier.\n\nBefore Rooney set up the opener for Marriott, the striker missed a couple of glaring opportunities. First, he fired wide of the mark from Waghorn's delivery before he chipped a tame shot from distance wide after bursting through on goal.\n\nHaving started the game poorly, Barnsley were reinvigorated when boss Gerhard Struber made an early tactical change by bringing Simoes on for Mike Bahre after just 26 minutes.\n\nThey were almost rewarded just before Marriott's opener when Mads Andersen found space at close range, forcing a last-minute block from a Derby defender.\n\nBarnsley keeper Sam Radlinger made a stunning diving right-handed save to keep out Matt Clarke's header shortly after the restart and the visitors immediately levelled through Simoes' strike.\n\nHowever, Waghorn's composed finish ensured the hosts registered two wins in a row for the first time this season.\n\nRooney told BBC Radio Derby that it was important to stay focused despite all the hype around his debut.\n\n\"It was a big night for myself, big night for the club, a lot of excitement, but the main priority tonight was to get three points,\" he said.\n\n\"It feels good to finally make my debut and help the team win.\n\n\"It was a difficult game, I thought Barnsley played well, made it tough for us, but we worked hard, created chances, we could have made it easier for ourselves but we dug in and worked hard until the end.\n\n\"It was a good ball and a great finish from Jack. I'm pleased for Jack because he needed that goal.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Luke Thomas (Barnsley) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Conor Chaplin.\n• None Attempt blocked. Elliot Simoes (Barnsley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Williams.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Chaplin (Barnsley) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Luke Thomas.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jacob Brown (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Conor Chaplin.\n• None Duane Holmes (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Thomas (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Duane Holmes (Derby County) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Martyn Waghorn (Derby County) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Max Lowe.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Mowatt (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Luke Thomas. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A British man has been killed in an accident with a firework at a New Year's Eve party in Thailand, local police have said.\n\nGary McLaren, from Northamptonshire, died when a firework he was trying to light exploded in the seaside town of Pattaya.\n\nThe 50-year-old died at the scene, just after midnight.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said they were supporting the family of a British man who died in Thailand.\n\nLt Col Somboon Ua-samanmaitree of the Thai Tourist Police said: \"Around midnight, Mr McLaren attempted to light up a large firework but it failed to go off at first. After that, it suddenly exploded and killed him at the scene.\"\n\nPattaya is a coastal tourist resort about 60 miles southeast of Bangkok\n\nPolice said Mr McLaren, who was originally from Corby in Northamptonshire, had visited Thailand before and arrived a few days before New Year's Eve.\n\nAccording to his LinkedIn profile, Mr McLaren worked in a technical role for the International Road-Racing Teams Association.\n\nHe previously spent 11 years working for the Suzuki MotoGP team, who tweeted they were \"shocked and sad\" to learn of his death.\n\nThe post said that he had \"remained a good friend to us all while he continued working in the paddock for IRTA\", adding \"we'll really miss him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by MotoGP™ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther tributes on social media described him as \"one of the most popular\" members of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing community, a \"great guy\" and a \"real professional\".\n\nThe Bangkok Post reported that police and rescue workers arrived to find a crowd of people and Mr McLaren lying on the ground with serious facial injuries. A large firework was found at the scene.\n\nThe paper said a witness described seeing the British man celebrating New Year's Eve with friends. Mr McLaren tried and failed to light the firework before it suddenly exploded, the witness said.", "Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold speaking to Match of the Day: \"When you have momemtum and good form you want the games to keep coming. We are happy with the way things are going. We are picking up a lot of points but we know there are still a lot of games to come and the FA Cup on the weekend. We are looking forward to the rest of the season.\n\n\"It was something we spoke about - controlling the game more and not being so hectic. We were too open to try and get more goals. We want to keep the ball and tire the opposition out.\n\n\"So far we are invicible but we have only just passed the halfway mark so there's still a long way to go. It is harder than what people say. We got beaten once last season and that wasn't enough. We need to keep our concentration in every game.\"", "Hospital admissions for eating disorders have risen by more than a third (37%) across all age groups over the last two years, figures show.\n\nExperts described the figures as \"worrying\" and urged the government to promote early intervention.\n\nThere were 19,040 admissions for eating disorders in 2018/19, up from 16,558 the year before and 13,885 in 2016/17.\n\nThe NHS Digital data for England found the most common age last year for patients with anorexia was 13 to 15.\n\nA quarter of admissions in 2018/19 were for children aged 18 and under, at 4,471.\n\nMore than half of these (2,403) were for anorexia, up 12% from the previous year.\n\nThis included 10 cases of anorexia among boys and six among girls aged nine and under.\n\nThe data was acquired by the PA news agency.\n\nIn terms of older age groups in 2018/19, women aged 19 and over accounted for 5,274 admissions for anorexia and 3,542 for bulimia, while men accounted for 327 admissions for anorexia and 381 for bulimia.\n\nEmma Thomas, chief executive of the charity Young Minds, said the figures were \"worrying\".\n\nShe added: \"While there have been some improvements in community care for young people with eating disorders in recent years, it can still be difficult for children and young people to get the help they need before they reach crisis point.\n\n\"Getting early support for an eating disorder can prevent problems from escalating, meaning young people are more likely to fully recover.\n\n\"The government must make prevention and early intervention a priority for every child struggling with their mental health, to ensure that they get help as soon as they need it.\"\n\nDr Agnes Ayton, chairwoman of the faculty of eating disorders psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said healthcare staff \"need to be better trained\" at spotting eating disorders \"as early diagnosis and treatment can reduce hospital admissions and saves lives\".\n\nTom Quinn, director of external affairs at the eating disorders charity Beat, said there were a number of reasons to explain why there may be more young people being admitted to hospital.\n\n\"We know from our research and listening to the experiences of our supporters that it can often take a long while for early signs of an eating disorder to be spotted, for a referral to be made and for treatment to begin,\" he said.\n\n\"Therefore, while this rise in the number of young people admitted to hospital for treatment could mean that the number of young people with eating disorders is increasing, it could also be due to improvement in the ability of healthcare professionals to identify eating disorders.\"\n\nClaire Murdoch, national mental health director for the NHS, said: \"Waiting times for NHS eating disorder services are better than ever, with nearly 100 new or improved services in the community set up in recent years backed by millions in extra funding.\n\n\"It's clear that while the NHS is ramping up services through our Long Term Plan, the dangerous drivers of mental ill health need to be cracked down on by the rest of society.\"", "Neil Nellies was convicted of five sex offences following a trial\n\nA man who sexually abused a 10-year-old girl has been jailed for seven years.\n\nNeil Nellies, 42, who is registered blind, assaulted his young victim, who has since tried to take her own life, and \"stole her childhood\", Liverpool Crown Court heard.\n\nThe crimes took place several years ago in Wilmslow, Cheshire, jurors heard.\n\nNellies, who arrived at court with his guide dog Digby, was told prison rules meant he would not be able to have the dog in jail with him.\n\nInstead, the labrador will be retrained to help another blind person.\n\n\"I have the greatest concern that a man who for five years has had the benefit of a guide dog, giving him his freedom and mobility, will be taken into an environment which is wholly unfamiliar,\" said Nellies' barrister Rachel Shenton.\n\nShe added she did not wish to downplay the effect of Nellies' behaviour on the victim, but \"prison for him will have a devastating impact\".\n\nShe urged Judge Simon Berkson to suspend any jail term, arguing Nellies was already imprisoned by a degenerative eye disease.\n\nNellies can currently make out large shapes but this will deteriorate in time, she said.\n\nBut Judge Berkson refused due to the serious nature of the offences.\n\nHe said the victim \"told her mother's friend that she was not 'her mother's little girl any more'\".\n\n\"You stole that girl's childhood,\" he told Nellies, of Lumley Road, Macclesfield.\n\nJames Coutts, prosecuting, said the victim had suffered serious psychological harm.\n\nNellies, who denied any wrongdoing, was convicted of five serious sexual offences after a trial.\n\nThe court heard how Nellies had previously also suffered a stroke and had mental health issues, an emotionally unstable personality disorder and possible autism.\n\nJudge Berkson ordered Nellies to be placed on the sex offenders register for life and imposed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and an extra year on licence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mallacoota is a tourist town in Victoria, Australia, some 500km (310 miles) east of Melbourne.\n\nAround 1,000 people live there, but the population swells at Christmas, as Australians head to the coast to enjoy their holidays,\n\nBut on Tuesday morning - as bushfires swept the region - thousands of people fled to the beach for a different reason: safety.\n\nPeople in the town woke up to thick smoke and pale, orange skies. But as the fires drew closer, the sky turned red.\n\nAt 8am a warning siren sounded, telling people to head to the water. By 9.30am, the sky was \"pitch black\".\n\n\"We were bracing for the worst because, it was black,\" David Jeffrey told the BBC. \"Like it should have been daylight and it was black like midnight. And we could hear the fire roaring.\"\n\nAs thousands of people fled to the beach, firefighters moved there with them.\n\n\"We've got three strike teams sitting in with the community, literally standing side-by-side with our community at the beachfront,\" said fire spokesman Steve Warrington.\n\nAround the same time, some people were fleeing the land on boats.\n\nPeople in the area had been urged to evacuate. But by Monday, authorities urged people to stay put because it was too late and dangerous to leave.\n\nBy 10.30am, this was the scene at Mallacoota wharf, as people sheltered by the water's edge.\n\nMany wore gas masks to protect themselves from the smoke.\n\nFleeing into the ocean was the \"last resort option\", Victoria's emergency management agency said on Tuesday.\n\nWith the smoke blocking out the sun, a summer's day looked like night time at the beachfront.\n\nSome emergency workers, meanwhile, were preparing to step into the heat.\n\nBy the middle of the day, the sky remained reddish-orange and thick with smoke.\n\nVictoria's state premier Daniel Andrews said navy ships may be called upon to provide food, water and power to the area. The main road in the region has been closed off.\n\n\"Some of these isolated communities can be accessed by sea,\" he said.\n\nAlthough no serious injuries have been reported in Mallacoota, houses were seen going up in flames.\n\nMr Jeffrey spoke to the BBC when the wind had changed and the sky had cleared slightly.\n\n\"We were all terrified for our lives,\" he said. \"We were praying like crazy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mallacoota resident David Jeffrey says people were \"terrified for their lives\"", "Unbeaten Premier League leaders Liverpool made it a full year without losing in the top flight as Sheffield United were brushed aside at Anfield.\n\nA slice of good fortune enabled the Reds to take an early lead - George Baldock's slip allowing Andy Robertson to set up Mohamed Salah for a simple close-range finish in just the fourth minute.\n\nBut there was nothing fortuitous about their win, which Sadio Mane sealed, finishing at the second attempt after being played in by Salah.\n\nIt maintains the Reds' 13-point advantage at the top of the division after nearest rivals Leicester and Manchester City both won on New Year's Day.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side have dropped just two points from a possible 60 this season.\n\nFor Chris Wilder's side, this was a second successive defeat, but they remain firmly in credit from the first half of their league campaign and sit eighth in the table, just two points off fifth.\n• None 37 games, 89 goals, 101 points - how Liverpool went a year unbeaten in the Premier League\n• None Analysis and reaction from Liverpool's win over Sheffield United\n• None Quiz: Can you name those to play for both Liverpool and Sheff Utd?\n\nLiverpool's 18th consecutive league win and 51st top-flight encounter without defeat in a row at Anfield was another showcase for a side working to near maximum capacity.\n\nDespite Klopp labelling as \"criminal\" a festive fixture schedule that has seen his side play six games in 17 days, the German kept his team changes to a minimum.\n\nHe did have to make a late alteration, bringing James Milner in for the man he originally drafted in to the side, Naby Keita, who injured himself in the warm-up, but it made little discernable difference.\n\nIn fact, Milner was superb as one third of a brilliant midfield unit, along with Jordan Henderson and Georginio Wijnaldum.\n\nTheir work-rate, movement and accuracy of passing provided the platform, with Virgil van Dijk alert and efficient on the rare occasions Sheffield United were allowed a kick in the Liverpool half.\n\nSalah scored one, but he would have had more but for the combination of some excellent reflex saves from Dean Henderson and the woodwork - the Egyptian's chipped second-half cross floating past everyone and hitting the inside of the post.\n\nRoberto Firmino went close to his first Anfield goal since March with a curling effort just past the post and should have got it later in the second half, but failed to connect with Trent Alexander-Arnold's low cross from point-blank range.\n\nIn the end, though, two was more than enough to seal another win and move another step closer to their ultimate goal.\n\nHaving achieved an 'Invincibles' year, Liverpool still have a long way to go to match the 'Invincibles' season achieved by Arsenal in 2003-04.\n\nHowever, it would now take an implosion of unprecedented proportions to deny the Reds a first top-flight title in 30 years.\n\n'No airs and graces, just hard work'\n\nSheffield United enjoyed a stellar 2019 of their own, in which they achieved promotion back to England's top division for the first time since 2007 before exceeding expectation to end the year firmly embedded in the top half of the table.\n\nSuch has been their form under Chris Wilder only three sides in the country had a superior points-per-game record across 2019 - the current Premier League leaders, the top-flight's reigning champions Manchester City and West Brom, who presently have the joint most points in the Championship.\n\nThis is the first time they have suffered back-to-back defeats under Wilder since the start of last season and they have come at the two toughest grounds to visit in the country - Manchester City's Etihad Stadium and Anfield.\n\nWilder prepared his team for Thursday night's daunting match with a final practice session on Stanley Park, the public park next to Anfield, which included one moment when a dog joined them and urinated on one of their cones.\n\nAs the club's official Twitter account put it: \"No airs and graces, just hard work.\"\n\nThere is a lot more to this Sheffield United side than graft, although they were given only fleeting opportunities to demonstrate this at Anfield.\n\nUnited asked more questions of the Reds than most sides this season when they met at Bramall Lane in September, an error from goalkeeper Henderson leading to the game's only goal from Wijnaldum.\n\nThey gave a solid account of themselves here, where there is no shame in defeat - 17 sides have directly preceded them with the same fate, some wilting a lot more readily than the Blades.\n\nDavid McGoldrick has yet to score this season, but he went close soon after Liverpool's opener with an effort that Alisson had to tip over.\n\nAnd John Lundstram had the ball in the net, but long after an offside flag had already ruled any potential goal out.\n\nThey should also have had at least a consolation goal near the end, but somehow substitute Oliver McBurnie failed to poke the ball in from close range at the back post from a low cross.\n\nRare back-to-back defeats for the Blades - the stats\n• None Liverpool have accumulated 58 points from their 20 Premier League games this season; in English top-flight history, only Manchester City in 2017-18 (also 58) have had as many points at this stage of a campaign (assuming three points for a win all-time).\n• None Sheffield United have lost all six of their Premier League matches against sides starting the day top of the table, including both meetings with Liverpool this campaign.\n• None Liverpool scored in their 29th consecutive game in the Premier League; only two teams have ever recorded a longer scoring streak in the competition - Arsenal between 2001 and 2002 (55) and Manchester United between 2007 and 2008 (36).\n• None Sheffield United have lost back-to-back league matches for the first time since they lost both of their opening two games in last season's Championship.\n• None Mohamed Salah's opener (03:25) was the earliest goal scored by Liverpool and conceded by Sheffield United in this season's Premier League. It is the earliest the Blades have conceded in a top-flight match since Andriy Shevchenko for Chelsea in March 2007 (03:02).\n• None Salah became only the fourth player to score 50+ left-footed goals for a single side in the Premier League, after Robbie Fowler (85 for Liverpool), Ryan Giggs (83 for Manchester United) and Robin van Persie (63 for Arsenal).\n• None Sadio Mane's goal was his 100th goal involvement for Liverpool in his 151 appearances in all competitions for the club (74 goals, 26 assists).\n• None Since the start of last season, only his Liverpool team-mate Trent Alexander-Arnold (20) has more Premier League assists than Andy Robertson (17).\n• None Alisson made his 50th Premier League appearance for Liverpool and kept his 26th clean sheet; among goalkeepers in the competition's history, only Petr Cech (33) and Pepe Reina (28) kept more shutouts in their opening 50 starts than the Brazilian.\n\n'The goals were exceptional' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to Match of the Day: \"It's obviously good [to go unbeaten for a year] but the target was not to extend this [run], but to win the game. The best thing you can say when you play against Sheffield United is to keep the game not spectacular. We controlled the game.\n\n\"We played around their formation, played behind, in-between, broke the lines and had counter-attacks. All the things we want to have. The boys played sensational.\n\n\"You saw these glimpses in the game where we were a bit sloppy. They wanted two or three situations in which they could score in. We needed that concentration and that was incredibly tough but the boys did so well. Nothing ends. We have to make sure we are ready again.\n\n\"I am really happy and really proud of the boys. We should not take things like this for granted. The way we controlled Sheffield United was exceptional. In possession we were incredible, we were calm but lively as well. The goals we scored were exceptional.\"\n\nSheffield United manager Chris Wilder speaking to Match of the Day: \"Little bit drained - disappointed in our performance tonight, we never laid a glove on them. If there's ever an example of a team doing well and with the desire, that's Liverpool.\n\n\"The first balls, second balls, running forward, tackling, defending, being aggressive; they [Liverpool] showed all those qualities. It's a great example for our team. We were off the pace. Maybe the Manchester City game took more out of them than I expected - our goalkeeper kept us in the game. For us to get anything, we would have had to perform really well and we didn't.\n\n\"Every time we tried to press they played around us with the quality they have got. All the stuff that gets talked about in academies, with young coaches - just look at what they did in terms of the basic stuff that gives you an opportunity to play and dominate. That's what they did to us. Not only technically, but tactically, they are a fantastic side. We have been well beaten.\n\n\"People talk about us having afternoons and nights like this when we came to the Premier League. We have not had that done to us all season until now so that's a small comfort. But it still hurts, we are still professionals. I believe if we played near our best we could have got something but we weren't anywhere near it.\"\n\nLiverpool have a testing January, starting with a Merseyside derby against Everton in the FA Cup on Sunday, before they travel to Tottenham in the league the following Saturday.\n\nSheffield United host National League side AFC Fylde in the Cup, before hosting West Ham in the Premier League on Friday, 10 January.\n• None Attempt saved. Oliver McBurnie (Sheffield United) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jack O'Connell with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMikel Arteta earned his first win as Arsenal boss as the Gunners produced a powerful first-half performance to beat a lacklustre Manchester United.\n\nThe visitors, who were without the injured Paul Pogba, actually began brightly, but the game took a different turn on eight minutes when Nicolas Pepe steered in his fifth goal of the season after Sead Kolasinac's cross was deflected to him.\n\nThat led to a first half in which the hosts were in control and Pepe hit the post before they doubled their lead when his corner was smashed in from close range by Sokratis Papastathopoulos.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskajer's side came into the game with one loss in their previous nine games, and although they improved after the break, they rarely tested Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno.\n\nIt was characteristic of a stop-start season in which they are yet to win three Premier League games in a row.\n\nThe defeat leaves them fifth in the table, five points behind Chelsea, who drew with Brighton earlier in the day.\n\nVictory for Arsenal ended a run of seven home games without a win in all competitions and lifted them to 10th place, four points behind United.\n\nBut they remain closer to the relegation zone than the top four.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Arteta and Moyes off the mark, but is Howe unsackable?\n\nThere has been evidence of a lift in Arsenal's three performances since Arteta was appointed, but without a win, questions remained as to whether he was the right man to take over from former boss Unai Emery, given his lack of experience as a manager.\n\nArteta was just an onlooker in the stands for the lifeless draw at Everton, but that was followed by a 1-1 draw with Bournemouth on Boxing Day and a crushing late defeat by Chelsea at home last Sunday.\n\nThis was a different game altogether, though, as Arsenal put the pieces together. With Granit Xhaka, who has been linked with a move to Hertha Berlin, restored to the midfield, the Swiss and Lucas Torreira were quicker to the tackle than their opponents.\n\nMesut Ozil covered 11.54km, more distance than any other Arsenal player.\n\nWhile record £72m signing Pepe was at the heart of Arsenal's attacking endeavour as they were roared on by their fans.\n\nAfter scoring early on, he sent United left-back Luke Shaw halfway down the Holloway Road with a sharp turn before setting up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who sliced a volley over.\n\nThe Ivorian then fed Alexandre Lacazette, who somehow hit his shot out for a throw-in from about six yards out, before Torreira went close from another Pepe pass.\n\nThe hosts had to withstand greater pressure from Solskjaer's side in the second period but in contrast to the Chelsea defeat, when they conceded twice in the last seven minutes, Arteta's side managed the game well.\n\nTheir only concerns were injuries to Kolasinac and Lacazette, who were both taken off in the second half.\n\nPogba-less United show further cause for concern\n\nManchester United improved after the break, but it would have been hard not to do so after a poor first half.\n\nMarcus Rashford had tested Bernd Leno in the first minute, but once they went behind to Pepe's opener, they struggled to match Arsenal's superior energy in midfield.\n\nJesse Lingard, who returned to the starting line-up, was hardly involved while Nemanja Matic could not get to grips with Ozil, Torreira or Xhaka, who were often one step ahead.\n\nIt was another game where Solskjaer's team missed the influence of Pogba, who has not started a game in three months. After the game, the United boss said the French midfielder had picked up an ankle injury which would need an operation, keeping him out for \"three or four weeks\".\n\nPrior to the game, it had been hinted that Pogba would be fit to play.\n\nUnited did lift their game once Lingard was substituted, with his replacement Andreas Pereira almost making an instant impact as he hit the side netting.\n\nThere were also chances for Fred and substitute Mason Greenwood, but without the injured Scott McTominay, and the ongoing problems with Pogba, United looked short on creativity in midfield and need to find solutions quickly should they want to maintain a top-four challenge.\n• None This was Arsenal's first Premier League win this season against a team currently in the top half of the Premier League (P10 W1 D4 L5).\n• None Nicolas Pepe has scored all his five goals for Arsenal in all competitions in London - four at the Emirates and one at London Stadium.\n• None Arsenal have scored eight goals via corners in the Premier League this season, two more than any other team.\n• None Manchester United have now lost four of their past five away Premier League visits to Arsenal (W1).\n\nArsenal host Leeds on Monday, 6 January in the FA Cup third round (kick-off 19:56 GMT), while Manchester United travel to Wolves on Saturday, 4 January (kick-off 17:31) in a repeat of their quarter-final defeat last season.\n• None Attempt missed. Fred (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Juan Mata with a through ball.\n• None Matteo Guendouzi (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Sokratis (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alexandre Lacazette.\n• None Attempt saved. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Martial. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Authorities in New South Wales have ordered thousands of people to evacuate already fire-damaged towns within 48 hours.\n\nTemperatures and winds are expected to increase over the weekend, making further life-threatening fires a possibility. Many towns in the area are running out of supplies.\n\nIn Batemans Bay, a popular holiday town, long queues have built up along the only route out.\n\nRead more: Race to flee 'leave zone' as fresh threat looms", "The bodies of Helen Hancock and Martin Griffiths were found by police on New Year's Day\n\nAn estranged husband has been charged with murdering his wife and a man who were stabbed at a house in a Derbyshire village on New Year's Day.\n\nHelen Hancock, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, were found with fatal wounds in New Zealand Lane, Duffield.\n\nRhys Hancock, 39, of Portland Street, Etwall, Derbyshire, is due to appear before magistrates on Friday.\n\nDerbyshire Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over previous contact with Mrs Hancock.\n\nMrs Hancock, whose maiden name was Almey, and Mr Griffiths, from Derby, were found dead at the house at about 04:00 GMT.\n\nThe family of Mrs Hancock, from Duffield, described her as a \"lovely, beautiful, friendly, bubbly and social person\".\n\nFather-of-two Mr Griffiths, from Derby, was said by his family to be \"a lovely dad, husband, son, brother and uncle who had a passion for adventure, running and a love of animals\".\n\nThe statement added: \"He enjoyed travelling the world, mountain climbing and spending time with his two children. He will be greatly missed.\"\n\nPolice cordoned off the area while investigating the scene\n\nOfficers remained at the house on Thursday, with searches and door-to-door inquiries taking place.\n\nPolice previously said no-one else was at the house at the time.\n\nCh Supt Hayley Barnett, of Derbyshire Police, said: \"The thoughts of everyone at Derbyshire Constabulary are with the family and friends of Mrs Hancock and Mr Griffiths.\n\n\"Our thoughts are also with the Duffield community, which is understandably shocked by this incident.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed it was investigating police contact with Mrs Hancock before her death.\n\nAn IOPC spokeswoman said: \"Our investigation follows a mandatory referral from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"Due to the separate ongoing murder investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison cut short a visit to a fire-stricken community after he was heckled by angry locals.\n\nTwo people lost their lives in Cobargo in New South Wales (NSW) earlier this week and many lost their homes.\n\nThe PM said he was \"not surprised people are feeling very raw\".", "The son of a volunteer who died fighting Australian bushfires has been presented with his father's medal for bravery at his funeral.\n\nHarvey Keaton, aged 19 months, wore a uniform and sucked on his dummy as he received his father's posthumous medal at Thursday's funeral near Sydney.\n\nDozens of firefighters formed a guard of honour to salute Mr Keaton's coffin.\n\nHe and colleague Andrew O'Dwyer died on 19 December en route to a blaze, when their fire truck hit a fallen tree.\n\nMr O'Dwyer, also father to a toddler, will be buried next week.\n\nThe bravery award was presented to young Harvey Keaton by New South Wales Fire Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison also attended the funeral.\n\nThe prime minister said he was there to \"remember and give thanks for the life and service of Geoff Keaton\".\n\nPhotos released by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service showed the toddler being held by his mother as they look at the coffin. A mug with the message \"Daddy, I love you to the moon and back!\" is seen on the coffin.\n\nThe ceremony was attended by Mr Keaton's family and his colleagues in the rural fire service\n\nMr Keaton was one of three Australian firefighters killed in the recent fires\n\nIn addition to Mr Keaton and Mr O'Dwyer, another firefighter died on Monday when high winds overturned his truck, killing one and injuring two others.\n\nSince September, a total 18 people have died as a result of the fires - seven of them in New South Wales this week alone. Others are missing.\n\nThousands of firefighters have been deployed every day for months, battling enormous fires that have yet to be brought under control. The vast majority are unpaid volunteers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The area has been cordoned off while police investigate\n\nTwo people have been found dead at a house in Derbyshire, prompting a double murder investigation.\n\nOfficers were called to the home in New Zealand Lane, Duffield, at about 04:00 GMT where a man and a woman were found fatally injured inside.\n\nA 39-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of two counts of murder.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\nThey added no-one else was in the house at the time.\n\nThe victims have not yet been formally identified but officers were supporting their families, a police spokesperson said.\n\nNew Zealand Lane remains closed while officers continue investigations at the scene.\n\nPolice thanked residents for their \"patience and understanding\" over the road closure.\n\nPeople living nearby have said they were shocked by what has happened in what they said was usually a quiet area.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some people think the trans character will be linked to Tessa Thompson's character Valkyrie (on the winged horse)\n\nThe Marvel Cinematic Universe is set to get its first transgender superhero.\n\n\"And very soon. In a movie that we're shooting right now,\" Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige said during a Q&A at the New York Film Academy.\n\nAsked by a fan whether there were any plans for more LGBT characters in Marvel's films, \"specifically the T, trans characters\", Kevin said: \"Yes, absolutely. Yes.\"\n\nThis year, The Eternals will introduce Marvel movies' first gay character.\n\nThere have been reports since 2019 that Phase 4 of the MCU - the films following the Avengers Infinity saga - would star a trans character.\n\nMarvel has also said it will introduce its first deaf superhero in The Eternals and its first Asian-American superhero, in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.\n\n\"You look at the success of Captain Marvel and Black Panther. We want the movies to reflect the audience and we want every member of our global audience to see themselves reflected on the screen,\" Kevin Feige previously said.\n\nBlack Panther featured a mainly black cast in leading and supporting roles\n\nIn July last year, Geeks WorldWide suggested that Marvel was seeking a trans woman for a project being filmed in 2020.\n\nThey pointed out that the only existing trans superhero in Marvel Comics is the recently introduced Sera - from a group of all-male angels called the Ancharites - who transitioned to a female identity.\n\nShe exists very much in Thor's world - being kept inside a temple in the realm of Heven before meeting Thor's long-lost half-sister Angela, going on a bunch of adventures and eventually becoming her romantic interest.\n\nThe next Thor film, Love and Thunder, is scheduled to come out in 2021.\n\nTessa Thompson's character Valkyrie - who was made the King of New Asgard by Thor in the last Avengers film - revealed what the \"first order of business\" would be for her in the film.\n\n\"As new king, she needs to find her queen,\" she said.\n\nIn the comics Valkyrie identifies as bisexual.\n\nThe stars of Marvel's next film, The Eternals\n\nBefore that film comes out The Eternals - about an ancient race of super-powered beings who gained powers from alien experiments - is being released in November.\n\nIt stars Angelina Jolie, Game of Thrones' Richard Madden and Kit Harington, Kumail Nanjiani, Salma Hayek and Brian Tyree Henry, among others.\n\nKevin Feige confirmed that the film would star Marvel's first gay character.\n\n\"He's married, he's got a family, and that is just part of who he is,\" he said last year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The co-director of Edinburgh's Hogmanay has said a balance has to be struck in the needs of local people and visitors.\n\nEd Bartlam of Underbelly was speaking after the event which ushered in 2020, which he said had been a success.\n\nThe days leading to the event saw some residents of the city centre voice concerns about access restrictions.\n\nMr Bartlam said he had seen many local people joining visitors in enjoying what is described as \"the UK's biggest street party\".\n\nHe said: \"Balance is the key word. You've got to find the balance of viewpoints.\n\n\"There's a view of some people in the city that there's too many events related to tourism.\n\n\"But there's a huge majority, I think, that just love these events, love Hogmanay.\"\n\nMr Bartlam added: \"It's our job to continue to improve the infrastructure, continue to make it easier for residents and citizens of the city, and that we'll continue to do without losing the vibrancy and the scale of the event.\"\n\nDJ Mark Ronson headlined the event during which he created a \"mega mix\" soundtrack to accompany the fireworks display over Edinburgh Castle.\n\nHogmanay events were also held in other parts of Scotland, including Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness and Stirling.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Revellers gather for the fireballs procession in Stonehaven\n\nMembers of the PyroCeltics performed at a street party in Edinburgh\n\nMark Ronson was headlining the Princes Street Gardens event for the first time\n\nApproximately 100,000 visitors were expected to attend events across Edinburgh over the three days of the Hogmanay festival.\n\nTV stars Dick and Dom took to the stage in Princes Street Gardens early on Tuesday evening as crowds gathered, playing music and introducing the first firework display of the night.\n\nPerformances from Idlewild, Rudimental and Marc Almond also took place on stages throughout the city centre.\n\nOrganisers used 3.3 tonnes of fireworks for the midnight spectacle over Edinburgh Castle\n\nMore than 3.3 tonnes of fireworks were installed at Edinburgh Castle for the midnight display, with organisers saying the forecast clear skies meant the event would be seen in \"high definition\".\n\nStreet theatre, circus acts and musical performances were on show across more than a dozen streets in the Scottish capital, including the city's main thoroughfare Princes Street and its adjacent gardens.\n\nThere had been criticism of the event's organisation, amid uncertainty around how many passes residents were allowed, with Underbelly - which also runs events at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - accused of creating \"unnecessary confusion\" by the council leader.\n\nThey were also criticised for replacing a nativity sculpture with figurines for a whisky company.\n\nThe festivities began in the city on Monday as 40,000 people joined a torchlight procession which culminated in them forming the shape of two humans reaching out a \"hand of friendship\".\n\nThe festivities began on Monday with a torchlight procession\n\nLeading the parade down the Royal Mile and into Holyrood Park was a 40-strong cast from Celtic Fire Theatre company PyroCeltica.\n\nThe three-day festival in Edinburgh will continue into New Year's day with a Loony Dook in South Queensferry as well as a series of events in the city centre.\n\nStirling hosted two fireworks displays, one of which was for families as part of its winter festival, while Inverness hosted over 10,000 people in Northern Meeting Park for the city's free Hogmanay party.\n\nIn Aberdeen, a street party with live music was held at Schoolhill, while BBC Scotland broadcast live from Stonehaven for the traditional fireballs parade.\n\nA planned outdoor Hogmanay party in Dundee's City Square was transferred to a city centre nightclub, with acts including Eddi Reader and The View singer Kyle Falconer.\n\nOver 10,000 people are expected to gather in Northern Meeting Park later for Inverness's free Hogmanay party.\n\nThe Red Hot Highland Fling - which has a reputation for being a family friendly event - was first staged 10 years ago.\n\nIt will feature some of the top acts from contemporary Celtic music including Skippinnish and Torridon.\n\nFor the ninth year running tonight's event is being hosted by comedian Craig Hill.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Nine\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Stern, the former commissioner of the US National Basketball Association (NBA), has died at the age of 77.\n\nHe had been in a serious condition after suffering a brain haemorrhage in December.\n\nStern was the NBA's longest-serving commissioner, holding the job for 30 years until retiring in February 2014.\n\nHe is credited with massively increasing the sport's revenues and popularity at home and abroad during his tenure.\n\n\"Because of David, the NBA is a truly global brand - making him not only one of the greatest sports commissioners of all time but also one of the most influential business leaders of his generation,\" his successor, Adam Silver, said in a statement.\n\n\"Every member of the NBA family is the beneficiary of David's vision, generosity and inspiration.\"\n\nMillions of sports fans worldwide now follow the NBA and its stars, including LeBron James\n\nStern took over the NBA in February 1984. Basketball then drew in smaller television audiences and less money than other US sports like baseball and American football.\n\nBut during his time in charge he helped build the NBA's profile with a focus on its star players - making people like Michael Jordan household names around the world.\n\nSeven new teams joined the league during his three decades in charge, including two in Canada. One of these - the Toronto Raptors - won their first NBA title in June. He also oversaw the creation of the Women's NBA in 1997.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Celebrations erupted on the streets of Toronto after the Raptors' historic win\n\nBy the time Stern handed control of the NBA over to his deputy Adam Silver in February 2014 - thirty years to the day after taking the job - more than 200 countries were broadcasting US basketball games.\n\nLast season was the sixth in which more than 100 international stars played in the NBA.\n\nBorn in 1942 in New York, he attended Columbia Law School and first became affiliated with the NBA through work for a prominent law firm which represented the league in the 1960s.\n\nHe became the NBA's general counsel in 1978 and executive vice president in 1980, before taking the top role four years later.\n\nStern died in hospital in Manhattan surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife Dianne and two sons, Eric and Andrew.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jordi Casamitjana campaigns to encourage others to become vegans\n\nA vegan man is bringing a landmark legal action later, in which a tribunal will decide for the first time whether veganism should be protected in law.\n\nJordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing.\n\nHe claims he was unfairly disciplined and the decision to sack him was because of his veganism.\n\nThe League Against Cruel Sports says he was dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nHowever, it does not contest that veganism should be protected.\n\nOn Thursday, the employment tribunal will consider whether veganism is a \"philosophical belief\" akin to a religion.\n\nMr Casamitjana describes himself as an \"ethical\" vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.\n\nHis beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.\n\nHe worked for the animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports, and says that when he drew his bosses' attention to the pension fund investments, they did nothing so he informed colleagues and was sacked as a result.\n\nMr Casamitjana claims he was discriminated against on the basis of his ethical veganism belief.\n\nMr Casamitjana supports a range of ethical and animal rights causes\n\nHowever, ethical vegans try to exclude all forms of animal exploitation, for instance avoiding wearing or buying clothing made from wool or leather, or toiletries from companies that carry out animal testing.\n\nThey may refer to \"companion animals\" rather than \"pets\", and will avoid zoos or other environments where they consider animals are exploited.\n\nThe landmark employment tribunal, in Norwich, will consider whether veganism is a \"philosophical or religious belief\".\n\n\"Religion or belief\" is one of nine \"protected characteristics\" covered by the Equality Act 2010.\n\nIt is unlawful for an employer to discriminate directly, by treating an employee less favourably than others because of their religion or belief.\n\nTo qualify as a philosophical belief, veganism must:\n\nIf successful, the case could provide vegans with protection against discrimination in employment, education and the provision of goods and services.\n\nThose holding other beliefs could then seek similar legal protection.\n\nMr Casamitjana's solicitor Peter Daly, of Slater and Gordon, said: \"Ethical veganism is a philosophical belief held by a significant and growing portion of the population in the UK and around the world.\n\n\"This case, if successful, will establish that the belief entitles ethical vegans protection from discrimination.\n\n\"The case we have prepared sets out how the belief in principle, and how Jordi's particular interpretations of it, comprehensively meet the required legal test.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the league said: \"The League Against Cruel Sports is an inclusive employer, and as this is a hearing to decide whether veganism should be a protected status, something which the league does not contest, it would be inappropriate for us to comment further.\"", "The Mercedes HGV left the road after colliding with a white Toyota Yaris\n\nThree British Airways cabin crew members died in a crash involving a lorry and a car outside Heathrow Airport on New Year's Eve.\n\nA white Toyota Yaris collided with a Mercedes HGV on Bedfont Road, in Stanwell, at about 23:40 GMT.\n\nTwo men aged 25 and 23 and a 20-year-old woman, who were in the Yaris, died at the scene. A fourth passenger, a 25 year-old woman, was seriously injured.\n\nBritish Airways said it was \"deeply saddened\" by the news.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with their family and friends, who we are supporting at this distressing time.\"\n\nTheir next of kin have been informed.\n\nA Go Fund Me page set up in memory of the three called \"BA Angels Fund\" had raised almost £35,000 in its first seven hours.\n\nThe page, which appears to have been started by colleagues, says: \"I have set up this fund to raise money so that we as a fleet can send a nice flower arrangement to the three crew members' funerals and hopefully make a nice donation to a charity of the families' choosing….\n\n\"I know it is January and I know that money is tight but I know that as a fleet we will pull together and make this happen.\"\n\nThe driver of the lorry was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe road remained closed on Wednesday to allow the lorry to be recovered.\n\nThe lorry was operated by air services provider dnata, which offers ground handling, cargo, travel, and flight catering services to airlines.\n\nA dnata spokesman said: \"We can confirm that one of our trucks was involved in a road traffic accident on the evening of 31 December.\n\n\"We are fully assisting relevant authorities with their investigations. Our thoughts and condolences are with the families of those affected by this very sad incident.\"\n\nSgt Chris Schultze, of Surrey and Sussex Roads Policing Unit, said: \"We are continuing to appeal for witnesses to what happened and would urge anyone who may have any video footage, CCTV or dash cam or any other kind, to get in touch with us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 15-year-old boy has died after he was hit by a car in North Lanarkshire on New Year's Day.\n\nSteven Mcilquham was struck by a silver/grey Volkswagen as he crossed a street in Wishaw at about 21:30.\n\nHe died at the scene at Alexander Street, near Marshall Street. The driver initially failed to stop.\n\nPolice have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with road traffic offences and released him pending further enquiries.\n\nOfficers want to hear from anyone who may have seen the incident.\n\nInsp Scott Sutherland said: \"Our thoughts are with Steven's family and friends at this very sad time.\n\n\"Our enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the crash. I would ask that anyone who witnessed the crash or may have any relevant dash-cam footage to contact the police as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe road remained closed on Thursday as police investigated.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TS Eliot's poetry includes The Wasteland and the poem which inspired the musical Cats\n\nA newly published letter, written by TS Eliot in 1960, has shed fresh light on the writer's relationship with a woman he corresponded with for 26 years.\n\nIn the letter, Eliot said he had fallen in love with drama teacher Emily Hale in 1912 but had realised, 35 years later, he did not actually love her.\n\nEliot wrote hundreds of letters to Hale while he was married to his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood.\n\nThe letters were unsealed this week at Princeton University in New Jersey.\n\nTheir unsealing prompted the publication of Eliot's letter, which he had said should only be released when his letters to Hale were made public.\n\nThe 1,131 letters in the collection have been kept in sealed boxes at Princeton for more than 60 years.\n\nHale donated them in 1956 to the US university's library on condition they were not opened until 50 years after their deaths.\n\nHale died in 1969, four years after Eliot's demise in 1965 at the age of 76.\n\nThe two had met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Eliot attended Harvard.\n\nThe US-born writer was survived by his second wife Valerie\n\nThe letters, which date from between 1930 and 1956, are expected to reveal intimate details about their relationship and his creative life.\n\nYet Eliot did not want the letters to be published and ordered the letters he had received from Hale to be destroyed.\n\nIn a letter released on Thursday by his executors, Eliot said Hale \"would have killed the poet in him\" had they married.\n\n\"In retrospect, the nightmare agony of my 17 years with Vivienne seems to me preferable to the dull misery of the mediocre teacher of philosophy which would have been the alternative,\" he wrote.\n\nHis marriage to Vivienne brought the state of mind, he said, from which came one of his most famous poems, The Waste Land\n\nHe went on: \"From 1947 on, I realised more and more how little Emily Hale and I had in common,\" accusing her of \"insensitiveness and bad taste\".\n\n\"I came to see that my love for Emily was the love of a ghost for a ghost, and that the letters I had been writing to her were the letters of an hallucinated man.\"\n\nMatthew Hollis, Faber's poetry editor, thinks the letter shows Eliot's true feelings about the letters being published.\n\n\"I thought it was a letter by a man in pain, who was hurting and clearly felt that his privacy had been invaded and he seems angry at the invasion .. and his reaction is sharp edged and cutting,\" he told BBC arts correspondent Rebecca Jones.\n\nThe poet and essayist, who was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in 1888, said the pair had never had sexual relations.\n\nEliot is best-known for such poems as The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and plays like Murder in the Cathedral.\n\nHis 1939 collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats formed the basis of the musical Cats, recently filmed by director Tom Hooper.\n\nEliot married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1915. The union was not a happy one and she died in an asylum in 1947.\n\nHis second wife, Valerie Eliot, died in 2012, having guarded her husband's literary legacy for more than 40 years.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Corden speaks to the BBC's Colin Paterson about being back in Barry Island and why he decided it was time for a reunion\n\nThe Gavin and Stacey Christmas special was the UK's most-watched scripted TV programme of the 2010s, new audience figures show.\n\nIn total, 17.1 million viewers tuned in to the comeback episode live or on catch-up during the subsequent week, according to the consolidated ratings.\n\nOnly sporting events and the 2010 X Factor final were watched by more people during the past decade.\n\nAnd it was the most-watched comedy since Only Fools and Horses in 2002.\n\nDel Boy and Rodney's penultimate Christmas Day special was watched by 17.4 million people, according to ratings body Barb.\n\nAll the original cast returned for the Christmas special\n\nThe new episode of Gavin and Stacey, written by and starring James Corden and Ruth Jones, was the centrepiece of BBC One's Christmas schedule and revisited Gavin, Stacey, Smithy, Nessa and their clans nearly 10 years after they left our screens.\n\nThe BBC said there had been 4.4 million requests for the programme on iPlayer, including 1.4 million from viewers aged 16-34 - a record first week for any episode.\n\nGavin and Stacey began on BBC Three in 2007 and ran for three series until 1 January 2010. At that time, the then-finale was watched by 10 million people.\n\nThe comeback episode's success - and its cliffhanger ending - have left the door wide open for another visit to Barry Island in the future.\n\nOscar Hartland, 10, who played Neil the Baby both during the original run and in the new Christmas special, said James Corden had told him the show could return.\n\n\"I did ask James in the process of filming but he said, 'It's just [whether it's] what the people want'. Me, I would love it to happen. It really depends what other people think about it and if they like it or not.\"\n\nJones told The Sun it was \"complicated\" to get together to write with Corden, who now hosts a late-night talk show on US TV network CBS.\n\n\"I do say never say never, as while we did make it work that was after three years of trying to find time when we could sit down and write it,\" she said. \"Obviously with the way it ends, there is room for more.\"\n\nCommenting on the ratings, BBC director of content Charlotte Moore said: \"Gavin and Stacey has been a phenomenal hit this Christmas breaking records to become the biggest scripted show of the decade, and the biggest first week for any episode on BBC iPlayer for young audiences ever.\n\n\"Congratulations to James Corden, Ruth Jones and all the team.\"\n\nDirector general Tony Hall said the BBC iPlayer had received more than 100 million requests in total over the Christmas week - up by more than a third compared with the previous year.\n\nYou can watch the full show on BBC iPlayer and take a look behind the scenes at how the special was filmed.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nick Ramsay was elected as an AM for Monmouth in 2007\n\nAssembly Member Nick Ramsay has been suspended from the Welsh Conservative party and its assembly group following a \"police incident\" at his home.\n\nIt is understood Mr Ramsay, 44, was arrested on Wednesday night.\n\nThe party was informed on Thursday morning and Mr Ramsay was suspended from the Welsh assembly Conservative group and the party.\n\nA party spokesman confirmed there was a police incident at the Monmouth AM's home on Wednesday night.\n\nMr Ramsay, who was elected in 2007, is the shadow finance minister and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.\n\nA Welsh Conservative spokesman said: \"Nick Ramsay has been suspended from the Welsh Conservative Group in the National Assembly for Wales and from the Conservative Party following an incident which took place yesterday.\n\n\"The suspension will be reviewed following consideration of the matter by external agencies.\n\n\"We will not be making any further comments at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows the extent of the fire damage\n\nGerman police suspect a mother and her two adult daughters of having caused a deadly zoo fire by releasing illegal sky lanterns on New Year's Eve.\n\nThe blaze killed more than 30 animals, including rare apes and monkeys, in the western city of Krefeld.\n\nPolice say they have questioned the three women, local residents who are said to be \"extremely sorry\".\n\nThey allegedly did not realise that the lanterns - bought on the internet - were banned in Germany.\n\nThe fire on the night of 31 December gutted the zoo's tropical ape house.\n\nRare Bornean orangutans, chimpanzees and marmosets lived in the 2,000 sq m (21,500 sq ft) enclosure.\n\nTwo chimpanzees and a seven-strong family of gorillas survived. They were in a neighbouring Gorilla Garden, and firefighters managed to prevent the flames spreading from the ape house.\n\nFive orangutans died, along with a chimpanzee and many monkeys. The ape house - replicating a rainforest habitat - was also home to birds and fruit bats.\n\nThe ape house was totally destroyed in the inferno\n\nFlying \"Chinese\" lanterns have a solid fuel flame inside a thin paper shell. Police say five were let off, including four that were found near the gutted ape house.\n\nState prosecutor Jens Frobel said the case was focused on three women from Krefeld, who are from 30 to 60 years old.\n\nThe women, who are suspected of \"arson through negligence\", could face up to five years in jail or a fine.\n\nThey reported to police on Wednesday, and officers praised them for \"courageously\" coming forward with information.\n\n\"We checked their handwriting,\" police said, as handwritten New Year greetings had been found with the lanterns.\n\nThe zoo is mourning the loss of Massa, a 45-year-old western lowland gorilla, and his female partner. Massa was one of the oldest captive gorillas in Europe.\n\nOne firefighter, Andreas Klos, said: \"We were amazed that the building burned down so quickly\". He noted that it did not have a sprinkler system.\n\nThe zoo has lost five precious orangutans including these two (2016 pic)\n\nThe zoo thanked people for their \"overwhelming wave of compassion\". It remained closed on Thursday. A makeshift memorial with flowers, candles and mourning placards has been set up at the entrance.\n\nThe apes died from smoke inhalation. \"In death, too, apes are very similar to humans,\" said police investigator Gerd Hoppmann.\n\nMourners left messages at a makeshift shrine at the zoo's entrance\n\nIt is the most devastating zoo fire in Germany in recent years. In November 2010, a fire at a zoo in Karlsruhe killed 26 animals including alpacas, miniature donkeys and Shetland ponies.\n\nPolice say sky lanterns of this type are to blame", "The PM's senior adviser has called for changes to how government works, saying there are \"profound problems\" with how decisions are made.\n\nIn a blog post, Dominic Cummings said the civil service lacked people with \"deep expertise in specific fields\".\n\nHe said he wanted \"weirdos and misfits with odd skills\" to work in government.\n\nBut a civil servants' union said currently staff were recruited on merit and \"because of what you can do, not what you believe\".\n\nThe union also said recruiting world-class experts is hampered by the \"government's failure to pay a market rate\".\n\nIn an unusual move, Mr Cummings also called for people keen to work in Downing Street to get in touch with him via a private Gmail address.\n\nThe former Vote Leave campaign director said he wanted to hear from \"an unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds\", some to work as special advisers and \"perhaps some as officials\".\n\nHe said No 10 was keen to recruit data scientists, software developers and economists to improve the performance of government.\n\nMr Cummings added that the Conservatives' 80-seat majority meant ministers would try to solve political problems without worrying about \"short-term unpopularity\".\n\n\"The point of this government is to do things differently and better and this always looks messy,\" he wrote.\n\n\"We do not care about trying to 'control the narrative' and all that New Labour junk.\"\n\nHe added that officials should be encouraged to stay in their roles for longer so that they are able to build up expertise in particular policy areas.\n\n\"Shuffling some people who are expected to be general managers is a natural thing but it is clear Whitehall does this too much,\" he said.\n\n\"There are not enough people with deep expertise in specific fields.\"\n\nResponding to the blog, the FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said Mr Cummings had not clarified how new recruits would be selected or what their role within government would be.\n\nDave Penman, the union's general secretary, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The civil service is recruited on merit, it's a really fundamental principle.\n\n\"You are employed in the civil service because of what you can do, not what you believe.\"\n\n\"If you surround yourself with people who are recruited simply because they believe the same as you believe, and whose employment is at your behest, is that the best way for the civil service or advisers to speak truth unto power?\n\n\"I don't think it is, and I think some of those approaches are quite dangerous as well.\"\n\nIn a statement, he added: \"It would be ironic if, in an attempt to bring in radical new thinking, Cummings was to surround himself with like-minded individuals - recruited for what they believe, not what they can do - and less able to provide the robust advice a minister may need, rather than simply the advice they want.\"\n\nMr Penman also said senior officials moved between different jobs in an effort to boost their pay after a \"decade of pay restraint\" within the civil service.\n\nMr Cummings's desire to recruit experts might prove difficult because of pay rates, he added, which he said were \"typically half of those paid elsewhere\".\n\n\"All senior civil service roles are already open to external competition, yet time and again, government's failure to pay a market rate restricts the pool,\" he added.\n\n\"There's no word on this in his blog, or on addressing the longer term pay restraint that has created these issues.\"\n\nIt comes after Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the Conservatives' election manifesto, said \"seismic\" changes to the civil service were being planned by No 10.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Ms Wolf said Mr Cummings believed changing how government works was a \"prerequisite\" to delivering on promises made to the voters by the Conservatives during last month's election campaign.\n\nShe said officials should get more training in science-related skills, and \"reorient\" policy decisions towards the public rather than \"special interests\".\n\nShe also added that regularly moving civil servants between different departments \"kills institutional memory and expertise\".", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nScotsman Peter Wright captured his first PDC World Championship title with a superb 7-3 win over 2019 champion Michael van Gerwen at Alexandra Palace.\n\nThe 49-year-old lost 7-4 to Van Gerwen in the 2014 final and had previously lost 10 of his 11 major finals.\n\nBut Wright raced into a 2-0 lead and with the three-time champion missing doubles, built a 6-3 advantage.\n\nSeventh seed Wright, who survived a sudden-death shootout in round two, is the second oldest winner of the event.\n\nPhil Taylor won the last of his 16 world titles aged 53 in 2013.\n\n\"Champion of the world sounds amazing. You should never give up, it doesn't matter how many times you get beaten,\" an emotional Wright told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I couldn't believe that first dart [for the match] didn't go in, or the second one - and I thought 'don't do it again' but I've done it.\"\n\nVan Gerwen had a slightly higher average than Wright - 102.88 to 102.79 - but landed only 40% of his doubles against 53% from the champion.\n\nIn his fifth world final and seeking his third crown in the past four years, 30-year-old Dutchman Van Gerwen was eyeing a 60th win in his 79th encounter with Wright and an eighth successive major final victory over the colourful Scot.\n\nBoth players came into the final with a 44% doubles success rate but Wright missed three darts for the opening leg, although his consistency soon sealed the first set after Van Gerwen clipped the wire of the bullseye with his attempt at a 170 finish in the decider.\n\nAveraging 105.02, Wright raced through the next set 3-1, before the champion needed only 37 darts to take the third 3-0.\n\nVan Gerwen levelled the match at 2-2 after Wright missed his favourite double top that would have given him a two-set lead again.\n\nBut Van Gerwen, who won all six of his major finals in 2019, was in arrears at the interval as Wright recorded a 10-dart finish and then saw the Dutchman squander six darts for the next leg.\n\nWith Van Gerwen continuing to miss the doubles, Wright duly moved two sets clear again, taking the sixth 3-0 and soon led by two for the third time at 5-3.\n\nFind out how to get into darts with our special guide.\n\nBoth players missed two darts to win the ninth set but Wright eventually claimed it to move within one set of the title.\n\nVan Gerwen missed double 12 for the first nine-dart finish of the tournament and he was soon to miss out on the overall prize as well as the assured Wright sank double 10 at the third time of asking to land the sport's biggest prize.\n\nVan Gerwen lamented: \"Of course I'm very disappointed. Everything I missed he took out, his finishing was phenomenal and I can only blame myself.\n\n\"I had six darts to break throw in the fifth set and if you don't take chances like that against a player like Peter Wright you don't win, simple as that.\"", "Carlos Ghosn, the former boss of Nissan, managed to leave Japan where he was awaiting trial\n\nHe was once a titan of the car industry who held hero status in Japan. He then became one of the country's most well-known criminal suspects. Now he's an international fugitive.\n\nCarlos Ghosn, the multi-millionaire former boss of Nissan, spent months preparing to stand trial on financial misconduct charges. At least, that was what the Japanese authorities were led to believe.\n\nHe posted 1bn yen (£6.8m; $8.9m) in bail in April. He was monitored by a 24-hour camera installed outside his house. His use of technology was heavily restricted and he was banned from travelling abroad.\n\nThen, in a move that left Japan red-faced and his own legal team baffled, he appeared in Lebanon on New Year's Eve. \"I have escaped injustice and political persecution,\" he declared in a statement.\n\n\"I am dumbfounded,\" his lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, told reporters in Tokyo shortly after learning of Mr Ghosn's flight. \"I want to ask him, 'How could you do this to us?'\"\n\nAnother pressing question is: how did he do it at all?\n\nOn 8 January, in his first public comments since fleeing, Mr Ghosn refused to say how he managed to leave Japan.\n\nHe told a news conference in Beirut that he would clear his name despite being on the run, and joked that he was used to \"mission impossible\".\n\nReports suggest that description may not be wide of the mark.\n\nThe former CEO's getaway from Tokyo to Beirut was meticulously planned over a period of several weeks or months, according to numerous media reports.\n\nMr Ghosn walked out of his Tokyo house despite cameras and other security measures\n\nJapanese broadcaster NHK reported that CCTV footage showed Mr Ghosn leaving his house and walking about 800m to a nearby hotel in the middle of the afternoon on 29 December. There he joined two men, thought to be Americans.\n\nThe three then boarded a train to Osaka and went to a hotel near Kansai international airport. Two hours later, the two men were seen leaving with two large containers, according to NHK. No cameras captured Mr Ghosn - the implication being that he was inside one of the containers.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified sources, said a team was carefully assembled to carry out the plot. The group reportedly included accomplices in Japan who transported Mr Ghosn from his house and onto a private jet bound for Istanbul. From there, he continued his journey to Beirut where he arrived in the early hours of 30 December.\n\nThe plane tracking site FlightRadar24 showed a Bombardier Challenger private jet arriving at Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport shortly after 04:00 local time. Mr Ghosn then met his wife Carole, who was born in the city and was heavily involved in the operation, the Wall Street Journal says.\n\nThe ex-Nissan boss was pictured leaving prison while disguised as a workman in March 2019\n\nAn earlier MTV Lebanon report, which now appears to be inaccurate, suggested Mr Ghosn fled with the assistance of a paramilitary group who were disguised amongst a band of musicians.\n\nThe 65-year-old was said to have hid in a large musical instrument case. The broadcaster provided no proof for this theory which, unsurprisingly, spread rapidly across social media.\n\nMr Ghosn's wife, Carole, told Reuters news agency that reports of the musical escape were \"fiction\".\n\nDonning a spy-movie disguise is not beyond Mr Ghosn, however. In March, in a bid to throw journalists off his scent, he left prison disguised as a construction worker. He was quickly identified and his lawyer soon apologised for the \"amateur plan\".\n\nMr Ghosn denies his wife helped him, insisting he organised his escape \"alone\" and she has declined to provide details of the escape.\n\nBut several reports have said Carole Ghosn was a major figure behind the plan for her husband to get out of Japan. She spoke to him for more than an hour on 24 December, Mr Ghosn's Japanese lawyer said. The couple had previously been banned from meeting or communicating under Mr Ghosn's bail conditions.\n\nAfter her husband arrived in Lebanon, Mrs Ghosn told the Wall Street Journal that their reunion was \"the best gift of my life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Ghosn's wife Carole told the BBC in June that Japanese officials were trying to humiliate her husband\n\nMr Ghosn has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. He has also said media speculation that his wife had played a role in his escape was \"inaccurate and false\", adding: \"I alone arranged for my departure.\"\n\nSeveral media reports said private security operatives helped smuggle Mr Ghosn out of house arrest.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that the operatives had been planning the escape for months, and had allegedly split into several teams working in different countries. Two people familiar with the situation said the preparations were assisted by Mr Ghosn's Japanese supporters.\n\nThe former Nissan boss made his escape by flying out of Japan's Osaka airport on a private jet, the newspaper reported. It said Mr Ghosn was not required to wear any electronic tags while on bail.\n\nTwo unnamed sources close to Mr Ghosn told Reuters news agency that even the pilot of the private jet was unaware of Mr Ghosn's presence on board.\n\nQuestions remain about the documents Mr Ghosn used to enter Lebanon. He holds three passports - Brazilian, French and Lebanese - but his legal team maintain that they were in possession of all of them when he left Japan.\n\nIt is not known whether Mr Ghosn was holding duplicate passports - as businesspeople are sometimes allowed to do. It has also been reported that he may have had a diplomatic passport issued by Lebanon although this has not been confirmed.\n\nWhile the French newspaper Le Monde said he travelled on an ID card, others have reported that he may have used a French passport or even forged documents.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Ghosn told the Financial Times he had used a French passport to enter Lebanon but would not disclose how he had left Japan.\n\nGhadi Khoury, from the Lebanese foreign ministry, said the former Nissan boss had entered the country on a French passport and Lebanese ID, according to the newspaper.\n\nMr Ghosn grew up in Beirut and remains a popular figure in the city\n\nThe embarrassment caused by Mr Ghosn's flight soon sparked a reaction from Japan. One Japanese politician asked whether he \"had the support of some country\". A former governor of Tokyo was more forthright, accusing Lebanon of direct involvement.\n\nMr Ghosn grew up in Lebanon, owns property there and is a popular figure. He even appeared on one of the country's postage stamps.\n\nThe two Reuters sources said the Lebanese ambassador to Japan had visited him every day while he was in detention. The ambassador has not publicly responded to this claim.\n\nThe Lebanese government has denied any involvement in Mr Ghosn's escape.\n\n\"The government has nothing to do with [Mr Ghosn's] decision to come,\" Lebanese minister Salim Jreissati was quoted as saying by the New York Times. \"We don't know the circumstances of his arrival.\"\n\nMr Khoury told the Financial Times that Lebanon \"had asked for [Mr Ghosn's] extradition\", but said the government had not had any involvement in his plan to escape.\n\nFrance and Turkey have also said they were unaware of Mr Ghosn's plan.\n\nOn 2 January Lebanon received a \"red notice\" from Interpol for Mr Ghosn's arrest - a request to detain a person pending extradition, surrender or other legal action. However, there is no extradition deal between Japan and Lebanon.\n\nFrance, meanwhile, has said it would not extradite him if he arrived in the country as he is a French citizen.\n\nTurkey has launched an investigation into Mr Ghosn's reported stopover in Istanbul. Local media say seven people have been arrested - four pilots, a cargo company manager and two airport workers.\n\nJapan gives millions in aid to Lebanon and is likely to want Mr Ghosn returned. But it faces questions about how such a high-profile suspect was able to get out of the country in the first place.", "Cracker was described by his previous owner as a \"placid, friendly, loving dog\"\n\nA dog was found tied up at a church with a note from his old owner saying \"I love you and I'm so, so, so sorry\".\n\nThe brindle and white Staffordshire bull terrier-cross, since named Cracker, was abandoned by the altar of Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool.\n\nA handwritten note left with him said: \"Life has taken a really bad turn for me and I couldn't imagine him being outside with me cold and hungry\".\n\nThe RSPCA said Cracker was doing well and \"getting lots of TLC\".\n\nThe dog was found by staff at the church - which is left unlocked 24 hours a day - when they arrived for work on the morning of 18 December.\n\nThe note found alongside him urged whoever found the dog to \"please believe me when I say I haven't done this easily\".\n\nIt continued: \"My dog means the world to me and I don't know what else to do.\"\n\nThe note said he was a \"placid, friendly, loving dog\" who would turn seven on 22 March 2020.\n\nIt added: \"He has got quite tender front paws, I've been treating them for about a month now but they are still sore.\n\n\"My heart is broken and I will truly miss him more than words can say. I hope he can be found a new home he deserves. I love you and I am so, so, so sorry.xxxx\"\n\nRSPCA inspector Will Lamping, who collected Cracker from the church, said it was clear from the note how much his previous owner loved him.\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately sometimes life can throw some pretty tough things at people and circumstances can drastically change but it's heartbreaking to think that someone out there is missing Cracker and wondering how he is doing.\"\n\nMr Lamping said that if no-one came forward to claim Cracker, who has been checked over by a vet, he would be sent to an RSCPA rehoming centre to look for new owners.\n\nHe added: \"If anyone does come forward then I'd like to let them know that they won't be in any trouble and we'd like to chat to them and see how we might be able to help them, and Cracker.\"\n\nHe urged any pet owners struggling financially to contact their vet, a local rescue centre or a charity like the RSPCA.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All 200 animals from Mogo Zoo survived the fires\n\nAmid the devastating fires ravaging Australia, a small zoo has managed to save all its animals through the extraordinary bravery of its staff.\n\nMogo Zoo houses Australia's largest collection of primates, along with zebras, rhinos and giraffes.\n\nYet when it was right in the line of a bushfire, the keepers managed to protect all 200 animals from harm.\n\nWhile most were sheltered at the site, monkeys, pandas and even a tiger were temporary lodgers at one keeper's home.\n\nOn Tuesday, an evacuation order was made for the New South Wales area where the zoo is located, but staff decided to stay to protect their animals.\n\nZoo director Chad Staples said the situation had been \"apocalyptic\" and that it \"felt like Armageddon\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said the zoo only survived because there'd been a precise plan in place: first the zoo keepers moved everything flammable from the area and then turned to the animals themselves.\n\nThe larger ones like the lions, tigers and orang-utans were moved into secured night enclosures to keep them safe and calm, but the smaller ones needed extra shelter.\n\nSo director Staples decided to simply have them taken to his own house.\n\n\"Right now in my house there's animals of all descriptions in all the different rooms, that are there safe and protected... not a single animal lost,\" he told the ABC broadcaster.\n\nSara Ang from the wildlife park told BBC 5 Live radio that \"some of the smaller monkeys had to be moved to the house, the red panda is in the house and there's a tiger in the back area of the house\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters in New South Wales sheltered in their truck as it was overrun by flames\n\n\"All the animals that needed to be moved indoors have been moved indoors,\" and hence are safe from the fire.\n\nThe zoo was encircled by fire and smoke, the zoo keepers say\n\nGiraffes and zebras were left in their enclosures as they were large enough for the animals to move away from spot fires.\n\nMr Staples explained that these were the only animals that suffered from stress - not from the fires but due to the rush of keepers and vehicles moving around to fight the flames.\n\nHe told the ABC the zoo staff had prepared \"hundreds of thousands of litres\" of water in advance and then put water into smaller tanks on vehicles to drive around and put out spot fires.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by mogowildlife This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDescribing how his team worked for hours and throughout the night, he said the park would have been lost to the fire had it not been for the staff's heroic efforts to save it.\n\nThe zoo's survival is a positive development after a devastating week along Australia's eastern coast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents have taken shelter on beaches to escape the flames\n\nHowever, the small town of Mogo itself has been severely damaged by the fires, with dozens of homes destroyed.\n\nThe bushfires have killed at least seven people in the Australian state of New South Wales since Monday, according to police.\n\nFires have also destroyed more than 200 homes, leaving thousands of people facing an uncertain future."], "link": ["http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51185996", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51180331", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51179688", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51194249", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51197463", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51197099", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51191615", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51188829", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51101525", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51183951", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51174638", 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